How AI automation can fulfill Thomas Piketty's predictions on rising economic inequality, and why highly progressive taxes on capital can help slow the spiral
Piketty was wrong about the past. He's probably right about the future. — 1. Introduction X: @briancalbrecht , @saikatc , @harryh , @jankulveit , @daniel_271828 , @krishnanrohit , @besttrousers , @...
The Trump administration proposes an H-1B visa process giving more weight to applications from employers who pay higher wages if visa demand exceeds the 85K cap
it allows for even more low-wage, low skill workers to come in, while leaving the “body shop” H1B mills intact... @xxshaurizardxx : what in the world are we doing here. why are we not respecting the f...
OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, its first open-weight models since GPT-2; the smaller gpt-oss-20b can run locally on a device with 16GB+ of RAM
gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b push the frontier of open-weight reasoning models Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog : OpenAI's new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good OpenAI on GitHub : ...
After OpenAI released ChatGPT's new image generator, social media has been flooded with AI memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, highlighting copyright concerns
here's 7 incredible examples of what it can do Kirk / Geek News Central Podcast : ChatGPT's New Image Model Sparks Additional Copyright Controversies #1810 Spencer Neale / The American Conservative : ...
DoorDash partners with Klarna to offer payment plans, including credit options for purchases of $35 or more; Grubhub also uses Klarna as a payment option
in Case You Need a Loan to Pay for Your Burrito Jordan Valinsky / CNN : DoorDash will soon let users eat now and pay in installments Niket Nishant / Reuters : NYSE-bound Klarna signs payments deal wit...
How Hudhayfa Nazoordeen, aka HudZah, a 20-year-old math student and an “AI native” in San Francisco, is building a nuclear fusor under Claude's tutelage
Ashlee Vance / Core Memory : X: @tszzl and @kevin2kelly . Forums: Hacker News X: Roon / @tszzl : we're living in a Culture novel Kevin Kelly / @kevin2kelly : This short report by @ashleevance of curr...
Yann LeCun says DeepSeek “profited from open research and open source” like Meta's Llama and is proof that open source models are surpassing proprietary ones
“Marc Andreessen, a co-inventor of the pioneering Mosaic web browser, co-founder of the Netscape browser company and current general partner at the famed Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) venture capital fir...
Donald Trump is promoting a Solana memecoin called TRUMP from his social media accounts, with 200M $TRUMP available now and growing to 1B “over three years”
Have Fun! — [image] GetTrumpMemes : The Official Trump Meme Dishita Malvania / The Crypto Times : Solana Hits $295 ATH Amid $TRUMP Token's Grand Launch Felix Mollen / CryptoPotato : $TRUMP Meme Coin...
CoinGecko: $TRUMP rose more than 600% overnight and was trading at just over $32 as of 11AM ET, giving it a fully diluted market capitalization of $32B+
www.axios.com/2025/01/18/t... Ian Bassin / @ianbassin : A system in which someone can do something of zero intrinsic value and make $25 billion overnight is a system broken beyond measure. — And if ...
o3, trained on the ARC-AGI-1 Public Training set, scored 87.5% on ARC Prize's Semi-Private Evaluation in a high-compute configuration; GPT-4o scored 5% in 2024
This is “The AI Economy,” a weekly LinkedIn-first newsletter … Sharon Goldman / Fortune : Sam Altman says OpenAI's new o3 ‘reasoning’ models begin the ‘next phase’ of AI. Is this AGI? Pradeep Viswanat...