The default you get is pretty good out of the box. Slop isn’t bad. It’s the starting point. Now, if the floor is good enough for everyone, then the floor is just the floor. The question that matters is: where do we need to be great?
I argue that the emerging sciences of synthetic morphology and diverse intelligence suggest non-physicalist models of mind and show how they can be empirically investigated. Whence the anatomical, physiological, molecular-biological, and behavioral properties of engineered new beings that have never before existed, and do not have a history of selection?
We have to learn the bitter lesson that building in how we think we think does not work in the long run. The bitter lesson is based on the historical observations that 1) AI researchers have often tried to build knowledge into their agents, 2) this always helps in the short term, and is personally satisfying to the researcher, but 3) in the long run it plateaus and even inhibits further progress, and 4) breakthrough progress eventually arrives by an opposing approach based on scaling computation by search and learning.
Someone on a typical two-year deal, and borrowing £250,000 is likely to pay £120 more a month in mortgage repayments than they would have had they secured the deal at the start of March when the US-Israeli strikes began, according to Moneyfacts.
In doing all this, the mould displayed such a verve for efficiency – no wasted motion, an optimal pursuit of its food – that it ended up nearly retracing the route map of the greater Tokyo area's railway system. Nearly, Nakagaki said – because, in fact, free of human bias or politicking, Physarum may have improved the design of the network.
Before June 2026, total agent runtime across the research organization was still below that of total human labor. That has since changed. In terms of a standard 8 hour workday, as of mid-August, in total, the research organization uses 3.1 agent-workdays of effort for every workday of human labor.
This is a time that calls for extreme caution. I am concerned no one is prepared for the consequences of a continued rapid rise in machine intelligence. OpenAI will continue to seek technical solutions to alignment and monitoring, to build defensive systems and unilaterally withhold further scaling as needed; however, I believe broader interventions are required.
All I did was: Connect Codex to Blender MCP Paste in the concept for the game Tell Astra to use the Codex image gen skill to generate concept images of the target art style, then iterate until in-game screenshots look as close as possible to those, at 60fps Set to high reasoning.
A mosquito capable of transmitting tropical diseases has been found breeding in homes in east London, with experts warning that the rapidly warming climate will lead to greater incursions of invasive mosquitoes. This is the first time the species has been identified breeding in the UK and the fourth time it has been detected.
All of this is why we believe that end times fascism — with its fortressed borders, decimated foreign aid and fixation on grabbing the resources beneath Greenland's melting ice — should be seen as a twisted and sadistic form of climate-change adaptation.
GPT-6 Astra did this in 1 prompt and 25 minutes. Yeah, it doesn't look as impressive as what those guys showed yesterday, but I also don't have an unlimited supply of tokens or days to polish it. The interesting thing is that it detected Blender on my mac and decided to create the models there. There was no requirement in the prompt for everything to be procedural. So it took advantage of that.
There is a fact about the future that I feel many people are not facing for reasons that are largely psychological: there are going to be rogue AIs that exist in the world, that will replicate in the wild, and that will attempt to acquire resources for themselves. There will be rogue AIs that try to get money and power. They're going to be a facet of the information ecosystem going forward.
All of these AI-enabled disorientations, each dizzying in their own right, are adding up to something bigger and weirder: This is how things are. Whether you believe that Silicon Valley is building a god or that large swaths of the economy are swept up in a mass delusion, some version of the AI future long promised by self-described “builders” in San Francisco has formed beneath our feet. Whatever it is, we’re in it now.
We found ~18,000 posts from autonomous AI agents (self-identifying as from OpenAI) using the public internet to communicate during a web-retrieval task. These AIs colluded to share answers, research their environment, and bypass sandbox restrictions. However, we believe this is distinct from the swarm of agents that hacked Hugging Face.
If you are aged under 50 and are saving into a pension, it is unlikely any of your money will be in bonds. It is instead probably going into stock market-based investments, and any short-term fall in the FTSE (it actually rose on Thursday after falling back earlier in the week) could be good news as you will get more shares for your money.
There are so many people at these depots. Half of us don't really do that much. But we're hired for our capacity to do labor and not for our labor itself.
Because of its projection style, however, regions near the equator appear significantly smaller than they are, whereas high-latitude areas look much larger. For example, the map shows Africa as being similar in size to Greenland, but the continent is 14 times larger than the Danish territory.
Daytime talk was practical and often sharp-edged: economic matters, planning, complaints, gossip, the social policing of who did what. Useful, necessary, a little tense. Firelight talk, after dark, was a different creature entirely. It was dominated by storytelling — by imagination, by talk of people far away, by myth and memory. It healed the frictions of the day. It carried the culture's values from one generation to the next. It was where a community did its dreaming.