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AIThe essay examines what AI's steep trajectory means for jobs and the economy, scientific progress, civil liberties, and geopolitics. The post provides no further specifics on the arguments or conclusions.

AIFei-Fei Li argues that scientific research drives progress on critical problems in medicine, materials, brain science, and physics. She says this depends on scientists having access to the best tools of the time, including AI-based tools.

AIJeremy Howard argues that people who use AI to improve their own skills and their teams' skills will become rare, highly valued "A++" players amid widespread mediocrity. This framing responds to Martin Casado's concern that models trained on human data may stay at a "B+" level while humans lose their skills to them.

AISoumith Chintala congratulated Reardon and the team behind Flourish AI, saying that matching human-level sample efficiency and energy consumption in AI would change many things. The post links to a Wired story on Jeff Bezos funding a search for the brain's core algorithm.

AIEthan Mollick is releasing Co-Existence on October 20, a new book about working with AI systems that are sometimes, but not always, better than humans. The book follows his 2024 title Co-Intelligence, which he says was written about an era of chatbots rather than autonomous agents. Mollick also reports writing every chapter draft himself while using AI readers and fact-checkers, and building the book's website with Claude Code using Opus 4.8.

AIAnthropic's internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development, possibly toward recursive self-improvement in which AI autonomously builds a more capable successor. Sam Bowman says the acceleration in technical R&D over recent months has been wild and faster than expected.

AIGeorgi Gerganov says Computex this year shows a strong signal for local AI, with major players like NVIDIA and Microsoft embracing and discussing local AI workloads. He adds that dedicated consumer hardware and models are on the way.

AIJeremy Howard asks whether Anthropic has given up on reasonably priced API usage. He says the company recently changed token usage for subscriptions but made no comparable updates for API users, whose costs he calls insane.

AIThe Foundation for American Innovation launched a Physical Intelligence team to address regulatory and legal barriers to deploying autonomous robotics and other physical-world AI in the United States. The team plans to focus on regulatory climate, technical trajectory, industrial strategy, and liability and cybersecurity frameworks. The article argues that physical AI will matter most where human on-site labor drives costs, such as construction.

AIMiniMax has upgraded its Agent, renamed Mavis, and introduced Agent Teams that run multiple role-based Agents in parallel on desktop. The team uses Leader, Worker, and Verifier roles so complex tasks can be split, checked, and reported at key checkpoints, and it merges TokenPlan and Agent Plan into one subscription with credits shared between Agent and API. The post also discusses the added token, handoff, and retry costs of multi-Agent work, and says the Agent will be open-sourced alongside MiniMax M3.

Why it matters: The post explains why multi-Agent helps long tasks and where its verification, token, and aggregation costs come from, useful for judging when a team setup beats a single Agent.

AIMax Woolf reports that Hy3, an unfamiliar LLM, has unexpectedly topped OpenRouter's AI Model Rankings by a large margin. After examining the usage data, he says it only deepened his confusion about the result. The full analysis is in his new blog post on minimaxir.com.

AIAnthropic co-founder Dario Amodei spoke at the Vatican's presentation of Magnifica Humanitas, arguing that AI's questions extend beyond the AI research community. He said frontier labs face commercial, geopolitical, and competitive incentives that can conflict with doing the right thing, so outside voices from religion, civil society, academia, and government are needed. He described AI models as grown rather than engineered, and framed three questions for the Church's discernment, beginning with duty to the global poor.

AIBenedict Evans argues that predicting AI's job impact by occupation is mostly impossible, citing accountants: despite a century of accounting automation from calculators to spreadsheets and ERP systems, the number of accountants kept rising. He says job titles and business models change over time, so exposure scores based on census categories can mislead.

AIThe Trump administration announced that most green-card applicants will need to leave the U.S. and apply for permanent residency at an American consulate abroad, instead of filing from within the country. Yann LeCun's main post offers only the one-word reaction "Why?" with no further explanation.

AIThinking Machines is offering grants of $100,000 plus Tinker credits to researchers advancing human-AI interactivity, with proposals due June 19th. Mira Murati's post frames collaborative AI as real-time interaction between machines and people across every modality, and invites a community to help solve it.

AIChris Olah, speaking for Anthropic, argues that the questions posed by AI extend far beyond the AI community and urges religions, civil society, academics, and governments to participate in shaping a positive outcome. He says he is glad the Catholic Church is engaging and is honored to speak at the presentation of Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas, scheduled for May 25.

AIYann LeCun joins Jacob Effron on the Unsupervised Learning podcast to discuss limitations of LLMs and a path forward for robotics. The conversation covers his reasons for leaving Meta, his disagreements with Geoff Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, his predictions for 2027, and his new company AMI and its bet on world models.

AISoumith Chintala posted more demos of Interaction Models collaborating live on system design, paper reading, and fact-checking with generative UI. A quoted demo shows the model seeing the user's screen and drawing on it together while building a scalable system architecture.

AISoumith Chintala is hiring supercomputing engineers to build infrastructure for real-time interactive models, Tinker, and large-scale training. The roles cover scheduling, storage, networking, reliability, and distributed systems at scale, with openings in NYC and SF.

AIAndrej Karpathy says asking an LLM to structure its response as HTML and viewing it in a browser works well, and that slideshows have also worked for him. He argues vision is the preferred AI output channel, outlining a progression from raw text and markdown toward HTML and eventually interactive neural videos, while input methods like pointing and gesturing still need improvement.

AIJan Leike says alignment research has grown from a dozen side-gig researchers into a field the world increasingly recognizes as important. He credits RLHF on LLMs with making alignment more practical, along with progress on evaluating and fixing behavioral issues. He also notes Claude now has a constitution and that more alignment research is being automated.

AIBerkeley AI Research describes adaptive parallel reasoning, in which a reasoning model decides when to split independent subtasks, how many concurrent threads to spawn, and how to coordinate them. The approach targets the latency, context-rot, and cost problems of long sequential reasoning, which can require millions of tokens and tens of minutes for complex tasks. Existing methods such as self-consistency, Tree of Thoughts, ParaThinker, and Hogwild! Inference fix the parallel structure outside the model, which wastes compute on simple problems.

AIOpenAI has shipped GPT-5.5 Instant to ChatGPT, rolling out to everyone over the next couple of days. The quoted post says the model focuses on factuality, reducing hacks, and improving baseline intelligence, and is significantly less likely to hallucinate.

AIAwni Hannun suggests stating your own understanding of a topic before asking an AI, then having the model correct your mistakes. He argues this approach is a much better way to learn than asking the question directly.

AIAndrej Karpathy says he has been citing a quote distinguishing outsourced thinking from understanding, which cannot be outsourced. The quote comes from @yacineMTB, which states that people can outsource their thinking but not their understanding.

AIAndrej Karpathy argues that LLMs enable new functionality, not just faster versions of existing software, citing an image-to-image app, markdown skill files replacing bash install scripts, and LLM knowledge bases over unstructured data.

AIAndrej Karpathy describes a December 2025 shift in which coding agents began producing larger, more reliable chunks of work, changing programming toward orchestrating agents. He argues that models automate what can be verified and that their capability is jagged, depending on verifiability and what labs emphasize in training, so users need to stay in the loop. He also says hiring, founder opportunities, and agent-native infrastructure should adapt to this shift.

AICognition has opened its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore to expand its autonomous software engineering platform, Devin, across the region. The company says OCBC saw up to 30% improvement in code and test case generation, and its system integration test first-pass rate rose from below 50% to over 80% after deployment. Cognition is building its Singapore team across engineering, go-to-market, and partnerships, with Richard Spence leading APAC.

AISoumith Chintala, a PyTorch co-creator, says GitHub and critical work are becoming incompatible. The post is brief and gives no specifics on which GitHub issues or what alternatives he has in mind.

AIResearchers including David Duvenaud and Alec Radford announced Talkie, an open-weight 13B-parameter LLM trained and finetuned on a newly curated dataset containing only pre-1930 text. Soumith Chintala shared it as a fun test of time for the model.

AICognition argues that enterprises building cloud agents face three problems: shared container kernels, the inability to persist agent state across async gaps, and the scale of orchestration, governance, and integrations. The post says VM-level isolation with hypervisor-level snapshots was needed for Devin, and that organizations must also rebuild engineering processes around agent execution.