Today's Hallucination HQThe President Has Thoughts on Branding
At the UN General Assembly, Donald Trump announced that the United States is officially renaming artificial intelligence to "super intelligence." No legislation, no executive order — just vibes and a podium. The rebranding didn't appear in the White House's AI action plan, which suggests either spontaneous genius or a man who'd rename a library "the mega book zone." The technology itself remains unchanged. The name, apparently, was holding it back.
Source: The Verge
OpenAI Names Its Models After Celestial Bodies, Presumably Runs Out of Earthly Adjectives
OpenAI has launched GPT-6, arriving in two flavours: Sol and Luna. Sol is the heavy-duty model built for complex reasoning and long tasks; Luna is the leaner, faster sibling designed for everyday use. Think of them as the espresso and the flat white of the GPT family. The release lands amid intense competition from Google and Anthropic, and confirms that OpenAI's naming department has fully abandoned numbers in favour of things you'd find on a new-age calendar.
Source: OpenAI via Hacker News
When Smart Glasses Meet a Protest, Things Get Complicated Quickly
In Delhi this spring, someone filmed a protest against a bill restricting transgender legal recognition. Days later, that footage surfaced on Instagram — shot, it appears, through smart glasses. The subject, Shubnam, had no idea they'd been recorded. This is the quiet problem with smart glasses: they don't look like cameras, which is rather the point, and rather the problem. India has virtually no law covering this. The glasses are clever. The legal framework is not.
Source: MIT Technology Review
A 20-Year-Old Puzzle Walks Into a Chatbot
GPT-6 Astra has cracked an Enigma-encrypted message — designated MVUEH — that cryptographers have been quietly failing at since 2005. The message was sent in 1944 and has resisted every attempt at decryption for two decades. Astra solved it. Whether this means AI has surpassed human codebreakers or simply that the cryptography community needed a fresh pair of eyes — synthetic, tireless, billion-parameter eyes — is a matter of interpretation. Either way, someone in a history department is having a very good Tuesday.
Source: cryptocellar.org via Hacker News
The Unglamorous Engine Room of the AI Boom Is Worth $3.5 Billion
Snorkel AI, which helps companies build and label training data at scale, has raised $350 million in a Series E, tripling its valuation to $3.5 billion in the process. Everyone wants AI. Fewer people want to think about where the training data comes from. Snorkel does think about it, constantly, which turns out to be a remarkably lucrative disposition. Seven years old, no longer a startup in any meaningful sense of the word, and proof that the picks-and-shovels business is very much alive.
Source: TechCrunch
As ever, the technology moves fast. The paperwork does not.
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