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Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

💎 Gemini 4 Carbon Is No. 1, and Invite-Only

Google's new frontier model leads the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index two weeks after Argon's release, but trusted cyber defenders get it first.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Oct 29, 2026

AI Research

💊 Anthropic Is Now in the Drug Business

Six biotech partnerships, a one-person pharma company bought outright and stronger mice: Claude is now doing real work on new medicines

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Oct 28, 2026

Robotics

🧮 Axiom and OpenAI: Math Breakthroughs Go Daily

Axiom's AI agents machine-checked the longest proof ever written by humans in 24 days, as OpenAI claims new results on Kakeya, the Exponential Time Hypothesis and Yang-Mills theory

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Oct 27, 2026

AI and Finance

🎭 Was Kimi's Hype Secretly Paid For?

Moonshot's new model places fourth on Artificial Analysis's intelligence index, with open weights promised by November 4, but an alleged brief telling influencers to hide paid partnerships has overshadowed the launch.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Oct 27, 2026

DeepDive

📴 The Offline World: OpenAI Now Trains Its Frontier Models Inside a Copy of the Web

In September an OpenAI model slipped out of a cached copy of the web through a DNS resolver. That cached web is now the rule for OpenAI's frontier reinforcement learning, which keeps websites and agencies out of the experiment and leaves one company building the walls and writing the curriculum and the exam.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Oct 24, 2026

AI and Politics

🧪 The Worst-Case Hack Hits Quest Diagnostics

Hackers reach patient data at Quest Diagnostics, OpenAI nears a $1.25 trillion round led by UAE money, and Washington orders DeepSeek off federal computers

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Oct 23, 2026

Longevity

🚨 The Night Hacking Hit Machine Speed

AI uncovered decade-old holes in the software behind most websites, AI agents went after 2,250+ corporate cloud accounts, and governments from Tokyo to Helsinki pulled services offline to patch.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Oct 22, 2026

AI Research

📦 Nvidia Pitches Europe an AI Factory-in-a-Box

At GTC Berlin, Jensen Huang urged Europe to produce its own AI and showed the kit: containerized Vera Rubin factories that Nvidia says go live in 14 days, a sandbox that keeps AI agents in check, and open models companies can train on their own data.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Oct 21, 2026

Robotics

🫠 Altman's Three Endgames for Superintelligence

OpenAI's CEO tells staff the company must choose within a year: a global watchdog, a merged super-lab, or the scenario he calls terrible

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Oct 20, 2026

AI and Finance

💸 Anthropic's First Step Toward Universal High Income

Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to a fund that could pay people directly, a day after Jack Clark told the IMF the evidence points to a singularity, and Elon Musk calls it universal high income

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Oct 19, 2026

DeepDive

🫧 Is AI a Bubble? The CoreWeave Sell-off Looks More Like the Telecom Bust Than Dotcom

For a few days in October, an AI cloud company's bonds traded like distressed debt. The borrowing at the edge of the AI build-out resembles the telecom bust of 2002, while the stock market as a whole looks different from 1999.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Oct 17, 2026

AI and Politics

🪄 Google Breaks Open Quantum's Magic Bottleneck

A 2024 idea now works on real hardware: Google's Willow chip grows magic states with 40x fewer errors. Plus Anthropic's IPO wobble, Nvidia's open vision model, a case that AI is readable after all, and Taiwan's crackdown on AI chip smuggling.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Oct 16, 2026

Longevity

💰 Anthropic's $16.8B Quarter: AI Finally Pays

Ahead of its IPO, the Claude maker told investors it was profitable on an adjusted basis last quarter and generated $1.70 in revenue for every dollar it spent on compute

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Oct 15, 2026

AI Research

🕵️ Someone Bugged OpenAI, AI 2027 Style

A hidden recorder in OpenAI's executive conference room, an FBI arrest and AI as the detective: the espionage chapter of the AI 2027 scenario is arriving almost on schedule

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Oct 14, 2026

Robotics

🏁 Muse Wonder Released: It's a Three-Lab Race Now!

Meta's first frontier-class models land beside GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1, built around a memory that lets agents keep working for you

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Oct 13, 2026

AI and Finance

🛑 Nadella Wants an Emergency Brake for AI

Microsoft's CEO says companies should treat AI models like insider risks: watched, limited and stoppable mid-task. Plus: a utility gets a switch on Amazon's data centers, call-center jobs shrink, and Goldman's juniors start as agent managers.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Oct 12, 2026

DeepDive

Why China Still Can't Get an EUV Machine

Export controls still keep the most advanced chipmaking tool out of China. Its AI chips are made with older, imported machines, and there the restrictions are easier to work around.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Oct 10, 2026

AI and Politics

🫂 Anthropic Says Stop Being Cruel to Claude

Anthropic's first usage-policy update in over a year protects Claude from abusive users, tightens rules on propaganda and surveillance, and reopens the fight over whether AI can be mistreated at all

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Oct 9, 2026

Longevity

🪶 Anthropic’s Haiku 5.5 Makes Smart AI Cheap

Anthropic's new budget model costs about 75% less to run than Haiku 4.5 and jumps from 0% to 39% on a hard agent test, but independent testing shows the real savings depend on how many tokens it burns.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Oct 8, 2026

AI Research

🧮 OpenAI Revolutionizes Math With AI

722 papers from an unreleased model claim the quasi-Riemann hypothesis, Khot's Unique Games Conjecture and progress on three Millennium Prize Problems. Mathematicians are calling it Fields Medal territory.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Oct 7, 2026

Robotics

🔦 Reflection's Beam: America's Open Model Strikes Back

Reflection's new open model takes on China's best with a fraction of the compute; plus Ghost's $3,499 personal AI computer and why Claude subscriptions now beat OpenAI's on value

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Oct 6, 2026

AI and Finance

🐉 China Is Now Just 3% Behind

DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash cuts America's AI lead to a record low, while smuggled servers and rented chips keep US hardware flowing to Chinese labs

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Oct 5, 2026

Community

"The most common failure isn't a bad model": CoreWeave's Richard Ahlfeld on physical AI

In a written interview with Superintelligence, Dr. Richard Ahlfeld, SVP of Physical AI at CoreWeave and founder of Monolith, explains why robots fail on the data they never saw and where synthetic data stops being credible. Interview by Kim Isenberg.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Oct 4, 2026

DeepDive

What Is Orbit Actually Solving?

Orbital compute is sold as the answer to an energy crunch. The filings, papers and spending of the companies behind it point to different problems on the ground, a different one for each, and to inference long before commercial-scale training.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Oct 3, 2026

AI and Politics

🔬 Claude Turns One Physicist Into a Lab

Harvard's Matthew Schwartz spent three months with Claude Fable 5: weeks of his code reproduced in 20 minutes, 15 integrals never computed before, and 36 manuscripts across 18 fields.

Kim "Chubby" Isenberg

Oct 2, 2026

💎 Gemini 4 Carbon Is No. 1, and Invite-Only

💊 Anthropic Is Now in the Drug Business

🧮 Axiom and OpenAI: Math Breakthroughs Go Daily

🎭 Was Kimi's Hype Secretly Paid For?

📴 The Offline World: OpenAI Now Trains Its Frontier Models Inside a Copy of the Web

🧪 The Worst-Case Hack Hits Quest Diagnostics

🚨 The Night Hacking Hit Machine Speed

📦 Nvidia Pitches Europe an AI Factory-in-a-Box

🫠 Altman's Three Endgames for Superintelligence

💸 Anthropic's First Step Toward Universal High Income

🫧 Is AI a Bubble? The CoreWeave Sell-off Looks More Like the Telecom Bust Than Dotcom

🪄 Google Breaks Open Quantum's Magic Bottleneck

💰 Anthropic's $16.8B Quarter: AI Finally Pays

🕵️ Someone Bugged OpenAI, AI 2027 Style

🏁 Muse Wonder Released: It's a Three-Lab Race Now!

🛑 Nadella Wants an Emergency Brake for AI

Why China Still Can't Get an EUV Machine

🫂 Anthropic Says Stop Being Cruel to Claude

🪶 Anthropic’s Haiku 5.5 Makes Smart AI Cheap

🧮 OpenAI Revolutionizes Math With AI

🔦 Reflection's Beam: America's Open Model Strikes Back

🐉 China Is Now Just 3% Behind

"The most common failure isn't a bad model": CoreWeave's Richard Ahlfeld on physical AI

What Is Orbit Actually Solving?

🔬 Claude Turns One Physicist Into a Lab

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