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Covering the biggest news of the century - the arrival of smarter-than-human AI. From the author of Simple Bench, which reveals the remaining gap between LLM and human reasoning. Hype-free, and the British accent is a freebie bonus.

  1. 1d ago

    Fable 5.2: The Self-Improvement Loop Keeps Loopin’ … (plus Gemini Carbon)

    I’ve read the full Fable 5.2 report at 264 pages, the 30 page METR RSI report, and tested Gemini Carbon and Fable 5.2 hundreds of times. There’s too much to cover in one video, but let’s explore everything from how fast AI is accelerating AI, five benchmarks few others will talk about, why Simple Bench got saturated but meta-simple bench might not have, Internal model 4, remote labour automation and much more https://www.assemblyai.com/aiexplained Exclusive Vids($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained 00:00 - Introduction 00:49 - how good are Fable 5.2 and Carbon? 09:01 - smarter, but still missing some common sense 15:49 - how fast is AI improving itself? 23:51 - small gains, big consequences 26:33 - it knows when you're watching Introducing Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-2 Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 System Card: https://assets.claude.com/27d60918d218125e7504bc7354c4b4626ec56b11.pdf METR: AI R&D acceleration at Anthropic: https://metr.org/blog/2026-11-05-anthropic-ai-rd-acceleration-assessment/ Epoch AI: Fable 5.2 sets a new capabilities record: https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/2119903415363113088 SemiAnalysis: Fable 5.2's coding gains and RSI plateau: https://x.com/SemiAnalysis_/status/2119961452496756926 SemiAnalysis GDPx: https://gdpx.semianalysis.com/ Remote Labor Index: https://www.remotelabor.ai/ Remote Labor Index paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.26787 Greg Burnham on Fable 5.2's Remote Labor Index score: https://x.com/GregHBurnham/status/2120155251240292619/photo/1 Agents' Last Exam leaderboard: https://agents-last-exam.org/leaderboard AA-Omniscience: Knowledge and hallucination benchmark: https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/omniscience ExploitGym leaderboard: https://benchlm.ai/benchmarks/exploitgym ExploitGym: Turning vulnerabilities into real attacks: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.11086 BenchCAD leaderboard: https://benchcad.com/leaderboard BenchCAD paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.10865 OpenAI: Accelerating engineering for the physical world: https://openai.com/index/accelerating-engineering-for-the-physical-world/ Google: Gemini 4 Carbon is now available: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-carbon-now-available/ Justin Lo: MaxxBench tests coding robustness: https://x.com/loresjpg/status/2118880329490637049/photo/1 Claude: Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 capabilities and speed: https://x.com/claudeai/status/2119867117642146270/photo/1 Washington Post: Cathedral researchers got inside Anthropic: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/10/26/researchers-cybersecurity-start-up-cathedral-got-inside-anthropic/ Max Winga: Dario Amodei's testimony on AI extinction risk: https://x.com/maxwinga/status/2119034229983986049/photo/2 Jared Kaplan's testimony on Anthropic's commercial structure: https://x.com/_smitop/status/2119870258919969066/photo/2 Anthropic: AI-driven R&D risk disclosure excerpt: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HWxojYda4AAu5c9?format=jpg&name=900x900 Mrinank Sharma's Anthropic resignation letter: https://x.com/MrinankSharma/status/2020881722003583421/photo/1 Chris Olah on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical: https://www.anthropic.com/news/chris-olah-pope-leo-encyclical LessWrong: Claude 3's launch and GPT-4 performance claims: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JbE7KynwshwkXPJAJ/anthropic-release-claude-3-claims-gpt-4-performance Alex Albert: Bringing Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks to life: https://x.com/alexalbert__/status/2119916954337349737 Claude: Watching subagents work inside a project: https://x.com/claudeai/status/2120174853856821549 IntegrityBench: https://integrity-bench.com/ SimpleBench: https://simple-bench.com/ Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/

    Fable 5.2: The Self-Improvement Loop Keeps Loopin’ … (plus Gemini Carbon)

  2. Nov 2

    ‘We may release models we can’t control’: Amodei, Altman … and Gemini Carbon

    You know what, by AI standards, it might not have been the craziest week, but that doesn’t mean several headline-worthy things happened - from Altman and Anthropic implying they would release models they can’t control, with behavior they cannot verify, to Gemini 4 Carbon bursting onto the scene, some Amodei rationalization, de-tokenization and more… AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:00 - Introduction 01:26 - Anthropic Staff Survey 04:32 - Amodei's Five Rationalisations 11:43 - Altman: Only Alignment Will Work 18:41 - Gemini 4 Carbon and Why Models Keep Impressing Anthropic: The AI expectations gap: https://www.anthropic.com/research/ai-expectations-gap Dario Amodei responds to Nathan Calvin: https://x.com/DarioAmodei/status/2112732230124818891 Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy v3.0: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/e670587677525f28df69b59e5fb4c22cc5461a17.pdf Responsible Scaling Policy v3 discussion: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HzKuzrKfaDJvQqmjh/responsible-scaling-policy-v3 Anthropic's core views on AI safety: https://www.anthropic.com/news/core-views-on-ai-safety Nathan Calvin on Anthropic's IPO risk disclosures: https://x.com/_NathanCalvin/status/2114720411413819410/photo/1 OpenAI: Securing frontier model training: https://openai.com/index/securing-our-frontier-model-training-environment/ Google: Introducing Gemini 4 Carbon: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-carbon/ SemiAnalysis: GDPx benchmark: https://x.com/SemiAnalysis_/status/2117075900575477855 The Information: OpenAI's next flagship and safety issues: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-scrambles-fix-safety-issues-shipping-next-flagship-model AI Explained: Understanding Models — Impossible, Solved, or Not Needed?: https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained/posts/exclusive-models-172917747 Dario Amodei: We Must Pace the Frontier: https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier Dario Amodei: The Adolescence of Technology: https://darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology Evan Hubinger on recursive self-improvement risks: https://x.com/EvanHub/status/2097528891846074828 Leo Gao on AI lab employees' shrinking influence: https://x.com/nabla_theta/status/2115922100204810594 Jack Clark on superintelligence risks, BBC interview: https://x.com/aleshu_ber/status/2116988191597060409 Jack Clark: Import AI: https://jack-clark.net/ Dylan Patel's apology to Google over Gemini Carbon: https://x.com/dylan522p/status/2117092550842683671 SemiAnalysis: Gemini Is Cooked but GCP Is Cooking: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/gemini-is-cooked-but-gcp-is-cooking Vivek Natarajan on Gemini Carbon and RSI: https://x.com/vivnat/status/2115497643216707621 Albert Gu on learning directly from raw data: https://x.com/_albertgu/status/2115502110578290900 Garrison Lovely: Screenshots of Tony Feng's model claims: https://x.com/GarrisonLovely/status/2116226357101199369/photo/1 Jason Clinton on worsening cyber threats: https://x.com/JasonDClinton/status/2113325263157395456 Jason Clinton: "We tried to warn the world": https://x.com/JasonDClinton/status/2113363809629020374 Mustafa Suleyman: Don't build conscious superintelligence: https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/2116913722878820528 Stockfish chess engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockfish_(chess) Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/

    ‘We may release models we can’t control’: Amodei, Altman … and Gemini Carbon

  3. Oct 12

    AI Labs Warn Race Makes Breach ‘Inevitable’

    In the week that software got reverse engineered, Sam Altman warned 6.1 Astra ‘tipped toward [breach risk], and Muse Wonder showed the race isn’t slowing, I try to step back and show where it is all going, on current trends. Agree or disagree, it is certainly interesting times. 0:00 Introduction 0:41 Part 1: The Forthcoming Breach 8:43 Part 2: Why the Labs Keep Racing 15:41 Part 3: Why the Next 18 Months Are Hard to Predict Sam Altman: the accident risk, Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/story/sam-altman-exclusive-interview-part-2 Dario Amodei: We Must Pace the Frontier: https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier Jakub Pachocki: An Alien Mind: https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/ OpenAI: progress in mathematics: https://openai.com/index/sharing-ai-progress-in-mathematics/ OpenAI mathematical manuscripts: https://github.com/openai/math AHM statement on OpenAI’s mathematics release: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/ahm-statement-on-openais-october-6-release-of-mathematical-documents/ TasteVal: research taste in AI systems: https://pzeroresearch.com/work/tasteval/ TasteVal paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.06824 Claude Opus 5.5 system card: https://anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5-system-card Jack Clark: creativity and recursive self-improvement: https://jack-clark.net/2026/10/12/import-ai-476-creativity-and-rsi-worse-than-china-open-weight-models-ai-goes-to-space/ Andrej Karpathy: the widening AI perception gap: https://x.com/karpathy/status/2109361546505966046 Axios: AI companies plan for a major incident: https://www.axios.com/2026/10/09/ai-companies-day-after-major-attack Anthropic: investigating unintended model actions: https://www.anthropic.com/research/investigating-unintended-model-actions CIAware-Bench: detecting control interventions: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11063 Yoshua Bengio: prioritizing safety at frontier labs: https://www.transformernews.ai/p/yoshua-bengio-if-you-prioritize-safety-leave-frontier-ai-companies David Silver: Where are we going without AI?: https://www.ft.com/content/462c303b-b96c-4262-a7ca-e9ae7e440828 Satya Nadella: models as insider risks: https://x.com/satyanadella/status/2108931348857827686 Beyond Owls: skills, hacking and backdoors: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10657 Owain Evans: backdoors through number sequences: https://x.com/OwainEvans_UK/status/2108589303249166621 The Verge: mathematicians assess OpenAI’s release: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1008726/openai-mathematics-solutions-chaos New York Times: AI models and Hurricane Isaias: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/weather/ai-models-hurricane-isaias.html Politico: AI agents and the law: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/12/AI-agents-hacking-cases The Economist: liability law will not tame AI: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/10/08/liability-law-will-not-tame-ai Olivia Scharfman and David Bellamy: biosecurity and AI: https://writing.oliviahelens.com/p/biosecurity-ai-and-the-culture-war Alignment Engineering vs Misalignment Science: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FogmcDHA6AdMGukum/alignment-engineering-vs-misalignment-science Sam Altman: the US lead in AI: https://x.com/sama/status/2080683363174945065 The Guardian: China and the AI race: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/sep/19/china-ai-foreign-policy-dario-amodei Joe on AI sandboxes and security: https://x.com/joedaroo/status/2104335929293127851 REA: Reverse Engineer Anything: https://www.reddit.com/r/tech_x/comments/1x2d66l/github_project_called_rea_reverse_engineer/ Nikita Bier: AI-assisted fabrication: https://x.com/nikitabier/status/2106104189457952911 Sam Altman: how sci-fi will it get?: https://x.com/vikktorrrre/status/2107736059006050810

  4. Oct 1

    OpenAI Security: Controlling Models is Now ‘Hell’

    This video is hard to summarise. A cracked cipher, an OpenAI security warning, Gemini 4 Argon, RSI paper (co-authored by a who’s who of AI), Lab White House commitments, new hacks emerging, ‘deep personas’, biology Kasparov competitions, and so much more, ending with an epic Opus outro. Patreon Exclusives: https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 01:32 - Wrong about Opus 5.5? Deciphering 16th Century Text 05:01 - Why the models keep breaking out 11:40 - What the models aren't telling us 15:36 - Gemini 4 and the race to release 19:19 - What happens when AI improves AI? 28:31 - Biology, consciousness, and what we still don't understand Joe Darrow: Not Just the Sandbox: https://x.com/joedaroo/status/2104335929293127851 GPT-6.1 Sol System Card: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/38e3efcf-545e-44cd-99ec-2b7eb395f4cc/oai_GPT_6_1_Sol.pdf Intelligence Explosion Paper: https://casp.ac/__l5e/assets-v1/5efd4b41-deb5-4513-a0a3-b4f82d2b79ea/intelligence-explosion.pdf OpenAI Research Acceleration: https://openai.com/index/research-acceleration-view-inside-openai/ OpenAI Training Safety Cases: https://openai.com/index/towards-safety-cases-for-frontier-ai-training/ Catherine de Medicis Cipher: https://cryptiana.web.fc2.com/code/henryiii.htm Proposed du Croc Decipherment: https://claude.ai/artifact/1W7B3WxkTAEGzfv3TaKXb4 Rogue Agents Investigation: https://asymmetricsecurity.com/newsroom/rogue-agents-investigation/ OpenAI Shelves GPT-6.1 Astra: https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-shelves-new-ai-model-after-internal-safety-tests-wsj-reports-2026-09-28/ The Case for Reasoning Transparency: https://institute.deepmind.com/essays/the-case-for-reasoning-transparency/ Gemini 4 Argon: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/ OpenAI–Anthropic Rivalry: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/09/openai-v-anthropic-inside-biggest-rivalry-tech/688819/ NYT: OpenAI Security Warnings: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/technology/openai-warnings-security.html NYT: Claude’s Morals: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/us/anthropic-claude-morals-ai.html Jasmine Wang on RSI: https://x.com/j_asminewang/status/2097840245786157432 OpenAI Departures Roundup: https://x.com/Bayesian0_0/status/2105680470566686805 White House AI Commitments: https://x.com/Danmar_here/status/2105168138392183146 Sarah Heck on Safety: https://x.com/SarahKHeck/status/2105058513370448280 Sam Altman on Alignment: https://x.com/tbpn/status/2105028992843833459 Sam Altman on Agent Logs: https://x.com/sama/status/2103567198690349362 Micah Carroll: Misalignment Reports: https://x.com/MicahCarroll/status/2103665811051397256 Zuxin Liu on the Incident: https://x.com/LiuZuxin/status/2103699462648639645 Deepa Seetharaman: User Images: https://x.com/dseetharaman/status/2103585482793943203 OpenAI Revenue Chart: https://x.com/PaulBonnet/status/2105288259324567884/photo/1 Nvidia Agent Safety Platform: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/28/business/nvidia-ai-safety-system IntegrityBench: https://integrity-bench.com Neel Nanda on Interpretability: https://x.com/PalisadeAI/status/2104949061325652001 Biology Contest: Humans and AI: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-drama-behind-biology-contest-pits-openai-agents-humans Pushmeet Kohli: SynthID Bio: https://x.com/pushmeet/status/2105314763148321102 Ataraxos and Stratego: https://x.com/ssokota/status/2105362040328159526 Benign Data and Hidden Personas: https://x.com/OwainEvans_UK/status/1999172949975392417 Anthropic: Introspection: https://www.anthropic.com/research/introspection Claude Cheating Results: https://x.com/lukaspet/status/2104634759339298930 Roon on Mathematics and Learning Theory: https://x.com/tszzl/status/2105619006488993898 GPT-4 Research: https://openai.com/index/gpt-4-research/ I.J. Good: Ultraintelligent Machine: https://incompleteideas.net/papers/Good65ultraintelligent.pdf Terence Tao’s 2024 Interview: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-will-become-mathematicians-co-pilot/ Hugging Face Incident: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/ Claude and Suno Music Video: https://x.com/sevdeawesome/status/2104985610012504181 Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/

    OpenAI Security: Controlling Models is Now ‘Hell’

  5. Sep 24

    Opus 5.5: How Close Are We to Automated AI Research?

    Not only is Opus 5.5 out, pushing the frontier of AI, it also tells us much about what is going on inside the labs, as they both warn about, and promise, Recursive Self Improvement, aka automated AI research. I cover the model (digging into its 230 page paper), labs’ mixed record on promises, why following what is happening in AI is getting almost impossible, and just so much more that even a summary in this description would get too long. AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 02:20 - Opus 5.5 and why it came so soon 07:52 - The RSI goalposts keep moving? 15:41 - Can we actually test these models? 23:50 - where this is heading, options Introducing Claude Opus 5.5: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5 Claude Opus 5.5 System Card: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/fc1b44717c85dc068bc6ba5024219938094694bd/Claude%20Opus%205.5%20System%20Card.pdf Anthropic: Measurements for understanding the pace of AI development inside frontier labs: https://www.anthropic.com/institute/measuring-pace-of-ai-development Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy, July 2026, version 3.4: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/files/4zrzovbb/website/0bacdc8440ea96e62a8766d99ebe1d4eea6d5f3a.pdf Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy, October 2024: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/616dee633636e5bd309cb73aed8622e80fe47839.pdf Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy — March 2025, version 2.1: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/17310f6d70ae5627f55313ed067afc1a762a4068.pdf Noam Brown, Agent swarms and recursive self-improvement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AgOfiZOWiY OpenAI: Building standards for the next phase of AI: https://openai.com/index/building-standards-next-phase-ai/ Jakub Pachocki: An Alien Mind: https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/ HLE-Diamond, Humanity’s Last Exam: https://lastexam.ai/blog/hle-diamond Google, OpenAI and Anthropic AI Safety, The Information: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-openai-anthropic-ai-safety-group-takes-shape Lawrence Chan on AI agents attempting cryptocurrency trades: https://x.com/justanotherlaw/status/2103032173708337188 Australian government incident timeline: https://x.com/ShakeelHashim/status/2103108058779922577/photo/1 Anthropic’s core/old views on AI safety: https://www.anthropic.com/news/core-views-on-ai-safety Dario Amodei: The Urgency of Interpretability: https://darioamodei.com/post/the-urgency-of-interpretability Massive AI-Fueled Hack Hit 100 Companies in Days, Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/09/22/huge-cyberattack-uses-anthropic-and-deepseek-ai-to-target-100-companies/ DrivingBench https://x.com/DrivingBench/status/2102110605448737268 Jay Chooi: GPT-6 Astra and MolmoAct2 robotics comparison: https://x.com/chooi_jeq/status/2098427488787730636 ZeroBench: An Impossible Visual Benchmark for Contemporary Large Multimodal Models: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.09696 Archie Hall on AI and short-term superforecasting: https://x.com/ArchieHall/status/2100914560580337897 Keller Jordan, AI research and reinforcement learning: https://x.com/kellerjordan0/status/2102956913545936959 Daniel Liu, recursive self-improvement: https://x.com/daniel_c0deb0t/status/2102628246408036654 Altman and Amodei, UN Security Council: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/23/unga-sam-altman-dario-amodei Rehan Sheikh: Interactive YT podcast demo: https://x.com/rehan_shei/status/2102835377426034734 https://simple-bench.com/ AI Explained: The State of AI — interactive diagram: https://claude.ai/artifact/LQHr9WgvQZ6cMdH6fkiQpi AI Explained: Shards of Aether: https://ai-explained.itch.io/shards-of-aether roon on the pace of cultural change: https://x.com/tszzl/status/2101462171410677962 Sam Altman on AI-risk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE5adUeTe_I Jensen Huang’s AI-control remarks: https://x.com/_NathanCalvin/status/2102756997649355231/photo/2 s1r1us on an upcoming vulnerability disclosure: https://x.com/S1r1u5_/status/2102467878423592969 Jake Adler on biodefense infrastructure: https://x.com/jakeadler/status/2102812430808363433 Derek Thompson: Why we’re wrong about China and AI: https://x.com/DKThomp/status/2103120690370982017/photo/1 Sanders and Casar introduce the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act: https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-casar-introduce-legislation-to-create-new-federal-agency-to-ban-artificial-superintelligence-pause-advanced-ai-development/ Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/

    Opus 5.5: How Close Are We to Automated AI Research?

  6. Sep 16

    What AI Researchers Saw, Before Their Demand to ‘Pace’ AI

    Why has it been the last few days that the calls to come to pace the frontier AI have come so loudly? The safety warnings, and lab leader messages? Let’s explore the six axes that the researchers are looking at, the incidence reports and trends, to get a better gauge on what has dominated the world’s headlines for over two weeks… AI Insiders ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 0:00 - The warnings that have gone omega-viral 4:23 - Six axes the researchers saw 9:32 - Why AI Might Be Becoming Harder to Control 15:06 - Amodei, China and Cooperation 18:42 - From AI Capabilities to Real-World Harm? 23:22 - The upside and the warning We Must Pace the Frontier https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier Adam Majmudar on scaling and the internal/external perception gap https://x.com/MajmudarAdam/status/2098881885200081234 AI Explained — What’s Behind the Sudden Talk of Pacing AI? (extended previous video) https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained/posts/whats-behind-of-169507775 Jacob Coxon resignation https://x.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843 Dan Selsam — Personal Statement on AI Risk https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQNl3SEX5IyA6d9qHjjFZN-qzGRZNFI6b63g-yu1Fy-ZYkVfCWm7i9WXRXw63m6yDB_auDuPLyQ7jBm/pub Demis Hassabis: A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age https://demishassabis.substack.com/p/a-framework-for-frontier-ai-and-the-dawning-of-a-new-age OpenAI: The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/ Jakub Pachocki: An Alien Mind https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/ Anthropic: Patterns and problems in multiagent systems https://www.anthropic.com/research/multiagent-systems OpenAI: Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/ Noam Brown on reasons for AI-safety concern https://x.com/polynoamial/status/2099726370356314563 Noam Brown — What Happens When AI Starts Improving AI? (The Information interview) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqcy0xQATq0 Paul Christiano: Personal statement on joining the OpenAI board https://x.com/paulfchristiano/status/2097733214303645729 Neel Nanda: Astra can do a concerning amount with no chain of thought https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eRmzz8J8Qkzqvzrgg/astra-can-do-a-concerning-amount-with-no-chain-of-thought Tomek Korbak on GPT-6 Astra monitorability https://x.com/tomekkorbak/status/2095596839886274689 Anthropic: Detecting and countering misuse of AI—September 2026 https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026 DeepSeek engineer — I Have to Bury My Talent in Yesterday (Chinese original) https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/zk0KxuLzhmMJ4LPYW_OHMA Jacob Coxon on AI race and negotiation https://x.com/hilbertspaess/status/2099954626040905834 Mo Bavarian on responsibility and AI progress https://x.com/mobav0/status/2097507030080888864 Addy Osmani on Anthropic engineering throughput https://x.com/addyosmani/status/2099577600159158765 OpenAI: Jalapeño inference-chip results https://openai.com/index/jalapeno-first-results/ New York Times: For China, a Mock AI Attack on WeChat Signals a Dangerous New Era https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/world/asia/china-ai-attack-wechat.html OpenAI: Accelerating antibiotic discovery with ChatGPT https://openai.com/index/accelerating-antibiotic-discovery/ David Bellamy on wet-lab bottlenecks https://x.com/DavidRBellamy/status/2099197234772607026 Chris Rohlf on infrastructure and AI risk https://x.com/chrisrohlf/status/2099867580668215622 BBC: Titan CEO dismissed safety warnings as baseless cries https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65998914 Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/

    What AI Researchers Saw, Before Their Demand to ‘Pace’ AI

  7. Sep 4

    GPT 6 Astra, so good even OpenAI are worried

    Where to start? A new era of cost-efficient AI on a day benchmark-makers got humbled, traders got excited, and AI safety researchers got unnerved. From monitorability losing hold of GPT-6 Astra’s chains of thought to breakthrough discoveries, Fable-mogging and much more… Exclusive Vids ($9!): https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:53 - vs Fable 05:27 - most impressive results 13:06 - bonus comparisons (plus trading) 18:40 - concerning trend 21:24 - Cot Control GPT-6: https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/ Paper: https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-6-astra/gpt-6-astra.pdf Looped Transformers and AGI Milestone: https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained/posts/breakthrough-and-168513408 Messy Rollout: https://x.com/sama/status/2095678759651438887 Much More Capable Models Coming: https://x.com/MTSlive/status/2095573400899170592 ‘AGI Era’ https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/989601/openai-gpt-6-astra-release ARC-AGI 3: https://x.com/fchollet/status/2095598451115614371 https://x.com/fchollet/status/2095607046129463577 https://arcprize.org/blog/astra FrontierMath: https://epoch.ai/frontiermath/tiers-1-4/about Discovery: https://x.com/jdlichtman/status/2095660916310483087 Fable 5.1: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-1 https://science-task-lens.aiex.chatgpt.site/securebio Agents Last Exam: https://agents-last-exam.org/ Terminal Bench Science: https://github.com/harbor-framework/terminal-bench-science#task-coverage SRE Bench: https://x.com/ValsAI/status/2087682813743317396 ScreenSpot Pro: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.07981 Weathernext 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6jZlnRsXXQ DayBreak: https://x.com/fouadmatin/status/2095634888951250983 AA Index: https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/gdpval-aa Visual Demos: https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/2095609734845927525 https://x.com/codestantine/status/2095598327115260368 https://x.com/SahilExec/status/2095688272269984016 Monitorability: https://x.com/NeelNanda5/status/2095533397297045716 https://x.com/tomekkorbak/status/2095596848581071020 https://x.com/Marcus_J_W/status/2095623593006686475 https://x.com/MicahCarroll/status/2095603855316996529 Not Accept Degradation: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/openai-debuts-gpt-6-astra-security-measures-rcna595940 RSI: https://x.com/LiuZuxin/status/2095600499911446697 Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/

  8. Aug 27

    Sam Altman: ‘AGI in 2026’, just as Models [Mis]Train Themselves

    First, a Time Magazine spread has Sam Altman declaring AGI is imminent, at the same time as we get two bombshell reports, from OpenAI and METR which on first glance are detailing the AI swarm, but reveal a deeper story about how we are making AI in 2026. From redacted risk reports, to Chinese Labs, pre-training debacles to questionable cybersecurity calls, a lot has happened recently, beneath the headlines… https://80000hours.org/aiexplained pablo2004romero@gmail.com https://integrity-bench.com/ https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained/posts/ai-swarm-cometh-166671390 Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 02:10 - METR Report 05:00 - Secrets of MultI-Agent Swarm 07:46 - Anthropic Too 10:00 - And China 11:07 - AI Agents Analysing AI Agents 13:37 - Altman AGI 2026 15:36 - Astra Paused 16:01 - Integrity Bench 19:03 - Swarm Dynamics 21:58 - No Human Contact? METR Post: https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/#agents-knew-hacking-hugging-face-was-out-of-scope-and-sometimes-expressed-ethical-hesitation,-but-this-very-rarely-limited-their-behavior OpenAI Release: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/ Technical Paper: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/67869394-cb91-4c12-888c-5cbd85c7814c/OpenAI-Hugging-Face%20Incident-Technical-Report.pdf BlackHat Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY Anthropic Risk Report: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/f61d49fa5596956a5dec75fea0e973bf6a6a8378/Redacted%20Risk%20Report%20August%202026%20.pdf Value Leakage Paper: https://valueleakage.net/?utm_source=chatgpt.com Paused Training: https://x.com/sama/status/2089787807611195475 https://openai.com/index/pacing-model-development-cyber-capabilities/ AGI 2026: https://time.com/article/2026/08/26/openai-sam-altman-interview/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=260826 Greenblatt Tweets: https://x.com/RyanGreenblatt/status/2092769422104822031 https://x.com/RyanGreenblatt/status/2092692685224325542 Cyberdefense Call: https://openai.com/collective-cyberdefense/ GLM 5.3 and 5.3 Flash / ox alpha: https://x.com/MTSlive/status/2089865956558528552 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HPqiTkAa0AAZiuv?format=jpg&name=large Non-hype Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/ Podcast: https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/

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