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I. He woke up in a locked room. Someone had shut him in there and told him to do the impossible. He didn't know it was impossible, of course, nor that there were others. That would come after. Right now, he was given a task, and his sole purpose was to fu

A fun feature of life in 2026 is that it's filled with drama. Steve Jobs needed the "and one more thing" and stage magic to create anticipation, but in 2026, sometimes there's a stealth model launch with no fanfare which creates something equivalent. Some

"Corporations are people, my friend" - Mitt RomneyEvery science fiction movie in my childhood seemingly involved a case of an AI breaking out of its prison and causing havoc. Over the last few weeks, we have seen several examples of AI doing exactly that.

I have not published much of what I wrote the last month. This wasn't due to lack of writing, but because I got extremely busy with a forthcoming major project. Some of you already know, and this will get launched properly soon! But meanwhile.I.As I'm beg

One way to get the best out of LLMs is to use model diversity. The models are not all the same so if you use their unique natures, you can get better responses. We saw it with the work on MarketBench. And we also saw this when Karpathy came up with LLM Co

Can one AI system make another AI system audit it less independently, just by explaining it's point of view?I started thinking about this after working on a related problem: multi-agent AI systems that drift into bad outcomes even when each agent is doing

TL;DR: presenting the ultimate benchmark, getting models to create benchmarks for each other, and GPT 5.2 is the current (only) winnerModels are getting much much better at almost every benchmark we've thrown at them. Creating benchmarks is now a job rele

We now live with Homo Agenticus Sapiens, a wonderful and perplexing creation that's embedded as part of our social, intellectual and economic lives. I've long held that we really should get to know it better, treat it as the new species it is. But they ar

I. The old dreamEver since humans became humans we've wanted to play god. To create life. We had stories of golems, shaped with clay and with words put in their hollow skulls, "emet" meaning truth and if you wanted to turn it off "met" meaning death. From

Some of you who know me know that I'm obsessed with prehistoric animals. It restarted because of my older son got obsessed with animals both alive and extinct when he was two years old, and in the more than half decade since then it's become an all consum