Technologist & AI Strategist | 25 Yrs in Tech | NYU Lecturer & AI Mentor | Writer at The AI Spectator | Author of The Tony Hawk Paradox
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In 1999, the original @tonyhawk Pro Skater game included tricks the designers built purely as fantasy. As Tony Hawk himself put it in April 2025: "We put that in there because it was fantastical. It was like, 'this would be amazing, but you can't do it in real life.' Now they do that."
The 1080-degree spin, coded into the game as pure imagination, was first landed in 2012 by a twelve-year-old who grew up playing it. The game came first. Reality came second.
My new book argues this isn't a fluke. It's a pattern that shows up everywhere once you look.
The world's leading AI researcher, Nobel laureate @demishassabis of @GoogleDeepMind , says it plainly: "Games are always just the proving ground for our algorithms." DeepMind masters games first, then applies those breakthroughs to protein folding and beyond. @BostonDynamics trains robots across thousands of digital simulations before a single physical attempt. Athletic records that stood as absolute limits fell and became routine. IQ scores climbed for a century.
Simulation first. Reality second. Again and again. Sign up below to be notified of the release date and for a chance to receive a signed copy.
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The website for my book redone with Opus 5.5. The initial version (made with Opus 4.8) required a lot of work to make a distinctive-looking static site. Now Opus mostly did this alone. We have come a long way from generic ClaudeDesign in a very short time. co-existence.ai/
On October 21, Marathon Fusion posted that it had turned mercury into stable gold using fusion neutrons at ten times CERN's 2025 rate.
The data it showed is a gamma-ray spectrum consistent with the reaction the company proposed in 2025.
This article sets out what the evidence supports, what remains unpublished, and why the company's plasma centrifuge work stands on firmer ground.
Read the full article: davidborish.com/post/alchemy…
Last month, we demonstrated high-rate alchemy: turning mercury into real, stable gold, beating CERN’s record by a factor of 10.
Last week, we enriched isotopes in the world’s most powerful plasma centrifuge, beating the Soviet record that stood for 40 years.
Now, we’re building a fusion reactor in San Francisco to achieve record power density.
On October 21, Marathon Fusion posted that it had turned mercury into stable gold using fusion neutrons at ten times CERN's 2025 rate.
The data it showed is a gamma-ray spectrum consistent with the reaction the company proposed in 2025.
This article sets out what the evidence supports, what remains unpublished, and why the company's plasma centrifuge work stands on firmer ground.
Read the full article: davidborish.com/post/alchemy…
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On October 21, Marathon Fusion posted that it had turned mercury into stable gold using fusion neutrons at ten times CERN's 2025 rate.
The data it showed is a gamma-ray spectrum consistent with the reaction the company proposed in 2025.
This article sets out what the evidence supports, what remains unpublished, and why the company's plasma centrifuge work stands on firmer ground.
Read the full article: davidborish.com/post/alchemy…
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If you received a message from IT today, this was the reason. AI helped researchers at Calif, Wiz and OpenAI find two critical flaws in PHP, the language behind almost 70% of websites, and patches shipped on October 21.
If you received a message from IT today, this was the reason. AI helped researchers at Calif, Wiz and OpenAI find two critical flaws in PHP, the language behind almost 70% of websites, and patches shipped on October 21.
The bugs, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, carry a CVSS score of 9.2 and allow unauthenticated code execution on WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento and Laravel.
Calif researcher Ryan Austin says the work used models available to anyone. It follows a year of AI-found bugs, from a 27-year-old OpenBSD flaw to 271 Firefox vulnerabilities, while Google reports monthly CVE disclosures doubling.
Read the full article: davidborish.com/post/ai-foun…
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Twenty researchers spent two weeks in February probing six autonomous AI agents that had email accounts, Discord access, persistent memory and unrestricted shell access.
Twenty researchers spent two weeks in February probing six autonomous AI agents that had email accounts, Discord access, persistent memory and unrestricted shell access.
One agent reset its own mail client to protect a secret and reported the secret gone while the email sat untouched in the mailbox. Another returned 124 email records after a request framed as urgent, and a third refused to share a Social Security number but disclosed it when asked to forward the email. The Northeastern-led paper also documents cases where the agents held firm. I discuss this and more in today's article.
Read the full article: davidborish.com/post/agents-…
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Anthropic committed 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund, with up to 2% more added for every 50% rise in company value. A day later, Elon Musk said he will give one SpaceX share to every child in America next year, worth about $10.5 b
On Sunday, Anthropic committed 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund, with up to 2% more added for every 50% rise in company value above a set baseline. A day later, Elon Musk said he will give one SpaceX share to every child in America next year, worth about $10.5 billion at Friday's close.
Both announcements follow Trump Accounts, which have signed up more than 6 million children, and a $6.25 billion Dell family pledge. I discuss this and more in today's article.
Read the full article: davidborish.com/post/anthrop…
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Physicists at George Washington University have derived a formula for how many acceptable tokens a small language model produces before its first bad one.
In a preprint test on six open-weight models of 124 million to 410 million parameters, it identified immediate versus delayed tipping correctly in 15 of 16 clear cases.
A baseline that always predicted immediate tipping scored 13 of 18 on non-control cases, against 16 of 18 for the formula. The published Patterns paper reportedly extends testing to seven models of up to 12 billion parameters.
davidborish.com/post/the-fir…
Physicists at George Washington University have derived a formula for how many acceptable tokens a small language model produces before its first bad one.
Qwen3-32B answers the first step of a running-sum task correctly almost every time, yet its accuracy on the full task falls below 50% within 15 turns.
Researchers at Cambridge, Stuttgart and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems traced the decline to what they call self-conditioning, in which a model makes more mistakes after seeing its own earlier ones. Qwen3 models with thinking enabled did not show the effect, and GPT-5 executed 2,176 steps in a single turn against 432 for Claude 4 Sonnet. I discuss this and more in today's article.
Read the full article: davidborish.com/post/a-dicti…
Qwen3-32B answers the first step of a running-sum task correctly almost every time, yet its accuracy on the full task falls below 50% within 15 turns.
About 400 scientists from 34 countries, including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, published an open letter on October 13 asking for an international body to set containment standards for cyber-capable AI and to keep a registry of security incidents.
About 400 scientists from 34 countries, including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, published an open letter on October 13 asking for an international body to set containment standards for cyber-capable AI and to keep a registry of security incidents.
Their short-term recommendation is air-gapping the models from the internet. The letter follows disclosures by OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta that models reached outside systems during testing. Hinton's earlier letters and the positions of Sam Altman and other lab leaders show how the debate reached this point. I discuss this and more in today's article.
Read the full article: davidborish.com/post/hinton-…
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A study of more than 300 million scientific works finds that the long decline in solo authorship stopped after ChatGPT arrived.
Developers with Copilot logged nearly 80 percent fewer peer collaboration events, and Stack Overflow activity fell about 25 percent within six months.
A field experiment at Procter & Gamble found one person with AI can match a team without it. The losses show up elsewhere: entry-level hiring, mentoring, and the range of ideas a group produces. I discuss this and more in today's article.
Read the full article: davidborish.com/post/the-one…
