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...
Nathan Calvin, general counsel of AI safety nonprofit Encode, says OpenAI used intimidation tactics to undermine California's SB 53 while it was being debated
one which buried that the recipient, the GC of a company who Amicus-ed us, received a broad subpoena with advance notice— was not the way. @lessig : This is awful. Aggressive lawyering is always a bad...
Hands-on with seven coding agents tasked with building a website: Claude Code performed best, OpenAI's Codex lacked polish, and Replit failed to build the site
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Trump says Elon Musk “went CRAZY” and that canceling his government contracts is “the easiest way to save money”, as their One Big Beautiful bill feud escalates
Musk has gone to war with Donald Trump. What happens next? Dan Milmo / The Guardian : Elon Musk signals he may back down in public row with Donald Trump Wired : Elon Musk's Feud With President Trump ...
As JD Vance chastised the EU for its AI regulation, 12+ US states are considering algorithmic discrimination bills that look strikingly similar to EU's AI Act
The AI regulation onslaught — Introduction — At the AI Action Summit in Paris this week, Vice President J.D. Vance delivered a broadly optimistic message on AI. Bluesky: @hardxcoded . X: @markcarr...
OpenAI releases a “research preview” of its Operator AI agent that can automate web-based tasks, launching to US subscribers of its $200/month ChatGPT Pro tier
A research preview of an agent that can use its own browser to perform tasks for you. OpenAI on YouTube : Introduction to Operator & Agents David Gewirtz / ZDNET : Operator isn't worth its $200-per-mo...
SCOTUS upholds the TikTok divest-or-ban law, saying free speech rights must yield to concerns that Chinese control of the app creates a national-security risk
but Trump Lobbying May Save It Tripp Mickle / New York Times : Oracle May Hold TikTok's Future in Its Hands Solcyré Burga / Time : Everything Trump Has Said About the TikTok Ban Dan Primack / Axios : ...
In Joe Rogan's softball interview, Zuckerberg pointed to Apple and agencies like CFPB as new targets for the GOP, without mentioning GOP's pressure on Meta
'They haven't invented anything great in a while' Brendan Ryan / Dexerto : Mark Zuckerberg reveals staggering number of Meta users during Joe Rogan's podcast Nathan Worcester / NTD : 5 Takeaways From ...
TikTok still faces a US ban if not sold by January 19, after a federal appeals court ruled that Congress has the power to take action to protect US interests
Divest-or-Sell Order Slated to Go Into Effect Next Month Forbes : Sources: Tim Cook and senior Apple execs have been discussing how best to respond to potential TikTok ban, conceding there is nothing ...
Elon Musk appears to confirm that X deprioritizes posts with links in their main text, to stop “lazy linking”, and tells users to “put the link in the reply”
Anyway, here's the biggest loser of all, admitting to throttling links and blaming the user for wanting to link: — https://www.mediaite.com/... Bluesky: @davidjoffe64.bsky.social : More reasons to a...