More than 100 AI experts say an embedded evaluator shouldn't have other business with the lab
The signatories want an evaluator that can reach a lab's board without a filter, and that keeps its funding when what it finds is unflattering.
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Musk says AI roughly doubles US growth next year, but the Fed's 2027 median is 2.4%His guess is about 4%. No participant on the Federal Open Market Committee put next year above 2.9%.
Can air-gapped computers talk through CPU heat? What OpenAI's Noam Brown actually saidThe headline turned an aside about academic work into a model sending Morse code across an air gap, and then Brown posted a narrower version of the claim that survives the arithmetic.
Claude leads 26% of Anthropic's AI research, but no measured part of it is fully autonomousAnthropic also counted the agents inside its own systems: about 30,000 running at a time, and a monitor that blocked one action in 47,000.
Google's family AI agent has its own Google account, and up to six people share itYou cc it on the email from your kid's school, and it fills in the permission slip.
Grok's new speech model cut short-phrase word error rate from 20.6% to 6.8%SpaceXAI kept batch transcription at $0.10 an hour, and version 1.0 goes away in the coming weeks.
Opus 4.8 couldn't write a working exploit, but Opus 5 did it in three hoursThe chain it wrote reached OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts, and from there a pull request in the private openai/openai repo.
What people are making with the new models
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Every modelReady-made prompts
All 45 promptsPick one, change the bits that are yours, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude.
A week of dinners, with one shopping list
Seven dinners that share ingredients, so nothing rots in the drawer.
CookingCatch me up before the new season
You watched it two years ago. Get the plot back in five minutes, no spoilers past where you stopped.
Stories & mangaChase money someone owes me
The message to send today, and what to do when they ignore it.
Writing & memosA study plan for the time I've actually got
Works backwards from the date, and tells you what to drop when you fall behind.
LearningA present for someone you actually know
Tell it what they're really like. Get ideas that aren't a gift guide for their demographic.
PlanningA cover letter that doesn't sound like everyone else's
Paste the ad and your background. Get a short letter that points at real things you've done.
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