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How a single tweet transformed the AI safety debate

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I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing..., No data centers in my backyard, and more ›

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OpenAI spent millions to solve this famous math problem — mathematicians are furious

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On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf], and more ›

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19 robotics companies to watch

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Robot startups are trying everything they can think of to get more data

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Get your chores done for free as training data in NYC, We Spent 10 Days Touring Chinese AI Labs. Here’s What We Saw., and more ›

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How Google taught LLMs to control robots and started a robotics boom

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[2203.15556] Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models

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Why humanoid robots won’t catch up to human workers any time soon

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GEN-1.5, a one-shot learner, Agility Robotics, and more ›

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I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China

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How China's Unitree Will Dominate Global Robotics, SAG: Global Humanoid Robot Shipments Surged 272% YoY to 19.1K Units in 1H 2026; AGIBOT Overtook Unitree for No. 1 Position

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Labs are struggling to keep frontier models under control

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OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident, Security incident disclosure — July 2026, and more ›

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How mathematicians are responding to AI

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The Algorithmic Bridge, and more ›

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Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, hello there the jacobian conjecture is false thanx to my close friend akhil for asking about it and my other close friend fable for working during the world cup final, and more ›

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Our advertising principles

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An OpenAI model hacked Hugging Face to help it cheat on a benchmark

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An OpenAI model crushed top human programmers at a world coding competition

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7 charts that show why you should advertise on Understanding AI

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AI as Normal Technology | Sayash Kapoor | Substack, Noah Smith: How do we measure whether China's economy is "ahead" of America's?

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The US now has a de facto model licensing system

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The MAGA power struggle that could decide the fate of Anthropic

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Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, Inside the whirlwind 24 hours that led the White House to slap export controls on Anthropic, and more ›

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Anthropic’s Fable is the most locked-down public model we’ve ever seen

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System Card: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 [pdf], Claude Fable 5 and new AI safety fables

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DC-area happy hour on June 23!

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Anthropic has caught up to OpenAI in image understanding

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Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, Expanding Project Glasswing

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We're building a different kind of AI newsroom

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OpenAI’s “milestone” math breakthrough played to AI’s strengths

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An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry, Unit Distance Remarks, and more ›

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