A general purpose (nothing special) internal OpenAI model solved one of the most famous previously unsolved problems in discrete geometry The solution involved far too many decisions for a human to feasibly explore openai.com/index/model-...
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Articles & links
The full encyclical (i haven’t yet read any of it) www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
here’s Olah’s full speech www.anthropic.com/news/chris-o...
Cloudflare talks about Mythos Preview - What makes it better than GPT-5.5 - Why they made their own harness - Safety considerations blog.cloudflare.com/cyber-fronti...
OpenAI will file to go public as soon as Friday www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/05/...
Anthropic is working with a wide range of religious leaders & ethicists to guide Claude’s character and learn what good character building looks like www.anthropic.com/news/widenin...
A new Mythos has been released and it’s kinda good at cyber (!!) It completed the full exercise in 6/10 attempts www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/how-fas...
this is an interesting data point, but Anthropic is doing themselves a disservice by publishing it as “research” www.anthropic.com/research/cod...
also, fwiw, the SKILL md is probably the easiest way to figure out what it does without marketing bs github.com/zentropi-ai/...
i’m using this guy — 0.4B, 32K context huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM...
FYI they did NOT use ai to write it, not at all but yes, definitely read the article so you can familiarize yourself with the “AI detectors” that are obviously bullshit www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Big AI labs & their employees are likely to give $37B-$100B to philanthropic orgs. This is orders of magnitude more than the current system can absorb This piece argues that a new philanthropic system will be created to deploy capital toward worthy causes open.substack.com/pub…
Recent commentary
GPT-5.5 has abandoned "the smoking gun" for new terminology
Someone posted a real Monet painting but claimed it was AI generated The comments look like a typical bluesky conversation
something we don’t talk about: even in AI, “artificial” intelligence — even that is not intelligent design we don’t “design” AI. we merely create a rich environment of data + compute and let the intelligence emerge spontaneously i wish philosophers/theologians would weigh in on that
talking to my mom about anti-AI in small town Trump-land. The big things they’re worried about: 1. jobs 2. destroying social structures & romantic relationships 3. skynet scenarios mostly general distrust of some unknown complex and possibly dangerous thing datacenters are not on the list
imo AI is closer to a raw material than a finished product, and most criticism just boils down to that the people getting most out of AI are builders who see potential
now that ai can do unsolved math problems, what would be the most exciting science problems to crack?
the rabid anti-AI sentiment smells like foreign intervention mostly disinfo, spreads like wildfire, will probably stunt AI progress in the US but not… eh, you know
The Pope’s encyclical clearly says that morality can’t be reduced to computation But in Chris Olah’s address (clearly approved by the church), he said that AI has “internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, ..” feels like seeds of a theological debate intentionally left open
i’m ecstatic that the Pope is taking AI seriously i definitely don’t agree with everything in the encyclical, but it mostly sounds well-informed and they merely fell onto the opposite side of an issue which… given how all other AI dialog is going, this is far more than i had hoped for
i wonder what the role sci-fi plays in AI alignment lots of sci-fi display AI as antagonistic and dominating, but then Anthropic feeds their AI a soul doc that instructs it to be “good” i wonder to what extent those sci-fi stories served as “bad AI” examples in training