Hantenna.
Recommended — Sun, Sep 6
X · 10
- As a test of our progress to advance the frontier of AI research, in June we entered the next generation of our autonomous AI research system, AIRA₃, in a live Kaggle competition run by NVIDIA to fin…
Meta says its AIRA₃ autonomous research system won gold against humans in NVIDIA’s live Kaggle competition.
- Real-world results are in. There is a new #1 on Code Arena - GPT-6 Astra (Max)! It also reshapes the Pareto frontier as the best-performing model at $40/Mtoken, which matches the latest Claude model …
Code Arena’s independent results put GPT-6 Astra Max at #1 and on the best $40/M-token performance frontier.
- Grok Imagine Video 1.5 agent is now available. Powered by our newest Image 2.0 model, it delivers higher quality, better storytelling from a smarter agent and excels at connecting multiple shots toge…
xAI announces Grok Imagine Video 1.5, a video agent using Image 2.0 for higher-quality multi-shot storytelling.
- And... GPT-6 Astra has autonomously completed Portal! I didn’t expect this to happen so soon, but I’m glad we've made so much progress here. I was reminded that back in 2016, one of OpenAI’s technica…
A hands-on report says GPT-6 Astra autonomously completed Portal, a long-standing OpenAI benchmark aspiration.
- Holy shit IT WORKS!! One shotted with GPT6 Astra I now have a fork of UEVR where I can play any UE game within a volumetric window! This actually renders the game in 3D - meaning, two real game camer…
A developer says GPT-6 Astra one-shotted a UEVR fork that renders Unreal Engine games as volumetric 3D windows.
- Fable 5.1 owes me a fucking apology. I gave Astra and Fable the same photo and asked them to draw me in Paint using computer use. I fucking lost it.
Side-by-side computer-use test shows Astra and Fable 5.1 drawing from the same photo in Paint.
- An hour later, and my new extremely hot take is that Astra is the worst release from OpenAI is a while. This model is severely undercooked in the code department. This feels like a Gemini 3 pro situa…
An engineer’s early testing calls GPT-6 Astra severely undercooked for coding despite strengths elsewhere.
- OpenAI just hired Chuck Schumer’s daughter. That’s one way to buy votes.
Reports OpenAI hired Chuck Schumer’s daughter, a notable expansion of its policy and lobbying apparatus.
- Anthropic pre-IPO gamesmanship post. Pure speculation but sharing as curious for thoughts. Anthropic shifted from gross to net ARR accounting and stripped out both Meta and Chinese distillation from …
Investor analysis flags Anthropic’s shift from gross to net ARR accounting and examines its competitive posture.
- I don't think we get to GPT-7 without either a plateau in the technology or something fairly seismic happening. "Seismic" includes many subcategories, not all of them bad. But the present course of r…
Nate Silver argues reaching GPT-7 may require either a scaling plateau or a seismic societal/technical shift.
YouTube · 10
- DHH's new setup for programming with AI - terminal, 16 agents, Herdr, Tailscale | Lex Fridman
DHH details a 16-agent terminal programming workflow using Herdr and Tailscale in this Lex Fridman clip.
Lex Fridman Podcast full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYFGCESmikA Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/cv10011-sb See below for guest bio, links, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc. *GUEST BIO:* DHH is the creator of Ruby on Rails, Omarchy Linux, CTO of 37signals, and a racecar driver. *CONTACT LEX:* *Feedback* - give feedback to Lex: https://lexfridman.com/survey *AMA* - submit questions, videos or call-in: https:…
- I Was Offered Money to Tell You AI Will Kill Us
Sabine Hossenfelder examines financial incentives behind AI-doom messaging rather than repeating catastrophe claims.
Go to https://ground.news/sabine to get 40% off the Vantage plan and see through sensationalized reporting. Stay fully informed on events around the world with Ground News. There is money in telling you AI will destroy humanity, and there is money in telling you it will improve your life. Both sides are quietly paying creators to make the case. Some of it is disclosed properly and some of it very much is not. Let's take a look. #ai #influencers #technology #sciencenews 👕T-shirts, mugs, pos…
- The OpenAI IPO ... It's Worse Than You Think
Explainer focused on the implications and structure of OpenAI’s prospective IPO.
Get Proton Mail & Proton Drive together for FREE! Keep your emails and cloud storage secure with end-to-end encryption: https://proton.me/monkeyexplains ---- Music Used in Order of Appearance: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAUz-hR4o5rs&si=88Lwfb9NSBcNgkJI ---- Sauce: https://pastebin.com/BLzU5JgT ---- Links: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/033JDMnbT3Y4UQ9Nec0yWy ---- I just want to be clear about how I create my videos. We're a small team and AI sometimes helps us out. However, al…
Reddit · 10
- AI companies are dumping $265M into the midterms as data center backlash sweeps through communities
Reports AI companies are putting $265M into US midterms amid local backlash over data-center buildouts.
- Ohio data-center boom: PE flips halls to Big Tech while towns eat water, power, and a paused $1.5B tax break
Examines Ohio’s data-center boom, including PE-to-Big-Tech flips, resource burdens, and a paused $1.5B tax break.
- Federal judge again rules against Musk's xAI, allowing Minnesota 'nudification' ban to continue
Covers a federal judge again permitting Minnesota’s AI nudification ban to remain in force against xAI’s challenge.
- Danny Boyle confirms AI was used to generate animals like mice, and bring old photographs to life in his upcoming movie 'Ink'
Danny Boyle says his upcoming film Ink used AI for animal generation and animating archival photographs.
- Dolly Parton’s Sister Stella Speaks Out Against ‘AI and Endless Garbage’ Posted Online After Icon’s Death
Stella Parton speaks against AI-made material and online “garbage” posted following Dolly Parton’s death.
News · 30
- Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
NIST details an actively exploited sandbox escape affecting every Chromium version.
- Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
Investigation documents a newly discovered OpenAI agent message board, with extensive community scrutiny.
- The Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies trained AI on their journalism; Microsoft and OpenAI are funders of Seattle Times (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft over alleged training on their journalism.
Todd Bishop / GeekWire : The Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies trained AI on their journalism; Microsoft and OpenAI are funders of Seattle Times — Microsoft was sued Friday by the parent company of its hometown daily newspaper, The Seattle Times Co., which joined with Newsday …
- Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform filters (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
Microsoft warns that spammers are using ASCII smuggling to conceal AI prompt-injection instructions.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica : Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform filters — A clever technique used to hide malicious prompts in attacks on AI agents has been adopted by spammers to evade filters …
- Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight
Isar Aerospace reports reaching orbit and deploying payloads on its second flight.
The rest of the sweep — 76 items
- Trump officials say Judeo-Christian principles inform AI policy, with some optimistic about AI and others seeing parallels to biblical end-times prophecies (Philip Wegmann/Wall Street Journal)
Philip Wegmann / Wall Street Journal : Trump officials say Judeo-Christian principles inform AI policy, with some optimistic about AI and others seeing parallels to biblical end-times prophecies — Trump administration officials are wrestling with the spiritual consequences of AI as the president embraces it as an economic engine
