Yi Dynasty rank badge (about 1600–1700). Colored silk and gold paper, thread on figured silk, Victoria & Albert Museum, London / Art Resource, New York.

“Hey, why don’t we stop here for a crane hunt?” Sŏngsam said suddenly.

We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs for ever, but in the august light of abiding memories.

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CEO Jensen Huang casually announced the company had “achieved AGI,” one of the tech industry’s ultimate goals some of its biggest players have spent years chasing.

Conscience is a dreadful thing when it accuses man or boy.

وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّمَا أَمْوَالُكُمْ وَأَوْلَادُكُمْ فِتْنَةٌ وَأَنَّ اللَّهَ عِنْدَهُ أَجْرٌ عَظِيمٌ

وَحَسِبُوا أَلَّا تَكُونَ فِتْنَةٌ، أي: ظنوا أن معصيتهم وتكذيبهم لا يجر عليهم عذابا ولا عقوبة، فاستمروا على باطلهم. فَعَمُوا وَصَمُّوا عن الحق {ثُمَّ} ندموا {وَتَابَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ} حين تابوا إليه وأنابوا {ثُمَّ} لم يستمروا على ذلك حتى انقلب أكثرهم إلى الحال القبيحة. {فَعَمُوا وَصَمُّوا كَثِيرٌ مِنْهُمْ} بهذا الوصف، والقليل استمروا على توبتهم وإيمانهم. {وَاللَّهُ بَصِيرٌ بِمَا يَعْمَلُونَ} فيجازي كل عامل بعمله، إن خيرا فخير وإن شرا فشر.

On Tesla’s most recent earnings call, Musk said the Robotaxi program would scale 'very, very rapidly,' but offered no new target for how many vehicles or cities Tesla would reach

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

The wind shook the four corners of the house and the surf roared along the cove and up the cliffs.

Listen, if you want to warn the world about the incredible capabilities of this technology, I think it's been achieved.

So I take phosphates or phosphites—whichever it is, and tonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and am absolutely forbidden to “work” until I am well again.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: about 65% distrusted

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

“That was the voice of an animal”, said the chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother’s screams.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X that a billion people are using Gemini every month, and that Gemini is Google’s fastest-growing product ever.

Till this moment I never knew myself.

Mark Zuckerberg's essay charted a 'path to a positive AI future.'

Anthropic's Dario Amodei

I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons.

The Meta CEO wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed this week warning against the centralization of power in the AI industry, saying that superintelligence should be widely distributed.

During an earnings call on Wednesday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the app will span 'both consumer and commercial experiences' when it launches this year.

“Anyone who has read my past writing should know that I don’t regard such bans as a useful measure, but let me state it clearly so that there is no doubt: Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models.”

We are now, like, in the singularity," Sam Altman said on Saturday's episode of the "Relentless" podcast.

In creating OpenAI and then having Anthropic spin out of that, and now currently Anthropics is leader in AI, I mean, these actions have actually resulted in knock-on effects that accelerated AI, which wasn't really my intention.

While the great innovation that comes from model providers having fair use rights to train models on public data is needed, I find it ironic that the status quo is to then turn around and impose restrictive terms on distillation, and to reserve the right to learn from customer usage and interaction data.

Sam Altman gives Regina George vibes

i am not afraid of apple, but i have tremendous respect for them. s-tier company.

Sam Altman-led lab debuted GPT-Live, a new voice model meant to make ChatGPT Voice feel more like talking to a human.

"These agentic systems are new skills, and now we have a lot of software engineers building agents," the Nvidia CEO said.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Elon Musk says a report about a SpaceX AI phone prototype is 'utterly false.'

Sam Altman went before Congress in 2023 and said, 'I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. And we want to be vocal about that,' adding, 'We want to work with the government to prevent that from happening.'

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Anthropic confirmed that Amodei would attend the meeting, but declined to comment further on the G7 discussions.

At the end of the day, why argue with someone when you don't have the same vision and you don't trust them?

CEO Jensen Huang said, 'Humans rent cores… but agents, they want to use the CPU to get the job done.'