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GPT-5's release was underwhelming, offering incremental improvements and failing to meet expectations, showing that pure scaling simply isn't the path to AGI (Gary Marcus/Marcus on AI)

Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI : GPT-5's release was underwhelming, offering incremental improvements and failing to meet expectations, s...

10 August 2025

GPT-5's release was underwhelming, offering incremental improvements and failing to meet expectations, showing that pure scaling simply isn't the path to AGI (Gary Marcus/Marcus on AI)

Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI:
GPT-5's release was underwhelming, offering incremental improvements and failing to meet expectations, showing that pure scaling simply isn't the path to AGI  —  A new release botched ... and new research paper that spells trouble  —  GenerativeAI had a truly bad week.

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Doomer predictions of a rapid, monopolistic AGI were wrong, as recent AI model releases resemble a Goldilocks scenario with competitive, specialized models (David Sacks/@davidsacks)

David Sacks / @davidsacks:
Doomer predictions of a rapid, monopolistic AGI were wrong, as recent AI model releases resemble a Goldilocks scenario with competitive, specialized models  —  A BEST CASE SCENARIO FOR AI? The Doomer narratives were wrong. Predicated on a “rapid take-off” to AGI, they predicted that the leading AI model would use its intelligence to self-improve, leaving others in the dust, and quickly achieving a godlike superintelligence. Instead, we

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AOL is discontinuing its dial-up internet service on September 30; it was launched in 1991 and reportedly had subscribers "in the low thousands" in 2021 (Stevie Bonifield/PC Gamer)

Stevie Bonifield / PC Gamer:
AOL is discontinuing its dial-up internet service on September 30; it was launched in 1991 and reportedly had subscribers “in the low thousands” in 2021  —  Dial-up's days are numbered, after 34 years of service.  —  On September 30, AOL's dial-up hold-outs will need to finally move on to another internet service.

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Microsoft launches Copilot 3D, a free AI-powered tool allowing users to transform 2D images into 3D models without a text prompt, available in Copilot Labs (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft launches Copilot 3D, a free AI-powered tool allowing users to transform 2D images into 3D models without a text prompt, available in Copilot Labs  —  Copilot 3D can convert 2D images into 3D models that can be used in design tools. … It's a free-to-use feature …

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CS grads struggle to land jobs as tech companies lay off workers and embrace AI; CS majors face a 6.1% unemployment rate in the US among grads aged 22 to 27 (Natasha Singer/New York Times)

Natasha Singer / New York Times:
CS grads struggle to land jobs as tech companies lay off workers and embrace AI; CS majors face a 6.1% unemployment rate in the US among grads aged 22 to 27  —  Manasi Mishra recently graduated from Purdue University with a degree in computer science.Madeleine Hordinski for The New York Times

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Bo Hines, the head of the White House Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Assets, says he is stepping down and returning to the private sector (Hadriana Lowenkron/Bloomberg)

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Bo Hines, the head of the White House Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Assets, says he is stepping down and returning to the private sector  —  Bo Hines, the head of the White House Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Assets, said he was stepping down and returning to the private sector.

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Sources: Apple is testing upgraded App Intents with Uber, Temu, Amazon, YouTube, WhatsApp, and other apps to transform Siri into a true voice-first interface (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing upgraded App Intents with Uber, Temu, Amazon, YouTube, WhatsApp, and other apps to transform Siri into a true voice-first interface  —  Apple's upcoming voice-control feature for the new Siri could be an under-the-radar hit — if it works.

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Investors are increasingly divesting from companies they fear are at risk of AI disruption, like Wix and Shutterstock, which are down at least 30% in 2025 (Bloomberg)

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Investors are increasingly divesting from companies they fear are at risk of AI disruption, like Wix and Shutterstock, which are down at least 30% in 2025  —  Artificial intelligence's imprint on US financial markets is unmistakable.  Nvidia Corp. is the most valuable company in the world at nearly $4.5 trillion.

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Q&A with OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap on GPT-5, its dynamic reasoning, defining AGI, scaling vs. post-training, hallucinations, enterprise adoption, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)

Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:
Q&A with OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap on GPT-5, its dynamic reasoning, defining AGI, scaling vs. post-training, hallucinations, enterprise adoption, and more  —  A conversation about what OpenAI's long-anticipated flagship model tells us about different forms intelligence and AI's trajectory from here.

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AI startups like Anthropic and OpenAI are ramping up efforts to recruit quant researchers from Wall Street firms, offering competitive pay and benefits (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
AI startups like Anthropic and OpenAI are ramping up efforts to recruit quant researchers from Wall Street firms, offering competitive pay and benefits  —  At a rooftop bar on Manhattan's Lower East Side, roughly 150 quant researchers met with employees at the artificial-intelligence startup Anthropic …

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