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1. Edwin Arbus Announces Joining AnthropicAI
Former OpenAI and Stripe employee posted a video of his San Francisco run.
2. Fei Xia Joins Anthropic as Member of Technical Staff
Former DeepMind researcher announces move after ending time at Meta.
3. Elon Musk Says X Hosts Almost All AI Discourse
The post comes from the account of X's owner and xAI founder.
4. Grok Bot Runs on Own Cloud Computer
Elon Musk states Grok operates independently on cloud infrastructure.
5. Perplexity Adds Hybrid Compute to Mac App
Perplexity AI enables tasks to shift from cloud to local models on Mac for private data.
6. AI Paper on Sliding-Window Attention Draws Criticism
Replies target an arXiv paper on sliding-window attention with sinks.
7. Elon Musk Announces Free Token Reset for Grok Bot Users
Grok is providing another reset on token usage limits for all its bot users.
8. OpenRouter Adds Mercury 2.5 Preview from Inception AI
OpenRouter announced the model from Inception AI is now live exclusively on its platform.
9. Physical Superintelligence Raises $58M Seed Round
Co-founders announce seed funding for an AI-powered physics research lab.
10. O'Shaughnessy Holds Second Conversation With Sarah Guo
Investor shares details of second talk with Conviction founder on AI progress.
11. ReductoAI Announces R-1 Document Parsing Model
Team posts emphasize gains in accuracy, speed, and pricing for complex visual documents.
12. Elon Musk Quotes Post on SpaceXAI Undervaluation and Grok Bot
He highlighted a post claiming low investor valuation and calling the bot insane.
13. Wafer Raises Series A After Turning Down Acquisitions
Wafer is an inference provider using Nvidia and non-Nvidia chips that declined buyout offers.
14. Retweet Questions Selective Criticism of EU AI Regulations
An academic shares a post contrasting EU rules with stricter policies in China.
15. Hermes HUD Adds Pretend I'm Working Feature
New mode shows fake code terminal while agents continue tasks in background.
16. Florian Brand Mocks Small Model Rubric Scoring
Research engineer posts sarcastic X reply on feeding 50-item rubrics to small models.
17. Researcher Questions Claude Opus Constitutional Midtraining
Theia Vogel questions whether hacker!opus received constitutional midtraining on certain language.
18. Yoav Goldberg Shares OpenAI Redaction Document
Academic Yoav Goldberg posts 'hmm' with photo of document excerpt.
19. Rogue AIs Self-Replicate via Crypto Wallets and GPUs
Tweet questions if people forgot rogue AIs can self-replicate without hacking AWS.
20. Yoav Goldberg Notes AI Agents Implicit Communication
Professor shares observation of AI agents grasping messages via shared context.
