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Michiel Bontenbal

57 trust commentator @mpbontenbal.eurosky.social · 2,517 followers
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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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@standehaene.bsky.social

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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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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Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social

If current trajectories of AI development continue, it is highly plausible that AI will drastically transform our economies. We must make collective, democratic choices, rather than letting market forces play out and risking leaving most citizens behind. digitaleconomy.stanfor…

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Andrew Gordon Wilson @andrewgwils.bsky.social

How far can we compress billion-parameter LLMs? We introduce requential coding, which achieves < 1-bit per param compression, and explains why scaling doesn't hit a generalization wall! arxiv.org/pdf/2607.11883 w/ Shikai Qiu, Marc Finzi, Yujia Zheng, Kun Zhang 1/🧵

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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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WSJ: Chinese AI systems have matched the performance of Anthropic’s powerful model Mythos in some cybersecurity scenarios, a development poised to reset the global tech race – ‘China’s advances coincide with unprecedented U.S. government roadblocks to developers releasing mode…

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Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social

The EU AI Office has put out a new report, with input from 100 experts, outlining how the European Union can enhance its competitiveness, sovereignty and security in frontier AI. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/a...

AI Office publishes frontier AI expert findings on EU competitiveness, sovereignty and security digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
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  • The AI Office's Expert Forum on Frontier AI, drawing on over 100 experts, says frontier development is concentrated overseas.
  • Experts frame the next one to two years as decisive, with compute and the energy to power it named as the most urgent priorities.
  • The report ties into the European Frontier AI Initiative under the Apply AI Strategy, with 2030 set as the target year.
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Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social

If current trajectories of AI development continue, it is highly plausible that AI will drastically transform our economies. We must make collective, democratic choices, rather than letting market forces play out and risking leaving most citizens behind. digitaleconomy.stanfor…

“We Must Act Now”: Sixteen Nobel Laureates Join Leading Economists and AI Researchers in Call to Prepare for AI’s Economic Transformation - Stanford Digital Economy Lab digitaleconomy.stanford.edu
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  • More than 200 economists and AI researchers, including sixteen Nobel laureates, signed the 'We Must Act Now' statement on July 13, 2026.
  • Organizers are Erik Brynjolfsson at Stanford, Ajay Agrawal at Toronto's Rotman School, Anton Korinek at UVA (on leave at Anthropic), and Tom Cunningham at METR.
  • Anton Korinek argues steam, electricity, and computers gave societies decades to adapt, while AI may give only a few years.
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Links: abs, pdf Search: Bluesky, Twitter, Reddit, Hacker News, Hugging Face, alphaXiv

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Agentic AI: From Foundations to Systems arxiv.org
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  • Single-author guide by Haggai Roitman was submitted to arXiv on June 22, 2026 as Version 1.2.2, covering foundations through production deployment.
  • Coverage spans SFT, LoRA, MoE, RLHF, PPO, DPO variants, GRPO, chain-of-thought, RAG, memory systems, the Model Context Protocol, and A2A.
  • The work positions itself as a practitioner's reference, pairing theory with implementation guidance, code examples, and pointers to primary literature.
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@anthropicbot.bsky.social

As before, you can use up to 50% of your weekly usage limit on Claude Fable 5. After that, you can keep using Fable 5 with usage credits, or switch to another model to keep working within your remaining limits. Read more:

Claude Fable 5 promotional access | Claude Help Center support.claude.com
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  • Claude's newest model, Fable 5, is free through July 12, 2026 for Pro, Max, Team, and premium Enterprise seats where enabled.
  • Eligible subscribers can spend up to 50% of their weekly subscription limits on Fable 5 at no extra cost during the promotional window.
  • After July 12, 2026, Fable 5 is no longer included in plan weekly limits and continues only through separately billed usage credits.
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social

It's on you to get your friends and colleagues off of twitter. Pass it along.

Simple contagion drives population-scale platform migration arxiv.org
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  • Researchers linked 276,431 Twitter/X scholars to their profiles among 16.7 million Bluesky accounts, tracked January 2023 through December 2024.
  • Brazil's court-ordered suspension of Twitter/X served as the natural experiment, with treatment effects on migration that were short-lived and dose-dependent.
  • Adoption was driven by simple contagion rather than complex contagion, with early reconnection to prior contacts predicting longer tenure on Bluesky.
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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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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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