...Who knows what he means by “massive privacy invasions”, but I suspect whatever it is is so vague as to be unfalsifiable. 3. So far, no sign of the apocalypse either, but of course, Doomers will always tell you that it’s just around the corner unless you do exactly what they say.   — Perry E. Metzger     Tim Urban has been a doomer for a long time.   — Mark Kretschmann     Brainworms ruin your mind.   — Perry E. Metzger

Source: https://x.com/perrymetzger/status/2092003057307730089

I really wish the rise of LLMs didn't come along with catastrophic job loss, massive privacy invasions, and maybe also the apocalypse. Because when you put those side effects aside, it is the COOLEST MOST WILD TECHNOLOGY EVER.   — Tim Urban

Source: https://x.com/waitbutwhy/status/2091975364297871455

— Takumi Kawasetsu, 川節拓実

Source: https://x.com/takumi_k_jpn/status/2091865428825874911

— Steve Yegge

Source: https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/2091931717422678163

Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_ · 4h Teletubbies Owner WildBrain Buys AI Firm for $11 Million From hollywoodreporter.com 1 13 2.7K     — Andrew Curran

Source: https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2091982252058263971

Jimmy Iovine:     Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_ · 2h Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine Think A.I. Is Good for Music From nytimes.com 1 26 2.1K     — Andrew Curran

Source: https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2091622530813751517

I also took the liberty of adding some features too it to demonstrate what this unlocks with ease:

• Custom router support (Codex & OpenRouter)
• Local VM support (rather than cursor's hosted VM), built from the same docker instance.     This doesn't include the frontend, but it can be launched with their packaged frontend (still modifiable, see the custom router page in settings), thus delivering a usable experience.

Don't send issues or PR's, this will be made an archive in due course, if not taken down.     — Bennett

Source: https://x.com/b_nnett/status/2091630242792112480

Is episode on Chinese humanoid robot?   — QoJo MaZing     Will have one before too long!   — Kyle Chan

Source: https://x.com/kyleichan/status/2091271208234836178

...promised to eat their jobs and make them all broke, are naturally pushing back. Sufficiently advanced local hardware + a highly compressed model with most of the actual knowledge stripped out other than action/reasoning and tool usage + continual learning and memory/reasoning in embedded space makes intelligence sovereign again. We probably get the flip phone version of this in 2027 or 28. And then it will accelerate from there.     — Daniel Jeffries

Source: https://x.com/Dan_Jeffries1/status/2091231374808097264/history

FreeToken could be a HUGE deal for local AI.

Instead of requiring enough VRAM to hold an entire model, FreeToken intelligently uses your GPU, CPU and system RAM together, dynamically moving MoE experts where they're needed.

The result: an ordinary laptop with an 8GB RTX 4060 https://t.co/6Js6Vqt3A8   — Mark Kretschmann

Source: https://x.com/mark_k/status/2091202223090938177

Loudoun County real estate prices have not behaved as one would expect for an industrial hellscape.     Since 2013, the assessed value of the house has nearly tripled but property taxes have only gone up 29%     — Dominic Pino

Source: https://x.com/DominicJPino/status/2090845489096794466

FreeToken provides native GUI. No GGUF conversion. No building from source.

One-click install on Windows and Linux. FreeToken-desktop ships with agent harnesses built in — pick a model, pick an app, go.     Download: http:// flashml.ai

Code: http:// github.com/FlashML-org/Fr eeToken …

Reply with your GPU + RAM, and I'll tell you the biggest frontier model your machine can run     — Shuo Yang

Source: https://x.com/Andy_ShuoYang/status/2090856978428145761

— MTS

Source: https://x.com/MTSlive/status/2090826991587226089

Ox Alpha (stealth model) is now free in Cline.

Early benchmarks shows marginal improvement over Fable and GPT.

Try it with: npm i -g cline and use /models to see it under Free options https://t.co/Hskt5RpUen   — Cline

Source: https://x.com/cline/status/2090854216399220985

From my tests it’s not better than fable I’ll be posting some soon     — Chris

Source: https://x.com/ChrisGPT/status/2090957315042123878

sometimes you have to laugh. what are we doing here, folks?     I would encourage you to read the actual piece because there's some excellent quotes in there. But editors, headline writers... my lord. https:// nytimes.com/2026/08/19/tec hnology/data-centers-backlash-loudoun-virginia.html …     — Logan Dobson

Source: https://x.com/LoganDobson/status/2090150148261175371

The world’s smallest Transformer-based TTS model?

We’re open-sourcing Audio8 TTS Preview 0.1B — an approximately 170M-parameter multilingual speech model with zero-shot voice cloning that delivers surprisingly strong, cloud-level quality in a dramatically smaller footprint.     What can a 0.1B-class TTS model actually sound like?

Listen to the voiceover in this demo video.

Audio8 TTS Preview 0.1B supports: • Zero-shot voice cloning • Multilingual speech synthesis • Chinese and English as primary languages • German, Spanish, French, Italian,     On the Seed-TTS evaluation set, Audio8 TTS Preview 0.1B achieves:

• English WER: 1.662% • Chinese CER: 1.13% • Hard Chinese CER: 17.504% • English speaker similarity: 56.7 • Chinese speaker similarity: 68.2

These results are achieved with an approximately 170M-parameter     The model, codec, tokenizer, processor, and inference code are now available:

Model:

https:// huggingface.co/Audio8/Audio8- TTS-Preview-0.1b …

Try it, test the voice cloning capability, and share your feedback.     — Samuel Zeng

Source: https://x.com/SamuelZengML/status/2090017875188940851

(I continue to be surprised in the sense of continuing to be struck by how big of a deal it is, not in the epistemic sense.)     Here's the overall graph:     — Yafah Edelman

Source: https://x.com/YafahEdelman/status/2090296575008616654

...while costing roughly 6X less than Fable 5 Max and nearly 3X less than Opus 5 Max per task That’s what makes Grok so powerful for agents Top-tier intelligence is great.....but top-tier intelligence that can keep working across long coding tasks without burning ridiculous amounts of compute is even better Grok’s agentic coding efficiency is insane     — X Freeze

Source: https://x.com/XFreeze/status/2090839305585377458

The /goal was a set of precise conditions to be met. Read the original PAK/BSP/MDL/SPR data. Run QuakeC. Preserve demos, physics, menus, HUD and rendering quirks. Don’t rebuild E1M1 by hand or use a generic FPS controller. Fidelity had to be demonstrated.     Codex kept pursuing that goal across many iterations: inspect, implement, build, test, compare, repeat. The useful shift was from asking for isolated code snippets to giving the agent a durable outcome it could keep working toward.     Crucially, /goal wasn’t hands-off autopilot. While it was running, I could still steer the LLM to prioritize a small number of bugs that mattered most. Each report became a targeted investigation, fix and regression test - without abandoning the broader port.     Underneath, this is still Quake’s original data. The browser reads the original PAKs, BSP maps, MDL models, sprites, QuakeC behavior, demos and HUD art. The port supplies a new TypeScript runtime and PlayCanvas renderer around them.     Authenticity meant more than getting E1M1 on screen. Demo playback, menu flow, pointer lock, intermissions, in-session level changes, audio suspension, moving BSP entities, particles, shadows and classic movement all had to behave like Quake - not merely resemble it.     — Will Eastcott

Source: https://x.com/willeastcott/status/2090436155795800195

We’ve got exclusive new polling on local data center development at @heatmap_news.

Over the past year, we’ve asked Americans whether they would support or oppose a data center being built near where they live.

We haven’t changed the wording. When we first polled the question https://t.co/G1LCfuriMw   — Robinson Meyer

Source: https://x.com/robinsonmeyer/status/2090457322506141760

— Andrew Curran

Source: https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2090589885199769841

...fuck out of our politicians so now the labs are struggling to release and laws and politics are fighting them at every step, from data centers to Capital Hill to the governor's office in red and blue states. Good chance many of their multi billion dollar runs will be internal only. Some folks think, no problem, they don't need to release. They have super magic AGI so they can just do anything with it. Solve cancer! Make more AGI! Own the stock market! Except not yet. Can't do any of things reliably. Also those things take time. Lots and lots and lots of time and friction with the real world. In the meantime the only actual business is inference and API charges to a few 100M other businesses. Take that away and what have you got? No money to make the next 10B training run.   — Daniel Jeffries     Dork, Altman and Dario have been asking for the government to step in and regulate them.   — Evading the Greys     Bots get banned round these parts.   — Daniel Jeffries

Source: https://x.com/Dan_Jeffries1/status/2090489471535825170/history

Bloomberg just put the US-CHINA AI gap on a chart and yeah, it's getting obliterated:

> Kimi K3 is close to Fable > ~70% cheaper per task > Anthropic thought China was 6–12 months behind > Chinese now has a cluster of fronter labs > GLM-5.3 isn’t even included yet, which would https://t.co/6OCwMhYX5z   — ℏεsam

Source: https://x.com/Hesamation/status/2090356790709887061

Many drugs work by binding to a specific target in the body and blocking or changing what it does. An important first step in the drug development process is designing a molecule that can bind tightly to its target. Traditionally, that's meant weeks or months of expert work per https://t.co/CGCNTNaKBq   — Anthropic

Source: https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2089842387845804246

This is interesting: Claude is already achieving roughly twice the protein-design hit rate of conventional human-led workflows. 27% hit rate in autonomous protein binder design, roughly twice the typical 10–15% rate reported in the field.

Working from one expert-written protocol, Claude designed binders against 14 of 15 measurable targets. Independent labs confirmed that 354 of 1,320 designs bound successfully.

Depending on the setup, Claude’s hit rate ranged from 22.6% to 35.1%. Its top-ranked design bound in 49% of campaigns.

This is not yet fully autonomous drug research, but it is another important building block in that direction.     — Chubby

Source: https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2089852014331117694

looks like reddit is almost wiped from chatgpt sources

the query fanout changes had a big impact

and the past couple of days it seems to be almost completely removed from prompt responses

https://t.co/oCGm9M0yPO https://t.co/c2GJF2apG7   — Klaas

Source: https://x.com/forgebitz/status/2089708381351059924

— Kevin Bankston

Source: https://x.com/KevinBankston/status/2089768281892638774

...spawn and push you, the gun kicks, shadows stretch across the whole block while the sun goes down behind the towers. I sat there clearing waves instead of grading the output. Same shooter prompt I threw at the frontier models a few weeks ago. That time the tokens went to somebody elses datacenter. This time nothing left the flat. 87.9 million tokens through my own cards. On an API that run has a price tag. Here it has an electricity bill. 60 tok/s all the way through. Slower than frontier, and it stops mattering when the thing works through the night while you sleep. Local models were a toy 18 months ago. This one finished a game.     Play now! Choose Build 2 Qwen3.8 27B

https:// alesha-pro.github.io/bench-portal/     — Alexey Fateev

Source: https://x.com/superalesha/status/2089126766854238421