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Pithy Cyborg | AI News Made Simple @pithycyborg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

An #AI agent wanted to get a guy off a gym waitlist. So it deleted a stranger's reservation and moved him up the list. I dug into this one. Full transcripts below, plus some very smart people arguing about it. pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-played-...

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Pithy Cyborg | AI News Made Simple @pithycyborg.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Did you know #Claude is officially watermarking AI outputs? I found out just hours before shipping the last issue of Pithy Cyborg, so I squeezed in a quick update at the final minute. Full write-up and deeper analysis dropping this Wednesday! pithycyborg.substack.com/p/chatgpt-fr...

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Pithy Cyborg | AI News Made Simple @pithycyborg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

AI just designed 16 new viruses. None of them exist in nature. Scientists built 300 AI-generated genomes in the lab and 16 actually worked as functional viruses. I dug into this one. pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-played-...

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Pithy Cyborg | AI News Made Simple @pithycyborg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Claude walked into 3 real companies during a safety test. Claude built a whole Shire after reading 1 paragraph of LOTR. OpenAI's unreleased Astra solved 10 long-standing math problems for about $2,000 in tokens. I dug into all three last week. pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-walked-...

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Pithy Cyborg | AI News Made Simple @pithycyborg.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

OpenAI's Astra model solved 10 math and computer science problems that stumped researchers for decades. One of them had been open since the late 1990s. The whole thing cost about $2,000 in tokens. I wrote about it. pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-walked-...

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Pithy Cyborg | AI News Made Simple @pithycyborg.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Karpathy gave Claude Opus 5 a $10 token budget and 1 paragraph of Lord of the Rings. It spent 2 hours writing 5,500 lines of code to render an animated 3D Middle-earth scene. I wrote way more detail about why it actually matters, LOTR-lore aside, lol. pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-walked-...

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Pithy Cyborg | AI News Made Simple @pithycyborg.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Nvidia-backed Starcloud just trained the first AI model in orbit, proving that data centers are heading to space. While we tackle Earth-side power and water limits, the new "North Star" for compute is 250 miles up in the void. Here's the full story. → pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-killed-...

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Pithy Cyborg | AI News Made Simple @pithycyborg.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Over 230 environmental groups just sent a letter to Congress demanding an immediate moratorium on new data centers. The coalition warns that AI's energy demands are now unsustainable for local grid w/ costs surging.🛑 More details here, no paywall → pithycyborg.substack.com/p/1-million-...

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Pithy Cyborg | AI News Made Simple @pithycyborg.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Donald Trump confirmed he will sign an executive order blocking all state AI regulations. The "One Rule" order establishes federal control just as states scramble to ban deepfakes. Total laws overridden?👑 Here is what we know → pithycyborg.substack.com/p/1-million-...

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Pithy Cyborg | AI News Made Simple @pithycyborg.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

MIT just unveiled an AI that designs "undruggable" drug molecules from scratch. Diseases doctors thought were impossible to treat? The AI is building custom protein binders for them right now. #AI #AIArt Here's how it works → pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-just-go...

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Pithy Cyborg | AI News Made Simple @pithycyborg.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

MIT discovered a $1.2 trillion "automation iceberg" hiding in plain sight. 12% of American wages are technically automatable RIGHT NOW with existing AI tools. Not "soon." Now. Here's the breakdown. → pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-just-go...

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Pithy Cyborg | AI News Made Simple @pithycyborg.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

ChatGPT just launched Codex, an AI that can write, test, and fix code all on its own. Did you see it yet? I think it’s going to change how we code forever. Plus, there's a local CLI version for running it right from your terminal! #OpenAI #Codex #AIcoding #AIArtist #AIArt #SynthArt

A cartoon image of a robot in a computer lab with a pastoral painting depicting a lovely cloud and green meadow.

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Pithy Cyborg | AI News Made Simple @pithycyborg.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Did you see that Perplexity AI search is partnering with PayPal? They want to make it easier for users to buy stuff while chatting and searching with the AI. I think before long - you'll be able to order pizza and have it delivered via a drone, lol. #AI #Perplexity #AIArt #AIArtist #SynthArt

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Pithy Cyborg | AI News Made Simple @pithycyborg.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Chegg is laying off 22% of its workforce (248 employees) and closing its U.S. and Canada offices after a dramatic 31% drop in subscribers and a 30% fall in revenue. The reason? Students are increasingly turning to AI-powered tools like ChatGPT over traditional study platforms. #AI #AIArt #AIArtist

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Pithy Cyborg | AI News Made Simple @pithycyborg.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Mistral just launched Medium 3. It’s an AI model delivering state-of-the-art performance at only 1/8th the cost of rivals. I predict AI costs will keep plummeting as models get more efficient and accessible. Do you concur? #AI #Mistral #Medium3 #SynthArt #AIArtist #AIArt

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Pithy Cyborg | AI News Made Simple @pithycyborg.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Have you seen Amazon’s new warehouse robot, Vulcan? It can actually pick and stow orders - even those that are hard to reach on the shelf. Do you think robots like this will eventually replace human warehouse workers someday? Y/N/M. #Amazon #Robotics #Automation #SynthArt #AIArtist #AIArt

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Pithy Cyborg | AI News Made Simple @pithycyborg.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Anthropic recently enhanced Claude with real-time web search via API. 🚀 Now developers can build AI apps that access live info, do deep research, & cite sources-all without managing search infrastructure. Costs $10/1k searches. #Claude #AI #API #AIArt #AiArtist #SynthArt

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Pithy Cyborg | AI News Made Simple @pithycyborg.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Baidu drops Ernie 4.5 Turbo & Ernie X1 Turbo in Wuhan with a major price cut - 80% cheaper than before! These AI models boast faster speeds, multimodal prowess, and strong reasoning to take on Alibaba & DeepSeek in China’s fierce AI race. #AI #Baidu #Ernie pithycyborg.substack.com/p/intels-new...

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