AI #176 Part 2: Plan B
Outgoing White House AI advisor Sriram Krishnan stated that President Donald Trump will never support a formal licensing regime for AI, preferring an ad hoc approach with opaque processes. Krishnan ar…
Outgoing White House AI advisor Sriram Krishnan stated that President Donald Trump will never support a formal licensing regime for AI, preferring an ad hoc approach with opaque processes. Krishnan ar…
Epoch AI has released an independent database of the world's largest AI data centers, built from satellite imagery, permits, and public documents. The 72 covered sites total 11.2 GW of IT power, led b…
Grid interconnection delays, not electricity shortages, are slowing AI data center construction, with projects like Stargate in Abilene, Texas, facing multi-year waits for utility studies and transmis…
A new model estimates that a 10x reduction in R&D compute for an AGI company would slow AI progress by about 6x in the median case, with an 80% confidence interval of 3.5x to 8x. The model accounts fo…
At GTC 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared the token the unit of production in the AI economy, presenting a formula linking revenue to tokens per watt and available gigawatts. Between 2026 and 2030…
The cost of AI inference has plummeted, with GPT-4-class capabilities dropping from $30 per million tokens in early 2023 to under $1 today, signaling an era of virtually free intelligence. This shift …
Google DeepMind released Gemini 2.5 Pro on March 25, 2025, expanding managed agents in the Gemini API with background tasks and remote MCP support. The model ranks in the top 50 on agentic, reasoning,…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 has been released, with the company framing large language models as potentially conscious. The model ranks #13 on LM Arena, #3 in coding and agentic benchmarks, and #1 in …
Tencent released Hy3, a 295B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts open model with 21B active parameters and a 3.8B MTP layer, following the Hy3 Preview launch in late April. Hy3 scored 2.67/4 on benchmarks, o…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5 on November 24, 2025, with benchmark scores including 74.5 in coding, 94.9 in math, and 14.2 on Humanity's Last Exam, as confirmed by official access and third-party…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees that the company's AI reorganization over the past four months has not accelerated agent development as expected, admitting that the execution of job cuts and t…
ByteDance's Seed AI team discovered a new scaling law showing AI agents can double learning speed every three months through real-world interaction, potentially sustaining the AI boom as traditional t…
Epoch AI reports a sharp rise in security vulnerability reports, with 21 organizations reporting about 1,500 high-severity and critical CVEs in June 2026, more than 3.5 times the previous monthly reco…
OpenAI has released GPT-5.5, confirmed via official access on April 23, 2026. The model achieves a score of 96.6 on the Agentic#2 benchmark and 1474.62 on LM Arena, while Meta's rival model Watermelon…
Meta has released Muse Spark, its latest large language model, as of April 8, 2026. The model scored 40.6 on Humanity's Last Exam and 1487.4 on LM Arena, indicating strong performance. The release upd…
Google DeepMind silently released Gemini 3.5 Flash via API on May 19, 2026. The model ranks #11 on LM Arena with a score of 1479.46 and #4 on agentic benchmarks with a score of 94, highlighting the ne…
XAI released Grok 4.3 on April 17, 2026, with the Grok Build now installed in Railway sandboxes. The model has achieved a score of 8 on the GDP.pdf benchmark and ranks #57 on the LM Arena leaderboard …
A new analysis proposes a two-pronged approach to slowing AI progress if catastrophic risks or mass unemployment emerge, recommending a layered set of restrictions on compute for R&D and a capability-…
OpenAI released GPT-4o on May 13, 2024, expanding ChatGPT adoption. The model has been benchmarked on math, multimodal, and reasoning tasks, with scores including 48 on math, 62.2 on multimodal ground…
Amazon released its Nova family of models on December 3, 2024, with capabilities for fine-tuning on tasks like email data extraction. The models have benchmark scores on Humanity's Last Exam and LM Ar…