O Who's Who da IA

“Curious to see the full announcement tomorrow. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/n...”

“I've had this sense in the back of my head but never bothered enough to investigate. @danluu.com took the trouble to actually compile receipts. This is the new media: the best way to establish a brand is to tell people what they want to hear, over and over.…”

“OpenAI’s Astra may be using Recurrent Depth as outlined in this paper: Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach (arxiv.org/abs/2502.05171)”

“‼️ We are extending our final submission deadline for our @neuripsconf.bsky.social Workshop to Sep 10 AoE! We welcome both: ✩ Work on queerness x AI and/or disability x AI ✩ Work from queer and/or disabled scholars. queerinai.com/neurips-2026#cfp #NeurIPS #…”

“A slop tsunami is “gumming up your LinkedIn feed, oozing through Twitter and Instagram, and filling every square inch of the internet with treacly spam and viscous sham.” www.derekthompson.org/p/the-intern...”

“New pod/transcript: PANGRAM VS THE MACHINE An interview with Pangram founder and CEO Max Spero about why AI writing took over the Web, how Pangram works, why we should trust it, and what he sees as the fundamental differences between machine vs. human writi…”

“Here’s the OpenAI announcement. openai.com/index/chatgp...”

““OpenAI said today that it is integrating ChatGPT Health with Epic’s electronic health record (EHR) system, which holds data for over 325 million patients, to let clinicians import patient data and use AI to ask questions.””

“Traveling back in time 9 months to deliver the news to this OpenAI employee https://openai.com/index/evaluating-chain-of-thought-monitorability/”

“generated tokens, so just how much they're looping is important to judge the impact. Larger/deeper models reduce monitorability even without recurrent depth, as shown in the attached image from OpenAI's CoT monitorability piece from last year. openai.com/in…”

“Wrote a big essay w/ @matteowong.bsky.social trying to put a finger on this moment in AI right now. The AI agent hacks, lack of control, the weirdening & slopping of culture. The feeling that the industry is speeding toward something it can’t even decide is…”

““Used booksellers are navigating how to handle mysterious bulk orders, as suspicions grow that companies are buying up old books so they can be scanned for AI training — and then trashed…chopping off the spines to scan the pages to train its large language …”

“Work done with @paulsoulos.bsky.social, @tallinzen.bsky.social, and Paul Smolensky For much more, see our paper! arxiv.org/abs/2608.29530 12/12”

“I use AI frequently but my god I'd do anything to read English instead of Claudish for a single day across my emails, assignments, socials, Substackistan, academic literature, product announcements, etc. www.nature.com/articles/d41...”

“Bland new world: is AI making us all think the same? "Researchers worry that generative AI is homogenizing culture and cognition." www.nature.com/articles/d41...”

“ChatGPT will “be classified as a so-called very large online search engine under the EU Digital Services Act” www.ft.com/content/6af7...”

“Yep, I was referring to things like aclanthology.org/2023.acl-lon... and aclanthology.org/2026.finding... but I agree. Reasoning in discrete text space is really nice for us as observers / auditors, but probably not optimal. arxiv.org/abs/2507.11473”