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Artificial intelligence: the models, the labs, the people building them, and what it all means.
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OpenAI’s Astra Model Just Solved Ten Open Math Problems for $2,000: Sphere Packing, Connes’s Rigidity Conjecture, Non-Sofic Groups and Seven More
On August 1, 2026, OpenAI published Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science, a 249-page collection of research results produced by an internal version of Astra, its…
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Jensen Huang Joins X and His First Post Is a Manifesto: Inside the Open Weights and American AI Leadership Letter Signed by NVIDIA, Microsoft, Meta, and 20+ Tech Giants
Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA and arguably the most influential person in the AI hardware world, has never been a social media guy. That changed on July…
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Bun Rewritten in Rust: How One Engineer Used 64 Claude Agents to Port 1 Million Lines of Zig in 11 Days for $165,000
The Bun team just published one of the most consequential engineering writeups of the year: they rewrote the entire Bun JavaScript runtime, over half a million lines of…
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Inkling: Thinking Machines Lab Releases Its First Open-Weights Model, a 975B Multimodal Mixture-of-Experts With Controllable Thinking Effort That Can Fine-Tune Itself on Tinker
Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has released Inkling, its first open-weights model trained from scratch. Inkling is a 975 billion…
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Anthropic’s Jacobian Lens Uncovers a Global Workspace in Language Models: How LLMs Verbalize, Reason With, and Hide Their Own Internal Thoughts
A new paper from Anthropic’s interpretability team makes a bold and carefully qualified claim: language models have quietly developed something that looks a lot like the “global workspace”…
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OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Jalapeño, a Custom LLM Inference Chip to Cut Compute Costs and Reduce Nvidia Dependence
OpenAI and Broadcom pulled the wrapper off Jalapeño on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, a custom silicon accelerator that OpenAI is calling its first “Intelligence Processor” and its first…
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SubQ 1.1 Small Explained: How Subquadratic Sparse Attention Hits 98% Retrieval at 12 Million Tokens With 64.5x Less Compute Than Dense Attention
Subquadratic, a frontier AI research and infrastructure company, has released the model card and technical report for SubQ 1.1 Small, a long-context language model built on a new…
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OpenAI’s Leaked 2025 Financials: $34 Billion in Spending, a $38.5 Billion Net Loss, and a $17 Billion Microsoft Bill Ahead of Its IPO
OpenAI’s audited 2025 financials leaked this week, and they are the clearest picture yet of what it actually costs to run the company behind ChatGPT. Independent journalist Ed…
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US Government Orders Anthropic to Suspend Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5: Inside the Export Control Directive, the Jailbreak Dispute, and What It Means for Frontier AI
On June 12, 2026, Anthropic published a statement announcing that the US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive forcing the company to suspend…
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Coinbase for Agents: Your AI Agent Can Now Trade Crypto and Pay Autonomously, and Why Agentic Finance Is Massively Bullish for Bitcoin
Coinbase just fired the starting gun on agentic finance. With the launch of Coinbase for Agents, announced June 11, 2026, you can now connect your favorite AI agent…
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Dario Amodei on Policy for the AI Exponential: Anthropic’s Plan for AI Regulation, Job Displacement, Civil Liberties, and Democratic Leadership
In June 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published “Policy on the AI Exponential”, a wide-ranging essay arguing that the gap between how fast AI is advancing and how…
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The AI Layoff Trap: Why Competing Firms Over-Automate, Destroy Their Own Customers, and How a Pigouvian Automation Tax Could Break the Arms Race
A new economics paper called The AI Layoff Trap, by Brett Hemenway Falk of the University of Pennsylvania and Gerry Tsoukalas of Boston University, makes an argument that…