Image created with gemini-2.5-flash-image with claude-sonnet-4-5. Image prompt: Top-down isometric pixel art view of a busy city intersection in PS1 Grand Theft Auto style, chunky sprite autonomous vehicles approaching a crosswalk with multiple groups of pedestrian sprites, bright neon yellow warning indicators and branching decision arrows overlaid on the asphalt, saturated primary colors with hot pink and electric blue crosswalk markings, dithered concrete textures, high contrast CRT glow aesthetic, god’s-eye perspective showing the ethical dilemma frozen in time.
The assistant axis: situating and stabilizing the character of large language models \ Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/research/assistant-axis
This is interesting for a lot of reasons, including helping explain how model personality drift happens (and an easy way to mitigate that) as well as more exploration into the “Assistant” the key personality of basically every AI you work with, but which is not well understood.”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2013420897403543681
AI agents have gotten good enough at long horizon tasks that it is an inflection point in the impact of AI at work. Agreement on this from METR, GDPval & now Anthropic. If you have a tool that saves 8 hours 65% of the time, that changes work, even counting potential error rates.”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2012237630411292859
Anthropic’s CEO says Nvidia’s H200 too powerful for China • The Register https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/20/anthropic_nvidia_china/
Eleven Album: Converging human creativity and technology
https://elevenlabs.io/eleven-album
Introducing The Eleven Album: A landmark musical release https://elevenlabs.io/blog/introducing-the-eleven-album
AI data centers can now use as much power as New York State uses on the hottest days of the years. We find that data centers currently have a total capacity of around 30 GW.”” https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/2012303496465498490
Stargate Community:”” https://x.com/gdb/status/2013825470379237505
Ignore the guy yelling out his car window “”those things are going to kill us all one day””😂”” https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2011959092911489399
The Drama at Thinking Machines, a New A.I. Start-Up, Is Riveting Silicon Valley – The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/thinking-machines-ai-startup-openai.html
Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-advertising-and-expanding-access/
Sharing our principles for how we will approach ads in ChatGPT before we start testing in the U.S. in the coming weeks. Most importantly: ads will not influence the answers ChatGPT gives you.”” https://x.com/fidjissimo/status/2012226082716393960
We are starting to test ads in ChatGPT free and Go (new $8/month option) tiers. Here are our principles. Most importantly, we will not accept money to influence the answer ChatGPT gives you, and we keep your conversations private from advertisers. It is clear to us that a lot”” https://x.com/sama/status/2012253252771824074
Stargate Community | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/stargate-community/
I have great respect for Elon, but the way he cherry-picked from my personal journal is beyond dishonest. Elon and we had agreed a for-profit was the next step for OpenAI’s mission. The context shows these snippets were actually about whether to accept Elon’s draconian terms.”” https://x.com/gdb/status/2012328080678031844
The truth Elon left out | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/the-truth-elon-left-out/
China just ‘months’ behind U.S. AI models, Google DeepMind CEO says https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/01/16/google-deepmind-china-ai-demis-hassabis.html
The algorithm behind X’s “”For You”” feed is now open source. Built on xAI’s Grok-based transformer, the system ditches hand-crafted features in favor of raw ML muscle. It blends content from accounts you follow (Thunder) and global posts (Phoenix), scoring engagement predictions”” https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2014106607186334094
@elonmusk yet more cherry-picking. the quote omits the part of the interview when the reporter says: “”well, [Elon] wanted it to be for-profit,”” and @jason doesn’t disagree… because that part is the truth.”” https://x.com/jasonkwon/status/2013184587862569087
@gdb Everything you just wrote is exactly how I remember it. You worked hard to find a setup that could work for him and you. I’m sorry it’s playing out like this.”” https://x.com/asuth/status/2012356193033867716
🫠”” https://x.com/sama/status/2012271781394989327
Runway Research | The Turing Reel https://runwayml.com/research/theturingreel
ChatGPT Self Portrait – by Zvi Mowshowitz https://thezvi.substack.com/p/chatgpt-self-portrait
–dangerously-skip-agency”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2011909846581346759
Supply-chain risk of agentic AI – infecting infrastructures via skill worms https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/supply-chain-risk-of-agentic-ai-infecting-infrastructures-via-skill-worms/
humans& https://humansand.ai/
Frontier AI Auditing: Toward Rigorous Third-Party Assessment of Safety and Security Practices at Leading AI Companies — AVERI https://www.averi.org/ourwork/frontier-ai-auditing
It’s a year later and Ben Affleck’s take on AI media continues to age like fine wine”” https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2013376659265573255
Inference startup Inferact lands $150M to commercialize vLLM | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/inference-startup-inferact-lands-150m-to-commercialize-vllm/
Only vibes”” is basically the definition of expert. (Usually its called unconscious heuristics, but same thing)”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2012358857683554734
When my students were creating initial demos with Claude Code & Antigravity, the AI would often spontaneously decide to do Wizard of Oz demos. The AI would build an interface, but not underlying logic. Code would (live!) run the interface behind the scenes to make it look working”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2012212148915654753
Claude’s Constitution \ Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/constitution
Claude’s constitution is out! It’s the culmination of a lot of work by many people, but it’s also a work in progress that will no doubt change and hopefully improve over time. I’m looking forward to people’s thoughts, and to talking with more people about this kind of work ❤️”” https://x.com/AmandaAskell/status/2014010171081581048
Claude’s new constitution \ Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-new-constitution
Claude’s new constitution https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/21/claudes-new-constitution/
If you ask Claude 4.5 for the name of a software developer, you are going to get Marcus Chen. Wizards are mostly named Aldric. Space pilots are Kira. (I’d been meaning to do this myself at some point, since this repetition is so obvious to Claude users) https://x.com/emollick/status/2013057279990407418
The Claude Constitution shows where Anthropic thinks this is all going. It is a massive document covering many philosophical issues. I think it is worth serious attention beyond the usual AI-adjacent commentators. Other labs should be similarly explicit. https://x.com/emollick/status/2014042317162791095
We’re publishing a new constitution for Claude. The constitution is a detailed description of our vision for Claude’s behavior and values. It’s written primarily for Claude, and used directly in our training process.”” https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2014005798691877083
I guess the only good thing about all the AI comments on this platform that they are sycophantic and say how smart every post I make is, which I guess is an improvement over human trolls, maybe.”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2014039085334114713
If there is a financial bubble in AI, which is not in any way clear, there is no “”use bubble”” – a billion people use AI weekly. It isn’t going away. Even if every frontier lab went under (but Google, which can’t), AI development would continue with the same people at other firms”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2013113404173545956
Photorealistic performance capture was out of reach for most people just a year ago. Didn’t expect it to get democratized so quickly. Funny part is we’re already over it – adding to the laundry list of AI superpowers we take for granted.”” https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2012589689845203339
These Vance memes are A-tier — the man has been immortalized forevermore in the annals of internet history”” https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2012209081117769834
Our approach to age prediction | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-age-prediction/
Sometimes you complain about ChatGPT being too restrictive, and then in cases like this you claim it’s too relaxed. Almost a billion people use it and some of them may be in very fragile mental states. We will continue to do our best to get this right and we feel huge”” https://x.com/sama/status/2013703158459978076
Well… there is this paper on GPT-4 that found it was good at setting prices on behalf of the user (as opposed to against them, as in this joke post) In fact, if it is possible to establish an oligarchy, LLM agents secretly collude on your behalf to the detriment of customers!”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2013080195255676965
Robots don’t need more rules. They need better ways to learn: RL with synthetic data. Group Relative Policy Optimization, or GRPO, is not just another RL trick. It points to a different learning philosophy. Instead of giving a robot one simple reward, GRPO compares many”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2012448824904557015
On the Coming Industrialisation of Exploit Generation with LLMs – Sean Heelan’s Blog https://sean.heelan.io/2026/01/18/on-the-coming-industrialisation-of-exploit-generation-with-llms/
Yes, that is the whole reason that fraudulent paper was such a big deal to those who study AI. Most other research (including our academic papers studying Boston Consulting Group using AI) found that AI reduced performance gaps. That may change as models get better, but not yet.”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2012336006989557788
Our 2025 Impact Report is out. The AI industry is scaling exponentially – investment, compute, data center buildouts. So, it turns out, is demand for making sense of it all. See how we’ve kept up!”” https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/2012226390461132824
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