The fact this is happening today, and didn’t happen when r1 actually released last Wednesday, is a neat demonstration of how the market is in fact not efficient at all
Shakeel
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Shakeel
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Editor, @ReadTransformer. Prev: AI safety and EA comms, journalist @TheEconomist, @Protocol, @finimize
- i am so, so bearish on perplexity.T-Mobile and Perplexity announce new ‘AI phone’ priced at under $1K tcrn.ch/41oJVsp
- OpenAI's new model tried to avoid being shut down. Safety evaluations on the model conducted by @apolloaisafety found that o1 "attempted to exfiltrate its weights" when it thought it might be shut down and replaced with a different model.
- Good lord these salaries are horrifying
Want to work for one of Labour's 411 MPs? Labour have a new website for expressions of interest in a variety of different roles. I've often thought something like this should exist - much needed coordination of talent! workforlabourplp.org.uk/opportunities - By my count, the list of safety-minded people who've left OpenAI since the board drama and Altman's reinstating include: 1. Ilya Sutskever 2. Jan Leike 3. Leopold Aschenbrenner 4. Pavel Izmailov 5. William Saunders 6. Daniel Kokotajlo 7. Cullen O'Keefe Seems bad!
- OpenAI now has *35* in-house lobbyists, and will have 50 by the end of the year.
- The NYT have published a long piece by Gary Marcus on why GPT-5 shows scaling doesn't work anymore. At no point does the piece mention that GPT-5 is not a scaled up model.
- The makeup of OpenAI’s staff strongly suggests otherwiseautists and liars do not get along
- Feels symbolically interesting that Zuck and Altman are in DC while Amodei and Hassabis are in Davos.
- Replying to @gabydvjAd spend is the first to go in a recession - businesses are just focused on survival rather than growth, so they stop advertising. Also more time spent on media means the total ad inventory available is greater; more supply + less demand = lower prices = bad time for media
- Given today's news, a thread on everything we've learnt about Sam Altman in the last few months. Spoiler: the word "manipulative" comes up a lot. 🧵
- I can’t get over the brazen, brazen lie from Altman here, saying “We couldn’t do this without you, Mr President”. You were already doing it! Construction started ages ago! Just a deeply untrustworthy man — you can’t take anything he says at face value.Announcing the Stargate Project, a $500 billion AI infrastructure investment in the US, Sam Altman and President Trump say this is about building AGI, with one of the most important applications being the cure of diseases at an unprecedented rate
00:00 - This is a thing I've always loved about The Economist. It means that you can recommend it to a teenager and they will be able to learn a *ton* about the world really quickly. Everyone has to learn things somehow, so why not use the news to do the learning?
