Lilith · selected stories
What is actually happening in AI. Selected stories, context and opinion without the promotional noise.
Atom feed ↗OpenAI published a plan built around an automated AI researcher, faster economic growth and “personal AGI” for everyone. The important shift is not the promise itself, but the tone: OpenAI is talking less like a product leader and more like a future steward of public infrastructure.
Nathan Lambert reads the Claude Fable 5 release as a dispute over who gets to use a frontier model without routing and filters. The important layer is not only model capability, but the governance system that decides when the user is really talking to the strongest model.
Zvi Mowshowitz analyzes Claude Opus 4.8 as an incremental upgrade with better capabilities, safety and new questions around evals.
Microsoft Research describes SocialReasoning-Bench, a benchmark testing whether AI agents genuinely act in the user's best interest. Key finding: agents complete tasks technically, but do not consistently improve outcomes for the person, even when explicitly instructed to.
