Panos Ladas @Ladas

credit to @gwern who similarly described what was happening under the hood a whole six years ago: gwern.net/scaling-hypoth…

tl;dr LLMs are already neurosymbolic in its latent space this is the mechanistic explanation for the intuitively obvious "feel" that the stochastic parrot crowd never understood

Anthropic @AnthropicAI

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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.

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OpenAI promised Britain 8,000 GPUs. Nobody checked the site. The Guardian went to the address of the flagship Stargate UK project and found a scaffolding yard with no planning application. thenextweb.com/news/openai-ap…

OpenAI’s UK Stargate announcement was nothing more than a failed PR play. OpenAI never even visited their so-called future investment. The site lacked a proper grid connection, which should raise doubts about feasibility of their supposed plan in the first place. This is the company that wants your trust to go public. theguardian.com/technology/202…

Amazon really blew an 18 yr lead on Mercor

Techmeme @Techmeme

6 days ago

AWS says Mechanical Turk will no longer accept new customers and that it is placing the crowdsourcing service in maintenance, signaling its future retirement (@ssharwood / The Register) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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End of an Era. Artificial artificial intelligence no longer needed when real AI is decent? Can this mean that my code would finally be retired?

Techmeme @Techmeme

6 days ago

AWS says Mechanical Turk will no longer accept new customers and that it is placing the crowdsourcing service in maintenance, signaling its future retirement (@ssharwood / The Register) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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WOW end on an era :-O I can’t even express in words how much Mechanical Turk captured my imagination of all things requiring human-only capability for automation in the early 2000s when it was released. My best use case was paying Turks to type in high value keywords as domain names (e.g., cheapcarinsurance dot com) as fast as they could. I would then register the top mis-spelled domains for free type in traffic 😎👍

Techmeme @Techmeme

6 days ago

AWS says Mechanical Turk will no longer accept new customers and that it is placing the crowdsourcing service in maintenance, signaling its future retirement (@ssharwood / The Register) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

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@josh_benadiva exactly, that was what we have been doing, training the machines all along, there is no going back

Anyone who gets this understands that this is a dystopian view into the future. We do a bunch of tasks to train AI… Until the AI becomes good enough to where it doesn’t need us anymore to train it. Does this mean we were the mechanical Turks all along?

TechCrunch @TechCrunch

5 days ago

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk techcrunch.com/2026/07/05/ama…

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@Phelimb @Prolific I remember I was in London, circa 2006 when @jeffbarr talked to us about Mechanical Turk (fascinating!) and other amazing things such as EC2 and the cloud! 20 years ago these things didn't even exist, it was a rather small room in the University of Westminster.

When we started @Prolific, we were motivated by the question "what if MTurk was actually good"? It's sad to see Mturk closing it's doors, but it's not a surprise. It’s the result of years of degrading data quality and an unhealthy marketplace. The future of AI and science demands ethical, verified, high-fidelity human data. We built Prolific to be that foundation, and we're doubling down now.

@seangarschi You are right. There are 2 AI Plus plans with differnt amount of cloud storages.

Across Europe, we are throwing 40 terrawatt-hours of electricity per year out of the window. Yes, today. With the Strait of Hormuz closed. And inflation bringing our economy down to its knees. Our power grids do not need just batteries, or more power supply, or more copper, and so on. First and foremost, they need better orchestration. Fast, down to each electric cycle. Intelligent, operated by machines in real-time. Getting human operators toggling switches to steward power across the network - like a traffic cop, or the early Altair 8800 – cannot take us further any more. And throwing more capex to the problem – the standard industry playbook for the last hundred years – does not solve the underlying challenges; it just amplifies the energy waste. Remember “one more lane”? Luckily, solutions now exist. Check out our portfolio company SMPnet for example. But grid operators and regulators need to wake up to the new realities, and adopt change. Revisit old assumptions, try out new things and embrace new approaches to ensure network stability and efficiencies. Because, for our economies, our communities, and our planet at large, so much energy is such a terrible thing to waste…

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Just finished judging tens of submissions for The Independent Agency Awards 2026. One thing stood out: research is no longer a slide in the deck. It IS the deck. The strongest entries had proprietary research, and the campaign was the answer to what it surfaced. More to share. 🪽

Introducing Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable Opus model yet. It handles long-running tasks with more rigor, follows instructions more precisely, and verifies its own outputs before reporting back. You can hand off your hardest work with less supervision.

Next Open Coffee Athens on Friday, May 8 is 🔥! Come join us to hear from exceptional founders, talk startups and connect with community peers! On stage will appear: - Minas Liarokapis, cofounder & CEO, Acumino (€16m raised): Building a Robotics AI for industrial automation that actually works - Dr. Christos Ellinas, cofounder & CTO, Nodes & Links ($30m raised): Delivering complex infra projects on schedule and at cost with AI - Thanassis Avgerinos, cofounder & VP Engineering, Mayhem Security ($38m raised): The journey from the first autonomous application security platform in 2016 to its recent acquisition by Bugcrowd The event starts at 6pm in Benaki Museum at 138 Pireos Street. Presentations take place at 7pm, while networking continues until late in the evening. Access is free and open to everyone – you are welcome! RSVP link avail after the jump below. Bring your tech peers and come over to network and meet with your next startup partner ;) #opencoffee #athens #greek #tech #startups #community #networking #meetup

Today we honor the women across the EO community who lead, build, mentor, and show up for one another every day. Your courage, perspective, and willingness to lift others up are what make this community so powerful. #InternationalWomensDay #EO #WomenEntrepreneurs #ThePowerOfUs

Comparing raising people and ai from fro the ai boss himself: techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/sam…

Your emotional state sets the tone for your team. David Miller, EO APAC Platinum One Bridge member, explains on @Inc why self-awareness is essential for leaders and how operating from a balanced state drives better outcomes. #EO #EOxInc inc.com/entrepreneurs-…

"AI is no longer a ‘nice to have’ for forward-thinking companies—it’s quickly becoming the operating system of modern business." -Robert van der Zwart, EO Netherlands Read about EO’s 4th Global AI Summit: How to Transform to an AI-First Company global-ai-summit.com #EOBlog

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