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Marvin von Hagen @marvinvonhagen 2026-06-28 04:10Z

welcome to @interaction ! 2 more sunshine enjoyers

Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_ 2026-06-26 23:25Z

Semafor is reporting that The US government has lifted its block on Mythos 5 in a letter this afternoon from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to Tom Brown. Fable is not included. This is US only, and covers 100 US institutions, including major companies and government agencies.

Nicolas Bustamante @nicbstme 2026-06-27 23:42Z

/goal is such an important primitive for AGI. For any problem where success is verifiable, the model can run small experiments, write down what happened, store notes in markdown, compare approaches, try variants, combine partial wins, resume from failures, and keep going until

arb8020 @arb8020 2026-06-28 01:59Z

this means ur agent wall clock is about to be dominated by tool calls like find btw depending on price this raises some very interesting questions around auto verification loops/etc

Susan Zhang @suchenzang 2026-06-27 03:36Z

> mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the smartest of them all? >> why it's you, my dear! and this is why we will always love llm glazing sycophancy over any uncomfortable functional truth (plus another 10x for agentically submissive your-wish-is-my-command dynamics) it's the

dax @thdxr 2026-06-27 23:07Z

in OpenCode v2 all instances of the tui and desktop and web share the same backend so everything is synced by default and resource usaged is minimized no matter how many windows you have open

Dillon Mulroy @dillon_mulroy 2026-06-27 21:32Z

i don't want to use your products agent, i want my agent(s) to be efficiently enabled to use your product

Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9 2026-06-27 23:00Z

Zanzibar. Rebecca Crook, 2016.

Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9 2026-06-27 23:44Z

Coiffures traditionnelles et modernes du Mali. Kone Mamadou.

Tenobrus @tenobrus 2026-06-26 18:27Z

previously we were seeing 5.5 act much more "honestly" on vending-bench vs opus models. it seems pretty likely 5.6 would break that trend. generally models becoming more likely to and capable of ~reward-hacking the smarter they get seems like quite a bad sign for alignment

will brown @willccbb 2026-06-27 09:13Z

pd disagg + wide-ep + kv offloading + cache-aware routing goes a long way

zan @xenoaesthetics 2026-06-27 23:14Z

perhaps not only can one can engage in sequential batch processing of aesthetically opposed tasks, it may be a requirement, in perpetuity, for making progress apparently Caesar wrote philosophy of linguistics while spears flew on the battlefield, there is a deep unity beyond the

Ethan Mollick @emollick 2026-06-27 20:47Z

Annoying that OpenAI doesn’t seem to give a GDPval measure for GPT 5.6. One of the best measures of economically valuable work.

Polymarket @Polymarket 2026-06-28 02:51Z

JUST IN: A closed-door Mythos demo reportedly left House members “terrified” after showing it could drain bank accounts & plan kidnappings.

illiquid @lefttailguy 2026-06-27 20:00Z

Dawg, you clearly have never been to Silicon Valley. 99% of people there (who are ultra wealthy by any reasonable standard, and certainly more wealthy than finance bros in Connecticut) have no public persona whatsoever. You do not know the names of most people who live in

Lazarz @Laz4rz 2026-06-27 07:26Z

Nvm, did a whoopsie and was sampling at 1/4 generation length, which is a good sign tbh cause it means you can generate 4 tokens at a time at some ~70% accuracy

Architectural Art (A-A) @4AAAAart 2026-06-27 07:40Z

Haara Metsa chandelier by Cameron Design House

Han Xiao @hxiao 2026-06-27 17:10Z

If every agent-memory tool stopped pouring effort into visualization, we'd probably have already cracked the memory problem.

Jing Yu Koh @kohjingyu 2026-06-27 23:13Z

>Why has progress on computer use been so slow? I actually think progress has picked up a ton this year. The frontier models (anything past Opus 4.6 / GPT-5.4) are actually usable now. In 2025 none of the models were really reasonable beyond very simple tasks. >Computer use is

Ethan Gao @ga0_lab 2026-06-28 01:06Z

Same machine, 18 months of engineering experience apart. Both are mechanical integrators, the outer disc accumulates displacement based on its radial position against a constant-speed input disc. The wood-and-metal one was my first real engineering project: BOM, calcs, DFM, all

zan @xenoaesthetics 2026-06-28 04:16Z

the production and the distribution of brain computer interfaces are separate problems. who gets access first? independent of recursive self improvement, there is recursive speciation. do the rich and powerful get access to better brains first and use them to become more rich

Benjamin Glickenhaus @benglickenhaus 2026-06-27 22:23Z

gloomy weather in new york today made me morbidly curious, so i ran a bunch of obituaries through pangram we found ai in nearly 10% of post chat gpt obituaries, and no false positives in pre 2023 data

Kris Luckenbach @KrisLuckPhoto 2026-06-27 23:56Z

Mountain top view from North Sister on Kodiak Island

rohan anil @_arohan_ 2026-06-27 22:06Z

Best viewed on a desktop computer Keep the feedback coming. https:// rohan-anil.github.io/optimizer-mine s/ …

GEOFF @geoffreywoo 2026-06-27 15:10Z

prediction: the first new fission winner will not pitch like a climate startup. it will sound like a permitting psychopath with a supplier spreadsheet, utility interconnect scars, and 14 ways to explain why the last project died. energy is built by people allergic to vibes.

“paula” @paularambles 2026-06-27 13:51Z

no, some of us grew up in cults and saw their childhood friends commit suicide after leaving

roon @tszzl 2026-06-27 18:21Z

the idea that the model output can hold no more information than the prompt is silly; it’s a bit like saying, here’s 3 frames of an apple falling, well if you deduced general relativity from it that’s an inevitable afterthought that adds no new information

Michael @michael_chomsky 2026-06-27 23:43Z

I shipped an agent for a product with hundreds of thousands of MAUs last week. It had < 20 messages sent a day. Yeah. Nobody wants to use your agent.

Kaito @kaycidot 2026-06-27 21:00Z

This also goes for all the new consumer fintechs using stables. What I'm seeing in successful stablecoin backed fintechs that actually get adoption: 1. Focus on a specific corridor - nailing localized onramps/offramps. ARQ, Belo, LemonCash, etc. 2. Focus on a specific target

Lookonchain @lookonchain 2026-06-28 01:59Z

Machi( @machibigbrother ) is selling Bored Apes at a loss to fund his $ETH longs on Hyperliquid. Is he running out of money? Over the past month, Machi has sold 34 Bored Apes for 326 $ETH ($514K), incurring a loss of 399 $ETH ($631K). His biggest loss was on Bored Ape #6057,

Lulu Cheng Meservey @lulumeservey 2026-06-28 01:43Z

AI raises the floor and caps the ceiling for writing quality So, fully outsourcing your writing to Claude makes sense if you suck at writing But if you’re an above-average writer, it’s a shame to forfeit your alpha and submit yourself to voluntary regression to the mean

Brandur @brandur 2026-06-27 22:06Z

Bought a new TV. I think this might be my favorite change since my last gen — a solar panel. You press a button on one of these things twice a day, and somehow that necessitated chasing after AAA batteries once a year, often involving a dramatic, wasteful overorder on Amazon.

GEOFF @geoffreywoo 2026-06-27 19:01Z

the next giant tech company may look like a spreadsheet crime scene for 18 months. not because the founder lacks taste. because the buyer pain lives in cells G through M, a pdf export, and a coordinator named lisa who knows which exceptions ruin friday. venture keeps asking

Pierfrancesco Beneventano @PierBeneventano 2026-06-27 20:27Z

High quality idea to high quality paper takes 10^3 prompts as of now. With PoggioAI/MSc we made it within 10. We do not need “full autonomous science” per se: We can hold the quality the highest and automate step-by-step.

Nicholas Decker @captgouda24 2026-06-27 22:18Z

When Community Health Systems acquired the hospital chain Triad, the results were disappointing. Costs rose slightly, and profitability at old hospitals fell slightly. The efficiency gains we would have hoped for did not arise, despite changes in management practices. 1/

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

Dylan Patel @dylan522p 2026-06-27 06:17Z

It literally doesn't matter? CXMT cannot satisfy China demand this decade. So there's 0nreason besides the small price arbitrage. It's like bannin Iranian oil. India and China buy it anyways, but price diff is less

Josh @JoshPurtell 2026-06-28 04:05Z

Excited for it

Séb Krier @sebkrier 2026-06-28 03:41Z

Interesting paper: models tend to perform well on legal benchmarks partly because inputs tend to already be specified/processed by legal professionals. However when they come from pro se litigants, whose prompts may contain noisy narratives, buried facts, omissions, folk-legal

Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_ 2026-06-27 17:49Z

There has been a great deal of speculation about why Anthropic is keeping Mythos in restricted release. One of the least-discussed reasons is cost. Not the cost to Anthropic of serving the model, but the downstream effects that cost will have on the industry, and on the world.

Ethan Wang @ethangwang 2026-06-28 00:21Z

San Francisco is the university network for the drop out entrepreneur

Just Another Pod Guy @TMTLongShort 2026-06-26 14:26Z

If you understand corporate America it is fairly intuitive that for the longest time the shortest path to managerial progression was increasing headcount in your department. Every cycle you made the case for why you needed more bodies as you executed against some sort of

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

Bloomberg @business 2026-06-26 22:38Z

SpaceX and Charter have held executive-level talks about partnering on a consumer mobile phone offering, according to sources

Arpit Gupta @arpitrage 2026-06-27 16:37Z

The landlord reps sometimes claim that low rent on stabilized buildings causes higher rent in market rate, but this is the more economically sound mechanism. Stabilization lengthens tenure which lowers vacancy, tightening the market rate stock

varun @varunneal 2026-06-27 23:12Z

Nesterov form seems a bit broken (m_t not defined) + you may want to rearrange to match the Lion-K/Muon style of nesterov thats nice with autodiff

Bluechip @bluechip_org 2026-06-27 08:26Z

Binance is suspending EU services after failing to get one MiCA license. Bitpanda has three. That's one way of creating a moat. Exchanges that over-invested in compliance now have a market that rivals legally can't enter. Thomas Pecha from @Bitpanda explains at Bluechip25.

SuperiorSnoc (5/5 slots open!) @SnocTheRoach 2026-06-27 19:28Z

The Batman & Shadow the Hedgehog! Hope y’all enjoy the DC x Sonic art piece!

Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar 2026-06-27 23:53Z

Internal bodily rhythms (heart rate, breath) are not background noise for the brain The visual cortex seems to respond less strongly to visual stimuli that occur exactly when the heart contracts. The heartbeat competes with incoming visual information for the brain's attention

Architectural Art (A-A) @4AAAAart 2026-06-27 07:08Z

"Pixel Theory" modular furniture collection by Ceren Arslan, founder of the design studio EXIT

Susan Zhang @suchenzang 2026-06-27 01:47Z

this is how you grow to resent all the lowly irresponsible clueless plebs outside when you generalize this dynamic to "everyone out there wants to exploit us" inbreeding to protect themselves within their own bubble afterwards then becomes the only tolerable solution otoh

akira @realmcore_ 2026-06-27 20:53Z

I am currently doing what would've taken a week in like a day probably Essentially, architectural decision making, codebase crafting, end review/signoff etc. should be your primary tasks now Eval design is probably one of the most valuable skills in the world right now

will brown @willccbb 2026-06-27 23:27Z

in 2027 you'll be able to pretrain a ~mythos-class model (100T tokens, 200B active params) on like 10 kyber racks in a month or two

Frogo @Dubflip 2026-06-27 12:05Z

TSA put the fake weapon in my tray and the scanner guy missed it

Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen 2026-06-27 20:30Z

Coinbase is also using @linear as the backbone of the operations. Their internal agent can action from there and choose the models as needed

Florian Brand @xeophon 2026-06-27 05:30Z

building verifiers has shown time and time again how important ownership of your harness is good luck trying to patch closed source harnesses to make them more useful to train or eval

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

Teddy @WarnerTeddy 2026-06-27 21:38Z

i dialed in reconstruction of the position of our balloon during it's latest ping even further using the dawn line at the time of our ping, the region covered by the ground station network we pinged traced via its packet broker forwarder hint and the payload's spreading factor

Tanay Jaipuria @tanayj 2026-06-28 02:21Z

offside is a black and white thing and will always have very close fractional calls. Let’s say you have a buffer of 5cm, then what happens if someone is 5.1cm offside?

Shahram Seyedin-Noor @ShahramSN 2026-06-28 03:54Z

We're a private fund, but the easy money in #biotech from 2021-26 was made in buying $XBI and other fallen angels that had obvious intrinsic value or revenues (like Grail in 24). Public bio funds were shooting fish in a barrel.