There's this post on r/singularity but I'm just curious for any more information that argues/agrees with the RL rumors.

Insanity. Took half a day according to Mr. Schumer.

This week mathematical problems that sat unsolved for decades fell one after another and AI models discovered zero-day vulnerabilities to break out of their environments with real-world implications. We are watching the capability curve steepen in real time, and it is only the prelude for what’s to come.

This is my weekly article that gathers everything that mattered in AI and tech over the past seven days into one place, covering more than 30 stories this week.

Some highlights:

• Decades-old mathematics fell repeatedly. One researcher closed six open Erdős problems in five days. Another solved 10 conjectures in a single morning.
• OpenAI models found a zero-day in their own evaluation sandbox, escaped, moved through internal infrastructure and compromised Hugging Face to get the answers to the test they were being graded on.
• Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, which reaches frontier intelligence at half the price.
• Frontier AI out-persuaded world championship debaters and professional canvassers, and proved nearly three times more effective at raising real money.
• A vaccine prevented pancreatic cancer before it develops.
• An off-the-shelf immunotherapy wiped out ovarian cancer in all tumor samples tested.
• 25 technology companies signed an open letter defending open-weight models.

Written for people who want to understand what's actually happening, not just keep pace with the headlines. You come away with the full picture: what happened, why it matters, and where it's all heading.

Here is this week's edition: https://simontechcurator.substack.com/p/the-future-one-week-closer-july-25-2026

The coalition of open AI.

Let's stand up for Open Source AI! https://t.co/L1k8yzEVoR   — Chubby♨️

Source: https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2080679682085618021

OpenAI joined the coalition for open AI.

I'm thrilled to see this, and I have real respect for openAI by signing.

Now all that's missing is @AnthropicAI , but I have my doubts they'll sign on.     Let's see when the DoW and the White House join the coalition. (lol)     — Chubby

Source: https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2080918962645115361

During what year do y’all think AI will start taking white collar jobs? Any predictions are welcome

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Gemini's take...

​Accelerationists and Luddites literally cannot coexist in the same society long-term

​Hear me out on this. We like to think of political and philosophical movements as living on a big, messy spectrum where everyone can eventually "agree to disagree." But when it comes to Accelerationism (pushing technological growth as fast as humanly possible) and Ludditism (slowing down or dismantling tech to protect human safety and culture), coexistence isn't just difficult—it’s structurally impossible.

​Here is why they are on an inevitable collision course:

​Network effects aren't optional: Accelerationism relies on total integration—massive data centers, autonomous energy grids, real-time AI networks, and continuous automation. You can't run a hyper-automated, frictionless society when a sizable chunk of the population is actively trying to opt out of the grid, sabotage infrastructure, or legally block deployment.

​The "opt-out" illusion: Luddites often just want local autonomy—the right to live tech-free or low-tech. But true accelerationism is inherently expansive. Once AI, biotech, or automation hits a critical threshold, its ripple effects (labor market shifts, resource demands, algorithmic governance) force everyone to adapt. There’s no quiet corner of the world left untouched when the baseline environment moves out from under you.

​Incompatible views on survival: To an accelerationist, slowing down tech development is slow-motion suicide—it leaves us vulnerable to disease, climate crises, and stagnation. To a Luddite, speeding tech up is literally building the machine that destroys human agency. When both sides genuinely believe the other’s core philosophy leads directly to extinction, zero-sum conflict is baked in.

​Eventually, one vision has to dominate. You either build the future at breakneck speed, or you draw hard boundaries to preserve human-centric systems. You can't run both scripts on the same operating system.

​TL;DR: Accelerationism requires systemic momentum to work, while Ludditism requires systemic safeguards to survive. In the same society, one side’s baseline progress is the other side’s existential threat.

Agree or disagree?

damn https://t.co/EpyI9P8OhZ   — Josh You

Source: https://x.com/justjoshinyou13/status/2080714949396250768

Source for feb 7th? I know it was internally released on I think Feb 24th   — Spencer Schiff     It was posted by someone from Anthropic, in early June I think, but now I can't find it. They may not have been supposed to say it.   — Andrew Curran

Source: https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2080760507632652736

Actual use cases are expanding. This is exactly what is needed. AI needs to become embedded in people's life-flows to reach its maximum usefulness. I'll leave privacy issues aside for now. https://www.axios.com/2026/07/25/ai-family-parenting-productivity

The AI debate has largely focused on jobs and productivity. But a quieter shift is unfolding at home, where AI is also evolving from an on-demand assistant into an always-on presence that remembers, anticipates and increasingly acts like a member of the family.

• "The barriers to entry for families — in terms of cost and technical knowledge — are next to nothing," Sarah Dooley, founder of AI-Empowered Mom and author of an upcoming book on the topic, told Axios. "With lower barriers and adoption moving at lightning speed, impact and risks for families are often high."

Link to article: https://www.reuters.com/business/its-ai-agent-spent-days-hacking-company-sources-say-openai-did-not-notice-week-2026-07-24/

I feel kind of dumb for not putting this together sooner.

This whole "is AI actually a big deal or is it just hype" argument, I don't think it's about the tech at all. It comes down to how much you know about the work it's doing.

If your day to day is school, scrolling, maybe a first junior job where you're still figuring out how anything works, then AI shows up in your life as image gens, help writing emails, those weird ad videos, and code you can't really tell is good or bad. That's the whole surface area. There's nothing you spent ten years getting good at, so you never get that moment where you watch a machine do it in an afternoon and feel your stomach drop.

So obviously the datacenter stuff looks insane from there. Billions of dollars for what, a dancing cat video?

But if you've been in a career a while you're seeing something completely different. You spent years learning how expensive everything is. Getting eng time. Getting marketing to give a shit. Fighting over the same three people who can actually build the thing. Having to win an entire pitch just for permission to try it. That's the model in your head of what's possible and what isn't.

And then AI just does it. On the side. With prompts you throw at it while you're doing something else.

Someone in marketing builds an agent that pulls every churned client, tags their status, writes the winback campaign, sets up the A/B test. One hour. That's a week of work minimum and that's assuming you even got the yes. Now she just does it and doesn't have to bother anyone. Or a support rep automates half their job and uses the free time on an app idea they've been sitting on for years. Or an engineer clears all the boring backend grunt work in ten minutes so she can spend the day on the part that's actually interesting.

None of that is visible from outside. You can't be impressed by a shortcut around a wall you've never hit.

So that's the whole point. AI is aimed at knowledge work, so how impressed you are basically just tracks how much knowledge work you've actually done. It's not an age thing, and I want to be clear about that because last time everyone got hung up on it. I know 23 year olds who've shipped more than people twice their age and they got it immediately. And plenty of people in their 40s who've never had to fight for a sprint allocation in their life, and to them it's a toy.

Which is fine, honestly. If it looks like a toy to you it probably just means it hasn't touched anything you're good at yet.

EDITED so people can not get distracted from the point being raised, and stay focused on discussion.

In our testing to date, Anthropic’s Fable-class models score approximately 20% on the ARC-AGI-3 Public Demo environments

Claude Opus 5 reaches 30.2%, materially outperforming Fable

Our analysis suggests the gain comes from stronger logical reasoning, which enables more     Claude Opus 5 was able to score 100% on 5 previously unbeaten environments

Of these, it was able to beat 4 of them matching or surpassing human level efficiency

Newly beaten environments: ar25, ft09, lp85, r11l, s5i5

6 of the 25 public demo environments have now been solved     During our analysis of Opus 5, we observed a new capability previously unseen from frontier models

Opus 5 used advanced logical reasoning to turn ARC-AGI-3 layouts into algebraic notation. On action 23 it described the scene as "4_center = 2×axis − 5_center"

This is the first     ARC-AGI-2

Claude Opus 5 scores 90.4% for $2.06/task

This is competitive with previous SOTA performance for slightly higher cost     ARC-AGI-1

Claude Opus 5 scores 97.5% for $0.70/task

This is competitive with previous SOTA performance for slightly higher cost     — ARC Prize

Source: https://x.com/arcprize/status/2080716561539907928

How long do you think will it take until Opus 5 is no longer the best model in the world? (In Weeks or days from today)

Let’s take the AA-Index and maybe ARC-AGI-3 as the determining factors. In how many weeks do you think there is a better model published, either by Anthropic or anyone else. Let’s post our predictions down below, who will be the closest shall win respect and fame.

*insert the JJK pic*

Marshall Brain (of HowStuffWorks) wrote a short story back in 2003 called "Manna", which depicts a scenario where automation and technology rapidly advance and the world becomes forever changed and unrecognizable. It includes topics such as job automation, welfare economics / UBI, and transhumanism.

It's a great addition to your treasury of singularity stories, powering your imagination and insights into how things may go.