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Sam Altman announced that Codex will ship this week and has reached 'escape velocity,' indicating it has achieved a level of capability that will enable rapid, self-sustaining improvements. The statem

Which matters most? 1) Token usage 2) Dictation word count 3) Total AI queries 4) Tool count (Number 2 is becoming more and more of a positive indicator in my book, although I'm disappointed I broke m

Sam Altman announced that OpenAI's version 5.5 has achieved significant user engagement or adoption milestones, prompting consideration of how to celebrate this achievement with the community. The pos

1/ Today @Mercury received conditional approval from the OCC to establish Mercury Bank, N.A. I started Mercury in 2017 to build the bank I wish had existed as a founder. Nearly a decade later, we’re g

This post provides links to resources for SWE-Chat, including the arXiv paper (2604.20779), an interactive website (swe-chat.com), and a dataset hosted on Hugging Face. SWE-Chat appears to be a conver

Neil Hacker / Works in Progress: A deep dive into how ASML became a chokepoint for making cutting-edge chips by betting on EUV, close collaboration with TSMC and the US government, and more — By betti

Bloomberg: A look at Elon Musk's efforts to launch the banking and payments service X Money, delayed by US regulatory concerns, as some industry watchers remain skeptical — More than three years after

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: A look at what's next for Netflix and Comcast's Peacock after the WBD-Paramount deal; Nielsen says Netflix had six of the top 10 original streaming shows in Q1 — The company's

Boaz Sobrado / Forbes: A profile of Anthony Fujiwara, who industrialized “clipping” for social media video marketing and has contributed to the rise of crypto casinos like Stake — Anthony Fujiwara is

All three of the liberal justices dissented from the order allowing Texas to use their new congressional map. But these same justices all voted with a unanimous court back in February to allow Califor

altman when he decided to keep “openai” So Elon Musk starts OpenAI as a nonprofit, for public good, puts in ~$50M to get it going… …and then Sam Altman and Greg Brockman flip it to for-profit, push hi

Nicole Sperling / New York Times: Amazon reaches a multiyear licensing deal with Oprah Winfrey to produce twice-a-week video podcasts starting in July, repurpose The Oprah Winfrey Show, and more — The

Calling him “Scam” Altman is accurate. This is very much worth reading. The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman that I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @NewYorker, with @andrewmaran

One of the most popular Linux distributions is about to get an influx of AI features. As reported by Phoronix, Jon Seager, VP of engineering at Ubuntu developer Canonical, shared a blog post on Monday

One of Canva's new AI features has been caught replacing the word 'Palestine' in designs. The Magic Layers feature - which is designed to break flat images out into separate editable components - isn'

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Canva says it “moved quickly to investigate and fix” an issue with its Magic Layers feature that replaced the word “Palestine” in designs, after a viral X post — The Magi

Financial Times: China blocks Meta's 2B Manus acquisition, after reviewing whether it violated investment rules, and tells both to cancel it; Manus moved to Singapore in 2025 — Regulators had reviewed

Sam Altman posted on X that Codex's $20 plan offers significant value, implying favorable pricing or features relative to its cost. The post likely recommends Codex's subscription tier as a cost-effec

Cole Allen didn’t need to go down a fringe rabbit hole to become radicalized. He just needed to believe the MSM’s inflammatory rhetoric, lies, and hoaxes about Trump. 🚨BREAKING: I found Cole Allen's a

The cost to build natural gas power plants has spiked 66% in the last two years, with prices rising from less than 1,500 per kilowatt in 2023 to 2,157 in 2025 , driven by surging demand from data cent

David Silver is the brilliant mind who conquered the devilishly difficult game of Go. The key insight: learning from experience (self-play, RL) triumphs over human priors. @Alfred_Lin & I are honored

David Silver update. Ineffable Intelligence has raised the largest ever European seed round and is now valued at $5.1 billion. Mr Silver said in a statement 'Our mission is to make first contact with

Sam Altman and Elon Musk are set to face off in a high-stakes trial that could alter the future of tech’s leading AI startup, OpenAI. The trial begins with jury selection on April 27th, as Musk pushes

Elon Musk’s trial against Sam Altman begins today Remember, an OpenAi whistleblower was murdered Tucker Carlson revealed that OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji’s mother has crime scene photos that sh

Even former OpenAI employees didn’t want Sam Altman converting OpenAI from a nonprofit charity to a for-profit business. “OpenAI may one day build technology that could get us all killed,” said Nisan

Excellent writeup from @willknight who has been following David's work for decades. Also highly recommend @scmallaby's book The Infinity Machine which profiles David's achievements at @GoogleDeepMind

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Northrop Grumman confirmed corrosion in both the HALO and I-HAB modules of NASA's Lunar Gateway space station, citing a 'manufacturing irregularity.' The company attributed the issue to the French-Ita

Mario Rodriguez / The GitHub Blog: GitHub says all Copilot plans will move to usage-based billing on June 1, replacing premium requests with monthly GitHub AI Credits — Starting June 1, your Copilot u

Over 600 Google employees signed a letter to CEO Sundar Pichai demanding that Google block the Pentagon from using its AI models for classified purposes, reports the The Washington Post. Its organizer

Google is trying out an AI Mode-like search experience for YouTube. The company is now testing 'a new way to search on YouTube that feels more like a conversation,' with results pulling in things like

This post humorously comments on the naming strategy of Ineffable Intelligence, suggesting that their company name is more distinctive and clever than the numerous startups using 'superintelligence' i

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Have I Been Pwned: ShinyHunters' breach of ADT exposed the personal data of 5.5M people; ADT previously disclosed data breaches in August 2024 and October 2024 — The

Databricks discusses how leading technology companies are using Lakebase to eliminate 'builder's tax'—the overhead and complexity costs associated with building and maintaining data infrastructure. Th

Bloomberg: How Sergey Brin's political push against a proposed wealth tax in California has helped mobilize a network of fellow tech leaders to sway state issues — In a treehouse nestled in redwoods n

I hear so often: “the right must unite”. The rally on 16 May is not just an opportunity for politicians to unite but also for us to meet our boss - the British people. If we, servants of the people, w

I really enjoyed reading the book “Infinity Machine”. While it’s supposed to be a biography of Demis Hassabis, all the major characters of the AI industry today were there in the beginning. It’s fasci

I don't have specific information about the details of this Reddit discussion. This likely covers speculation about the potential financial consequences and wealth implications for OpenAI executives l

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Will Knight / Wired: Ineffable Intelligence, founded by ex-Google DeepMind Principal Scientist David Silver, raised a 1.1B seed at a 5.1B valuation to build AI “superlearners” — David Silver has a new

This post documents a user's request to ChatGPT to generate a visualization or description of Krakatoa island as it existed before its catastrophic 1883 eruption, specifically showing the three volcan

The Rundown is actively recruiting and inviting people to apply for positions or refer qualified candidates through their careers page. This appears to be a job posting announcement shared by Rowan Ch

On Monday, the courtroom battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over alleged broken promises at OpenAI started, as usual, with jury selection. The only tricky part? A lot of the prospective jurors al

@JustJake @sovrgnmind @pmarca Good convo with Grok about all of this. I cited Chesterton's Fence and Grok cited the Therac-25 incident. While at SGI, a friend and I were sent to NZ and Oz to diagnose

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Kashable, which lets companies offer “socially responsible” credit and financial wellness programs for employees as a voluntary benefit, raised a $60M Series C — Ka

KITT is real Any new Tesla can do this FSD drove my wife and I all the way from San Diego to Palm Springs for the weekend. Today it gave us an architectural tour powered by @grok . It picked the homes