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This is a *way* bigger deal than it seems... Frontier AI companies will *never* own the frontier again I kid you not... I've been waiting for someone to show this result for like 4 years... this is a huge deal. The short reason: combinations of models will *always* outperform individual models The long reason: this is the gateway to a million times more data... and huge leaps in compute efficiency. The AI scaling laws always win. More in article below 👇

Betore Rome, there was Carthage. Before Carthage, there was Tyre. Europe, Princess of Tyre, gave her name to the continent of Europe, to those who, today, let Israel destroy her city, Tyre—a city more than 5,000 years old—by European weapons without saying a word. What you see in this image are not merely ordinary columns; they are the historical columns of Tyre in southern Lebanon are iconic Roman architectural remains. They are part of an ancient Phoenician city-state that is now a UNESCO World Heritage site. I could not identify any military targets that would justify striking a UNESCO World Heritage protected site. We are watching history beirg erased in real time by Israel.

Anthropic

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According to Grok, Andrej Karpathy is an EB-1 extraordinary ability green card recipient, not a US citizen. Thus under these new restrictions he is not permitted to use, or work on, Mythos 5 or Fable 5 as of 5:21pm tonight.

"Do remember they can't cancel spring" RIP David Hockney.

“I don’t reflect too much. I live now. It’s always now” 🩵 David Hockney 1937 - 2026

FINALLY museums giving the people what they want: reproductions of the artifacts

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Loyal to the end. To Putin.

i framed a colorful e ink on my wall to display a collage of any birds that have passed by my window today

new transformers tutorials just dropped for vision 🔥 🛰️ segmentation on satellite imagery: fine-tune RF-DETR-Seg segment buildings 📱 object detection on mobile UI: fine-tune RF-DETR on screenshots runs on toaster, converges fast, give to your agent for your use cases🫡

Found research from May that shows e. coli "remember" environmental conditions their ancestors lived through and behave differently because of it, all without a brain, neurons, or a nervous system. Inherited proteins handle the memory. The mechanism is what's so cool. Different cellular components relax on different timescales, so the cell integrates its history as a power law instead of a single decay constant. This is an extremely elegant expression of memory as a biochemical hidden state, emergent from ribosome dynamics, that lets a granddaughter cell respond to stress it never personally experienced. It is also oddly close to the logic behind recurrent neural networks. My main takeaways are that memory might predate minds and a growing belief that AI is convergent with biological intelligence. paper: journals.aps.org/prxlife/abs…

Fable 5 refused 200 out of 200 ProgramBench tasks lmao

TLDR: 1. Declare AI too dangerous for ordinary competition so you propose a regulatory regime where only the largest incumbents can survive 2. Warn about labor displacement while selling the product to executives as a labor-displacement tool 3. Warn about state overreach while asking the state to license and gatekeep frontier models 4. Warn about corporate power while sketching a corporate-state cartel over compute, release, security, export controls, and deployment

Clearly, Fable is doing a lot of work, and unleashing a ton of agents. To review a short technical note, it released 31 agents, coded simulations to verify my results, did "adversarial reviews". Eventually, it only made the assumptions slightly more rigorous. It is all good. For a four-page technical note a little code, though, it consumed all my Pro session tokens, *plus* $17 worth of credits. It is ridiculously expensive. I have 20-page reports that are way more complex than this. I can see how Anthropic has entered the phase of market-clearing prices, yield management, and pre-IPO. I recall Boris Cherny saying in a podcast, "run Opus [4.6], not Sonnet. It's worth it". I feel comfortable saying that running your top-shelf model is *not* worth it anymore. Decreasing returns, on most tasks. Like in the real world, some people can be real smart, but real expensive.

Every year a bobcat mama gives birth to a litter of kittens on my roof. I set up a camera this time around.

kinda crazy that someone's full-time job was to steer claude to sabotage ML research capabilities for paying customers

Did you know that the .png format was created out of spite? Or that .jpeg just discards like half of the colours in your image because you won't notice? To celebrate last week's launch, I published a chapter on image compression. makingsoftware.com/chapters/…