Remember OpenClaw and Moltbook?

One might say they already seem a little quaint. So earlier-this-week.

That’s the internet having an absurdly short attention span, rather than those events not being important. They were definitely important.

They were also early. It is not quite time for AI social networks or fully unleashed autonomous AI agents. The security issues have not been sorted out, and reliability and efficiency aren’t quite there.

There’s two types of reactions to that. The wrong one is ‘oh it is all hype.’

The right one is ‘we’ll get back to this in a few months.’

Other highlights of the week include reactions to Dario Amodei’s essay The Adolescence of Technology. The essay was trying to do many things for many people. In some ways it did a good job. In other ways, especially when discussing existential risks and those more concerned than Dario, it let us down.

Everyone excited for the Super Bowl?

Table of Contents

Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. Piloting on the surface of Mars.
Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility. Judgment humans trust.
Huh, Upgrades. OpenAI Codex has an app. AI rescheduling in Calendar.
They Got Served, They Served Back, Now It’s On. Then they fight you.
On Your Marks. The METR graph keeps going vertical.
Get My Agent On The Line. Everyone eventually stops reading the papers.
Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon. Chatbot users like their chatbots.
Copyright Confrontation. Look what I made you do, isn’t it terrible?
A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer. Anthropic study of AI impact on coding skills.
Unprompted Attention. Talk for the job you want the AI to do.
Get Involved. $500m for Humanity AI, CAISI is hiring, Canada is doing a study.
Introducing. Project Genie gives you 3D worlds to walk around inside.
State of AI Report 2026. Bengio gives a respectable report for respectable people.
In Other AI News. OpenAI hires new head of preparedness from Anthropic.
Autonomous Killer Robots. Pentagon wants no restrictions on its use of LLMs.
Show Me the Money. Anthropic tender coming with valuation of at least $350b.
Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble. It’s still wise to save for retirement either way.
Quiet Speculations. Peter Wildeford wins the ACX forecasting competition.
Seb Krier Says Seb Krier Things. I respond with Zvi Responds To Krier Things.
The Quest for Sane Regulations. We’re off to tout our exports.
Chip City...

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