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roon @tszzl 2026-06-26 01:36Z

he’s joking but this is what the coasean boundaries lead to: a firm size of “everybody”; ultra space communism. if you want to find another way out you need to give it a hard think

47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r @47fucb4r8c69323 2026-06-26 02:35Z

If we look at the percent of unhoused homeless as a percent of the US total population, we see a shocking stability across time and our current homeless population is returning to the pre-Millennial dip of the 2010s. That makes me wonder if there is a kind of min-max

Architectural Art (A-A) @4AAAAart 2026-06-26 17:13Z

The Grand Suite installation* Features hand-blown glassware designs by Helle Mardah

Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp 2026-06-26 16:04Z

It's surprisingly plausible that we got GLP-1 drugs because of Danish tax law. For tax reasons, Novo Nordisk is actually controlled by a non-profit foundation. There are many downsides of this. But one possible upside is that it's helped the company avoid institutional drift.

illiquid @lefttailguy 2026-06-26 16:03Z

AI slop as straussian infrastructure

Tenobrus @tenobrus 2026-06-25 22:45Z

it's not necessarily a victory for safety in the more absolutist unaligned ASI risk sense. but i do think these regulatory actions are probably safety victories wrt bio and cyber and general short-term mere megadeaths and societal disruption risk. if the USG has woken up enough

altra @catboosted 2026-06-26 07:20Z

I hate “AI is bad because it becomes autonomous” genre. Anthropomorphizing does a great disservice relaying the actual risks Class power is about control over scarce resources. Everyone’s fighting for land because, as the saying goes, they’re not making more of it

GEOFF @geoffreywoo 2026-06-26 16:10Z

jobs ai eats first: college grad with 11 tabs open assistant manager of the apology inbox person who exports csvs so another person can upload csvs meeting scheduler with benefits “ops analyst” who is actually a human retry button

R.F. Kenmore @rfkenmore 2026-06-26 15:12Z

Jake appears to be working for Buck Mason, as he consults on store furniture in Paris

dax @thdxr 2026-06-26 14:03Z

mcp was clearly inspired by looking at lsp and all the progress in the spec has been slowly realizing it should be nothing like lsp

will brown @willccbb 2026-06-26 01:11Z

one of the craziest bets of prime intellect was swinging for everything from the start. we operate datacenters, we build our own trainers and envs and sandboxes, we have a platform for large enterprises and solo devs, we train huge models, we publish. ~40 people btw. hiring, DM

Jing Yu Koh @kohjingyu 2026-06-26 16:41Z

Very exciting to see more work on benchmarking long-horizon CUAs! IMO there's only two main challenges remaining until CUAs become mainstream and productionizable: (1) effective long-horizon agents and (2) fast/realtime CUAs. I think we are going to get there very soon.

Lisan al Gaib @scaling01 2026-06-26 17:26Z

GPT-5.6 Sol is on par with Mythos Preview, but still behind Mythos 5 on ExploitBench

Susan Zhang @suchenzang 2026-06-25 15:51Z

finally read the OSTP NSTM-4 memorandum so proudly cited by anthropic, and turns out the entire thing is just a self-own whine-fest about getting commoditized at a fraction of the cost by maliciously exploitative chynese actors who dare remove the performative "security

Han Xiao @hxiao 2026-06-25 21:00Z

hmm okay so now Ornith-1.0-35b-a3b is Qwen3.7-35b-a3b then? benchmark looks good, will give it a spin

Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9 2026-06-25 21:48Z

The Theatre, 1987, Texas

Dillon Mulroy @dillon_mulroy 2026-06-26 14:09Z

i suspect if the cost of SOTA models don’t come down and open weight models continue to progress, we’ll see the use of SOTA models reserved to efforts debated and decided via committee or RFC processes within enterprises and engineering orgs

Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_ 2026-06-25 20:34Z

The US Government has requested a slow staggered rollout of GPT-5.6, and OpenAI has agreed. During this phase the government will approve each user individually. This will probably be the norm for all frontier models from all labs from now on.

Epoch AI @EpochAIResearch 2026-06-26 15:25Z

MirrorCode features 25 target programs spanning different areas of computing: Unix utilities, data serialization and query tools, bioinformatics, interpreters, static analysis, cryptography, and compression.

Keya Hu @HuLillian39250 2026-06-26 17:03Z

Progressive Distillation of ELF We pushed ELF, a continuous diffusion language model, even further toward few-step generation ELF already generates 1,024-token sequences in just 8–32 steps without distillation. Now, with progressive distillation, ELF+PD scales all the

James Chanos @RealJimChanos 2026-06-26 14:12Z

Can someone explain to me why $PS , Pershing Square’s management company at a $12B mkt cap, trades at 50% of fee-paying AUM, 40x revenues and 150x Operating Earnings, when its closed-end funds($PSH.LN and $PSUS ) trade at massive 20-30% discounts to NAV…?!

Susan Zhang @suchenzang 2026-06-26 02:45Z

these people want ai models to be treated like nuclear weapons, researchers treated like they own nuclear state secrets during ww2, and geopolitical tensions escalated until we get ww3, where all production power can then be seized for the "ai industrial revolution" they strive

Brett Harrison @BrettHarrison 2026-06-26 15:32Z

Three months after launching our traditional asset perpetuals exchange, we’d executed $1B in volume. Less than one month later we’re at >$2B, >$1B/month, without offering tokens, an internal market-maker, non-KYC access, crypto perpetuals, or individual trading, yet...

Zephyr @zephyr_z9 2026-06-26 15:15Z

PCB production is fucked at this rate. Looks like all the Japanese players have stopped accepting tungsten carbide cutting tools orders

Ivan Burazin @ivanburazin 2026-06-26 17:27Z

We overuse inference for almost everything. Asking Claude a fact every time is like using a calculator to count to five. Just Google it. It's both faster and cheaper, and gives you a deterministic answer. When agents actually mature, they'll route complex reasoning to big

Adam Karvonen @a_karvonen 2026-06-26 18:04Z

METR: "GPT-5.6 Sol exhibited an unusually high detected rate of “cheating”" OpenAI: "We believe these behaviors may reflect improved instruction following and training intended to increase persistence"

alphaXiv @askalphaxiv 2026-06-26 15:37Z

"Training for the Model You Return" Most LM pipelines return an EMA or averaged checkpoint, but optimizers still train like the final iterate is what matters. So if the output is an averaged model, can we shape training so that average gets better? This paper introduces PACE,

echen @echen 2026-06-25 17:51Z

we built HANDBOOK.md: a new benchmark for long-context agentic instruction following. we drop an agent into a live company environment with files (PDFs, Excel, Word Docs, ...), tools (email, Slack, Jira, calendar, ...), and a dense corporate handbook (up to 124 pages), across 5

Rhys @RhysSullivan 2026-06-26 01:26Z

What you guys are referring to as MCP, is in fact a Spec/Protocol, or as I've recently taken to calling it, a Spec plus a Protocol. The spec of an MCP server is flexible, can be represented through lazy loading, code mode, as a CLI whereas the protocol is a fully functioning

rohan anil @_arohan_ 2026-06-25 16:52Z

30m x 1m output token trace is like upper bound of $750m revenue at 25 dollar per million output tokens. As an upper bound. https:// x.com/mtslive/status /mtslive/status/2070141140607832353 …

Kit Langton @kitlangton 2026-06-25 20:32Z

Poore's law

Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp 2026-06-25 23:57Z

Conquest's Third Law says that you should model any bureaucratic organisation as if it was controlled by a cabal of its enemies. It's a fun exaggeration, but it gets at an important phenomenon. Organisations have continuous generational turnover. The founding members eventually

lusso @luusssso 2026-06-26 17:43Z

1980s Fusital door handle advertisements with designs by architects Ettore Sottsass and Gianfranco Frattini A balance of Art Deco geometry with Italian postmodern restraint Perfection

Marc Andreessen @pmarca 2026-06-26 00:15Z

Overheard in Florida: “The West doesn’t exist. It died with the French Revolution. America supplanted it.”

Cauê Oliveira @caueconomy 2026-06-26 13:31Z

Yesterday's drop didn't come from cascading liquidations. It came from coordinated spot selling across all exchanges at the same time. Coinbase, Binance, Bitfinex, Kraken, Bybit. Negative CVD across all of them, with spikes concentrated in the last two days. Negative spot

Adam David Long @adamdavidlong 2026-06-26 14:30Z

Two separate cases in California federal court. Track 1: Court ruled that training on lawfully acquired books = fair use. Track 2: Training on pirated books? That's the $1.5B settlement. Fairness hearing: this Thursday.

Zephyr @zephyr_z9 2026-06-26 17:04Z

Everyone is adopting memory on logic 3D stacking Samsung, Huawei, Apple, Qualcomm for phones (2027-28) Google, Nvidia, Broadcom for AI XPUs (2028-29)

Jukan @ICML @jukan05 2026-06-26 00:33Z

OpenAI’s ARR stood at $40bn as of June.

carried_no_interest @carrynointerest 2026-06-26 13:04Z

I should probably do a longer thread on why both of those companies can win Anything that touches enterprise is very unlikely to grow 0-10mm in year 1 without 3mm in pure sales opex (sales compensation to bookings typically run 3x) So your ability to grow that quickly in

David Ornstein @David_Ornstein 2026-06-26 09:27Z

Arsenal made verbal offer to sign Bruno Guimaraes from Newcastle United. #AFC proposal through intermediaries below £60m - rejected + #NUFC insist sale of 28yo #Brazil int’l midfielder will not be entertained. W/ @gunnerblog @ChrisDHWaugh @TheAthleticFC

Jarred Sumner @jarredsumner 2026-06-25 19:02Z

Looks like anti-cheat software (GameGuard) is causing bun to crash. It’s interfering with system calls. https:// github.com/oven-sh/bun/is sues/22747 … GameGuard also causes other software to crash (example https:// issues.chromium.org/issues/40762507)

Garett Jones @GarettJones 2026-06-26 16:11Z

George Galloway’s party got 0.73% of the vote in the last election. x.com/clashreport/st…

Pavel Izmailov @Pavel_Izmailov 2026-06-26 16:11Z

New paper: Emergent Capabilities Arise Randomly from Learning Sparse Attention Patterns! Main takeaway: when LLMs learn algorithmic tasks, the bottleneck is figuring out which tokens to attend to. This learning is slow and unpredictable, and architectures have a big effect.

Arpit Gupta @arpitrage 2026-06-26 13:55Z

The Rent Guidelines Board recently voted for a two year rent freeze on NYC rent stabilized housing I was the lone dissenting vote I've written two pieces here; which highlight the challenges of a rent freeze and where to go next https:// vitalcitynyc.org/mamdani-rent-f reeze-agenda-nyc/ … https:// cityjournal.substack.com/p/the-high-cos t-of-new-yorks-rent-freeze …

Ethan Kho @ethanrkho 2026-06-26 17:10Z

A trader joined Man AHL ($70B Fund) from a discretionary fund. His first week, the desk lost a billion dollars. Rob Carver — ex-Man AHL, ran the fixed income book at one of the world's biggest systematic funds — explains: "You tend not to think about things in terms of money,

Mohamed Mohsen @mohashrafmohsen 2026-06-26 14:32Z

For sure this guy works @tryramp He’s also never met anyone at Slash We’re a 65 person company doing 300M in revenue No one here is a grifter

Ho Nam @honam 2026-06-26 16:59Z

Gaming industry seems to be suffering. Even if a massive new hit were to emerge with broad societal and cultural impact, the trends favor Roblox. Think about the impact of Minecraft in 2011-2013 and Fortnite in 2018-2020. Roblox kept growing throughout. The platform is much

Hongsuk Benjamin Choi @redstone_hong 2026-06-26 17:12Z

FPO++ code is out! We’re releasing the full training and evaluation code for locomotion, motion tracking, and manipulation. https:// github.com/amazon-far/fpo -control … Co-led with @brenthyi

Mixedbread @mixedbreadai 2026-06-26 00:43Z

New: Granular evidence citations in QA Beyond chunk-level citations, our QA now points to the exact evidence snippet supporting each answer. Easier to inspect, verify, and trust. → Available with high-quality processing.

François Fleuret @francoisfleuret 2026-06-26 15:33Z

TL;DR: Reservoir sampling. Given a sequence of positive real numbers q(1), q(2), ... and u(1), u(2) iid uniform [0, 1], then, for any n, the indexes of the top-K log(u(k))/q(k) in { 1 ... n } are distributed as independent p ∝ q(k) without replacement.

Akshat Shrivastava @AkshatS07 2026-06-26 15:32Z

When deploying video perception - often teams asked for more control over latency and sampling with their heuristics in mind. We are launching video frame support in our API. Now you can have stronger control on frame sampling and reduce TTFT through client side sampling.

Han Xiao @hxiao 2026-06-26 00:03Z

imo every autoresearch is trying to figure out "the scaling law of the scaling law". - scaling law tells you what happens once you have fixed a config. It does not tell you how to train in the first place. - a scaling recipe is the missing map. It says how width, depth, batch

Andreas Kirsch @BlackHC 2026-06-25 21:37Z

The cool result is the usage across all departments incl eg legal increasing massively (Codex vs other usage, ie chat) Codex and Cowork are a great unlock for all knowledge work (ala Karpathy) but most are not used to this yet

Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9 2026-06-26 01:42Z

A Palestinian woman and an Arabian horse. Captured by Aseel Swaid

Jack Butler @jackbutler4815 2026-06-26 15:55Z

The actual Nixon historical legacy is big government soft-leftism:

Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9 2026-06-26 17:42Z

Bombay, India, 1995

Alex Stamos @alexstamos 2026-06-26 14:53Z

It's been two weeks and the leading US model, Fable, is still banned by the White House with no explicit Congressional Authorization, no written rule that was broken, and no technical justification. In the meantime, our Chinese adversaries released a model that rivals our best.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1 2026-06-26 13:35Z

According to the law, Bill Pulte is not even eligible for the job he occupies. On this matter, the act of Congress that created the Director of National Intelligence seems unambiguous: "The Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence shall act for, and exercise the powers

Architectural Art (A-A) @4AAAAart 2026-06-25 18:15Z

Custom Land Rover Defender known as "Baloo" designed and built by The Landrovers

Polymarket Money @PolymarketMoney 2026-06-25 15:40Z

JUST IN: $GOOGL is reportedly turning its AI coding strike team into a formal “midtraining” group as it tries to close the gap with Anthropic after recent AI talent exits.