TLDR A hidden Google model named Kingfall appeared for a short time. Early users say it thinks deeply and feels like a huge upgrade. Its leak hints that Gemini 2.5 Pro is close. The roundup also covers an OpenAI movie, big bonuses to keep researchers, new ChatGPT features, and moves by Anthropic and the Pentagon. […]| NATURAL 20
TLDR Top language models were thrown into the board game Diplomacy and forced to negotiate, ally, and betray. OpenAI’s 03 won by secretly forming coalitions and then knifing its friends. Gemini 2.5 Pro fought well but fell to a coordinated backstab. Claude tried to stay honest and paid the price. The open-source benchmark reveals which […]| NATURAL 20
TLDRMeta is paying $14 billion for a big stake in Scale AI. The real prize is CEO Alexandr Wang and his expert labeling pipeline. Meta hopes Wang’s team will fix its lagging Llama models and slash training costs. If it works, the deal could reboot Meta’s AI push with little financial risk. SUMMARYThree industry insiders […]| NATURAL 20
TLDRMIT researchers have developed “self-adapting language models” (SEAL) that can improve their own abilities by generating their own training data and updating their internal parameters. This allows models to better learn from new information, adapt to tasks on the fly, and move closer to becoming long-term autonomous AI agents. It’s a major step toward models […]| NATURAL 20
TLDR AI and automation have been nibbling away at human work for seventy years. Humanoid robots and super-smart software will push that trend into overdrive. If jobs disappear, societies must replace wage income with new forms of economic agency like shared ownership and stronger democratic power. Waiting too long risks both a broken economy and […]| NATURAL 20