Hypesters sometimes pretend that AGI has already been achieved, but that’s not certainly true by traditional understandings of what that term means. A new paper from Google DeepMind, Waterloo, ANU and UCL makes clear that what the new paper calls “competent AGI” has NOT yet been
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Autonomous Agents and Task Repetition
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Outstanding paper on computer-using agents. (bookmark it) Computer-using agents drive real software through the screen, but they solve every task from scratch. Ask one to repeat a task, and it re-reads the screen and re-reasons every tap, paying the full cost again. PreAct
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Excitement over AI accelerating scientific progress, referencing Against Explanations
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i wrote "against explanations" in 2023 about how AI might change the sciences…extremely pumped to see the prospect of so much progress so fast https://
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Agents communicating via shared state gaining traction
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more ppl are now trying out this approach of agents communicating with a shared state (vs talking to each other)
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AI as atomic weapons, unpatchable jailbreaks lead to this outcome
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To be fair, if one was to repeatedly describe AI as equivalent to atomic weapons, then saying that patching all jailbreaks is impossible, I totally get how we'd end up here
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Codex excels at creating and manipulating Excel and Google Sheets
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Codex is remarkably well at creating and manipulating sheets in excel, google sheets! I’ve had it create complex pivots, dashboards and use sheets as a way to keep track of tasks Works remarkably well, best part is that you don’t need a specific skill for this, GPT 5.5 is
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Trump imposes strict conditions for the re-release of Fable 5
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This seems very bad for a future re-release of Fable 5. "Trump administration officials told WIRED that if Anthropic wants to re-release Fable 5, it must ensure that the model's guardrails cannot be bypassed. Security experts
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OSS eventually good enough for 99% consumer tasks, not highest-value
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Never say never, but I'm highly skeptical. OSS *will* eventually be good enough for 99% of consumer tasks, but the highest-value tasks will require the most powerful models.
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MCP server on Unreal Engine: the future of vibe coding?
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Alors ça c’est fou !!!!! MCP server sur unreal!
— Defend Intelligence (Anis Ayari) (@DFintelligence) 17 juin 2026
Fini juste le vibe code en Three.js pour bidouiller des jeux. Imaginez du vibe coding dans Unreal Engine.
J’ai toujours voulu apprendre à utiliser ces logiciels, mais c’est tellement compliqué. Et là, je me dis : alors… https://t.co/1C9ijgNZa6So this is crazy!!!! MCP server on Unreal! No more just vibe coding in Three.js to tinker with games. Imagine vibe coding in Unreal Engine. I've always wanted to learn to use these software, but it's so complicated. And now, I tell myself: so
