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By @sama
Sam Altman announces Codex as best AI coding product, offers companies 2 months free usage for next 30 days to encourage switching
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Executive synthesis
The AI community focused on two dominant stories: OpenAI's aggressive Codex pricing play and the UK AI Security Institute's alarming findings on frontier model cyber capabilities.
Research and open-source developments also drew attention: an EMNLP 2025 paper showed competitive reasoning models can be trained in just 26 minutes with 1,000 examples, while Hugging Face open-sourced a CLI agent automating full ML research loops. Clement Delangue urged the American AI community to support open international collaboration during the Trump-Xi summit.
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By @sama
Sam Altman announces Codex as best AI coding product, offers companies 2 months free usage for next 30 days to encourage switching
By @bcherny
Boris Cherny reports that UK AISI found Claude Mythos Preview is the first model to solve both their cyber ranges end-to-end, including the previously unsolved 'Cooling Tower' range. Mentions Glasswing work.
By @emollick
Emollick summarizes UK AI Security Institute findings: Mythos is major cyber capability gain (as is GPT-5.5), hard to establish upper bounds on these models, capability doubling time is 4.5 months
By @emollick.bsky.social
Ethan Mollick summarizes UK AI Safety Institute findings: Mythos shows big cyber capability gains alongside GPT-5.5, both models appear token-limited rather than ability-limited, and AI capability doubling time is 4.5 months
By @emollick
Emollick questions Anthropic's path forward for Mythos releases given that Google/OpenAI will have equivalent models with different guardrail approaches, asks how Anthropic escapes government approval constraints
By @TheRundownAI
Reports that Anthropic surpassed OpenAI in enterprise AI spending for the first time in April per Ramp's AI Index. 34.4% of US businesses have paid Anthropic subs vs 32.3% for OpenAI. Anthropic quadrupled business adoption over past year while OpenAI grew 0.3%.
By @sama
Sam Altman reflects on anxiety about not using smartest model, wonders if OpenAI should focus more on price/speed tradeoff vs price/intelligence
By @burkov
Shares EMNLP 2025 paper showing a 32B parameter model can become a competitive reasoning model using only 1,000 examples and 26 minutes of training on 16 GPUs, matching o1-preview on math/science using 'budget forcing' technique with 800x fewer examples than DeepSeek R1.
By @alliekmiller
Following recent News coverage of AI labs launching consulting arms, Allie K Miller argues that Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) alone won't transform enterprises into AI-first companies. Emphasizes that tech deployment without change management, people enablement, and process reinvention will stall. Compares to Salesforce adoption challenges.
By @emollick.bsky.social
Ethan Mollick questions Anthropic's path forward for Mythos releases given Google/OpenAI will have equivalent models but release them without going through government approval. Questions how Anthropic exits the government approval path
By @AlphaSignalAI
Hugging Face open-sourced a CLI agent that runs full ML research loops: reads papers, walks citations, pulls datasets, writes training scripts, launches GPU jobs, and iterates. Achieved 32% on GPQA with Qwen3-1.7B (vs Claude Code's 22.99%), beat Codex on HealthBench by 60%.
By @ClementDelangue
Clement Delangue calls on American AI community to show support for open international AI (especially Chinese models) during Trump-Xi meeting, argues open source drives competition, jobs, and wealth