AI
Artificial intelligence: the models, the labs, the people building them, and what it all means.
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Neal Stephenson on AI, the Atomic Race, and Why the Primer Is Hard
Neal Stephenson tells Ashlee Vance why the AI boom blindsided him, why he still thinks it is an S-curve, and why building the primer from The Diamond Age…
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Jev for Images: TypeSafe’s Decision Model Learns to See, Fast and Cheap
Jev for Images lets TypeSafe AI’s tiny decision model look at photos, screenshots and scanned pages, answering yes or no, picking a label, scoring, or drawing a box…
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Spawn: How 10 People Ship 77,000 Changes a Month With an AI Agent Fleet
Spawn, a ten-person game engine startup, ships about 77,000 code changes a month by running a permanent fleet of AI agents on $3.1 million of Claude tokens. In…
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Sam Altman: Why a Trillion AIs Beat One Single Superintelligence
Sam Altman told Stripe co-founder John Collison why he would rather see a trillion slightly superhuman AIs join society than one AI with a trillion IQ. Over a…
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Gemini 4 Carbon: Google’s New Frontier Model for Cyber Defense and Coding
Google DeepMind’s Gemini 4 Carbon is a new frontier model built for cyber defense and long-horizon coding, released first to vetted security teams rather than the public. Announced…
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Genie 4: Google DeepMind’s World Model Adds Audio, Dialogue and an API
Google DeepMind’s Genie 4 world model generates video and audio together in real time, lets users talk to characters inside a scene, and is coming to the API…
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Joon Sung Park: How Simile Simulates Human Behavior With 85% Accuracy
Joon Sung Park tells Molly O’Shea that Simile can predict how real people will respond with 85% plus accuracy, and that its customers care less about forecasts than…
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Lex Fridman #503: The AI Crisis in Math, Navier-Stokes to Riemann
Three mathematicians join Lex Fridman to make sense of the weeks when AI claimed proofs of Navier-Stokes blowup, a quasi-Riemann hypothesis, the Unique Games Conjecture and a full…
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Dario and Daniela Amodei: Trust, Sycophancy and Anthropic’s Red Lines
Anthropic co-founders Dario and Daniela Amodei sat down with Walter Isaacson to explain why they left OpenAI, how they keep Claude honest, and why they refused the Pentagon…


