Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy:
A gap in understanding AI is growing, as casual users cite flaws in old free models while power users point to new models' staggering gains in technical domains  —  Judging by my tl there is a growing gap in understanding of AI capability. The first issue I think is around recency and tier of use. I think a lot of people tried the free tier of ChatGPT somewhere last year and allowed it to inform their views on AI a little too much. This is

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
An OpenAI note to investors after Anthropic announced Mythos says OpenAI's early push to increase computing resources gives it a key advantage over Anthropic  —  OpenAI told investors this week that its early push to dramatically increase computing resources gives it a key advantage …

Jyoti Mann / The Information:
Internal memo: Meta is pulling top engineers into its new Applied AI Engineering division, as part of a push to improve its models and “compete in the AI race”  —  Meta Platforms is pulling top engineers from across the company into its new Applied AI Engineering division …

Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica:
An Ohio man is the first convicted under the Take It Down Act after pleading guilty to creating and sharing real and AI-generated explicit images of 10+ victims  —  An Ohio man became the first person convicted under the Take It Down Act after pleading guilty to creating and sharing both real …

Kenyatta Thomas / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF says it is leaving X, as “X is no longer where the fight is happening” and an X post now gets less than 3% of the views a tweet got seven years ago  —  After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn't a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.