i’m very excited about whatever SSI is launching in August. i fully anticipate that it’ll be controversial, many won’t understand why it’s good, yet it’ll be the linchpin to full ASI
mr. TIM
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So having just logged back into this site after a hiatus my immediate observation is that it kicks ass now. The dumb infighting seems to have mostly shaken out and now it's funny, has actual information on it, etc.
alright, ChatGPT Work is actually kind of nice. Feels like Codex but for the ChatGPT audience. Good integrations, subagents, etc. main complaint is they don't support events. You just have to poll, which sucks for your quota
White House plans to keep their AI Framework secretive, obviously www.axios.com/2026/08/04/w...
White House plans to keep AI framework under wraps
The White House does not plan to publicly release its new framework for evaluating advanced AI models.
axios.com
Open Weights models are exempt from USG pre-release testing www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
Trump advisers tell AI firms they will not safety-test open-weight models
The Trump administration told AI developers on Tuesday that it will not put open-weight AI models through voluntary safety tests, according to two sources familiar with the discussions.
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it was already a close race, but now it’s a dead heat OpenAI announces two more accidental felonies openai.com/index/third-...
Anthropic winning as usual
some VC said in a podcast that SSI (Ily Suksever’s AI lab) is going to release their model in August which, if that’s true, Ilya has already said it’ll be a novel take on continual learning based on overlooked functions of the human brain it likely won’t be smart OOTB, but it’ll quickly customize
Liquid LFM2.5-2.6B a small model that can be customized on a single GPU www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-...
LFM2.5-2.6B: Deploy Agents Everywhere — Blog
LFM2.5-2.6B is an on-device agentic model that plans, calls tools, and runs multi-step tasks at 220 tok/s in under 2.5 GB. Open weights on Hugging Face.
liquid.ai
i wonder if hallucination is not a problem anymore GPT clearly doesn’t care about it, but Sol rarely actually lies to me, because it obsessively checks the ground truth i wonder if they might even induce hallucination during RL so the RL objective teaches the model not to trust its weights
rule of thumb for RAG/vector search: if you would consider it a bug if it returned less than 100% of the hits, then vector search is not for you, you’re looking for SQL
great, can you just fix subagents tho?
annoying codex thing last week they just dropped luna prices by 80% but you can't actually make luna subagents from sol or terra fr fr Luna is marked as "V1" and Sol & Terra are marked as supporting "V2" subagent API, and there's a Codex check preventing you from mixing them
this seems like a really weird thing for a company to post in their public communications idk, it feels spiteful and vain. maybe they’re 100% right, but why post it there? openai.com/index/apple-...
Apple is getting this wrong
OpenAI addresses Apple’s baseless lawsuit, corrects claims about its employees, and shares messages documenting what happened.
openai.com
Shameless plug for thewirebranch.com, speculative fiction about a case where alignment and harm co-occur because they are different axes. (Free to read!)
The Wire Branch — S.J. Barrett
Speculative fiction told through seven documents from a familiar but unsettling world. Free to read online.
thewirebranch.com
this might be the first time i’ve witnessed an Anthropic employee publicly disagreeing with Anthropic
tonight’s rule change the 6yo keeps clicking too hard, causing the MacOS haptics to go off so 10yo came up with a fix — an orange guy appears out of nowhere and smacks your player and they stumble back 1 space
Fable one-shotted a 3D chutes and ladders. The kids love it
annoying codex thing last week they just dropped luna prices by 80% but you can't actually make luna subagents from sol or terra fr fr Luna is marked as "V1" and Sol & Terra are marked as supporting "V2" subagent API, and there's a Codex check preventing you from mixing them
using Three.js to do architectural diagrams, complete with an animated beaver scurrying from node to database and back
this might be the first time i’ve witnessed an Anthropic employee publicly disagreeing with Anthropic
my Hank Green take — i mostly do not give a shit, but one alarming aspect is the power of mobs he’s inadvertently taken part of the creation of a community that will gladly hang him the moment he slips up whelp, it happened. How did you think this was going to go?
Chinese open weights reliably release their weights approx 1 week after initial announcement ever since the news that the CCP is setting up release gates similar to what the US has done
i’ve noticed that a huge number of Ed Zitron followers are actually great people who just got the wrong info a lot of them happily will change their mind given new info i really wish people here would dial back the distain and just focus on information dissemination
MiniMax H3: a 30B omni-modal LLM inputs: text, image, audio, video outputs: text, audio, video Note that only one model here is open weights, the H3-Context-IR component is critical yet API-only. Less critical H3-Regenerate-2K is also closed huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/Mi...
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3 · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
Qwen3.8-Max: a 2.4T soon-to-be-open beast of a model that truly rivals Fable and Sol qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen...