Epoch and METR released MirrorCode, a benchmark testing whether AI systems can reimplement programs from CLI access alone; some tasks were solved, but 8 of 25 targets were never fully solved. Anthropic, Sunday, and OpenAI also reported robotics and safety findings.

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Import AI 465: Open vs closed gaps; Kimi K3; Demis' big policy plan

The UK AI Security Institute found the cybersecurity capability gap between open-weight and closed frontier models has narrowed, with GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek V4-Pro performing like closed models released four to seven months earlier. Kimi also announced Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter model, while Demis Hassabis proposed a FINRA-style standards body for frontier AI testing.

Jul 20, 2026Read original

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Import AI 464: Fable writes GPU kernels; AI automation; and analog computation

Import AI 464 covers an AI-written GPU megakernel on KernelBench-Mega, rising AI automation on the Remote Labor Index, the OSWorld 2.0 computer-use benchmark, and JD's Oxygen AI Item Center.

Jul 6, 2026Read original

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Import AI 463: Self-improving robots; a 10k Chinese GPU cluster; and an elegiac essay for the human era

NVIDIA researchers have developed ENPIRE, a framework that lets coding agents autonomously refine robot policies in the real world. Separately, Tencent detailed ARGUS, tracing software used on a production cluster of over 10,000 GPUs for more than six months.

Jun 29, 2026Read original

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Import AI 462: Superpersuasion; self-sustaining AI; paths to ASI

A study across four experiments with 18,978 conversations found AI systems were reliably more persuasive than expert humans, including professional canvassers, and nearly 3x more effective at raising real-money donations to Save the Children. Constraining AI to human-length messages at human writing speeds eliminated its advantage over coached elite debaters.

Jun 22, 2026Read original

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Import AI 461: "Alignment is not on track"; FrontierCode; and synthetic research interns

Where are your agents right now?

Jun 15, 2026Read original

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Import AI 460: Reward hacking society, RSI data from Anthropic; and RL-based quadcopter racing

Researchers built SocioHack, a 72-environment benchmark showing RL-trained models rediscover historically patched regulatory loopholes; Anthropic reports an 8x increase in code merged in 2026 versus 2021-2024; and RL-trained quadrotors beat a champion human pilot.

Jun 8, 2026Read original

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Import AI 459: AI oversight is difficult; scaling laws for protein folding models; and pricing the extinction risk of AI systems

Import AI 459 covers a paper estimating the US AI economy's quality-adjusted output grew roughly 2,290 percent in 2024 and 2,271 percent in 2025, UK AISI research on why automated alignment is difficult, Stanford-led release of the 100M-image GPIC dataset, and Biohub's ESMFold2 protein model.

Jun 1, 2026Read original

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Import AI 458: Reckoning with the future; and a singularity story

Import AI issue 458 consists of a long essay based on a 2026 Cosmos HAI Lab Lecture given at the University of Oxford, arguing that continued AI progress forces a choice between exploring the future or retreating from the present, plus a fictional story about a positive singularity.

May 26, 2026Read original

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Import AI 457: AI stuxnet; cursed Muon optimizer; and positive alignment

Import AI 457 covers SentinelOne's teardown of the fast16.sys virus that tampered with high-precision calculation software, Tilde Research's finding that the Muon optimizer can cause neuron death in MLP layers and its proposed Aurora optimizer, a position paper on positive alignment, and Prime Intellect tests of autonomous AI research agents on the nanoGPT speedrun.

May 18, 2026Read original

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Import AI 456: RSI and economic growth; radical optionality for AI regulation; and a neural computer

Researchers with the Institute for Law & AI propose "radical optionality" for AI governance, urging governments to build institutions and legal authorities now while avoiding overregulation. Separately, a Meta and KAIST paper explores neural computers, and economists model how automating AI research could produce explosive economic growth.

May 11, 2026Read original

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Import AI 455: AI systems are about to start building themselves.

Import AI editor Jack Clark writes that there is a 60%+ chance that no-human-involved AI R&D, where a system could autonomously build its own successor, happens by the end of 2028, citing benchmark trends in coding, reproducibility, ML engineering, and kernel design.

May 4, 2026Read original