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simulate a million bots in social networks https://x.com/tom_doerr/status/1952290852182647003
Apple’s AI Turnaround Plan: Robots, Lifelike Siri, Home Security Cameras (AAPL) – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-13/apple-s-ai-turnaround-plan-robots-lifelike-siri-and-home-security-cameras
This video is a great illustration of scenarios from @DKokotajlo et al’s “AI 2027,” highlighting the major risks of the race toward AGI. AI development needs to be steered towards safer, more beneficial outcomes. https://x.com/Yoshua_Bengio/status/1955268723939373546
Introducing LangExtract: A Gemini powered information extraction library – Google Developers Blog
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-langextract-a-gemini-powered-information-extraction-library/
OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman says in 10 years time college graduates will be working ‘some completely new, exciting, super well-paid’ job in space | Fortune https://fortune.com/2025/08/11/openai-ceo-sam-altman-10-years-gen-alpha-college-graduates-working-in-solar-system-well-paid-jobs-as-gen-z-struggles-todays-job-market/
China Shows Off Armed Attack Robots https://futurism.com/china-armed-attack-wolves
RT @DavidSacks: A BEST CASE SCENARIO FOR AI? The Doomer narratives were wrong. Predicated on a “rapid take-off” to AGI, they predicted tha…”” / X https://x.com/ylecun/status/1954411030294983052
SoftBank buys Foxconn’s Ohio plant to advance Stargate AI push, Bloomberg News reports | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/softbank-buys-foxconns-ohio-plant-advance-stargate-ai-push-bloomberg-news-2025-08-08/
really not looking forward to the new world order in which 70% of the people you interact with are LLM wrappers. i think i preferred the tiktok zombies”” / X https://x.com/vikhyatk/status/1955242564128477455
When and if AI development plateaus (and no indication that is happening yet), it may actually accelerate AI integration into our lives, because then it becomes easier to figure out what products & services are needed to complement AI. Right now capabilities are changing too fast”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1954855248679334261
The ‘godfather of AI’ reveals the only way humanity can survive superintelligent AI | CNN Business https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/tech/ai-geoffrey-hinton
U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China – The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technology/us-government-nvidia-amd-chips-china.html
Hill and Freedman at NYT report on the case of someone with “”no history of mental illness”” who was dragged into a delusional spiral for 3 weeks. According to the NYT, given full access to transcripts spanning a million words, it started with an innocent question about pi. https://x.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1953935708542083173
It used to be a LARP, but Elon is all about «fake it till you make it», and Grok 4 has internalized a coherent, unique, quite lovable persona of a humble autistic straight shooter who wants to «accelerate understanding of the universe». This is an Achievement. https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1955334943371936190
Are you ready for OpenAI to unleash the monetization slop upon the masses? The real release of GPT-5 was the router and how they can reduce cost / compute for most users by routing to cheaper models. Open has a big strategic shift in the works, and consumer purchasing will shift.”” / X https://x.com/dylan522p/status/1955433082397589900
Another example of a persistent problem with LLMs. They do very well on standard medical questions, but when the right answer is replaced with “none of the above” performance drops. More recent models generally have lower drops in performance. https://x.com/emollick/status/1955296575674056992
To test reasoning, I got GPT-5 to create a complete launch plan for an AI app from a single idea It did competitor research, product specs, logo, pricing, GTM strategy, roadmap, and more for me If I were starting with zero business knowledge, this is an insane resource https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1953505326206013820
RT @deedydas: Ridiculous that OpenAI claimed 74.9% on SWE-Bench just to prove they were above Opus 4.1’s 74.5%… By running it on 477 probl…”” / X https://x.com/akbirkhan/status/1954231799590301953
So pleased to announce the Humanloop team is joining @AnthropicAI! I couldn’t imagine a better home for the team. Everyone I’ve interacted with at Anthropic has been incredibly talented, high-trust and conscious of the stakes at play. Enormous gratitude to our customers and”” / X https://x.com/RazRazcle/status/1955488872235929712
We’re thrilled to announce that the Humanloop team is joining @AnthropicAI! Our mission has always been to enable the rapid and safe adoption of AI. Now, as AI progress accelerates, we think Anthropic is the ideal home to continue this work. https://x.com/humanloop/status/1955487624728318072
@claudeai @AnthropicAI Refer to following for more details on prompt caching: https://x.com/claude_code/status/1955475387858972986
Firefly Aerospace hits $9.8 billion valuation in Nasdaq debut as shares takeoff | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/firefly-aerospace-hits-98-billion-valuation-nasdaq-debut-shares-takeoff-2025-08-07/
Humanloop joins Anthropic https://humanloop.com/
This is fraud, no 2 ways about it. >10% performance degradation is a joke. This is the equivalent of a store emptying out 10% from a can and selling you the remaining 90% at full price.”” / X https://x.com/nrehiew_/status/1955613510463037611
Ford’s $5 Billion Model T Moment Aims To Turn EV Operation Profitable https://www.forbes.com/sites/edgarsten/2025/08/11/fords-aims-to-turn-ev-operation-profitable/
Introducing Tenable AI Exposure: Stop Guessing, Start Securing Your AI Attack Surface – Blog | Tenable® https://www.tenable.com/blog/introducing-tenable-ai-exposure-stop-guessing-start-securing-your-ai-attack-surface
There are a billion people using AI chatbots. It is likely they are being used in hundreds of thousands of unexpected ways that would enlighten, horrify, amuse, or disgust (note that guardrails can be circumvented). Odd stories will bubble up for years, appearing in your feed.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1955327343335014520
We have infinite magical powers at our disposal, but our content diets have so thoroughly destroyed our attention spans that we lack the imagination and focus to do anything with them.”” / X https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1953926273732162006
While delusion-promoting LLMs probably know better and are definitely misaligned, I agree it’s an open question how much quantitative harm that misalignment is doing. Reactor’s negative void coefficient != reactor’s explosion frequency.”” / X https://x.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1953579543975059595
Check out @snowglobe_so , the new simulation engine for testing chatbots from @guardrails_ai”” / X https://x.com/goodfellow_ian/status/1956040393361121540
Introducing ❄️ @snowglobe_so, the simulation engine for AI chatbots. Magically simulate the behavior of your users to test and improve your chatbots. Find failures before your users do. https://x.com/ShreyaR/status/1956023326721368337
Synthetic Society tests your product with AI-powered user simulations. Their agents mimic real users to catch bugs, bad UX, and edge cases. Ship faster, kill manual testing, and build with confidence. https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1953154105641509348
This paper purporting to describe “”intelligence explosions”” seems written at a very high level of abstraction. @TomDavidsonX, how would your framework describe the following set of events? – In late 2026, an early prototype for GPT-6 suggests a breakthrough new AI algorithm. -“” / X https://x.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1953518366372859921
June mental health emergency room data just came out – still flat despite the ubiquity of LLM use, which might be informative as a limit on what the underlying phenomenon could be https://x.com/literalbanana/status/1948026993787977822
Exclusive: US embeds trackers in AI chip shipments to catch diversions to China, sources say | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-embeds-trackers-ai-chip-shipments-catch-diversions-china-sources-say-2025-08-13/
BI confirmed my intel. We’re gradually symmetrizing information in the private markets. 2nd order effects in capital allocation will be sharper pricing, higher capital velocity, and the collapse of marginal arbitrage — shifting leverage to founders. Good. https://x.com/arfurrock/status/1955740969116299466
Open-Sourcing Roblox Sentinel: Our Approach to Preemptive Risk Detection https://corp.roblox.com/newsroom/2025/08/open-sourcing-roblox-sentinel-preemptive-risk-detection
This is a remarkable claim given what I have heard alleged that Elon does to manipulate X to benefit himself and his own companies and harm his competitors and people he doesn’t like.”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1955094792804720660
Citi Oversaw $1 Billion for Trust US Tied to Sanctioned Oligarch – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-11/citi-oversaw-1-billion-for-trust-us-tied-to-sanctioned-oligarch?srnd=phx-technology&embedded-checkout=true
This is exactly what @javirandor did with chatgpt last year to get it to spit out memorized training data: https://t.co/dtFpAAw6ps There’s probably some interesting stuff to study on such “”re-based”” models”” / X https://x.com/florian_tramer/status/1955510942252572946
I’ve said it a hundred times but I’ll keep saying it: AI adoption and behavior change are slow — and will stay slow — no matter how fast capabilities improve. The stat in the screenshot is worth pondering: nearly a year after the release of “”thinking”” models, only a tiny fraction https://x.com/random_walker/status/1954912993747128554
This is what I’d expect to see if OpenAI had made general progress on fighting sycophancy and manipulation. :/ If that’s in fact what happened, OpenAI made that choice rightly.”” / X https://x.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1953885007971586089
U.S. Govt gets ChatGPT for a buck https://www.therundown.ai/p/us-government-gets-chatgpt-for-a-buck
RT @AISecurityInst: How can open-weight Large Language Models be safeguarded against malicious uses? In our new paper with @AiEleuther, we…”” / X https://x.com/BlancheMinerva/status/1955228688296866285
Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. xAI will take immediate legal action.”” / X https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1955073616996975095
