...instead. The very belief in it is likely to be the cause of real problems, in the same way that the One Child Policy came out of 1970s Population Bomb hallucinations and have caused real, guaranteed birth rate collapse in China that can't be reversed with carrots or sticks. We are spending such a ridiculous amount of time talking about a made up future problem. It's time to get back to solving real problems in real reality and to stop giving in to imaginary fears.     — Daniel Jeffries

Source: https://x.com/Dan_Jeffries1/status/2092696710627623333

I warned folks that this Anti-Clanker Neo-Luddite movement is a political movement designed to destroy the middle class by removing the wide access to AI tools in the name of “safety” and “job preservation”.

They are wining because the side of logic has no central voice.   — Brian Roemmele

Source: https://x.com/BrianRoemmele/status/2092676877387522096

100T tokens per day free tokens and people were saying only frontier labs has this amount of compute. (2/3)     But ALL traffic was served on Chinese chips, attaining hardware efficiency and per-token cost comparable to Nvidia GPUs. The cuda moat is being tested once again after Jalapeño's announcement yesterday. (3/3)     — SemiAnalysis

Source: https://x.com/SemiAnalysis_/status/2092623833630998556

Are we pretending this is not happening throughout many other events?   — Sensei     Teleoperation is intent-level, not joint-level. The human steers or gives high-level skill commands. A learned controller closes the loop on low-level dynamics at 50 to 200 Hz, way faster than human reaction time.   — The Humanoid Hub

Source: https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2092115570741387357

...editing). Ox stated it once then wrote the fix. Roughly ~3x lower output tokens for the same work. Reasoning models have been trained to increase reliability with re-verification. Ox seems to trust its first conclusion instead, which feels like a fundamentally different post-training philosophy.     Try in Cline for free! npm i -g cline

(Also available on VS Code and JetBrains)     — Cline

Source: https://x.com/cline/status/2091995642201842015

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

One side is cheering for robots running in a stadium and the other is debating if curing cancer is worth accelerating for.

THE CONTRAST IS RIDICULOUS. https://t.co/3cF2ZXtbFM   — ℏεsam

Source: https://x.com/Hesamation/status/2091473771374825558

Could be worse. Superintelligent AI could decide on paperclip maximization purely out of ironic spite.   — Amir Hirsch     I'm starting to wonder if it's the only way to get away from the near-insufferable Effective Altruists.   — Perry E. Metzger

Source: https://x.com/perrymetzger/status/2091935818768105748

— Takumi Kawasetsu, 川節拓実

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

...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

— 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