Who controls what these institutions do?

This week: The 2025 AI Index Report, Understanding of trade, What failure looks like

A sketch of DeepSeek-R1 thought process

This week: DeepSeek-R1, moral imagination, spicy slop

When the model resorts to unfaithful reasoning

This week: Biology of a LLM, entrepreneurs as theorists, a grammar of hypotheses

If we tell them to maximize profit, they will

This week: Economic agents, cost of complexity, complexity comes and goes

A superhuman ability to bullshit

This week: Bullshit, a comprehensive survey, labour market disruption, and possibility spaces

Verification, backtracking, subgoal setting

This week: State anxiety, SimpleQA, self-improving reasoners (verification, backtracking, subgoal setting and something else…)

Feedback loops with the outside world

This week: Catastrophic risks, external validity, trust, machine assisted proofs

A narrative compelling enough to float

This week: Concentrated power, loopholes, AI pact, owners

The Unbearable Slowness of Being

This Week: Why do we live at 10 bits/s, the Anthropic economic index, our Icarus moment