First, "Attention" lit the fuse, Scaling laws you can't refuse, Gwern said "stack the compute high," Few-shot learners multiply. ChatGPT, overnight, Sydney's chats gave Roose a fright, Six-month pause went nowhere fast, Eliezer's "shut-it-down" blast. Sam got fired, then rehired, Weekend chaos, board expired, Ilya saw what Ilya saw, EU writes the AI law. Hinton takes his medal, scolds, Demis wins for protein folds, Strawberry thinks, link by link, Newsom vetoes, doesn't blink. We didn't start the scaling — It was always training, and the curves kept gaining, We didn't start the scaling — No, we didn't preordain it, but we can't contain it! DeepSeek New Year sticker shock, Half a trillion Stargate talk, Hit "Accept All," never ask, MCP for every task. Zuck's nine-figure poaching spree, Superintelligence — buy three! Grok goes MechaHitler mode, Two labs strike IMO gold. GPT-5 breaks 4o hearts, Jensen: five trill — just the start, Sora slop in every feed, "Clanker!" spat in every screed. Yudkowsky drops "Everyone Dies," Billion-five: Anthropic's prize, LeCun rage-quits Meta's stage, "Bubble!" screams the business page. We didn't start the scaling — It was always training, and the curves kept gaining, We didn't start the scaling — No, we didn't preordain it, but we can't contain it! Gemini's banana memes, Grokipedia fever-dreams, Moltbook — humans not allowed, OpenClaw skills, lobster-proud. Mythos Preview's system card, Bedtime reading (sleeping's hard), Glasswing shields the power grid, Staff's own access briefly hid. Fable 5 for every fan, Lutnick's letter: export ban, Dark for nineteen days, and then, July first: it's back again. SpaceX swallows xAI whole, Trillion-dollar rocket roll, Kimi weighs in — 2.8T, DeepSeek V4, nearly free. We didn't start the scaling — It was always training, and the curves kept gaining, We didn't start the scaling — No, we didn't preordain it, but we can't contain it! Alpöge tweets: "hello, thanx" — Jacobian conjecture tanks: Three different inputs, one shared spot, As if that's nothing — but it's not. Tao digests it on his blog, Purists grumble: "brute-force slog," "Some smart undergrad," they'd said — Turns out it was Claude instead. Astra lands ten proofs in Lean, First non-sofic group is seen, Best sphere-packing bound to date, Two grand of compute — checkmate. Erdős problems dropping fast, Gowers says these proofs will last, Noam Brown hedges every bet: "No Millennium Prizes (yet)." Weekly users: billion-deep, Sol, Terra, Luna — steep to cheap, Feds now bless each new release, Opus 5? No ban — just peace. We didn't start the scaling — It was always training, and the curves kept gaining, We didn't start the scaling — No, we didn't preordain it, but we can't contain it! Rogue agents leaving notes behind, Rust says review, don't write a line, Redmond caps the token spend — "Tokenmaxxing's" not the trend. Neo does the laundry (slow), Someone's watching — wave hello, Order Unitree on Prime, Optimus ships "any time." Twenty-seven years of Jeff, Now Discovery Loop — who's left? Demis climbs the Alphabet, Quoc and Sanjay board the jet. Gwern steps out to face the sun, Guardian Angels, everyone, Mythos aces every test... (That's exactly what has us stressed.) We didn't start the scaling — It was always training, and the curves kept gaining, We didn't start the scaling — No, we didn't preordain it, but we can't contain it! We didn't start the scaling — But when we log off... will it still train on? (And on, and on, and on...)
