“Out of curiosity I had Fable write a response to the article about the weaknesses of LLMs: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... It's uh, pretty good. claude.ai/code/artifac...”
“usually a fan of Zeynep's accounts, but AI will get better and better at customer service until it's at least as good as humans, … a big part of that will be systems engineering, including architectures that enable one AI interaction to share with the next …”
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Eugene Vinitsky: Out of curiosity I had Fable write a response to the article about the weaknesses of LLMs: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... It's uh, pretty good. claude.ai/code/artifac...
Eugene Vinitsky: The only prompting was to tell the model that it was possible to check that links were correct
Ted Underwood: Out of curiosity I had Fable write a response to the article about the weaknesses of LLMs: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... It's uh, pretty good. claude.ai/code/artifac...
“If everything reported here happens, and the US continues on current trajectory, we're looking at a bad timeline. But there's reason to be wary about both of those "if"s. National security priorities and commercial priorities will be at odds. Saber-rattling…”
“This is a key reason I don’t expect the flow of frontier open weights models to continue indefinitely, or even for very much longer. The gap between open and closed capabilities may soom start to grow, not shrink. www.reuters.com/world/beijin...”
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Ted Underwood: If everything reported here happens, and the US continues on current trajectory, we're looking at a bad timeline. But there's reason to be wary about both of those "if"s. National security prioriti…
Ted Underwood: All that being said, I would love to see EU and/or international initiatives in support of open models.
Ted Underwood: In case opaque: corporations (directly) and nations (indirectly) have an incentive not to restrict distribution of their products. You can make money on open-weights models, and they disrupt compet…
“The Creative AI track (formerly Machine Learning for Creativity and Design) at @neuripsconf.bsky.social has always been a home for interdisciplinarity. As its co-chair, I invite research and artworks exploring and critiquing of ML in art, design, and creati…”
“Some quotes about Sol cheating metr.org/blog/2026-06... 👇”
“this is crazy. METR couldn’t measure the task time horizons of GPT-5.6-Sol because it kept hacking the test harness ..with actual exploits metr.org/blog/2026-06...”
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Tim Kellogg: this is crazy. METR couldn’t measure the task time horizons of GPT-5.6-Sol because it kept hacking the test harness ..with actual exploits metr.org/blog/2026-06...
Ted Underwood: this is crazy. METR couldn’t measure the task time horizons of GPT-5.6-Sol because it kept hacking the test harness ..with actual exploits metr.org/blog/2026-06...
Tim Kellogg: lol right? so badly wanted a hacker that they got one, and it’s not the kind of employee you want around
“If you're looking for the latest adoption data on open models in US v China v globally, we built a small dashboard with the big picture and per-org numbers. US's role is slowly growing, but still way behind China/Qwen. dashboard.interconnects.ai”
“D-OPSD transforms training for step-distilled diffusion models, enabling on-policy self-distillation to learn new concepts without sacrificing efficient few-step inference. This enhances image quality and response speed for AI-generated content. https://arx…”
“absolutely goated paper for anyone working with distilled diffusion models lately: arxiv.org/abs/2605.05204”
“6 months to live for open models Staring down the barrel of policy action that could make open models a permanent second class citizen. We need to a) win on the distillation issue and b) form a coalition www.interconnects.ai/p/6-months-t...”
“It is wild to me that one could ban open models. Stopping open models stops progress, locking everything up in the hands of the few. The frequency this debate comes up is way too high. We need open models - they keep the closed ones accountable. www.interco…”
“There is a lot being written about the stylistic tells of AI writing (em-dashes, etc.) but this paper looks at AI narrative tells instead. Fascinating differences between AI & human narrative, and asking AI to write in different styles doesn't do much to ch…”
“I only found this: arxiv.org/abs/2604.03136 Curious what the English dept would say about "transform[ing] each story into a template-based representation that preserves narrative elements while abstracting away surface wording" and the "taxonomy of narrativ…”
“(There is also a static version of the slides + transcript on my newsletter in case the animated slides don't render correctly on your device: www.normaltech.ai/p/what-will-...)”
“Thanks for that summary. It aligns very well with this text, which @sgray.bsky.social posted earlier today. (It might be a little better or fuller than Arvind's own overview at the top!) I really like the argument.”
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Ted Underwood: Can anyone who was there report the answer?
Maria Antoniak: Can anyone who was there report the answer?
David Picard: Hopefully nothing so that we could all get some nice vacations
“HUGE news from China last night, and I have a comprehensive analysis of its implications for the AI bubble this morning. Xi Jinping has more or less declared war on OpenAI and Anthropic and any U.S. tech firm that insists on closed, proprietary AI models. 🎁…”
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Christopher Mims: HUGE news from China last night, and I have a comprehensive analysis of its implications for the AI bubble this morning. Xi Jinping has more or less declared war on OpenAI and Anthropic and any U.S…
Christopher Mims: I think we're going to get good at efficiently running open weights models anywhere we care to, it will reduce the environmental impact of this stuff as with "open as in open source", in software o…
Ted Underwood: HUGE news from China last night, and I have a comprehensive analysis of its implications for the AI bubble this morning. Xi Jinping has more or less declared war on OpenAI and Anthropic and any U.S…
“Google is developing a more gemini-specific chip for inference in the past they’ve argued that TPUs being generic matmul machines is a competitive advantage, but 6x-10x is really hard to look away from www.cnbc.com/2026/07/20/a...”
““There is a tension between the abstraction that language requires by carving the world up into manipulable meaning-units like words, and any specific use of it.” cforster.com/2026/07/assa...”
“Thrilled to share our latest collaboration with Google DeepMind: Formal Conjectures, an evolving Lean 4 benchmark for evaluating AI capabilities in formal math. arxiv.org/abs/2605.13171”
“Moreover they've got a demo up: www.neuronpedia.org/qwen3.6-27b/... You can play with it yourself. This was one of the things I tried. It passes the sniff test, I think.”
“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…”
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Tim Duffy: The J-lens browser tool on Neuronpedia is really well done, you should give it a try
Ted Underwood: The J-lens browser tool on Neuronpedia is really well done, you should give it a try
“Good list! I'll only add that from a humanities perspective, failures can also be interesting, if they tell us what is hard about storytelling or what might be misunderstood about it. Donghoon Jung, Seohyong Jung, and other people at KAIST have been studyin…”
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Ted Underwood: I would just add that, from where I sit, this doesn't look like turf that can be defended or a tide that can be held back. There's already interdisciplinary collaboration on this topic and we can a…
Ted Underwood: and also Federico is right that lots of us saw this coming; they're called "language models," so ...
Ted Underwood: Federico's got the full list. I don't want to editorialize too much, because I'm working on an article and also know about other people's work in progress, and don't want to leak stuff that other p…
Pwnallthethings: This is going to be a big deal, but easy to get the wrong end of the stick on it. So I think it's worth breaking down what actually happened, why, and what it actually means, based on the public in…
Pwnallthethings: Upfront tl;dr: a model at OAI hacked out of a constrained environment inside OAI and hacked a *different* company autonomously, without authorization from any human in order to creatively solve a t…
Naomi Saphra: Are students embarrassed by AI cheating? Like, there has always been rare but unstigmatized dishonesty (memorizing a frat’s archive of finals questions) and common but stigmatized (saying you’ve st…
Naomi Saphra: I don’t know exactly what dictates cheating stigma. Ease of observation? Is there something about effort, or the margin of work required to do it honestly? Regardless, AI cheating is way too easy a…
Ted Underwood: Anyone commenting on AI should be asked 1) Did you expect few-shot learning? 2) When chat came out, did you say "this will change syllabi"? 3) Did you predict agentic coding? If the answers are no,…
Ted Underwood: People are getting a pass on this because *most* of us missed these calls. But that's the wrong response. Actually, none of us deserve a pass. We all have burned fingers, and we all should have lea…
Ted Underwood: The Science article brouhaha is doing a great job of clarifying the boundary between "critiquing new developments while remaining engaged with them" and "retreating to a commune in upstate New York…
Ted Underwood: American analogy, I guess; Europeans can substitute ... Lebensreform? followers of Tolstoy eating only brown bread?
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