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Joma Tech
Introducing ChatGPT for Dishwashing
GPT-6 achieves state-of-the-art results on dishwashing benchmarks for long-running jobs and difficult stains.
The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem is a $1 million challenge about whether the equations describing fluid motion can break down. In this video, I accidentally found a counter-example while trying to optimize my dishwasher. But in reality, OpenAI used 10,000 AI agents to find a proof in 88 hours: https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/
Parody of the original GPT-6 Astra ad
@OpenAI #ChatGPT_Partner #chatgpt
Credits:
Written and Directed by Joma
Co-Writer - Henry Connor Coan IV @coan_henry
Production by Dauntlus Studios @dauntlus.studios
Producer/Co-Director - Marcus Liew @dauntlus
Camera Operator - Amos Lee @amoselijahlee
Art Director - Alethea Soo @aletheasoo
Art Assistant - Alicia Lim @aliciatkl_
Assistant Editor - GPT-6 Astra
Music: Tensions Run High by Soundridemusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly9H63SLJJo
McBain
Over the last few months, we've added a ton of new features and improved a lot of quality-of-life issues
This video covers a few of those and shares a little bit about what we're going to be doing over the coming months
0:11 New models
0:17 Multiplayer
0:44 Multiplayer in action
1:20 Interactive dashboards
1:57 Memory & skills
2:08 Meetings & voice
2:20 Easier Mac setup
2:32 What's next
Jasmine says that she accidentally accessed an executive's email that OpenAI had explicitly given her access to, even although she had explicitly requested that OpenAI remove her access, and IT had failed to do so.
Which implies Jasmine was fired for IT's failure?
Jasmine Wang: OpenAI fired me last week, along with two of my safety colleagues. I was given one reason: that I accessed an executive's email. I want to say this plainly, because too many of OpenAI’s history is smoke and mirrors when people disappear:
WE GOT IT! .claw incoming!
David Rodecker: .Claw cometh!
The winning applicant for .claw top level domain in ICANN’s 2026 round: the OpenClaw Foundation. Huge step in giving our agents a natural home presence.
Congratulations to @davemorin @steipete and the @openclaw team. Looking forward to great things crawling 🦞
going rate for this role is between 5-50m comp package btw at the frontier agent labs
adel 🌟: literal hardest role to hire for rn and every ai startup wants someone
> chronically online (knows trends)
> has taste & can create (new media)
> understands ai & technical
> can execute with quality (operator)
such a small niche of folks who can do this
Morgan J. Freeman
Goodnight 🌙
Re recap of last time this discourse happened for those who are insufficiently online https://dx.tips/cant-hire
Few things more enjoyable in work and life than discovering new talent. Seeing greatness in people, sometimes even before they fully see it themselves.
I refuse to take advice about software from a guy who doesn’t believe in mustache grooming to this extent
Louis Anslow: TikTok blowing up telling people not to use vibe coded photoshop alternative because it is AI slop
Narrator: he was not, in fact, allowed to say “I’m quite unhappy with much of what OpenAI does.”
Tomek Korbak: I’m quite unhappy with much of what OpenAI does.
I am very happy that I’m allowed to say “I’m quite unhappy with much of what OpenAI does.”
I don't understand how Grok @bot's new email feature works. I just tagged it on a thread and it doesn't seem to reply? What are ppl using it for?
Ian L Richardson
Let's be clear, the free world has nothing to learn about western values & civilisation from MAGA USA. Most of us can see what Vance & Rubio really are, as they strut around Europe telling us where we went wrong. They should clean up their own filthy & stinking yard, a country of botched executions & now a return to public executions. A cesspit where milliions of its citizens can't afford decent health care & thousands die each year due to archaic gun laws. It's a country that routinely breaks international law. Worst of all, it's a nation in thrall to a corrupt & criminal authoritarian leader who is all that Christianity, liberal democacy, the Renaissance & the Enlightenment were not & are not. MAGA has only one thing to teach us; the urgent need to avoid sliding back into barbarism. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Yann LeCun
Re June 1986. It was my first conference in the US and my first time visiting MIT.
Had a poster on multilayer nets.
I met Marvin Minsky for the first time at the reception hosted by Thinking Machines Inc (the original one that built the Connection Machine). He was surprised that you could train a neural net to compute the product of two binary numbers (I had done the experiment).
I was on my way to the first Connectionist Summer School at CMU.
The Bell Labs folks, who I met the year before, heard I was in the US and invited me for a talk in Holmdel on my way back to Paris.
Logical: in the future ICs with agents will be more productive and create better outcomes than equivalent people managers from prior eras
Lenny Rachitsky: “If we truly believe that AI is changing how we work, then ICs should get paid more than managers, because an IC can drive more impact than a manager could in the pre-AI system.” — @ElenaVerna
Suhail
It is time to prepare for a world where there are tasks so complex and difficult to solve, humans will no longer know how they are solved.
Every one of my mathematician friend sees beauty in the numbers, shapes and the natural phenomena they work with. Who defines beauty in the age of machines?🤔
Rui Ma
I was talking with a friend today about how tough the job market is for tech, and how even if you do have a job, it's so unstable because things are changing so fast.
I told them that even though I technically have my own business and I'm supposed to have "visibility" into how I'm doing, do I really? No. I just assume the business will change every few months and I don't get too fussed when it does, and trust me it has been changing quite consistently
This is why it's obvious to me that, more than a set of skills or a knowledge base, you really have to teach your kids how to adapt to new situations, quickly figure out opportunities, and take risks
geoff
🗞️ if your team is too busy doing their 'normal job' to experiment with AI, you're preparing them to be replaced
https://ghuntley.com/replaced/
In this post, I guess this's the last time I'll say it. AI use is no longer optional if you wish to be employed. What follows is advice for current employees and hiring managers on how to hire in 2026 to source AI-first candidates.
ELLIS
Sessions for the ELLIS UnConference are online! Kicking off with two sessions on World Models 🌍, including a 30-min tutorial by @ylecun!
🔎 Sessions: https://ellis-unconference.github.io/#sessions
❗ Register: https://ellis-unconference.github.io/#registration
Heading to @EurIPSConf in Paris? Join us a day early on Dec 8!
Paridhi Agarwal
Over the past few months i've been having way too much fun building the @every agent - a coworker that lives in your slack and your whole team can delegate complex tasks to it.
wrote a piece on how it works and why we decided to build it using @claudeai managed agents.
https://every.to/source-code/why-we-handed-our-agent-s-infrastructure-to-anthropic?utm_cta_source=home_main_a_3
The rate of progress in the labs is accelerating
The rate of adoption of that progress in society is not
It’s going to go both very fast on one end and it will feel slower than ever to those who understand AI because society has natural brakes
Fast takeoff with slow uptake
carried_no_interest: @AlexFreitasAI Far far far beyond that
Most of them are fully convinced the labs are on a dominant 15-20 year cycle
And that every single thing that can be farmed for tokens (or is a sensor as they call it) will be
And that AI inevitably will run entire companies (ostensibly) in the near
Kind of an interesting idea: explicitly hire the best AI-enabled workers at full salary but only 20 hours a week.
Forbes: Jeff Bezos Claims AI Could Allow For 3-Day Workweeks And One-Income Families
https://go.forbes.com/bKpnur
Education bureaucrats who say crazy things like this fool need to be removed from office
Dale Chu: Imagine running for California's top K–12 education job and arguing that teaching kids elementary school math is the responsibility of college professors.
That's quite the campaign pitch.
Letterland LIVE
Is @every a media company or a software company?
Yes.
Their latest drop is the Every Agent, an AI coworker in Slack, bundled with the whole Every archive.
Shout out @danshipper and team for shipping cool stuff all the time. We're excited to try it out and report back...
Working With Agents in Slack https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1qGoNYyeYkbKv
Mike Taylor
I finally have a writing skill I'm happy with that writes like me, and I was able to write 4 posts this week (normally I would average 2 per month). The problem is our editors can only really handle publishing 2 per month from me and AI editing isn't working yet so we're stuck.
Elena
pat gelsinger (@PGelsinger) designed chips at intel in a period when doing so could involve writing your own hardware description language, which he did for the 486. his team also built a compiler and tools for automating placement and routing. “I wrote my own language,” he says in this pod with @RaghuRaghuram and @appenz. it's a good reminder of how many things had to be invented alongside the processors themselves, and why the prospect of AI taking over more of that work is so exciting.
pat then asks us to imagine designing an excellent AI accelerator in three months. getting it fabricated, packaged, and into a working rack takes roughly nine more in his example (the relevant unit is now the rack: “nothing's a chip anymore, it's a rack”). so there's a period in which your very clever design has to sit and wait for its physical existence, while the models whose workloads you've designed it for can keep evolving. his description of graphcore is that it “wasn't a bad design, but the world moved on.” i think about how often people announce a new model or a new way of using one, and nine months seems like a very long commitment to your current understanding of what the hardware ought to do.
guido's argument is that agents should make it easier to support a greater variety of architectures, because writing all the software to use an unfamiliar chip has historically been one of the barriers. pat's answer is that somebody still has to pay for manufacturing and for a place to put all these chips. he expects consolidation, even with better software tools. if you're a customer committing to a data center and its electricity supply, you're making a rather different bet than the engineer who's just got a new design to work.
which leaves a lot for hardware people to do. pat is especially dissatisfied with hbm (high-bandwidth memory), pointing to problems with density, bandwidth, and heat; he calls it “a hideous memory,” and says he's just funded a new memory company that's still in stealth. he wants better memory closer to compute, optical connections between systems, and less electricity lost in conversion on its way to the chip. he also seems very happy to talk about cooling. “engineers are becoming plumbers,” is how he puts it.
if we're excited about being able to design more things with AI, we should be excited about the work that allows us to manufacture and operate them, too. pat has already lived through a period of having to invent quite a lot of the surrounding machinery. it makes sense that he'd see another one as an opportunity.
a16z: Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger with a16z's Raghu Raghuram and Guido Appenzeller on the next wave of semiconductor innovation and the physical constraints shaping the AI buildout:
Drawing on his experience designing Intel's 386 and 486 processors, Pat explains how AI could
Diogo Almeida
launched a model
accidentally served trillions of tokens a day
29.4% of the fortune 500 showed up
raised a really big series A from @a16z
it's been 3 weeks
we would like to sleep now
Mike Taylor
We're experiencing Accelerando at @every – the tempo is getting progressively faster as we go deeper on adopting AI.
I finally dialed things in with Claude and ran 8 new experiments and wrote 4 posts in one week, which would normally be a whole month's work. None of it is live yet because realistically we only have space for 2-4 things from me per month in the newsletter.
@kieranklaassen had to go around the normal clogged up release process and put things live on a new frontier page. He asked in today's meeting "what happens when we can publish 100 apps in one week?".
Nobody has a good answer for that yet. We're not prepared for what happens when our output is 100x.
Some communities are excited by AI’s impact on their field. Others are petrified. What’s the deciding factor(s)?
His Dot caught a mistake before he did.
My dot has already caught scheduling conflicts, missing meeting information, and important billing notices for me.
As we move more into high-agency proactive AI, business leaders need to make sure their teams are not solely relying on AI to catch conflicts or errors. Honestly, I can already see myself falling into the trap a bit.
Every 📧
We don’t condone stealing, but you should definitely steal your colleague’s skills.
@bran_don_gell turned a motion-design process into a skill. @beckyisj thought it was cool and used it to make this video.
Install Every in @SlackHQ: https://every.to/agent?utm_source=x&utm_campaign=every-agent-launch&utm_content=every-261009-skill-steal
Pro @bot tip:
If you want your Grok Bot as a chief of staff it doesn't actually make sense to register its email as your (your-name) because it's weird to copy in yourself.
e.g., "Let me copy in Peter to find a time for us" doesn't make alot of sense.
So I suggest picking another name for your Grok Bot email - whatever you want your chief of staff to be called.
Grok Bot: Grok Bot now has its own email.
Bot can use it to sign up for services, contact businesses for you, or schedule time with someone.
Mike Taylor
"Don't freak out, I cloned you" - the story of how I cloned @NataliaZarina, @kdaigle, and @danshipper.
https://every.to/also-true-for-humans/you-already-signed-this-off-in-the-simulation?gift=hLQGJ0b4jVRfTxQ7Sn1JMAe5jDxPVEOp
ChatGPT
Fresh updates for dots.
First up: you can now create your dot straight from your phone in the ChatGPT app on iOS and Android.
Lenny Rachitsky
Tired: Two-pizza teams
Wired: Two-slice teams
@danshipper on the best team structure in the AI-era
