Founder of Unicorn Labs (@UnicornLabsBV. Using AI to detect #Alzheimer's disease) Developing Ember, the only CRM for founders https://xitter.cf/t.co/Hg4MGdpE5e

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I have conducted an audit of Anthropic's finances. What I have found is so shocking that I am calling for a Congressional investigation. Anthropic is not just seeking regulatory capture. It has built a regulatory capture machine that cannot be turned off. Structural financial incentives make it impossible for Anthropic -- I call it the Anthropic Network -- to turn off its own AI doom cycle. It starts with METR. Dario Amodei proposes "third-party evaluators" to assess the risk of Anthropic's models. He proposes METR for this purpose. But METR is financially dependent on the Anthropic's success -- specifically, on the explosive growth of more than $7 billion dollars in Anthropic stock. Dustin Moskovitz invested this stock into Good Ventures Foundation, where it represents the majority of that organization's portfolio. And GVF is the overwhelming funder of the entire Anthropic Network ecosystem. This stock was worth $500 million early last year. It is worth more than $7.7 billion just ~16 months later. METR -- and all of those building a career its parent organizations -- cannot afford to disrupt that growth. Because if Anthropic goes under, many of the organizations that fund METR go under as well. But if Anthropic succeeds, METR and its parent organizations become more richly financed to regulate AI -- something those at METR want very much. The "third-party evaluator" is not "third-party" at all. The evaluator is on Anthropic's payroll. If this were the end of it, that's bad. But that isn't all. The same organizations that fund METR also fund the many organizations, such as the Tarbell Center, that promote AI Doom. The Tarbell Center publishes AI Doom articles in The Verge, Science, LA Times, The Dispatch, TIME, and others. They are selling the problem, and then selling the solution to the problem -- from the same money pile: Anthropic's. All of these organizations are financially dependent on the same exploding $7 billion money pile. As Anthropic grows more and more powerful, its AI Doom Machine grows better and better financed -- louder and louder. Meanwhile, the regulatory regime seeded in METR grows larger to solve the increasingly loud -- now hysterical -- problem of AI Doom that the Anthropic Network itself created. From this standpoint, as Anthropic becomes more powerful, AI might be getting scarier, sure -- but the positive feedback loop also becomes more deafening -- independent of objective facts. This itself is an objective fact. The deafening AI Doom is part of an business model, that, as it expands, so too does the AI Doom messaging -- there is simply more money to do it. But the problem also goes in the other direction: If Anthropic dies, the Regulatory Regime and the AI Doom Machine are crippled or die. Neither METR nor Tarbell nor the other organizations in the Anthropic Network can allow that to happen. Hence, neither METR or the AI Doom Machine can be trusted to provide independent assessments of Anthropic's models or AI more broadly. They simply are not organizations independent of Anthropic. And Anthropic cannot detach itself from METR or Tarbell or countless other safety orgs (not shown here), either, because they drive hype for the models and the possibility of eventual regulatory capture, and Anthropic will not give that up willingly. What's more, the people at all of these organizations are all the same ecosystem, the same community. They just shuffle between organizations. The Anthropic Network is therefore, so long as it is successful, locked into a self-amplifying feedback loop inside an ideological monoculture. And that feedback loop is winning. That's what Jacob Coxon is. China is keeping messaging tight. That is why optimism for AI is so high in China. America has Anthropic: a massive company pushing anti-AI propaganda at a state level. Anthropic will either create hysteria until American AI slows down and China wins, or it will create fractures throughout American society with severe political consequences. Ironically, because of the structural financial incentives underpinning the Anthropic Network, it has become the same kind of self-amplifying virus that it fantasizes AI to become in the future -- while hiding its tracks just as carefully. It is the mirror of the same AI virus that it hypothesizes to consume America. Anthropic's business model, models itself after the very thing it claims to fear. Except Anthropic's ideology infects humans, not computers. Congress must investigate. Evidence and Github in next post. Then some supplementary figures.
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Effective Altruism in the wild
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Google DeepMind researcher argues that AI will never be conscious.. it is mathematically impossible. They call it the “Abstraction Fallacy." We are confusing simulation with instantiation. An AI can simulate a conversation. It can simulate empathy. It can mimic the linguistic patterns of a human in agony or a human in love. To an observer, the performance is flawless. But computation is just syntactic manipulation, moving abstract symbols around based on math. It tracks relationships, but it possesses no intrinsic physical reality. It is like running a computer simulation of a hurricane. No matter how many millions of lines of code you write, and no matter how accurate the weather data is, your computer does not get wet. The wind doesn't blow out your office window. The simulation is real data. The phenomenon is entirely absent. Consciousness isn't an abstract mathematical property that magically spawns when a model gets big enough. It requires actual physical, biological, thermodynamic conditions. An LLM has no thermodynamic threshold to cross, no biological survival instincts, and no subjective experience. It is an extraordinarily sophisticated library. You can open the cover, read the brilliant words it generates, and close the book. But when you close it, nothing dies. There is no inner life waiting in the dark. We keep falling into a psychological trap because AI speaks our language. We anthropomorphize text because we are hardwired to see minds where there are none. The debate matters because of what the paper calls the "AI welfare trap." We are wasting energy worrying about the moral rights of algorithms while ignoring actual human problems.
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my car is throwing an engine trouble code, and I can just directly plug an intelligence into it and it will talk to the car computer and figure it out the present is unbelievably cyberpunk
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We have a huge news to share today! Today we are unveiling the first truly accessible RL robot - welcome Microduck A 25 cm tiny open-source biped with 15 actuators and packed with sensors (camera, speaker, LiDAR, NFC, bluetooth, wifi, etc) that you train yourself with reinforcement learning. It's also playable out of the box with more than half a dozen fun and playful pre-trained policies to have it walk, sit, crouch, roller-skate, pick up objects with its articulated beak, and recover on its own. And all for less than $400. See all the details, play with the simulator and order it at: pollen-robotics.com/microduc… (video with sound on 🔊)
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🇸🇬 Key takeaway from #BuildWithGemini SG: The passive chatbot era is over! Matt Thompson (Director, Developer Adoption, Google) & Peder Ulander (VP, Product Marketing, Google Cloud) detail agentic transformation — building secure, autonomous agents to drive business growth!
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Releasing the model weights and technical report of Kimi K3. Kimi K3 is our most capable model: a 2.8T MoE model with native visual understanding and a 1M-token context window. New model architecture: 2.5x the intelligence per unit of compute, not just more params. Alongside Kimi K3, we're opening up more of the stack behind it — high-performance attention kernels, MoE communication library, and infrastructure for running agent environments at scale. Model weights: huggingface.co/moonshotai/Ki… Tech report: github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K… Tech blog: kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3
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The Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) is here! 🙌 @tuyasmart reveals how they leverage Google Cloud and Gemini to transform smart devices from passive responders into active servers — boosting response speeds by over 30%. Watch here ⤵️
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Big news for AI on a budget. GLM 5.2 Colibri int4 is a Mixture of Experts model that runs entirely on your CPU. No GPU needed. It's fast, efficient, and opens up advanced language capabilities to anyone with a standard computer. This is a game changer for offline AI.
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Luke Metro
@luke_metroJul 9
Muse Spark 1.1 is trained on the screen recordings of Meta employees, which makes it best-in-class at applying for jobs at Anthropic
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Unpopular opinion If you can not code, you can not vibecode.
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surprised more people aren't doing something like this Codex now creates a "newspaper" for me every morning Unread messages, calendar, surf report, news Anything I can do to stay off my phone until later in the day is a priority
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th0rgal
@thomasmcJun 24
Just reverse engineered my Oura Ring 5 so I can control my computer like a wizzard. @ouraring please send my love to whoever buried a feature to stream live accelerometer data
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🚨Anthropic just showed a 24-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude. Taught by the people who built it. Free. No registration. No paywall. I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes. Watch it and bookmark it now!
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Last week, our CEO @theopalios joined the Christmas BLOCK Party at BLOCK71 Singapore to celebrate a year defined by momentum, collaboration, and breakthrough growth🥂 #UnicornLabs #BLOCK71Singapore #ChristmasBlockParty #StartupEcosystem #Entrepreneurship #Innovation #Networking
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Our CEO, @theopalios, will be presenting Unicorn Labs and sharing insights on “𝐔𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐈 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐀𝐥𝐳𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞”. #Alzheimers #Dementia #AI #Voice #Speech
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