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βBut you know there are actually demos of of what's called Bzon sampling which was a proposal for using optical uh Ψ§Ω Ψ§Ω uh quantum computing to just demonstrate quantum advantage on a contrived benchmβ¦β
βNow what what Blue Cubit has done is that they've actually published their circuits you know and they have challenged anyone to try to break them with a classical computer.β
βI've brought on two heavy hitters, my friend Casey Newton, the founder and editor of the excellent newsletter, "Platformer" and co-host of the "Hard Fork Podcast,"β
β- [Nilay] Hello and welcome to "Decoder." I'm Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of "The Verge" and "Decoder" is my show about big ideas and other problems.β
β- [Nilay] Hello and welcome to "Decoder." I'm Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of "The Verge" and "Decoder" is my show about big ideas and other problems.β
βSo far we've seen a big push from the lawmakers who are behind some of the biggest social media reform laws like, Kids Online Safety Act, saying, well, this just shows that we need these new lawsβ
βUh we're going to hire somebody on Fiverr.β
βUh and then Invato Elements to give us some mockups for uh for our images.β
βOne that I talk about a lot is uh called Solo Drop. Um this is specifically designed for single product stores.β
βThis one's called Elixir. This is what we're going to use for divorce.β
βIf you're looking for products to sell, uh Supplel is an awesome starting place.β
βMarc Andreessen (@pmarca) https://t.co/KSsgzpswVKβ
βThis would be some Sopranos-level deal-making if we go into business with Iran and build a toll booth at the Strait if Hormuzβ
βAI Inside - Live https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1pKdRbjqEXsJWβ
βVoxtral transcribes at the speed of sound.β
βA Nox is another great one. um they're more skincare and so like you know face moisturizers and and a bunch of that stuff like we've all seen ads for products like theseβ
β# Introducing Mistral AI Studio. β
βHere's Anthropic's Mythos system card. The model demonstrated a striking leap in cyber capabilities relative to prior models.β
βCode: https://github.com/capgym/cap-xβ
βPaper review: LeWorldModel: Stable End-to-End Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture from Pixelsβ
βNice clean github: https://github.com/lucas-maes/le-wmβ
βintroducing Veo 3.1 Lite, our most cost efficient video generation model to dateβ
βis if you're not familiar, he runs the Substack. Don't worry about the vase. Who knows that reference without looking it up?β
βIf you go to plaud.ai/twist, pl l aud.aiwist, use the code twist, save 10%, and then you won't forget everything you're supposed to do.β
βSal, I love Bass Power. Best company. Yum yum on that one. Just tell us in one sentence or two why you made that bet.β
βOr activations based monitoring. So, we know within these models, there are certain parts of its quote unquote brain that light up when it's doing different stuff.β
βThis one comes from Aditya Chakravarti, who runs the channel Aleph Not. It's a really nice channel if you're not familiar with it. He does a great job taking various higher level math topics and then β¦β
βYou're watching Intelligent Machines with the very intelligent and deeply cynical.β
βRead more: https://www.anthropic.com/research/diff-toolβ
βFrank's RedHot Buffalo Chicken Skillet Nachosβ
βUse Microsoft Azure and Cohere enterprise models to accelerate your AI journeyβ
βI'm proud to pledge $5,000,000 to @2ndharvest's campaign to build a new home for the futureβone that will help get nutritious food to more neighbors, faster. Through June 30, every dollar you give wilβ¦β
βDying Consciously _Blog post by Ram Dass_β
βReview Parkinsonβs Law and force yourself to cram within tight hours so your per-hour productivity doesnβt fall through the floor.β
βreached by phone shortly before their paper went live, before rushing off to celebrate. https://t.co/4WHulKAPuKβ
βMistral Vibe is a command-line coding assistant powered by Mistral's models. It provides a conversational interface to your codebase, allowing you to use natural language to explore, modify, and interβ¦β
βRecommended terminal emulators include: - **WezTerm** (cross-platform)β
βRecommended terminal emulators include: - **Alacritty** (cross-platform)β
βI was using Codex and VSC before, and now I've shifted over entirely to Anti-Gravity.β
βAvailable now under Apache 2.0 licenseβ
βRecommended terminal emulators include: - **Kitty** (Linux and macOS)β
βIt's so ridiculous and it it was so hard to get to in terms of building it and then there's a massive network effect. Um, which like people are starting six years behind you on that. But yeah, I'm surβ¦β
βHierarchical Planning with Latent World Modelsβ
βAnker also makes a new wall charger. Here it is. This one can flip over in any direction. So, if you have a weird plug, it does this interesting thing. Let me see if I can find it. Well, cuz we all haβ¦β
βdon't give the same process access to both email and web requestsβ
βSee the full paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11729β
βThere was that was very much non-trivial. Um, so actually I think one point on Iris that I think people don't appreciate enough and that's a bet we took back then but it was essentially that Iris willβ¦β
βI think two things. One is that what we currently experience is like a super super tiny thing of what is about to happen you know just because like >> right it's a glimpse. It's a glimpse like you knoβ¦β
β# The five phases of enterprise AI maturity β and how get past βthe production wallββ
β# Corn and Black Bean Salsaβ
β# Frank's RedHot Buffalo Chicken Pizzaβ
β# Pickle Back Buffalo Wingsβ
βSEO audit your site.β
β# RedHot Cheesy Totchos _Blog post by Frank's RedHot_β
β# Easy Mini Corn Dogsβ
βGrilled Burgers with Sweet Chili Mayoβ
βE4B & E2B (Edge): built for mobile with real-time text, vision, and audio processing.β
βE4B & E2B (Edge): built for mobile with real-time text, vision, and audio processing.β
βYou can install [Homebrew](https://brew.sh/) and then install `pnpm` and `node`:β
βThis documentation is built using [Docusaurus](https://docusaurus.io/).β
βLessons from History is like one of my favorite books ever. Um I would really really really recommend it. It's a short read. Um but I would Lessons from History by Alan Durant is like probably the mosβ¦β
βYou know what's great? Area 51, an uncensored history of the top secret military base. Not very ariodite. Great book.β
βthe banana king have you heard this one have you seen this one oh my god this is so good what's it called this the fish that ate the whale incredible bookβ
βI gotta say, I mean, recent I think Land Man is fabulous. Have you watched Land Man? Yeah. Yeah. I I'm like really into it. That would be my most recent take.β
βI will pitch people on June date. So, okay, I actually don't use this product because I'm happily married, but this is cool. And here's the basic idea is if you think about so much of AI right now, thβ¦β
βBut I think a lot about uh this artist Finch wrote this blog post, how to become an artist.β
βI took this online course at University of Pennsylvania about uh the psychology of happiness and it was basically all the science of what makes you happier and how to be happier and that really had a β¦β
βYou have this first book here called am I overthinking this which a lot of people identify with has sold many copies.β
βI don't know if you enjoy ER, you'll enjoy The Pit, which just won all these awards.β
βEverything seems to charge twice as fast when plugged into an anchor thing.β
βfor for uh for writing on writing well by William Zinder?β
βThe book is called Hidden Multipliers, and you can pre-order it at hidden multipliers.com, or I guess if this is out long enough, I'll order it, I guess, depending on when you're listening to this.β
βI built something similar for my own site over at cnewton.org and you can go see like a working feed of recent Hardfork episodes.β
βIn, fact,, I, have, been using a different app called Ghosty. That's G H O S T Y. That is a free app but has maybe a slightly improved user interface.β
β$2 billion investment in IndustryAdvantage: Focused on accelerating client AI transformation capabilities [1]β
βMy self-sovereign / local / private / secure LLM setup, April 2026 https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/04/02/secure_llms.htmlβ
βWe're excited to partner with @DeepgramAI to bring the voice stack together in one production environment.β
βZora AI Platform: Groundbreaking agentic AI platform designed to autonomously handle complex business tasks and processes [2]β
βRun [Codex](https://github.com/openai/codex#codex-exec) from a GitHub Actions workflow while keeping tight control over the privileges available to Codex. This action handles installing the Codex CLI β¦β
βUsers must provide an API key for their chosen provider (for example, [`OPENAI_API_KEY`](https://platform.openai.com/api-keys) or `AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY` [if using Azure for OpenAI models](#azure)) as β¦β
βFinanceAIβ’ Dossier: Curated collection of Generative AI solutions specifically for finance functions [2]β
βI don't even know anymore. You know, I I retained on chrisbroen.com, but it's just sitting there. It's just a shell.β
βSee [`security.md`](./docs/security.md) for tips on using `openai/codex-action` securely.β
βTutorial on fine tuning Gemma on TPU v5 using Kinetic + Keras + JAX. Easiest stack to fully leverage TPUs at scale.β
βYou can get that show and a whole bunch of other subscriberonly shows if you subscribe to Friends of the Pod.β
βTutorial on fine tuning Gemma on TPU v5 using Kinetic + Keras + JAX. Easiest stack to fully leverage TPUs at scale.β
βPaper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.10387β
βCode: https://github.com/BauplanLabs/Making-Databases-Faster-with-LLM-Evolutionary-Samplingβ
βThe firm's Academy for AI provides intensive professional development with industry-specific use cases, demonstrating commitment to AI-first service delivery [3].β
βThink of fan wikis like Tolkien Gateway β thousands of interlinked pages covering characters, places, events, languages, built by a community of volunteers over years. You could build something like tβ¦β
βInstall globally (Node or Bun) npm install -g @tobilu/qmd # or bun install -g @tobilu/qmdβ
βObsidian Web Clipper is a browser extension that converts web articles to markdown. Very useful for quickly getting sources into your raw collection.β
βQMD combines BM25 full-text search, vector semantic search, and LLM re-rankingβall running locally via node-llama-cpp with GGUF models.β
βAnd she and her partner do Dr. Katya Walsh just recently published a new book called Winning with AI: The 90-Day Blueprint for Success. So, I'm super excited to learn about the backstory behind this bβ¦β
βPlease head on to our [contribution guideline](https://docs.mistral.ai/guides/contribute/).β
βThis video gives the gist.β
βRead more about Computer for Taxesβ
βFollow @googlegemma for the latest information.β
βBloomberg publishes bs.β
βVideo Edit https://replicate.com/wan-video/wan-2.7-videoeditβ