i was very keen on publishing evals where we do not award ourselves gold medals, as an intellectual honesty thing and motivator for the team to hillclimb in ways we care about with public pressure
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OpenAI enters third phase as economy reshapes around AI
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OpenAI is "entering the third phase. The economy is beginning to reshape around AI." – The first phase of OpenAI was about doing research toward AGI
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Elon Musk says humans will be dumb compared to AI
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We’re all going to be extremely dumb compared to AI anyway
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Apple blames EU for Apple Intelligence delay
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Apple makes it clear that Europe is itself to blame for the unavailability of Apple Intelligence. Apple says Siri AI won’t launch on iPhone and iPad in the EU because regulators interpret the DMA as requiring Apple to give rival AI assistants broad access to private user data.
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Conference on AI awakening at the 1E9 Festival in Munich
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"Deus Ex Machina: What happens when artificial intelligence awakens?" – I will give a talk at the 1E9 Festival of the Future in Munich (July 2-5)! https://1e9.community/festival
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Conference on AI Awakening at 1E9 Festival of the Future
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"Deus Ex Machina: What happens when artificial intelligence awakens?" – I will give a talk at the 1E9 Festival of the Future in Munich (July 2-5)! https://1e9.community/festival
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Links to resources on loop engineering and AI agents
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Links: Addy Osmani: Loop Engineering https://
addyosmani.com/blog/loop-engi
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… Anthropic: Building Effective Agents https://
anthropic.com/engineering/bu
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… Anthropic: When AI Builds Itself https://
anthropic.com/institute/recu
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… Measuring Agents in Production (arXiv 2512.04123) https://
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Recursive self-improvement imminent until Anthropic IPO
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Recursive self-improvement is imminent until Anthropic IPOs.
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Gary Marcus explains why NSAI is insufficient in 2020 article
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read my 2020 Next Decade in AI for why I don’t believe NSAI is sufficient.
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Gary Marcus argues transformers alone insufficient for AGI
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No. Not by itself. Sergey Brin is absolutely wrong. Transformers by themselves are not “sufficient” for AGI.
— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) 8 juin 2026
Nobody uses transformers on their own anymore. Everybody is supplementing them tools and harnesses and other aspects of architecture from (neuro)symbolic AI.… https://t.co/zAfdPwJVH3No. Not by itself. Sergey Brin is absolutely wrong. Transformers by themselves are not “sufficient” for AGI. Nobody uses transformers on their own anymore. Everybody is supplementing them tools and harnesses and other aspects of architecture from (neuro)symbolic AI.