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Its funny how much the whole “”strawberry”” thing, which turned out to be o1-preview, was dismissed as overhyped at launch when it is clear in retrospect that it was way underhyped. A direct line from models unable to do basic math to solving unresolved math problems in 18 months.
https://x.com/emollick/status/2057685981193466153
Notes on Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI
https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/25/encyclical-on-ai/
Pope Leo’s ‘Magnifica humanitas’: AI must serve humanity not concentrate power – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas-ai.html
If this is true, using the best public estimates we have of LLM resource use, solving this Erdos problem took 0.6-6.3 kWh of electricity and about 3-31 liters of water. So that is less than three almonds worth of water and the electricity equivalent of 2-20 miles of EV driving.
https://x.com/emollick/status/2057271533358162270
CBA, Westpac turn to ‘Daybreak’, OpenAI’s powerful GPT-5.5-Cyber to test cybersecurity defences
https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/major-banks-use-openai-s-daybreak-for-cybersecurity-defence-20260519-p5zyn9
If I understand this correctly, this is a direct assault on the US talent supply pipeline. Getting a work permit after studies and then applying for a green card is how smart people enter this country. Most people who come to the US to study do so because they want to get a job
https://x.com/togelius/status/2057912236262453607
The new White House policy requiring green card applicants to apply from outside the US is a capricious attack on legal immigration. It will hurt families, leave us with fewer doctors, teachers and scientists, and hurt American competitiveness in AI.
https://x.com/AndrewYNg/status/2057907324380217821
We need to keep smart people in the country to build the future and build tomorrow’s businesses that employ millions of people This is bad and misguided policy
https://x.com/garrytan/status/2057958284410380793
I wrote a new post on what we need to keep human and what to hand over to AI, with forays into experiments in education, consulting, and the the latest controversy over literary prizes.
https://x.com/emollick/status/2059363865536668040
Infinite context windows seem to present a very large problem to using AI. Today’s models already leak too much old information into current responses, a distraction that is part of why they are cognitively exhausting to use I don’t want to work with Borges’s Funes the Memorious
https://x.com/emollick/status/2059327364945895488
Interestingly, a significant amount of hallucination evals used tests the models ability to resist pressure from incorrect info supplied by the user. I’m not entirely sure if thats reflective of the hallucinations most people encounter
https://x.com/nrehiew_/status/2060048085838118953
Most enterprise AI models stay static after deployment, forcing teams to rely on endless prompt tweaking. This is the problem Trajectory AI is solving. Their continual learning platform enables companies to deploy custom models that improve continuously from production usage.
https://x.com/baseten/status/2059651376565936510#m
Power users account for a large share of AI activity, and the gap is widening.
https://x.com/cursor_ai/status/2060025074330243238
People complain about AI writing, and I sympathize. Yet I often find it a net improvement to ask an AI to explain something I’m reading more clearly.
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2059313373444210720
Thank god! I can turn off adaptive thinking and set reasoning effort myself. Finally!
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2060045324803063962
Last month we launched Project Glasswing, our collaborative AI cybersecurity initiative. Since then, we and our partners have found more than ten thousand high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities in essential software.
https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2057909102542549503
Tech giants back new data center climate initiative
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/27/tech-giants-data-center-climate-initiative
AIs do not use interrobangs, so maybe we should just use them all the time to show our writing is human‽
https://x.com/emollick/status/2059285896797585500
All dictators in the modern world face the same fundamental dilemma. You need a modern economy in order to actually be competitive internationally. If you don’t modernize, there are risks from outside. But industry and education create new potential sources of resistance – like
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2059394370743488907
Currently it is shocking and newsworthy when AIs solve an important open problem that humans couldn’t Before AI totally surpass us intellectually, there will be an interesting era, where it will be just as shocking (but not impossible) for a human to solve a problem AI couldn’t
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2058244227151081945
Lots of people have a very strong feeling that the concept of consciousness is absolutely central to ethics. But we barely understand how consciousness works at all – especially in the case of AI. @jkcarlsmith on the risks of building our ethics on a concept we might end up
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2058986663297376642
The biggest bullshit move by DHS in its history. So everyone on a O1 or H1B visa would have to stop working legally in the US, go back to their country and wait for years of backlog? This includes top scientists in our universities, founders of billion dollar companies (at least
https://x.com/Nick_Davidov/status/2057842593850118286
This sucks. America should welcome greatness. Builders, innovators, and creators should have a fast path to citizenship. I can’t fathom why we would make life harder for founders starting billion dollar companies that want to anchor themselves in the US.
https://x.com/theo/status/2057911377151582437
We got BitWarden now, to make it easy to manage your keys, rotate them quickly, and coordinate access with your team.
https://x.com/Teknium/status/2057880570160701852
When they write fiction, AIs are obsessed by things that take or give memories, contracts with sentient inanimate objects, sets of secretive rules that govern conduct & which no one can acknowledge out loud… All very on-the-nose. I suspect a lot is hyperstition at this point.
https://x.com/emollick/status/2059777154410226095
Optscale AI — AI Governance Platform for the Enterprise
https://optscale.ai/
The lesson @patio11 wants the tech industry to take from covid: get better at interfacing with government. The tech industry’s response to government failures is, “”This is going terribly, I hope someone fixes it.”” But people in government all-too-often say exactly the same
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2059302921393828210
Should the tech industry become a branch of government? According to @patio11, the government already treats the finance industry as a tool that it can control for its policy goals. And it wants to use tech in the same way. Will we let it?
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2059711792637780309
As more people come to recognize the tells of AI, which mostly happens as you start to work with AI a lot, the scales are going to fall from their eyes and they are going to realize what some of us already see: how much of this site (and blog posts, articles, papers) are AI now.
https://x.com/emollick/status/2058675767727325397
you can outsource your thinking, but you can’t outsource your understanding”” easy to forget in todays AI era, worth remembering everyday as we all wield more intelligence!
https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2059648809584808179
China Limits Overseas Travel for AI Talent at DeepSeek, Alibaba, Private Firms – Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-26/china-expands-travel-curbs-to-top-ai-talent-at-private-firms
Decent chance that, not even taking into account GenAI, this will be viewed as a decade of incredible progress against the problems that were, ironically, caused by modernity: metabolic syndrome, auto deaths, carbon emissions…
https://x.com/emollick/status/2059707145277325682
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