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May 25 2026 - AI’s Wild Week: Singularity Debate & $40 BreakthroughAI’s Wild Week: Singularity Debate & $40 Breakthrough

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The AI Signal & The AI Noise
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May 25, 2026
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Summary

Hassabis vs. LeCun reignites the AGI debate while Vinyals plays peacemaker. We cover Copilot hallucinating cultural differences from labeled data, Microsoft Research's lightweight Webwright agent that boosts web automation, and Claude Code discovering a 70% compute-saving algorithm in a $40 run.