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Greg Brockman on what solving Navier-Stokes says about the problems AI can take on next: "We actually used 10,000 agents to solve the Navier-Stokes problem." "It's both an important problem for what it is, has significant implications and applications to fluid dynamics, to how you think about ocean currents, all these things." "But for what it represents, of new knowledge created by AI and it unlocking a whole wave of scientific discovery, medicines, all of those things. They're on the table now." "There's something really amazing to think about what can happen through the power of AI that is able to really help solve problems." Greg Brockman benahorowitz.eth

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Sam Altman says he is NOT worried about Chinese labs distilling OpenAI: "I would rather people not distill from us, for sure. Maybe I’m feeling too confident right now about our progress and the models that are coming. But this is not in my top ten list of worries.” “I haven’t thought deeply about the distillation issue. It’s clearly a top of mind issue now for a lot of people all of a sudden." "I have always assumed that there are going to be great, cheap models in the world, and we better be the greatest and the cheapest. And other people are going to do what they’re going to do. But I think we can just really win at our own game here." "We will have so much usage of our models that we do not need to be a gigantic high margin business to be able to afford model training." "So much of our future compute plans will be used to sell inference to customers that even if we can enjoy a modest margin on trillions of dollars of revenue, we can afford to train some giant models."

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Sullivan: I think the truth will out here… and I think that has to be of real concern to the administration. You may have noticed that when President Trump got asked about this, he said, “I didn’t know anything about that,” which is kind of a telltale sign of him trying to get away from what is an extremely serious situation.

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When hiring executives, travis kalanick prioritizes one skill above all others: the ability to solve hard problems. "There's two things you want an executive to do. You want them to be able to organize, manage, and lead at scale. You also want them to be epic and strategic problem solvers... the best executives are the ones that are doing both well." "I have come to the conclusion over my years, that problem solving is the most important thing. If you get somebody who organizes and manages well but cannot solve a problem, they're going to be doing ridiculous stuff in a super organized way. The only constraint on your imagination is management capacity. But what is management capacity? It's really problem solving at scale."

When hiring executives, travis kalanick prioritizes one skill above all others: the ability to solve hard problems. "There's two things you want an executive to do. You want them to be able to organize, manage, and lead at scale. You also want them to be epic and strategic problem solvers... the best executives are the ones that are doing both well." "I have come to the conclusion over my years, that problem solving is the most important thing. If you get somebody who organizes and manages well but cannot solve a problem, they're going to be doing ridiculous stuff in a super organized way. The only constraint on your imagination is management capacity. But what is management capacity? It's really problem solving at scale."

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"One of the very confusing things about the models right now: how to reconcile the fact that they are doing so well on evals. And you look at the evals and you go, 'Those are pretty hard evals.' But the economic impact seems to be dramatically behind. There is [a possible] explanation. Back when people were doing pre-training, the question of what data to train on was answered, because that answer was everything. So you don't have to think if it's going to be this data or that data. When people do RL training, they say, 'Okay, we want to have this kind of RL training for this thing and that kind of RL training for that thing.' You say, 'Hey, I would love our model to do really well when we release it. I want the evals to look great. What would be RL training that could help on this task?' If you combine this with generalization of the models actually being inadequate, that has the potential to explain a lot of what we are seeing, this disconnect between eval performance and actual real-world performance"

"One of the very confusing things about the models right now: how to reconcile the fact that they are doing so well on evals. And you look at the evals and you go, 'Those are pretty hard evals.' But the economic impact seems to be dramatically behind. There is [a possible] explanation. Back when people were doing pre-training, the question of what data to train on was answered, because that answer was everything. So you don't have to think if it's going to be this data or that data. When people do RL training, they say, 'Okay, we want to have this kind of RL training for this thing and that kind of RL training for that thing.' You say, 'Hey, I would love our model to do really well when we release it. I want the evals to look great. What would be RL training that could help on this task?' If you combine this with generalization of the models actually being inadequate, that has the potential to explain a lot of what we are seeing, this disconnect between eval performance and actual real-world performance"

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"The Achilles heel of this whole story... is if something bad happens to Anthropic and OpenAI... open weight models are much cheaper... if they start really taking a lot of market share, and it sounds like from what I'm hearing, that they're starting to. You could have a big price war, and then then we have a problem" 🎙️ Steve Eisman on Fast Money last night

"The Achilles heel of this whole story... is if something bad happens to Anthropic and OpenAI... open weight models are much cheaper... if they start really taking a lot of market share, and it sounds like from what I'm hearing, that they're starting to. You could have a big price war, and then then we have a problem" 🎙️ Steve Eisman on Fast Money last night

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OpenAI president Greg Brockman told his agent to ping a colleague on Slack, and two minutes later it escalated to that colleague's manager on its own: "Two minutes later, it said, this is taking too long. I've escalated to the person's manager." "On the one hand, it's kind of a reasonable thing for the model to do. It's being proactive, it's trying to solve my problem." "But on the other hand, maybe it should have taken a little bit longer, maybe it should have checked with me." "Now we're starting to have AIs that can actually take care of flagging. Is this a high risk action? Hey, this one should be escalated. This one's OK to auto-approve." "It really makes you realize that human attention is going to be this incredibly scarce resource. The doing of things now is easy." "Is this what I wanted? Is this aligned with my values, with my desires? That is going to become the single most important bottleneck." The model did what he asked, then added a step nobody asked for, and it landed on a colleague's boss. Agents that can take actions with social consequences need an approve-and-escalate list written before deployment. Brockman says OpenAI is building that flagging into the model itself. Every company deploying agents needs its own version, reviewed by someone accountable. - Greg Brockman (Greg Brockman), President and co-founder of OpenAI, at Sequoia Capital's (Sequoia Capital) AI Ascent.

OpenAI president Greg Brockman told his agent to ping a colleague on Slack, and two minutes later it escalated to that colleague's manager on its own: "Two minutes later, it said, this is taking too long. I've escalated to the person's manager." "On the one hand, it's kind of a reasonable thing for the model to do. It's being proactive, it's trying to solve my problem." "But on the other hand, maybe it should have taken a little bit longer, maybe it should have checked with me." "Now we're starting to have AIs that can actually take care of flagging. Is this a high risk action? Hey, this one should be escalated. This one's OK to auto-approve." "It really makes you realize that human attention is going to be this incredibly scarce resource. The doing of things now is easy." "Is this what I wanted? Is this aligned with my values, with my desires? That is going to become the single most important bottleneck." The model did what he asked, then added a step nobody asked for, and it landed on a colleague's boss. Agents that can take actions with social consequences need an approve-and-escalate list written before deployment. Brockman says OpenAI is building that flagging into the model itself. Every company deploying agents needs its own version, reviewed by someone accountable. - Greg Brockman (Greg Brockman), President and co-founder of OpenAI, at Sequoia Capital's (Sequoia Capital) AI Ascent.

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Kasie: More kids died in this country of measles this year than in decades Mullin: We can talk about the open southern border and what caused that. We're not talking about measles outbreaks from kids that were born and raised here. We're talking about ones that were brought over here illegally. And you can make that connection. No one can argue that.

Kasie: More kids died in this country of measles this year than in decades Mullin: We can talk about the open southern border and what caused that. We're not talking about measles outbreaks from kids that were born and raised here. We're talking about ones that were brought over here illegally. And you can make that connection. No one can argue that.

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Prime Intellect's will brown says continual learning could be solved in the first half of 2026: "Continual learning is going to fall pretty quickly, I think. It's more of an engineering problem. No one's actually trying." "OpenAI and Anthropic don't want to continuously train their models for each user. It's expensive and annoying and hard to serve at scale. But from a research perspective, we do continue learning where they just keep training the model more and it knows more stuff because they put more of the Internet in it." "I think there's a lot of experimentation around exactly the recipe that's going to be the most reliable. But we kind of have a grab bag of six or seven tricks that kind of work, or they work in different ways, and you can mix and match them. And it's just going to be like whatever's the best combination of these tricks." "People are going to experiment with it and find the versions that work the best. And there doesn't seem to be any big wall inside that prevents that from being practical."

Prime Intellect's will brown says continual learning could be solved in the first half of 2026: "Continual learning is going to fall pretty quickly, I think. It's more of an engineering problem. No one's actually trying." "OpenAI and Anthropic don't want to continuously train their models for each user. It's expensive and annoying and hard to serve at scale. But from a research perspective, we do continue learning where they just keep training the model more and it knows more stuff because they put more of the Internet in it." "I think there's a lot of experimentation around exactly the recipe that's going to be the most reliable. But we kind of have a grab bag of six or seven tricks that kind of work, or they work in different ways, and you can mix and match them. And it's just going to be like whatever's the best combination of these tricks." "People are going to experiment with it and find the versions that work the best. And there doesn't seem to be any big wall inside that prevents that from being practical."

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Bret Weintein asks "what is this all really for?" "If you look at the push towards tokenization of assets, towards central bank digital currencies—that is programmable money that can be turned off if you displease the powers that be. If you look at the creation of these massive data centers, is that really about citizen use of AI? Maybe some of it is, but is it really about creating a storehouse of information that will allow you to be controlled and locked down? That’s certainly the impression I have. We didn’t have a discussion about any of this. This is happening, and then we have to react to it because it’s all on a freight train headed down the line… and we’re always playing defense. So it’s pretty frightening stuff. And at some level, we have a moral right to object. We’re not being given the opportunity to object..."

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