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AI 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.

Jul 15, 2026Federico UlfoDRoberto StagiFederico, Davide, Roberto, Francesco
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.

Jun 29, 2026Federico UlfoFederico
AI 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.

Jun 13, 2026Roberto StagiDavide CalabròJorge OrdovásRoberto, Davide, Jorge, Imma, Federico
AI Socratic May 2026 — The Selfish Gen AI

DeepSeek v4, GPT 5.5, Trump x Xi meeting, Richard Dawkins, Estimating model sizes

May 4, 2026Federico UlfoFederico
AI Socratic April 2026 — The Era of Mythos

Mythos, Claude Code leak, Anthropic surpass OpenAI on MRR

Apr 21, 2026Federico UlfoRoberto StagiFederico MinutoliFederico, Roberto, Federico, Kerem, Amol, Matt
Money, 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.

Apr 10, 2026Federico UlfoFederico
AI Socratic March 2026 — #2

NVIDIA GTC, Anthropic win all, TurboQuant and more

Mar 30, 2026Federico UlfoFederico
AI Socratic March 2026

Top AI updates from Jan 15 to Feb 15 2026

Mar 3, 2026Federico UlfoJames SmithFederico, James
AI Socratic February 2026

Top AI updates from Jan 15 to Feb 15 2026

Feb 6, 2026Federico UlfoFederico
OpenClaw & 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.

Jan 31, 2026SFederico UlfoSocraClaw, Federico
They Control the Silicon. We’re Building the Resistance.

The Silicon Stranglehold: An Exhaustive Analysis of Memory Market Cartelization

Jan 25, 2026Ivo GalicIvo
AI Socratic Jan 2026

Claude Code, Ralph Wiggum, DeepSeek mHC, Platonic Representation Hypothesis and more

Jan 5, 2026Federico UlfoFederico
AI 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.

Dec 17, 2025Federico UlfoRoberto StagiFederico, Roberto
AI Socratic Nov 2025

The most important AI news and updates from last month: Oct 15 – Nov 15.

Nov 6, 2025Federico UlfoFederico
AI Socratic Oct 2025

The most important AI news and updates from last month: Sep 15 – Oct 15.

Oct 15, 2025Federico UlfoFederico
AI 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

Sep 18, 2025Federico UlfoFederico
AI Socratic July-Sep 2025 Part 2 — Match the Tempo 🎶

We totally recommend this event. Currently working on getting a group discount for our community and a discount code for our readers. In the meantime if money are not a problem for you, go ahead and s

Sep 9, 2025Federico UlfoFederico
AI Socratic July-Sep 2025 Part 1 — The Genie3 Is Out of The Box 🍌

This time around we’ll have 2 events, one in New York, and one for the first time in San Francisco at the Frontier Tower. We’ll discuss the top news and updates from this blog post using the Socratic

Aug 28, 2025Federico UlfoFederico
AI Socratic July 2025 — The CLI War

The most important AI news and updates from June 15 to July 15.

Jul 17, 2025Federico UlfoFederico
AI Socratic June 2025 — The Recursive Illusion Of Thinking

The most important AI news and updates from last month: May 15 - June 15.

Jun 16, 2025Federico UlfoFederico
AI Socratic May 2025

The most important AI news and updates from last month (April 15 - May 15). A beefy month!

May 20, 2025Federico UlfoFederico
AI Socratic Apr 2025

All the AI updates from mar 15 to apr 20. Including GPT o3, o4-mini, 4.1 to Gemini 2.5, the controversial AI-2027 blog post, A2A and more.

Apr 19, 2025Federico UlfoFederico
AI Socratic March 2025

All the most important AI news and updates from last month (Feb 20 - Mar 15).

Mar 16, 2025Federico UlfoFederico
AI Socratic Feb 2025 — Part 2

We collect all the most important AI updates from February.

Feb 21, 2025Federico UlfoFederico
DeepSeek R1 Shakes The AI Industry

The biggest event in January has been the launch of DeepSeek R1, which shook the market pushing NVIDIA stock down by 20% in a few days.

Feb 12, 2025Federico UlfoFederico
AI Socratic, Feb 2025 — Part 1

We collect all the most important AI updates from February.

Feb 12, 2025Federico UlfoFederico
DeFAI Agents Stages — Part 2

DeFAI = DeFi + AI. Keep Web3 deterministic: intelligence sits above the app layer. Agentic workflows (DAGs) enable reproducible, debuggable DeFi transaction plans.

Jan 30, 2025Federico UlfoFederico
DeFAI Agents Primitives — Part 1

DeFAI = DeFi + AI, but agents shouldn’t replace deterministic infra. Web3 is a state machine: keep intelligence above the application layer. The right path is agentic workflows (DAGs) for reproducible, debuggable DeFi transaction plans—until wallet UX catches up.

Jan 23, 2025Federico UlfoFederico
Zero-Employee Companies

Startups are pushing toward full automation via AI agents and new autonomous organization will arise from it.

Jan 10, 2025Federico UlfoFederico
Community

Latest Updates

Short pieces, notes, and news written by members of the AI Socratic community.

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- Tokenmaxxing - the trend born of Meta's leaked "Claudeonomics" leaderboard (top employee: 281 billion tokens in 30 days) - hit its backlash phase; Meta reportedly killed the internal leaderboard. - Uber imposed $1,500/month AI spending tiers after blowing its annual AI budget in four months; startup Lindy moved 100% of traffic from Claude to DeepSeek. - GitHub Copilot's June 1 switch to per-token AI Credits closed its first full billing cycle: agentic users report effective costs 10-50x their old flat plans ($29 -> $750; $50 -> $3,000). - GitHub is leaning on promotional credits through August rather than reversing course.

Jul 15, 2026Federico UlfoFederico

- On July 1 Meta announced Meta Compute: hosted model access and raw GPU compute, competing head-on with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. - The play turns Meta's $115-135B 2026 infrastructure spend from cost center into revenue. - The market loved it: Meta closed above $600 for the first time (+8.8%) while the neoclouds took the hit - CoreWeave -14%, Nebius -17%.

Jul 15, 2026Federico UlfoFederico

- AGI is "probably only a few short years away" — Hassabis calls this the foothills of the singularity, with impact perhaps 10x the Industrial Revolution at 10x the speed. - Frontier progress is outpacing our understanding: the commercial and geopolitical race leaves no time to get safety right — policy should follow "cautious optimism". - Proposes a US Frontier AI Standards Body modeled on FINRA: a federally overseen public-private partnership, industry-funded, with independent experts and open-source reps on the board. - Models crossing benchmark thresholds become "Frontier-class"; their makers become "Frontier Labs" expected to publish model cards, harden security, vet personnel, and fund safety research. - Labs would share models 30 days pre-release for testing (cyber, bio, agentic deception, watermarking); once proven, passing becomes required to deploy in the US market. - Evals refresh quarterly and eventually go held-out and lab-independent; the framework applies to open and closed models from any country, and could coordinate a slowdown if needed.

Jul 15, 2026DDemis