The Sagrada Familia is finally complete after 144 years of construction.
The central basilica of Barcelona, the magnum opus of Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, was inaugurated by Pope Leo XIV today. The church began construction in 1882 and continued after Gaudí’s death in 1926.
OpenAI has banned China-linked ChatGPT accounts for doing political ops, including, ironically, generating content with AI agitating against datacenter construction.
OpenAI memo leaks. GPT-5.6 will come out soon and be a “meaningful improvement” over GPT-5.5, though it’s unclear whether it’ll exceed Claude Fable 5.
Sam Altman said he expects OpenAI to go public “within the next year” but they may delay it if timelines to recursive
OpenAI and NVIDIA are working on a 10 GW data center.
This will cost $500 billion and be much larger than any existing data center. The three largest existing ones today — Amazon/Anthropic’s Project Rainier, SpaceXAI’s Colossus 2, Meta’s Prometheus, and OpenAI’s Stargate — are
Geoffrey Irving launches Sequent Research, a nonprofit aimed at solving ASI alignment with a high degree of confidence.
Irving was previously the Chief Scientist of the UK AI Safety Institute and held senior engineering and research roles at DeepMind, OpenAI, and Google Brain.
Igor Babuschkin launches River AI, a neolab building AI systems owned by, shaped by, and aligned with individual humans (notably in contrast to Anthropic’s vision of building one Claude for everyone).
Babuschkin was previously co-founder and de facto head of xAI and a member of
President Trump signals support for a sovereign wealth fund again.
Trump announced his intention to meet with top AI executives to discuss “giving something back to the public” so that “the public will become very rich”, similar to proposals floated by Sam Altman, Dario Amodei,
The White House orders CAISI to stop issuing public reports.
The Center for AI Standards and Innovation is the government body responsible for evaluating AI models. National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross and other admin officials made the decision due to national security
How do you extend your lifespan?
@cremieuxrecueil: "All you can really do that we know of for sure to extend your lifespan is to avoid high blood pressure... well-regulated. To avoid high blood sugar... not too low, not too high for both."
"Do not be fat. That is bad for you."
Neat! The results of the Alcohol Intake and Health Study were published!
TL;DR: There's no evidence of a protective effect of alcohol at any level of consumption. Accordingly, the guidelines should not say stuff like 'Men can have 2x what women do'—they should be universally 0.
Anthropic's Fable is blocking biologists.
@cremieuxrecueil: "It must have something in the memory that suggests that either I am bad or I am a biologist... regardless of what you ask it, if it has some inkling that you are a biologist, it is going to block you."
"How many cells
I've been testing something after @OliviaHelenS noticed you can't even say "Hi" to Fable if you're a biologist.
I checked, and several of us are able to interact with Fable in Incognito Mode, but not in normal mode.
This didn't happen to our non-biologist friends.