Retired US Air Force General Jack Shanahan on the Anthropic-Pentagon tensions
”No LLM, anywhere, in its current form, should be considered for use in a fully lethal autonomous weapon system. It's ludicrous even to suggest it.”
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Import AI 446: Nuclear LLMs; China's big AI benchmark; measurement and AI policy
Will AIs be jealous of one another?
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Import AI 445: Timing superintelligence; AIs solve frontier math proofs; a new ML research benchmark
Will 2026 be looked back on as the pivotal year for making decisions about the singularity?
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Import AI 444: LLM societies; Huawei makes kernels with AI; ChipBench
How can you quantify creativity?
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Import AI 443: Into the mist: Moltbook, agent ecologies, and the internet in transition
Plus, a story about agents corrupting other agents
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Import AI 442: Winners and losers in the AI economy; math proof automation; and industrialization of cyber espionage
Is superintelligence a phase change or a gradual shift?
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Import AI 441: My agents are working. Are yours?
Plus: Corrupting AI systems with a poison fountain
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A Diary of a Data Engineer
You ingest data. You model it. You transform it. You serve it. Someone asks for a change. Everything breaks. You rebuild. This is the loop. It was the loop in 2005 with SSIS and star schemas. It’s the loop in 2025 with dbt and Iceberg, or 2026 with prompting AI agents. The tools change. The loop doesn’t. The Invisible Plumbers When I started my career in 2003, there was no “data engineering”. There was no big data, no data science. We called it Business Intelligence. Data Warehouse Developer.…
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Import AI 440: Red queen AI; AI regulating AI; o-ring automation
How many of your are LLMs?
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Information-Driven Design of Imaging Systems
An encoder (optical system) maps objects to noiseless images, which noise corrupts into measurements. Our information estimator uses only these noisy measurements and a noise model to quantify how well measurements distinguish objects. Many imaging systems produce measurements that humans never see or cannot interpret directly. Your smartphone processes raw sensor data through algorithms before producing the final photo. MRI scanners collect frequency-space measurements that require…
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Import AI 439: AI kernels; decentralized training; and universal representations
How might a hypothetical superintelligence represent a soul to itself?
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