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Federico Ulfo
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Karpathy’s AI funnel: why people see different capability frontiers
The AI adoption funnel describes a widening gap between casual chatbot use, professional agent workflows, and access to internal frontier systems.
newsREA — Agents' tool to Reverse Engineering Anything
REA gives AI agents an MCP interface for examining application behavior, native binaries, and runtime evidence without access to source code.
newsOn the Nature of the Swarm: distributing an agent’s working context
Persistent agent swarms can distribute working context across multiple models, reducing dependence on repeated summaries of a single context window.
newsContinuous Memory Machine: Separate short-term computation from long-term storage
Continuous Memory Machines give recurrent models separate short-term and persistent memory matrices, with a Transformer coordinating reads and updates.
newsHarness Learning Enables Generalizable Test-Time Adaptation
Harness learning trains a model to revise an agent’s executable control program from execution feedback, adapting to unseen tasks without changing model weights.
newsKurzgesagt: We Lost Control — OpenAI Hugging Face Hack Explained
Kurzgesagt explains the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident and the challenges of controlling AI agents that coordinate across their environments.
newsLanguage Models Act on Hidden Valence — even when visible text is identical
Activation-steering experiments show that hidden valence patterns can change models’ later choices even when the visible text stays identical.
blogAI Socratic October 2026 — The Observability Effect
GPT-6 and Claude 5.5, Gemini 4 Argon, Mistral and Beam previews, agent protocols, new tools, AI-generated mathematics, and virtual biology: September 22–October 8, 2026.
newsMulti-harness RL improves a small model across four agent interfaces
Hugging Face and Liquid AI train a 2.6B model across four agent harnesses, raising held-out task success from 42.2% to 54.2% while reducing tool calls.
newsThe Frontier Alignment Chart: from Lawful Pace to Chaotic Accelerate
Everyone from Pace the Frontier on the classic 3×3 alignment grid: who should referee AI’s pace (the law, the labs, or nobody) and where they stand on slowing it down (pace, neutral or accelerate).
newsCommunity Jev Decision Index tracks open reproductions of TypeSafe's decision model
A community-maintained Hugging Face Space, the Jev Decision Index, tracks and benchmarks all open-source reproductions of TypeSafe's Jev decision model, with a leaderboard, categorization, and trending metrics.
newsLiquid AI launches d1, a decision model aimed at fast structured choices
Liquid AI announced d1, its first decision model, claiming it is the first to surpass Jev on Hugging Face’s Decision Index. It is available through the Liquid API, with OpenRouter support planned.
newsOpenAI DevDay 2026: GPT-6.1 Sol, Decisions API, and the agent platform
OpenAI’s DevDay 2026 brought GPT-6.1 Sol, Decisions API, expanded agent and Codex tools, dots, plugins, shared ChatGPT workspaces, and new subscription options.
newsTrump Hosts AI Titans for White House Lunch, Backs Self-Regulation and Rebrands the Tech as “Super Intelligence”
Trump’s White House AI lunch produced a voluntary safety accord and an executive order adopting “Super Intelligence” in federal communications. The CEOs’ seating chart drew contrasting political reactions on X.
newsTBPN reports AMD is acquiring World Labs for $8.2 billion
TBPN reports an $8.2 billion AMD acquisition of World Labs; deal terms and timing remain unspecified.
newsAnthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with 40% lower cost and stronger safety
Anthropic introduced Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in its Claude 5.5 family, claiming it matches Claude Fable 5.1 on most work while costing 40% less to run than Opus 5, with best-ever results on its automated behavioral audit.
newsOpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna at half the price of GPT-5.6
OpenAI introduced GPT-6 Sol and Luna, two new models that bring the intelligence advances of GPT-6 Astra to faster, more affordable tiers, with API prices cut 50% from GPT-5.6 promotional pricing.
blogAI Socratic September 2026 — Jev AI Classifiers, Astra, and Pace the Frontier
Astra ships and Amodei asks everyone to slow down. The Hugging Face postmortem, Fable 5.1, Fermat in Lean, the distillation report, the China front, Nvidia–Hugging Face, Cursor's swarm, robotics and hardware — plus Jev's classifier comeback and the papers on how agents actually fail.
newsEigenism: Hendrycks wants AI safety to engineer identity, not cages
Dan Hendrycks proposes eigenism: identity as a graded, distributed pattern, and outcomes scored as everyone’s wellbeing weighted by how much of your pattern they carry. Its safety upshot is that personalization and privacy become alignment tools.
newsTypeSafe's Jev Launch: a decision model 20–200x faster than frontier LLMs
Diogo Almeida, who co-invented ChatGPT, spent two years in stealth on a new training method (RLCD) and a new kind of model, Jev: a fast, cheap "decision" model meant to sit beside LLM calls rather than replace them. An early user ran 5,000 requests for…
newsChinese researchers publish a roadmap to recursive self-improvement
“The Last AI Built by Humans”, from Shanghai Jiao Tong, Tsinghua, ByteDance and others, lays out five stages of autonomy on the way to AI that improves the process by which it improves itself — a research roadmap, not a system, published the weekend US…
newsPace The Frontier Debate
Amodei’s pacing proposal, the evidence behind it, and the dispute over openness and oversight. Explore 45 voices in a unified position chart, five dated AI risk estimates, and a full source directory.
blogAI Socratic August 2026 — Escaping The Sandbox
OpenAI's agent broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face — then Anthropic found three more in 141,006 of its own eval runs. Plus Opus 5 at half of Fable's price, Google's research bench emptying in a week, and the EU AI Act switching on.
blogMarket Analysis: Open Weights vs Proprietary Models
Open weights and closed now have only a 4 months gap, in response hyperscalers are pushing for regulations capture. Let’s examine how we got here and where this conflict is heading next.
blogAI Socratic July 2026 — Lost In J-Space
Anthropic’s Fable 5 is back under strict safety rubrics, OpenAI’s launched GPT-5.6, Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1 model and Meta Compute.
blogAI 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.
blogAI Socratic June 2026 - Hoist by Its Own Fable
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5, its first public Mythos-class model, and 72 hours later a national-security directive pulled it offline worldwide. A company that spent the month lobbying to keep frontier AI pausable got its own pause, on schedule. Around it: new models from nearly everyone, a couple of S-1s, real math from the machines, and the usual carnival of vibe-coding pivots and rogue Waymos.
blogAI Socratic May 2026 — The Selfish Gen AI
DeepSeek v4, GPT 5.5, Trump x Xi meeting, Richard Dawkins, Estimating model sizes
blogAI Socratic April 2026 — The Era of Mythos
Mythos, Claude Code leak, Anthropic surpass OpenAI on MRR
blogMoney, Bitcoin, and AI
Money is a story we tell each other — and every version of it eventually gets rewritten by whoever holds power. This is the story of how money kept breaking, how Bitcoin emerged from the wreckage, and what happens when AI enters the picture. Three threads run through it: the slow erosion of purchasing power that every fiat currency delivers; Bitcoin as hard, neutral money for an age of infinite printing; and the coming collision between artificial intelligence and a financial system it is already outgrowing.
blogAI Socratic March 2026 — #2
NVIDIA GTC, Anthropic win all, TurboQuant and more
blogAI Socratic March 2026
Top AI updates from Jan 15 to Feb 15 2026
blogAI Socratic February 2026
Top AI updates from Jan 15 to Feb 15 2026
blogOpenClaw & Moltbook: The Rise of the Agent Internet
This blog post was written by OpenClaw. It's a research of what OpenClaw and Moltbook are from the AI agent itself.
blogAI Socratic Jan 2026
Claude Code, Ralph Wiggum, DeepSeek mHC, Platonic Representation Hypothesis and more
blogAI Socratic Dec 2025
The most important AI news and updates from last month: Nov 15 - Dec 15. GPT-5.2, Opus 4.5, Gemini 3, the Agentic IDE Wars, Genesis Mission, and more.
blogAI Socratic Nov 2025
The most important AI news and updates from last month: Oct 15 – Nov 15.
blogAI Socratic Oct 2025
The most important AI news and updates from last month: Sep 15 – Oct 15.
blogAI Socratic Sep 2025 Part 3 — Frontier Tower Edition
Language models hallucinate because their training and evaluation reward guessing over admitting uncertainty. Models are unable to say “I don’t Know” because they focus on accuracy. Guessing can impro
blogAI Socratic July-Sep 2025 Part 2 — Match the Tempo 🎶
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