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OpenAI releases new mathematical results from internal frontier model
News Oct 7, 2026

OpenAI releases new mathematical results from internal frontier model

OpenAI announces a broad release of new mathematical results generated by an internal frontier model, publishing findings in a GitHub repository with formal Lean proof verification.
Giulio Prisco 2 min read
Are We Ready for What Is Coming?
Community Apr 28, 2026

Are We Ready for What Is Coming?

We are living in a historical moment in which our destructive power is advancing far faster than our capacity to govern it wisely.

Eduardo Martínez de la Fe 3 min read
Beneficial AGI in 20 Steps
Article Oct 7, 2026

Beneficial AGI in 20 Steps

Beyond bigger language models, Ben Goertzel proposes beneficial AGI built on self-improving agent hives, shared knowledge and decentralized governance. Could his roadmap reshape the race to superintelligence?
Ben Goertzel 5 min read
Seeding RSI Toward ASI
Article Oct 6, 2026

Seeding RSI Toward ASI

Can Our Current Proto-AGIs Help Build Their Successors?
Ben Goertzel 22 min read
Harmonizing Progress and Safety in Recursive AI Self-Improvement
Article Oct 6, 2026

Harmonizing Progress and Safety in Recursive AI Self-Improvement

Bringing the GOLEM meta-architecture and the Iter Omega runtime together for safe self-improvement, and finding some wildly elegant math in the mix…
Ben Goertzel 45 min read
How Omega Lost Its Claw
Article Oct 6, 2026

How Omega Lost Its Claw

Why we dropped the Claw from OmegaClaw (Mind over hands!!), and why this is the moment for a lot more people to start raising their own AI helpers...
Ben Goertzel 13 min read
Weathering the Future: The Ethics and Impact of Cloud Seeding
Article Jul 22, 2025

Weathering the Future: The Ethics and Impact of Cloud Seeding

Can we engineer rain without consequences? As weather control technologies advance, the ethical climate grows stormier. Are we risking the planet’s memory? Who controls tomorrow’s skies, and at what cost?

Darshana Patel 4 min read
Lethal in the Now: Ten Short and Long Term Dangers of AI in Our Time (Part One)
Article Aug 5, 2025

Lethal in the Now: Ten Short and Long Term Dangers of AI in Our Time (Part One)

Generative AI’s rapid integration is eroding truth, trust, and learning, Hruy argues. He suggests the real question now isn’t what these systems can do—but what they’re quietly unmaking.

Hruy Tsegaye 16 min read
Invisible Empires: How Colonial Ghosts and Tech Elites Are Coding Our Future
Article Jun 21, 2025

Invisible Empires: How Colonial Ghosts and Tech Elites Are Coding Our Future

Tech elites aren’t just building tools—they’re encoding worldviews. Explore how digital empires, occult ideologies, and AI are reshaping reality while erasing voices from the code that defines our future.

Darshana Patel 6 min read
Anthropic withholds powerful new AI model from public release
News Apr 9, 2026

Anthropic withholds powerful new AI model from public release

Claude Mythos Preview is shared only with partners to scan and fix software vulnerabilities before misuse.

Giulio Prisco 2 min read