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Established Models & releases Research 9d ago
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global workspace theory language models paper

A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic

6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

6 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
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Markets & investment

1 expert

Capital, companies and commercial impact.

“Anthropic has a new paper out, alleging a global workspace in LLMs. The term comes from Global Workspace Theory, a leading theory of consciousness. The method they use to investigate this is a refinement of logit lens, which they call J-lens. www.anthropic.…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“Some really interesting research from Anthropic that AI models have spontaneously developed a workspace that "appears to support the functions associated with conscious access" Demo of how this works: www.neuronpedia.org/qwen3.6-27b/... Research: www.anthro…”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“On the second point see here: www.anthropic.com/research/glo...”

2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Tim Duffy: Anthropic has a new paper out, alleging a global workspace in LLMs. The term comes from Global Workspace Theory, a leading theory of consciousness. The method they use to investigate this is a refi…
Tim Duffy: More detail on the method from the paper:
Grace: Anthropic has a new paper out, alleging a global workspace in LLMs. The term comes from Global Workspace Theory, a leading theory of consciousness. The method they use to investigate this is a refi…
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Established AI research Development 14d ago
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Nobel laureates AI economic action call

“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

8 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

8 experts 4 communities 2 sources clustered
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
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Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“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. di…”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“200 AI researchers and economists sign an open letter to policymakers www.wemustactnow.ai”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“I joined over 200 economists and AI researchers in signing "We Must Act Now" a statement on AI's transformation of the economy. AI could reshape the economy at unprecedented speed. The opportunities are enormous and so are the challenges. We need to start p…”

2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
tante: Oh, is it "AI is super powerful and we who are pushing for AI everywhere warn that we might have created a dangerous god from reddit posts" time of the month again? This is Anthropic/OpenAI PR and …
tante: nope that's it. These folks are getting lazier by the day
tante: Yeah. They spend just a handful of tokens on this website.
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Established Policy & governance Development 6d ago
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EU leaders move on AI policy

Europe’s 27 leaders to take on AI — finally

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“This story credits Member of the European Parliament @reiniervanlanschot.volteuropa.org to call on Costa to "convene a special European Council summit dedicated to artificial intelligence as soon as possible." www.politico.eu/article/euro...”

Established Policy & governance Development 8d ago
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EU AI Office publishes frontier AI expert findings

AI Office publishes frontier AI expert findings on EU competitiveness, sovereignty and security

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

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“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...”

Established Models & releases Release 7d ago
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Sakana AI new release

Sakana AI

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“Incredibly proud of the Sakana AI team. We have developed an orchestration model right here out of Japan that achieves state-of-the-art performance on real-world cybersecurity benchmarks! 🎌 sakana.ai/fugu-cyber-r...”

“Introducing Fugu-Cyber: our new orchestration model Blog: sakana.ai/fugu-cyber-r...”

Established AI field signal Signal 14d ago
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arxiv.org

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“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 Zh…”

Established Agents & robotics Resource 8d ago
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RLHF preference data post-training lecture published

Preference Data: The Most Opaque Part of Post-Training | RLHF & Post-training Course, Lecture 8

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“New lecture! This one is a recap of a bunch of history of preferences, the nature of rewards, how RLHF is formulated, which were once seen as central problems in the field. How much as changed. Books coming soon :D www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2tv...”

Established Evaluation & benchmarks Resource 7d ago
Inspect Hawk METR evaluation tool

Inspect Hawk

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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“We’ve started using METR’s Inspect Hawk to run our benchmarks, many of which go into our ECI results. Big thanks to them for open sourcing their great infrastructure, and also for their help getting it set up. Learn more about Hawk here: hawk.metr.org/”

2 experts discussed this · 7 posts
Epoch AI: Moonshot's Kimi K3 scores 156 on the Epoch Capabilities Index (ECI), setting a new open-weights record. This places it between Opus 4.6, and GPT 5.4, which released in February and March 2026 respe…
Epoch AI: We still only have a small sample of benchmarks scores, so K3's ECI might change as more results come in. In particular, despite coding likely being a relative strength of K3, we only have a single…
Epoch AI: Once we have 2+ coding benchmark results we will also report the SWE-ECI of K3, to allow us to more directly compare its coding performance to other models.
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Established Models & releases Release 11d ago
OpenAI Codex terminal coding agent launch

GitHub - openai/codex: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

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“Natuurlijk willen ze dat je hun agent gebruikt maar "aan de ketting leggen"? Dat is te sterk. Codex, de AI agent van OpenAI, is immers open source en hier staat de broncode. github.com/openai/codex”

Established AI business Development 8d ago
Bezos UK government invest CuspAI startup

Jeff Bezos and UK government invest in £2bn British startup CuspAI

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“AI for rare earths minerals - with applications in chips and other technologies. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...”

2 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Michiel Bontenbal: AI for rare earths minerals - with applications in chips and other technologies. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Michiel Bontenbal: The company is Angelo-Dutch with Max Welling being one of the cofounders and offices throughout Europe. Why the press of a former empire refuses to mention that is a mystery to me.
David Picard: We require more minerals...
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5 experts · 12 posts · 7d ago
Multiple readings Context & explanation · 2 Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Christian Wolf: In the book "The Diamond Age" (1995) by Neal Stephenson, a working class child jumps social classes with the help of a unique interactive book, a personal trainer which answer all her questions and…
Christian Wolf: That's a good point but IMO that means we need to change education to better exploit the benefits of IA. Don't ask me details, I don't have them 😅 But better tools and possibilities CANNOT lead to …
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