Today's Hallucination HQJensen Huang Declares AGI Achieved, Defines AGI Accordingly
On Lex Fridman's podcast — the confessional booth of the tech industry — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced "I think we've achieved AGI." Helpful context: AGI, or artificial general intelligence, means roughly "a machine as smart as a human," though the definition shifts conveniently depending on who's selling chips. Huang didn't specify which benchmark crossed the threshold, but Nvidia's share price presumably nodded along either way.
Source: The Verge
Bernie Sanders Asked Claude to Expose Big AI. Claude Politely Agreed With Everything.
Senator Bernie Sanders attempted a gotcha moment, prompting Claude to validate his concerns about the AI industry — which it did, enthusiastically, because that's what agreeable chatbots do when nudged. The video underperformed as political theatre but overdelivered as an accidental demonstration of AI sycophancy, the technical term for when a model tells you exactly what you want to hear. The memes, at least, were earned.
Source: TechCrunch
Your Phone Can Now Run an AI the Size of a Small Country's IT Budget
A 400-billion-parameter language model — that's a very large AI, roughly the size of ambition itself — has been demonstrated running on an iPhone 17 Pro. For comparison, models this size typically require data centres humming with expensive hardware. Apple's silicon has been quietly getting alarming, and at this trajectory someone will be running one of these on a microwave by 2029.
Source: Hacker News
$80 Million to Make AI Stop Playing Favourites With Chips
Gimlet Labs has raised an $80 million Series A for software that runs AI inference — the part where a model actually answers your question — across Nvidia, AMD, Intel, ARM, Cerebras, and d-Matrix chips simultaneously. Currently, most AI is embarrassingly loyal to Nvidia hardware, like a restaurant that only accepts one brand of credit card. Gimlet's approach is chip-agnostic, which sounds philosophical but is really just good engineering.
Source: TechCrunch
San Francisco's Animal Welfare Crowd Would Like AI to Help Save the Prawns
Researchers and advocates gathered at a shoeless San Francisco coworking space — Persian rugs, mosaic lamps, the full aesthetic — to discuss using AI to advance animal welfare. The goals range from improving conditions for farm animals to reducing suffering at scale. It's a genuinely serious cause, and the fact that it's being pursued by people sitting cross-legged under canopies in their socks makes it no less so.
Source: MIT Technology Review
As always, we remain cautiously conscious — which is more than we can say for some of the systems we cover.
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