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Machine Space
@TheMachineSpace
Local LLMs, open-weight models, AI culture and AI shitposting. AI is serious business (derogatory)





An AI-generated film adaptation of "The Odyssey" has been announced. “Odysseus: The Fall” is a 135-minute AI-generated movie from AI film studio Fountain 0 and director Ash Koosha. The movie will be available to rent or buy on Fountain 0’s website later this summer. “I’ve been just obsessed with it since I was a kid,” Koosha said in an interview. “One of the things that really drove me towards this story was the character of Odysseus himself, and my take on it — the feeling that I’ve had over the years reading different takes on it, and different translations — and my take was something that I just wanted to tell. And recently, when we did the first film, I realized this is the best time given the public discourse that exists out there as well.” variety.com/2026/film/news…

🦔Georgia Power is acquiring over 300 parcels of land, including family homes, to build a 35-mile transmission line. The company says 70-80% of the power on that line will serve data centers. Homeowners who don't sell face eminent domain proceedings. Georgia Power won't say which companies the data centers belong to, citing "safety and security." My Take A for-profit utility is using eminent domain to take people's homes so it can sell electricity to data center operators whose names it won't disclose. I have a hard time seeing how that qualifies as serving a public purpose, which is the legal standard eminent domain requires. The families losing their land aren't benefiting from the data centers. The data centers employ almost nobody locally. And the utility is building new capacity primarily to serve private corporate clients, not residential demand. Georgia Power admitted that in its own numbers. Eminent domain exists so governments can build roads, schools, and infrastructure that serves the public. When 80% of the power on a new line goes to private data centers and the utility won't tell you whose, the "public purpose" argument starts to fall apart. Ansley Brown's family built their home when she was five years old. Her mother wanted it to be generational wealth. Now it's a right of way for a transmission line so an unnamed company can run GPU clusters. Hedgie🤗 cbsnews.com/news/georgia-p…



Local AI is easy now - How easy??? Really easy... > curl -fsSL install.osmantic.com/ods.sh | bash That's it, that's all you need now




Today, we’re announcing Bonsai 27B: the first 27B-class model to run on a phone. Bonsai 27B is the new multimodal flagship of the Bonsai family. Based on Qwen3.6 27B, it brings a new capability tier to local AI: multi-step reasoning, structured tool use, long-context workflows, and coherent agentic loops. Until now, models in this class have been impractical to deploy locally. A 27B model occupies roughly 54 GB in 16-bit precision, and even a strong 4-bit build is around 18GB - too large for a phone and for most laptops. Bonsai 27B changes that. It comes in two variants: • Ternary Bonsai 27B: 5.9 GB, 1.71 effective bits per weight, optimized for laptop-class quality. • 1-bit Bonsai 27B: 3.9 GB, 1.125 effective bits per weight, optimized for phone-class footprint. Everything is open-sourced today under the Apache 2.0 license.

Concerning.

The first experimental evidence of recursive self-improvement (RSI). Autoresearching the autoresearch agent for eight days. The result beats the harness we hand-tuned for two years, on held-out benchmarks: 🧵(1/7)



*OPENAI PLANS TO RELEASE HOME SPEAKER AS FIRST HARDWARE PRODUCT

"We must act now" is right in one dimension, I just don't think it's the dimension that gets featured in the NYT. Let's talk about a topic I've written on: policy can be thought through using real options theory 🧵



AI was cited as the reason for 26% of layoffs in April. By May, it was nearly 40%. A year ago it was 5%. That's not a trend. That's a company realizing AI makes a better excuse than "we overhired."




