Monthly Archives: May 2026

Claude Opus 4.8: The System Card

Posted on May 29, 2026 by TheZvi

Only six weeks after Opus 4.7, we have Opus 4.8. For everyone, that means another incremental upgrade to Claude. It is once again smarter, and can do tasks for longer, and comes with a number of hot new features. For … Continue reading →

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AI #170: Lack of Executive Order

Posted on May 28, 2026 by TheZvi

Last week ended on a cliffhanger of sorts. What’s in the Executive Order coming later today? What will be in the Magnifica Humanitas? The Executive Order was postponed indefinitely, likely cancelled entirely except for work on securing critical infrastructure. David … Continue reading →

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RTMH: Pope Leo’s Magnifica Humanitas on AI

Posted on May 26, 2026 by TheZvi

His holiness has spoken, frequently about AI. At eighty two pages of length. The full Magnifica Humanitas can be found here. I am very happy that Pope Leo takes these issues seriously, and is sharing his views, and bringing a … Continue reading →

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Gemini 3.5 Flash Looks Good For How Fast It Is

Posted on May 22, 2026 by TheZvi

Google once again has a model worth at least some consideration. Gemini 3.5 Flash is likely the best model out there at its particular speed point, as long as you don’t mind that it is a Gemini model. So for … Continue reading →

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AI #169: New Knowledge

Posted on May 21, 2026 by TheZvi

Even in a relatively quiet period, AI is out there creating new knowledge. The new knowledge in question is OpenAI getting us the first truly impressive math result that comes from an AI, a solution to the unit distance problem. … Continue reading →

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Childhood And Education #19: Letting Kids Be Kids #2

Posted on May 19, 2026 by TheZvi

I cannot emphasize enough the need to let kids be kids. In Childhood and Education #16: Letting Kids be Kids, I went over exactly how insane we have gotten about destroying the lives of children and along with them the … Continue reading →

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Monthly Roundup #42: May 2026

Posted on May 15, 2026 by TheZvi

At least we probably won’t have another pandemic. And we still have a partial Jones Act waiver. For now. Small victories. Table of Contents Hanta Hanta I Don’t Wanta. Bad News. Predictions Can Be Easy Even About The Future. Good … Continue reading →

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AI #168: Not Leading the Future

Posted on May 14, 2026 by TheZvi

This is what a lull looks like at this point. The government is having internal arguments. The models are getting improved internally. The coding agent improvements are all what we would expect. There’s still a lot happening, including a bunch … Continue reading →

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Cyber Lack of Security and AI Governance

Posted on May 13, 2026 by TheZvi

The real recent story of AI has been the background work being done on Cybersecurity, as we process the Mythos Moment along with GPT-5.5, and figure out both how to patch the internet and what our new regulatory regime is … Continue reading →

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Childhood and Education #18: Do The Math

Posted on May 12, 2026 by TheZvi

We did reading yesterday. Now we do the math. Math is hard. It does not have to be this hard. A large part of the reason math is hard, or boring, is that education studies, especially in math, are worse … Continue reading →

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