Jack Clark's Import AI newsletter covers several AI research developments: Fable AI wrote the fastest GPU megakernel on KernelBench-Mega with an 18.71X speedup over PyTorch baseline, outperforming Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5. The Remote Labor Index shows AI success on online freelance tasks quadrupled from 2.5% to 16.1% in eight months, raising economic displacement concerns. OSWorld 2.0 introduces a harder computer-use benchmark with tasks taking humans 1.6 hours median, where the best model (Claude Opus 4.8) scores only 20.6%. JD's Oxygen AIIC system manages tens of billions of SKUs using LLMs/VLMs on Huawei Ascend NPUs. The issue closes with a speculative fiction piece imagining a post-AGI world where general computation is banned and analog computers handle civilization-critical tasks.
