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Michiel Bontenbal

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Complex beings as us humans can not be summarised in a few lines but I am here for #AI #climate #EUtech #EU_politics. And geopolitics, unfortunately. Lecturer in AI & IT. Some posts in Dutch. 🇪🇺
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The global neuronal workspace (GNW) is currently the best documented neuroscience mechanism by which conscious processing arises in the human brain — and now Anthropic researchers have discovered a similar workspace inside their large language model ! www.anthropic.com/researc…

A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic anthropic.com
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  • Anthropic says Claude has a 'J-space' of dozens of concepts, under a tenth of neural activity, that mediates multi-step reasoning.
  • Swapping 'spider' for 'ant' inside the J-space changed Claude's leg-count answer from 8 to 6, demonstrating a causal role.
  • A 'J-lens' tool surfaced silent words like 'fake', 'fictional' and 'manipulation' during deception tests, pointing at safety uses.
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Keep an eye on this page: isaiprofitable.com spoiler: no, AI is not yet profitable

Is AI Profitable Yet? isaiprofitable.com
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  • The AI industry has spent roughly $1.4 trillion against $613 billion in revenue, leaving almost every major player still in the red.
  • Amazon leads all spenders at $313 billion invested; NVIDIA is the sole major AI player currently in the black, profiting from hardware.
  • The site's anonymous creator predicts clarity on AI viability by 2030 and notes Anthropic recently approached its first profitable quarter.
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Het oppompen van de verwachtingen rondom AI gaat nog even door. Anthropic spiegelt investeerders een potentiële markt (Total Addressable Market) voor zijn diensten van 30 biljoen voor, per WSJ. Dat is 5x de verwachte totale wereldwijde IT-uitgaven van dit jaar. www.wsj.com/tec…

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New Sakana AI paper: Recursive Self-Improvement through Multi-Agent Self-Supervision (MASS). Blog: pub.sakana.ai/mass/ Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2610.12176 How do we keep improving AI when tasks become too complex for humans to reliably evaluate? The model eventually hits a supervi…

Recursive Self-Improvement through Multi-Agent Self-Supervision arxiv.org
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  • A new arxiv paper proposes MASS, which alternates evolutionary workflow optimization with supervised fine-tuning on self-generated multi-agent trajectories.
  • With Qwen3.6-27B over two MASS cycles, the authors report 1.2-1.6x higher performance per output tokens on four open-ended public benchmarks.
  • Multi-agent traces look more training-efficient: a student trained on them beats a single-agent student trained on 1.4x more tokens.
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And this is an open-weights model, which means that anyone can download this model and run it. (You'll need a high end consumer device or use an inference provider) Download the model from here: huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-...

zai-org/GLM-5.2 · Hugging Face huggingface.co
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Re-upping this piece on 'distillation attacks' from Feb as I believe this plays a role in the reason for the US to block non-US users of Fable. In a distillation attack other labs (e.g. Chinese) try to retrieve (distill) information from an LLM. www.anthropic.com/news/detecti...

Detecting and preventing distillation attacks anthropic.com
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My latest, on OpenAI's dump www.nature.com/articles/d41...

OpenAI posts 700 maths preprints online: mathematicians are up in arms nature.com
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  • OpenAI posted more than 700 AI-generated mathematical preprints to GitHub simultaneously on October 6, 2026, produced by an unreleased model.
  • Named mathematicians at Oxford, Columbia, Connecticut and Anthropic reacted publicly, from refusing to read the papers to calling it the most significant moment in mathematical history.
  • One researcher labeled the drop a 'scoopolypse'; OpenAI told Nature it tests models against difficult frontier problems in all sciences.
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My latest, on OpenAI's dump www.nature.com/articles/d41...

OpenAI posts 700 maths preprints online: mathematicians are up in arms nature.com
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  • OpenAI dumped 722 AI-generated math manuscripts on a public GitHub repo on October 6, grouped into 372 result families, from an unreleased internal model.
  • Within 24 hours OpenAI withdrew three preprints after a sign error invalidated an argument and the constructions in two dependent papers, and revised 14 others.
  • Named mathematicians at Oxford, Connecticut and Columbia pushed back; a rival Anthropic researcher called it 'the most significant moment in mathematical history'.
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Identification of plants and animals is one of the best applications of ComputerVision. I never knew there was a moth that lives on mint plants here in downtown Amsterdam, but here she is: the mint moth. #ai #obsidentify #naturalis

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There are four ways of running an #AI model. They all have pro's and cons. And with the weekly arrival of new models, changes in pricing & policies and the rise of agents this is a field to watch.

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I love/hate this new Huggingface feature, where you can set the P(doom) of the probability of AI causing an existential catastrophe. I was first skeptical, but as OpenAI published 700 maths papers yesterday, I put my chance at 1%. Because cryptography is math, so breaking cryptography seems next.

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For the Master Legal Tech i gave a workshop 'AI Assisted Coding'. The students mostly have a legal background with limited knowledge of coding. With help of AI all of them were able to build a website that uses AI to summarize court cases. And that in 30 minutes... #vibecoding #Ai

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Gave a nice workshop on AI Agents for colleagues.

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My student, who wrote his thesis with AI about AI while doing an internship at an AI consultancy, failed at writing his BSc thesis. In a strange way very satisficing. Even with unlimited tokens you’ll need to keep thinking.

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After programming all morning with Claude Fable 5 I asked Claude if I always need Fable. He came up with an *honest* answer... Anthropic should make a feature that chooses the most fitting model based on the prompt.

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