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DOGE deletes itself on July 4th. It will be remembered as a hugely destructive failure. Musk promised 2 trillion in savings. What we got, by DOGE’s own unverified math, was 215 billion. Even that numb

happy was able to see you! @aiDotEngineer means a lot to me too, and so many others. Not only the densest signal conference, but also the best place to make new friends for life. The community is so l

arXiv:2603.17975v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present AHOY, a method for reconstructing complete, animatable 3D Gaussian avatars from in-the-wild monocular video despite heavy occlusion. Exis

Being at the launch of Cybercab two years ago was magic. A decade from now there will be millions of these things rolling around the world. The war over autonomous vehicles is on, as everyone in San F

Every article saying 'THIS IS THE NEW JOB OF THE AI ERA' is one of two jobs. And the first is a lie imo. The first job, is usually something that an AI lab is hiring for and the news blows it complete

arXiv:2606.28333v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: egin{quote} The biases in Large Language Models' (LLMs) outputs remain inadequately theorised, particularly from the perspective of the Global South.

My grandfather, communism, and the tremor that never left. A story I rarely share. He was the principal of a private school; respected, steady, a man who believed in books and order. Then, one ordinar

As engineering, product, design, DS, etc. melt into a new kind of role, I was reflecting on what roles might look like in the future. For example, when I look at the Claude Code team I see what I thin

Fleet agents can be shared in channels where your company is already doing work. Slack, Teams, etc Video from Caspar showing how to bring them into Slack! For agents to spread through a company they h

It's quite rational to regulate frontier API models, especially to get more transparency for the government, without regulating open-source AI. Here's why: 1. The most dangerous AI systems right now a

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SITUATION EXPLAINED: 70% of frontier model queries could run locally for free. @ClementDelangue, co-founder and CEO of @huggingface: 'There was an interesting study from Stanford published last year s

Communism through (my) ages: 1) When I was 15, a teacher told me 'It isn't as bad as they say, and makes a lot of sense.' 2) At about 19, college friends, 'Socialism isn't communism.' 3) At 20, on mee

Elon Musk built one of the largest AI compute clusters on earth. Yann LeCun just explained why xAI now rents it out to rivals instead of winning with it. Musk has antagonized so much AI talent he stru

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Technological revolutions rarely destroy industries. More often, they destroy the reason those industries used to exist. Photography did not destroy painting. It destroyed painting’s monopoly on reali

The simplest question to ask a socialist is how much of their own money they have given to the causes they support The answer is always 0 On some deep psychological level, it’s because they see taxati

TL;DR: Adobe is currently the most profitable it has ever been, and it is using AI to accelerating its adoption and earning growth (now 13%, up from 10-11% last year). For all the talk about 'Adobe is

Called the LLM price wars – which are about to heat up — over two years ago. See especially predictions 3, 4, and 7, which laid out the no moat, small profit, price war regime we have seen ever since.

Here’s the problem. The liberal political class wants us to treat atrocities like Belfast as single, random, isolated incidents. “Yes, it’s horrific, but don’t overreact,” they say. “Let the police do

Nope. I think the positive press for @pontifex is because the Pope cares about humanity, and the consequence of technology for humanity. And that the tech bros mostly don’t. He’s also sharper on philo

This is a super exciting release - Claude Fable 5 is the same underlying model as Mythos but with added safeguards. The benchmarks are great and it's SOTA on everything by a margin but I'll add that *

The highest leverage work in AI right now is some of the most boring. (Well boring to others, I kind of love the pain of problem-solving.) Everyone and their boss wants to build the cool AI agent... t

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last year the recipe for success was allegedly to gather as much compute as possible, and Elon certainly acted on that. nobody would have leased “excess” compute last year. certainly not elon. the fac

We will no longer accept public pull requests. [...] A substantial patch used to imply substantial effort, and that effort was a reasonable proxy for good faith. That assumption no longer holds. [...]

arXiv:2606.04340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A sentence like 'The authors that no critics recommended have ever received acknowledgment for a best-selling novel' is sometimes rated as acceptable ev

A workflow audit is no longer the best way to figure out how to use AI in your job. Despite the advice from AI labs, I'm more convinced, because of AI's reasoning capabilities and long context horizon

arXiv:2606.03788v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sign Language Translation (SLT) is typically evaluated with surface-form metrics such as BLEU and ROUGE, which reward lexical overlap but do not directl

I have seen senior managers outpace ICs, and I have seen ICs run circles around the org chart. Titles tell you almost nothing about who is actually going to operate well in the next few years (and mig

This recent @latentspacepod pod was a good one (they usually all are). One specific piece resonated: They were talking about AI agents writing code, and the line was basically that without caution / d

Agree! was talking about this with @havoyan just a few days ago. That's also the reason why so much of the value has been accruing to the frontier models in my opinion (cc @GavinSBaker) because if you

Since its inception over 20 years ago, Google has used Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to keep services like Search, Gmail, Maps, YouTube and Google Cloud reliable and highly available, adhering to

ANNOUNCEMENT: WE’RE SAVING SCIENCE! We’re often told that science is “self-correcting.” But that’s not really true. Science doesn’t correct itself like a thermostat adjusting the temperature in your h

arXiv:2605.26316v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Controllable and physically grounded egocentric video generation is essential for embodied agents to reason about how their own and others' actions ma

arXiv:2605.24319v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models become a default source of guidance on personal, moral, and existential questions, it matters whether they draw on the religiou

The road to Hell is paved with closed-source citadels disguised as good intentions. The Pope is right: AI takes on the characteristics of those who build it, finance it, and regulate it. So the questi

hilarious how all the objections to this post about how elon understands engineering better than science point to elon’s engineering accomplishments, rather than his (meager) record of scientific inno

Literally one of the most important essays could read, if you want to have a *productive* disagreements about anything, on X or anywhere else, is @paulg’s “How to Disagree”. It describes a pyramid. Ev

This is rotten to the core. Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, cut a 5 million check to the Congressional Leadership Fund on April 1, just weeks after agreeing to testify before the House Oversig

George Blankenship got really emotional telling the story of early Tesla And it shows why Tesla’s survival story is one of the wildest in startup history The Model S wasn’t just another car. It was Te

arXiv:2605.20191v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently attracted much attention for their ability to simulate human behavior and generate text that reflects

Except the humans know that the Minds are smarter & they are content to leave all the big decisions (Contact, Special Circumstances, etc) to the AIs so they can do whatever they want personally aside

Imagine if Biden: • Created a 1.8 billion slush fund to hand out to rioters who assaulted police officers • Banned the IRS from auditing him, his family, and his companies • Accepted a 400 million lux

Reporting from Google I/O 2026 with the four biggest themes from one of the biggest AI labs in the world. 🎤 Voice AI as an interface Google and Samsung announced new Gemini-powered glasses with Gentle

This is a new era — the agentic era – and the question is no longer, “what’s possible?” but rather, “what creates impact?” Today, organizations across industries around the world are swiftly moving fr