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I’m sorry, Portland has the best looking Airport in the country and it’s not even close.
Tim Connolly CGCS@__timconnolly
Prettiest airport in the country.
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Gerrit De Vynck 🦭
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Gerrit De Vynck 🦭
@GerritD
I write about AI for the @WashingtonPost. Signal me at GerritD.27 email: [email protected].
San Francisco Katılım Ocak 2009
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Despite all the chatter about the White House softening on AI regulation, Trump's position is unchanged since the beginning of his admin -- no new regulations.
Bloomberg@business
President Trump said he called off the signing of an executive order that would address cybersecurity concerns raised by powerful new AI models because he objected to parts of the directive bloom.bg/43of1lg
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So much for the White House warming up to light AI regulation. Trump has postponed the exec order on voluntary testing, saying he doesn't want to do anything that could slow down the US AI industry in its race against China
washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
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How are index funds going to metabolize three separate trillion-dollar companies joining the public market this year?
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My friend Shawn Wen made the definitive podcast on Bob Lee, the tech founder who was murdered in SF in 2023. It's an incredible piece of journalism and I recommend everyone listen to it! She's doing a live reading of the pod next week! eventbrite.com/e/foundering-t…
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I have sat in-person for about seven Google I/Os now and this one maintained all the forms of the previous ones. Advancements that come across as incremental, touching on the various product "regions," giving Search and Commerce their due, etc.
100% agree on Demis though. You feel like he really believes it, when the same words coming from any other Google exec would seem fake
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The interesting thing about I/O was its focus on real-world utility. Usually being “practical” in AI is a codeword for being unambitious, but in this case Google showed off many capabilities that felt novel (if they really ship).
The other intriguing part was the almost total absence of an “evals bar graph” slide, so ubiquitous in AI presentations. I counted one, on screen for a few seconds. That was it.
One explanation is that Google only unveiled Gemini 3.5 Flash and importantly did *not* provide details on 3.5 Pro. But in the context of the overall keynote, the lack of eval showoff felt in keeping with the overall focus on real-world capabilities usable to actual consumers.
Finally a note on Demis: one gets the sense from him that he feels the AGI, in his bones, in a way few others do. Only Ilya also conveys this sense, almost pentateuchal in nature. When he says, “we are standing in the foothills of the singularity,” you sense a stone-cold conviction that is both bracing and invigorating. Many OGs in the field of AI policy tell their origin story as something like, “I heard Demis talk in 2015 and from there I knew I wanted to devote myself to this.” I understand why.
Dean W. Ball@deanwball
I am sufficiently impressed by the AI features and products integrations Google has showed off at I/O today that I am very tempted to buy an Android phone for the first time in 16 years.
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Google announcing a new Google Glass but without a heads-up display. So it has cameras and can see what you see but it only talks to you through voice, rather than popping up images or words in front of your eyes.
Making a working display that looks good and doesn't make people nauseous has been a devilishly hard problem
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this is the kinda thing we're gonna see in a post-singularity world
Travis Chapman@Travispaints
Illegal crock fights. I painted with acrylic
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We asked Washington Post tech reporter @GerritD whether the OpenAI trial got AGI-pilled.
He says Elon Musk tried to make the case about AI safety and humanity's future, but the judge kept pulling it back to corporate litigation.
"The judge didn't want this to be a... you know, sort of a doomer versus accelerationist trial."
"I think that's probably pretty wise. I think she realized that if suddenly we had to sort of explain, 'Okay, this is what this means, this is what existential risk is,' yada, yada, yada, it would've kind of become bigger than the questions, the legal questions that she wanted to keep the trial focused on."
MTS@MTSlive
SITUATION DETECTED: The jury in Musk v. Altman has returned a unanimous verdict. All three of Elon Musk's claims against OpenAI were found barred by the statute of limitations.
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this is right. The judge let it go to trial because she believed there was an open question about what Elon knew and when. The jury rejected Elon's arguments about this.
Kevin Smith@spleck
That’s an oversimplification. The limitation was already known. Part of his argument was he was deceived and they hid the evidence from him. The jury rejected this argument on its merits. Because they didn’t buy his argument, the result was the dismissal due to the limitation. But it wasn’t simply too late. They disagreed with his argument.
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Elon goes after the judge in this case. To be clear, the jury made the decision, and she agreed with it.
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the reality is that OpenAI's fate was in the hands of a third party, the judge/jury. A federal judge thought there was enough of a fact question over what Elon knew when to let it go to trial. I think a smart person would have guessed this outcome but it wasn't a 100% foregone conclusion
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And what was with the media conflating and exaggerating the importance of the trial?
tae kim@firstadopter
Given the statute of limitations, how did this even go to trial, inconveniencing the jury and countless top tech/AI executives while wasting untold resources/lawyer fees/discovery? Clown show. WSJ: "They also pointed out that the statute of limitations for a breach of charitable trust claim is three years, and two years for unjust enrichment."
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Sometimes someone says something so intensely French that you need to smoke a cigarette
Variety@Variety
Léa Seydoux on why she started acting: “I’m going to tell you something very intimate,” she tells Variety’s @DPD_ in this week’s cover story. “The reason why I do this job ... I never really wanted to become an actress, but I wanted to exist. The only way I found to exist was to have my image printed on a film and have the proof of my existence.” Read the full cover story: wp.me/pc8uak-1lHhhG
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@Blogsbloke @R5Crosby there was some difference of opinion over what Elon knew when. He said he had become suspicious of OpenAI earlier but didn't feel 100% that they had "stole a charity" until later.
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Musk has lost his case against OpenAI in the most anti-climactic way possible. Less than 2 hours of jury deliberation despite 3 weeks of testimony and hundreds of documents. The jury didn't weigh in on whether Musk was right or wrong, they just said he failed to bring his claims in time
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Musk lost his case, but he managed to us it to bring up a lot of unpleasant information about Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, including detailed numbers of their personal investments in companies that do business with OpenAI. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
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@nclando true, he really dredged up a lot of info about OpenAI and its principles, including Brockman and Altman's detailed investments
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there's been a clear thread of "why are we even here" in the background of this entire case. There's an argument it shouldn't have gone to trial. The judge kind of addressed this in her remarks after the verdict today:
“I think it’s an important issue to be tried, it’s important to have trials, they bring clarity"
Bahrad Sokhansanj@bahradx
@GerritD It was always fairly evident this was an extremely weak case for him on Statute of Limitations. Even some of the evidence introduced by Musk to win on the merits undercut his SoL case. But discovery and the trial itself were fun and enlightening!
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