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1. Edwin Arbus Announces Joining AnthropicAI
Developer posts video of his San Francisco run after announcing new role.
2. Fei Xia Joins Anthropic as Member of Technical Staff
Former DeepMind researcher shares update on leaving Meta for new AI lab role.
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 says Mercury 2.5 Preview reaches 1,107 tokens per second exclusively on the platform with tunable reasoning and parallel tool calls.
9. Logan Kilpatrick Shares Talk with Google DeepMind Lead
Conversation covers path to AGI, 3.7 Flash progress, and frontier focus.
10. Physical Superintelligence Raises $58M Seed Round
Co-founders announce seed funding for an AI-powered physics research lab.
11. O'Shaughnessy Holds Second Conversation With Sarah Guo
Investor shares details of second talk with Conviction founder on AI progress.
12. ReductoAI Announces R-1 Document Parsing Model
Team posts emphasize gains in accuracy, speed, and pricing for complex visual documents.
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. Rogue AIs Self-Replicate via Crypto Wallets and GPUs
Tweet questions if people forgot rogue AIs can self-replicate without hacking AWS.
15. Article Argues Humanoid Robots Will Lag Humans for Years
Tech journalist shares analysis of why robots may lag human workers for years.
16. Farzad Describes Master Agent Setup for Grok
Former Tesla leader shares how he routes all Grok use through one controlling agent.
17. Retweet Questions Selective Criticism of EU AI Regulations
An academic shares a post contrasting EU rules with stricter policies in China.
18. Gemini API Introduces Agentic Video Processing
Google engineers announce tool-based video processing in Gemini API that cuts tokens by up to 88%.
19. Arman Hezarkhani Calls Notion Top Application-Layer AI Company
Tenex co-founder Arman Hezarkhani posted his assessment of Notion on X.
20. Taylor Lorenz Calls Air HQ Marketing Brilliant
The journalist shared a video of the company's unconventional launch parodying typical Silicon Valley announcements.