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AI production is up 65-70%. It was projected to only be 20%.

Bet on the technology curve not the technology ceiling.

IBM is deepening its bet on the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park in Chicago, with plans to add another 750 jobs over the next five years bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Let your fruit speak louder than your words ever can. Colossians 3:23-24 And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for[a] you serve the Lord Christ.

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OpenAI’s new GPT-5.4 (xhigh) lands equal first in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index alongside Gemini 3.1 Pro, but at a cost increase compared to GPT-5.2 @OpenAI's GPT-5.2 (xhigh, 51) was the most intelligent model as at end of 2025. Since then, OpenAI released two GPT-5.3 variants: GPT-5.3 Codex, a coding-focused reasoning model, and GPT-5.3 Instant, a ChatGPT-only model without thinking capabilities. GPT-5.4 is the first general reasoning model release from OpenAI since GPT-5.2. GPT-5.4 comes with slightly higher per-token pricing ($2.50/$15 vs $1.75/$14 per 1M input/output tokens for GPT-5.2) and a significantly expanded context window of 1.05M tokens, up from 400K for GPT-5.2. GPT-5.4 supports five reasoning effort modes (none, low, medium, high, and xhigh); all key takeaways below are based on our evaluation at xhigh, the highest reasoning effort. GPT-5.4 Pro is a separate system that we are currently evaluating on frontier reasoning tasks (CritPt) and will share results when available. Key benchmarking takeaways of xhigh variant: ➤ Equal first in intelligence: GPT-5.4 (xhigh) returns OpenAI to the top of the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (57). GPT-5.4 scores 57, a +6-point jump from GPT-5.2 (xhigh, 51). ➤ Leading in scientific reasoning and agentic coding: GPT-5.4 shows particular strength in frontier scientific reasoning and agentic coding, leading all models we have tested in both categories. On CritPt (Research-level Physics), GPT-5.4 scores 20%, ahead of Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (18%) and GPT-5.3 Codex (xhigh, 17%). On TerminalBench Hard (Agentic Coding & Terminal Use), it scores 58%, ahead of Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (54%) and GPT-5.3 Codex (xhigh, 53%). We are currently running GPT-5.4 Pro on CritPt and will share results shortly. ➤ Greater knowledge, but more hallucinations: GPT-5.4 improves factual accuracy on AA-Omniscience over GPT-5.2, but a higher attempt rate drives a worse hallucination rate. The AA-Omniscience Index rises from -1 (GPT-5.2, xhigh) to +6, with accuracy improving from 44% to 50%. However, GPT-5.4 attempts 97% of questions vs 91% for GPT-5.2 (xhigh), pushing the hallucination rate from 80% to 89%. ➤ Best GDPval-AA result: GPT-5.4 achieves the highest GDPval-AA ELO of any model we have tested, representing a significant jump in general agentic capabilities over GPT-5.2. GPT-5.4 scores 1,667 on GDPval-AA, up from 1,462 for GPT-5.2 (xhigh), a +205 point gain. Statistically, however, this places GPT-5.4 within the 95% confidence interval of Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, max effort, 1,633), meaning we conclude that the two models are equivalent on agentic real-world tasks. ➤ More expensive despite modest token efficiency gains: GPT-5.4 is slightly more token efficient than GPT-5.2 (xhigh), but notably less so than GPT-5.3 Codex (xhigh), and higher per-token pricing means the cost to run the Intelligence Index increases ~28%. GPT-5.4 used 120M output tokens to run our Intelligence Index, vs 130M for GPT-5.2 (xhigh) and 77M for GPT-5.3 Codex (xhigh). The effective cost to run our full Intelligence Index is ~$2,951 for GPT-5.4, vs ~$2,304 for GPT-5.2 (xhigh) and ~$1,654 for GPT-5.3 Codex (xhigh). ➤ Broad benchmark gains across most evaluations: GPT-5.4 shows broad gains across evaluations vs GPT-5.2 (xhigh), with improvements in scientific reasoning, coding, tool use, and long context reasoning. We saw gains in CritPt (+8 p.p.), TerminalBench Hard (+11 p.p.), HLE (+6 p.p.), τ²-Bench (+7 p.p.), SciCode (+5 p.p.), GPQA (+2 p.p.), and LCR (+1 p.p.). The only regression is a small decline in IFBench (-2 p.p.), indicating a marginal reduction in instruction following precision.

🚨. Watch out for Apple’s May and September news. You’ll thank me later !! 

You can’t achieve anything worthwhile without ‘Discipline’

@damianplayer @damianplayer where exactly did you source this data. I’d like to reference you and it on a future white paper.

your timeline convinced you AI is in a bubble. talk to a boomer above the age 35 for 5 minutes. most people don’t even know what claude is.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ kind of wild when you zoom out.

Looks like someone is trying to Tank the market with that extra 10% tariffs!

AI is not taking any real jobs any time soon. I’m just a messenger. Follow for more real AI updates.

Money on the counter choppa on the floor

BTC going to mid 50 k range. Eth around 1650-1500. Don’t say I didn’t tell you.

Just because AI is amazing at predicting the next word or sentence doesn’t mean it’s intelligent.. not yet anyways.

@TaylorKorn_ Facts. Durkins scheme and commitment to Xavier allowed him to see his full potential. Next season will be epic.

A quote from Xavier Atkins this past season: “I love DJ Durkin’s scheme…it’s for the linebackers to make plays. I wanna credit my success to some of his schemes — it helps us a lot, it’s for the linebackers.” Atkins’ jump in production from 2024 to 2025 was impressive.