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Chris Albon

@chrisalbon
28 posts
2025-06-11
Me: “If cucumbers are pickle cucumbers, what are pickled carrots called?” o3-pro's data center: [image]
2025-06-11 View on X
Latent.Space

OpenAI's o3-pro is much smarter than o3 and amazing at using tools, but the model requires a lot of context to run well and without enough it tends to overthink

OpenAI dropped o3 pricing 80% today and launched o3-pro.  Ben Hylak of Raindrop.ai returns with the world's first early review.

Me: “If cucumbers are pickle cucumbers, what are pickled carrots called?” o3-pro's data center: [image]
2025-06-11 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI debuts o3-pro for ChatGPT Pro and Team users and in its API, costing $20/1M input and $80/1M output tokens; Enterprise and Edu will get access next week

OpenAI has launched o3-pro, an AI model that the company claims is its most capable yet.  —  O3-pro is a version of OpenAI's o3 …

2025-03-07
If @chr1sa is involved it is going to be a beast
2025-03-07 View on X
The Information

Sources: Larry Page has formed Dynatomics, which is trying to use LLMs to create highly optimized designs for various objects and then have a factory build them

I was just thinking we need another high profile AI startup given all the progress — lol — the sector is making! [embedded post] Alex Heath / @alexeheath.com : Page stepped away fr...

2024-08-07
Ooophf [image]
2024-08-07 View on X
The Register

CrowdStrike shares a root cause analysis of the July 19 outage, and says it hired two third-party security firms to review its Falcon threat-detection suite

And reveals the small mistake that bricked 8.5M Windows boxes  —  CrowdStrike has hired two outside security firms to review …

2024-04-27
X has messed me up so much that I spent an honest minute wondering how @BasedBeffJezos had been an Amazon exec
2024-04-27 View on X
Bloomberg

Filing: FTC says Jeff Bezos, Andy Jassy, and other Amazon execs used Signal's disappearing messages to conceal evidence in FTC's antitrust case against Amazon

- Agency accuses retail giant of failing to preserve documents  — Top executives communicated via Signal disappearing chats

2023-11-19
That coordinated quote retweet by OpenAI staff was the most impressive employee flex I've seen in tech.
2023-11-19 View on X
The Verge

Source: OpenAI's board had agreed to resign and let Sam Altman and Greg Brockman return, but has since waffled; Altman would want significant governance changes

The OpenAI board is in discussions with Sam Altman to return to CEO, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

2023-10-16
I love Obsidian. It is my second brain. And instead of some proprietary database waiting to be turned off when a FAANG buys the startup, everything is saved as markdown files and folders on your local machine.
2023-10-16 View on X
Fast Company

A look at Obsidian, an indie, Electron-based note-taking app that has developed a cult following on Discord and Reddit; Obsidian estimates its app has ~1M users

2023-10-15
I love Obsidian. It is my second brain. And instead of some proprietary database waiting to be turned off when a FAANG buys the startup, everything is saved as markdown files and folders on your local machine.
2023-10-15 View on X
Fast Company

A look at Obsidian, an indie, Electron-based note-taking app that has developed a cult following on Discord and Reddit; Obsidian estimates that it has ~1M users

The indie darling rejects everything you know about modern software.  And its strategy is working. Mastodon: @Bodling@deacon.social . X: @kepano , @chrisalbon , @kepano , @vivanvat...

2023-06-24
Being serious for a moment, if you are a data scientist and the CEO asks you to make up data, DO NOT DO IT. https://twitter.com/...
2023-06-24 View on X
The Information

Social media startup IRL is shutting down after an investigation by its board concluded that 95% of its claimed 20M MAUs were “automated or from bots”

Last year, the CEO of messaging app IRL repeatedly said it had 20 million monthly active users, who chatted about shared interests and planned real-world events together. LinkedIn:...

2023-06-14
$113m for a seed. For comparison my startup's seed round was $250,000 https://twitter.com/...
2023-06-14 View on X
TechCrunch

Paris-based Mistral AI raised a €105M seed led by Lightspeed, sources say at a €240M valuation, to rival OpenAI and plans to release its first AI models in 2024

2023-03-15
GPT-3.5 (ie chatgpt) vs GPT-4 (released today) https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-15 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI debuts GPT-4, claiming the model “surpasses ChatGPT in its advanced reasoning capabilities”, available in ChatGPT Plus and as an API that has a waitlist

Following the research path from GPT, GPT-2, and GPT-3, our deep learning approach leverages more data and more computation …

2023-03-13
Kubernetes but it's 200 banks accounts with $249,999 in each one.
2023-03-13 View on X
U.S. Department of the Treasury

The US Treasury, Federal Reserve, and the FDIC say all Silicon Valley Bank depositors will be “fully” protected, and their money will be available on March 13

WASHINGTON, DC — The following statement was released by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen …

2022-11-18
By my count this is over 35 years of Twitter experience walking out the door in this video. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-18 View on X
The Verge

Hundreds of Twitter employees post farewell messages and salute emojis in Slack and tweets, announcing their resignations after Elon Musk's “hardcore” ultimatum

Musk gave Twitter staff a deadline to say if they are staying for his cultural reset of the company.

2022-10-10
Edge cases are gonna get you https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-10 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Some iPhone 14 users say the crash detection feature has triggered false alarms and called 911 during rollercoaster rides or after a phone drop while driving

Apple's crash detection for the iPhone 14 and new Apple Watch models can alert 911 and emergency contacts in the event of a collision.

2022-08-04
From the outside it feels like there are only two types of events in crypto: 1. Something new just launched 2. People lost their life savings https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-04 View on X
Decrypt

An unknown attacker has been emptying Solana and USDC wallets; Solscan says over 15K wallets have been affected, draining $4.46M, primarily in SOL and USDC

At this point in the crypto deflation, an apparent attack … Aman Anand / Fossbytes : Solana Wallets Get Hacked, And The Company Loses Millions Rahul Nambiampurath / Ethereum World ...

From the outside it feels like there are only two types of events in crypto: 1. Something new just launched 2. People lost their life savings https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-04 View on X
Decrypt

The Solana Foundation says exploited addresses were “created, imported, or used” in Slope mobile wallets and there's “no evidence” the protocol was compromised

Private keys may have been inadvertently compromised as a Solana mobile wallet is fingered for the major network attack.

2022-06-04
Companies withdrawing offers creates a prisoners dilemma. The best strategy for candidates becomes accepting multiple job offers and then backing out of all but one after they have started. https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-04 View on X
The Block

Coinbase extends its hiring freeze “for as long as this macro environment requires” and will “rescind a number of accepted offers”, updating new hires by email

2022-05-09
I was going to make a joke but @goodfellow_ian's book on deep learning was the book that made me finally “get it”. I owe so much to that book and Ian, he can do whatever the fuck he wants as far as I am concerned. https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-09 View on X
@zoeschiffer

Ian Goodfellow, Apple's director of ML, is leaving due to its return to work policy, saying in a note that “more flexibility would have been the best policy”

2022-05-08
I was going to make a joke but @goodfellow_ian's book on deep learning was the book that made me finally “get it”. I owe so much to that book and Ian, he can do whatever the fuck he wants as far as I am concerned. https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-08 View on X
@zoeschiffer

Ian Goodfellow, Apple's director of ML, is leaving due to its return to work policy, saying in a note that “more flexibility would have been the best policy”

Ian Goodfellow, Apple's director of machine learning, is leaving the company due to its return to work policy. In a note to staff, he said “I believe strongly that more flexibility...

2021-12-28
Balaji puts forward a strong use for crypto for tech investing. Between the lines is the real future appeal of crypto to me: a means to exchange money for goods/services online that is SUPER easy for vendors to setup ($0 and ~10 lines of code) and super easy for buyers to use. https://twitter.com/...
2021-12-28 View on X
Balaji Srinivasan

Exploring the concept of mirrortables, where a company's cap table is mirrored on-chain with Ethereum and ENS or other Web3 tools, to streamline angel investing

Here is what angel investing should be: … If you understand all the concepts in this statement, consider working on this problem or joining a team in the space! Tweets: @balajis , ...