AI news today: METR's report from inside Anthropic finds unreleased models helping build the next generation and employees self-reporting 12x productivity gains, while the NASDAQ falls 5.5% in a day and Perplexity puts Teammates on its $200 Max plan.
The conversation opens with hints of a new Qwen model and OpenAI's limited-access cyber model, then digs into METR's report on Anthropic: four internal-only models, internal models now used to build the next ones, roughly two years of progress in one year, and no obvious bottleneck. That leads to a market sell-off tied to data center resistance after the election, Nvidia's slide from about $240 to about $180, and what communities would need to get back before they welcome a data center. Also covered: Perplexity Teammates, an experiment where editing 0.016% of Qwen 3.5's weights lifted its math score from 7.2% to 42%, Meta's Muse avatar and planned device, Pino's World and an inbox-zero shop game, an Edmonton client where a receptionist's role grew into internal operations, the Dopplergeist audio geolocation tool, China flying five large aircraft without pilots, and the FAA retiring floppy disks by 2028.
KEY POINTS DISCUSSED:
00:00:00 Qwen Model Hints and OpenAI's Cyber Model
00:01:48 METR Report on Anthropic's Internal Models
00:12:10 NASDAQ 5.5% Sell-Off and Nvidia's Slide
00:16:33 41 Data Center Ballot Votes, One Passed
00:22:40 Perplexity Teammates and the $200 Max Plan
00:25:46 Weight Edits Lift Qwen 3.5 Math Score
00:28:57 Meta's Muse Avatar and 'Furby' Device
00:32:04 Pino's World: 3eyez's Roaming AI Kiwi
00:34:03 Olivia Moore's Curio Shop Inbox Game
00:37:04 Edmonton Client: Receptionist Turned Operations Lead
00:52:46 Dopplergeist Audio Geolocation and China's Pilotless Planes
00:58:04 FAA Phasing Out Floppy Disks by 2028
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