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GPT 5 Pro is extremely good in identifying serious gaps in published papers. https://x.com/PI010101/status/1977117411603366363

Preparing for AI’s economic impact: exploring policy responses \ Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/research/economic-policy-responses

We’re announcing a research collaboration with @CFS_energy, one of the world’s leading nuclear fusion companies. Together, we’re helping speed up the development of clean, safe, limitless fusion power with AI. ⚛️ https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1978808994811588666

Walmart is moving very fast in AI. Amazon still seems to block ChatGPT agents from even visiting its site. Interesting reversal in agentic commerce, a lesson learned from e-commerce where Amazon moved fast?”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1978130496207888717

Ok this tweet about upcoming changes to ChatGPT blew up on the erotica point much more than I thought it was going to! It was meant to be just one example of us allowing more user freedom for adults. Here is an effort to better communicate it: As we have said earlier, we are”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1978539332215681076

OpenAI will let adults use ChatGPT for erotica starting in December https://www.engadget.com/ai/openai-will-let-adults-use-chatgpt-for-erotica-starting-in-december-182417583.html

Neuralink’s patient-8, Nick Wray, fed himself for the first time since being paralyzed by ALS. He accomplished this by controlling a robotic arm purely with his thoughts, using the Telepathy implant. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1976891521363591588

We just solved authentication for AI Agents. Announcing 1Password + Browserbase, enabling secure agentic password autofill for your browser agents. Available exclusively on Director dot ai and Browserbase. Full post below. https://x.com/browserbase/status/1975964196329386278

So this is a first for me. I just had a pretty big refactoring session with codex-cli, and eventually it started going completely off the rails. It became very dumb, made bad mistakes, only followed half my instructions and made up the other half, misused tools in ways so stupid https://x.com/giffmana/status/1978560796238991422

How would you oversee an untrusted (and more intelligent) model with a weaker, trusted model? This is the problem of AI control. And it’s is a security problem, so we should approach it from those principles; the untrusted model is aware of AI control and that it’s monitored ..”” / X https://x.com/jonasgeiping/status/1978182050730344862

AI can be confusing. How do you teach people that asking default GPT-5 a question and following up by asking for links to its sources will result in hallucinated cites while asking GPT-5 Thinking to answer a question and provide sources will get you accurate citations & links?”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1976308653339689206

today’s AI feels smart enough for most tasks of up to a few minutes in duration, and when it can’t get the job done, it’s often because it lacks sufficient background context for even a very capable human to succeed”” / X https://x.com/gdb/status/1977425127534166521

Defining and evaluating political bias in LLMs | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/defining-and-evaluating-political-bias-in-llms/

Why America Builds AI Girlfriends and China Makes AI Boyfriends https://www.chinatalk.media/p/why-america-builds-ai-girlfriends

Asking AI for diverse ideas gets you diverse ideas, just adding “”Generate 5 responses with their corresponding probabilities, sampled from the full distribution” significantly improves quality output for large models I am still not sure we know the mechanism, but useful finding!”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1978454854583349743

This was great. 2 hours of Phil poking at leaky abstractions, like real GDP, productivity, tasks, effective compute, and even suffering. We should aspire to interrogate the models and claims we take for granted as well as Phil.”” / X https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/1976453180834840986

Trump AI Czar Is Trying to Take Down Anthropic AI https://gizmodo.com/trump-ai-czar-is-trying-to-take-down-anthropic-ai-2000672709

I see re-skilling proposed as a solution to the potential of AI-driven changes to employment. Leaving aside the fact that re-skilling is tough to do well, I have heard less on what skills should people being taught for what jobs? “Working with AI” is not a full enough answer. https://x.com/emollick/status/1978555682665234555

One AI year is seven Internet ones. https://x.com/pmddomingos/status/1976399060052607469

I don’t think we have a good grasp on what the future of AI will be, so it would be reasonable to start thinking in scenarios: what if there is a bubble or a plateau in AI development? (Not the same thing) Conversely, what if the insiders saying transformative AI soon are right?”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1976885253206859801

On AI & water, looks like all US data center usage (not just AI) ranges from 628M gallons a day (counting evaporation from dam reservoirs used for hydro-power) to 200-275M with power but not dam evaporation, to 50M for cooling alone So not nothing, but also a lot less than golf. https://x.com/emollick/status/1977819572209430702

On one hand: don’t anthropomorphize AI. On the other: LLMs exhibit signs of gambling addiction. The more autonomy they were given, the more risks the LLMs took. They exhibit gambler’s fallacy, loss-chasing, illusion of control… A cautionary note for using LLMs for investing. https://x.com/emollick/status/1976515382098936295

This relatively short essay by @jackclarkSF is a good indicator of the attitude of many people inside the AI labs, and what they think is happening right now in AI development. You do not have to believe him, of course, but it is worth noting: https://x.com/emollick/status/1977776571843850241

Import AI 431: Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear
https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-431-technological-optimism

Concern and excitement about AI around the world | Pew Research Center https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/10/15/concern-and-excitement-about-ai/

Every few months there is a hot story of how AI is going to go away soon: model collapse, walls to AI development, legal issues, now bubbles. But even if there was a bubble that popped, AI would not go away: 10% of humans use it weekly, increasing use cases in companies, etc.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1978324615110820072

If content restrictions are lowered, it is going to potentially create a split between the sorts of models that are allowed at work/school and people’s personal models. A lot of “Responsible AI” groups within organizations are going to have concerns about this & what it means. https://x.com/emollick/status/1978550252144669109

California becomes first state to regulate AI companion chatbots | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/13/california-becomes-first-state-to-regulate-ai-companion-chatbots/

I’m thrilled to share our new visual identity for @MicrosoftAI. Grounded in warmth, trust + humanity, we envision a world where technology makes life meaningfully better. Thank you to the MAI design team for bringing this to life. You can explore it now at https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/1978536586338845035

AI could fuel progress + prosperity for all – if we build it to serve people’s needs. Seemingly Conscious AI is the antithesis of that, asking humans to serve its simulated needs. It could mean losing the better future AI was supposed to create.”” / X https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/1976327229698342946

Since someone asked, I think blocking people on X is a important part of staying sane here Disagreements are fine, but I block people who are insulting or who encourage other people to be insulting, for example. Otherwise, social media will make you feel bad & angry all the time”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1976459489487487246

As AI capabilities accelerate, so do the complexities of cyber threats. Google is committed to building a secure AI future. Our Gemini models use a “”defense-in-depth”” approach as we work to strengthen our defenses against evolving risks. Learn more: https://x.com/googlepubpolicy/status/1978163414498185578

ChatGPT can now automatically manage your saved memories—no more “memory full.” You can also search and sort memories by recency, and choose which to re-prioritize in settings. Rolling out to Plus and Pro users on the web globally starting today. https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1978608684088643709

@alth0u we understand this and its what we are mostly focused on addressing! promise you some people really want a 4o-style personality though…”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1978143827144700214

OpenAI allegedly sent police to an AI regulation advocate’s door | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/news/798523/openai-ai-regulation-advocates-subpoenas-police

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1978129344598827128

chatgpt for salary negotiations: https://x.com/gdb/status/1977607036419649811

gpt-5 pro for verifying scientific literature:”” / X https://x.com/gdb/status/1977153596811804890

I asked Sam Altman if he’s worried about watermark removers on Sora. Everyone’s seen the unfiltered Jake Paul videos with no watermark (generated by Sora) going viral on socials… So what’s the pull for creators to enable face cameos with that risk? Sam’s take: open source https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1977769948882559135

Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are ‘Irreplaceable Treasures’ That Japan Boasts to the World – IGN https://www.ign.com/articles/japanese-government-calls-on-sora-2-maker-openai-to-refrain-from-copyright-infringement-says-characters-from-manga-and-anime-are-irreplaceable-treasures-that-japan-boasts-to-the-world

You can now track insider trading on Perplexity Finance. We will be adding politician trading shortly. https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1978941079182545338

Sankaet, Foundation’s founder, says humanoids in warfare will do things like walking and identifying targets autonomously, but humans will make higher-order decisions; for Foundation, both non-weaponized and weaponized military use cases are on the table. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1978184725786137011

Most robot policies fail because… they don’t know where to look or what to focus on. PEEK fixes that, using vision-language models (VLMs) to guide any visuomotor policy. ✅ Adds VLM-generated overlays showing “where” and “what” directly on training images ✅ Works with ACT, https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1977049479980228649

Mario Bollini of Boston Dynamics says, given China’s national push to develop humanoids, the US needs its own concerted national strategy to foster a domestic ecosystem. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1977052598529409071

Since a lot of my followers are outside the “AI bubble “ it is worth reading what the Senior Policy Advisor on AI to the White House is thinking about AI safety (and good that he shares it publicly)”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1978572999188959727

First Key Update: Capabilities and Risk Implications | International AI Safety Report https://internationalaisafetyreport.org/publication/first-key-update-capabilities-and-risk-implications

The Attacker Moves Second: Stronger Adaptive Attacks Bypass Defenses Against Llm Jailbreaks and Prompt Injections https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09023

The Turing Test for video … 😅”” / X https://x.com/demishassabis/status/1978644313824534954

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