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Anthropic is warning us. Its modified S-1 now says that ‘we may imminently meet our Responsible Scaling Policy’s definition of ‘dramatically accelerated progress attributable to AI.’
That is a highly scary sentence to have a company put in its S-1. This could happen. For now I appreciate the relative quiet. Perhaps many were focused the election. I’m sure the quiet will not last long.
We have a new biggest crypto hack, as Binance got taken for billions of dollars.
The big debate of the week was covered in Scott Alexander’s Against SURA Seems Deeply Confused.
OpenAI updates its Model Spec. It’s one for diehards only but yes I did cover this.
Table of Contents
• Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. Rewrite all your legacy code.
• Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility. Not if you can’t use it.
• Huh, Upgrades. Claude renames its tiers, with some rules changes.
• On Your Marks. Materials science.
• Get My Agent On The Line. Don’t upload it to the secure DoD network.
• Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon. The battle over deepfakes was entirely lost.
• Copyright Confrontation. Recreating someone else’s exact game is bad, actually.
• Cyber Lack of Security. GLM 5.3 was able to compromise Firefox.
• The Hackening. Binance got hacked for billions, and there were many others.
• A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer. There is no Google without Gemini.
• They Took Our Jobs. The job of interviewing people for jobs.
• Get Involved. You can just do things.
• Introducing. Reported progress on Telepathy. Zac Hill joins MIRI.
• In Other AI News. Please preserve your AI records.
• Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) (1). Anthropic might soon accelerate AI R&D.
• Recursive Self-Improvement (2). Astra can directly and usefully edit LLM weights.
• Show Me the Money. OpenAI struggles to raise funds, gets valued at $1.25 trillion.
• Quiet Speculations. The housing theory of no, seriously, actually everything.
• The Quest for Sane Regulations. The new Congress is worried about AI.
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