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people in glass houses should not throw stones, Zuck Mark Zuckerberg says Apple's lack of innovation since the iPhone will lead to its decline 'They haven't really invented anything great in a while.

Plugins can also affect the empty state of the new menu - the latest datasette-agent adds a form for kicking off a new agent conversation - live demo (if you sign in with GitHub) on https://agent.data

Pope Leo has warned that the artificial intelligence revolution is being driven primarily by profit motives rather than ethical considerations, characterizing this as a form of 'idolatry of profit.' T

Product >> Brand 2 years ago: 'Elon destroyed the Tesla brand globally! It'll never recover!' Today: #1 selling EV in California: Tesla Model Y #1 selling EV in the U.S.: Tesla Model Y #1 selling EV i

Ralph Loops are powerful, but wrapping a naive loop in a shell script is a total token burner in production. Pinecone Principal Engineer Jen Hamon breaks down why standard loops collapse: ❌ The Bug: P

Searching X in Grok Build is really fast and useful for research/docs/real-time info, video is not sped up Media I've been using Grok Build some time now, and it has genuinely surprised me. It is uniq

smdh Chamath Lays Out the Case for SpaceX at $2 Trillion – Starlink: the most important internet infra project since the internet itself – Rockets: underlying platform that allows everything else to h

SpaceX put 10 megawatts of solar power in space across 3000 gen1 Starlink satellites, then they put 100 megawatts in space with 7000 gen2. soon, they're doing 1000 megawatts with gen3. SpaceX is basic

Starlink satellite internet service has expanded to the Kyrgyz Republic, marking another country addition to its global coverage network. This announcement was made by Elon Musk on X (formerly Twitter

Gary Marcus expresses skepticism about SpaceX's pivot from rockets to AI, questioning whether this strategic shift should impact the company's valuation. The post uses rhetorical questioning to sugges

Survey, broken down crudely by education, of your view of Elon? Are a you a scientist (with/working on a PhD or similar degree)? (Else please choose “not a sci” if you are not). And do you think Elon

Taxes screw over both the companies and the states they’re in. Taxes didn’t build those big companies. They show up after the success. They sure as hell didn’t create Silicon Valley. The sky-high taxe

The 400’s in Rome were brutal Western civilization has collapsed before. But a few scholars preserved the ideas that once made Rome great. They made a backup, and it did eventually come all the way ba

The CEO of BlackRock, Larry Fink, admits that the trillions of dollars being used to build data centers and power grids will come from ordinary people’s savings accounts and pension funds, and says it

// The Efficiency Frontier in LLMs // (bookmark this one) How much are you overpaying for context you do not need? It turns out that context costs dominate production LLM bills, and the right strategy

The Frenchman (@ylecun) seems incapable of giving credit where credit is due. @GaryMarcus is correct about LeCun's lack of integrity. Here he is rephrasing something that everyone else in the business

The Grok Build team is one of the most productive teams I have worked with. I need something to adopt my diverse workflow from model training to validating the Cybercab manufacturing process. Their da

The Pope rightly warns that AI must serve human dignity, not become a tool of domination or exclusion. But if we hand governments sweeping power over AI development in the name of safety, how do we pr

The ramp up of cancer immunotherapy is remarkable. Now we're seeing vaccines achieve some cures or remissions in the most refractory cancers: pancreatic, melanoma, glioblastoma, renal, triple-negative

The team is gathering speed Grok Build just got another update: v0.1.220-alpha.1 xAI is now shipping multiple updates in a single day with nonstop fixes, improvements, optimizations, and new features

the tech bros think they know better than me they think they know better than @michaeljburry they think they know better than the Nobelist @DAcemogluMIT they think they know better than @sundarpichai

the @xai team really cooked with Grok Build the most beautiful (and performant) TUI I've seen so far >realtime context view >feels snappy in ghostty >first class worktree support >great resume session

Thinking of AI as a productivity booster for prior workflows is the wrong framing. Like all of the previous waves of computerization/softwarization, AI is a tool that lets you do new things in new way

this bit on physics is deep and actually resonates with the fact that LLMs are equally comfortable learning any world, whereas humans are built for our world. See also Chomsky’s 2023 conversation with

This creates problems for the @Kevinroose narrative that AGI is near. Finally, a big name has the courage to tell it: we are nowhere near AGI. Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel laureate

This trend will continue for many years SpaceX put 10 megawatts of solar power in space across 3000 gen1 Starlink satellites, then they put 100 megawatts in space with 7000 gen2. soon, they're doing 1

time to get out of index funds? they will soon be saddled with the IPOs of three giant companies that barely make a profit (or don’t make profits at all). I don’t personally want to be part of that. (

Today, I'm working on trying to better understand how coding assistants mention HF's products. Taking a simple approach of running tons of queries and analyzing the answers with @DAKlingbeil's https:/

Watching Grok Build think is pretty fascinating. Definitely noticing a change with the releases made this weekend, its become incredibly thoughtful. And the plans are getting insanely detailed, I mean

We built Aleph as one of the first generalist text-based editing models. Aleph 2.0 takes it further: visual prompting for precise control, longer videos (up to 30 seconds), and yes, multi-shot support

We've expanded the Beta to many more people. Go to https://x.ai/cli to give it a try. Our entire engineering team will be responding to (and fixing) any issues you encounter, so please share feedback

What I don’t get is why so few people care that LeCun is basically a thief. I really don’t get it. Dr. LeCun's heavily promoted Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA, 2022) [5] is the heart of

This post likely discusses Paul Erdős, the prolific Hungarian mathematician known for his unconventional lifestyle and numerous mathematical collaborations, exploring the personal or professional chal

woah @Noahpinion is attacking @demishassabis here — calling what Demis said not “credible” — but misinterpreting what Hassabis is *actually* saying. What Demis actually said is both completely credibl

This post documents a Wordle game result where the player solved puzzle #1,801 in four attempts using color-coded feedback (yellow for correct letters in wrong positions, green for correct letters in

300,000 AI builders filled their hardware profile on @huggingface and we're sharing the results: http://hf.co/hardware. Excited to see how it evolves in the coming months especially with the explosion

🇺🇸🇪🇺 A new study from the US-based New England Journal of Medicine found that Americans die earlier across all income levels compared to their European counterparts. What’s especially notable is that

AGI is certainly not here by the definitions I have repeatedly laid out. or by criteria that @hendrycks @Yoshua_Bengio and I and others recently laid about at http://agidefinition.AI i don’t think any

Gary Marcus posted a clarification about humor and irony in a previous post that was apparently misunderstood by readers, indicating he felt the need to make his intended meaning more explicit. The po

Aleph 2.0 will blow your mind Just tested Runway Aleph 2.0 and this blew my mind a bit lol I saw a video like this when Aleph first released and with the new Aleph 2.0 I wanted to create my own versio

An interesting work on Physical AI: PhysX-Omni. First unified sim-ready generation framework for rigid, deformable, and articulated objects, with a diverse dataset and new benchmark. 🌐 https://physx-o

As more people come to recognize the tells of AI, which mostly happens as you start to work with AI a lot, the scales are going to fall from their eyes and they are going to realize what some of us al

Can't agree more. After trying out ChatGPT 5.4/5.5 for two months I feel it's far from replacing human researchers, even though it's enabling me to do things not possible before. The effect on how out

Gary Marcus discusses how alignment instructions in large language models often fail to work as intended, and argues that the emotional attachment some people develop toward LLMs can create additional

Gary Marcus humorously notes that George Hotz, an AI researcher and entrepreneur, is beginning to echo Marcus's own views or criticisms, likely regarding AI safety, limitations, or technical concerns.

The post references a cost-saving prompt that users can employ, likely in an AI system, to receive money-saving advice or optimization suggestions. This appears to be a tip about leveraging specific p