Semafor is reporting that The US government has lifted its block on Mythos 5 in a letter this afternoon from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to Tom Brown. Fable is not included. This is US only, and covers 100 US institutions, including major companies and government agencies. semafor.com/article/06/27/…

I promised I would post the letter Dario Amodei sent to the White House and Senators Tim Scott and Elizabeth Warren as soon as it became available:

https://twitter.com/Discoplomacy/status/2070069250513900005

Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis called for a US-led coalition to determine the global standards and rules for AI in a closed-door meeting this morning at the G7.

Dario Amodei also said in his address that the coalition should structure access to frontier models and hardware - including both chips and other critical components - in a way that excludes China. Backed by Canada.

Bloomberg has a copy of the letter Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wrote to Dario Amodei on Friday. When the full PDF becomes available I will post it.

Except:
'Until further notice, you must submit an application for an individually-validated license prior to the export, reexport, or transfer (in-country), including deemed export or deemed reexport, of the Mythos or Fable models to any destination worldwide or to any 'foreign person' wherever located' bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

New AI numbers from Pew, fresh this morning. 62% of U.S. adults now say they interact with AI at least several times a week, and 31% are now using AI 'almost constantly' or several times a day. About half say that AI will worsen people's ability to think creatively and form meaningful relationships.

A federal judge has ruled that Anthropic's use of books to train Claude falls under fair use, and is legal under U.S. copyright law. From the ruling:
'Like any reader aspiring to be a writer,
Anthropic's LLMs trained upon works not to race ahead and replicate or supplant them – but to turn a hard corner and create something different.'

From the paper:
'AlphaEvolve was able to find a simple code rewrite that removed unnecessary bits, a change validated by TPU designers for correctness. ... Integrated into an upcoming TPU, this improvement represents Gemini's first direct contribution to TPU arithmetic circuits'

https://twitter.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1922669321559347498

'Firstly, the FlashAttention kernel for the configuration of interest was sped up by 32%. Secondly, AlphaEvolve found improvements in pre- and postprocessing of kernel inputs and outputs, resulting in a 15% speed up'

r/changemyview had their views changed by clandestine bots during a secret persuasion experiment. The bots were never detected. From the paper;

https://twitter.com/jason_koebler/status/1916866751750607039

The sub is not happy.

OpenAI submitted their policy proposal to the US government this morning. They directly link fair use with national security, and said if China continues to have free access to data while 'American companies are left without fair use access, the race for Al is effectively over.' 'The federal government can both secure Americans' freedom to learn from Al, and avoid forfeiting our Al lead to the PRC by preserving American Al models' ability to learn from copyrighted material'

It uses a multi-agent system.

'designed to mirror the reasoning process underpinning the scientific method ... the AI co-scientist system is intended to uncover new, original knowledge and to formulate demonstrably novel research hypotheses and proposals'

https://twitter.com/GoogleAI/status/1892214154372518031

It uses a team of six distinct agents 'inspired by the scientific method itself' using 'automated feedback to iteratively generate, evaluate, and refine hypotheses'

This is it, agentic teams is here.

-Generation
-Reflection
-Ranking
-Evolution
-Proximity
-Meta-review

This morning the White House released the Interim Final Rule on Artificial Intelligence Diffusion. If you live in one of the tier one nations, there are no restrictions on the amount of chips you can buy, or the size of the datacenter you can build.

NVIDIA has built a 2.5 billion parameter audio model called Fugatto that generates music, voice, and sound from text and audio input. Sound inputs become completely mutable. It can change a piano line to a human voice singing or make 'a trumpet bark or a saxophone meow. Using a feature called temporal interpolation, Fugatto can 'create the sounds of a rainstorm moving through an area with crescendos of thunder that slowly fade into the distance. It also gives users fine-grained control over how the soundscape evolves'

For anyone who hasn't been tuned into all this, some of the language in yesterday's National Security Memo probably seemed a little surreal. The shift in tone began about six weeks ago, after the infrastructure meeting at the White House on September 12th.

https://twitter.com/AndrewCurran_/status/1834246462592401563

That was the same meeting where Sam Altman proposed his 5GW datacenter plan. Whatever was said in that room had an immediate effect. This culminated in the NSM, but there's been similar language for weeks now; when it comes to energy and recruitment, do whatever it takes.

This morning the White House issued a National Security Memorandum declaring that 'AI is likely to affect almost all domains with national security significance'. Attracting technical talent and building computational power are now official national security priorities. DoS, DoD and DHS 'shall each use all available legal authorities to assist in attracting and rapidly bringing to the United States individuals with relevant technical expertise who would improve United States competitiveness in AI and related fields'

The Three Mile Island nuclear plant is being restarted. All 835 megawatts will go to power Microsoft's data centers. This is both the first time a U.S. nuclear plant will come back into service after being decommissioned, and that an entire plant’s output will go to one customer. cnbc.com/2024/09/20/con…

We're live everyone! It's finally happening. openai.com/index/introduc…

From this:
- Llama 4 started training in June
- Llama 4 will be fully multimodal, including audio
- Llama 3 405b will still release in the EU
- Llama 4, and beyond, will not be released in the EU unless they allow META to use EU Facebook and Instagram posts as training data. axios.com/2024/07/17/met…

OpenAI and Los Alamos National Laboratory have formed a partnership to study model bioscience capabilities. Los Alamos has also established AIRTAG the AI Risks and Threat Assessments Group. GPT-4o, with Voice Mode enabled, will be used in lab to assist bioresearch.

Statement from Mira Murati.

GPT-4 demonstrated superior performance over humans in 6th Order ToM inferences, suggesting that increased model size, instruction fine-tuning, multimodal capabilities, and word comprehension - or interplay among all of these - contribute to its ability to model mental states.

https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1796190990799142986

Reasoning about others mental states up to Order 5 *enhances* human capacity for recursive syntax. Beyond 5, the relationship inverts: proficiency in recursive syntax begins to support ToM abilities. The human drops off after 5 due to the cognitive load from nested structures.

It turns out music, movies, entertainment, and society in general peaked during the exact time period when you, the person reading this, were a teenager. 'For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty?'
washingtonpost.com/business/2024/…

This morning the Department of Homeland Security announced the establishment of the Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board. The 22 inaugural members include Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai and many others. The AISSB will 'develop recommendations to prevent and prepare for AI-related disruptions to critical services that impact national or economic security, public health, or safety.'