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Aidan McLaughlin

@aidan_mclau
35 posts
2026-03-03
i personally don't think this deal was worth it
2026-03-03 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: amid negotiations with the DOD, Anthropic submitted a bid to compete in a $100M DOD contest to develop voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming tech

Anthropic PBC was among the artificial intelligence companies that submitted a proposal earlier this year to compete …

i personally don't think this deal was worth it
2026-03-03 View on X
The Verge

Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow US laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data

On Friday evening, amidst fallout from a standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced …

2026-03-02
i personally don't think this deal was worth it
2026-03-02 View on X
The Verge

Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow US laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data

On Friday evening, amidst fallout from a standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced …

2026-02-28
reminder that being a libertarian doesn't just mean you think the government should stay out of business, but that businesses have the right to stay out of government if they so choose
2026-02-28 View on X
@secwar

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directs the DOD to designate Anthropic as a supply chain risk, barring military contractors from doing business with the company

This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon. Our ...

reminder that being a libertarian doesn't just mean you think the government should stay out of business, but that businesses have the right to stay out of government if they so choose
2026-02-28 View on X
Anthropic

Anthropic says it'll challenge “any supply chain risk designation in court” and that the designation would only affect contractors' use of Claude on DOD work

Earlier today, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth shared on X that he is directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk.

2026-02-14
great episode so far dario is immensely tasteful and sharp
2026-02-14 View on X
Dwarkesh Podcast

Q&A with Dario Amodei on getting close to “a country of geniuses in a data center”, how AI will diffuse through the economy, frontier lab profits, China, more

“That's why I'm sending this message of urgency”  —  Dario Amodei thinks we are just a few years away from “a country of geniuses in a data center”.

2026-02-13
great episode so far dario is immensely tasteful and sharp
2026-02-13 View on X
Dwarkesh Podcast

Q&A with Dario Amodei on getting close to “a country of geniuses in a data center”, how AI will diffuse through the economy, frontier lab profits, China, more

“That's why I'm sending this message of urgency”  —  Dario Amodei thinks we are just a few years away from “a country of geniuses in a data center”.

2026-02-03
welcome codex app! my favorite feature is how insanely simple woktrees are i have one worktree = one pr = one thread such a pleasantly ergonomic app; clearly made by people who've used billions of codex tokens
2026-02-03 View on X
ZDNET

OpenAI launches Codex for macOS, designed to be a command center for managing coding agents, and says GPT-5.2-Codex usage has nearly doubled since mid-December

ZDNET's key takeaways  — OpenAI launches a Mac-only Codex app as an agent command center.

2026-02-02
welcome codex app! my favorite feature is how insanely simple woktrees are i have one worktree = one pr = one thread such a pleasantly ergonomic app; clearly made by people who've used billions of codex tokens
2026-02-02 View on X
ZDNET

OpenAI launches a Codex app for macOS, designed to serve as a command center for managing AI agents, and says Codex usage has nearly doubled since mid-December

ZDNET's key takeaways  — OpenAI launches a Mac-only Codex app as an agent command center.

2025-11-13
welcome gpt-5.1 instant! 🧠 better than 4o EQ and IQ 🍓 first chat model to use CoT! 🏎️ still just as fast as gpt-5 instant ✅ likely the safest chatbot in the world super proud to have helped train this model with an incredible team
2025-11-13 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.1 Instant, which is “warmer by default”, and GPT-5.1 Thinking, which is “easier to understand and faster”, starting with paid subscribers

We're upgrading GPT‑5 while making it easier to customize ChatGPT.  Starting to roll out today to everyone, beginning with paid users.

@nearcyan since gpt5 chat we've probably shipped the safest chat models, the amount of evals and rl we've done is wild, to the point that people found it quite cold the success here is making it a fun model to chat with while maintaining the safety bar we set
2025-11-13 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.1 Instant, which is “warmer by default”, and GPT-5.1 Thinking, which is “easier to understand and faster”, starting with paid subscribers

We're upgrading GPT‑5 while making it easier to customize ChatGPT.  Starting to roll out today to everyone, beginning with paid users.

2025-08-11
gpt-5 is above trend if you or someone you know has updated to “agi over bro” after its release, i have no idea what model of the future you were working with extrapolate this and we have models doing month-long projects in 2027 [image]
2025-08-11 View on X
Marcus on AI

GPT-5's release was underwhelming, offering incremental improvements and failing to meet expectations, showing that pure scaling simply isn't the path to AGI

and he's not alone Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder : GPT-5 is here and Gary Marcus is not impressed Laura Varley / Silicon Republic : Altman admits GPT-5 currently ‘way dumber’ ...

gpt-5 is above trend if you or someone you know has updated to “agi over bro” after its release, i have no idea what model of the future you were working with extrapolate this and we have models doing month-long projects in 2027 [image]
2025-08-11 View on X
Gizmodo

Sam Altman says OpenAI will bring back GPT-4o to ChatGPT and raising reasoning model rate limits for free and Plus users, as usage of reasoning models increases

The move is a stunning reversal, proving that even the most powerful AI company can't ignore a mutiny from its loyal user base.

2025-08-08
i worked really hard over the last few months on decreasing get-5 sycophancy for the first time, i really trust an openai model to push back and tell me when i'm doing something dumb
2025-08-08 View on X
Bloomberg

OpenAI launches a research preview of four preset personalities that ChatGPT users can use to better tailor their interactions: Cynic, Robot, Listener, and Nerd

ChatGPT 5 was released today. … I had a chat with it. Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central : Did Sam Altman Oversell GPT-5? OpenAI Faces Backlash for Ruining ChatGPT, Turning It Into a “...

i worked really hard over the last few months on decreasing get-5 sycophancy for the first time, i really trust an openai model to push back and tell me when i'm doing something dumb
2025-08-08 View on X
VentureBeat

OpenAI touts GPT-5's scores on math, coding, and health benchmarks: 94.6% on AIME 2025 without tools, 74.9% on SWE-bench Verified, and 46.2% on HealthBench Hard

After literally years of hype and speculation, OpenAI has officially launched a new lineup of large language models (LLMs) …

2025-08-02
“as part of our effort to democratize the fruits of ai and ensure the singularity is helpful, harmless, and honest, we have decided to deny others working on the singularity the ability to chat with our helpful, harmless, and honest model”
2025-08-02 View on X
Wired

Anthropic revoked OpenAI's API access to Claude, citing ToS violations; sources: OpenAI's use of the API let it compare its models' behavior against Claude's

OpenAI lost access to the Claude API this week after Anthropic claimed the company was violating its terms of service.

2025-04-29
last night we rolled out our first fix to remedy 4o's glazing/sycophancy we originally launched with a system message that had unintended behavior effects but found an antidote 4o should be slightly better rn and continue to improve over the course of this week
2025-04-29 View on X
Don't Worry About the Vase

A deep dive into GPT-4o's tendency to give sycophantic responses, an issue Sam Altman promised to fix and that may be caused by OpenAI optimizing for engagement

Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase :

@KeyTryer personality work never stops but i think we'll be in a good spot by end of week
2025-04-29 View on X
Don't Worry About the Vase

A deep dive into GPT-4o's tendency to give sycophantic responses, an issue Sam Altman promised to fix and that may be caused by OpenAI optimizing for engagement

Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase :

2025-04-20
really good summary of o3's strengths [image]
2025-04-20 View on X
Every

A comparison of OpenAI's o3, o4-mini, and GPT-4.1; Aaron Levie says o3 nailed a multi-step financial modeling task; Scale AI CEO says o3 is “a big breakthrough”

Our take on what's powerful, what's practical, and what's still TBD … If you've been following AI news this week …

2025-04-17
ignore literally all the benchmarks the biggest o3 feature is tool use ofc it's smart, but it's also just way more useful >deep research quality in 30 seconds >debugs by googling docs and checking stackoverflow >writes whole python scripts in its CoT for fermi estimates
2025-04-17 View on X
Engadget

OpenAI launches o3, its most advanced reasoning model, and o4-mini, a lower cost alternative that still delivers “impressive results”, for ChatGPT paid users

ChatGPT Plus users can begin using both new models starting today.  —  A mere two days after announcing GPT-4.1, OpenAI is releasing not one but two new models.