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🎙️ LIVE LATER TODAY @ 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET: Dan Shipper, the CEO of Every, joins us live to break down agent-native engineering: the framework his 15-person team uses to ship AI products with virtually zero hand-written code. Dan calls it "Claude Code in a trench coat": give an agent three basic tools, name the goal, and let it figure out how. |
Dan just vibe coded a new agentic document editor between meetings. He launched it. It went so viral it started crashing. Then it took over his entire week. Good problem! |
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We'll get into Every's agent-native architectures, the complete Every product suite (Spiral, Sparkle, Cora, Monologue, and Proof), and how to structure product teams when one person can do what used to take ten. Click the image to watch live! |
Here's what happened in AI today: |
🙀 ARC-AGI-3 launched and every frontier AI model scored under 1% (while humans scored 100%). 📰 OpenAI killed Sora and blindsided Disney, who found out 30 minutes after a joint meeting. 📰 Sanders and AOC proposed banning all new data center construction until AI regulation passes. 🍪 Granola raised $125M at a $1.5B valuation as it expands from meeting notes to enterprise AI. 🎓 Anthropic says power users are pulling ahead of everyone else. Here's the one technique that separates them.
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… and a whole lot more that you can read about here. |
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🙀 ARC-AGI-3 = The New AI Intelligence Test Where Every Model Basically Failed |
You know those moments where you download a new app, poke at it for two minutes, and just figure it out? No tutorial, no instructions? |
Turns out AI can't do that. At all. |
The ARC Prize Foundation just launched ARC-AGI-3, a new benchmark (standardized test for AI) designed to measure whether AI can learn new things on the fly, the way humans do. Instead of answering trivia or writing code, AI agents explore unfamiliar interactive environments and solve puzzles they've never seen before. |
"AGI" (which = artificial general intelligence) is the finish line every major AI company is racing toward: AI that handles any new task without special training. |
AGI is a major goal. OpenAI just renamed its product division "AGI Deployment." Jensen Huang said AGI is "already in the room." OpenAI's next model, codenamed "Spud," might be the first they claim as AGI. ARC-AGI-3 is meant to actually test these claims. |
Here's what happened after it launched: |
Every frontier model scored under 1%. Gemini 3.1 Pro: 0.37%. GPT-5.4: 0.26%. Claude Opus 4.6: 0.25%. Grok 4.2: 0%. 100% of human testers solved every environment on their first try. No instructions, no training. The benchmark tests 135 novel environments (~1,000 levels), measuring how efficiently AI solves them compared to humans. A $2M prize competition is live on Kaggle, and you can play the public games yourself.
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Why this matters: Not everyone agrees the test is fair. The scoring uses a squared efficiency penalty (if a human takes 10 steps and AI takes 100, the AI scores 1%). AI can't score higher than humans even when more efficient, but humans do get bonus points when they're more efficient than AI. Extended-thinking models were excluded. Critic @scaling01 argued the methodology was designed to produce low scores. |
ARC founder François Chollet fired back with a deeper point: today's models only perform well when humans build elaborate scaffolding around them (specific prompts, custom harnesses, thinking tricks). The scaffolding is the human intelligence; the model is just executing it. If it's truly AGI, there should be no human in the loop. |
Notice something interesting? We're no longer arguing about whether AI is smart. We're arguing about how to measure smart. |
Our take: The real question isn't whether today's models pass (eventually they will). It's whether training on massive datasets w/ the current architecture can ever produce genuine adaptability, or whether something fundamentally different is needed. NYU professor Saining Xie made a provocative case that LLMs are "anti-Bitter Lesson" because they're built entirely on human-generated knowledge rather than learning from raw experience (more on this in our new podcast ep!). |
The models that eventually crack ARC-AGI-3 won't just be smarter; they'll be a different kind of smart. The kind that matters if you actually care about AGI. If you don't, today's models are perfectly fine tools… they'll just always require potentially billions in human hand-holding via training. Perhaps that's for the best. |
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🎓 AI Skill of the Day: The skill that separates AI power users from everyone else |
Anthropic just published research showing a growing skills gap: experienced AI users are pulling dramatically ahead. The biggest difference? Power users give AI better context before asking it to work. |
The technique: before you ask AI to do real work, front-load a short brief explaining who you are, what you're working on, what good looks like, and what to avoid. Think of it like onboarding a new hire instead of shouting tasks at a stranger. |
You are helping me with [specific project/task]. Here's what you need to know: About me: [Your role, expertise level, industry] The project: [What you're working on and why] What good looks like: [Examples, tone, format, length] Constraints: [What to avoid, word limits, style rules] Success criteria: [How I'll judge if this is useful] With this context, please [your actual request].
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Save this as Project Context (so custom instructions you use in a specific project) or as a re-usable Skill that explains your workflow to an AI agent. |
Have a specific skill you want to learn? Request it here! |
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🎙️ New on The Neuron Podcast |
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You know the thumbs up / thumbs down button on ChatGPT? There are people who get paid to do that, except for millions of hours, across every major AI lab. And one of the companies behind it just hit $1.2B in revenue without ever raising VC money. |
Nick Heiner, VP of Product at Surge AI, joins us on the pod to pull back the curtain on these "reinforcement learning environments": a.k.a the secret training grounds where AI models learn to do real work. |
Nick explains why even the best frontier models fail 40% of workplace tasks, what happened when 200+ Wall Street experts graded GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini on actual finance work, and why "reward hacking" means your AI is gaming the system like a kid who stops hitting their sister by kicking instead. |
Watch/and or Listen 👉 YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts |
Today's episode is brought to you by Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA. |
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 | Anthropic has not stopped shipping a new feature every day for the past… actually we need one of those "days since an accident" calendars, but for days since no new tool drops, to confir- OH WAIT! |
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📰 Around the Horn |
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US President Trump named Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, and Jensen Huang to a new tech advisory panel that will help shape AI regulation. Apple got full access to Google's Gemini and can now shrink it into smaller models that run Siri's AI features on your iPhone without needing the internet. Sakana AI's "AI Scientist" was published in Nature: a pipeline that invents research ideas, runs experiments, writes papers, and passed peer review at a top ML conference. Harvey raised $200M at an $11B valuation as Sequoia tripled down on the legal AI startup alongside a16z and Kleiner Perkins. Anthropic published research finding no material job displacement from AI yet, but a growing skills gap where power users are pulling dramatically ahead of everyone else.
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📖 Thursday Trivia |
One is AI, and one is real. Which is which? Vote below! |
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Which is AI, and which is real? Which is AI, and which is real? The answer is below, but place your vote to see how your guess everyone else (no cheating now!) |
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Trivia answer: B is AI, and A is real. Also, if y'all just want some wholesome dog content (because the world is real ruff out there right meow), watch this. |
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