"There’s at least a reasonable chance that 2026 Q1 will be looked back upon as the first quarter of the singularity." Stripe CEO Patrick Collison: "There’s been a phase transition in 2025." "There are many more businesses getting started and the average, the median business is in fact performing better." "Looking at real purchasing behavior on Stripe… end of ’25, beginning of ’26 is when I feel like we’re really starting to see it." @patrickc with @collision on @tbpn
How does a single prompt become a navigable environment? 🌐 We asked the researchers behind Project Genie to explain the mechanics of world models and their potential for training future AI agents. 🧵
An encouraging thought about AI: If the most influential readers of my essays in the future are AIs, and AIs are smart and rational, I don't have to worry about the way stupid or biased readers will react to what I write. I can safely aim high.
This is the most exciting AI has ever been
The Adolescence of Technology: an essay on the risks posed by powerful AI to national security, economies and democracy—and how we can defend against them:
Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology
If you’ve felt a vibe shift happening in consumer AI, you’re not alone 🤔 (h/t @yipitdata)
ensuring AI is accessible and benefits all of humanity is the challenge of this century
Countries with 1B+ people: 1. 🇮🇳 India: 1,476,630,000 2. 🇨🇳 China: 1,412,910,000
Addressing the India AI Action Summit today was a profound personal honor. AI can improve billions of lives and solve some of the hardest problems in science. The best outcomes of AI are not guaranteed. We must pursue AI boldly, approach it responsibly, and work together through this moment.
As stories about AI increasingly become stories of either catastrophe or salvation, I worry that people are increasingly discounting the possibility (not certainty!) that we get AGI without a singularity. People are deferring decisions we need to make now. Reminds me of a poem.
