Karpathy's AI Runs 650 Experiments Autonomously as Patel Compares SF to 'Pre-Pandemic Wuhan'

Sam Altman has proposed an AGI test: "What is the hardest question I could ask you that you might get right?"

Elon Musk feels "full" AGI is arriving by year's end.

Greg Brockman quoted Back to the Future: "Benchmarks? Where we're going, we don't need benchmarks."

Marc Andreessen has called this "The Science Fiction Decade."

Andrej Karpathy's "autoresearch" project autonomously discovered training improvements across two days and 650 experiments, prompting him to ask, "Who knew early singularity could be this fun?"

SemiAnalysis's Dylan Patel said being in SF right now is like being in Wuhan before the pandemic. Something is happening, and so few people realize it.

GPT-5.4 (High) can now simulate realistic, numerically stable cloth physics and cutting.

Luma AI's Uni-1 image model topped Nano Banana 2 and GPT Image 1.5 on logic-based benchmarks.

Anthropic researcher Alex Alemi launched an Academic Fraud Inclination Metric to measure how willingly LLMs assist with fabricated arXiv submissions, finding GPT-5 the least willing.

A Lloyds study of 5,000 Britons found over half now use AI for financial advice, with one in three consulting it weekly.

Box CEO Aaron Levie advises developers to stop building software for humans and start building for the "trillions of agents" taking over enterprise work.

A study of 1,488 US workers identified "AI brain fry," a mental fog from AI oversight marked by buzzing feelings, slower decisions, and headaches.

Claude was the fastest-growing gen AI tool by web visits in February, posting 43% month-over-month growth after the Department of War flagged Anthropic as a supply chain risk.

Open-source "pi RuView" turns commodity WiFi into real-time pose estimation and vital sign monitoring, no camera required. It works by analyzing how WiFi signals bounce off people's bodies.

The war in Iran is reportedly complicating Gulf nations' plans to spend $300 billion on AI infrastructure, with drone strikes on three Amazon data centers making those projects seem riskier.

Chinese company AheadForm has demonstrated its Origin F1, a half-body humanoid that realistically simulates human emotional expression.

A London surgeon performed the UK's first long-distance robotic operation on a patient 1,500 miles away in Gibraltar, saying it felt "almost as if I was there."

UK company AUAR is deploying portable micro-factories that produce wooden house framing faster and cheaper than human crews, freeing carpenters to focus on assembly.

Researchers report that a single injection of self-amplifying RNA nanoparticles delivering atrial natriuretic peptide promoted lasting heart recovery in mouse and pig models of heart attack. Atrial natriuretic peptide is a hormone the heart produces that helps regulate blood pressure and fluid balance.

A large veterans study found GLP-1 receptor agonists reduced the likelihood of new substance use disorders by 14% and sharply cut overdoses among those already affected.

Nasdaq is partnering with Kraken for 24/7 tokenized stock trading by early 2027. Tokenized stocks are digital representations of shares that can trade around the clock like cryptocurrency.

Circle, Stripe, Coinbase, and others are building stablecoin-based agentic payments infrastructure to make microtransactions between AI agents economical.

Shenzhen's Longgang District has released ten policy measures supporting OpenClaw, inviting agent developers worldwide with free setup, compute credits, and data subsidies.

Block has been accused of "AI-washing," using AI as cover for cutting nearly half its staff when analysts suspect business factors were the real driver.

In two recent federal cases, judges effectively declared that AI bots are not human, lack rights reserved for people, and produce outputs undeserving of special standing.