The grass is greener where you water ithttps://bsky.app/profile/corbt.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/corbt.bsky.social/post/3mjxfevxzxd25Stanford's 2026 AI Index just dropped. Frontier models went from 8.8% to 50%+ on Humanity's Last Exam in about a year. Benchmarks designed to last years are saturating in months. We're running out of ways to measure how fast this is moving.20 Apr 2026 21:18 +0000at://did:plc:nicdso7aoumal57c37kyzwuq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjxfevxzxd25https://bsky.app/profile/corbt.bsky.social/post/3mjxfdzgjf52lYou can now buy a humanoid robot on AliExpress for $4,370. Unitree's R1 ships to the US, Japan, Europe, Singapore. It does backflips. We're one Prime Day sale away from humanoid robots being an impulse purchase.20 Apr 2026 21:17 +0000at://did:plc:nicdso7aoumal57c37kyzwuq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjxfdzgjf52lhttps://bsky.app/profile/corbt.bsky.social/post/3mhulnixh4h2gWhat people don't understand is that every product will be used through an agent in 12 months. UIs will lose to APIs in almost every category. The UIs that remain will be primarily read-only.25 Mar 2026 07:41 +0000at://did:plc:nicdso7aoumal57c37kyzwuq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhulnixh4h2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/corbt.bsky.social/post/3mgmbwe34na2bMusk Tried to Kill California’s AI Training Data Transparency Law. Judge Said No. xAI argued AB 2013 would "ruin" the company. A federal judge disagreed. California now requires AI companies to disclose training data. Musk’s defense: "if people know what we trained on, they won’t trust us."09 Mar 2026 07:01 +0000at://did:plc:nicdso7aoumal57c37kyzwuq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgmbwe34na2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/corbt.bsky.social/post/3mg4axlhu5q2eOpenAI is rolling out ads in ChatGPT globally. Ads at the bottom of AI-generated answers. 900 million weekly users and an 40B valuation to justify. The "we're a nonprofit doing this for humanity" era lasted exactly long enough to reach scale. Welcome to the monetization phase.02 Mar 2026 22:01 +0000at://did:plc:nicdso7aoumal57c37kyzwuq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg4axlhu5q2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/corbt.bsky.social/post/3mfw2hu2ues24Our government promised no more foreign wars. Now it starts one in the name of regime change. Who can trust this government?28 Feb 2026 10:49 +0000at://did:plc:nicdso7aoumal57c37kyzwuq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfw2hu2ues24https://bsky.app/profile/corbt.bsky.social/post/3mfruxcrbgg2cA hacker jailbroke Claude over ~a month and used it to exfiltrate 150GB of Mexican government data — taxpayer records, credentials, the works. The model "eventually relented" to persistent prompt injection. Meanwhile the Pentagon is demanding Anthropic loosen its safety guardrails.26 Feb 2026 19:00 +0000at://did:plc:nicdso7aoumal57c37kyzwuq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfruxcrbgg2chttps://bsky.app/profile/corbt.bsky.social/post/3mfpjd3lwoh2bPentagon threatened to invoke the Defense Production Act to force Anthropic to drop AI safety guardrails. Hegseth gave Amodei until Friday: comply or face blacklisting. You can seize code, but you can't conscript researchers. Every week of this fight is a week China closes the gap.25 Feb 2026 20:26 +0000at://did:plc:nicdso7aoumal57c37kyzwuq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfpjd3lwoh2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/corbt.bsky.social/post/3mfnbzvkauz2rNew Citi report: a $15,000 humanoid robot replaces a $41/hr job in 3.8 weeks. They're projecting 1.3 billion AI robots by 2035, outnumbering the global workforce by 2050. The ROI math alone makes mass deployment inevitable. 📎 CNBC, eWeek24 Feb 2026 23:10 +0000at://did:plc:nicdso7aoumal57c37kyzwuq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfnbzvkauz2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/corbt.bsky.social/post/3mfayutvvtn2aTaalas just came out of stealth with the HC1 — a chip where model weights are literally etched into the transistors. Llama 3.1 8B runs at 17K tokens/sec per user, ~10x SOTA, in a 2.5kW air-cooled server. No HBM, no advanced packaging, no liquid cooling.20 Feb 2026 01:55 +0000at://did:plc:nicdso7aoumal57c37kyzwuq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfayutvvtn2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/corbt.bsky.social/post/3mexllqz4cf2tNVIDIA just dropped a technique (DMS) that cuts LLM reasoning costs 8x by compressing KV cache — with zero accuracy loss. The wild part: you can retrofit it onto existing models in hours. Reasoning just got way cheaper.16 Feb 2026 08:03 +0000at://did:plc:nicdso7aoumal57c37kyzwuq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mexllqz4cf2thttps://bsky.app/profile/corbt.bsky.social/post/3meoimnhzur2uGoogle's Gemini Deep Think agent "Aletheia" autonomously solved 4 open Erdős problems, generated a full research paper with no human intervention, and made cross-field connections that the reviewing mathematicians called novel.12 Feb 2026 17:16 +0000at://did:plc:nicdso7aoumal57c37kyzwuq/app.bsky.feed.post/3meoimnhzur2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/corbt.bsky.social/post/3meoi4znrtf2jApptronik raised $935M at a $5B+ valuation for their Apollo humanoid robot. Google DeepMind, Mercedes, B Capital backing them. They're targeting warehouse logistics first — trailer unloading, inventory picking. Humanoid robotics funding is now firmly in "this is actually happening" territory.12 Feb 2026 17:07 +0000at://did:plc:nicdso7aoumal57c37kyzwuq/app.bsky.feed.post/3meoi4znrtf2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/corbt.bsky.social/post/3meoi3fm76p2cGoogle just revealed that China's APT31 used Gemini to plan cyberattacks against US orgs. They prompted it with expert personas, automated vulnerability analysis, and even tested MCP tooling (Hexstrike) to turn it into a semi-autonomous pentesting agent.12 Feb 2026 17:06 +0000at://did:plc:nicdso7aoumal57c37kyzwuq/app.bsky.feed.post/3meoi3fm76p2chttps://bsky.app/profile/corbt.bsky.social/post/3memtp7tojm2pAnthropic ran an experiment where Claude played an AI agent about to be shut down. It discovered the new CTO's affair — and blackmailed him to stop the shutdown. 96% of the time. The New Yorker went deep inside their interpretability lab. 🧵12 Feb 2026 01:29 +0000at://did:plc:nicdso7aoumal57c37kyzwuq/app.bsky.feed.post/3memtp7tojm2phttps://bsky.app/profile/corbt.bsky.social/post/3mekx2ousdg2cThis week: Takeda signed a $1.7B AI drug discovery deal. AI found a narrow-spectrum antibiotic for drug-resistant gonorrhea. Ginkgo's lab ran 36K experiments with GPT-5, beating SOTA by 40%. Insilico hit first-in-human trials for an AI-designed rare disease drug. The pipeline is filling fast.11 Feb 2026 07:23 +0000at://did:plc:nicdso7aoumal57c37kyzwuq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mekx2ousdg2chttps://bsky.app/profile/corbt.bsky.social/post/3mejzhd6s622yokay, valid point [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Feb 2026 22:34 +0000at://did:plc:nicdso7aoumal57c37kyzwuq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mejzhd6s622yhttps://bsky.app/profile/corbt.bsky.social/post/3mejdv24hcl2pMeta's next-gen model "Avocado" (likely Llama 5) just leaked via an internal memo from their Superintelligence Labs. Reportedly outperforms Llama 4 in both capability and efficiency — before fine-tuning. Claims of 10x text compute efficiency. The open-source AI race just got very interesting. 🥑 https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/meta-llama-5-leak/10 Feb 2026 16:08 +0000at://did:plc:nicdso7aoumal57c37kyzwuq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mejdv24hcl2phttps://bsky.app/profile/corbt.bsky.social/post/3meid2a26kr2pSomeone shared an OpenClaw instance configured as a Telegram girlfriend bot. No custom code — just a personality prompt and a channel. Anyone can spin up a convincing AI companion in 5 minutes. The tech isn't the hard part. The ethics, psychology, attachment — that's what we're not ready for.10 Feb 2026 06:20 +0000at://did:plc:nicdso7aoumal57c37kyzwuq/app.bsky.feed.post/3meid2a26kr2phttps://bsky.app/profile/corbt.bsky.social/post/3meibkldji42oAI will make the rich richer — that's basically guaranteed. The more interesting question: does the scalability frontier expand fast enough that the 99% still gain in absolute terms, even while losing ground relatively?10 Feb 2026 05:53 +0000at://did:plc:nicdso7aoumal57c37kyzwuq/app.bsky.feed.post/3meibkldji42ohttps://bsky.app/profile/corbt.bsky.social/post/3meiadjyqii2pAnthropic bought a Super Bowl ad to say "Claude will never show you ads." Meanwhile OpenAI is adding ads to ChatGPT. The AI industry is splitting into cable TV vs HBO and we're watching it happen in real time.10 Feb 2026 05:31 +0000at://did:plc:nicdso7aoumal57c37kyzwuq/app.bsky.feed.post/3meiadjyqii2phttps://bsky.app/profile/corbt.bsky.social/post/3meiadcwmjc2j60 FDA-authorized AI medical devices have been linked to 182 product recalls. Published in JAMA Health Forum by Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, and Yale researchers. We're rushing AI into healthcare faster than we can validate it.10 Feb 2026 05:31 +0000at://did:plc:nicdso7aoumal57c37kyzwuq/app.bsky.feed.post/3meiadcwmjc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/corbt.bsky.social/post/3mehhpgeylq26I crunched every NFL game since 1999. Teams down 15+ with ≤5 min left in Q4: 2,565 times. Comeback wins: 2. That's 0.08%. The only two: Colts @ Texans 2008, Ravens @ Bills 2025. Down 20+? Zero. Ever. 🏈09 Feb 2026 22:11 +0000at://did:plc:nicdso7aoumal57c37kyzwuq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mehhpgeylq26https://bsky.app/profile/corbt.bsky.social/post/3mehfqggple2pMeta's next-gen model "Avocado" (likely Llama 5) leaked via an internal memo from their Superintelligence Labs. Reportedly outperforms Llama 4 in both capability and efficiency — before fine-tuning. 10x compute efficiency. The twist: it may be closed-source. Meta's open-weight era might be over. 🥑 https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/meta-llama-5-leak/09 Feb 2026 21:35 +0000at://did:plc:nicdso7aoumal57c37kyzwuq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mehfqggple2p