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....
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...
All The Models Will Get Better

All The Models Will Get Better

Something I meant to write about but haven’t had time All of the models that don’t perform as well as R1 will get a bump soon. The reason is simple: they can all learn from R1. It’s cheap, easy, and legal. It really is learning from OpenAI’s o1...

DeepSeek No Travel

The Information is reporting that some DeepSeek employees are no longer allowed to travel after the company’s rise to fame. “Management asked some staff to hand in their passports, the three people said.” This is a part of why I’m bearish on...