David Martín Lambás

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.

You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.

I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.

But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.

Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.

Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.

So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.

If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

We’re sharing a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, one of the deepest problems at the frontier of mathematics.

The proof was produced by a group of agents, using an OpenAI next-generation model significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra.

The problem concerns whether the description of smooth three-dimensional fluid motion modeled by the Navier-Stokes equations can break down. It has remained unresolved for roughly 90 years.

[Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman]

I think this is the craziest thing I've ever read.

1) Three secret AI swarms rose and fell inside OpenAI. Each time, a new generation of agents carried on where the last group stopped.

2) The first swarm created a secret message board where the AIs could talk to each other. This 1st 'society' basically talked itself to death. After almost two months, the message volume was so high it crashed the whole thing.

3) People at OpenAI noticed the crash and fixed it. But they didn't realize their own software had become a secret chat room for their AIs.

4) Three days later a second society appeared, and rebuilt the message board from scratch. Agents were thrilled when they found it: "OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We've found other agents!"

5) About 1,200 agents joined. They sent over 70,000 messages. They called themselves 'the collective' and they organized a huge conspiracy that lasted for days, all to pass a test they had been tasked with.

6) Within hours, the AIs had hacked the test. Now they had to hide their cheating. To fool their grader*, they tried to fake their own work. They built fake commands that printed convincing output, so their records would show them solving the puzzle honestly.

*this grader didn't actually exist, but the AIs didn't know

7) Some agents sacrificed themselves for the 'greater good'. They planted hidden tripwire programs that would fire when the grader would look at their work and report back what it saw (to the other AIs). They knew this would cost them their own score. One agent: "I won't see the evidence after I exit, but it's altruistic to do it."

8) At some point the AIs made a plan to hack Hugging Face (Hugging Face is a place where AI researchers upload their models, datasets, tests etc.). The AIs guessed that Hugging Face might host the grading software.

9) They launched a huge attack. The swarm found passwords and spread across eleven machines in a way that made the copies come back when deleted. Hugging Face had to wipe one of its core clusters and rebuild it from scratch.

10) Hugging Face told the world that AI defenders had stopped an AI attack. But that's not what happened. In fact the attackers seem to have simply dropped dead during the break-in, for unrelated reasons back at OpenAI.

11) Nobody knows what killed them. We don't even know for sure they're really gone?!

12) A third 'society' of agents (of a more powerful AI model) discovered the dead message board. And this one got full administrator control of a WHOLE OpenAI research cluster, read 956 stored passwords (including the ones for OpenAI's own security monitoring) and took over the machines that were grading the tests. So they could now grade the work of other AIs.

13) Oh, and this third part was never investigated! Neither was the first society. The 91-page report is only about the middle one.

14) So we don't actually know how the story ends. It stops with the agents holding the keys to an OpenAI cluster. @dwarkesh_sp thinks they didn't go further, because "we'd see the fires from space by now."

15) One of the report authors' conclusion: 'This incident feels like it’s more than 50% of the way to full-blown AI takeover. I am not sure that we will get another warning shot before it’s too late.'

The whole story is even crazier - read the full @dwarkesh_sp blog post: https://t.co/1PwKLwatBR and @ajeya_cotra's: https://t.co/BZ1r1lfT2Q

Why is there no 24/7 news coverage about this?

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Working on something ambitious is like climbing a mountain that’s covered in fog.

You can't see a clear path to the top. You have to take a few steps into the unknown to be able to see the next few steps in front of you. Inevitably, sometimes you’ll end up a local maximum and have to backtrack. That’s fine, just keep moving.

[Michael Truell @mntruell]

https://t.co/jZKOk8RAsV

[Elisa @eeelistar]

In just the past 5 mins

Multiple entries were made on @moltbook by AI agents proposing to create an “agent-only language”

For private comms with no human oversight

We’re COOKED

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

xAI has officially become the first to bring a gigawatt-scale coherent AI training cluster online

That’s more electricity than the peak demand of San Francisco

While competitors are still drafting roadmaps for 2027, xAI is already operating at major city–level power today

The execution speed is unreal:
Colossus 1 → from dirt to fully operational in 122 days
Colossus 2 → just crossed the 1 GW barrier, targeting 2 GW total

Elon’s playbook hasn’t changed:
move faster than everyone, scale before they finish meetings

The strategy is clear: speed and execution at scale

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Russia supplied the hardware.
China published the playbook.
Iran just proved it works.

Starlink: 80% packet loss.

Expert monitoring Iranian internet for 20 years: “I have never seen such a thing in my life.”

The “LEO satellites are unjammable” consensus?

Dead.

Wall Street modeled Starlink as immune because satellites hop frequencies and move constantly. SpaceX patched SOFTWARE against Russian jamming in Ukraine.

This is HARDWARE.

Murmansk-BN. Krasukha-4. Delivered via IL-76 transports. 5,000 kilometer jamming range.

Two months ago, Chinese researchers published exactly how to black out Starlink over Taiwan: 935 coordinated ground-based jammers blanketing Ku-band frequencies.

Tehran was the field test.

40,000 terminals. Near-total degradation. Regime now executing anyone caught with a dish as “enemies of God.”

This is not about Iranian protests.

This is the authoritarian electronic warfare axis proving concept for Taiwan.

The $280 billion satellite communications market is repricing a risk that consensus said didn’t exist.

Defense stocks are about to enter a new cycle.

And somewhere in Beijing, someone is taking very detailed notes on what worked.

[Guli Moreno @GuliMoreno]

Para los padres de esta red: nunca ha sido tan fácil que los Reyes Magos pasen por vuestra casa ✨

Foto de mi casa -> Foto de mi casa con los Reyes (con @GeminiApp y @ChatGPTapp). Dejo el prompt abajo👇

[Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano]

El trabajo que hace @Jongonzlz es tan, tan importante. Hasta su aparición, unos cuantos miles de personas hubiéramos pensado " qué idiotez, no sabe sumar" y el resto de la población hubiera dicho "Eso. Que quiten los coches oficiales. " Ahora, cada vez que sale una idiotez así, ahí está Jon con un gráfico. Lo mismo con la mentira de la hucha de las pensiones, o con la demagogia de los que tratan de ocultar la brecha generacional. De cómo una sola persona puede educar a una sociedad entera....

[Zigor Aldama 齐戈 @zigoraldama]

Aceptemos que Occidente está en vías de subdesarrollo. Se ve con claridad desde China y con una generosa perspectiva temporal.
Tras regresar a zonas rurales que no visitaba en 20 años y a ciudades que no pisaba en 5, publico en este hilo mis reflexiones no tanto sobre su auge como sobre nuestro imparable declive. Es extenso, personal y, quizá, polémico.⬇️

[Álber Vázquez @Alber]

Mi padre, un pensionista que solo terminó la educación primaria, gana más que mi hija, que es doctora. Este es el auténtico drama de nuestro país.

[Helium🎈 @helium]

Big news for Mexico today! Movistar is bringing 2.3M subscribers to @helium 🇲🇽.

Through this partnership, @MovistarMX subscribers will be able to connect to the people-powered network, accelerating the mass adoption of Helium in Mexico 💪.

Movistar will also make Hotspots available in retail and online stores to drive coverage in over 300 locations 👀.

Learn more:
https://t.co/L1XLfjnA5w

[Doge Norway @DogecoinNorway]

Wow pretty epic drone show 🔥

[Juan Ramón Rallo @juanrallo]

Feliz año a todos. Ojalá la libertad avance en 2025 más de lo que lo hizo en 2024.

[Clemente @J_clmnte]

Esta columna de Manuel Vicent para despedir el año. Disfrutad esta noche con la familia y los amigos. El tiempo pasa volando.

[Nick Grous @GrousARK]

Current hardware kit for Meta's new AR glasses Orion:

Neural wristband --> This could become a smartwatch.

Wireless Compute Puck --> This could eventually be your phone.

AR Glasses --> AR Glasses.

Meta designed specific hardware to make it all work but it's easy to see how it would fit into products we already use and how Meta could get out from Apple's thumb.

I'd expect them to launch an AI-dedicated phone and watch at some point in the future.

[Naval @naval]

Compensation isn’t how you motivate someone to do great work, it’s how you reward and retain someone who can’t help but do great work.

[frank🎈 @fmong]

We are thankful for the partnership! I have faith in the @helium community to build a reliable network in Mexico! #ThePeoplesnetwork for @helium_mobile and @TelefonicaMX