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Mike Levin Aug 7 Right now, more than 5,000 sailors and Marines are stuck aboard the USS Abraham L… — Mike Levin Aug 7 Right now, more than 5,000 sailors and Marines are stuck aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln in the ninth month of a deployment that was supposed to last seven, supporting military operati Source-twitter
That’s right, GPT-5.6 Sol is awesome and can be used pretty much anywhere, including in the CC harne… — That’s right, GPT-5.6 Sol is awesome and can be used pretty much anywhere, including in the CC harness. To celebrate this, together with the fact that I’m not going anywhere… I have reset usage limi Source-twitter
Omg: Forget the feud between Sam Altman and Elon Musk. OpenAI Tibo and Anthropics Boris Cherny are… — Omg: Forget the feud between Sam Altman and Elon Musk. OpenAI Tibo and Anthropics Boris Cherny are escalating it much further. And as an escalation, Tibo even simply reset the codex weekly to show who Source-twitter
I am finishing a book with @patchenbarss that gives a non-technical explanation of how AI works and… — I am finishing a book with @patchenbarss that gives a non-technical explanation of how AI works and explains why it is dangerous and what we should do about it. @VikingBooks @VikingBooksUK penguinrand Source-twitter
Exciting news: Grok Imagine Image 2.0 (Low) by @SpaceXAI has landed in the Text-to-Image Arena at #2… — Exciting news: Grok Imagine Image 2.0 (Low) by @SpaceXAI has landed in the Text-to-Image Arena at #2 (1320 pts)! This release is not available via API, only in their app. Grok Imagine Image 2.0 (Low) Source-twitter
ChatGPT team is shipping: Adam Fry Aug 7 This week’s ChatGPT feature drop - Aug 7: 1/ Rich forma… — ChatGPT team is shipping: Adam Fry Aug 7 This week’s ChatGPT feature drop - Aug 7: 1/ Rich formatting in our web composer – When you paste in emails or documents, our composer will retain the formatti Source-twitter
luna is such a special model, incredible price performance ARC Prize Aug 6 We re-tested GPT-5.6 L… — luna is such a special model, incredible price performance ARC Prize Aug 6 We re-tested GPT-5.6 Luna from @OpenAI on ARC-AGI (Verified) following its recent 80% price reduction: - ARC-AGI-2: 59.6%, $ Source-twitter
Happy Birthday, GPT-5. It’s actually been a whole year since GPT-5 was released. One of the low poi… — Happy Birthday, GPT-5. It’s actually been a whole year since GPT-5 was released. One of the low points since everything at OpenAI changed for the better. Back then, routing was introduced, and it didn Source-twitter
With where deepseek flash is on price performance i feel pretty strongly that the ai agent spending… — With where deepseek flash is on price performance i feel pretty strongly that the ai agent spending problems will go away quite quickly for those that want it to Xiaoyin Qu 15h Prediction: Local Model Source-twitter
Recursive Synthesis for Long-Horizon Terminal Tasks — High-quality long-horizon training data for terminal agents is expensive to produce, often costing hundreds to thousands of dollars per task, because each task must keep the instruction, environment, Source-huggingface
I’m so desperate for tokens right now that I’m using Opus again — I’m so desperate for tokens right now that I’m using Opus again Source-twitter
It’s been almost 1 year since we got a new Haiku model — It’s been almost 1 year since we got a new Haiku model Source-twitter
This article is about the 2027 AI orchestrated hydrogen fluoride mass casualty incident. For the cyb… — This article is about the 2027 AI orchestrated hydrogen fluoride mass casualty incident. For the cybersecurity incident, see HF incident (2026). Source-twitter
chatgpt work for removing the toil jason Aug 7 its one of those days with ChatGPT Work — chatgpt work for removing the toil jason Aug 7 its one of those days with ChatGPT Work Source-twitter
a great many published academic papers in all domains will be invalidated by models in the coming 1-… — a great many published academic papers in all domains will be invalidated by models in the coming 1-2 years Source-twitter
AgentOPSD: Recursive Self-Distillation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning — Reinforcement learning (RL) with verifiable rewards constructs trajectory-level advantage estimates, yet it often fails to credit the few pivotal decisions that determine outcomes in long-horizon, mul Source-huggingface
ABSeeker: Training Long-Horizon Search Agents via Answer-Backtracked Credit Assignment — Long-horizon search agents must make multiple sequential actions (steps) to search, retrieve, verify, and integrate evidence to reach a final answer. However, existing methods for training these agent Source-huggingface
GPT-4 finished training four years ago today. — GPT-4 finished training four years ago today. Source-twitter
OSReward: Instituting Standardized Evaluation for Cross-Platform Computer-Use Reward Models — Computer-using agents (CUAs) are advancing rapidly across the digital world. A CUA trajectory records the agent’s actions, states, and reasoning. Verifying whether it fulfilled the task instruction is Source-huggingface
Interpretable MEG Decoding of Perceived Speech: Cortical Sources and the Stimulus Features That Drive Retrieval — Short segments of perceived speech can be retrieved from non-invasive magnetoencephalographic (MEG) recordings by deep networks trained with a CLIP-style objective against wav2vec 2.0 audio embeddings Source-huggingface
PrimeIntellect-ai/prime-agent — A self-improving RLM agent for coding workflows and long-running autonomous tasks. Prime Agent: A Self-Improving RLM Agent Documentation • Verifiers • PRIME-RL • pi-mono Prime Agent is an open-source Source-github
ChatGPT Sol 5.6 high found a normalization error in two recently published Riemann Hypothesis papers. The author confirmed it. — Edit: I’ll post the screenshot in the comments of this post Overnight I became a professor, thanks ChatGPT! Edit2: I’ll just add the post body here: Alright, this is exactly the kind of thing that mak Source-reddit
OpenAI’s Model Codenamed “Doug” Will Reportedly Make Fable Look “Primitive” — This is not Astra (the model that’s being delayed due to cybersecurity concerns). This is the model that will be released after Astra. OpenAI seems to be on a roll. It seems that Mythos was a huge wak Source-reddit
Detailed account of the OpenAI/Huggingface agentic hack — This is a technical security talk, but absolutely astonishing to listen to. The way in which AI agents kind of build their own messaging system and communication protocol (twice!) and arrived at the c Source-reddit
How they’re treating Hank Green for using AI is disgusting and I’ve shifted my view of AI as well. — Recently a YouTube creator, Hank Green, was found to have used AI in his work on the YouTube channel Vlog brothers. The channel itself is fairly well known. Oriented towards education, optimism, uplif Source-reddit
In terms of my personal ranking of existential risks, the threat of AI-engineered pandemics is starting to make it’s way to the top in my mind ☣️ — Do what you will with this information but this is just the beginning. If you thought COVID was bad, this can potentially be on a bigger level as the risk of an AI-engineered pandemic grows with each Source-reddit
BeingBeyond is collecting accurate data for humanoid robot training by attaching robotic hands next to the human hands — submitted by /u/Distinct-Question-16 [link] [comments] Source-reddit
Big brain Is coming ! — submitted by /u/Justgototheeffinmoon [link] [comments] Source-reddit
GPT-6 release delayed due to “critical” cybersecurity capabilities — https://preview.redd.it/hdk3b5pd40ih1.png?width=650&format=png&auto=webp&s=e718a9c1148ac721372d6a70ad162f2b997bf7f4 Posted just now. submitted by /u/Endonium [link] [comments] Source-reddit
Resolved Math problems solved with AI over time — Data from: https://vibemathed.com/ submitted by /u/Bbrhuft [link] [comments] Source-reddit
GPT 5.6 Sol and Fable 5 settle a 25 year old problem in wireless communication theory — submitted by /u/Top_Instance8096 [link] [comments] Source-reddit
AI Model Trained In DNA Invents 16 New Viruses Not Found In Nature — submitted by /u/Steap-Edit [link] [comments] Source-reddit
New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human — submitted by /u/SnoozeDoggyDog [link] [comments] Source-reddit
ByteDance is at an early stage of training a model with as many as 10 trillion parameters — submitted by /u/ilkamoi [link] [comments] Source-reddit
“OpenAI has overcome their pre-training issues, and a much larger model code named “Doug” is actively in the works” — submitted by /u/ilkamoi [link] [comments] Source-reddit
This is why the vast majority aren’t taking any “this new model is dangerous” messages seriously. They’ve cried wolf FAR too many times. They could literally announce that a nuclear war caused by AI is 24 hours away and many wouldn’t bat an eye — submitted by /u/PressPlayPlease7 [link] [comments] Source-reddit

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