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Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice

unfortunately the field of abiogenesis, just like extraterrestrial life, is a lost cause. The reality we will never be able to replicate creation of life nor find life on other planets (except via contamination). it's why we've never gotten any closer. and i'm not even religious

Generative "AI": The Guitar Hero of Creativity

Bad analogy. In GH you have to press the buttons at the exact time that is prescribed and you're scored on that. With AI there is no such prescribed goal. The world is your oyster. You can use it in boring ways, but you can use it in immensely creative ways too. You can chain together AI agents, image generators, video generators, 3D asset generators, computer vision models, text embeddings etc. etc. and prompt all the orchestration into existence with your ideas, taste and direction. It's the opposite of a constrained game. Boring people use it in boring ways, interesting people use it in interesting ways. The rest is old man yells at cloud, like how people criticized "laptop music" or photography.

Taste Is All That's Left

I feel two ways about it. I've written some algorithms and architectures for motion control that were good, after many years of chewing on the problem through iterations. I don't think I'll replicate that effort or those results, now that I use LLM's so much. On the other hand, I did that in pursuit of a goal, and LLM's take me further, faster, toward that goal.

The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident [video]

It's pretty easy to trace from one trajectory: 1) Model A exhausts it's options 2) Model A has token budget still, so it pokes around at artifactory 3) Model A sees that Model B has an SSRF for artifactory 4) Model A now is able to use that SSRF to get external internet access So sure, they're "cosplaying" and who's to say how much hallucination is going on amongst them, but at the end of the day Hugging Face was hacked.

Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index

Eh it's better than 4.8 in terms of what it can get done on a good day, it's just far more taxing to get it there. Like the Fable ban stunt, I wouldn't put it pass Anthropic to kneecap Opus deliberately to drive more people to their more expensive option.

AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

They are: https://openai.com/index/cerebras-partnership/ My guess is they only consider Luna "good enough" to justify the immense up-front investment to put it onto silicon, but Luna at 10x the current speed would be killer. If they're really pursuing live voice conversations with a hardware assistant, latency is more important than accuracy (for complex questions the assistant could always say something like "wait a minute, I need to think about this" and hand over to another model).

I'm leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic Park

i recently left anthropic a few weeks ago, it was tough but had to leave for my own mental health. i'm getting bombarded with offers from other rival ai labs, hedge funds, tech startups and even early stage investors. had i known not to announce i'm leaving and just left quietly, then i wouldn't be harassed like this. (investors, vcs seriously please do not send me any more intros, you are not being helpful)

OpenAI's New Device Will Be Hockey Puck-Sized and Cost over $300

> And the design should help it stand out from current smart speakers, a category dominated by Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google. I'm not sure how good OpenAI's device will have to be to be a success. The iPhone became a hit because it did what everyones phone did (calls and text) but had other cool features that other phones didn't and people upgraded phones every few years. I'm assuming that Amazon, Google, and Apple etc have teams working on better voice control and features that they'll roll out to existing speakers when or before OpenAI release a device.

Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money

I think the comments here are taking this comment as being about how salaries are too high, or how it's daft to suggest people shouldn't chase the best paying role available to them. I suspect that isn't really what Dario means though. Perhaps I'm being too generous but I think his comments are about two problems that all rich companies face: 1. How do you maintain momentum in an industry where other companies with deep pockets can tempt your staff away quite easily just by offering more money? If everyone is willing to hop from company to company then it drives wages up (not a bad thing) but also slows progress as a whole industry (a bad thing). 2. How do you keep people when they can just retire and live a life of leisure at any point? It's not about the high wages; it's about employing…

Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users

What's even more noticable is that Anthropic still hasn't responded to the Kimi K3 release or the DeepSeek release.

Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money

So Anthropic studied humanity, and their big discovery was: new hires care about money. Peak anthropology.

OpenAI's New Device Will Be Hockey Puck-Sized and Cost over $300

Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money

He left OpenAI because he didn't think sama was being faithful to the mission. https://www.openaifiles.org/

I'm leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic Park

Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users

You are right to question that. I am basing that statement off of the many famous engineers that have recently left and were very highly paid. My guess is Google is ceding the frontier and the high salaries that go with it and letting Anthropic/OpenAI fight over the high priced talent that exit. The remaining non-famous engineers will not be able to command celebrity salaries. But this is just speculation and I don't have great evidence that the celebrity salaries are enough to meaningfully reduce overall talent costs. A counter point would be OAI and Anthropic can pay with more equity that they can promise will go to the moon. But all the equity base compensation eventually dilutes earnings per share so it's not free once you go public and people start caring about that.

Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users

You are right to question that. I am basing that statement off of the many famous engineers that have recently left and were very highly paid. My guess is Google is ceding the frontier and the high salaries that go with it and letting Anthropic/OpenAI fight over the high priced talent that exit. The remaining non-famous engineers will not be able to command celebrity salaries. But this is just speculation and I don't have great evidence that the celebrity salaries are enough to meaningfully reduce overall talent costs. A counter point would be OAI and Anthropic can pay with more equity that they can promise will go to the moon. But all the equity base compensation eventually dilutes earnings per share so it's not free once you go public and people start caring about that.

Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money

"Ask not what your Company can do for you —ask what you can do for your Company". - Anthropic CEO.

Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money

It's hard to think notions like company loyalty have ever meant something in Silicon Valley. Amodei himself would have never subscribed to a "mission" in the entirety of his career, having jumped from Baidu to Google to OpenAI and finally backstabbing them to form their own company. It's all just a performance; inevitably the same thing is going to happen to Anthropic too.

Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money

It's hard to think notions like company loyalty have ever meant something in Silicon Valley. Amodei himself would have never subscribed to a "mission" in the entirety of his career, having jumped from Baidu to Google to OpenAI and finally backstabbing them to form their own company. It's all just a performance; inevitably the same thing is going to happen to Anthropic too.

Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money

Funny, new hires are similarly worried the Anthropic CEO only cares about money, so they have something in common!