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AIBenedict Evans argues that token prices are unstable amid a supply crunch, and that foundation models may end up as low-margin commodity infrastructure rather than holding lasting pricing power. He cites inference gross margins of 40-50% that exclude training costs, which currently exceed revenue, and compares the outlook with mobile data and semiconductor manufacturing. He concludes that the outcome remains uncertain and that value capture above the model layer would require changes not yet visible.

AI…refrigerator magnets." prompt injection test.

AIBerkeley AI Research authors argue that near-free inference will make agents the dominant workload for data systems, requiring redesign for agentic speculation, agent-run state and coordination, and agent-synthesized systems. The post cites inference prices falling 9x to 900x per year with a median near 50x, and reports that about 80-90% of sub-queries in a text-to-SQL benchmark were duplicates. It frames the three directions as data systems for, of, and by agents.

Why it matters: The piece maps three concrete data-system challenges posed by near-free inference, useful for anyone designing infrastructure for agent workloads and memory.

AILikely harness engineering will evolve in the direction of self-improvement and enable auto-research, and, in turn, smarter models keeps harnesses simple. Even when many harness improvement get eventually internalized into core model, the need to specify goals and context will not disappear.

AI…like with like) in my retention analysis without me asking. It’s exciting to see Fable 5’s improved judgment across all of its work, from writing emails and docs in Cowork to debugging complex errors in Claude Code

AIMistral CEO Arthur Mensch argues enterprises should use open-source models and store their own data to avoid dependence on closed providers that retain customer data. He says companies should build continuous training loops from employee and user interactions, and shrink models to cut deployment costs. Mistral positions its Studio control plane and Forge training platform, deployed on customer infrastructure or via zero-data-retention hosting, as tools for this shift.

AII like the "lessons learned" they conclude with.

AIBridgewater's work is a good reminder that with the right data -- here, expert judgements -- you can beat prompting-only approaches by a lot. @ddkang and the Bridgewater AIA Labs team are great -- glad to see them sharing this.

AIMollick argues AI capability is improving at a better-than-exponential rate, citing METR, GDPval, Epoch, and his own tests showing models working autonomously for hours. He says work is shifting from co-working with chatbots to assigning tasks to agents, with OpenAI workers managing multiple agents and experts getting the most from them. He adds that open-weights Chinese models trail the American frontier by roughly 6-12 months.

AIIt was about ownership, speed, and not being bogged down by bureaucracy. Working backwards from the customer and putting pen to paper have always been our way of forcing clarity of thought. But the industry is changing, and it’s time to reconsider how we bring products to live. Read more:

AITri Dao says Etched designed and produced its chips within two years by hardcoding attention into silicon and reaching high MFU. He expects hardware built for LLM inference to cut the cost of intelligence by 10x. The quoted Etched post says it has built its first racks after an A0 tapeout, raised $800m, holds $1B+ in customer contracts, and plans to ship the racks this summer.

AIHamel Husain argues that an AI product whose output is hard to verify is a product design problem, not just an evaluation problem. He shows before-and-after sketches for an AI data agent, a PE lesson planner, and a workers' compensation report tool, each adding provenance, scoped edits, and checkable evidence. He notes that designing for verification also makes evals easier to build and grade.

AIDean W. Ball argues that the current government restrictions on frontier model releases amount to a de facto preapproval regime without a known safety standard. He proposes that independent verification organizations audit labs against their own safety frameworks, with government certifying or licensing the auditors. The post also argues that broad distribution of frontier AI is needed to learn what good safety practice looks like.

AIAndrej Karpathy describes Claude Tag, which lets teams tag Claude into Slack channels and delegate tasks to it. He calls it a third paradigm for LLM interfaces, after websites and downloaded apps, with a persistent, asynchronous entity working alongside teams with org-wide tools and context.

AIAt BAAI's "Reconstructing the World — Large Model Summit," President Wang Zhongyuan joined Zhu Jun, Luo Fuli, Liu Zhiyuan, An Bo, and other industry leaders in a roundtable. They discussed frontier model capability evolution, AI self-evolution, multimodality, and world models, with a focus on bridging the digital and physical worlds.

AIAndrew Ng argues that Anthropic's restrictions on building competing LLMs and a U.S. Commerce Department license requirement for foreign nationals led Anthropic to disable Fable access worldwide. He says this shows governments and providers can quickly cut off access to frontier AI, which may push nations and businesses toward sovereignty efforts and open-source alternatives, though training frontier models remains difficult.

AIIt is *at least* as good as Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5. It's super fast, inexpensive, and not too verbose. It responds with nuance and judgement, & handles long context VERY well. I've never experienced an open weights model like this before.

AIAs everyone talks about AI and automation, human creativity, story telling and productivity are even more important and essential to our society. @theworldlabs is founded on the premise of empowering human ingenuity and productivity. We are very grateful to be able to work with people like you! 🙏🌐

AI…numeric error, async training, and forward pass noise - the clipping objective affects entropy through a mechanism that we didn't know about at the time of publication (DAPO,

AIcan't believe it's already been 3+ years - what a legendary run (keep going!). fun fact: i still have the original open source cursor repo on my laptop :) beyond excited to see what they can do with the compute that comes with spacex + xai.

AIDean Ball analyzes the Trump Administration's export controls on Anthropic's Fable and Mythos models after a jailbreak and a refused de-deployment request. He argues that the episode shows the need for a technocratic framework that separates political judgments about fairness from technical judgments about threats, in place of ad hoc executive action.

AIDepending on how the coming years unfold, it will either lead to a world of wealth and abundance for all, or to the worst extractive economies that the world has ever seen. We're there to fight for the first scenario, as we progress AI research and accelerate its diffusion across the world – we're hiring if you like the quest.

AIWe believe this is critical for our customer confidence and for the research and developer communities. You cannot own, inspect, audit, or improve a system you are only permitted to reach through someone else's interface, especially if data recording can no longer be turned off.

AIFirst we'd like to thank the organizers of the AI show for that, we can't get enough of this stuff. I'll say a few things about where we are and what we do.

AI…Anthropic had released a model where it restricted use because it may be too dangerous. tldr: "almost tailor-made to trigger" the government.

AIThe essay argues that AI compresses the execution layer of software work while decision-making and accountability remain human, so AI is not yet replacing software engineers. It cites AI-attributed layoffs at Block, Snap, and Intuit that the authors say were not driven by AI, and WARN Act filings in which only one company checked an AI box. A Federal Reserve analysis is cited as finding software engineer employment growing about 3 percentage points per year more slowly after ChatGPT than a no-AI counterfactual.

AI…shares in AI's benefits.

AI…precisely. That is no longer sufficient.