
Opus 5.5: How Close Are We to Automated AI Research?
Not only is Opus 5.5 out, pushing the frontier of AI, it also tells us much about what is going on inside the labs, as they both warn about, and promise, Recursive Self Improvement, aka automated AI r...
24 Sep 32min

What AI Researchers Saw, Before Their Demand to ‘Pace’ AI
Why has it been the last few days that the calls to come to pace the frontier AI have come so loudly? The safety warnings, and lab leader messages? Let’s explore the six axes that the researchers are ...
16 Sep 24min

GPT 6 Astra, so good even OpenAI are worried
Where to start? A new era of cost-efficient AI on a day benchmark-makers got humbled, traders got excited, and AI safety researchers got unnerved. From monitorability losing hold of GPT-6 Astra’s chai...
4 Sep 29min
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Sam Altman: ‘AGI in 2026’, just as Models [Mis]Train Themselves
First, a Time Magazine spread has Sam Altman declaring AGI is imminent, at the same time as we get two bombshell reports, from OpenAI and METR which on first glance are detailing the AI swarm, but rev...
27 Aug 23min

AI is getting a little out of control
Wow. Mathematical breakthroughs that would be called genius if done by humans. A secret message-board w/ AI agent swarms leaving notes read by future versions. Hassabis leaves CEO position, or was pus...
6 Aug 31min

This Was Not a Normal Set of Model Release - Sol Ultra, Meta Muse, New Grok
What a week in AI, for real. GPT 5.6 may actually beat Claude Fable, in what you get for your money, while the new Grok 4.5 and Meta Muse Spark 1.1 make the choice even harder. Uncovering a dozen nugg...
10 Jul 17min

Claude Fable Blocked - 11 Quiet Details on What’s Next
Claude Fable 5 banned, but what’s the bigger story. We go through 11 under-reported details, so you have the context to see what’s coming next for your use of AI. From whether the ban will last, what ...
14 Jun 13min




















