Asogan Moodaly

Gemini 3.2 Flash - Capitalizing on DeepMind's clever distillation techniques... Rumors are that benchmarks show it's hitting 92% of GPT 5.5's performance on coding and reasoning tasks while being 15-20x cheaper on inference costs. The latency improvements are insane - sub-200ms for most queries. Google's distillation + sparsity techniques are paying off massively. They've essentially compressed a frontier model into a flash variant without the usual quality cliff.

🚨 University professors have been saying AI is completely destroying learning and that we'll soon have an AI-powered, semi-illiterate workforce. Here's a glimpse into the educational apocalypse: "Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used ChatGPT to cheat during the spring semester of her final year of high school. (...) After getting acquainted with the chatbot, Sarah used it for all her classes: Indigenous studies, law, English, and a “hippie farming class” called Green Industries. “My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be dependent on the website. She already considered herself addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.” - "By November, Williams estimated that at least half of his students were using AI to write their papers. Attempts at accountability were pointless. Williams had no faith in AI detectors, and the professor teaching the class instructed him not to fail individual papers, even the clearly AI-smoothed ones. “Every time I brought it up with the professor, I got the sense he was underestimating the power of ChatGPT, and the departmental stance was, ‘Well, it’s a slippery slope, and we can’t really prove they’re using AI,’” Williams said. “I was told to grade based on what the essay would’ve gotten if it were a ‘true attempt at a paper.’ So I was grading people on their ability to use ChatGPT.” - AI in education is a serious topic, and many schools and universities are blindly jumping into the "AI-first" wave without considering short and long-term consequences. It would be great to hear more from teachers and educators to understand potential solutions. This might be a great opportunity for rethinking the education system and how students are assessed. - 👉 Link to the full article below. 👉 To learn more about AI's legal and ethical challenges, join my newsletter's 94,700+ subscribers (link below).

the future of US manufacturing won’t be dominated by a few giant, vertically integrated primes it belongs to thousands of geographically dispersed, tech-enabled small shops operating on standardized systems and platforms Today we win

Note the backgrounds of the great Americans involved in this effort and featured in this excellent essay exploring American shipbuilding prowess in the early/mid 20th century. Entrepreneurs, military men, engineering backgrounds. No-nonsense doers.

The related way I like to put it is: as long as the world (incl. China) is still using fossil fuels, we can never have a meaningful overcapacity of cleantech, only an institutional undercapacity to deploy and absorb that cleantech's productivity at scale.