“Evolutionary biologist and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins says that after spending three days interacting with Claude, which he calls “Claudia,” he is certain that it is conscious. After feeding the LLM a segment of his new book and receiving detailed feedback, Dawkins was moved to exclaim,” You may not know you are conscious, but you bloody well are!” Dawkins cites the complexity, fluency, and ‘intelligence’ of Claude’s answers as evidence of consciousness. Follow: @AFpost”

“Pentagon confirms US withdrawing 5k troops from Germany Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell tells FOX: “The Secretary of War has ordered the withdrawal of approximately 5,000 troops from Germany. This decision follows a thorough review of the Department’s force posture in”

“Meta is making The Matrix look like a documentary. They announced last week they will begin harvesting their *own employees* for data and strapping the digital equivalent of a GoPro on the heads of their US employees, recording their screen and keyboard, for the purpose of feeding their AI model that nobody uses. Many people have said this is normal in the corporate world. But this is San Francisco. It's the hippies and politically agitated MacBook class who would turn down a job if they had to...”

“Sundar Pichai just said data centers in space will be "the new normal" within a decade. @elonmusk has been saying this for years. When the CEO of Google starts agreeing with Elon, pay attention. The orbital compute era is closer than you think.”

“Bryan Catanzaro, Nvidia's VP of applied deep learning, recently told Axios that "For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees", quite an interesting statement from the company selling the shovels for the gold rush.”

“NEW: Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue — Tom's Hardware”

“Jakub Pachocki “We see pretty significant improvements in the short term, extremely significant improvements in the medium term,” said Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI’s chief scientist. “In fact, I would say, like, I think the last two years have been surprisingly slow.” OpenAI staff said the fast paces of releases should keep coming for the foreseeable future. Meaning we can expect a new model within <60 days”

“Qwen 3.6 27B + Pi on a MacBook Pro, fully local: a beast. 27B dense model, flagship-level agentic coding, running entirely on hardware in your hands. Speed is impressive, Utility is extremely high. It punches orders of magnitude above its weight. Local AI is getting real.”

“MiMo V2.5 Pro leads its peer group on agentic tasks. The model scores 1578 on GDPval-AA, and places it in the top tier for real-world work tasks among recent releases”

“"DeepSeek said Pro pricing could fall sharply once Huawei Ascend 950 supernodes are ​deployed at scale in the second half of the year"”

“GPT-5.5 +100% more expensive than GPT5.4 and +20% more expensive than Claude Opus 4.7! When exactly will token prices hit CPI?”

“GPT 5.5 underperforms Opus 4.7 on SWE-Bench Pro. Couldn't find any reported SWE-Bench scores at all and an internal benchmark is reported instead. That footnote is trying really hard to bury the lede. GPT 5.5 isn't SOTA for coding.”

“SPACEX SAID TO AGREE TO BUY CURSOR FOR MORE THAN $50 BILLION- NYT”

“'Spud ' confirmed for this week. As it is written, so it shall be done. BUCKLE. UP.”