No it hasn't. This is a terrible take. Just as a single example, Trump got elected with ~3M fewer votes than Clinton in 2016.

Google should allow using search without AI overview. The choice they currently give isn't much of a choice.

i've reproduced the results from the MIT blog post today on weight-space programming. but one additional result i have to add: this is a new, step-change emerging capability that's appeared in just the latest set of models.

We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math. It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training. We call this Weight-Space Programming: frontier LLMs can now natively read/write neural network weights! 🧵 Blog: rikiyat.github.io/blog/weigh…

In case you missed it, integer factorization has been proven subexponential (deterministically, worst-case bound)! The hard work comes from Claude's version of the ETH refutation but it seems a little more had to be done to get this result for integer factorization.

The recent verification work by Anthropic is great. Just one thing I'd like to add to the recent online discussions. Quoting: "we need a strategy for verifying the enormous body of existing software, starting with the most critical dependencies. As we’ve shown, this can be achieved at scale by using generic specs and working at the binary level, sidestepping the need to rewrite entire codebases in another language." This is good as a stepping stone, but not as an end goal IMO. Long term, it'd be better to rewrite the code in memory safe languages built with verification in mind (invariants about the program expressed in the program source). The first verification of a program can be costly, and the delta to re-verify it after each new patch should be small. If we're going to spend all this effort, why keep carrying around C++? anthropic.com/research/forma…

"Because like ALL things, if the punishment is a fine, it isn’t really illegal for rich people." This is unfortunately very true.

Corrupt autocracies prefer to do business with other corrupt autocracies because the profits are personal on both sides, not for the state or the country. No oversight, no investigations.

Back in 2011, many Samsung phones came with spyware pre-installed, and I had to root my phone and install CyanogenMod to get rid of it. Not surprised at all that they are still doing shady stuff like this. cnet.com/news/privacy/androi…

SCOOP: The State Dept has started asking career diplomats up for promotion if they voted for Trump in 16, 20, 24. Federal law prohibits politically based hiring for career staff. State tells @washingtonsun it's screening for "fidelity" and execution of the president's vision👇

The funk brothers documentary is well worth watching. piped.video/BL9fF4Jtovc?is=UnjW…

The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…

you're just going about your day and you now get to read stuff like "Trump says Sundar Pichai talked him out of renaming the Atlantic Ocean" and you just have to nod and move on with your day. “Oceans are different, sir.” lmao theverge.com/policy/1016751/…

Very strange how this keeps on happening

JD - I've got 15 free minutes before my son's hockey practice ends, so let me see how many of Trump's enrichment schemes you didn't see that I can remind you of. 1/ First one is easy: Trump has executed over 30,000 stock trades, many on inside information, netting him millions.

Prediction: Anthropic will hire junior employees after 2028.

supposed?

Anthropic's leaders need to stop commenting on the emergence of RSI like a local news anchor reporting on traffic on the 101, and acknowledge that they are the traffic, and they're not going to build something that they don't want to exist. They should move beyond "pacing" language, commit to specific policies and red lines, explain why those lines are red, and then use that costly signal to build an international consensus around norms. It's not that I trust the CCP, or that I think global lab monitoring and verification is imminent. But the status quo is absurd. You've got US lab leaders writing (or favorably quote-tweeting) essays about slowing down while simultaneously saying "things are moving faster and faster" and "btw, our internal models finished mathematics on Tuesday, next up: physics." The effect is the equivalent of Usain Bolt winning race after race while using his press conferences to bemoan the dangerous speed of modern sprinting on one's legs so would everybody please try a little less hard next race, and then ... breaking his 100m record again the following month. Honestly ask yourself: If you were China, why would you take this pausing/pacing stuff seriously?

I rarely post here these days but I wanted to share my reflections: people.csail.mit.edu/virgi/t…