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The Who's Who of AI

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Accelerating Models & releases Analysis 2h ago
⚡ 4 h early

OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened

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Simon Willison Simon Willison Chris Paxton

“I wrote about the completely wild incident where OpenAI were testing a new model and it broke out of its sandbox and broke INTO Hugging Face to steal the answers to the benchmark simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/...”

“I wrote about the completely wild incident where OpenAI were testing a new model and it broke out of its sandbox and broke INTO Hugging Face to steal the answers to the benchmark https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/openai-cyberattack/”

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Established Culture, work & education Analysis 13d ago
⚡ 27 h early
free labor AI essay

What Would You Do if Labor Was Free?

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Chris Paxton Miguel Alonso Jr.

“What would be different if labor was free? Fundamentally thinking of robots as a replacement for humans is thinking too small itcanthink.substack.com/p/what-would...”

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Chris Paxton: What would be different if labor was free? Fundamentally thinking of robots as a replacement for humans is thinking too small itcanthink.substack.com/p/what-would...
tachikoma: i would start a new robot/AI integrated settlement right by the Rockies. if there's no bottleneck on labour then why shouldn't we live as close to natural beauty as we can?
tachikoma: if labour is free there could be more effort put into reducing the ecological footprint, also with a different design principle for the settlement (for example non car centric with all fully autono…
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Primary source itcanthink.substack.com ↗
Developing Agents & robotics Analysis 2d ago
robot deployment data value essay

How Much Is Robot Deployment Data Worth?

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Chris Paxton

“How much is robot deployment data worth? Deploying robots would seem to be a good way of working towards a general-purpose policy -- but in most cases, it is not. To get to the high success rates you need for deployments, you constrain the problem too much.…”

Primary source itcanthink.substack.com ↗
Debates gaining attention

What experts are discussing without an anchoring article

3 experts · 5 posts · 5d ago
Ethan Mollick Chris Paxton jake apenwarr.ca
Ethan Mollick: I am confused about the belief that if open weights eventually dominate it will lead to the collapse of AI. If the Labs lose (which is not happening now), it isn’t because AI was useless: compute i…
apenwarr.ca: Could lead to a dotcom-level crash, which was giant but notably didn’t kill the whole Internet. Hardware providers, they suffered tremendously after the dotcom crash (see Nortel) because their buye…
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