The UFC just released an AI promo for the White House event featuring Theodore Roosevelt

Barcelona, you win. Sagrada Família. Just incredible. Watch the whole thing with the sound on

You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice. You thought it was you. It is not you. Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse. Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like. The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation. Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first. What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland. Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved. They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data. The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment." The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible. This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis. The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world. Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp on the false religion of frontier labs: “Philosophically it's wrong because it's not doomer versus not-doomer; it's a hyper-religion of hyper-optimism.” “They believe all problems — present, past, and future, including the ones they create and don't acknowledge they create — are going to be solved by them, including human nature and disparities.” “Enterprises are just fed up because they know this doesn't actually work this way. It's not working. And that basically drives our commercial business.”

According to the UK government, you’re considered a terrorist if you believe that Western culture is under threat from mass migration. Yes, this is really on their website.

Tribal knowledge beats common knowledge.

Credentialism is one of the strangest religions ever invented. A piece of paper signed by the right stranger is treated as evidence of wisdom, while actual results are treated as anecdotal. It’s what mediocre people build when reality keeps asking for proof of competence.

On this day in 1944 a little town in the Blue Ridge Mountains with about 3200 people would lose 20 sons, with 19 coming on Omaha Beach during the first wave. The “Bedford Boys” were made up primarily from Company A, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, and trained for two years in England before leading the charge for one of the greatest battles in history. Bedford would lose 23 sons in total, making it the highest per capita loss of life of any town, which led Congress in to designate Bedford as the site of the D-Day Memorial, dedicated in 2001.

El Papa León XIV con los jóvenes en Madrid: “No tengáis miedo al matrimonio y a formar una familia.” SÍ.

Alex Karp: AI has become a religion in certain circles. "One thing that's charismatic about it, especially if you've never had a religion, is all of a sudden, that hole in your heart that was yearning for an established religion is being filled. And all the answers are there."

FULL INTERVIEW: Alex Karp joins from AIPCon 10 to discuss tokenmaxxing, why taste matters in business, and political backlash against AI. 00:30 - Alex Karp's 5m30s dead hang routine 3:00 - Alex Karp on toxenmaxxing and the state of AI 5:10 - You can't scale taste 8:30 - AI companies have a likability problem 9:35 - AI tools are magical and addictive 13:20 - Palantir copycats and competitors 18:50 - Karp on getting nationalized 21:05 - Karp on layoffs and upskilling

BREAKING: Palantir CEO Alex Karp has been privately sounding the alarm to AI leaders their companies are going to be nationalized. "The momentum is on the side of people who want to nationalize them."