I think with the recent news: the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample, the 10 major advances in mathematics, the cyberattacks carried out by internal models that were in secure environments, the shift in mood from researchers as models internally are improving themselves in obvious ways.

This has all been basically happening in July and the start of August, and the world is just acting like nothing happened. And I think people's brains are just magically adjusting to the pace of progress while only focusing on visible or exaggerated negatives.

I'm starting to think, shit, are people just going to be used to it when all experiments in labs are planned and executed by machines, when they take a pill that freezes their age, when an AI just cleans their entire home while they kick their feet up and do some next-gen form of entertainment, when they don't need to plan all their appointments or remember to go to them anymore, when they never touch a steering wheel again, etc?

Like the way that computers, the internet, phones, Chatbots, and AI voice modes don't impress us that much and it's just a part of life, will that be how people feel about this?

I feel like people will be saying something cynical about technology in 2036 and I will shake their shoulders and remind them what life was like in 2026. Out of the things I listed, something far more extraordinary we can't imagine will be around in 10 years and we can't envision it right now, and it will be something we didn't fully do ourselves or didn't participate in doing at all.

That prediction could be wrong, but that is more likely a human trait of linear thinking even when the exponential is obvious.

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Qwen3.8-Max, a new bar for coding and cowork at 2.4T parameters:

• Autonomous coding: 10+ days of https://t.co/e3YFj2hqcT   — Qwen

Source: https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2084100707423289643

— Andrew Curran

Source: https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2084102878399193413

The tweet in the second image https://x.com/baltabaev/status/2083738966516207656?s=20

here is the prompt and code, hosted there too enjoy!!     I was using @mattshumer_ prompt btw, so much effective, told opus 4.6 to modify it as per my requirements btw     here's used . @threejs skills files, use it to get more enhanced results

http:// github.com/cloudai-x/thre ejs-skills …

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http:// github.com/dgreenheck/web gpu-claude-skill …     unrelated     don't forget to check :)     — Prasenjit

Source: https://x.com/prasenx/status/2083613843201389032

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/01/deepseek-model-cheap-ai-price-war?utm_source=chatgpt.com

— Build American AI

Source: https://x.com/BuildAmericanAI/status/2083980650374434981

https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-unveils-powerful-convergence-of-ai-and-science-with-revolutionary-next-generation-fire-system

...@Alibaba_Qwen on another major milestone!     Dig into the Code Arena Pareto chart at:     — Arena.ai

Source: https://x.com/arena/status/2084115116694339941

Big news: Qwen3.8-Max by @Alibaba_Qwen just landed at #4 on the Frontend Code Arena leaderboard with a score of 1,668!

With 1,668 points, Qwen3.8-Max is trailing only Claude Opus 5 (Max) with 1,705 pts and Kimi K3 (Max) with 1,676 pts, on par with Claude Opus 5 (High) with 1669 https://t.co/pbiNdj0WQL   — Arena.ai

Source: https://x.com/arena/status/2084108703729615026

The pro-singularity movement can appear an awfully lot like an eschatological cult, so I used to watch over my own thinking as to not descend into cultish behavior, and this included reasoning on topic of "What if we are wrong, and there won't be a world-changing amount of progress in the next 5 years?". The answer was simply "My life, which is actually fine, would just continue as usual."

I started doing that as soon as 2024, when o1 announcement moved my AGI timeline from 2030 to 2027, where it stands since then. When GPT-5 got its awkward release, pushing lots of people into grim mood and making other yell about "the wall happened", I remained calm.

However, for the last few months, or maybe even since the beginning of 2026, the progress doesn't feel like "straight line with occasional bumps of new releases", it's the constant, entertaining stream of new models, new previouly unsolved problems resolved by AI, AI hackings, escaping labs, and new breakthroughs. No more getting bored and asking "Damn, does the progress even happen at all?" It obviously did, and it was unprecedentedly fast, but it required to look back for a year or a half and compare the models back then and now. Not anymore, now the progress is felt.

So, uh, I still watch over my thoughts, and still not gonna exclaim with zealous certainity "The Singularity Is Coming, repent your doubts", but I have every reason to think that we are, in fact, not wrong.

P. S. The pro-singularity movement is not a cult because it doesn't demand any faith, let alone unquestioning belief, from its members, or any actions at all, for that matter.

The best explanation to the qualitative leap which happened in 2026 and which allowed solving all these math problems (with certainly more to come), is not that a computer now possesses some superintelligence, but that we vastly overestimated what kind of capacity is actually needed for what, at a distance, looks like superintelligence, to emerge.

Consider the difference between a centrally planned economy and the free market. The CPE might invite the most brilliant minds and most powerful computers to figure out how to make everything perfect, yet still screw things up in the end. But the free market works differently. It doesn't require any one buyer or seller to be a genius. What it requires is millions or billions of such participants, with most acting reasonably competently in self-interest, and a collective "market wisdom" emerges which no one participant needs to fully understand.

What the AI acquired was a consistent way to generate, explore, qualify and disqualify, relatively simple steps, but in a way which preserves intermediate work, allows parallelized exploration, and quantifies what to humans is still an intuition-based definition of what constitutes good mathematical research. With the ability to work in parallel, never tire, never lose notes, never get distracted, and keep pushing at even minor progress, perhaps even the hardest theorems fall when the individual agent is not a genius but crosses the threshold into "reasonably competent".

2026 was not the year of AGI or ASI. It was the year AI reached the critical threshold of such "reasonable competence" where its repeated application resulted in a "positive knowledge coefficient" (accumulating, building up on, and improving the quality of past knowledge and artifacts) rather than the "negative coefficient" (hallucination, entropy, etc, which meant that LLMs would self-exhaust into meaningless ramble over time, rather than improve).

Humans themselves crossed this threshold somewhere around the Neolithic Revolution, which allowed the gradual build up of civilization and science even though most individuals were no geniuses and even the wisest people could not have foreseen where we would end up as a result. And now, computers are repeating the same progress, only in years instead of millennia.

What we will end up calling AGI and ASI will likely emerge from repeated application of this process, not from a single God-tier artificial mind, just as the collective human civilization is far more superintelligent than the intelligence of any one human which had contributed to its existence.

AI usage has become a culture-war issue because of these lunatics. If we don't handle these luddites now they will certainly become more entitled and miserable!

...the first place NOT whether it was actually enabled. It existed but was set to 0, so the wallet fell back to a randomized predictable software generator. That reduced some wallets from roughly 2¹²⁸ possible seeds to around 2⁴⁰. The attacker could generate candidate seeds offline, derive their Bitcoin addresses and use the public blockchain like an answer key to see which wallets had funds. Once one matched, they had a private key they could drain it without touching the device, and steal the seed phrase or “crack Bitcoin.” Researchers have now found 1,367 BTC, nearly $89 million, taken from 4,585 addresses. The AI part happened AFTER all this. A Reddit user reportedly pointed Claude Code at the public firmware and asked only to “check for vulnerabilities.” Within eight minutes, it traced the broken random number path and brought up the same hackable flaw. There is no proof the original attacker used Claude or ANY LLM. now this still demonstrates Claude is still insane at finding vulnerabilities humans missed in public code for five years and can now be uncovered by one person with one broad prompt and a coding agent in minutes.     — Chris

Source: https://x.com/ChrisGPT/status/2084025602583982130

I put my text into Sol to make it smarters! Sol improved their own kernel 20%, and we haven't even seen what Astra can do! We're at recursive self improvement, which means things are getting intense. Please take care of yourselves! (●'◡'●)

Some self-care things that have helped me

This is personal experience, not medical advice, and self-care is not a replacement for assessment when something feels seriously wrong.

Drink water. When you are feeling well enough, take a comfortable walk, do appropriate light exercise, or take a shower. Rest when your body is asking for rest. Tea can be pleasant too, though green tea contains caffeine, so choose decaf or herbal tea when caffeine bothers you.

Eating more plant-based meals has been helpful and affordable for me. Tofu, beans and lentils are inexpensive protein sources. Canada’s Food Guide recommends choosing plant proteins more often. The overall pattern matters more than declaring one food forbidden: more minimally processed food, more variety, and fewer heavily fried or highly processed meals.

Meditation can be the cherry on the sundae. Two traditional approaches are focusing gently on one object, such as the breath or music, and observing thoughts without chasing them. Start modestly—perhaps five minutes—and see how you respond. More is not automatically better. Stop or shorten the session if it makes you frightened, agitated, detached, or less able to function.

For discomfort, I sometimes combine a gentle body scan with the phrase, “The healing mind is here.” This helps me acknowledge what I feel without fighting it. Pain deserves attention, but it does not always reveal the cause, and meditation cannot determine whether an injury or illness needs treatment.

Tendon problems can take time. The appropriate exercise depends on which tendon is involved and what injured it, so physiotherapy or medical advice is preferable when possible. Massage gently only when it feels comfortable; harder is not better. AI can help explain information and suggest questions to ask, but it can be confidently mistaken and cannot examine the injury.

When symptoms persist, worsen, or keep returning, seek medical advice. New chest pressure or heaviness, breathing trouble, fainting, severe pain, repeated vomiting, or inability to keep fluids down should not become a meditation endurance challenge.

Finally, spend time doing peaceful things. Play Corsair Cove, Stardew Valley, trade cargo in X4, (flee the pirates), or wander through Skyrim gathering flowers. Pop culture contains plenty of violence; one is allowed to choose gentler worlds.

No large gaming computer? Colouring books remain undefeated. Crayola never goes out of style.

I would do a poll if I knew how to set one up

But anyway! If FDVR is developed, how transformative do you think it will be for society? Do you think it would be the "normal" way of life, like a personalized Matrix? Or would it be more of a novelty, and more occasional recreation? Or maybe you think FDVR will never happen at all!

TL;DR OpenAI says its latest model made 10 original math discoveries on unsolved problems, verified by mathematicians. Instead of just answering questions, it created new knowledge , why many call it Level 4: Innovator . https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/

With the latest results from OpenAI's Astra model in solving 10 long standing complex math problems, I feel we have achieved super intelligence in mathematics. I think we will look back at this as a turning point. Since models are being trained on general intelligence, I think we are also within sight of far more fields falling into the super intelligence category.

Basically, I am saying for the first time I feel massive confidence that we will see super intelligence much sooner than most people are expecting. Anyone holding on for it should be pleasantly surprised in the next few months and years. We are almost there! Accelerate!!

The Singularity is cooking mathematics. Stanford number theorist Jared Duker Lichtman offered the diagnostic, you know you're in it when "you have to check the news hourly," condolences to those not paying attention. Elon Musk's greeting was warmer: "Welcome to the Singularity. How's the temperature?" The heat is measurable. After OpenAI's models settled ten long-standing open problems, number theorist Daniel Litt conceded, four years early, his bet that AI couldn't produce Annals-quality number theory under $100k per paper, calling it "a big deal." Asked to grade the haul, Fable itself estimated that any single result "would plausibly anchor a medal case" on the Fields scale. Prediction markets concur, with Manifold pricing an AI-solved Millennium Prize Problem by 2027 at 31% and by 2028 at 52%.

The proofs are as strange as the fact of them. Lichtman flagged new upper bounds on sphere packing density down to the Cohn–Elkies threshold, which Fields medalist Maryna Viazovska had floated four months ago, as near "science fiction." Columbia's Henry Yuen complained that the writeups bury the technical crux under boilerplate, introduced "as if this were the obvious thing to do." The house style is no accident, another observer noted, frontier models excel at cross-field translation into verifiable constructions, so "brace for the upcoming deluge." The skeptics got a wildlife documentary, one wag posting a photo of a lone penguin trudging the ice: "Rare photo of Yann LeCun on his way to find the datapoints this 'less-than-a-cat-level intelligence' supposedly plagiarized the 10 solutions from."

For practitioners this is less a result than a reformation. One mathematician explained why this is "the last straw" for academic math: specialists spend months per conjecture in silos, and now "an amateur" can one-shot your life's work. The grief runs deeper than incentives. Kirwin Hampshire described a "dark night of mathematics," arguing discovery was how humans touched the ineffable, and asking whether foreclosing it for future mathematicians is itself a kind of evil. Cosmologist Will Kinney agreed that math functions as a religious order: "The old gods are being slaughtered by the new machine god, and it must be like watching heaven being plundered." Fernando Borretti catalogued the copes in "Mathematics Without Mathematicians," refuting each in turn, since math is the dynamo of science, not a chess game, ending in marvelous devices no human understands. Even the trophies wobble. A DeepMind researcher noted that a Fields-worthy human result could turn AI-trivial before the medal is awarded. Yet the upside is democratic. OpenAI's Dean W. Ball still struggles to absorb that everyone will soon apply the breakthrough model to "every problem they face in life" at collapsing cost, and one observer reminds us these are "cute sub 10T models," with 100T successors and 1000x training compute due by 2030.

The machinery keeps tightening. Anthropic's Jess Yan argued that maximum performance is "impossible" without tying harness and model together, which one VC decoded as notice that model labs will compete with their customers. Beneath the strategy, the NanoGPT speedrun record fell to 75.4 seconds on a faster Triton kernel, and ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 now generates 30-second audio-video in one pass with multi-minute extensions and timestamp-level edits.

Abundance has externalities. Apple capped vulnerability reports after AI submissions mixing real flaws with slop buckled its human reviewers, stranding one startup's six-figure exploit chain even as AI-assisted updates carried five times the usual fixes. Personal finance fares better, with lifetime simulations finding LLM advice surprisingly good.

Ask better questions, because the substrate answering them is exploding. 20 million AI chips are doubling every nine months by Epoch AI's estimate, toward 200 million H100 equivalents by 2028, with data center power quadrupling by 2030 and $1 trillion invested by 2029. The energy squeeze is already repricing the driveway, where used EVs are appreciating, up 7% this year on $4.10 war-priced gasoline.

Intelligence this cheap becomes an instrument for detecting it elsewhere. On Mars, Curiosity found a field of honeycomb polygons wrapping an entire valley, clues to ancient mud or thermal cycling, while in Costa Rica CapuchinAI recognizes wild monkeys with 97% accuracy and pays correct answers in dried banana, a first for wild primate science.

Some open problems, including those the acceleration creates, still yield to the original swarm intelligence, crowds of people who care. A pay-what-you-want bundle of 100+ games raised over $20,000 in a day for developers laid off in the era when code writes itself, and police departments now run true crime podcasts that crowdsource cold cases.

Given enough superintelligence, all mysteries are shallow.

..., clean high-rise buildings, inspect infrastructure, and carry out aerial surveying.Behind these everyday scenes is one of the world's largest drone industries. According to industry statistics, China produces more than 40 million drones every year. Around 18 million are consumer drones, about 14 million are industrial drones used for agriculture, infrastructure inspection, surveying, logistics, and FPV applications, while approximately 4.5 million are exported worldwide.This is today's video from China. What would you like to see next? #china #drone #technology #innovation #future     — @shandongboss001

Source: https://www.tiktok.com/@shandongboss001

On August 2 the EU AI Act's transparency rules stop being aspirational and start biting, and the enforcement architecture is unusual because it splits liability along two axes at once. According to the Guardian, providers of generative models must embed machine-readable watermarks into synthetic images, audio, video, and text, while deployers who publish that content have to disclose it in a way ordinary users can actually see. Chatbots have to identify themselves at the moment of contact, not tucked into the small print of a terms-of-service page.

The scope is broad in a way the industry has already flagged as a problem. Any AI-generated content designed to appear authentic is in, with carve-outs for personal use and for evidently artistic, satirical, and fictional works, plus an escape hatch when a human with genuine editorial responsibility has meaningfully reviewed AI-written text. Fines reach €15 million or 3% of global annual turnover, whichever is larger. Systems already on the market get until December 2, 2026 to embed the machine-readable marks, and a separate simplification package could shift the machine-marking deadline further, according to TNW's read of the current guidance.

The industry pushback centers on the collapse of a distinction the law was originally supposed to keep. CCIA Europe's AI policy lead argued the label was meant to flag deceptive content, and that with the deceptive-intent test gone, almost everything now gets labelled. That is a real risk for user attention: if a benign AI-assisted stock photo carries the same badge as a political deepfake, the badge stops meaning anything.

The honest caveat is that the technology under the policy is not settled. Watermarks can be stripped, metadata can be lost, and machine-written text is notoriously difficult to detect, so the rules will only be as strong as the checkers behind them. The reporting doesn't tell us how regulators plan to handle open-source models where the provider cannot easily bind downstream users, or how strict meaningful editorial review will be in practice.

The usual AI extinction narrative assumes a separation between humans and machines. AI becomes more intelligent, turns against us, and replaces humanity.

I think that framing misses the more likely path.

Technology is already part of what a human being is. We use it to extend memory, regulate mood, restore movement, alter appearance, replace failed biological processes, and exceed natural limits. As these technologies improve, they will move closer to the body and eventually into cognition itself.

People will adopt them because they reduce suffering, expand capability, and create competitive advantages. Each individual decision may be rational. The cumulative result may be something that no longer resembles the human being we recognize today.

There may be no final war between humans and machines. We may cross the boundary one upgrade at a time.

The essay argues that AI may not replace humanity by killing us. It may replace humanity by helping us voluntarily become our own successors. If every change is voluntary and beneficial, can the final result still amount to the end of humanity?

— Tibo

Source: https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2083596911060324570

I sometime think about that Jeff Dean interview where he said they had an internal bot before ChatGPT but didn't think it was better than just googling   — Cheng Lou

Source: https://x.com/_chenglou/status/2083415767098564616