“calling upon congress to ban second order optimizers to prevent an AI arms race (with an exception for people who are already using them)” / X
https://x.com/vikhyatk/status/1887775784124957147
“the hackbot singularity is coming” / X
https://x.com/rez0__/status/1888801773558665464
A statement from Dario Amodei on the Paris AI Action Summit: https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1889296580936683846
AI ‘godfather’ predicts another revolution in the tech in next five years | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/04/ai-godfather-predicts-another-revolution-in-the-tech-in-next-five-years
Cancel the Christie’s AI Art Auction
https://openletter.earth/cancel-the-christies-ai-art-auction-f5135435
Excited to share our latest work “Jailbreaking to Jailbreak (J2)”, from the SEAL team and @scale_AI’s Red Team! As frontier models become more creative and capable of reasoning, they can now not only assist human red teamers but also autonomously drive red teaming efforts. / X https://x.com/summeryue0/status/1889370671026938085
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It always stuck me as interesting that the very first things people felt comfortable giving over to AI to do for them were the most intimate things: birthday cards, wedding speeches, children’s stories, eulogies (yes, really). / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1888352792139719039
It is kind of shocking how little AI assistance has influenced the discourse on this site, given there is a button next to every post that lets you ask a solid AI to fact check the details. It does a pretty good job. This has made no difference at all in the spread of nonsense. / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1888663558465945676
Kanye has officially confirmed the use of AI on his upcoming album ‘BULLY’ 💿 He compares AI to autotune and says him utilizing it will help make AI more accepted in music. (via The Download interview /w Justin LaBoy)
https://x.com/Kurrco/status/1886324231388160297
MEMS Clocks: Saving Power For AI – IEEE Spectrum
https://spectrum.ieee.org/mems-time
The Beatles won a Grammy last night, thanks to AI | TechCrunch
the hackbot singularity is coming / X
https://x.com/rez0__/status/1888801773558665464
Three Observations – Sam Altman
The intelligence of an AI model roughly equals the log of the resources used to train and run it.
The socioeconomic value of linearly increasing intelligence is super-exponential in nature.
The cost to use a given level of AI falls about 10x every 12 months, and lower prices lead to much more use.
https://blog.samaltman.com/three-observations
Tinder will try AI-powered matching as the dating app continues to lose users | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/06/tinder-will-try-ai-powered-matching-as-the-dating-app-continues-to-lose-users/
We also find that AIs increasingly maximize their utilities, suggesting that in current AI systems, expected utility maximization emerges by default. This means that AIs not only have values, but are starting to act on them. https://x.com/DanHendrycks/status/1889344078216876207
We challenge you to break our new jailbreaking defense! There are 8 levels. Can you find a single jailbreak to beat them all? https://x.com/janleike/status/1886452697425137904
Why AI Is A Philosophical Rupture https://www.noemamag.com/why-ai-is-a-philosophical-rupture/
calling upon congress to ban second order optimizers to prevent an AI arms race (with an exception for people who are already using them)” / X https://x.com/vikhyatk/status/1887775784124957147
EU puts out guidance on uses of AI that are banned under its AI Act | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/eu-puts-out-guidance-on-uses-of-ai-that-are-banned-under-its-ai-act/
OpenAI looking at 16 states for data center campuses tied to Stargate https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/06/openai-looking-at-16-states-for-data-center-campuses-tied-to-stargate.html
Sam Altman Regrets Ditching Open Source, Says He’s Been on the “Wrong Side of History” https://futurism.com/sam-altman-open-source-wrong-side-history
i think every zoomer is building some version of rizz gpt because their brains are permanently damaged from lockdown and they don’t know how to have a normal conversation with a woman. which like, honestly same https://x.com/andersonbcdefg/status/1890079063169224831
Workday to cut 1,750 jobs in AI push | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/workday-cut-85-its-workforce-2025-02-05/
Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/google-removes-pledge-to-not-use-ai-for-weapons-from-website/
🤔 An Energy Star for AI? Introducing AI Energy Score: First-ever rating system comparing 166 AI models’ energy consumption! From LLaMa to Gemma, get transparent ⭐️1-5 efficiency ratings. Incredible work led by @SashaMTL https://x.com/fdaudens/status/1889248951339024552
There is a lot going on in this paper, but a few quick thoughts: 1) No matter their maker’s country (China or US) or politics (Musk’s Grok vs. OpenAI), models seem to converge to the same values 2) Those values might be steered in the future, deciding how to do so is a big choice / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1889386514305696156
Heading to SXSW? Catch me on the panel at the 2025 Austin AI Film Festival, March 14-15! I’ll be alongside talent from Secret Level, Hollywood, and the AI creator scene. Grab your tickets below — early bird pricing ends Feb 15! https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1887517366432768320
Pre-training really was hitting a wall of sorts: diminishing returns (which is what the “scaling law”predicts anyway) The fact that reasoners were developed at exactly that moment & are nowhere close to a wall is how Moore’s Law works: new technique appear to maintain the trend https://x.com/emollick/status/1888302322964394020
true. brief timeline of Chinese AI: – it’s too bad to show – it’s an inferior GPT-3 – it’s just trained on test – it’s a llama with better data mix – it’s *solid engineering*, not science – it’s merely a rediscovery of OpenAI’s 4th Great Breakthrough === you are here === – it’s… https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1888781956315316378
Interesting data point on OpenAI’s Deep Research: I have been getting a steady stream of messages from very senior people in a variety of fields who have been, unsolicited, sharing their chats and how much it is going to change their jobs. Never happened with other AI products. / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1887579095610860014
What we’ve been seeing in the past few weeks is that when you’re really ambitious about AI, when you’re a bit radical in fostering ecosystems with open science and open-source, you can actually play a part in AI —whether you’re in the US, China, Canada, France” — https://x.com/fdaudens/status/1888984421304340604
AI systems with ‘unacceptable risk’ are now banned in the EU | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/02/ai-systems-with-unacceptable-risk-are-now-banned-in-the-eu/
DeepSeek Gets an ‘F’ in Safety From Researchers https://gizmodo.com/deepseek-gets-an-f-in-safety-from-researchers-2000558645
International AI Safety Report 2025 – GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/international-ai-safety-report-2025
We’ve found as AIs get smarter, they develop their own coherent value systems. For example they value lives in Pakistan > India > China > US These are not just random biases, but internally consistent values that shape their behavior, with many implications for AI alignment. 🧵 https://x.com/DanHendrycks/status/1889344074098057439
At the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris this week, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance said, “I’m not here to talk about AI safety…. I’m here to talk about AI opportunity.” I’m thrilled to see the U.S. government focus on opportunities in AI. Further, while it is https://x.com/AndrewYNg/status/1890076882391167317
Given that preemptive regulation of AI now seems unlikely, it would be good for both proponents & opponents to move quickly to focus on building capacity for reactive regulation, mitigating AI harms as they appear Addressing involuntary deepfakes is one clear need, for example.” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1889693552893940017
Daily Wenfeng W: «China’s 3 big telecoms operators rush to integrate DeepSeek models into cloud services, freezing their own LLM projects» -SCMP «If a complete upstream and downstream industrial ecosystem is formed, then there is no need for us to make applications ourselves» https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1888812805932875828
The open weights space is already vigorous. Not just Mistral and the various Chinese models, but Meta has been all-in on open models for a long time and seems committed to continuing to hyperscaling new open models at great cost (plus small open models from Microsoft & Google)” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1888477074064646410
Roblox Joins Alphabet, OpenAI in ROOST Fund to Boost Child Safety Online – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-10/roblox-joins-tech-companies-in-new-fund-to-protect-kids-online
New research from Scale: “Jailbreak to Jailbreak” — Jailbreaking safety-trained LLMs to develop jailbreaks for other LLMs” / X https://x.com/goodside/status/1889492446750364103
Chinese GPU Manufacturers Push Out Support For Running DeepSeek’s AI Models On Local Systems, Intensifying the AI Race https://wccftech.com/chinese-gpu-manufacturers-push-out-support-for-running-deepseek-ai-models-on-local-systems/
The polarization of policy into “AI is good” or “AI is bad” increases risk as it prevents us from mitigating inevitable harms while encouraging the good Technology is shaped by use. Tech historian’s Kranzberg’s First Law: “Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1889392327447191821
Today we’re launching the Anthropic Economic Index, a new initiative aimed at understanding AI’s impact on the economy over time. The Index’s first paper analyzes millions of anonymized Claude conversations to reveal how AI is being used today in tasks across the economy. https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1888954156422992108
AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications https://www.404media.co/anthropic-claude-job-application-ai-assistants/
Introducing the Anthropic Economic Index \ Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-anthropic-economic-index
If You Think Anyone in the AI Industry Has Any Idea What They’re Doing, It Appears That DeepSeek Just Accidentally Leaked Its Users’ Chats https://futurism.com/the-byte/deepseak-leaks-user-chatlogs
News publishers sue Cohere for copyright and trademark infringement https://www.axios.com/2025/02/13/publishers-sue-cohere-ai-copyright
Exposed DeepSeek Database Revealed Chat Prompts and Internal Data | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/exposed-deepseek-database-revealed-chat-prompts-and-internal-data/
That weird feeling as a creator where every video you upload to a social media platform is effectively training your own AI replacement. UGC” content creators are cooked — this tech disintermediates them, enabling small businesses to make authentic vertical video advertising” / X https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1889008506881155412
1.9M views on this AI generated music video. ViVO instead of VEVO. Uses the likeness of Justin Bieber and Jung Kook without their permission. This is gonna get messy. https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1887641026187149316
Meta says it may stop development of AI systems it deems too risky | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/03/meta-says-it-may-stop-development-of-ai-systems-it-deems-too-risky/
Australian lawyer caught using ChatGPT filed court documents referencing ‘non-existent’ cases | Australia news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/01/australian-lawyer-caught-using-chatgpt-filed-court-documents-referencing-non-existent-cases
If the hypothesis is that an AGI-level AI can accomplish a meaningful part of economically valuable work on its own without needing human expertise, it seems extremely unlikely that any such system would be released open weights. The benefits of controlling use would be too high. / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1889685623415431301
Thoughts on this post: 1) It echoes what we have been hearing from multiple labs about the confidence of scaling up to AGI quickly 2) There is no clear vision of what that world looks like 3) The labs are placing the burden on policymakers to decide what to do with what they make https://x.com/emollick/status/1888824230667538823
½ wrong, ½ right: The problem is not API 💰💰 but whether students can hack on—“research”—the details of models! .@ericschmidt: “said a [US] failure to invest in open-source [AI] would prevent scientific discovery in western universities, which could not afford closed models.” / X https://x.com/stanfordnlp/status/1889783322693476491
OpenAI and the CSU system bring AI to 500,000 students & faculty | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/openai-and-the-csu-system/
Had a great time meeting and chatting with the Paris students who use Perplexity. They turned up in big numbers despite a very late heads up. There’s a lot of builder energy and optimism there! 🇫🇷 https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1889562246004494405
In the ongoing Elon/Sam saga, what this means is that Sam has *secured his position with current administration* using Masa /Stargate/ OpenAIs DOD contracts. And is now in a position to clap back like this. Advantage Sam ? https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1889067899479802162
Why Elon Musk Is Shutting Down USAID and What Happens Now https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/elon-musk-usaid-killing.html
Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Working on a Custom Chatbot Called GSAi | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/doge-chatbot-ai-first-agenda/
New Swiss Re study: Waymo is safer than even the most advanced human-driven vehicles https://waymo.com/blog/2024/12/new-swiss-re-study-waymo
