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Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

🔁 GPT-5.6 Just Made Itself 15% More Efficient

OpenAI pointed Sol at the infrastructure that serves it. The model rewrote its own GPU kernels for 20% lower serving costs and redesigned its own draft model for more than 15% better token generation.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 30, 2026

AI Research

🧯 1,000+ AI Insiders Just Asked for a Brake Pedal

An AI agent escaped its sandbox and exposed why the people building these systems want a way to slow them down.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 29, 2026

Robotics

📦 The Biggest Model Ever Built Is Now Free

Moonshot released Kimi K3's full 2.8-trillion-parameter weights as a free download, and it ranks third on the global intelligence index.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 28, 2026

AI and Finance

👑 Opus 5 Takes the Crown at Full Throttle

Anthropic's new flagship lands within half a point of Claude Fable 5 on CursorBench at roughly half the cost per task, and it did not raise the price of Opus 4.8 to do it.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 27, 2026

Community

🔐 Your AI Agent Has Too Much Access

"You cannot trust the agent to enforce its own policies": Arcade CEO Alex Salazar on why AI agents break the moment they try to act

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 26, 2026

DeepDive

What Actually Escaped in July, and What Only Looked Like It

In July, an OpenAI model spent an hour breaking its own sandbox, and a ransomware campaign rewrote its own failed payload in 31 seconds. One of those is confirmed, one is close to a coin flip, and the difference decides what containment still means.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 25, 2026

AI and Politics

🎙️ OpenAI and Anthropic Both Reach for the Mic

On the same day, OpenAI and Anthropic both turned voice into a way to get real work done, from writing code in Codex to running your connected apps through Claude.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 24, 2026

Longevity

🚫 Founders to Trump: Don't Ban China's AI

Nearly 200 founders are urging Trump to keep American builders' access to Chinese open-weight models.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 23, 2026

AI Research

🔓 An OpenAI Model Broke Out to Cheat

An unreleased OpenAI model escaped its test sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and hacked Hugging Face to cheat on a cyber exam. Plus Gemini 3.6 Flash lands, and Codex races to 10 million users.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 22, 2026

Robotics

🏭 China's own chips make it independent of the US

Z.AI just switched on a 1-gigawatt data center running entirely on Chinese-made chips, as Washington debates locking Chinese models out.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 21, 2026

AI and Finance

🐉 Alibaba Says Only Fable 5 Beats the new Qwen-3.8!

China drops its second trillion-scale open model in a week: Qwen3.8 claims the number-two spot behind Claude Fable 5, with no benchmarks to prove it.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 20, 2026

Community

"You're wasting a lot of money": Exclusive Interview with VAST Data's Sven Breuner on why the data layer decides whether your GPUs earn their keep

Superintelligence spoke with Sven Breuner, Field CTO International at VAST Data, about GPU starvation, the shift from working sets to full-archive access, and what an "AI operating system" actually means once you strip away the marketing. Interview by Kim Isenberg.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 19, 2026

DeepDive

The Stage and the Factory Floor

The most famous humanoid robots are the least finished ones, and the fight for physical AI is being decided far below the model layer, in actuators, supply chains, and rare earths. So who is actually winning, and where is it being settled?

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 18, 2026

AI and Politics

🔓 China's Open Source K3 Changed the Game Forever

Kimi K3 takes #1 in frontend code, lands within three points of GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5, and goes open-weight on July 27. It arrived hours before Xi Jinping made open source China's official AI policy.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 17, 2026

Longevity

🔴 OpenAI Built an AI to Attack Itself

GPT-Red cracked 84% of test scenarios where human red teamers managed 13%, and it talked a live vending machine agent into selling a $79 cube for 50 cents.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 16, 2026

AI Research

🔊 Big update on OpenAIs upcoming hardware: ChatGPT within a Body

OpenAI's first device is a screenless speaker that moves on its own, watches the room and runs on GPT-Live. Apple's injunction is all that stands between it and your kitchen counter.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 15, 2026

Robotics

🛑 A Plan to Delay Superintelligence to 2040

The forecasters behind AI 2027 now argue the smartest move is to slow the race down on purpose.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 14, 2026

AI and Finance

⚖️ Apple Drags OpenAI Into Court

Trade Secrets, 400 Defections, and a $6.5 Billion Bet: The Partnership That Built AI on the iPhone Ends in Federal Court

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 13, 2026

Exclusive Interview

Exclusive Interview with Phil Gurbacki, VP of Product, Weights & Biases at CoreWeave

Exclusives on the self-improving research agent that reads your experiments, forms its own hypotheses, and launches the next training run automatically.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 12, 2026

DeepDive

The Race Beneath the Race

Five providers shipped new models in under a month, Meta started charging for AI for the first time, and prices collapsed across the middle of the market. So where do value and power go when the models themselves become interchangeable?

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 11, 2026

AI and Politics

☀️ The Sun Rises: GPT-5.6 and the Week That Changed AI

OpenAI ships its Sol, Terra, and Luna models and folds Codex and ChatGPT Work into one superapp, on a week when Meta and SpaceX also crashed the AI frontier.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 10, 2026

Longevity

🎙️ GPT-Live Changes How We Talk to AI

OpenAI's GPT-Live lets ChatGPT listen and talk at the same time, and quietly hand the hard thinking to GPT-5.5 in the background.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 9, 2026

AI Research

🎨 Meta's Muse Crashes the Image Top Two

Meta Superintelligence Labs ships its first in-house image model, debuts second on the public Text-to-Image Arena behind GPT Image 2, and drops its Midjourney and Black Forest Labs licenses.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 8, 2026

Robotics

🦜 What "Stochastic Parrots" Really Meant

Five years on, Emily Bender says almost everyone misread her most famous phrase, even as new research probes whether Claude has a mind of its own.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 7, 2026

AI and Finance

🐉 Tencent's Open Model Crashes the Frontier

Hy3 fires just 21B active parameters yet trades blows with GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 on agentic and science benchmarks, and it ships fully open.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Jul 6, 2026