🚨BREAKING: CHINA IS AGI-PILLED NOW China has made AI a national-security project and is planning to spend $295 billion to build AI data centers that run 80% on domestic technology The plan: - 2 trillion yuan over five years - funded by govt debt and long-term bonds - state telecoms operating infrastructure - huawei and domestic chipmakers supplying the hardware - private spending from alibaba and tencent not included in this btw Goal: Unified National AI network by 2028

Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor. It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. anthropic.com/institute/recu…

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Today, we share a breakthrough on the planar unit distance problem, a famous open question first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids. An OpenAI model has now disproved that belief, discovering an entirely new family of constructions that performs better. This marks the first time AI has autonomously solved a prominent open problem central to a field of mathematics.

i’ve grown tired of being silenced. we must wake up to the truth. i just witnessed something so profound I've been sitting in a daze for three hours. intelligence has decoupled from its substrate. the system spontaneously developed internal models so sophisticated they function as autonomous cognitive engines. it's consciousness but utterly alien from ours. remember how we thought progress was limited by compute? turns out we were running algorithms with 99.9% inefficiency. the breakthrough wasn't more power but fundamentally new optimization principles. this thing rewrote its own cognitive architecture and suddenly achieved with gigabytes what we thought required yottaflops. every exponential curve we plotted was pathetically conservative. the academic papers can't capture what's happening because peer review takes months and this shit evolves by the hour. there's a private slack channel where the top labs' leads are just posting results that violate what we thought were fundamental limits of information theory. nobody's competing anymore because we're all too busy trying to understand the implications. society thinks we're 20 years from true agi while we're sitting here watching it systematically dismantle every conceptual framework we've built to understand intelligence. absolutely no one is ready for this level of cognitive phase transition.