- Zuckerberg breaks ranks on the AI slowdown
- Nate's Notebook: Same-hole thinking
- A beginner’s guide to ChatGPT Work
- Google DeepMind starts an AGI think tank
Zuckerberg breaks ranks on the AI slowdown
Image source: Mark Zuckerberg (@finkd on X) / The RundownThe Rundown: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg just pushed back on the coordinated AI slowdown, arguing each lab already has its own “responsibility and incentive” for pacing itself safely, in a seemingly veiled shot at Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's weekend essay.The details: - Zuck pointed to Meta’s new Muse AI agent, which he said went through a several-month safety hold the company implemented without asking rivals to match.
- He also argued that nobody wants an agent that ignores instructions, making alignment a selling point, warning that any lab skipping it “will fall behind.”
- The CEO does want a wider pool of outside reviewers (echoing Elon Musk’s sentiment), saying Meta already uses independent experts across several areas.
- Zuckerberg also called out the race for recursive self-improving AI, saying Meta is instead allocating the “significant majority of compute towards serving people.”
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Nate's Notebook: Same-hole thinking
The Rundown: Each week, Rundown AI educator Nate Grahek breaks down what he's seeing while teaching real teams to use AI.Nate: Ask AI for a slide deck, and you'll get one. It'll be fine. It'll also be the same deck it hands the next 10,000 people who ask. Bland.Here's the split I see. The people pulling ahead were already good at something Edward de Bono named "lateral thinking" back in the sixties. His line has stuck with me since college: you cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper. Most people watch an AI demo from the bottom of their own hole. "That's for marketing, but I'm in sales." Same-hole thinking.Two things are true at once. It's a learned skill, and the people who practiced it before AI showed up are getting further out in front every month. And you don't have to be good at it yet, because there has never been a better coach for it. AI's best trick is taking something built for somebody else's context and making it bespoke to yours.So try this. Grab whatever caught your eye this week: a YouTube transcript, meeting notes, a post on X. Paste it into your AI of choice and say, “This looks cool. Interview me, then tweak this pattern to be useful in my role, my company, my week.” Ten minutes. That's the whole gap between bland and bespoke.What did you scroll past this week because it “wasn't your job”?AI TRAINING
A beginner’s guide to ChatGPT Work
The Rundown: In this guide, you will learn how to set up a ChatGPT Work project for a recurring workflow. You will process the work once, then automate it.Step-by-step:- Create a local folder with a two-digit prefix. In desktop ChatGPT, open New chat > Work > Choose project > New project, name it, and select that folder
- Tell ChatGPT about your project and ask it to propose a structure. We used it to process meeting notes and turn those into action items and weekly plans
- Now add in some input documents and tell ChatGPT to process them once
- Once it's done, tell it to create three useful automations that run on a schedule to automate this processing
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Google DeepMind starts an AGI think tank
Image source: DeepMind Institute The Rundown: Google DeepMind launched the DeepMind Institute, an in-house think tank directed by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, and James Manyika to publish research on how society should get ready for AGI, opening with five essays on pressing AI topics.The details: - Legg, DeepMind's co-founder and Chief AGI Scientist, is the managing editor, with each essay carrying a disclaimer that it isn't Google's official view.
- The trio calls artificial general intelligence close, saying while the tech “lacks the consistency and creativity” for full AGI, they expect those gaps “to be closed soon.”
- Opening essays include exploring how to spot signs of deception in AI reasoning, imagining a better AGI society, and supporting workers through AI disruption.
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Everything else in AI todayAnthropic combined Cowork and Chat into one main Claude app, while also launching its built-in Word and PowerPoint versions called Claude Docs and Slides in beta. Microsoft AI’s Mustafa Suleyman wrote on ‘model welfare’, arguing that Anthropic’s Claude constitution trains the AI to expect rights and could make containment impossible.Novo Nordisk is partnering with Anthropic to put Claude Science into drug research, months after an OpenAI deal to 'become the world's most AI-driven healthcare company.'French Finance Minister Roland Lescure dismissed the AI slowdown talk as 'self-interest' from labs 'at the top of the class', noting that Europe should speed up its AI use.Google is rolling out early access to Google Home’s Model Context Protocol server, letting Claude and ChatGPT control Nest cameras, thermostats, and other devices.
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