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| Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: |
Models like o3 and Gemini 2.5 Pro feel like “Jagged AGI”: unreliable, even at some mundane tasks, but still offering superhuman capabilities in many areas — New models and new thresholds — Amid today's AI boom, it's disconcerting that we still don't know how to measure how smart … | Every: |
A comparison of OpenAI's o3, o4-mini, and GPT-4.1; Aaron Levie says o3 nailed a multi-step financial modeling task; Scale AI CEO says o3 is “a big breakthrough” — Our take on what's powerful, what's practical, and what's still TBD … If you've been following AI news this week …
More: Anecdotal Value, Simon Willison's Weblog, and The Algorithmic Bridge
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Paul Graham likened Palantir's ICE work to “infrastructure of the police state”; a Palantir exec said Paul's view is like Google's when it killed Project Maven — One of the founders of startup accelerator Y Combinator offered unsparing criticism this weekend …
More: Wired and ZeroHedge News
Bluesky: @caseynewton and @lefwin
X: @paulg, @paulg, @mabreyted, @paulg, @paulg, @paulg, @rational_wiki, @paulg, @paulg, @ericnewcomer, @feulf, @paulg, @paulg, @pmddomingos, @garrytan, @k_m_y_l, @paulg, @amitisinvesting, @paulg, and @micsolana
| Wall Street Journal: |
A half-marathon in Beijing featured a road race with human runners and 21 Chinese humanoid robots, highlighting both the progress and limitations of such robots — A half-marathon in Beijing featured a road race between human runners and 21 robot models—and showed how far robots still are from mimicking people.
More: Wired, Business Insider, UPI, Interesting Engineering, The Gateway Pundit, South China Morning Post, PCMag, talkSPORT, Bloomberg, Breitbart, Semafor, Engadget, Associated Press, Reuters, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, Xinhua, TechEBlog, Digital Trends, The Sun, The Crypto Times, Daily Sabah, Al Jazeera, DAWN.COM, Sky News, Tech in Asia, KRDO, Robotics & Automation News, The Japan Times, and The Independent
Bluesky: @wired.com, @zeyiyang, and @zoeschiffer
| Financial Times: |
A look at the race to turn brainwaves into fluent speech, as researchers at universities in California and companies use brain implants and AI to make advances — Californian researchers and groups such as Precision Neuroscience use implants and AI to make advances in ‘voice prosthesis’| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Coinbase faces pump-and-dump accusations after its subsidiary Base launched a “content coin” on Zora; Coinbase clarifies that Base will never sell the tokens — Jesse Pollak is the creator of Base, a new blockchain from Coinbase. — Winni Wintermeyer for Fortune
More: Cointelegraph, The Block, Blockchain News, Bitcoin Insider, Protos, Disrupt Africa, Cryptopolitan, CryptoSlate, DL News, CoinDesk, crypto.news, Inside Bitcoins, and Crypto Briefing
X: @jessepollak, @zora, @jacqmelinek, and @base
| Knight First Amendment Institute: |
A deep dive into AI as a normal technology vs. a humanlike intelligence and how major public policy based on controlling superintelligence may make things worse — An alternative to the vision of AI as a potential superintelligence — We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as normal technology.
Bluesky: @moskov.goodventures.org, @knightcolumbia.org, @tedunderwood.me, @manfrommolise, @jwherrman, @andytseng, @badlogic, @emollick, and @taumuyi. Mastodon: @nhamiel@infosec.exchange
X: @techczech, @random_walker, @random_walker, @kevinroose, and @sayashk
| Tom Wiggins / Wired: |
A look at the tactile devices from OneCourt, Field of Vision, and Touch2See that help visually impaired spectators follow live sports with their fingers — These three companies have developed tactile devices that help visually impaired spectators follow the live action playing out on the field.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Q&A with Dan Kim and Hassan Khan, former officials at the CHIPS Program Office, on subsidizing supply versus coercing demand, the program's future, and more — An interview with Dan Kim and Hassan Khan about their work distributing CHIPS program money, and why they are optimistic about U.S. industrial policy going forward.
| Christopher Grimes / Financial Times: |
The success of A Minecraft Movie, set to hit $700M in ticket sales globally this weekend, signals Hollywood's breakthrough in adapting video games into films — While superhero franchises flag, ‘A Minecraft Movie’ shows the industry has finally cracked the formula for translating popular games into films
More: Variety, Daily Mail, TechCrunch, Associated Press, Media Play News, Fox News, RTÉ, and The Sun
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
How YouTube is adapting to the AI era; a VP expects that in five years, every video uploaded to YouTube could be dubbed automatically into every spoken language — The video giant, turning 20, tries to keep the content spigot flowing while appeasing its army of broadcasters and copyright holders.
More: Social Media Today, Mirror, Yahoo News, and Barrett Media
Bluesky: @airbagmoments. Mastodon: @glinden@sigmoid.social. Threads: @mattnavarra. LinkedIn: Mark Bergen
| Ruth Reader / Politico: |
After lobbying US Congress to shelve the Senate-passed KOSA bill in 2024, Meta has now made headway in lobbying for an app store age-verification bill — The Facebook founder is lobbying Congress to leave his firm alone — and making headway. — To protect kids online … Sponsor Posts
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SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
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Introducing Zoho TouchPoint: Every handshake deserves a next step — Here's a scene you've probably experienced. You spend a day at an event, talk to dozens of people, and come home with a stack of business cards.
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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