Briefing
The fast feed: breaking AI news from the global tech press, deduplicated and time-ordered.
The fast feed: breaking AI news from the global tech press, deduplicated and time-ordered.
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Import AI 441: My agents are working. Are yours?
Plus: Corrupting AI systems with a poison fountain…
Import AI 442: Winners and losers in the AI economy; math proof automation; and industrialization of cyber espionage
Is superintelligence a phase change or a gradual shift?…
Import AI 443: Into the mist: Moltbook, agent ecologies, and the internet in transition
Plus, a story about agents corrupting other agents…
Import AI 444: LLM societies; Huawei makes kernels with AI; ChipBench
How can you quantify creativity?…
Beyond one-on-one: Authoring, simulating, and testing dynamic human-AI group conversations
Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization…
Import AI 445: Timing superintelligence; AIs solve frontier math proofs; a new ML research benchmark
Will 2026 be looked back on as the pivotal year for making decisions about the singularity?…
Import AI 446: Nuclear LLMs; China's big AI benchmark; measurement and AI policy
Will AIs be jealous of one another?…
Import AI 447: The AGI economy; testing AIs with generated games; and agent ecologies
What might a superintelligence arcology be like?…
Olmo Hybrid and future LLM architectures
The latest Olmo model and discussions at the frontier of open-source post training tools.…
Dean Ball on open models and government control
Subtle precedents on the future of open models set by the unfolding Anthropic v. Department of War case.…
Import AI 448: AI R&D; Bytedance's CUDA-writing agent; on-device satellite AI
If Ukraine is the first major drone war, when will there be the first major AI war?…
Identifying Interactions at Scale for LLMs
--> Understanding the behavior of complex machine learning systems, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), is a critical challenge in modern artificial inte…
ImportAI 449: LLMs training other LLMs; 72B distributed training run; computer vision is harder than generative text
Will AI cause a political interregnum…
What comes next with open models
Markets, capabilities, cope, and bewilderment in the industrialization of language models.…
GPT 5.4 is a big step for Codex
On evaluating and understanding the frontier of agents, and why I still turn to Claude.…
Lossy self-improvement
The case for why self-improvement is real but it doesn't lead to fast takeoff.…
Import AI 450: China's electronic warfare model; traumatized LLMs; and a scaling law for cyberattacks
How will timeless minds value time?…
Vibe Coding XR: Accelerating AI + XR prototyping with XR Blocks and Gemini
Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization…
Import AI 451: Political superintelligence; Google's society of minds, and a robot drummer
Are there any genies that can be put back in the bottle?…
Latest open artifacts (#20): New orgs! New types of models! With Nemotron Super, Sarvam, Cohere Transcribe, & others
New orgs! New types of models! With Nemotron Super, Sarvam, Cohere Transcribe, & others…
Gemma 4 and what makes an open model succeed
Hint: it's not benchmark scores.…
Import AI 452: Scaling laws for cyberwar; rising tides of AI automation; and a puzzle over gDP forecasting
How much could AI revolutionize the economy?…
Claude Mythos and misguided open-weight fearmongering
Another dance around fears of open-source.…
The inevitable need for an open model consortium
And yes, I hate consortia too.…
Import AI 453: Breaking AI agents; MirrorCode; and ten views on gradual disempowerment
Was fire equivalent to a singularity for people at the time?…
What I’ve been building: ATOM Report, post-training course, finishing my book, and ongoing research
What I've been up to!…
My bets on open models, mid-2026
What I expect to come next and why, focused on the open-closed gap.…
Import AI 454: Automating alignment research; safety study of a Chinese model; HiFloat4
At what point do the financial markets price in the singularity?…
Reading today's open-closed performance gap
The complex factors that determine the single evaluation number so many focus on. Plus, how this changes in the future.…
Import AI 455: AI systems are about to start building themselves.
The first step towards recursive self improvement…