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Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2. 6, Beats Top US Models On Some Benchmarks
9+ hour, 43+ min ago (529+ words) Even as frontier models from US keep getting better, Chinese open-source is more than keeping up. Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based startup behind the Kimi series, has released Kimi K2. 6 " its latest open-source model that claims state-of-the-art performance in agentic coding, long-horizon…...
"Knows Nothing About Labour Markets": Yann Le Cun Says Dario Amodei Is Wrong About AI Disrupting 50% Of White-collar Jobs
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (469+ words) Yann Le Cun has previously said that Dario Amodei's idea of a "country of geniuses in a datacenter" is "bs", and now he appears to feel similarly about Amodei's claims of AI-related job losses. In a post that has been…...
Software Engineers Will End Up Becoming 'Software Sculptors' In Age Of AI: Pay Pal Co-founder Max Levchin
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (232+ words) Software engineering will undoubtedly change in the AI era, but the human could still be at the center of things. Levchin goes further, arguing that software engineering is also a craft in the more traditional sense. "When you actually look…...
Alibaba Announces Qwen3. 6-35 B-A3 B, Beats Gemma 4-31 B On Many Benchmarks
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (253+ words) Google had just announced Gemma 4 earlier this month, and China now seems to have come up with a competitor. The architecture is the story here. By activating just 3 B parameters per inference, Qwen3. 6-35 B-A3 B delivers the economics of a small model…...
David Chalmers Raises Provocative Questions About AI Consciousness In New Paper
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (261+ words) These entities, often given names by their users, are increasingly viewed as colleagues or even friends. While Chalmers remains cautious about calling these systems "conscious," he argues that the entities we meet in our chat windows are far more real…...
Google Deep Mind Has Hired A Philosopher To Focus On Human-AI Relationships & AGI Readiness
6+ day, 19+ hour ago (331+ words) AI is disrupting many jobs, but it's also creating some new ones. His mandate at Deep Mind is unusually broad for a tech company: machine consciousness, human-AI relationships, and AGI readiness. Hassabis has also been candid about AI consciousness: he…...
Anthropic and Open AI Are Exaggerating Cybersecurity Risk, Says Hacker George Hotz
1+ week, 2+ day ago (266+ words) Claude Mythos has created quite a buzz with its cybersecurity concerns, but a prominent cybersecurity expert has said that those risks might be overblown. His prescription is direct: "Want more zero days to be found? Make hacking legal. Until then,…...
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1+ week, 2+ day ago (16+ words) Anthropic Has A Pattern Of Using Fear To Market Its Products: US AI Czar David Sacks'Office Chai...
Current Frontier Labs Could Pull Away From The Rest Because They Have Better Tools To Build Next-Gen AI: Demis Hassabis
1+ week, 4+ day ago (245+ words) A few AI labs have pulled away from the pack over the last few years, and they might be able to maintain this advantage going forward. Google Deep Mind CEO Demis Hassabis believes that the leading players in the artificial…...
Achieving AGI Has Lord Of The Rings' Ring Of Power Dynamic: Sam Altman
1+ week, 2+ day ago (703+ words) AI leaders are coming up with more and more imaginative ways to describe the technology they're building. Open AI CEO Sam Altman has compared the race to build Artificial General Intelligence to one of the most seductive " and corrupting " artifacts…...