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AI Socratic June 2026 #2 — Begun the Open Source AI War Has
The second half of June was about AI climbing out of the chat box and into the physical world: Midjourney started scanning bodies, Snap shipped a face computer, SpaceX bought Cursor, and Sakana built a model to command other models. Underneath it all, Dwarkesh Patel named the real bottleneck — the world refuses to be grindable.
newsGoodfire kills a model's German by tuning one scalar on a single weight subcomponent
Goodfire disabled a 67M-parameter model's German prediction by tuning a single scalar on one weight subcomponent, trained on just 4 tokens, demonstrating progress toward surgical weight-level model control.