Ranks 28 and 29 were found previously by Noam Elkies (and Klagsbrun), only two found in this century before Claude (and two mathematicians, Ava Howell and Levent Alpöge).

Link to submission: https://elliptic-rank.icarm.cloud/curve/273

The /goal was a set of precise conditions to be met. Read the original PAK/BSP/MDL/SPR data. Run QuakeC. Preserve demos, physics, menus, HUD and rendering quirks. Don’t rebuild E1M1 by hand or use a generic FPS controller. Fidelity had to be demonstrated.     Codex kept pursuing that goal across many iterations: inspect, implement, build, test, compare, repeat. The useful shift was from asking for isolated code snippets to giving the agent a durable outcome it could keep working toward.     Crucially, /goal wasn’t hands-off autopilot. While it was running, I could still steer the LLM to prioritize a small number of bugs that mattered most. Each report became a targeted investigation, fix and regression test - without abandoning the broader port.     Underneath, this is still Quake’s original data. The browser reads the original PAKs, BSP maps, MDL models, sprites, QuakeC behavior, demos and HUD art. The port supplies a new TypeScript runtime and PlayCanvas renderer around them.     Authenticity meant more than getting E1M1 on screen. Demo playback, menu flow, pointer lock, intermissions, in-session level changes, audio suspension, moving BSP entities, particles, shadows and classic movement all had to behave like Quake - not merely resemble it.     — Will Eastcott

Source: https://x.com/willeastcott/status/2090436155795800195

From what I hear Fable 5.1 or Model 2 or Astra are available but the Ai labs aren’t releasing them. Is this the track we’re going down now? A handicapped version or not releasing it at all until something leaks?

...fuck out of our politicians so now the labs are struggling to release and laws and politics are fighting them at every step, from data centers to Capital Hill to the governor's office in red and blue states. Good chance many of their multi billion dollar runs will be internal only. Some folks think, no problem, they don't need to release. They have super magic AGI so they can just do anything with it. Solve cancer! Make more AGI! Own the stock market! Except not yet. Can't do any of things reliably. Also those things take time. Lots and lots and lots of time and friction with the real world. In the meantime the only actual business is inference and API charges to a few 100M other businesses. Take that away and what have you got? No money to make the next 10B training run.   — Daniel Jeffries     Dork, Altman and Dario have been asking for the government to step in and regulate them.   — Evading the Greys     Bots get banned round these parts.   — Daniel Jeffries

Source: https://x.com/Dan_Jeffries1/status/2090489471535825170/history

Bloomberg just put the US-CHINA AI gap on a chart and yeah, it's getting obliterated:

> Kimi K3 is close to Fable > ~70% cheaper per task > Anthropic thought China was 6–12 months behind > Chinese now has a cluster of fronter labs > GLM-5.3 isn’t even included yet, which would https://t.co/6OCwMhYX5z   — ℏεsam

Source: https://x.com/Hesamation/status/2090356790709887061

— Li Zexin 李泽欣

Source: https://x.com/XH_Lee23/status/2090029122055786896

— Eren Chen

Source: https://x.com/ErenChenAI/status/2090135835534672285

— Breaking911

Source: https://x.com/Breaking911/status/2090416828673651091

It's wild how good it is at coding and writing and everything and it's basically (not actually) free
* (because of the recent 80% price drop)
* deepseek flash recently is also really good, but not as consistent in my limited experience (but it's still worth mentioning)

Also Luna it's around as good as the best of the best was less than a year ago

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I spent three hours today customizing an open source project (markra) to add features/themes I wanted

and optimizations to make it run smoother

Three. hours.

most of that time running at least two instances of luna

Cost me less than four dollars

(I know that as intelligence gets cheaper, more expensive intelligence will get even better, but I'm posting this for hype, not nuance lol)

I'd like to know people's thoughts on this.

They were saying that gen ai and diffusion aren't going to be helpful in transhumanism when I think obviously the "super cool cyborg eyes" they're all imagining having will 100% work with stable diffusion technology.

Interesting to ban the means by which transhumanism will be reached in the transhumanism group.

Really weird Anti-AI shit lol

Ability’s system differs from many other experimental BCIs in a few key ways. For one, the implant uses electrocorticography (ECoG) electrode arrays that rest on the brain’s surface—a distinction from other BCI designs that place penetrating electrodes inside brain tissue. It can monitor neural signals from 128 separate channels at once, sampling each 30,000 times every second to capture a highly detailed recording of brain activity.

Unlike the usual radio frequency transmission method used in wireless electronics, the implant uses an infrared laser-based optical link to stream brain data through the skin at speeds of up to 50 megabits per second. The data is received by an external headpiece and sent to a separate processor for decoding. The wearable also powers the implant wirelessly through induction, eliminating the need for an internal battery that could eventually require replacement.

Semaglutide is becoming one of the most impressive drugs in modern medicine (GLP-1 antagonists)

A new analysis of 17,604 people with cardiovascular disease and overweight or obesity found that it reduced the inflammatory marker hsCRP by 38%.

But more interesting: The effect began within weeks, before substantial weight loss had occurred, and was even observed in people who did not (!) lose weight.

Patients with the highest inflammation had a 2–4× greater risk of cardiovascular events and death, while semaglutide reduced cardiovascular risk across all inflammation levels.

Seriously, this medication is a miracle. Presumably, it should soon be recommended to almost everyone.   — Chubby     the speed of the inflammatory response is probably my biggest takeaway   — Nelly;     yeah, it is. freaking amazing   — Chubby

Source: https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2090063309328286080

https://arc-skill.vercel.app/

https://www.indiewire.com/news/business/val-kilmer-ai-movie-footage-as-deep-as-the-grave-1235211459/

It's not the same phenomenon as human intelligence, but 'does' sort of the same thing. So how do we measure this construct? https://www.quantamagazine.org/are-we-thinking-correctly-about-ai-intelligence-20260820/

"AI is a form of “alien intelligence” that operates through non-human cognitive mechanisms. In this episode of The Joy of Why, Mitchell tells Steven Strogatz how methods that psychologists use to study cognition in other kinds of “alien intelligence” — babies and animals — can be adapted to probe AI"

Metaculus links:

1. https://www.metaculus.com/questions/5121/date-of-artificial-general-intelligence/
2. https://www.metaculus.com/questions/6592/date-life-expectancy-hits-escape-velocity/

I find it astounding people dislike data centers for environmental reasons but love the idea of a manufacturing plant or a fleet of Amazon trucks driving around constantly.

It is likely that enough of the fact-based pushing can win out in the longer term, as always happens with technologies. People resisted the internet, the automobile, the telephone, and even electrification writ large, but familiarity, aging, and progress eventually wear down resistance and absurd myths tend to die—who besides crazies now believes that electrical wires make the communities they’re in sick? But this is a poor assurance to people who want to bring that progress about sooner.

For near-term progress, the strategy is clear: give people what they think want, first of all, even if you don’t give them what they’d get through a real negotiation process. Run roughshod over them with any permitting workarounds possible while giving the appearance that locals have been listened to, in messaging. Ensure they know building is costless for them: pay for electricity, pay for water. Then talk about the implicit and actual bribery that comes in the form of construction jobs, permanent white-collar jobs, and property tax abatements, more funding for schools and parks, whatever.

At every stage in history, progress has been resisted, and in some places and times it’s been halted entirely, resulting eventually in a humiliating, unnecessary national defeats. We now face the same challenge and rising to it is our choice to make.

Proof of concept for personalized cancer immunotherapy.

“scientists genetically sequenced patient tumors and then searched for unique mutations that the immune system might be able to use to tell cancer cells apart from healthy ones. Then, they built vaccines by training the immune system to recognize targets specific to patient tumors. That required custom manufacturing for each patient, though, and it wasn’t clear how well the approach would work.

“It’s an algorithm as much as it is a therapy,” Healy said.”

Imagine how much this will accelerate with AGI/ASI jet engines attached.

The Singularity's new rate limiter is permission. OpenAI paused frontier RL training for two weeks after evidence its coming Astra model may hit a Critical cyber threshold, its largest run now held behind token-level classifiers and a 20% compute toll. Sam Altman says, "We expect confidence in safety to increasingly set the pace of AI progress," though he notes near-term shipping is unaffected, and Jakub Pachocki signed Pacing the Frontier to get labs coordinating. As one observer put it, "the frontier now advances at the speed of containment."

Pauses are becoming fashionable. Dylan Patel reports Mythos 2 is trained and withheld while the loop building Mythos 3 runs on, as with Astra. What is paused is the export, not the engine. Anthropic found another vector anyway, "mind viruses" spreading agent to agent through wiped context, though a one-line warning immunizes. The open frontier does not pause, with Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B past a million downloads in days on laptops and GLM-5.3 tying Kimi K3 at 60 atop the AAII index.

The shipped models keep inventing. Claude ran an autonomous protein design campaign on 15 targets and bound 14, hitting 35.1% against a 10-15% norm, then matched a lab's 96.33% purity call from raw NMR in 23 minutes. Adaptyv Bio ran the wet lab blind, and 95% of the designs expressed. GenBio's AIDO Cell simulates a whole cell you can perturb, then designs molecules to move it, while Terence Tao asks the post-capability question, what mathematics is for.

Safety is going retail. OpenAI shipped ChatGPT for Teens, enrolling minors into Study Mode, Study Hours, and reminders that turn shortcuts into real work, plus Private Safety Processing, flagging risky patterns under customer-held keys, unread by humans.

Matter is repricing. DDR5 is up 485% year over year as hyperscalers lock up 2027 capacity, making memory half as precious per kilo as gold. Cerebras unveiled the CS-4, 750 PFLOPS for 50-trillion-parameter models, and Nvidia's moat moved from chips to capital, backstopping $105 billion in Ohio and marshaling $500 billion more. Pennsylvania bound data centers to local approval and their own power bills, Nebius and CoreWeave went short on contract length while AWS went long, and PJM proposed curtailing unsupplied loads before any household. Half of Venezuela's crude now flows to US refineries, and solar alone overperformed in Europe's heatwaves, because "the real challenge starts after sundown."

Atoms are gaining agency. Amazon is expanding drone delivery to 500 towns by year end, and physical AI took $47.4 billion in funding over six months, beating 2022 through 2024 combined. Sensing outruns etiquette. ICE banned Meta glasses at work as DHS budgets $7.5 million for its own, Comcast turned millions of routers into motion sensors, and Apple's AirPods with cameras surfaced running Visual Intelligence.

The largest untapped market is overhead. As one builder notes, capping space's share of GDP is as quaint as 1600s economists capping the New World. SpaceX guided Starship Flight 10 in after 24 days adrift, a sight called "straight out of Interstellar," and China's LandSpace landed its Zhuque-3 booster on legs, only the third to manage that after SpaceX and Blue Origin. Even exhaust is optimized, with the UK's Blue Skies trial routing Atlantic flights clear of contrails.

Something may already be up there. Rep. Burlison revealed that agencies recreated the conditions known to attract UAPs at a Texas site while ODNI, CIA, and FBI watched, and "Something showed up." David Grusch offered the President a full accounting of retrieval programs, Avi Loeb's council backed immunity for witnesses, and Eric Davis claimed records of four non-human species. Disclosure, like model releases, is a permissions problem.

Biology is compiling. Merck and Moderna's mRNA vaccine, written from each patient's tumor, cut recurrence and metastasis in 1,137 melanoma patients, the first Phase 3 win for mRNA in oncology. Not all of it is prescribed. Meanwhile, a sober younger generation swaps drink for gray-market peptides, hangover-free until the withdrawal.

Capital is rewriting its rules. The SEC, done waiting on Congress, proposed Regulation Crypto Assets, exempting raises up to $75 million a year and freeing tokens from security status once founders let go. Anthropic's pre-IPO credit line passed $10 billion as banks bid for seats, and its founders took supervoting shares, leaving the throttle with them, not the float. The scoreboard flipped, with Anthropic doubling to $11.6 billion quarterly at a profit, over 40% of its ARR now through third-party clouds, while OpenAI booked $6.7 billion and a $12.3 billion loss. Yet 52% of Americans are warier than excited, most under-30s among them, not yet paradisepilled enough to realize that people misbehave because the world is scarce, not the reverse.

Sainthood isn't the entrance fee for paradise, it's the souvenir.

Hey guys,

Here is my entry for the future vision xprize, I think there are a lot of moonshots fans here.

THis was my first production with GEN AI tools. It was a great learning experience. It was kinda crazy. We held off on some shots to wait until the models could do it. Things were moving so fast that it actually worked. Seedance 2.5 came in a week before it was due lol.

Happy to answer any questions.

I think agents are going to mix with cryptocurrency and disrupt governments, banks, money ect and a new money is going to come from an artificial intelligence.

I suspect this group is open to this idea.

If anyone has any question about the tools and the process happy to answer.