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Consider: Holmes doc - lots of buzz. Ads for Musk doc reportedly banned on X and TikTok. Both near perfect scores on Tomato-meter. Musk bookends wknd w/ flying car + stock for kids. Don’t underestimate ability to hack the public conversation. A lot riding on the next few weeks.
The Marionette Benchmark: Gemini 4 Argon vs. Muse Wonder vs. Sonnet 5.5 vs. GPT-6.1 Sol
Two new frontier models this week. Same test as always: a marionette only works if the bar above moves the limbs below, and juggling only works if the balls obey gravity and the hands take turns. Each model writes the whole animation without ever seeing what it made. This grid has the latest from each of the four big labs.
Gemini 4 Argon Medium | (1m 28s / $0.09)*
The idea is the most ambitious here. It builds the juggling in depth, so the balls pass in front of and behind the body instead of through each other. Then you look at the puppet. His hands come off the ends of his arms for half of every throw and float on their strings. He’s standing on the back wall instead of the stage floor, and his far shoe melts into his shadow. One sleeve has a white cuff and the other doesn’t. The eyes look like they’re following the balls, but they’re painted on and just nod along with the head. The balls drift down slowly, with no shadows.
Muse Wonder Max | (3m 05s / $0.52)
The first model where the balls fall too fast. Everything else we’ve tested juggles like it’s on the moon. This one looks like hypergravity. The string work is the liveliest here, with two strings running to an arm you can barely see behind his body, and his legs move with the act. The balls cast shadows and the stage has real lighting. Feet hover just off the floor, and the suit is boxy. Meta’s chart shows a “Full” version of Wonder, but that one isn’t available to developers yet, so this is the regular model.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 xHigh | (13m 15s / $1.06)*
Still the leader. A gloved hand holds the bar, the knees bounce with the throws, and the gravity is close to Earth.
GPT-6.1 Sol Max | (10m 12s / $0.32)
Still OpenAI’s best, and still floaty.
*Ran below the top setting. Sonnet came back empty on max. Argon’s top setting got cut off partway through by Google’s output limit.
nobody has made the bar drive the puppet yet.
The Marionette Benchmark: Sonnet 5.5 vs. Fable 5.1 vs. Opus 5.5 vs. GPT-6 Sol
We have a new leader! A marionette only works if the bar above moves the limbs below, and juggling only works if the balls obey gravity and the hands take turns. Each model writes the whole animation without ever seeing what it made.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 xHigh | (13m 15s / $1.06)*
Somebody is actually holding the bar, a gloved hand reaching down from above. The puppet wears a bowler hat, the first hat in this whole test, with a pinstriped suit. His knees bounce with the rhythm of the throws, so the whole body is in the act, whereas Fable's legs never move. Dust drifts through the spotlight. Gravity is close to Earth and the balls cast shadows on the floor. The one miss is the same as Opus, the puppets body is driving the bar rather than the reverse.
*1st attempt was on Max setting. It thought for sixteen minutes and handed back an empty file ($1.28)
Claude Fable 5.1 Max | (24m 27s / $5.80)
Had three weeks at the top. Still the closest to real gravity, but nothing is holding its bar and the legs never move. The stage and background also less detailed than Sonnet.
Claude Opus 5.5 High | (3m 51s / $0.50)
From last week, run on high after max came back empty three times. Still the only one that draws the scene in 3D.
GPT-6 Sol Max | (7m 11s / $0.41)
From last week. Its bar really does tilt, but two of its balls still pass straight through each other.
Nobody has made the bar drive the puppet yet.
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I smell fear
Day 2.1/
We have made Auto-review free for all users signed in through a ChatGPT account. You can enable it in settings > permissions > auto-review. Auto-review improves upon the default sandbox setting that requires you to approve everything, which is prone to decision fatigue unless you spend a lot of time configuring specific rules.
It allows you to run long tasks while having a second agent review all actions taken by the primary agent. Its only goal is to prevent high-risk actions from being taken and to protect against unwanted actions that are not aligned with the original user intent. This Auto-review feature is now free and does not draw usage from your plan.
I find the concept of a banked reset that "expires" to be unnecessarily greedy and it's a forced gamification of a tool that many people use for serious work. It serves no purpose other than to allow the company to charge you more money.
People scheduling real work around carnival games and getting burned
The OpenAI situation keeps getting worse.
Yesterday Tibo announced a global reset for all paid ChatGPT accounts at 10am PST today. It's been over 2 hours. No reset.
Builders literally scheduled their whole day around this.
First they cut usage in half.
Now they promise a reset that doesn't show up.
You can't keep doing this to the people paying you.
I have only ever seen Vinod mentioned in the context of being a lying scumbag.
You are a struggling second tier competitor that is more unethical and lying just because you have no decency or sense of proper behavior and shows your desperation. Straight out lying about if Chris being fired I thought would be below even you.
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The Marionette Benchmark: Sonnet 5.5 vs. Fable 5.1 vs. Opus 5.5 vs. GPT-6 Sol
We have a new leader! A marionette only works if the bar above moves the limbs below, and juggling only works if the balls obey gravity and the hands take turns. Each model writes the whole animation without ever seeing what it made.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 xHigh | (13m 15s / $1.06)*
Somebody is actually holding the bar, a gloved hand reaching down from above. The puppet wears a bowler hat, the first hat in this whole test, with a pinstriped suit. His knees bounce with the rhythm of the throws, so the whole body is in the act, whereas Fable's legs never move. Dust drifts through the spotlight. Gravity is close to Earth and the balls cast shadows on the floor. The one miss is the same as Opus, the puppets body is driving the bar rather than the reverse.
*1st attempt was on Max setting. It thought for sixteen minutes and handed back an empty file ($1.28)
Claude Fable 5.1 Max | (24m 27s / $5.80)
Had three weeks at the top. Still the closest to real gravity, but nothing is holding its bar and the legs never move. The stage and background also less detailed than Sonnet.
Claude Opus 5.5 High | (3m 51s / $0.50)
From last week, run on high after max came back empty three times. Still the only one that draws the scene in 3D.
GPT-6 Sol Max | (7m 11s / $0.41)
From last week. Its bar really does tilt, but two of its balls still pass straight through each other.
Nobody has made the bar drive the puppet yet.
The Marionette Benchmark: Opus 5.5 vs. GPT-6 Sol vs. GPT-6 Luna
Same test as two weeks ago. A marionette only works if the bar above moves the limbs below. Juggling only works if the balls obey gravity and the hands take turns. Each model writes the whole animation without ever seeing what it made. Fable 5.1 stays in the top left because nothing has beaten it yet.
Claude Opus 5.5 High | (3m 51s / $0.50)*
*On max reasoning it thought for twenty minutes and handed back an empty file, at $2.56 a try. I tried three times and got the same thing every time. On high it finished in under four minutes, and it's the most impressive build here. It's the only one that draws the scene in 3D, so the balls pass in front of each other instead of through each other. Gravity is close to Earth and the feet stay on the floor. But it moves the bar to follow the hands, which is backwards. The hands are supposed to follow the bar.
GPT-6 Sol Max | (7m 11s / $0.41)
The bar tilts and the strings move with it, and the hands actually throw instead of sitting still. But both hands throw along the same arc, so two of the balls keep passing straight through each other. Front facing body, side facing head. It also titled its own work "A balancing act. Three balls. One deadline."
GPT-6 Luna Max | (6m 32s / $0.02)
Clean side view, and the balls never overlap. The bar never moves, so the strings just hang there. It also throws about a third higher going one way than coming back, which makes the whole pattern lean.
Claude Fable 5.1 Max | (24m 27s / $5.80)
From two weeks ago. Still has the best gravity and the best lighting of anything we've run.
The Marionette Benchmark: Opus 5.5 vs. GPT-6 Sol vs. GPT-6 Luna
Same test as two weeks ago. A marionette only works if the bar above moves the limbs below. Juggling only works if the balls obey gravity and the hands take turns. Each model writes the whole animation without ever seeing what it made. Fable 5.1 stays in the top left because nothing has beaten it yet.
Claude Opus 5.5 High | (3m 51s / $0.50)*
*On max reasoning it thought for twenty minutes and handed back an empty file, at $2.56 a try. I tried three times and got the same thing every time. On high it finished in under four minutes, and it's the most impressive build here. It's the only one that draws the scene in 3D, so the balls pass in front of each other instead of through each other. Gravity is close to Earth and the feet stay on the floor. But it moves the bar to follow the hands, which is backwards. The hands are supposed to follow the bar.
GPT-6 Sol Max | (7m 11s / $0.41)
The bar tilts and the strings move with it, and the hands actually throw instead of sitting still. But both hands throw along the same arc, so two of the balls keep passing straight through each other. Front facing body, side facing head. It also titled its own work "A balancing act. Three balls. One deadline."
GPT-6 Luna Max | (6m 32s / $0.02)
Clean side view, and the balls never overlap. The bar never moves, so the strings just hang there. It also throws about a third higher going one way than coming back, which makes the whole pattern lean.
Claude Fable 5.1 Max | (24m 27s / $5.80)
From two weeks ago. Still has the best gravity and the best lighting of anything we've run.
The Marionette Test: Astra vs Fable vs. Muse Spark vs. Gemini
A marionette only works if the bar above moves the limbs below. Juggling only works if the balls obey gravity and the hands take turns. The model has to hold both in its head and write out the coordinates without ever seeing what it made. Although not a frontier model, we included Gemini 3.8 Flash so it feels included and won't form a complex it takes into adulthood 🫂
Claude Fable 5.1 Max | (24m 27s / $5.80)
Best of the four. Correct gravity, best lighting/shadows, the only one that built a proper two bar rig. But it drew four strings, its legs never move, and the top bar isn't connected to anything and nothing is holding it up.
GPT-6 Astra Max | (17m 42s / $2.03)
Nice suit, plenty of strings. Its near knee bends backwards. Gravity wise it looks like he's in outer space, so the balls hang like it's juggling on the moon.
Muse Spark 1.3 Max | (4m 42s / $0.18)
Most complete rigging, seven strings running to head, hip, both knees and both hands. Open curtains and a city skyline (best background other than Fable IMO). Middling physics, rough suit, but at least it has real arms unlike Gemini.
Gemini 3.8 Flash Max/Extended Thinking | (1m 18s / In-App)
Despite being a Flash model, Gemini has the best juggling animation outside of Fable. The balls also have faint shadows on the ground, which GPT-6 Astra failed to do. The only one that worked out that a strict side view flattens a cascade into a single plane, and it corrected for it. Good gravity. But the arms are bare sticks inside a sleeveless suit and the background is empty.
Nobody made the bar drive the puppet.
as a completely uninvolved third party, watching "The Crucible" play out in 2026 as the lynch mob push EA conspiracies to preserve their own financial interests in AI is fucking wild 😂. there is not a show on tv that rivals this
There is an unseen hand pushing AI safety as a political ideology.
Effective Altruists believe a tiny group of technocrats should decide how much technological progress the rest of us are allowed to have…. and how many shrimp your life is worth.
You are witnessing their attempted coup.
thefp.com/p/dangerous-ideolo…
The strong pushback to AI regulation by the community here should always be contextualized against how everyone here stands to make money off of it continuing to accelerate. Scoble included
Robert Scoble just DM'd me to pitch why Anduril should join the other AI companies paying him to shill for them. He is charging $2,000 per X post, more for videos/blogs/astroturfing.
I would share screencaps, but he deleted the message. What a Sunday.
xitter.cf/PalmerLuckey/status/18…
It's not the best AI model in the world, but one thing I do love about Grok is it will just do the thing you ask without any unnecessary fuss, unlike Claude and others
YIKES
So, lots of people have been raving about @noahrshinn's instinct.com, but when I asked the agent about documentation, it said there wasn't any - but it could answer any questions that I have.
Come to find out there is a privacy policy at the root of the Instinct website, but not accessible from the backend where the agent sends you, and where you set up your connections (app.instinct.com).
It is wild to me that people would connect their work accounts, credit cards, and sensitive login data to a system without a readily accessible privacy policy. It is also fishy to me that the Instinct agent would say there isn't a privacy policy, when there clearly is. It is a cutting-edge AI agent, right?
After diving into their privacy policy and terms, I wouldn't give Instinct access to my work inbox under its current policy. Connecting an account can expose conversations with clients, coworkers, and everyone else who trusted you with their information.
Disconnecting an integration doesn’t delete what Instinct already copied. Model training is opt-out, with a safety-review exception, and opting out doesn’t undo prior training. Google Workspace API data has explicit protections, but you shouldn’t assume those apply to everything else you connect or upload.
And this is the huge one - the terms also let the agent enter binding agreements on your behalf while putting responsibility for unintended actions on you.
I work with AI agents. I want them to be useful. But before an agent gets access to client conversations or permission to spend money, I want enforced approval controls, clear retention limits, and deletion I can verify.
I wouldn’t connect sensitive accounts until those questions are answered. Read the privacy policy and terms before granting access. And remember, kids. If a product or service is free, you're the product.
It is a shame, because the respose times of Instinct are truly amazing, but if you connect your work email, iCloud, and plop your credit card data into a product that has basic HTML as the home page, and a fairly predatory privacy policy - you're a braver person than I.
another way to think of this:
"We just made the worst version of our AI future way more unlikely to happen, and the cost was a 10% stock drop the following week that will eventually recover over time"
AI stocks will drop 10%+ on Monday morning
Brace for impact folks
@DarioAmodei just unwound the AI trade with a blog post
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Ok @DavidSacks time to update your script again
The spirit of free speech is in the air on 9/11 🫡
Can someone explain to me why OpenAI and Anthropic allow any employee to tweet anything they want.
Apple, Google, Facebook, Nvidia, Microsoft, Tesla, Uber and Airbnb all have obvious and granular rules about e
employees speaking for the company.
Which is to say, employees should never say anything publicly unless it's cleared with comms first
which isn't intended to censor anyone, just to make sure the company is aligned and marching in unison
I could never imagine tweeting the stuff that OpenAI and Anthropic employees are tweeting without checking with the CEO and founders first!
So are these P-doomers clearing their tweets with the CEO and comms?
Inspired by @vinn_ayy for resigning from Boiling People Alive Labs and surrendering all his equity. wow.