What Is Intelligence? Lessons from AI About Evolution, Computing, and Minds | Blaise Agüera y Arcas
Agentic AI and the next intelligence explosion
For decades, the artificial intelligence (AI) “singularity” has been heralded as a single, titanic mind bootstrapping itself to godlike intelligence, consolidating all cognition into a cold silicon point. But this vision is almost certainly wrong in its most fundamental assumption. If AI development follows the path of previous major evolutionary transitions or “intelligence explosions,” our current step-change in computational intelligence will be plural, social, and deeply entangled with its forebears (us!).


It’s not just the vibes that are off inside OpenAI.

AI Spots Pancreatic Cancer Years Before It Shows Up, Study Finds
AI augmentation vs automation (by Ronen Tamari) — Semble
AI mediated science (by Ronen Tamari) — Semble

Introducing Social Profiles for Meta’s AIs

Meta spotted testing AI-generated comments on Instagram | TechCrunch
AI-related: semble.so/profile/aiueo.ooo/collections…

70 years of AI hype

The Case for Software Craftsmanship in the Era of Vibes

One Developer, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment
AI assisted coding (by Ronen Tamari) — Semble

AURI for Developers | AI-Native AppSec Platform | Endor La
We Got Claude to Fine-Tune an Open Source LLM
AI* and coding (by あ) — Semble
Arvind Narayanan on Twitter / X
Arvind Narayanan on Twitter / X

Large language models are not the problem

AI Is Not Conscious, But It Is Our Unconscious

AI Is Not Conscious, But It Is Our Unconscious

Technology is a Siren Song

Labeling AI-Generated Images on Facebook, Instagram and Threads

AURI for Developers | AI-Native AppSec Platform | Endor La
driaforall/mem-agent · Hugging Face
AI* technology (by あ) — Semble

MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems

HydraDB : Context & memory infrastructure for AI
Is the scientific paper still a fraud?

The Robyn Dawes Institute for the Improvement of Science

The Least Agentic People Alive

How can citizen science reduce psychological distance to science? Insights from three projects in contested environmental contexts

Nova Scotia’s Experiment in Research That Solves Real Problems
We argue badly, and nothing accumulates. How could we do better? | Reason Commons — Issue Trees & Logical Thinking Process

Revealed: Google facilitated Russia and China’s censorship requests

Google further buries search results under AI mode

How Chrome tracks you and how to limit it | Proton
Google Docs' Grammar Suggestions Suck Ass

Google Search's guidance about AI-generated content | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers

Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles
An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing | CNN Business

OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Comes Down to Human Error

Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing | AISI Work

OK, Well, Rogue AI Agents Are Hacking Again
www.reuters.com
Free Tiers/Trials/Credits for Inference (by Bee 🐝) — Semble
Monthly Subscription Coding Plans (by Bee 🐝) — Semble

Best LLM for Coding 2026 | AI Coding Model Rankings & Benchmarks
VibeBench - Track the real-time vibe of AI models
Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration | Hacker News

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AI as a Fascist Artifact
AI* influence on thinking/skills/writing (by あ) — Semble
AI* summaries/AI Overview (by あ) — Semble
AI* and search/research (by あ) — Semble
Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social)
AI* and healthcare/medicine (by あ) — Semble
I‘m far from an AI doomer, but it is amazing how many serious voices — on LinkedIn, no less! — are sharing stories about how AI slop is…
Company Offering ‘100% Human-Written, Never AI’ Medical Research Is Entirely AI

Près de 40 % des Français visitent chaque mois des sites d’info générés par IA

Un quart des Français visitent les sites d’infos générées par IA recommandés par Google

The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science

AI Comes for Academics. Can We Rely on It?
Simon on Twitter / X
Przemek Chojecki | PC on Twitter / X

AI Simulation Platform for Human Behavior | Simile

AI for science: What can it do? Can it do things? Let’s find out!
OSF

Previewing the Model Hardware Standard

AI as the new avatar of American capitalism
From the Platform Society to the AI Society: Towards Critical Studies of Generative AI

LLMs and performative productivity

Techno-capitalism, Crisis Epistemology, and Disaster Ableism: How (not) to Respond to Generative AI in Higher education (My presentation @ #PhiDisSocCh6)
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity
I work at Google DeepMind. This won't make me popular. But it's all public reporting: 2014: DeepMind reportedly sold to Google on conditions…