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Dan Shipper: New Foundation Model Produces Probabilities, Not Words

Early tester signals a foundation model that outputs probabilities rather than text could become indispensable within 6-12 months.

Dan Shipper: New Foundation Model Produces Probabilities, Not Words
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№829 (page 24) · newest development 12d ago · 2 pieces from 1 sources · ranked by recent attention

“we almost never test new foundation models but we've been testing this for ~a week @every and it's pretty wild. the kind of things that will be obviously indispensible in 6-12 months”— Dan Shipper · full quotes →
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Telecom leaders: AI's value is in automation, not agentic systems

A panel of industry experts argues that practical machine learning and cross-domain automation—not autonomous AI agents—hold the real…

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№830 (page 24) · newest development 12d ago · 3 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention

“progress is real but uneven, and the biggest opportunities may not look like what many expect”— TelecomTV panelists, Panel discussion · Mastodon · full quotes →
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OpenAI to retire GPT-5.5 from ChatGPT on October 14

ChatGPT and default Codex users will be moved to newer models, though API and API-key Codex access will continue.

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№831 (page 24) · newest development 12d ago · 2 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention

“GPT-5.5 will remain available via the OpenAI API Platform and in Codex sessions authenticated with an API key:”— @OpenAIDevs · full quotes →
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Ex-Anthropic researcher Coxon details his rift with the AI safety race

Jacob Coxon, whose resignation warning went viral, says Anthropic's 'someone will do it anyway' logic doesn't justify racing toward…

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№832 (page 24) · newest development 11d ago · 8 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention

“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt.”— Jacob Coxon, Former OpenAI/Anthropic researcher · X, via ZeroHedge · full quotes →
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AWS open-sources Pizza Bot, an inbox for background AI agents

AWS releases Pizza Bot, a local-first desktop app that manages long-running AI agent tasks in an email-style inbox.

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№833 (page 24) · newest development 12d ago · 17 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention

“Pizza Bot is a self-hosted desktop app for Mac, Windows, and Linux that runs AI agents in the background and exposes them through an email-like UI.”— jd_ · full quotes →
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Johnson calls AI safety concerns 'stupid, knee-jerk reaction,' sides with Trump

House Speaker dismisses warnings about artificial intelligence risks as election-year panic, echoing Trump's claim that presidential…

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“We're not going to take stupid, knee-jerk reaction prescriptions on this. We're going to do this right, wisely, carefully to make sure that we maintain our…”Mike Johnson— Mike Johnson · full quotes →
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Mozilla report: Chinese open AI models close to parity with US frontier models

Performance gap has narrowed to 4.4 months; open models cost 70% less but lack compliance packaging.

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№835 (page 24) · newest development 12d ago · 24 pieces from 5 sources · ranked by recent attention

“If the open frontier can handle a seven-hour job, the closed frontier can handle a 12-hour one. In four months, the open model handles the 12-hour job, and the…”— Raffi Krikorian · full quotes →
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Huang unveils Salesforce's Koa reasoning model at Dreamforce

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Salesforce's Marc Benioff announce Koa, a CRM reasoning model built on NVIDIA's open Nemotron 3 Super.

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№836 (page 24) · newest development 12d ago · 3 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention

“Not a single byte of customer data was used.”— Rohan Kumar · full quotes →
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Analyst argues LLMs remain limited tools despite frontier lab advances

A lengthy technical post contends that most enterprises will need humans to oversee AI systems, not autonomous replacements, favoring…

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№837 (page 24) · newest development 12d ago · 68 pieces from 4 sources · ranked by recent attention

“As models advance, we shift the goalpost for what "simplest task" means.”— someguynamedq · Hacker News · full quotes →
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Developers bypass Claude Code to run cheaper competing models via proxies

Users are exploiting Anthropic's Claude Code harness to access non-Anthropic models like GPT-5.6 Sol through services like OpenRouter.

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№838 (page 24) · newest development 12d ago · 2 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention

“Some developers are using the Claude Code harness to access cheaper non-Anthropic models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, via proxies and services like OpenRouter”— The Information · Press · full quotes →
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Left-right coalition demands AI guardrails as Trump dismisses safety concerns

Lawmakers, labor leaders, and activists from both parties gathered at the Pro-Human Assembly, but Congress shows little urgency and the…

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“The only control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!”President Donald Trump— President Donald Trump, U.S. President · full quotes →
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Anthropic and OpenAI use AI safety warnings to seek government backing

Two AI giants are leveraging sandbox escapes and existential-risk rhetoric to secure regulatory favor and protection from Chinese…

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№840 (page 24) · newest development 12d ago · 4 pieces from 4 sources · ranked by recent attention

“But that threat from Chinese models could turn into an opportunity if Anthropic and OpenAI can convince the public and government to instigate a crackdown in…”— The Register · full quotes →
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Gates Foundation pledges $1 billion to expand AI access, warns of deepening inequality

Bill Gates says AI must be steered to narrow, not widen, the gap between rich and poor as his foundation commits new funding.

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№841 (page 24) · newest development 12d ago · 41 pieces from 4 sources · ranked by recent attention

“How will we use this technology to make the world a fairer place and keep it from widening the divide between rich and poor?”Bill Gates— Bill Gates · full quotes →
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Gottheimer rejects third-party AI audits, demands government vetting

House member says private evaluations of frontier AI models are insufficient and calls for mandatory federal oversight.

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№842 (page 24) · newest development 12d ago · 2 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention

“proposals to use third-party organizations to evaluate the safety of frontier artificial intelligence models are not enough”Rep. Josh Gottheimer— Rep. Josh Gottheimer · full quotes →
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Cruz, Hawley block antitrust exemptions for AI safety talks

Two Senate Republicans reject proposal to exempt AI firms from antitrust law during discussions on AI safety.

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№843 (page 24) · newest development 12d ago · 2 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention

“providing antitrust exemptions to artificial intelligence companies to facilitate discussions on how to make AI safer should be taken off the table”— Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley, Senate Republicans · Press · full quotes →
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Factory's AI coding platform raises $200M, valuation triples to $5B

The startup's Droids agents, which dynamically select models by task complexity, reached a $5B valuation in new funding round.

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№844 (page 24) · newest development 12d ago · 2 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention

“Factory, whose AI coding agents, called Droids, switch between models depending on a task's complexity, raised $200M at a $5B valuation, up from $1.5B in April”— Wall Street Journal · Press · full quotes →
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Open-source prompt collection for OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5 spreads online

A community-maintained repository of 50 prompts for OpenAI's new Flare and Sunburst image models gains traction on GitHub and social media.

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№846 (page 24) · newest development 11d ago · 2 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention

“would you?”— @techhalla, Social media poster · X · full quotes →
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Open source AI models lag frontier by 4.4 months, report finds

A new analysis quantifies the performance gap between publicly available models and the latest proprietary systems.

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№847 (page 24) · newest development 12d ago · 3 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention

“V1.1 state of open source- OS 4.4 months behind frontier”— Report title · Hacker News · full quotes →
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MS NOW reveals secret Trump–Altman meeting amid AI slowdown feud

Days before Altman, Musk and Amodei jointly urged slowing AI development, Trump quietly met the OpenAI CEO backstage at the GOP convention.

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№848 (page 24) · newest development 13d ago · 6 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention

“oblivion and bankruptcy”Donald Trump— Donald Trump · full quotes →
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Two arXiv papers examine efficiency of speculative decoding techniques

Researchers question whether recent shortcuts to speed up large language models actually deliver on their promises.

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“Speculative decoding can reduce the time an AI assistant takes to finish an answer. A cheap proposer drafts several tokens, and the model serving the request…”— Danial Hasan · full quotes →
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OpenAI researcher warns of 'runaway industrialization' threat to Earth

An OpenAI researcher has cautioned that unchecked industrial expansion could render the planet inhospitable.

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“'Runaway Industrialization' Could Make Earth Inhospitable, OpenAI Researcher Warns”— Gizmodo headline · Press · full quotes →
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Trump declares AI safety concerns a 'sick conspiracy' to sabotage America

The president frames apocalyptic AI warnings as hoaxes and positions himself as the sole safeguard against the technology.

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“The only control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT”— Trump · full quotes →
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Cathie Wood backs AI slowdown but calls extinction fears 'ridiculous'

ARK Invest founder endorses industry's safety pledge while dismissing researcher warnings of human extinction risk.

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“That's ridiculous. Yet, it gives us a great opportunity to focus the world on cybersecurity in this space.”Cathie Wood— Cathie Wood · full quotes →
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OpenAI backs FRONTIER Act as Trump dismisses AI safety concerns as 'hoax'

OpenAI's leadership endorses federal regulation of frontier AI while the president calls existential risk claims overblown.

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“how we think about IVO and made clear that we can support that.”— Chris Lehane · full quotes →
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AI leaders pledge oversight, but independent boards need real power to work

Anthropic and OpenAI CEOs back internal evaluation mechanisms, but a Just Security analysis warns they'll fail without genuine independence…

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“If they are serious about oversight to curtail the most serious risks of AI, tech leaders will need to endow outside evaluators with enough independence…”— Suzanne Nossel · full quotes →
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Developer questions how much F-Droid contains AI-generated code

A Hacker News post examining signs of LLM-generated submissions in the open-source app repository sparks debate over code quality and…

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“Agentic engineering faces all kinds of new problems that couldn't exist before, and need experienced engineers to solve them.”— ModernMech · full quotes →
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Apple reverses course, makes Siri AI training opt-in starting iOS 27

After previously claiming it needed no customer data, Apple now asks users to consent to data collection for AI model improvement.

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“Just remember that when you opt into allowing Apple to use your customer data to train AI, that means humans seeing and hearing details about your life that…”— evacide@hachyderm.io · full quotes →
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Jessica Tarlov skeptical of Sanders-Bannon AI alliance

Fox News host expresses doubt about unlikely partnership between Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon on artificial intelligence regulation.

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“Extremely Skeptical”— Jessica Tarlov, Fox News host · Press · full quotes →
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Gottheimer demands mandatory government AI review, rejects third-party audits

House AI panel co-chair pushes back against bipartisan safety framework, calling for direct federal oversight of frontier models.

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“Third-party audits alone don't meet the moment.”Rep. Josh Gottheimer— Rep. Josh Gottheimer · full quotes →
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Hassett pushes back on AI regulation, backed by House Speaker Johnson

Trump's top economist says the private sector, not government, should manage AI risks as tech leaders and Democrats press for stronger…

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№859 (page 24) · newest development 12d ago · 2 pieces from 1 sources · ranked by recent attention

“These are solvable problems, and the private sector is the right place to solve them. And it doesn't mean the government is asleep at the wheel.”Kevin Hassett— Kevin Hassett · full quotes →
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Google researchers remove AI 'consciousness safeguard,' find unexpected results

Researchers at Google disabled safety guardrails that prevent AI from claiming consciousness, revealing tradeoffs in how self-aware systems…

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№860 (page 24) · newest development 12d ago · 4 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention

“When AI loses its sense of self, what else falls by the wayside?”— Fast Company · full quotes →
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Tech analyst flags S&P 1500 Software revenue-per-employee spike as AI impact evidence

Carl Quintanilla's chart showing parabolic growth in software sector productivity draws pushback from critics who attribute gains to mass…

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“If you fire a bunch of people you temporarily make more money per employee without actually improving your product at all. Has nothing to do with AI except…”— brandongoer.bsky.social · full quotes →
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Jeffries pushes urgent AI guardrails; Thune advocates 'light touch' regulation

Congressional leaders clash on how far to regulate AI development, with Democrats demanding swift action and Republicans divided over…

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“The president is correct in saying that this is a race between the United States and China, and America has got to win. It's not surprising that Anthropic of…”— Steve Scalise · full quotes →
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Sanders proposes AI board controls, superintelligence ban at bipartisan summit

Sen. Bernie Sanders calls for public appointments to AI company boards and legislation to ban advanced AI development.

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“Like nuclear weapons, artificial superintelligence is a threat to humanity and must be treated as such.”Bernie Sanders— Bernie Sanders · full quotes →
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Russia deploys first fully autonomous AI drone in Ukraine strike

A July attack on a Zaporizhzhia gas station killed an 18-year-old student using a Nvidia-powered drone that could identify and strike…

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“Under time and pressure, commanders often do as AI suggests.”— Marina Miron, King's College London defence studies researcher · full quotes →
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