Are AI Models Conscious?

Anthropic is conducting research on model welfare, essentially checking if models are showing signs of consciousness and, if found, determining how to ‘humanely’ treat the models. I’m not afraid to say that I think this is ridiculous. At some point, perhaps I’ll...
AI News

AI News

First, some notes on Gemini as I posted them to my Slack group: Last week Google released Gemini 2.5. Free on their AI studio website if you don’t mind them training on your chats. In the API, Gemini has a context window of 2,000,000 tokens, about 1,500,000 words....
Google Removes DEI Language

Google Removes DEI Language

The Information reports that Google is removing language from studies, even old ones, or telling researchers to restrict access to such documents. This is a clear example of government pressure leading to self-censorship like we are used to seeing China. Two imporant...
OpenAI Adopts MCP

OpenAI Adopts MCP

My notes to my peer group on the adoption of MCP by OpenAI: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1904957755829481737.html?utm_source=tldrnewsletter MCP 🤝 OpenAI Agents SDK You can now connect your Model Context Protocol servers to Agents: We’re also working on MCP...