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Openai
Anthropic
Artificial Intelligence
AI Safety
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Claude Opus 4.6
Chatgpt
Claude
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Claude Opus 4.5
Department Of War
Deepseek
Productivity
Automation
Education
China
Cybersecurity
AI Alignment
AI Ethics
NVIDIA

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This was the week of Claude Opus 4.8. I covered the model card, then model welfare concerns, and finally capabilities and reactions. It's a good model, sir, an incremental but real improvement over Opus 4.7, and it is now my clear daily driver. The T... more

Last week we were expecting an Executive Order on Thursday.

Then Trump cancelled it, and said he wouldn’t sign it because he was worried it would be too burdensome.

Then, with one change, he went ahead and signed it on Tuesday anyway.

The Ov... more

You need a lot of data points to understand a new model, and what you have.

Trying to gauge from a few benchmarks is misleading. But if you have dozens of them, from a variety of sources, and you put them together with the model card tests and the... more

Everything impacts everything. All knobs that you turn generalize. Thus, when you try to solve one problem, you often create another.

There were clearly attempts to address, in this short time, some of the problems with Opus 4.7, including on the ... more

Only six weeks after Opus 4.7, we have Opus 4.8.

For everyone, that means another incremental upgrade to Claude. It is once again smarter, and can do tasks for longer, and comes with a number of hot new features.

For me, that also means reading... more

Last week ended on a cliffhanger of sorts. What's in the Executive Order coming later today? What will be in the Magnifica Humanitas?

The Executive Order was postponed indefinitely, likely cancelled entirely except for work on securing critical i... more

His holiness has spoken, frequently about AI. At eighty two pages of length.

The full Magnifica Humanitas can be found here.

I am very happy that Pope Leo takes these issues seriously, and is sharing his views, and bringing a form of moral clar... more

Google once again has a model worth at least some consideration. Gemini 3.5 Flash is likely the best model out there at its particular speed point, as long as you don’t mind that it is a Gemini model. So for cases where speed kills, this can be a rea... more

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An alignment plan that looks like it would work on the first try, confidence in the execution and a plan to address gradual disempowerment issues is needed.
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Q: What would shift your timelines to ASI or to sufficiently advanced AI?
The current median time to crazy is roughly 2031, but wider uncertainty exists based on empirical evidence and emerging data.
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Q: Based on what's stated in the news article, how would you characterize the board's decision to fire Altman? Was it justified?
The decision to fire Altman appears both justified and necessary from the board's perspective, though poorly executed in terms of communication.
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Q: Why are founders staying in charge important?
Tyler highlights the necessity of courageous leadership and making substantial changes to adapt to new challenges, such as those posed by AI.
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Q: What would happen if the world population would double?
Tyler suggests that while energy use would go up, population growth alone does not guarantee economic growth, emphasizing the importance of quality over quantity in improving productivity.

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