In mid-2023, within the “RLSlow” research project, we saw the first results that gave us confidence that we will be able to scale the training of reasoning models, unlocking the capability of pretrained models to form their own chains of thought. Szymon and I spent that night at the office, thinking not about the incredible benchmark numbers, products, or scientific results that this technology wi...

I feel surprise at how well neural networks work. LLMs work like "gut feeling" as they just generate one more token after another. There is no planning or reasoning algorithm inside. Yet, some planning and reasoning emerges. I feel fear about an impending doom. Yudkowsky's argument that a superintelligent AI will inevitably destroy humanity seems to have no flaw. Yet, nobody seriously tries to san...

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Your intellectual fly is open Note: This was originally published as a LinkedIn post on November 11, 2025. I need to make a painful confession: somehow, LinkedIn has become an important social network to me. This isnât necessarily due to LinkedInâs sparkling competence, of course. To the contrary, LinkedIn is the Gerald Ford of social networks: the normal one that was left standing as the Richard ...

Vancouver's Penthouse Night Club has done it again. It appears the strip club had its Instagram account taken down not because of nudity, but because of a statement on their sign. The club's marquee on Seymour Street was updated by Ben Jackson with one of his witticisms, calling out U.S. President Donald J. Trump's "renaming" of Lake Ontario. Can't handle a post The sign had a simple message, shor...

AI, tools and transformation The typical big American company today has hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of different pieces of software. It has giant ‘big iron’ horizontal systems of record like SAP and Workday, it has hundreds of vertical SaaS applications, and then there are hundreds more workflows, scripts, automations and databases, right down to the 10 meg spreadsheet running a department. V...

GPT‑6 Astra on robotic manipulation September 4, 2026 A follow‑up to our comparison of Claude Fable 5 and Fable 5.1. We gave OpenAI's GPT‑6 Astra control of the same YAM arms under the same Inspect Robots agent policy, on the same two tasks: “Pick up the red block from the table and place it inside the bowl.” “Pick up the round blue puzzle piece by the knob at its center and place it into the matc...

AI companies are dumping $265M into the midterms as data center backlash sweeps through communities ‘The moral of the story is, trying to bypass communities in developing these data centers is not working, and they’re going to take it to the polls,’ said one expert - Bookmark - CommentsGo to comments Earlier this week, President Donald Trump wandered into the data center debate, making life consid...

A Domain-Neutral, Git-Native Persistent Project Memory for AI Agents based on the Open Knowledge Format (OKF) v0.2. Conversations with AI agents reset when context windows close. Valuable architectural decisions, domain discoveries, and operational facts are lost unless stored persistently. OKF Agent Memory provides a standardized, vendor-neutral memory layer that lives directly in your repository...

America’s Two Largest School Districts Impose AI Moratoriums Chris Mills Rodrigo / Sep 5, 2026When ChatGPT was released in the fall of 2022, the scale of the impact it could have on K-12 schools appeared obvious. Not only could the chatbot fulfill many class and homework assignments in response to simple prompts, but children and teens had the digital fluency to adopt the technology much faster th...