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>WE’RE CLOSE TO AGI >GIVE ME 500 BILLIONS >WE ARE NOW IN THE SINGULARITY >I PROMISE! >HERE’S 80% DISCOUNT >PLEASE USE OUR MODELS

8:13 PM · Jul 30, 2026 · 10.4K Views

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No time today to cover all this in depth, and I might have missed one, but make sure to check out:

1. The dramatic, hubris-fueled, hyper-leveraged downfall of Leopold Aschenbrenner’s high-flying hedge fund Situational Awareness. You can read the NYT coverage here, or this short summary that appeared on X:.
2. The U.S. government shared a map of Africa that mislabeled every single country, spotted by Emily Bass:
3. Bonus: Reuters further reports that “the map included in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that ⁠signals it was made with OpenAI tools. The company said it was investigating the report.”
4. OpenAI was driven by competition to drop its prices by 80%. Who needs margins anyway?Gary Marcus@GaryMarcussure we lose money on every inference but we make it up in volumeOpenAI @OpenAIWe are committed to pushing the model frontier across cost efficiency, capability, and speed. Starting today, we are reducing prices for GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% and GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% , and offering a faster option for GPT-5.6 Sol in the API. Luna and Terra’s lower prices are9:29 PM · Jul 30, 2026 · 8.24K Views16 Replies · 8 Reposts · 92 Likes
5. Anthropic? They had a little cybersecurity oopsie of their own
6. MIT Technology Review reported new, disturbing adventures in jailbreaking:
7. Arvind Narayanan and a large team of others reported that AI scientists still aren’t really up to scratch, especially when it comes to open-ended research:Who knows what tomorrow will bring.

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