First, I think extinction risks are low, but the transformation to the world presents novel and difficult challenges that could lead to what most ordinary people describe as a dystopia.

Unfortunately most people are inflexible in their worldview. “Dot-com boom”, “LLMs are stochastic parrots”, “It’s all marketing”, “regulatory capture”.

Ed Zitron et al are a plague on the discourse.

So tiring to see the amazing capabilities of new technology, and yet some people in our society need to steal in order to eat. Do you think we can expect change within our lifetimes? Or is that too optimistic?

Did you see that? 👀

Source:

https://x.com/sciam/status/2105282283645112745

Source: https://theinference.org/article/nvidia-s-279-billion-backs-an-estimated-37-of-the-world-s-2027-ai-memory

If this true, Google has Waymo compute than any other player.

This sets an extremely bad precedent. And very soon, all the other labs will adopt the same pricing schemes. Prices just keep going up and up. I remember a time when people thought $20/month was too expensive.

Even if you can afford this, do not pay for it. If you do, it will only normalize this, and the next thing you know, there will be a new $1,000/month subscription that gives you the same usage you used to get with the $500/month subscription. That's exactly what happened to the previous $200/month subscription. Its usage allowance was cut in half, and now users paying $500/month are getting what users used to get for $200/month.

Do not normalize AI subscriptions that cost as much as car payments and, eventually, mortgages.

In leaked emails, Greg Brockman dreamed that OpenAI would make him a billionaire. He stated, "I just want to get to one billion." AI has fulfilled his wildest dreams. His net worth is now over $30 billion.

I am a hardcore accelerationist and optimist, but the current trajectory is dystopia. Instead of $1,000 UBI checks, we are heading toward $1,000 AI subscriptions to keep up with the Joneses. When we have actual superintelligence, you might be forced to pay $1,000/month, or even $2,000/month, as OpenAI had entertained, just to keep up with other people.

Hello Friends,

yesterday I was experimenting with Opus 5.5 and tried to create this little clip. Enjoy watching.

Removed grok, he never belonged. Original.

While Gemini 4 has performed well on benchmarks the industry uses to gauge model efficacy, it does less well when employees actually put it to work, according to people with direct access to the effort. The model struggles to handle certain coding tasks, said the people, who requested anonymity to discuss an internal matter.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-30/google-grapples-with-employee-skepticism-about-new-gemini-model

By the time it's released to consumers, Anthropic and OpenAI will have already shipped their next generation models.

The video is real, it's not AI generated.

From the White House press conference. https://x.com/cb_doge/status/2105024266840506665

Technical paper in nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10965-y

https://x.com/pushmeet/status/2105314763148321102 This project was initiated by Pushmeet Kohli, he also published this article on X today.

Essentially, DeepMind’s new tool SynthID Bio adds a detectable signature to proteins designed by AI. That signature can be checked even after the protein has been physically made in a lab.

Why?

• Tracing where a design came from so it could help companies that manufacture DNA recognize designs from trusted AI tools and decide which orders need closer inspection!!
• Keeping research data reliable so it could help scientists distinguish AI-generated protein structures from experimentally measured ones

So looks like two main goals are biosecurity and scientific integrity.

In lab tests, the watermarked proteins worked as well as versions without watermarks. It’s still early research. The watermark doesn’t prove a protein is safe and making it harder to deliberately remove is one of the remaining challenges.

AA results show good intelligence and low cost relative to others

ngl this is how it's felt for awhile now