The Memo - 28/Mar/2026

To: US Govt, major govts, Microsoft, Apple, NVIDIA, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Tesla, Citi, Tencent, IBM, & 10,000+ more recipients… From: Dr Alan D. Thompson Sent: 28/Mar/2026 Subject: The Memo - AI that matters, as it happens, in plain English AGI: 97% ASI: 0/50 (no expected...

To: US Govt, major govts, Microsoft, Apple, NVIDIA, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Tesla, Citi, Tencent, IBM, & 10,000+ more recipients… From: Dr Alan D. Thompson Sent: 28/Mar/2026 Subject: The Memo - AI that matters, as it happens, in plain English AGI: 97% ASI: 0/50 (no expected movement until post-AGI)Dr Derya Unutmaz, Professor at The Jackson Laboratory (22/Mar/2026):’Do not be fooled by all the negativity, doomerism, & crap going on in the world, we are living in the most exciting & hopeful timeline in human history, by far! There has never been a better time to be optimistic about the future. I dare everyone to feel this exciting optimism!’The winners of The Who Moved My Cheese? AI Awards! for March 2026 are Wikipedia’s 44 editors who voted to ban LLMs, and Gabriella Gonzalez. (‘There is no world where you input a document lacking clarity and detail and get a coding agent to reliably fill in that missing clarity and detail. Coding agents are not mind readers and even if they were there isn’t much they can do if your own thoughts are confused….’)Six years ago (on 30th March, 2020) I submitted a paper titled ‘The new irrelevance of intelligence’ to the editors at Mensa. The piece ended up being the catalyst for my leaving the organization, as people really didn’t like hearing that their exceptional minds were no longer exceptional. And yet, the AI revolution is unfolding pretty much as written... Read it online or download:2020 Alan D Thompson The New Irrelevance Of Intelligence Rev 2 (mensa)136KB ∙ PDF fileDownloadDownloadContentsThe BIG Stuff (MiniMax self-evolution, AI enterprise, job market exposure…)The Interesting Stuff (CyberOne, China jobs race, Nemotron coalition, Meta AI-CEO…)Policy (AI labs safety, 150 judges defend Anthropic, Blackwell smuggling into China…)Toys to Play With (Y Combinator AI team, Tetris, RNGs, EQ, Claude double hours…)Things I’ve Been Thinking About (Contrarianism from every field…)Next (Roundtable…)The BIG StuffMiniMax M2.7: early echoes of self-evolution (18/Mar/2026)MiniMax M2.7 is the company’s first model that ‘deeply participates in its own evolution,’ capable of autonomously running iterative loops of failure analysis, scaffold modification, evaluation, and more.We let the model update its own memory and build dozens of complex skills in its harness to help with reinforcement learning experiments. We further let the model improve its learning process and harness based on the experiment results. This process initiates a cycle of model self-evolution.Read more via MiniMax.See it on the ASI checklist: https://lifearchitect.ai/asi/The Memo features in recent AI papers by Microsoft and Apple, has been discussed on Joe Rogan’s podcast, and a trusted source says it is used by top brass at the White House. Across over 100 editions, The Memo continues to be the #1 AI advisory, informing 10,000+ full subscribers including RAND, Google, and Meta AI. Full subscribers have complete access to all 30+ AI analysis items in this edition!Anthropic Claude ‘Mythos’ AI model representing ‘step change’ in power revealed in data leak (26/Mar/2026) Read more

Source: Life Architect AI — Published March 27, 2026 at 21:57 UTC — Category: Models