This is such a major falling off. After being mocked for years for being a total AI laggard, Google had a major turnaround at the end of the last year with Gemini 3 and Nano Banana 2 releases. But OpenAI and Anthropic quickly caught up, took over the lead, and then gradually
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Gary Marcus Lists Eight Reasons to Slow Hyperscaling
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Eight reasons to slow down hyperscaling:
• What GenAI has already done to society
• What AI slop is doing to the internet
• What data center overbuild is likely to do the economy • What data center overbuild is likely to do the environment • What cyberattacks may do to the -
Exponential Progression and Clustering of AI Actors
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Another exponential, that of Artificial Analysis. It is that almost the entire field is progressing upward at the same time. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Meta, DeepSeek, Alibaba, Mistral, Kimi and others are now *much more clustered* than they were a…
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AI models like ChatGPT compared to ABC, NBC, CBS facing 500 channels
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Today’s ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are like the ABC, NBC and CBS of old: soon to be swamped by 500 channels and the Internet.
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Meta’s new AI Mode on Facebook uses public platform data
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Meta’s new ‘#AI Mode’ on Facebook pulls from public info across its platforms
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Early Access to Gemma 4 on Cerebras and 24h Hackathon with $5000
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Early access to the world's fastest multimodal model is available. Get your hands on the Gemma 4 model on Cerebras. 24-hour hackathon with a prize of $5,000 and the flagship project presented by Google DeepMind and Cerebras. RSVP link in comments
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US measures and Anthropic restrict access to AI
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Over the past two weeks, both the US government and Anthropic have taken significant measures that demonstrated their power to control access to AI by restricting what others can do with cutting-edge models. This has been one of those
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200 organizations still have access to Claude Mythos, an advance
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About 200 organizations still have access to Claude Mythos. Just imagine the lead they have.
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John Jumper leaves Google DeepMind to join Anthropic, a major victory
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Holy shit!! John Jumper, one of the key figures behind AlphaFold and co-winner of the Nobel Prize alongside Demis Hassabis, leaves Google DeepMind to join Anthropic. A huge loss for Google DeepMind, and a crazy win for Anthropic! What is going on, especially at Google DeepMind?
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Government shuts down Claude AI that beat Opus benchmarks
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7 days ago a government order took the most powerful Claude offline.
It beat Opus on almost every benchmark.
It did a 2-month job for Stripe in a day.
Now nobody can touch it. I still run its best move on Opus 4.8 every day.
And tell me: should one government get to switch off