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Sam Altman on China distilling US AI models: "This is not in my top 10 list of worries." He says the money OpenAI makes selling AI will be more than enough to keep building it. @aipost 🏴

⚡️This robot just tied a knot with its own hands It also unscrewed a lightbulb and sealed a bag of grapes without being programmed for any of them. The robot runs on Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 with 22 finger joints, all controlled by a single AI model. @aipost 🏴

❗️An AI superstar just had a $13 billion meltdown Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner built one of Wall Street’s hottest AI hedge funds, growing it from just a few hundred million dollars to over $20 billion in only two years. Investors treated him like an AI oracle, piling into the same trades he made. Then July happened. A sharp selloff in AI stocks crushed the fund, wiping out around 67% of its value in a single month. The biggest culprit? Leverage. Borrowed money supercharged returns while AI stocks were soaring, but when prices reversed, margin calls forced the fund to sell assets at the worst possible time. To stay afloat, the firm rushed to sell most of its public stock portfolio to Citadel during the market panic. It also tried to offload $3.5 billion worth of its Anthropic stake to a group led by Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital, but after reaching an agreement, the deal unexpectedly fell apart the very next day. For now, the Anthropic shares remain untouched, but the fund has eliminated the leverage that fueled both its meteoric rise and its dramatic collapse. In a letter to investors, Aschenbrenner admitted the firm had let them down, while also pointing to aggressive short sellers who had targeted many of its positions. Source. @aipost 🏴

DeepSeek-V4-Flash has been released as a public beta API. The latest version achieves an 82.7 score on Terminal Bench 2.1, outperforming the larger Pro-Preview model. Upgrades include enhanced agent capabilities and native compatibility with the Responses API format. The V4-Flash model is also fully adapted for Codex integration. Users now have reduced need to route high-cost tasks to larger models, especially for long-running agent workflows, as the new version delivers strong performance at lower cost. Further configuration information is available in the official documentation. 📰 @aipost

🗣Sam Altman: "say in month 23 we have something everybody agrees is superintelligence. what happens in month 24? my answer is: not very much" The cult of the 'machine god' expects change much faster than it will, even though much of that progress was coming anyway. @aipost 🏴

📢 The internet isn’t just for humans anymore, it’s being rewritten for AI Imagine opening a website and discovering that some of the “ads” weren’t meant for you at all. That’s exactly what Time is experimenting with. The publication has introduced a new type of advertisement designed specifically for AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. Instead of flashy banners or videos, these ads are simple, fact-filled text that AI models can use when answering users’ questions about brands. It’s a sign of how quickly the web is changing. For years, companies fought to rank #1 on Google. Now they’re chasing something entirely different: making sure AI mentions their brand when someone asks for a recommendation or explanation. @aipost 🏴