The Abstraction Fallacy Makes Conscious AI Harder to Prove
Alexander Lerchner’s paper on conscious AI does something unusual: it does not start by asking whether today’s models seem conscious….
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Kimi K2.6 is Rumor: Kimi K2.5 is the Real Story
Kimi K2.6 is everywhere in preview chatter. Kimi K2.6 is also, based on the sources we can actually verify, not…
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Zero-Shot World Models Attack AI’s Data Bottleneck
Most vision models get good by seeing absurd amounts of data. Zero-shot world models are interesting because they try a…
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OpenAI Science Division Lasted 7 Months Before Codex Won
The OpenAI science division lasted about seven months as a named initiative. Kevin Weil announced OpenAI for Science in September…
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Focused Ultrasound Turns Smell-In-VR Into a Brain Problem
A small research team says focused ultrasound can make people perceive smells without releasing any chemicals at all. If that…
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Identity Verification on Claude is the New AI Precedent
Anthropic now has a public help page describing identity verification for Claude. The page says some users may be asked…
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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is Unverified: Qwen3.5 is Real
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is being passed around as a major new open model release: 35 billion total parameters, 3 billion active, Apache…
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AI Reproducibility Crisis: Why Claims Fail to Verify
A paper reports a new state-of-the-art result. The repo is public. The figures look clean. The conference is top-tier. In…
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AI Video Generation Works for Trailers, Not Feature Films
I tried watching the latest wave of AI video generation demos the way a studio exec or ad creative would:…
