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Anthropic's 'anti-China' stance triggers exit of star AI researcher

Leary — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 19:00:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/anthropics-anti-china-stance-triggers-093000353.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45519424

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by Leary in "Anthropic endorses California's AI safety bill, SB 53"

Leary — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:46:11 +0000

“Large frontier developer”: a frontier developer that together with its affiliates collectively had annual gross revenues in excess of five hundred million dollars ($500,000,000) in the preceding calendar year.

So any large company training LLMs, no matter the capability, is considered a frontier developer?

New comment by Leary in "U.S. Emissions Rise 4.2%, China's Fall 2.7%"

Leary — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:48:57 +0000

Except that does make sense because the new country would be the weighted average of the average CO2 contribution for both Americans and Nigerians.

New comment by Leary in "China is eating the world"

Leary — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:17:00 +0000

Amazing analysis, except for the fact China was dirt poor before communism.

New comment by Leary in "China is eating the world"

Leary — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 19:30:44 +0000

No way. I read Noah Smith (number 1 economist on substack) every week and he says one must measure China in per capita terms for all the good stuff: GDP (preferably nominal), and in aggregate terms for all the bad stuff (pollution, carbon dioxide emissions).

Also, it's logically impossible for China to be good. I have found a mathematical proof:

1: Democracy is good

2: China is not a democracy

Therefore, obviously China is not good.

New comment by Leary in "Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future"

Leary — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 17:53:44 +0000

But how are you gonna foresee the total annihilation of the Chinese semi industry without Jordan the necromancer interpreting party documents for you?

Y Combinator Brief in Epic vs. Apple

Leary — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:26:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scribd.com/document/904912392/Y-Combinator-Brief-in-Epic-vs-Apple

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44987960

Points: 5

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New comment by Leary in "Historical Tech Tree"

Leary — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 19:50:23 +0000

Does anyone know which technology on this tree has the most descendents?

New comment by Leary in "GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card"

Leary — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:07:49 +0000

https://metr.github.io/autonomy-evals-guide/gpt-5-report/

New comment by Leary in "GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card"

Leary — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 17:26:29 +0000

METR of only 2 hours and 15 minutes. Fast takeoff less likely.

New comment by Leary in "Open models by OpenAI"

Leary — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:18:00 +0000

GPQA Diamond: gpt-oss-120b: 80.1%, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507: 81.1%

Humanity’s Last Exam: gpt-oss-120b (tools): 19.0%, gpt-oss-120b (no tools): 14.9%, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507: 18.2%

New comment by Leary in "A study of lights at night suggests dictators lie about economic growth (2022)"

Leary — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 23:43:03 +0000

Did it with https://sites.google.com/site/jiaxiongyao16/nighttime-lights...

USA (2013-2023 CAGR: 2.3%) 2014: 6.2% 2015: -5.3% 2016: -1.8% 2017: 15.2% 2018: -4.9% 2019: 4.5% 2020: -5.4% 2021: 6.7% 2022: 14.5% 2023: -3.6%

China (2013-2023 CAGR 7.9%) 2014: -1.7% 2015: -1.2% 2016: -5.1% 2017: 53.3% 2018: -1.0% 2019: 7.5% 2020: 6.5% 2021: 11.4% 2022: 4.2% 2023: 10.8%

X-Master as Foundation: Can We Lead on Humanity's Last Exam?

Leary — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:57:36 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05241

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44501828

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Leary in "Seedance 1.0"

Leary — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:09:51 +0000

0:10 into the video, that's light skinned to you?!

Reddit sues AI startup Anthropic for breach of contract, 'unfair competition'

Leary — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 17:57:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/04/reddit-anthropic-lawsuit-ai.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44183596

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

FTX Dumped Cursor Stake for $200K – It's Now Worth $500M After $9B Valuation

Leary — Sun, 18 May 2025 17:27:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/ftx-dumped-cursor-stake-for-200k-it-s-now-worth-500m-after-9b-valuation/ar-AA1EfZlW

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44022917

Points: 1

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New comment by Leary in "OpenAI for Countries"

Leary — Wed, 07 May 2025 21:58:58 +0000

Translation:

You provide the capital and the data, we'll co-own the data centers share the models until Trump and the US government decide to shut it off as a bargaining chip.

New comment by Leary in "Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model"

Leary — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:23:12 +0000

They are not "English-first". Deepseek-R1, for example, reasons in Chinese when you ask it a question in Chinese.

China accuses US spies of Asian Winter Games cyberattacks

Leary — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 19:50:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250415-china-accuses-us-spies-of-asian-winter-games-cyberattacks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43697566

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

The Fiscal and Economic Effects of the Revised April 9 Tariffs

Leary — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 17:58:59 +0000

Article URL: https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/fiscal-and-economic-effects-revised-april-9-tariffs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43646473

Points: 1

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