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Grok-4 Shakes Up the AI Leaderboards – How Elon Musk’s AI Stacks Up and What’s Next
Artificial intelligence enthusiasts have been abuzz recently about Grok-4, the latest large language model (LLM) from Elon Musk’s startup xAI. Grok-4 is making headlines by topping some of the most challenging AI benchmarks, even edging out heavyweights like OpenAI’s GPT (ChatGPT) and Google’s Gemini on certain tests. But how big of a win is this…
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Europe’s Exascale Extravaganza: A Supercomputer Saga of Red Tape, Rivalry, and Reluctant Reliance
Ah, Europe—the land of fine wine, historic castles, and now, at long last, an exascale supercomputer named Jupiter. It’s like the continent finally showed up to the AI party after spending years debating the dress code. Housed in Germany’s Forschungszentrum Jülich, this beast boasts over 90 exaflops of AI-crunching power, a quintillion operations per second…
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From Prompts to People: What OpenAI’s Usage Study Means for Model Leaderboards
When one studies OpenAI’s recent usage analysis of ChatGPT, what emerges is a portrait of an AI tool deeply embedded in daily life—not as an exotic laboratory artifact, but as an assistant in writing, learning, decision-making, and routine communication. Between May 2024 and June/July 2025, more than 1.5 million user messages were sampled; users are…
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The Return of the Oracle: Why AGI Invites a Priesthood—and How Not to Build One
In Alien (1979), only Dallas may query MOTHER. The crew waits outside the sanctum, dependent on his translation of what the ship’s computer reveals. The ritual is familiar: when societies encounter powerful, opaque systems, they summon intermediaries. The Pythia spoke; priests interpreted. Scripture existed; a Latin-literate clergy mediated. Early computing produced its own “computer priesthood”…
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Learning to Learn vs. Remembering in the Age of Ubiquitous Knowledge
The New Imperative: “Learning How to Learn” Google DeepMind’s CEO Demis Hassabis has argued that “learning how to learn” will be the most important skill for the next generation. Speaking at an event in Athens, he explained that the pace of AI-driven change makes continual adaptability essential. “The only thing you can say for certain…
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