Q&A with Andrej Karpathy on AGI still being a decade away, why reinforcement learning is terrible, superintelligence, his AI education startup Eureka, and more
AGI is still a decade away (via) Extremely high signal 2 hour 25 minute (! … X: Ashpreet Bedi / @ashpreetbedi : This is exactly why we recommend keeping it simple and focusing on clarity and reliabili...
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner says China-linked Salt Typhoon group listened to phone calls and read texts by hacking US telecom networks
https://www.nytimes.com/... Bluesky: @anarcish.bsky.social : For the entire history of information technology security experts have warned that once you make a back door to allow the government to leg...
Instagram confirms testing an unskippable ad format with a countdown timer that briefly prevents feed scrolling, similar to the free version of YouTube
users are not happy about it Kit Eaton / Inc.com : Unskippable ‘Ad Breaks’ Annoy Instagram Users Abhiman Biswas / MySmartPrice : Instagram Might Soon Show Unskippable Ads to Users as Part of Ad Breaks...
A study based on the patent-filing history of 760K+ US inventors finds they produce fewer innovations after joining big firms vs. inventors hired by young firms
Big companies are hiring an ever-larger proportion of America's inventors, who are less productive once they join LinkedIn: Christopher Mims . Tweets: @freakonometrics , @carnage4life , @carnage4life ...
Meta is exploring a standalone decentralized social network for sharing text updates; the app, codenamed P92, will reportedly let users log in with Instagram
my personal feelings towards Meta notwithstanding. For one, it's validation for our entire ecosystem from the biggest player. … Mike McCue / @mike@flipboard.social : @Gargron From experience I can te...
Sources reveal FTX and Alameda's dubious financial practices, like showing investors some of the same assets on their books despite claiming separate operations
more than I realized. A run on the bank and market crash exhausted liquidity. So what can I try to do? Raise liquidity, make customers whole, and restart. Dylan Matthews / @dylanmatt : So @kelseytuoc ...
Report: most major tech companies in Silicon Valley have kept paying their thousands of unionized blue-collar workers for now, but future remains uncertain
Cyrus Farivar / NBC News : Tweets: @laszlobock , @carnage4life , @nbcnews , @suchipahi , @_jack_poulson , @nbcnewstech , @unitehere_19 , @jrbinsv , @gigworkersrise , @cfarivar , @alexhanna , and @iso...
Facebook launches free-to-play cloud gaming on desktop and Android but says it is unable to bring games to iOS due to Apple's “arbitrary” policies
and another feud with Apple Emma Roth / MakeUseOf : Facebook Introduces Free Cloud Gaming Service | MakeUseOf David Pierce / Protocol : Apple fights the future of gaming Andrew Webster / The Verge : F...
Google has restored India's Paytm app after pulling it from Play Store ahead of the IPL cricket tournament; sources say for violating its gambling policies
here's the full timeline Aamir Siddiqui / XDA Developers : [Update: Reinstated] Paytm removed from Google Play Store for policy violations, likely due to its fantasy gaming platform Saritha Rai / Bloo...
Analysis of the questions asked by Democrats and Republicans during the House antitrust hearing and what it reveals about their partisan priorities
so why bother doing it— Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller : @Econ_Marshall @davidsess @sanjuktampaul @interfluidity @brian_callaci I was observing that the DOJ decision to go after publishers on behalf o...