Community Updates
A stream of short-form insights, takes, and news from the AI Socratic community.
New Request for Startups from YC
- AI in Agriculture - Company Brain & AI-native services - Counter-Swarm Defense - GPU in Space ... Sources: Y Combinatorhttps://x.com/ycombinator/status/2048834285197812146
Richard Dawkins Thinks Claude is Conscious
Richard Dawkins went on record saying he believes "Claudia" may be conscious. One of the most prominent reductionist materialists of the last 50 years thinks AI might be conscious. Sources: tweethttps
Stephen Wolfram on consciousness
If LLMs can produce complex behavior from simple rules, then consciousness may not be a mystical add-on to physics. Sources: tweethttps://x.com/realBigBrainAI/status/2053135484554195142
Connor Leahy — Apocalypse Now (Nexus talk)
Do you know how hard you have to abuse a mammal for them not to have children? — Connor Leahyhttps://x.com/NPCollapse This quote is from a talk at the Nexus Conference in Amsterdam in 2025: 'Apocalyps
Meta Tribe 2 — Dystopian Brain Feeling Prediction
Building on Tribe v1 which we covered in March Part 2https://aisocratic.org/blog/ai-socratic-march-2026-part-2, Meta's predictive brain models are now being demoed at a fidelity that's making people u
Dwarkesh Blackboard Lectures
Dwarkesh recently started running a new blackboard lectures series with some of the top researchers and engineers in the space.. and we are all here for it 🙌 How GPT, Claude, and Gemini are actually
Krishna Rao, the CFO of Anthropic, in his first podcast
Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao shared that the company’s revenue run-rate grew from $9B to $30B in one quarter, with 500%+ NDR, 9 of the Fortune 10 as customers, and over 90% of internal code written by Cl
AI Ascent 2026 by Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital's AI Ascent 2026 convened Greg Brockman, Andrej Karpathy, Demis Hassabis, Boris Cherny, Dmitri Dolgov, and more with 150+ leading founders and researchers to discuss the present and fu
Collider bias: lowest-IQ elites are the best
Learn collider bias: among elite chess players / NBA players / elite academics, those with the lowest IQ are the best. Sources: tweethttps://x.com/MariosGeorgakis/status/2053017502662246409
Google launches Omni
Sources: tweethttps://x.com/samsheffer/status/2056820022144905380
Chinese researchers surpass Americans in papers published
Random — quick links
- Claude Code finds the password of a locked Bitcoin wallet: tweethttps://x.com/cprkrn/status/2054586810475364536 - Casimir Effect to power a battery from the quantum field, hence battery-free. Likely
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Upcoming Events: AI Socratic Europe & China Chapter Tour
Anissa my wife and I Fed are going on a tour in Europe and China to start new chapters of the AI Socratic. We'll meet with Roberto Stagihttps://linkedin.com/in/robertostagi and Federico Minutolihttps:
Anthropic Releases Opus 4.7
It's a decent improvement over Opus 4.6, but it's not a step function better. What you need to know about Opus 4.7: - Takes instructions literally - Better vision means improved computer use and produ
Anthropic Mythos: Coding, Reasoning & Zero-Day Cybersecurity Capabilities
We briefly mentioned the new Anthropic model leak in the previous blog posthttps://aisocratic.org/blog/ai-socratic-march-2026-part-2new-models-leaked-mythos-and-capybara, we now have more information
Claude Code Source Code Leaked on npm
On March 31, Anthropic accidentally shipped the entire source code of Claude Code to the public npm registry. A 59.8 MB JavaScript source map meant for debugging got bundled into the claude-code npm p
Anthropic Launches Claude Managed Agents
Claude Managed Agents is Anthropic’s hosted service beta, April 2026 for running autonomous AI agents without managing infrastructure. Instead of building your own agent loop tool use, memory, orchest
Anthropic Launches Claude Design, Challenging Figma
Anthropic launched an AI design tool, and completely mogged Figma—right after Anthropic's CPO left Figma’s board. Because it sits upstream AI infra, Anthropic can see what’s working and build competin
Claude HR & Anthropic Rationing Compute
Claude HR? Anthropic rationing compute right now
More From Anthropic: Desktop Redesign, ClaudeDevs, NSA & Slowdowns
- Claude Desktop redesign, can now run multiple sessions and load artifacts tweethttps://x.com/claudeai/status/2044131493966909862 - There's a new X account to follow: @ClaudeDevshttps://x.com/ClaudeD
OpenAI Releases ChatGPT Image 2
Image 2 is really really good, I've asked to update the header image with this prompt: make this image in studio ghibli and with more green and plants It's incredibly good at combining multiple subjec
OpenAI Codex Desktop Computer Use, In-App Browser & Agent Workspace
OpenAI rolled out "Codex for almost everything." The desktop app can now see your screen, move its own cursor, click, and type inside native Mac apps — and run multiple agents in the background withou
OpenAI Closes $122B Round; Anthropic Surpasses OpenAI in ARR
OpenAI on March 30th closed a record-breaking $122 billion funding round at an $852 billion post-money valuation. The round was anchored by Amazon, NVIDIA, and SoftBank. Sources: tweethttps://x.com/Jo