June 2026 Links

When AI builds itself: Anthropic issuing a warning (?) that their models are starting to enter the RSI stage of capabilities. This appears to be true given a) the productivity increases their engineers are seeing (lines of code isn’t a perfect metric, but probably isn’t terrible either), and b) how capable the models are relative to the top Anthropic engineers, who are pretty freaking smart and capable themselves. It seems unlikely that progress stalls. It also seems unlikely that humans continue to be in the loop—maybe there’s a different version of “models today are the worst they’ll ever be” that reads “humans are as involved today as they’ll ever be”. Spooky times ahead.Ariel School UFO incident: “Sixty-two pupils at the Ariel School aged between six and twelve[1][2] said that they saw one or more silver craft descend from the sky and land on a field near their school.[1][2] Some of the children claimed that one or more creatures dressed all in black then approached and…