Zvi Mowshowitz weekly covers GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, superintelligence ban

Simo, formerly OpenAI's CEO of AGI Deployment and No. 2 exec, joins the U.K. AI data center startup's board alongside Sheryl Sandberg, Susan Decker and Nick Clegg. Nscale is reportedly raising up to $3.5B ahead of a planned IPO this fall.

A r/Singularity post contends that mathematicians and other professionals oppose AI because it threatens their livelihoods, not out of concern for human value. The author argues people would welcome AI if their place in society were already secured.

Episode features John Schulman, Beren Millidge and Charlie O'Neill discussing what's happening at the frontier and what comes next. The first segment, running to 18:39, steelmans the case against recursive self-improvement.

A Reddit user released Qwen3.8-27B-Humanlike-Chat, a fine-tune of Qwen3.8-27B built to drop the polished "AI assistant" tone for realistic human-to-human conversation. The creator cites over-helpfulness, verbosity, and unnatural word choice in existing models as motivation.

Together Fine-Tuning added 17 open-weight models including GLM-5.3, Kimi K2.7-Code, DeepSeek-V4-Flash and the Qwen 3.5 family (0.8B-9B), plus live run metrics, experiment comparisons, early stopping and dataset previews. Prices dropped 30-70% on selected models.