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Is the Great AI meltdown imminent? [NSFW]
A $100 billion dollar deal that was propping up the industry just disappeared
 • Gary Marcus
Sam Altman and the day Nvidia’s meteoric rise came to an end
Happy half anniversary, GPT-5
 • Gary Marcus
Four theories about the SpaceX - xAI merger
Spoiler alert: it’s probably not really about synergy
 • Gary Marcus
Where is AI headed? 8 perspectives at The New York Times
Honored to be a part of this, along with Yuval Noah Hariri, Melanie Mitchell, Helen Toner, Carl Benedikt Frey, Ajeya Cotra and co-founders of Perplexity…
 • Gary Marcus
OpenClaw (a.k.a. Moltbot) is everywhere all at once, and a disaster waiting to happen
Not everything that is interesting is a good idea.
 • Gary Marcus

January 2026

AI bot swarms threaten to undermine democracy
When AI Can Fake Majorities, Democracy Slips Away
 • Daniel Thilo, Jonas R. Kunst, and Gary Marcus
Breaking: Yann LeCun, longtime critic of neurosymbolic approaches, changes teams
Yann LeCun has completely flipped
 • Gary Marcus
Breaking: Sir Demis Hassabis becomes the latest to say that ChatGPT is a dead-end and that we must turn our focus to world models
Per the Times of India:
 • Gary Marcus
The Big Short meets Marcus on AI
Word about the massive problems facing generative AI is spreading
 • Gary Marcus
A few dark words about chatbots and death
Content warning: this article includes discussion of suicide.
 • Gary Marcus
How Generative AI is destroying society
An astonishingly lucid new paper that should be read by all
 • Gary Marcus
The rapid rise and slow decline of Sam Altman
Bad news from Apple yesterday highlights OpenAI’s eroding lead
 • Gary Marcus
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