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“Hey all! I’ve been prepping for some public-audience and policy-facing writing on open models, so I figured I would share my research materials.”— Nathan Lambert, Author, Interconnects newsletter · Interconnects · full quotes →

“It's a shame we need to do it”— Lisa, Freelance graphic designer · The Guardian · full quotes →

“It is extremely sad that this didn't end up as an example of how the labs could cooperate/coordinate, because the stakes will be so much higher in the future.”— @_sholtodouglas, X user · X · full quotes →

“The '47 percent story' refers to a controversial comment made by Mitt Romney… That's accurate as far as it goes. But there's one glaring omission: any…”— Mother Jones, News organization / plaintiff · full quotes →

“When Microsoft AI shipped the first model in this line just five months ago, it charged $0.36 an hour. Thursday's early-bird price cuts that by roughly 72%.”— VentureBeat, Reporter · full quotes →

“The government plans to steamroller over local opposition so private companies can build these facilities – yet they can't even explain what the benefits are…”— Zack Polanski, Green Party leader, England and Wales · The Guardian · full quotes →

“I do think we're there, I think there's a pretty good argument for it. It's not unreasonable to feel as if we are in the AGI era.”— Greg Brockman, OpenAI president · The Telegraph · full quotes →

“The incident shows how quickly police departments have come to use AI surveillance tools even in critically sensitive cases.”— 404 Media · 404 Media article · full quotes →

“AIR's platform can discover agents running at a company, continuously vets any skills and add-ons they use, and blocks any unwanted behaviour.”— TechCrunch · full quotes →

“the era where artificial intelligence is broadly as capable as humans has arrived”— Greg Brockman, OpenAI president · Washington Post · full quotes →

“Downdetector reports Claude, Grok, ChatGPT and Gemini with issues. Is it happening???”— harrisoned, Hacker News commenter · Hacker News · full quotes →

“I'll hear it and think, 'What is that? What is going on?'”— Lucy, Lane Cove resident · BBC News · full quotes →

“LLMs have gotten very good at generating code, but I am appalled at the absolute shit they spew as prose.”— Murat Yildirimoglu · Hacker News · full quotes →

“Except where explicitly noted in this post, OpenAI redacted no additional information that was important to our conclusions.”— METR, Independent investigator · METR blog report · full quotes →

“the technology could be leveraged by terrorists or adversaries to develop more dangerous weapons and plot more deadly attacks.”— House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence · CNBC · full quotes →

“We spent >20B tokens throwing @openai's Astra at every AI Engineering task we could think of, beyond cute Blender demos and fun games.”— @latentspacepod, Latent Space's account · X · full quotes →

“Decentralizing artificial intelligence is much more interesting for society and for humanity in general.”— Thomas Wolf, Hugging Face co-founder · AFP (quoted in The Economic Times) · full quotes →

“The lawsuit claims child sexual abuse material depicting real people was used to train the chatbot.”— Mashable · full quotes →

“Quasar 438B is our flagship reasoning model, built for enterprise-scale agents and coding.”— Multiverse Computing · Multiverse Computing announcement · full quotes →

“halt a runaway system before it can compromise our critical national infrastructure”— Lord Tim Clement-Jones, Liberal Democrat peer · BBC News · full quotes →

“I love the heck out of Bill ... but I don't see what he sees”— Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO · Fortune · full quotes →

“We are sorry for the issues you may have experienced with Grok following an outage at our Memphis compute center this morning. We'd also like to apologize to…”— SpaceXAI, Company statement · Engadget · full quotes →

“If you can rephrase your problem as a data problem, it can autonomously do complex refactorings, rewrite from one language to another, extract or merge…”— aka-rider, Developer · iurii.net blog · full quotes →

“I trained a small transformer from scratch in 1.5hrs on a 5090 Beats many LLMs, and scores the same as TRM/HRM. This is an upgrade to my previous model Faster…”— porridgeraisin, AI researcher · Blog post · full quotes →

“Lyte, a fast-growing robotics and artificial intelligence startup from top members of Apple Inc.'s Face ID team, has secured about $165 million in a new…”— Bloomberg · Bloomberg Tech · full quotes →

“to industrialize the discovery of new physics”— Physical Superintelligence, company statement · The Deep View · full quotes →

“My voice is out there in the public domain but completely unprotected. We're seeing voice theft increase every week.”— Alice Sockett, Audiobook narrator, campaign co-founder · BBC News · full quotes →

“sets a new standard for coding, knowledge work, and long-running problem-solving tasks”— Anthropic, AI company · Simon Willison's blog · full quotes →

“An innovative technique that improved the model’s performance also means that the model, and others like it, will reveal less of their “thinking,” making them…”— Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Information · The Information (via thezvi.substack.com) · full quotes →

“The Israeli startup is taking aim at the cost and complexity of observability by putting autonomous agents directly inside production environments.”— CTech · full quotes →

“Introducing TimesFM-3, a state-of-the-art time series foundation model that enables accurate multivariate time series forecasting in a single forward pass…”— @GoogleResearch, Google Research · X · full quotes →

“Robot bodies are waiting for their AI brains to catch up.”— Tim Fernholz, TechCrunch journalist · TechCrunch · full quotes →

“My baby is OK!”— Mibbby Butler, Pet owner · Wired · full quotes →