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WHAT THE FUTURE

Keeping an eye on AI

Every AI development gets scored by one absurdly serious question:
does it push society toward a Terminator or Idiocracy scenario?
The WTF Index tracks the direction of the AI age, one headline at a time.

TERMINATOR
IDIOCRACY

The WTF Index · 5543 stories · leaning Terminator

01 THE WIRE

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02 THE FEED

Latest dispatches

FRONTIER 2H AGO

Three labs, one week, and the benchmark that finally broke

A new evaluation suite was supposed to last a year. It lasted nine days. What that tells us about the pace — and the plateau everyone keeps predicting.

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RESEARCH5H

A 7B model just matched the giants on math — here’s the trick

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POLICY6H

The compute‑disclosure rule nobody read until now

Buried in an annex: a threshold that quietly pulls half the industry into scope.

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We stopped training bigger models and started training better questions.
— DR. AYŞE KAYA, HEAD OF ALIGNMENT
HARDWARE8H

The datacenter going up in a desert with no name

Two gigawatts, one undisclosed buyer, and a power deal that rewrites the economics of frontier training.

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BUSINESS11H

Inside the $4B round that values an empty product

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03 MOST READ · THIS WEEK

What everyone’s reading

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    POLICY

    The EU’s model registry could reshape open weights for everyone

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  2. 02
    RESEARCH

    Why the next breakthrough probably won’t come from scale

    9 MIN · 3D →
  3. 03
    PROFILE

    The 24‑year‑old quietly building the industry’s reference benchmark

    12 MIN · 3D →
  4. 04
    HARDWARE

    A chip startup bet everything on memory bandwidth. It paid off.

    7 MIN · 4D →
  5. 05
    OPINION

    We’re measuring intelligence with a ruler made of trivia

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