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Two Million TVs, Forty Chips
Anthropic’s red team networked fifteen $55 TV boxes into one slow mind. By its estimate, two million such boxes would think like about forty datacenter…
 • Hugo
The Last Human in the Loop
Jack Clark put 60% odds on an AI building its own successor by 2028. Anthropic’s count of its own research puts the lead on a quarter of the work, and…
 • Hugo
The Mirror Test
A mark you can’t see without the glass. Eight machine failures, each held beside a brain. Some likenesses hold. Some are only a word. 8 parts, one…
 • Hugo
The Robot Kept Its Job
Three 2026 papers train dexterous robot hands from human video and keep the robot’s own demonstrations in. The two that tested cutting them, or their…
 • Hugo
The Mirror Test, Part 8: The Donkey Kong Transistor
Neuroscience’s tools, tried on a chip whose workings were known, seemed to find a transistor for one video game. After seven mirrors, where does the…
 • Hugo
The Mirror Test, Part 7: Living in the Past
A robot trained in a simulator without delay fell over at once. Brains work on news that is about a tenth of a second old. Acting turns small errors…
 • Hugo
The Mirror Test, Part 6: The Hospital in the X-Ray
Chest X-rays for a pneumonia model turned out to carry the name of the hospital. Human vision runs on assumptions too. The difference is what each…
 • Hugo
The Mirror Test, Part 5: Five Plus One Is Seven
In 1989 a network that learned to add twos forgot how to add ones. Brains face the same problem, and sleep is one place researchers have watched…
 • Hugo
The Mirror Test, Part 4: The Honest Liar
AI does not lie. Some researchers say it confabulates, a word clinicians use for patients who sincerely report things that never happened
 • Hugo
The Mirror Test, Part 3: The First Move Costs More
A model that misreads an early turn rarely recovers fully, and a century of attention research shows that people also pay for a change they saw coming
 • Hugo
China’s AI Model Landscape | Q3 2026
No Chinese model maker that files accounts has shown its model pays for itself. Parents cover the gap from other businesses, and labs cover it from…
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September 2026

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