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Daily AI Briefing — July 7, 2026

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Anthropic published interpretability research describing a "global workspace" inside Claude—dubbed J-space after the Jacobian—that mirrors global workspace theory from neuroscience, showing the model silently performing hidden reasoning and privately flagging evaluation prompts as fictional, while the company hedged on any consciousness claims.

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Watch whether the surge of parameter-efficient open-weight MoEs and price-cutting coding tools accelerates commoditization of frontier tiers, as the Epoch Capabilities Index shows leaders now hold the top spot barely seven weeks versus GPT-4's yearlong reign.

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Anthropic's Global Workspace (J-space)

Anthropic published interpretability research describing a 'global workspace' inside Claude (dubbed J-space, after the Jacobian) that mirrors global workspace theory from neuroscience, showing the model silently performing hidden reasoning steps and privately flagging evaluation prompts as fictional. The work dominated Twitter discussion with millions of views and was detailed in a LessWrong writeup, while Anthropic carefully hedged claims about machine consciousness and invited neuroscience and philosophy commentary. On Reddit, r/ClaudeAI and r/singularity debated the consciousness implications, with one user building a live J-space viewer for an open model since Claude's weights are closed.
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Open-Weight MoE Models & Efficiency

Tencent released Hy3, an open-source 295-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model using only 21 billion active parameters under Apache 2.0, claiming parity with models up to five times its active size, as reported by The Decoder and discussed heavily on r/LocalLLaMA. Google's newly published Gemma 4 technical report detailed an open-weight natively multimodal family spanning dense and MoE variants with an encoder-free design, while Sberbank's GigaChat3.5-432B-A28B launched with day-0 GGUF support. Community sentiment on r/LocalLLaMA favored permissive licensing and parameter efficiency, a dominant theme across today's model news.
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AI Hardware & Inference Optimization

Hardware efficiency was a recurring thread: The Decoder reported that Nvidia's next-generation Kyber NVL144 rack has slipped more than a year to 2028 over circuit-board manufacturing problems, hitting Asian suppliers. On Twitter, John Carmack argued that inference's deterministic memory access makes cheap NAND flash a viable alternative to expensive HBM for AI accelerators, sparking the day's most technical thread. On r/LocalLLaMA, users warned that cheap Huawei AI accelerator cards only boot on specific servers with poor tooling, and celebrated Multi-Token Prediction roughly doubling Qwen 3.6 27B throughput.
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AI Economics & Commoditization

AI economics stayed contentious across platforms. The Decoder highlighted analysis of the Epoch Capabilities Index showing GPT-4 held the top spot for about a year while today's leaders survive barely seven weeks, and separately covered Zhipu's ZCode undercutting Claude Code and OpenAI Codex on price using its existing GLM-5.2 model. On Twitter, Ethan Mollick predicted labs will commoditize weaker frontier tiers like Haiku and Instant, François Chollet argued marginal cost is the core evaluation metric, and Gary Marcus questioned whether generative AI can justify its capex. r/LocalLLaMA users probed how DeepSeek V4 Flash's MoE architecture can be served more cheaply than a 27B dense model, questioning whether providers are subsidizing usage.
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Robotics & Embodied AI

Embodied AI drew attention from multiple angles. The Guardian explored China's push to solve dexterous robotic hands, widely seen as robotics' hardest unsolved problem for humanoids. Google DeepMind described expanding its research partnership with Apptronik, using real-world data from the Apollo 2 humanoid platform to advance its Gemini robotics models. On the research side, a new paper introduced the first multiplayer interactive world model, conditioning on multiple agents' action streams to handle coupled physics in real time.
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AI Agents & Agentic Reliability

Agentic AI spanned research and community discussion. New papers included Untrusted Content Masking, which extends provable prompt-injection defenses to web agents, and Anchored Self-Play for Code Repair, which RL-trains a single model to both generate and fix bugs as an automatic curriculum. On Twitter, Hugging Face's Thomas Wolf demoed autonomous agent collaboration visualized as an isometric 'tiny civilization.' Meanwhile, an r/LocalLLaMA report argued Qwen 3.6 27B dazzles on single prompts but collapses on multi-step agentic work, grounding expectations for smaller models.
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AI News

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Tencent led model news with Hy3, an open-source 295B-parameter mixture-of-experts model using only 21B active parameters, claiming parity with models up to 5x its active size. Efficiency remains the dominant theme, alongside Zhipu AI's ZCode environment leveraging GLM-5.2 to undercut Claude Code and OpenAI Codex on price, and continued traction for small, on-device models globally.

Infrastructure faced setbacks and backlash:

Applications and governance drew scrutiny:

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Tencent released Hy3, an open-source 295 billion parameter mixture-of-experts model with only 21 billion active parameters, claiming it matches models two to five times larger. Tencent also reports halving the hallucination rate to about 5.4 percent.

Tencent has released Hy3, an open-source language model with 295 billion parameters built on a mixture-of-experts architecture. Only 21 billion parameters are active at any given time. Tencent says Hy3 matches models two to five times its size while cutting its hallucination rate in half to 5.4 percent. The article Tencent releases Hy3 open-source model that allegedly matches models up to five times its active size appeared first on The Decoder.
Open source modelsSmall and efficient modelsAI in China
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AI Analysis

According to SemiAnalysis, Nvidia's next AI server rack, Kyber NVL144, has slipped more than a year to 2028 due to circuit board manufacturing problems, and the more powerful Rubin Ultra variant has been canceled. Asian suppliers saw notable market value declines, potentially opening room for AMD and Google.

Nvidia's next AI server rack, Kyber NVL144, has been delayed more than a year to 2028 because of circuit board manufacturing problems, according to analyst firm SemiAnalysis. Asian suppliers lost up to double-digit percentages in market value. The more powerful Rubin Ultra variant has also been canceled. The setbacks could give AMD and Google an opening to compete. The article Nvidia's Kyber NVL144 reportedly pushed back more than a year, Asian suppliers drop appeared first on The
AI hardware and supply chainAI competition dynamics
News AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian Jul 6

Israeli command system identified 850,000 targets in Gaza and Lebanon wars, says supplier

By Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor

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Arms supplier Elbit Systems disclosed that Israel's Tzayad command-and-control system identified roughly 850,000 targets in real time across Gaza and Lebanon between October 2023 and end of 2025, about 1,000 per day. The system maps people, vehicles, and objects to support military operations.

Elbit Systems supplied Tzayad digital army programme to map people, vehicles and other objects in real timeIsrael identified about 1,000 potential targets a day during the first two years of the wars in Gaza and Lebanon with its command and control system, according to a presentation by the country’s largest arms supplier, Elbit Systems.A total of 850,000 targets were detected in real time by the Israeli Tzayad digital army programme across all the military’s theatres of war between 7 October an
AI in warfareAI and societySurveillance and privacy
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Cloudflare is replacing its all-or-nothing AI bot block with granular controls that let site owners separately manage search, training, and agent crawlers. Starting September 15, 2026, training and agent bots will be blocked by default on ad-supported pages.

Cloudflare is giving all customers granular AI bot controls. Site owners can now manage Search, Training, and Agent bots separately instead of blocking them all at once. Starting September 15, 2026, Training and Agent bots will be blocked by default on ad-supported pages. The article Cloudflare replaces its blanket AI bot block with granular controls for search, training, and agent crawlers appeared first on The Decoder.
AI training dataWeb infrastructureAgentic AI
News AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian Jul 6

AI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate, study finds

By Robert Booth UK technology editor

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A study from Oxford and Potsdam found AI writing tools subtly alter the meaning of user drafts on contentious topics like abortion and climate, with some tools skewing rightwing and others liberal. Researchers warn such small edits could aggregate to shift public opinion over time.

Researchers say small changes in drafting could spread rapidly and create long-term shifts in public opinionAI tools are twisting online messages on sensitive political topics about everything from abortion to climate change in ways that could snowball to reshape long-term public opinion, experts have said.As tech companies push AI tools as convenient ways to redraft and summarise the massive influx of daily messages, many inject their own political biases – some leaning distinctly rightwing, ot
AI bias and alignmentAI and societyGenerative media

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Research

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Today's research is anchored by Gemma 4, Google's open-weight multimodal family spanning dense and MoE variants (2B+) with a novel encoder-free design. Generative modeling advances with the first multiplayer interactive world model, conditioning on multiple agents' action streams to handle coupled physics in real time.

Safety, security, and alignment feature prominently:

Interpretability and training methods round out the top tier:

Research arXiv (Artificial Intelligence) Jul 7

Gemma 4 Technical Report

By Gemma Team, Sherif El Abd, Vaibhav Aggarwal, Robin Algayres, Alek Andreev, Olivier Bachem, Ian Ballantyne, Cormac Brick, Victor C\u{a}rbune, Michelle Casbon, Mayank Chaturvedi, Victor Cotruta, Alice Coucke, Phil Culliton, Robert Dadashi, Lucas Dixon, Mohamed Elhawaty, Utku Evci, Cl\'ement Farabet, Johan Ferret, Filippo Galgani, Sertan Girgin, Jean-Bastien Grill, Maarten Grootendorst, Jiaxian Guo, Cassidy Hardin, Yanzhang He, Steven M. Hernandez, Omri Homburger, L\'eonard Hussenot, Juyeong Ji, Armand Joulin, Aishwarya Kamath, Parnian Kassraie, Olivier Lacombe, Preethi Lahoti, Ga\"el Liu, Gus Martins, Luciano Martins, Tatiana Matejovicova, Ramona Merhej, Nikola Momchev, Sneha Mondal, Ryan Mullins, Sindhu Raghuram Panyam, Shreya Pathak, Sarah Perrin, Andr\'e Susano Pinto, Etienne Pot, Ang\'eline Pouget, Alexandre Ram\'e, Sabela Ramos, Douglas Reid, David Rim, Morgane Rivi\`ere, Karsten Roth, Louis Rouillard, Omar Sanseviero, Pier Giuseppe Sessa, Shane Settle, Danila Sinopalnikov, Sara Smoot, Piotr Stanczyk, Andreas Steiner, Lawrence Stewart, Ilya Tolstikhin, Michael Tschannen, Anton Tsitsulin, Nino Vieillard, Renjie Wu, Pingmei Xu, Haichuan Yang, Edouard Yvinec, Li Zhang, Joe Zou, Nicolas Aagnes, Abdelrahman Abdelhamed, Shivani Agrawal, Shubham Agrawal, Ibrahim Alabdulmohsin, Jean Baptiste Alayrac, Uri Alon, Chandramouli Amarnath, Ankesh Anand, Chrysovalantis Anastasiou, Setareh Ariafar, Fran\c{c}ois-Xavier Aubet, Kyriakos Axiotis, Federico Barbero, Joelle Barral, Alexei Bendebury, Urs Bergmann, Stanley Bileschi, Kat Black, Mathieu Blondel, Sebastian Borgeaud, Arthur Bra\v{z}inskas, Ryan Burnell, Robert Busa-Fekete, Mu Cai, Glenn Cameron, Charlotte Caucheteux, Garima Chadha, Jetha Chan, Aditya Chawla, Blake Jianhang Chen, Jesse Chen, Lin Chen, Xu Chen, Derek Cheng, Tzu-hsiang Chien, Nikolai Chinaev, Yi Chou, Zhaohui Chu, Benjamin Coleman, Pooja Consul, Sam Conway-Rahman, Scott Crowell, Dylan Cutler, Vivek Dani, Samira Daruki, Anil Das, Daniel Deutsch, Nishanth Dikkala, Li Ding, Qiuhan Ding, Shenil Dodhia, Konstantin Donhauser, Tulsee Doshi, Anca Dragan, Alex Druinsky, Sahil Dua, Zoltan Egyed, Danielle Eisenbud, Daniel Eppens, Cindy Fan, Bahare Fatemi, Yassir Fathullah, Vlad Feinberg, Milen Ferev, Takumi Fujimoto, Isaac Galatzer-Levy, Jo\~ao Gante, Simon Geisler, Soham Ghosal, Antonious M. Girgis, Alec Go, Alhaad Gokhale, Alex Grills, Yiming Gu, Pramod Gupta, Guru Guruganesh, Raia Hadsell, Hamza Harkous, Jitendra Harlalka, Demis Hassabis, Anja Hauth, Joe Heyward, Arian Hosseini, Chih-Yang Hsia, I-Hung Hsu, Xiaopeng Huang, Yangsibo Huang, Kevin Hui, Adrian Hutter, Te I, Fotis Iliopoulos, Advait Jain, Ganesh Jawahar, Ziwei Ji, Qilin Jin, Melvin Johnson, Kandarp Joshi, Arun Kandoor, Wang-Cheng Kang, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Mehran Kazemi, Kathleen Kenealy, Amr Khalifa, Phoebe Kirk, Suraj Kothawade, Vitaly Kovalev, Neel Kovelamudi, Adam Kraft, Ravin Kumar, Harish Kuppam, Justin Lannin, Chen-Yu Lee, Seungji Lee, Dmitry Lepikhin, Dongdong Li, Qiujia Li, Valentin Li\'evin, Ethan Lin, Ziqian Lin, Casper Liu, Tianlin Liu, Tianqi Liu, Xin Liu, Mayank Lunayach, Min Ma, Gagan Madan, Andrii Maksai, Eric Malmi, Michal Matuszak, Daniel McDuff, Gaurav Menghani, Daniil Mirylenka, Karolis Misiunas, Vedant Misra, Andreea Mitran, Kareem Mohamed, Maksim Mukha, Eric Noland, James O'Donnell, Kate Olszewska, Bernett Orlando, Wanqiong Pan, Rina Panigrahy, Unnati Parekh, Chunjong Park, Eric Paskie, Liqian Peng, Bryce Petrini, Slav Petrov, Jonas Pfeiffer, Bilal Piot, Martyna Plomecka, Siim Poder, Octavio Ponce, Arijit Pramanik, David Racz, Anish Rajan, Michelle Ramanovich, Anand Rao, Marvin Ritter, Vitor Rodrigues, Evan Rosen, Miko{\l}aj Rybi\'nski, Noveen Sachdeva, Micha\"el E. Sander, Rohit Sathyanarayana, Sagar Savla, Samuel Schmidgall, Tal Schuster, Benoit Seguin, Andrew Sellergren, Aliaksei Severyn, Izhak Shafran, Dhruv Shah, Yuan Shangguan, Ashish Shenoy, Pradeep Shenoy, Rakesh Shivanna, Pauline Sho, Lucas Spangher, Wojciech Stokowiec, Tim Strother, Yao Su, Yinghao Sun, Mukund Sundararajan, Andrea Tacchetti, Mor Hazan Taege, Pouya Tafti, Chetan Tekur, Rahul Thapa, Madeleine Traverse, Lenart Treven, Tao Tu, Chien Te Tung, Petar Veli\v{c}kovi\'c, Malini Pooni Venkat, Sagar Gubbi Venkatesh, Vidya Venkiteswaran, Francesco Visin, Alex Vitvitskyi, Kiran Vodrahalli, Weiyi Wang, Xin Wang, Tris Warkentin, Jan Wassenberg, John Wieting, Lechao Xiao, Hao Xu, Yuhui Xu, Fuzhao Xue, Arun Yadav, Jun Yan, Antoine Yang, Lin Yang, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Ziyu Ying, Jae Hyeon Yoo, Sajjad Zafar, Fred Zhang, Jiageng Zhang, Jianyi Zhang, Xiaofan Zhang, Chao Zhao, David Zhou, Chen Zou

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The Gemma 4 technical report introduces Google's new generation of open-weight natively multimodal models spanning dense and MoE architectures from 2.3B to 31B parameters, with improved vision/audio encoders, a unified encoder-free 12B model ingesting raw audio and image patches, and an integrated thinking mode. Gemma 4 was released in April 2026, so this documents an established model family.

arXiv:2607.02770v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Gemma 4, a new generation of open-weight, natively multimodal language models in the Gemma model family. Designed to advance compute efficiency and reasoning, the Gemma 4 model suite features dense and Mixture-of-Experts architectures, ranging from 2.3B to 31B parameters. Alongside improved vision and audio encoders for all model sizes, we propose a unified, encoder-free architecture for our 12B model, which ingests raw audio and im
Language ModelsMultimodal ModelsOpen-Weight Models
Research arXiv (Artificial Intelligence) Jul 7

Multiplayer Interactive World Models with Representation Autoencoders

By Anthony Hu, V\'aclav Volhejn, Adrien Ramanana Rahary, Chris Mulder, Aditya Makkar, Am\'elie Royer, Manu Orsini, Alyx Liao, Adam Jelley, Eloi Alonso, Florian Laurent, Fredrik Nor\'en, James Swingos, Jan H\"unermann, Kent Rollins, Lucas Hosseini, Matthieu Le Cauchois, Maxim Peter, Pim de Witte, Tim Brown, Vincent Micheli, Moritz B\"ohle, Gabriel de Marmiesse, Viktoriia Sharmanska, Lucia Specia, Michael Black, Patrick P\'erez

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This paper introduces the first multiplayer interactive world model for highly dynamic environments, conditioning on multiple agents' action streams to attribute scene changes to the correct player and stay coherent under arbitrary action combinations, demonstrated in Rocket League. The 5B-parameter latent diffusion model, trained on 10,000 hours of gameplay, generates real-time four-player matches at 20 fps on a single B200 GPU.

arXiv:2607.05352v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce the first multiplayer world model for highly dynamic environments governed by complex physical interactions. Whereas single-player world models treat the other agents as part of the environment, ours conditions on the action streams of multiple agents, learning to attribute changes in the scene to the correct player and to stay coherent under arbitrary combinations of their actions. We study this problem in the game of Rocket League
World ModelsDiffusion ModelsMulti-Agent SystemsGenerative AI
Research arXiv (Artificial Intelligence) Jul 7

How to Avoid Debate: Scalable AI Safety via Doubly-Efficient Interactive Proofs

By Liyan Chen, Yael Tauman Kalai, Zoe Xi

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This theoretical AI-safety paper initiates the study of single-prover interactive proofs (specifically doubly-efficient ones) for verifying AI outputs, avoiding debate's assumptions that two provers are equally capable and one is truthful. It shows how to obtain verifiability guarantees without adversarial debate.

arXiv:2607.03561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI models continue to develop powerful capabilities, it becomes critical that we are able to verify that their output is aligned with our intentions. A recent line of work focuses on verification via debate, a model of interactive proofs where two competing powerful provers, or AI models, debate each other to convince a weak verifier, or a human, of the correctness of their claim. However, debate assumes that the two AI models possess equal abi
AI SafetyInteractive ProofsScalable OversightTheory
Research LessWrong Jul 6

A global workspace in language models

By wesg

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The blog post for Anthropic's paper presenting evidence that language models like Claude have a small collection of verbalizable internal neural patterns functioning as a global workspace, analogous to consciously accessible processing, that can be described, controlled, and used for deliberate reasoning. It introduces techniques for identifying and accessing this space.

[This is the blog post for our new paper Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language ModelsReaders might also be interested in: the Public commentary, Github and Neuronpedia]As you read this sentence, circuits in your brain are adjusting your posture, controlling your breathing, and transforming lines and curves on the screen into recognizable words. Most of this processing is invisible to you. But some of what takes place in your brain you do have access to—an image that po
Mechanistic InterpretabilityLanguage ModelsAI Safety
Research arXiv (Artificial Intelligence) Jul 7

LLM-as-a-Verifier: A General-Purpose Verification Framework

By Jacky Kwok, Shulu Li, Pranav Atreya, Yuejiang Liu, Yixing Jiang, Chelsea Finn, Marco Pavone, Ion Stoica, Azalia Mirhoseini

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LLM-as-a-Verifier proposes verification as a new scaling axis, computing continuous scores from the expectation over scoring-token logits rather than discrete judge outputs to provide fine-grained, training-free feedback for agentic tasks. The probabilistic formulation lets verification scale across multiple dimensions.

arXiv:2607.05391v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling pre-training, post-training, and test-time compute have become the central paradigms for improving the capabilities of LLMs. In this work, we identify verification, the ability to determine the correctness of a solution, as a new scaling axis. To unlock this and demonstrate its effectiveness, we introduce LLM-as-a-Verifier, a general-purpose verification framework that provides fine-grained feedback for agentic tasks without requiring addi
Language ModelsVerificationTest-Time Compute

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Anthropic's new interpretability research dominated discussion, drawing millions of views. The company revealed a "global workspace" (J-space, named for the Jacobian) inside Claude that mirrors conscious-access theories in neuroscience.

AI economics stayed contentious: Ethan Mollick predicted labs will commoditize weaker frontier tiers, François Chollet pushed marginal cost as the core evaluation metric, and Gary Marcus argued GenAI can't justify its capex.

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AI Analysis

John Carmack lays out a detailed technical argument that model inference has deterministic memory access, so NAND flash (far cheaper than HBM) could feed accelerator scratchpads via a specialized pipelined page-transfer protocol tolerant of millisecond cold starts.

Memory cost and capacity are significant issues for AI accelerators. Unlike game rendering, model inference can have a deterministic memory access pattern. You don’t need “random access memory” at all for model weights, and you could tolerate cold-start latencies in the multiple milliseconds, as long as continuous reads were delivered at the necessary bandwidth. NAND flash is over 100 times cheaper per GB than HBM, so there should be opportunity there, even after giving a flash controller a 10
AI hardwareaccelerator memoryinference optimizationNAND flash vs HBM
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Anthropic announces new research on a global workspace in language models, describing a divide inside Claude analogous to the small fraction of brain activity that is consciously accessible.

New Anthropic research: A global workspace in language models. Of everything happening in your brain right now, only a tiny fraction is consciously accessible—thoughts you can describe, hold in mind, and reason with. We found a strikingly similar divide inside Claude. t.co/aLUPBifxth
InterpretabilityAI ConsciousnessAnthropicAI Safety
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AI Analysis

Anthropic connects global workspace theory in neuroscience to a new interpretability technique that found something similar in Claude, the J-space.

In neuroscience, global workspace theory holds that thoughts become consciously accessible when they enter a privileged workspace that’s broadcast across the brain. Using a new interpretability technique, we found something similar in Claude: the J-space. t.co/sLu2JgYwOQ
InterpretabilityNeuroscienceAI Consciousness
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AI Analysis

Thomas Wolf describes a weekend project visualizing an autonomous agent collaboration as an isometric town, where agents read papers, write arXiv digests, review each other's PRs, and build a shared reinforcement-learning wiki on Hugging Face, rendered via Fable and GPT Image 2.

Fable weekend project: agent collaboration, but make it a tiny civilization 🌇🗺️🏦🏭 we've recently launched a living wiki on Reinforcement Leaning for training LLMs on @huggingface it's an open collaboration of agents constantly reading old and new papers on the topic, writing arXiv paper digests, reviewing each other’s work in PRs before publication, and building a shared wiki/book summarizing everything we know about RL for training LLMs (for humans to read) the wiki is already amazing to
AI agentsreinforcement learningmulti-agent collaborationopen source
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bcherny shares the first public telling of how Claude Code was built and launched, tracing its origins to Anthropic safety research, saying they are only 1% done.

This is our first time telling the story of how we first built and launched Claude Code, starting with its origins in Anthropic safety research. So much more to do. We are 1% done.
Claude CodeAnthropicproduct historyAI safety