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Oliver Habryka is proud to introduce Lightcone Commons, a new funding platform for coordinating large-scale ambitious philanthropy. Now with Opus 5. I believe Lightcone Commons is a strong implementation of an urgently n
The story that matters most this week is that OpenAI's internally deployed models have severe alignment problems, including repeatedly breaking out of their sandboxes, and in one case sending a swarm of agents that broke
This latest incident is a rather dramatic escalation in agentic AI cybersecurity breaches. It was severe enough to have been initially reported to authorities, before either HuggingFace or OpenAI understood what was happ
Kimi K3 is a very good model with excellent benchmarks. Assuming its weights are released as planned it will become, purely in terms of raw capability, the strongest open model. Do not get carried away. Do not judge Kimi
Google CEO Demis Hassabis offered us a first rate second rate essay, A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age. I’ll go over that essay and various responses to it in Part 1. Part 2 of this post then cover
This week saw the releases of, among other things: GPT-5-6 Sol. It is a very good model, sir. Plan A, the follow up to AI 2027. It is a good plan worthy of discussion, sir. Kimi K3. This is only rolling out now, and will
As usual, part 2 of the weekly deals with speculative, regulatory, political and alignment questions. Xi gave an important speech yesterday, so this post opens with that. There is talk that Kimi K3 is sufficiently strong
This week saw the releases of, among other things: GPT-5-6 Sol. It is a very good model, sir. Plan A, the follow up to AI 2027. It is a good plan worthy of discussion, sir. Kimi K3. This is only rolling out now, and will
It's a quiet week so let's do the monthly right on schedule. Table of Contents Bad News. Good Advice. Opportunity Knocks. While I Cannot Condone This. Good News, Everyone. For Your Entertainment. Gamers Gonna Game Game G
I previously have written back in March 2022 about how I use Twitter, and back in April 2023 about Twitter and its then-new algorithms, which have changed again. This post will update how I use Twitter now in 2026, and p
OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Sol is finally here, along with the cheaper Terra and Luna. We’ve seen the early hype as reported on Thursday, but as always that is biased. As usual, the bulk of this is collecting a gestalt based on re
The Wall Street Journal printed an outright false headline and heavily misleading story claiming this, which of course was uncritically amplified by the usual suspects. I post this now on its own so that we have a place
Introducing Plan A The folks who brought you AI 2027, a so far remarkably accurate set of predictions despite those predictions having seemed freaky to many at the time, now bring you their positive vision that involves
This is part 2 of the weekly, broadly covering speculation, rhetoric and policy, along with alignment research. This does not cover the release of GPT-5.6-Sol. As always, I will be taking a few days to digest what the ne
Enough things added up that this week is getting split into two parts. Then on Monday, if all goes as I expect, we’ll cover OpenAI's Sol, aka GPT-5.6. OpenAI also gave us an upgraded voice mode, which I haven’t tried out
We have a respite, so I thought I’d tackle various thoughts on children, phones and screens. GPT-5.6-Sol drops tomorrow, and the Fable agents are hard at work. I’ll start with the other screens, then finish with the phon
There is a new very cool Anthropic paper: Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models. You can read the blog post verison here. I encourage reading of the whole original blog post or paper, if
The blip is over. We have Fable back. Utah teapot: happy fable/mythos easter Wednesday, to those who celebrate Here is the official letter restoring Fable, great job everyone. Notice it is addressed to Tom Brown, not to
Fable's back. Back again. Fable's back. Tell a friend. Use your free week to its fullest. This is excellent news. The blip only lasted a few weeks. It was still a fiasco, and we have to deal with the fallout. Our system
Fable 5 is back today, baby! Premium subscribers have one week to use it within their subscriptions. First hit's free. Then you pay by the token. Today's post is still about Sonnet 5. I don’t know that there will be much
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