Ivan Zupic

I was talking to a CS professor yesterday and he told me he's so relieved ⛱️ now that his PhD students have left for their summer internships.🌞. He finally gets to do interesting research himself again. It wasn't a complaint. Just something he'd been sitting with. The old PhD bargain was pretty clean: professors had ideas, students had time, execution was the bridge. You did the work, and somewhere along the way, taste rubbed off. That bridge is mostly gone now. A senior researcher with taste and a research agents ships faster than the same researcher plus a junior student. Explaining 🎙️ an idea to someone who doesn't yet have taste costs more than just building it. (the reason professor still needs students is because the research agent 🤖 is not yet capable enough) Nobody wants to say this out loud Professors keep mentoring because the system 🏫 asks them to, not because it's the highest-leverage thing they could be doing with their week. The thing that still matters —> taste <— was never really taught. It was supposed to leak out of the execution. Now there's no execution to leak from.

This is correct, especially the first half. What is being sold to governments as "sovereign AI" in the sense of "you are protected from geopolitical whims but still get frontier AI" is complete and utter marketing nonsense. And one that weakens the governments who believe it.

There is too much free lunching in the European debate on Chinese FDI. Those who oppose tougher trade measures tend to underline the need for more Chinese investment, but that’s a cop-out. The EU wont get the investment without strategic tariffs.

just speaking for myself, i think ai literacy for students is often a sham. kids Will Figure Out how to use ai. teaching them coding games or how to build resumes using ai is not the real work. a lot of model-specific trainings will quickly become obsolete. so to the extent policymakers can help on ai literacy, it’s by supporting teachers and schools in adjusting to the new landscape. training educators on administering bluebook and oral exams, assigning projects that require ingenuity (even if they use ai) or in-class writing, or asking students to critique AI outputs. probably all more useful.

🚨New preprint! We find evidence of LLMs enabling people to file lawsuits without lawyers (filing "pro se") at historically unprecedented rates in federal courts.👇 1/n

If Administration believed after only 21 hours of negotiations, Iran would give up enrichment which is what Vance implied, they totally misread the moment and the Iranian dominated IRGC.