Q&A with Pavel Durov on Telegram, his arrest, censorship, not using a phone, Romanian elections, VK, encryption, Edward Snowden, spring 2018 poisoning, and more
- Watch the full YouTube version of the podcast — Table of Contents — Here are the loose “chapters” in the conversation.
Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a hybrid model that can produce fast responses or extended, step-by-step thinking, and Claude Code, an agentic coding tool
and it could be a game changer Ghacks : Anthropic Unveils Claude 3.7: First Hybrid Reasoning AI Model Rowan Cheung / The Rundown AI : Claude enters the reasoning era Siddharth Jind...
Claude 3.7 and Grok-3 are the first “Gen3” models with big gains in handling complex tasks, using 10x more compute than GPT-4-class models, and better reasoning
Note: After publishing this piece, I was contacted by Anthropic who told me that Sonnet 3.7 would not be considered …
xAI launches Grok-3 beta and Grok-3 mini, its latest AI models with reasoning, trained on 200K GPUs, or “10x” more compute than Grok-2, for X Premium+ users
Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, late on Monday released its latest flagship AI model, Grok 3, and unveiled new capabilities for the Grok iOS and web apps.
How DeepSeek's R1 accelerated the rollout of chatbots showing their “thinking” process; an expert says seeing a chatbot's inner monologue can trigger empathy
How Chinese start-up DeepSeek triggered a rush to launch chatbots that “reason.” — Chinese start-up DeepSeek …
OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest reasoning model that the company says is largely on par with o1 and o1-mini in capabilities, but runs faster and costs less
OpenAI on Friday launched a new AI “reasoning” model, o3-mini, the newest in the company's o family of reasoning models.
François Chollet, the AI pioneer who created Keras, says he is leaving Google after nearly 10 years to start a company with a friend, but doesn't offer details
I'm leaving Google to go start a new company with a friend. More to be announced soon! I will stay deeply involved with the Keras project from the outside — you'll still find me ...
Meta announces Movie Gen, a suite of AI models for generating realistic video and audio clips; Movie Gen Video has 30B parameters and Movie Gen Audio has 13B
The next frontier in generative AI is video—and with Movie Gen, Meta has now staked its claim.
All five Brazilian judges on a Supreme Court panel vote to confirm the X ban in Brazil and fine those who don't comply with it by using a VPN; X can appeal
- Top court panel backs order by Moraes against social network — Justices also uphold fine for those who use VPN for access
An interview with Nomad List and Photo AI founder Pieter Levels, aka @levelsio on X, on launching 12 startups in 12 months, the digital nomad life, and more
Pieter Levels (aka levelsio on X) is a self-taught developer and entrepreneur who has designed, programmed, launched over 40 startups, many of which are highly successful.
Elon Musk says Neuralink has implanted its device in a second trial patient, who had a spinal cord injury, and 400 of the implant's 1,024 electrodes are working
Neuralink has successfully implanted in a second patient its device designed to give paralyzed patients the ability …
Elon Musk says Neuralink has implanted its device in a second trial patient, who had a spinal cord injury, and 400 of the implant's 1,024 electrodes are working
Neuralink has successfully implanted in a second patient its device designed to give paralyzed patients the ability …
Elon Musk says Neuralink has implanted its device in a second trial patient, who had a spinal cord injury, and 400 of the implant's 1,024 electrodes are working
Neuralink has successfully implanted in a second patient its device designed to give paralyzed patients the ability …
Boston Dynamics debuts an electric version of its humanoid robot Atlas for commercial use, a day after retiring its hydraulic Atlas; Hyundai plans a 2025 pilot
A day after retiring the hydraulic model, Boston Dynamics' CEO discusses the company's commercial humanoid ambitions
Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's board saga, Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk's lawsuit, Sora, GPT-4, Q*, GPT-5, raising $7T, Google and Gemini, AGI, aliens, and more
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Meta unveils new AI tools to edit images and generate videos from text instructions, based on Emu, its model for image generation announced in September 2023
Artificial intelligence researchers from Meta Platforms Inc. said today they have made significant advances in AI-powered image and video generation.
In an interview using Meta's photorealistic Codec Avatars, Mark Zuckerberg talks about the metaverse, Quest 3, the nature of reality, AI, and humanity's future
- Watch the full YouTube version of the podcast — Table of Contents — Here are the loose “chapters” in the conversation.
In an interview using Meta's photorealistic Codec Avatars, Mark Zuckerberg talks about the metaverse, Quest 3, the nature of reality, AI, and humanity's future
- Watch the full YouTube version of the podcast — Table of Contents — Here are the loose “chapters” in the conversation.
Hands-on with Threads: fairly basic text-based messaging app, log in via Instagram, no hashtags, can't search for anything other than user handles, and more
Programming note: I really was trying to take a vacation, but this felt like it was worth the one-day interruption.
Elon Musk's poll asking “should I step down as head of Twitter?” ends with 57.5% voting yes, after Musk says Twitter polls will determine “major policy changes”
is he creating conflicts of interest? Is he misappropriating company resources? Tesla is not Musk's private plaything. I've got many questions for the Tesla Board. https://www.nyti...