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βOne way to try this out in the product is like go into β one of the deep research products either, you know, whatever OpenAI or or Grock or or whatever it may be β and have it do like a really sophistβ¦β
βhere I'll I'll send that β there there was a good little β snippet on X about some of that Google search traffic stuff. It was like IA ruse.β
βIntroducing Voxtral Transcribe 2, next-gen speech-to-text models by @MistralAI.β
βEveryone should go read the the Clawed Constitution. Uh argue with it, grapple with it. I found it a very challenging and also a very moving uh read.β
βAnd kind of a great example of this is like the the salient, yes, they are going to people that collect um uh it's it's called autoloan servicing.β
βit's much more useful to search for a flight from SF to New York on Kayak because I can look across the inventory of every airline versus just going to Delta United and looking at their inventory alonβ¦β
βThe best way of starting with this is to write this article and we made a video about this as well which has had like it's hundreds of thousands of views. It's pretty incredible. Death of a Salesforceβ¦β
βor you know death taxes and AI. We've done we've covered the gamut on everything around taxes.β
βuh, Search Engine Land, the the blog that covers uh, Google and other search engines, uh, made this sort of timeline of how Google's ad labels have changed over the years.β
βwe've as Google only just started to scratch the surface now of actually \n natively sort of plugging these things in to our amazing existing products let alone building the new ones you know AI inboxβ¦β
βWe've just released anti-gravity, our own \n IDE, \n which is very very popular.β
βTo mitigate these issues, we introduce stable-worldmodel (SWM), a modular, tested, and documented world-model research ecosystem that provides efficient data-collection tools, standardized environmentβ¦β
β# stable-worldmodel-v1: Reproducible World Modeling Research and Evaluationβ
βI let I let as an experiment I let Dr. GPT like walk me through basically every stage of food poisoning.β
βIntroducing Mistral AI's biggest hackathon ever!β
βInspired by Jonathan Basile's [libraryofbabel.info](https://libraryofbabel.info), the original digital Library of Babel.β
βIn order to help the public better understand the developments pertaining to AI and mathematics, we suggest quantifying standard levels of autonomy and novelty of AI-assisted results, as well as propoβ¦β
βWe conclude with reflections on human-AI collaboration in mathematics and share all prompts as well as model outputs at https://github.com/google-deepmind/superhuman/tree/main/aletheia.β
βYou mentioned in your talk at scaleup AI today your recent cybernetic teammate paper uh involving a field experiment with 776 professionals at Proctor and Gamble and it demonstrates that AI often funcβ¦β
βFor example, you've argued against consultant, external consultant AI implementationsβ
βbecause the first and easiest thing to build is a talk to our documents chatbot right and I don't think I think there's space for this but the thing is is that if you built a talk to our documents chaβ¦β
βMy advice tends to be very similar which is use these models a lot. Use frontier models, figure out what they do. ... pick one of the big players, use their stuff a lot and you'll figure it out.β
β# Causal-JEPA: Learning World Models through Object-Level Latent Interventionsβ
βOur code is available at https://github.com/galilai-group/cjepa.β
βBuilt with Replit AI integrations.β
βI recovered that zip file from the Internet Archive and used it to populate this GitHub repository. The repository is served via GitHub Pages here: https://simonw.github.io/cia-world-factbook-2020/β
βrecently [clears throat] some of the insurance companies have said that uh it is actually so safe uh when where Tesla full full self-driving is so safe that uh they're they're offering uh customers haβ¦β
βBut with with Starship, which is a giant rocket, it's it's the largest flying machine ever made. That's a rocket that you using for the idea of going to Mars, right?β
βProbably the Iain Banks Culture books are the closest thing to what the future will be like in a non-dystopian outcome.β
βThe first two-thirds of Stranger in a Strange Land are good, and then it gets very weird in the third portion.β
β# Heaps do lie: debugging a memory leak in vLLM. _Blog post by Mistral AI_β
βA great Papa Roach song. And so in this moment, we now are at the last resort.β
βWe're rolling out our first @cerebras model to Pro users today. It's fast!β
βCan Private Markets Normalize?_Blog post by Ted Seides_β
βGarry's plan-exit-review skillβ
βallowed-tools: - Readβ
βallowed-tools: - Grepβ
βOne of the things I love is the gro button on threads because a lot of times I don't understand the context and then it takes you know whatever one to five minutes to understandβ
βallowed-tools: - Globβ
βallowed-tools: - AskUserQuestionβ
βI bought this new pen, this uh Zebra G >> 750. You know, it's an $8 pen, but it's really quite nice.β
βWe really enjoyed Get them to the Greek. We like these stoner films. We like these comedies.β
βStripe Press uh just uh well actually we we announced in the letter we sold our millionth book but in fact since >> incredible. Um, no book books. We've actually now sold our 1.1 millionth book.β
βIntroducing Replit Agent 4. The first AI built for creative collaboration between humans and agents.β
βthis @GoogleLabs experiment is aimed at helping people build real, consumer-facing AI agents without knowing how to codeβ
βTwo new Showboat tools: Chartroom and datasette-showboatβ
βIf you think AI is unpredictable, wait till you experience analog computers!β
βThere's a uh an analyst I follow uh Eric Seufort who often says that everything is an ad network and if you have hundreds of millions of peopleβ
βI could tell since I started using uh the app created by a startup I funded called Nori. It's an AI healthcare app and it hooked up to my Apple Watch data. And boy [music] those AI reports thought I wβ¦β
βDominik Hangleiter highlights the importance of efficient verification of quantum advantage, and assesses the prospects for achieving it soon.β
βUnveiling our new startup Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs). We just completed our seed round: $1.03B / 890Mβ¬, one the largest seeds ever, probably the largest for a European company. We're hirβ¦β
β# try β fresh directories for every vibeβ
βWe thank John Preskill for suggesting the phrase βOne Sum To Rule Them All,β which inspired the title of this paper.β
βWhoβs a Better Writer: A.I. or Humans? Take Our Quiz.β
βThe βJVG algorithmβ is crapβ
βCan coding agents relicense open source through a βclean roomβ implementation of code?β
βAnthropicβs Responsible Scaling Policy: Version 3.0β
βWriting about Agentic Engineering Patternsβ
βApple just named its latest laptop Neo -- same name as my son! Should I buy one?β
βSee the link in our show notes to try my blind spot finder recipe and experience how granola makes your meeting notes awesome.β
βpeople like Philip Aong or Eric Buffsonβ
βIn this paper, we address what's wrong with our conception of AGI, and why, even in its most coherent formulation, it is a flawed concept to describe the future of AI. We explore whether the most wideβ¦β
βUm yeah, ch has been growing very strongly. Uh and I feel great about the current models, the upcoming models. It's been very fun to see the momentum with Codex as a new product like Chacht is great. β¦β
βBeyond Language Modeling: An Exploration of Multimodal Pretraining _ArXiv paper co-authored by Yann LeCun_β
βOur full chatβ
βthe future of medical multimodality which will do a much better job of converting data to value and which inspired me to buy a Whoop wristband to start collecting data on myselfβ
βjournalists are really gunning for the "Flying Machines Which Do Not Fly" awardβ
βWeβre making great progress with our Gemini Robotics work in bringing AI to the physical world - a critical aspect of AGI.β
β_Blog post by LangChain_β
βAlso, I have personally trained Ukrainian forces on how to best use Anduril drone technology.β
βAnd I used to give it to all my product managers at my company. It's like study this to figure out how we charge people for stuff.β
βThey have this uh new product called agent bricks which we're super super excited about. we think is going to be really big and transformative for them.β
βThe International AI Safety Report 2026 synthesises the current scientific evidence on the capabilities, emerging risks, and safety of general-purpose AI systems.β
βNon is the next one. So this is another this is a different example.β
βWe're going to make XT control available to anybody using OpenClaw. That is the one that is right on the right hand side. That is the XT control app which you can use to control XT so that it doesn't β¦β
βwe announced an investment recently with Ashton and Sound Ventures in Witness AI, which is focusing on how do employees use AI in terms of tools we give them, but also employees get bringing AI to worβ¦β
βThe window on the left hand side of the screen is our app. You can go to getsupers.com to try it right now.β
βAnd then you know Flock Flock is doing absolutely incredible work. I've talked about them so much. It's it's the most compelling customer value proposition that we see in our portfolio because what thβ¦β
βOur first product is air tests. It's using agents to test websites, right? So, you provide a URL and then with this URL about 15 minutes later, you get a link uh in this link is an or you get an emailβ¦β
βCohere Labs Launches Tiny Aya, Making Multilingual AI Accessibleβ
βIf you want to be the community manager and you love founders and you love Discord and X communities and Slack and Circle and all these different platforms, but most of all you love founders, you loveβ¦β
β# I vibe coded my dream macOS presentation appβ
βWe have RD for artisan which is an SDR.β
βwe have quali for qualified.β
βRodney Comegys of Vanguard breaks down the philosophy and mechanics β ownership structure, equity concentration, governance, private assets, and AI. https://www.capitalallocators.com/podcast/the-mechaβ¦β
βIf you or a loved one are facing a complex health challenge, you owe it to yourself to take full advantage of the incredible medical expertise that Karin and others have managed to build into systems β¦β
βsuper excited to announce our partnership with @BostonDynamics, combining our SOTA robotics models with their world-class hardwareβ
βWrote up some thoughts on Anthropic's Project Glassing, where their latest Opus-beating model is available to partnered security research organizations onlyβ
βA macOS SwiftUI app for giving presentations where each slide is a URL displayed in a WebView.β
βTo that end, we introduce the Geodesic Hypothesis, positing that token sequences trace geodesics on a smooth semantic manifold and are therefore locally linear. Building on this principle, we propose β¦β
βSo I think uh robotics one of the oldest field as long as AI itself existed and the reason that robotics is so hard Γ€hm is because the Moravex paradox. So what this paradox says is the things that areβ¦β
βEverybody should try this. I've been using it for months. I'm obsessed.β
βCode is available at https://github.com/galilai-group/llm-jepa#stp.β
βlike in the famous Glengarry Glen Ross scene where Alec Baldwin says, βFirst place gets a Cadillac Eldorado, second place gets a set of steak knives, and third place youβre fired.ββ
βMotivated by the recent twisted MoTe$_2$ experiment [arXiv:2601.18508], we develop a disordered interacting edge theory of a fractional topological insulator at $Ξ½_{\text{tot}}=4/3$, consisting of twoβ¦β
βStatement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of Warβ
βWe're also hiring two researchers. Researchers at our venture firm are looking for they're hunting for great companies to invest in or have on the podcast. That's one job function.β
βFinally, we have a producer role here at This Week in Startups. The shows are doing so well. We launched this week in AI. We're going to bring uh three other podcasts into the fold shortly. And we neeβ¦β
βin preparation I just read your excellent book compendium of screenshot essays over the past few years it's must readβ
βYeah, this is fantastic. I um I've already sent it to my um to my claw actually to implement in Venice. Uh we absolutely need this.β