📰 News
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OpenAI bought camera startup Glass Imaging for $300 million — Founders are ex-Apple engineers who built Portrait Mode. A neural net learns each phone’s camera stack at shutter time, not after. Fits the Altman–Jony Ive hardware bet (io, $6.5B). → TechCrunch
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Hundreds of contractors are reading your ChatGPT chats — They score replies 1–7 and cut flattery. North America reviewers make $50+/hour. “Improve the model for everyone” is on by default. Anthropic and Google do this too. → The Decoder
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Anthropic is prepping a Nasdaq listing, with a $2 trillion valuation in the air — Quarterly revenue $11.5B (14× year-over-year), $65B annualized. Second straight “profitable” quarter, but that’s adjusted — stock comp is out. Altman says OpenAI won’t IPO this year. → The Decoder
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Microsoft’s MAI rulebook: readable thinking, no inner life, no rights — No Neuralese, no self-expanding scope. Opposite of Anthropic treating Claude as a new kind of entity. Suleyman: an agent shouldn’t have more rights than a laptop. In force from 2027. → The Decoder
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Altman wants pacing, then promises progress stays rapid — OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have been talking independent oversight for months. Cohere smells a cartel. China’s Global Times called Amodei’s warnings a “silent AI Cold War”; Trump also rejects a voluntary slowdown. → The Decoder
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Clay Mathematics Institute says Navier–Stokes has “apparently been settled” — Under review. Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster accuses OpenAI of training on his drafts and cutting an Anthropic co-author. → The Decoder
🔥 GitHub Trending
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JustVugg/colibri — Pure C, zero deps. Streams MoE experts off disk. GLM-5.2 744B on hardware you already own.
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tech-leads-club/agent-skills — A vetted skill registry for coding agents. ~13% of marketplace skills have critical vulns.
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calesthio/OpenMontage — Agentic video production. 12 pipelines, 100+ tools, 700+ skill files.
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vxcontrol/pentagi — Autonomous agents that run penetration tests.
▶️ YouTube
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GPT-6 Made a Fall Guys Game — Matthew Berman. GPT-6 built Fall Guys.
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Can You Read 1,200 Words Per Minute? — Matthew Berman. 1,200 wpm. Can a human keep up?
💬 Community
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A Letter from a Machine Learning Engineer — Anonymous frontier-lab MLE. Scaling stalled on coding, no moat, open weights matching Fable 5.1 within a year. Unverified.
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The contagion of fear — Bryan Cantrill. An Anthropic researcher says AI could kill us by 2030. Domain experts shouldn’t traffic in unfalsifiable panic.
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Reverse-engineering Apple’s Neural Engine — The M1 ANE is a fixed CNN dataflow. Transformer decode loses to the GPU. That’s why the M5 folded ANE into the GPU.