Image created with GPT Image 1. Image prompt: A high-collared velvet suit with scales of justice hand-embroidered in gold thread wraps around a serene Black philosopher-judge, framed by a cracked Corinthian column and protest posters faded into the marble walls, captured in chiaroscuro on 50mm film — evoking Baldwin’s moral weight and AI’s modern reckoning.
Sam Patterson https://sampatt.com/blog/2025-04-28-can-o3-beat-a-geoguessr-master
Anduril to acquire Ireland’s Klas to bolster AI warfare systems | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/anduril-acquire-irelands-klas-bolster-ai-warfare-systems-2025-05-05/
OpenAI said it will convert its existing for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation—but keep the non-profit in control with a majority stake over the PBC. The move came after pressure from ex-employees and a long legal battle with Elon Musk https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1919656417780248613
Google Plans to Roll Out Gemini A.I. Chatbot to Children Under 13 – The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/technology/google-gemini-ai-chatbot-kids.html
Evolving OpenAI’s Structure | Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43897772
OpenAI and the FDA Are Holding Talks About Using AI In Drug Evaluation | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/openai-fda-doge-ai-drug-evaluation/
Elon Musk Lawyer Says OpenAI Restructuring Update ‘Changes Nothing’ – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-06/musk-s-lawyer-says-openai-restructuring-update-changes-nothing?embedded-checkout=true
scale of stargate 1 site is hard to describe. very easy to overlook the size of machine you’re programming when training frontier models. https://x.com/gdb/status/1920254049590321395
Sim-to-ruin https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1918080151155511326
David Sacks Explains How AI Will Go 1,000,000x in Four Years “I would say the rate of progress is exponential right now on at least three key dimensions.” 1) The models “So number one is the algorithms themselves. The models are improving at a rate of, I don’t know, 3-4x a https://x.com/theallinpod/status/1918715889530130838
@lmarena_ai Back from a meeting block and dinner. 🙂 I’ll just share a few more pieces of context here that may help clarify — and again I don’t speak for all the authors but I do feel a bit obliged to respond since my post was tagged above. **it is not true models are removed without https://x.com/sarahookr/status/1917813183462662215
Startups launch products to catch people using AI cheating app Cluely | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/startups-launch-products-to-catch-people-using-ai-cheating-app-cluely/
AI is no longer a “nice to have” in today’s competitive financial services landscape; it’s a must. In our upcoming webinar, our experts will share how financial institutions can adopt AI strategically, without compromising security or compliance. Register now: https://x.com/cohere/status/1917996900487401964
India panel to review copyright law amid legal challenges to OpenAI | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/india-panel-review-copyright-law-amid-legal-challenges-openai-2025-05-06/
OpenAI CPO, Kevin Weil: We’re preparing to release an open-weight model soon, built on democratic values. It won’t be the frontier model and will be one generation behind on purpose to avoid accelerating rivals like China. https://x.com/slow_developer/status/1919393597385810272
Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/expanding-on-sycophancy/
Introducing OpenAI for Countries | OpenAI https://openai.com/global-affairs/openai-for-countries/
Legal AI Contract Review & Drafting | Spellbook
https://www.spellbook.legal/
As happens to every AI term once it becomes used in marketing (see also “agents” and “vibe coding”), I regret to inform you that no one agrees on a common definition of “digital twin,” let alone what a digital twin actually does.” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1919562041188044902
this has been one of my helicopter moments too (Sam Altman on Geoguessing): https://x.com/sama/status/1918741036702044645
Curious what y’all make of Tristan’s take on the AI race. Are we truly on an “unacceptable” path — or is this exactly what it looks like to walk the razor’s edge between centralized control and decentralized chaos? https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1918442409954054531
Being able to see the “thinking” of an AI can occasionally feel infantalizing when you see that it is clearly dumbing things down for you. https://x.com/emollick/status/1920183636340424750
I became a virtue ethicist after observing the failures of consequentialism and deontology in the real world. But I’ve seldom read academic philosophers analyzing such examples when arguing about which ethical theory to endorse. What are the best examples of that?” / X https://x.com/RichardMCNgo/status/1919218998211641393
Anthropic Economic Index: AI’s impact on software development \ Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/research/impact-software-development
The Leaderboard Illusion Author’s Explanation: https://x.com/TheAITimeline/status/1919155704579142047
san francisco is a ghost city. an inherent ephemerality in every friendship: nobody is here to set down roots. a startup fails, an opportunity blinks, a friend disappears back across the globe forever. everyone’s imported, ready dip out just as fast as they came in.” / X https://x.com/willdepue/status/1919282493498278231
11x CEO Hasan Sukkar steps down | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/05/11x-ceo-hasan-sukkar-steps-down/
When we use generative AI for work, there are two ever-present risks: hallucinations/confabulations and deskilling. For each of my AI use cases, I try to make sure I know how I’m avoiding those risks. Specifically: * AI is helpful despite being error-prone if it is faster to” / X https://x.com/random_walker/status/1919359709062033850
Musk’s xAI joins TWG Global, Palantir for AI push in financial sector | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/musks-xai-joins-twg-global-palantir-ai-push-financial-sector-2025-05-06/
NVIDIA’s CEO, Jensen Huang, shared his thoughts on the AI race with China, saying: —The country has great capability and is ‘right behind’ the U.S —Huawei has everything to advance AI (in terms of infra) —It’s a long-term, infinite competition https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1917844219571454027
Exclusive: US lawmaker targets Nvidia chip smuggling to China with new bill | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-lawmaker-targets-nvidia-chip-smuggling-china-with-new-bill-2025-05-05/
I warned about the Homework Apocalypse in 2023. It happened as predicted. There is a world where AI & traditional education get along very well (mixes of active in-class learning, AI-assisted assignments & tutors, blue books), but it needs to be built. https://x.com/emollick/status/1920184969852244173
I have taught an entrepreneurship class for 15 years. I just had an online Q&A with a group of entrepreneurs taking a similar class. As an experiment, I put their questions into o3. The answers were all very good. (The examples here are not from the students, but are typical) https://x.com/emollick/status/1919391279261032864
People are likely massively lying about how much they use AI In this survey, 39% of students said they never used AI and another 24% say they only use it a little… …but if you ask them how many of their peers use AI less than two days a week, they answer only 1% of them do! https://x.com/emollick/status/1919231306321322075
Open Letter – In the age of AI, we must prepare our children for the future — to be AI creators, not just consumers. A basic foundation in computer science and AI is crucial for helping every student thrive in a technology-driven world. Without it, they risk falling behind. https://csforall.org/unlock8/open-letter
Separating Fact from Fiction: Here’s How AI Is Transforming Cybercrime | Fortinet Blog https://www.fortinet.com/blog/industry-trends/separating-fact-from-fiction-how-ai-is-transforming-cybercrime
Congrats to @VSCVentures portfolio company Glacier on raising their Series A round to bring PhysicalAI to waste management. As background we invest in companies that help America do Dirty Jobs. No job is dirtier than manual human sorting of trash. With Glacier, humans work https://x.com/vijaychattha/status/1916881698895380858
Google Cloud is excited to partner with @Cloudflare, @CrowdStrike, @Okta, and @Wiz_io to foster an open, interoperable AI security ecosystem using the Model Context Protocol Together, we’re making it easier to leverage AI across your security stack. 🔗 https://x.com/GoogleCloudSec/status/1916885117215134155
AI-generated code could be a disaster for the software supply chain. Here’s why. – Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/04/ai-generated-code-could-be-a-disaster-for-the-software-supply-chain-heres-why/
2/ Google Cloud is excited to partner with @Cloudflare, @CrowdStrike, @Okta, and @Wiz_io to foster an open, interoperable AI security ecosystem using the Model Context Protocol. @GoogleCloudSec https://x.com/AtomSilverman/status/1920168568647528721
Contrary to some discussions, I just don’t see signs of a major increase in hallucination rates for recent models, or for reasoners overall, in the data. It seems like some models do better than others, but many of the recent models have the lowest hallucination rates. https://x.com/emollick/status/1919861888998899898
Cisco’s Foundation AI just dropped Foundation-Sec-8B on Hugging Face A cybersecurity-focused LLM built on Llama 3.1 that matches Llama 3.1-70B & GPT-4o-mini on certain security tasks! https://x.com/HuggingPapers/status/1919127655531557374
People expect the economic impact of a high-tariff regime to look like a downward step function, like in the image on the left (not expecting 145% tariffs on China — but let’s say 30%). In reality, it will be more like the image on the right. 1. The early response will be https://x.com/fchollet/status/1918258519624790273
great to see progress on the first stargate in abilene with our partners at oracle today. will be the biggest ai training facility in the world. the scale, speed, and skill of the people building this is awesome.” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1920205923366158550
Sharing new open source protection tools and advancements in AI privacy and security https://ai.meta.com/blog/ai-defenders-program-llama-protection-tools/
I have been thinking about which famous authors would have absolutely loved playing with LLMs. Mark Twain because he was a nerd for writing technologies; Lewis Carrol would have dug the underlying puzzles; William S Boroughs, obviously. Wonder about Borges, Shelley, Joyce, Eco?” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1918116926657597758
Agility CEO Peggy Johnson expressed concern over Chinese military robots and said the US needs to keep pace technologically. She’s open to discussions with the Department of Defense to ensure the military has access to the best technology available. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1918432599703454180
powering_new_era_of_american_innovation.pdf https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/publicpolicy.google/en//resources/powering_new_era_of_american_innovation.pdf
When Is an AI Image Truly Art? – IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-art-whitney-museum
Evolving OpenAI’s structure | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/evolving-our-structure/
I wrote about the connection between two big recent stories in AI: the sudden increase in sycophancy from ChatGPT and the growing evidence that AIs can be hyper persuasive. First we shape our tools, then they shape us. https://x.com/emollick/status/1917795552961380628
we missed the mark with last week’s GPT-4o update. what happened, what we learned, and some things we will do differently in the future:” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1918330652325458387
A weird thing about LLMs is that they just happen to do many things but almost all uses are undocumented. For example, GPT-4o is very good at helping farmers identify swine diseases. There is a lot of value in experts exploring & benchmarking how good LLMs are at various tasks. https://x.com/emollick/status/1919607333639909612
(1) WATCH LIVE: OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman testifies on AI competition in Senate hearing – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fikh6Bi9wyA
“How can we make sure this open-source revolution is sustainable? One way to achieve this is to go back to the 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle), fundamental principles in environmental conservation that can also be applied to AI.” @sashamtl and Régis https://x.com/fdaudens/status/1920196231579459809
I noticed an alarming change within myself because of LLM usage: I have become lazy of reading. These days, if I ask @grok a question and its answer is long, I would get annoyed and tell it to give me a TDLR. Sometimes, I even become impatient enough to tell it to answer” / X https://x.com/hyhieu226/status/1919068971845976113
Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests – Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/time-saved-by-ai-offset-by-new-work-created-study-suggests/
How to train an AI model without falling into GDPR pitfalls? – Lexology https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=b58d1d9a-4803-468e-90ff-160d26139c5e
