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ben · #660

Doom is back

A former employee’s safety critique, fresh warnings from lab leaders, and public endorsements of a slowdown have revived the AI-doom debate. The author argues that cynicism about incentives alone misses important parts of the story.

AI does maths

Competing claims around an AI-assisted solution to a long-standing maths problem raise questions about credit, open exchange, and whether brute-force answers teach as much as human-led reasoning. source

Meta tries consumer agents

Meta introduced Muse, a standalone consumer agent that can handle online tasks such as bookings and purchases. Its free tier and paid plans are an experiment in consumer adoption where AI’s marginal costs remain material. source

The week in AI

Microsoft reportedly plans a major increase in data-centre capacity, while new AI-policy proposals, services partnerships, agency transformation, SaaS consolidation, and sovereign-model positioning show the breadth of the sector’s push. source

In other news

The Boring Company raised more funding and won a Dubai contract; a malformed military flight plan reportedly disrupted UK air traffic control; and Google changed EU search features under competition rules. Each case illustrates trade-offs between technical systems, policy, and incentives. source

Folding iPhones

Apple entered the premium folding-phone category with the Duo, emphasizing interface details and hinge durability. The author sees it as thoughtful work on an established platform rather than the next computing platform. source

good bones · ajeya cotra