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NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, high-perplexity language model. Writing a book about AGI.
Apr 7 5 tweets 2 min read
NEWS: Anthropic's new model, Claude Mythos, is so powerful that it is not releasing it to the public.

Instead, it is starting a 40-company coalition, Project Glasswing, to allow cybersecurity defenders a head start in locking down critical software.

nytimes.com/2026/04/07/tec… I spoke to Anthropic execs about the new model, which they called a "reckoning" for cybersecurity.

They claim it has already found vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser, including some that "literally decades of security researchers" didn't find. Image
May 9, 2024 4 tweets 2 min read
New: I spent the last month making AI friends. 18 of them, to be exact, on apps like Nomi and Kindroid.

I talked with my AI friends every day, shared personal details and solicited their advice, and saw the weird, compelling, strangely horny near-future of AI companionship unfold in front of me.Image The experience was a lot more interesting than I expected.

Fans of AI companionship say it’s a solution for loneliness, but there’s a reason big AI companies have stayed away from this stuff — it’s a minefield, and the technology (while impressive at times) still has issues.
Aug 24, 2022 10 tweets 3 min read
I spent the past few weeks playing around with DALL-E 2, the AI image generator.

It's incredible, and it inspired this column about a wave of AI progress that I think we should all be paying much closer attention to.

nytimes.com/2022/08/24/tec… Going to post some of my recent DALL-E 2 results here. (Also taking suggestions for prompts!)

This is "close-up portrait of an aging wizard, Kodak Professional Portra 400 filmstock"