Kai Faust

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10 days to Peachy launch Today I shipped: - New website - Join group calls already in progress - Communities, Slices and events load instantly, even offline - Much faster Mac app - Calls reconnect on their own - Missed calls and call history sync across devices - Easier Slices next/swipe interaction - Cleaner Android tablet layout - Comment notifications open the comment - Fixed: iPhone photo save crash

More links: 1. AI solves a ‘holy grail’ problem from probability theory https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-solves-a-holy-grail-problem-from-probability-theory/ 2. The first superhuman Stratego AI https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11036-y 3. OpenAI has trained a specialized chip design model named GPT-Synopsys. https://investor.synopsys.com/news/news-details/2026/OpenAI-and-Synopsys-Announce-GPT-Synopsys-Frontier-Intelligence-to-Revolutionize-Chip-Design/default.aspx 4. Frontier models state different decision theory preferences depending on who's asking https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MzenSrmZ3pT2pCnvp/frontier-models-state-different-decision-theory-preferences-2 5. Dyna-2.1: A Physical Agent for End-to-End Workflows https://www.dyna.co/dyna-2.1 6. DexTacWAM: A Visuo-Tactile World-Action Model for Dexterous Manipulation https://dextacwam.github.io/ 7. Generative AI Gives Spacecraft the Autonomy Engineers Once Feared https://spectrum.ieee.org/generative-ai-in-space-exploration 8. Context Language Models (CLMs) https://github.com/facebookresearch/context-language-models 9. Towards RL for Superhuman Text: Unslopping AI https://facebookresearch.github.io/RAM/blogs/unslop/ 10. Function-preserving watermarking of AI-generated proteins https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10965-y 11. GPT-6.1 Sol nearly matches the no-CoT performance of GPT-6 Astra https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LqSZZAriGqgsGDQe3/gpt-6-1-sol-nearly-matches-the-no-cot-performance-of-gpt-6 12. Astra 6.1 Pulled As Insufficiently Aligned https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gEDNSiCY2GGQrFS65/astra-6-1-pulled-as-insufficiently-aligned 13. Astra scored 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3. What did it actually do? https://intelligence.mts.now/benchmarks 14. Topos-2: a next-generation model for generating the full range of shapes a protein can take, across the order-disorder spectrum. https://www.toposbio.ai/topos-2-topos-bind/ 15. What if automating AI R&D triggers an intelligence explosion? https://casp.ac/reports/intelligence-explosion 16. Ramez Naam gives a skeptic’s take on Recursive Self-Improvement. https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/wheres-the-intelligence-explosion 17. Singapore crushed mosquito populations by releasing male mosquitoes infected by Wolbachia https://worksinprogress.co/issue/mosquitoes-are-a-choice/ 18. Trump has now ordered a campaign to suppress mosquitoes using biotechnology. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/09/eliminating-disease-carrying-pests-and-restoring-enjoyment-of-the-great-outdoors/?utm_source=chatgpt.com 19. Supercooled kidneys have been transplanted into pigs in a “landmark achievement” https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/23/1140765/supercooled-kidneys-have-been-transplanted-into-pigs-in-a-landmark-achievement/ [no paywall: https://archive.is/gJrOu] 20. Thanks to fracking, America is now by far the world's largest oil producer. https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/the-united-states-is-the-worlds-largest-oil-producer 21. There is no robust evidence for a systematic fertility rebound, or for a stable equilibrium point at any fertility level conventionally assumed. https://www.nber.org/papers/w35824 credit Alexander Kruel https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0PhVy9sVTfoC6wF9LfPUTQTW7KdzH5G55EtmE1jvxAwRarUvXFi6ZnjZqTiVN8uuMl