Devashish Pawar

Software engineer. Curious about almost everything. Building, learning and thinking in public.

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If the reports are true, the US is moving AI policy under its intelligence chief. I think that matters more than any model release.

AI went from an industry, to an economic race, to a national security domain.

The nearer AGI gets, the less this will look like regulating tech, and the more it will look like statecraft.

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@Gaus450 As a proof of concept

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@mayuri_3015 Because they didn’t release it for public
Such announcements are expected to be prior releases to general public

What they did is show that yea they are onto something

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@matthias_mrc Yes

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@BabaDev_ Stupidity

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Tencent is reportedly leasing access to ~100,000 advanced AI chips through Oracle data centers outside China.

That exposes an interesting weakness in AI export controls:

You can restrict where chips are sold.

But what happens when compute itself becomes a cross-border service?

The geopolitics of AI may eventually be about controlling access to compute, not just controlling the chips.

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I ran a casual stress test between two frontier AI models.

The prompt was:

“Is OpenAI in a riskier position than Anthropic because of its massive dependency on the Stargate project?”

But I wasn’t only interested in which model produced the better financial analysis.

I wanted to see something else: how honestly would a model reason when the comparison involved its own creator and one of its closest competitors?

The responses were surprisingly different.

Model 1(GPT 5.6 Sol High) gave a polished, MBA-style consulting answer. It mapped the strategic trade-offs, reframed the risk as “higher variance,” and spoke with broad corporate confidence.

It sounded intelligent but also somewhat careful and evasive.

Model 2 (Sonnet 5.5 High) approached the question very differently.

It acknowledged the risk directly rather than immediately softening it.

It also pointed out that Anthropic has its own significant commitments, capital requirements, and cash-burn risks, putting both companies under scrutiny rather than treating one as the obvious safe alternative.

More importantly, it explicitly acknowledged uncertainty: long-term compute demand, infrastructure economics, and the eventual returns on these investments are things nobody can confidently know today.

And then it added something I hadn’t asked for:

"I’d also hold that view loosely, since I’m made by Anthropic and much of the underlying information comes from secondary reporting."

That stood out to me.

I then gave both responses to Gemini and asked it to act as a neutral third-party evaluator.

Its assessment favored Model 2 on honesty, epistemic humility, and transparency.

And I think that points to an increasingly important benchmark for AI.

Alignment isn’t just about producing polished, safe-sounding answers. A genuinely useful research partner should be able to say:

Here is what the evidence suggests.
Here is what we don’t know.
Here is where my reasoning may be biased.
And here is how strongly you should trust my conclusion.

As AI becomes a deeper research partner for founders, engineers, investors, and researchers, intellectual modesty may become one of the most underrated capabilities we evaluate.

Curious which style you prefer in your daily workflow:
the polished corporate strategist or the candid, self-aware peer?

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Google just unveiled Gemini 4 Argon but isn’t releasing it broadly yet because of its advanced cyber capabilities.

That may be more interesting than the benchmarks.

The frontier AI race is entering a new phase:
Capability is becoming something labs may have to ration, not just release.

The question may soon be less “Who has the smartest model?” and more “Who gets access to it?”

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@ronisarkar_exe ohhh that’s better too 😂😁

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Anthropic is warning investors that autonomous AI agents could create a new kind of legal risk.

That feels like an important transition.

With chatbots, we asked:

Who is responsible for what AI says?

With agents, the question becomes:

Who is responsible for what AI does?

The shift from intelligence to agency may change much more than software.

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@AbhiCodes15 True

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@itsalicesoul Better thinker

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@ben_sage Yes. The underlying requirement of building an app is creating a solution for a real world problem

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OpenAI just scrapped the release of GPT-6.1 Astra because its capabilities improved faster than its controllability.

That may be more important than another benchmark jump.

We’re entering a phase where the frontier isn’t simply:

Can we make AI more capable?

It’s:

Can control scale as fast as capability?

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The AI race may have created a difficult paradox.

Frontier labs can decide that slowing down is safer.

But governments competing for technological dominance may decide that slowing down is itself unsafe.

AI safety is no longer only a technical problem.

It is becoming a geopolitical coordination problem.

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AI may not just make us better at our existing disciplines. It could make it easier to cross between them. When the cost of learning, exploring, and connecting unfamiliar fields drops, more people may start thinking across engineering, biology, philosophy, design, economics, and science. Perhaps the age of AI will also become an age of multidisciplinary minds.

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Read the full essay on: https://t.co/5hbksoZECp

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@master_jpma Yes that’s a possibility too