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Governor Newsom signs first-of-its-kind executive order to prepare workers and businesses for potential AI disruption | Governor of California
“Data centers create economic activity, especially in directly related sectors and during construction, and they are associated with larger county-level income aggregates. They also raise electricity prices and are associated with higher house prices,”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2056136463201300572
Vatican prepares for Pope Leo XIV’s AI-focused first encyclical | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/vatican-artificial-intelligence-pope-musk-nvidia-trump-889c0066f0d5ce784c07abb72b33e24c
An artist just put a mirror to a lot of society’s knee-jerk critiques of AI, using Claude (Monet). SHL0MS, known for his viral experiments, posted an image of a real Monet water lilies painting on X and told people it was AI-generated. Hundreds of replies poured in explaining
https://x.com/TheRundownAI/status/2054942919367197112?s=20
Advancing content provenance for a safer, more transparent AI ecosystem | OpenAI
https://openai.com/index/advancing-content-provenance/
Codex anywhere and everywhere, all the time. Now your Mac doesn’t have to be unlocked for Codex to use your computer. From your phone, Codex can securely use apps on your Mac, even when the screen is off and locked.
https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2057536706778378692
Highlights from today’s Codex Thursday launches: 1️⃣ Codex can now securely use apps on your Mac from your phone, even when your Mac is locked and the screen is off.
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2057617844800794878?s=20
Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182754
Jury dismisses all claims in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/18/nx-s1-5822366/musk-altman-openai-jury-verdict-claims-dismissed
Musk loses case against OpenAI | CNN Business
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/18/tech/openai-musk-lawsuit-verdict
A big irony: The harder AI companies try to make their products feel like magic genies, the steeper the learning curve gets. “”Prompt engineering”” may no longer be a thing, but the verification challenge isn’t going away — and it requires a *lot* of practice and learning to do
https://x.com/random_walker/status/2055271764662296580
A user searches for “”caffe crema”” in your speciality coffee e-commerce store. The result? 0 matches. Your BM25 search just treated “”caffé”” and “”caffe”” as two different tokens, and the keyword half of your hybrid search dropped to zero. Weaviate v1.37 ships three things to
https://x.com/weaviate_io/status/2055276211681579242
Continual learning sometimes gets discussed as if the goal is to dissolve the context/weights distinction. Let the model just keep accumulating, fine-tuning itself on the fly. @karpathy points out, though, that this isn’t how humans do it. Our working memory gets wiped
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2055771242620469586
GOALPOST MOVED. “”LLM must solve major conjecture without lean or data augmentation using lean. Otherwise its neuro symbolic AI, just as I predicted years ago. Gotcha.””
https://x.com/cloneofsimo/status/2057486750004756524
In other words: Humans are teaching teacher models how to teach other models the way good human teachers teach other humans so we can make smarter models that can teach humans to be smarter. Intuition: A good teacher model will not only lead to the right answer–it will do so
https://x.com/bradenjhancock/status/2055079214156853325
It is extremely hard for most people to accept that they’re living through an unprecedented period of change, even when the evidence is clear. When Isaac Newton analysed the society around him, he noticed that there were rapid advances being made all the time. But he couldn’t
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2055725113006575882
This thread is worth reading. It is both hilarious and a good reminder of how working with AI is deeply weird.
https://x.com/emollick/status/2055317636586578196
What are users thinking during their interactions with LLMs? We introduce ThoughtTrace — the first large-scale dataset that captures what users think during real-world human-AI conversations, not just what they type. → 10,174 thought annotations → 2,155 multi-turn
https://x.com/chuanyang_jin/status/2057111965101670842
Why don’t LLM’s just tell you when you are asking a question / doing something that is out of distribution?
https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2056389715293778192
Your vector search just returned five pizzas. You queried “”Italian food”” and got margherita, margherita, margherita, margherita, and in a bold twist 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮. All technically correct. All useless together. This is what happens when relevance is the only thing
https://x.com/weaviate_io/status/2057117923416629676
One thing to watch for with Claude & GPT is that the models expose too much irrelevant history in their outputs. Slides are given footers saying things like “”Better, more targeted version”” if you asked for a better version, documents make references to how they are improved, etc
https://x.com/emollick/status/2056387958760939592
I am starting to have trouble paying attention to even interesting information if it is written in Claude or ChatGPT house style. I think some is the sameness of the rhythm rather than obvious tics: Claude is always so staccato. ChatGPT loves short sentences as kickers. Boring.
https://x.com/emollick/status/2057098819515367630
AI labs have started developing systems to monitor internally deployed AI agents for misaligned behavior. Earlier this year, I spent a month embedded at Anthropic stress-testing these systems, to see how easily current/future AIs could “go rogue” inside the company.
https://x.com/idavidrein/status/2056800422422265897
He said: AI will be 10 times more impactful than Industrial Revolution and 10 times faster. It will be a lot of change. We are talking about the next 1000 years of human flourishing if we do it right. It’s important to demonstrate the AI benefits, and that’s what they are
https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2057179700573692345
How easily would it be for a future superintelligence to persuade humans to do its bidding? The most persuasive humans give us a lower bound. The best human politicians have been able to convince huge numbers of smart and shrewd people that they’re on their side, even if their
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2055047161247912399
One of the most important and under appreciated trends in the world right now. 1. 100s of billions of dollars will soon be available to solve big problems (making the world resilient to ASI, ending factory farming, etc). 2. The projects and organizations which will turn
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2056856368745726238
Attention in AI is a dynamic relevance computation in vector space. Here’s what Transformers do step-by-step: 1. Tokens become embeddings that represent meaning. The Transformer starts with embeddings + positional encodings injecting word order information. 2. These vectors
https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2056507915952095621
Philosophy Eats AI
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/philosophy-eats-ai/
Asking people whether they like “”AI”” is not going to be a useful poll question soon, if it ever was. They will be incredibly grateful for their personal AI that guides them through medical or legal or management issues. They will be anxious or excited about AI at their work,
https://x.com/emollick/status/2056750803793174658
Big increases in message discipline across all the AI labs in recent weeks, an inevitable outcome of the labs being subject to increased scrutiny. Much more boring than the oracular mutterings or Discordian epigrams of the last couple years & maybe obscures their real thinking
https://x.com/emollick/status/2054959577083342986
C. S. Lewis, in his book The Abolition of Man, seemed to predict the singularity over 80 years ago. How did he make this forecast?
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2054961824324616530
Except the humans know that the Minds are smarter & they are content to leave all the big decisions (Contact, Special Circumstances, etc) to the AIs so they can do whatever they want personally aside from run the world (which they would be bad at, so there really isn’t an option)
https://x.com/emollick/status/2056924547304075626
Gen Z is not booing AI. It is booing its own job market
https://thenextweb.com/news/gen-z-commencement-boos-ai-redundancy-cohort
I broke my own rule to never post about AI detection as it is fraught in many ways. The problem is that if you use AI a lot, you know AI writing on sight, which makes the difficulty of objectively proving that AI use to others very frustrating
https://x.com/emollick/status/2056481213536190811
I put a prompt injection into my LinkedIn bio and recruiters are messaging me in Old English and calling me Lord.
https://x.com/tmuxvim/status/2055275374905307216
In the original von Neumann sense of a singularity as the point “”beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue,”” it seems true By definition, we can’t know what that means in advance (it was also true of the Industrial Revolution, which reordered human affairs)
https://x.com/emollick/status/2056032014965309763
In the past, when the federal government lacked capacity for some job, the president would just find someone in the private sector who could do it and make them a colonel. @patio11 told me that just reviving this old strategy could have meaningfully improved state capacity
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2056102829291618592
Most prophetic tweet of all time (2 months post ChatGPT release). And you can safely repost it every day and it will still be prophetic for the future. This is the least the world will care about AI.
https://x.com/emollick/status/2056193324365512801
So the two most obvious barriers to some sort of true AI takeoff are robust RSI (AI acting as an independent AI researcher, rather than “merely” a multiplier of human effort) and continual learning. Either would represent a major change in trajectory for AI development.
https://x.com/emollick/status/2056139569087627635
the sloptimizer field is just getting started with shampoo and muon gen algorithms, the graveyard of adam variants got so bad you can’t list them all on a page
https://x.com/zacharynado/status/2055077098327285804
The talk about AI & politics seems to be oddly missing a segment (a) assumes extremely capable AI is possible soon and (b) has a strong belief about how to use this technology to make human life better according to the political project they believe in. It is a moment of action.
https://x.com/emollick/status/2055648045610483897
The third wave of American philanthropy – by Nan Ransohoff
https://nanransohoff.substack.com/p/the-third-wave-of-american-philanthropy
I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can’t name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out. I
https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578
Americans Oppose AI Data Centers in Their Area
https://news.gallup.com/poll/709772/americans-oppose-data-centers-area.aspx
There is a lot of fear-based marketing in AI right now which serves some purpose. But it’s misleading. Again, what you want to enable is giving access to people so that they can build.”” @ClementDelangue, co-founder & CEO @HuggingFace Watch the full interview on YouTube:
https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2056167344712691903
bro why does it look like a B tier video game interface is this real?
https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/2056787895977980172
A lot of the discussion of the good and bad of phones on society is really a discussion about the end of boredom. Boredom makes people seek out things to do. That has both good & bad effects: research shows boredom boosts violence but also pushes some people to be creative.
https://x.com/emollick/status/2056124727941271699
Could an AI company lose control of its own agents? To find out, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI let us (1) test their best internal models with CoT access, (2) review non-public info about capabilities, alignment, and control. The result: our first Frontier Risk Report.
https://x.com/METR_Evals/status/2056800023149760666
Industry-wide collaboration on content transparency tech is key to a trusted web. 🤝 We’re accelerating the momentum started with @NVIDIA and partnering with @OpenAI, Kakao, and @ElevenLabs to bring SynthID to their generative content — helping give everyone more helpful context
https://x.com/Google/status/2056787749965799508
We’re adding new ways for people to identify AI-generated images and understand where they came from. In addition to C2PA Content Credentials, images now also contain a SynthID watermark, and can be identified using a public verification tool to check whether an image was made
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2056793648571011232
Building a safe, effective sandbox to enable Codex on Windows | OpenAI
https://openai.com/index/building-codex-windows-sandbox/
OpenAI And 1Password Bring Agentic Security To Codex
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timkeary/2026/05/19/openai-and-1password-bring-password-security-to-codex/
OpenAI announces new Guaranteed Capacity offering for customers to secure compute
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/19/openai-announces-new-guaranteed-capacity-offering-for-customers-to-secure-compute.html
Proud to see our work on agent security @openai highlighted in Forbes. Securing AI agents means bringing identity, credential, and access controls directly into the developer workflow, and Codex is a major step in that direction.
https://x.com/ithilgore/status/2056793901495947432
Some personal news: I’ve started a new AI safety standards org, and our first two standards are out today. We’re called Guidelight, co-founded with fellow ex-OpenAI safety researcher, Page Hedley. (1/n)
https://x.com/sjgadler/status/2056762703033807068
Security in OpenClaw is getting sharper 🦞 🔒 fs-safe for root-bounded filesystem 🌐 Proxyline for policy-driven network egress 📦 ClawHub trust evidence 🛡️ smarter command approvals Powerful agents need guardrails you can actually audit.
https://x.com/openclaw/status/2055437760459055405
AIs with advanced biological knowledge could quickly end up being superpowers in the international arena. Compared with other forms of WMDs, the production of bioweapons doesn’t need a huge amount of industrial capabilities. An AI that had the know-how to make bioweapons
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2055000434759307447
🖥️ Risk assessment for terminal commands VS Code now shows a risk badge before you confirm a command, with an AI-generated explanation of what it actually does. 🟢 Safe: reads files or prints output, no changes made. 🟠 Caution: modifies your workspace, installs packages, or
https://x.com/code/status/2055408023506469337
1/ We are sharing additional details regarding our investigation into unauthorized access to GitHub’s internal repositories. Yesterday we detected and contained a compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned VS Code extension. We removed the malicious extension version,
https://x.com/github/status/2056949168208552080?s=20
The bitter lesson in 26 words: Don’t be distracted by human knowledge, as AI has been historically. Instead focus on methods for creating knowledge that scale with computation, like search and learning.
https://x.com/RichardSSutton/status/2056419165502935198
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