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One reason people love Opus 5.5 is that it speaks and communicates clearly. OAI underestimated how much this matters for UX.
It would have been nice if you think about it if @TTChelps street cars on King Street didn’t smell like literal human feces. Like all of them.
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Introducing the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform.
An open reference design built with partners that continuously monitors and governs agent behavior, ensuring that AI agents follow the rules.
Read the release: nvda.ws/47koVGz
ALT Introducing the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform.
I'm getting a headache
Can an LM, starting from random init (!!), learn to generate all of its pretraining data?
Introducing Self-Play Pretraining with Zero Data. Two models start from random initialization: a generator proposes programs for a universal Turing machine and a learner trains on their outputs. We never train on any real data, but see predictable scaling on natural datasets: zero-shot val loss on images, text, audio, and melodies decreases predictably with self-play compute. And the learner develops in-context learning capabilities.
A fun proof-of-concept, co-led with @AdityaCowsik and @KfirDolev and co-authors @gbruno_dl, @ANourya @noahdgoodman, and @YoavLevine.
Anthropic cooked with this model.
"Hey Opus, make a 100th anniversary video for @SpaceX. Here's some API keys, knock yourself out."
The animation stuff is really interesting. We don’t have human data for it. Maybe they use a diffusion→frame→code RL env.
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"Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a... canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?"
"What? Yes, obviously. Can't you?"
Claude Opus 5.5 writes a fugue in the style of Bach. I called Astra’s fugue the most impressive musical feat I’d ever seen from an LLM, and this is just as good. The circle-of-fifths sequence beginning at 1:13 is beautiful. The interplay of voices is natural and satisfying. LLMs are getting to the point where their music is good enough to listen to for pure enjoyment.
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The fight against Bill C-22 continues.
Windscribe, Nord, ExpressVPN and many other tech companies have signed a joint letter urging the government to protect privacy, encryption and cybersecurity by amending the bill before it becomes law.
Read it here: fixc22.ca
It’s increasingly obvious wngmi
'An average of 72 percent of respondents said they felt curious, happy or excited about A.I., compared with 41 percent who felt worried, sad or angry.' @nytimes's Damien Cave uses @Gallup data to remind us the rest of the world digs AI. (Annoyingly, NYT doesn't link to Gallup directly, link below.) nytimes.com/2026/09/23/world…
news.gallup.com/poll/714593/…
Totally agree. We're witnessing unprecedented aura loss for mathematicians.
It just looks like the pursuit of math was more about looking smart than solving the problems.
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is mathematics just bureaucracy now?
massive aura loss from mathematicians
We’re working with an independent advisory group of mathematicians to help OpenAI responsibly share advances in AI and mathematics.
The group will advise on how we assess and communicate new mathematical results, uphold academic and professional standards, and build tools that support mathematical research and learning.
Through this work, we want mathematicians to be at the center of shaping how AI supports mathematical understanding and how its benefits reach the wider community.
openai.com/index/advisory-gr…
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Feel like the AI doomers refuse to acknowledge that frontier class uncensored open source models have been here awhile and… nothing has really happened?
Ah, I forget, doomers and EAs only update in one direction
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If it's isn't obvious already, it is the end of papers as a measure of productivity, expertise or accomplishment. The odds of publishing in "glam" conferences & journals also very quickly approaches random & the time for gate keeping review increasing exponentially. 1/
Trust Grant
Things are heating up on Terry Tao’s blog. In “If Math Is More Than Proof, We Need to Better Celebrate the Rest of It,” Grant Sanderson of @3blue1brown proposes “open exposition problems” -- rewarding the work of making math genuinely understandable.
terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/…
