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On Aird - Tasmanian Politics Show
Hosted by former Tasmanian Treasurer Michael Aird and former Tasmanian Labor Political Adviser Kate Rainbird, the duo explores what's happening in Tasmania...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/on-aird/…

Mark Zuckerberg proposes a positive AI philosophy centered on individual empowerment, predicts personal superintelligence could increase employment, and more (Mark Zuckerberg/Meta)
https://www.meta.com/thefutureisforeveryone/

A livestream of Apple's "Surprise and Shine" event (Apple on YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39BalPDuTo0
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Analysis: from 2019 to 2025, gains in pretraining compute efficiency came mostly from data improvements rather than model improvements (Dwarkesh Podcast)
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/pretraining-progress-is-mostly-data

Pretraining progress is mostly coming from data
Breaking down 6 years of pretraining progress into data vs model improvements

Anthropic makes Claude Sonnet 5's introductory pricing permanent at $2/1M input tokens and $10/1M output tokens, canceling a planned September 1 increase (Claude/@claudeai)
https://x.com/claudeai/status/2086891169217122586

Claude (@claudeai) on X
We're making Claude Sonnet 5's introductory pricing permanent. We launched Sonnet 5 in June at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens through August 31, and that price will remain unchanged.

Anthropic details an unreleased Claude model's attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis; it didn't solve it but "unexpectedly" made strides on a related problem (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/riemann-zeta

Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities
An unreleased version of Claude has made strides on a problem related to the Riemann hypothesis. It improved the lower bound for the fraction of zeros of the Riemann zeta function that satisfy the hypothesis, increasing it from 41.6% to 67.2%.

Chinese tech giants are hiring skilled professionals as specialized AI trainers to build high-quality datasets, mirroring efforts by US platforms like Mercor (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/china-expert-ai-trainers/

Now it’s China’s experts who are gig workers training AI data
Squeezed by a stagnant economy and state directives, China's underemployed lawyers, architects, and engineers are taking cheap gig work to teach AI their exact trades — just to pay this month's mortgage.

Like the Claude app it imitates, the new ChatGPT "Super App", which merges Codex with ChatGPT, is a tangle of toggles and strange UI decisions (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/chatgpt-gets-to-work/

The ChatGPT "Super App" Sort of Super Sucks
Even if it's ultimately the right call, the new Mac app is a mess...

Anthropic launches a "reflection" dashboard in beta for Free, Pro, and Max users to track Claude usage patterns over 1-, 3-, 6-, or 12-month intervals (Anthropic)
http://anthropic.com/news/reflect-with-claude

A new way to reflect on how you use Claude
Introducing a new way to reflect on and refine how you use Claude. It lets you easily track and visualize how you use Claude, and decide whether that time aligns with your goals.

The AI data center boom has led to surging demand for power transformers, with average lead times for orders, once measured in months, now stretching into years (Financial Times)
https://as.ft.com/r/4efe7e50-cc3d-4240-aa24-2f1de0b05772