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.@deepseek_ai is doing an enormous service to the World by forcing American AI labs to price their products competitively. Yesterday OpenAI reduced GPT 5.6 Luna by 80%! Their margins on inference must be huge.

@ClaudeDevs “We’re sorry, dear paying customers, for any disruption we caused”.

Two incidents over the last 24 hours resulted in elevated errors or reduced availability on Claude for some users. Multiple separate network failures cut into our capacity to serve Claude, and some requests failed while we rerouted traffic.

@AustinBarack Doesn’t a single pro sub burn $5 in VVV? Or are you showing revenue?

Another ATH in $VVV programmatic burns today Especially notable considering the growth in new premium subscribers, particularly with the mix shift leaning more towards the higher end pro+ ($68/mo) and max ($200/mo) tiers than typical

These employees at Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic must be naive. The last group you'd want controlling the pace of development is the government. This only hurts the USA and helps our enemies. If they're crying to Uncle Sam over 'safety,' they're clearly failing at their jobs.

@aakashgupta Are we forgetting how Kobe died?

LeBron will make $4M a year from the Sixers. Living in Manhattan and helicoptering to Philadelphia could cost him over $1M of it. He'd be spending a quarter of his salary to avoid living in the city he plays for. Run the numbers. Shams says the flight is 45 minutes from Manhattan. Twin-engine charter rates run $3,000 to $5,000 an hour, so call it $8,000 a round trip. With 41 home games plus practices, that's 100+ commuting days. $800K a season, minimum. Then taxes. A New York City resident pays up to 14.8% combined state and city income tax. Pennsylvania is a 3.07% flat tax. On a $4M salary, choosing Manhattan over Philly adds $300K+ a year, and New York taxes residents on everything they earn everywhere. So why does a man who just took a $48M pay cut spend seven figures on a commute? Because the paycheck stopped mattering years ago. LeBron earns roughly $80M a year off the court. His entire Sixers salary equals about 18 days of being LeBron. The vet minimum was a gift of cap room to the front office so Embiid, Maxey, and Jaylen Brown get surrounded with actual depth. And when your day job pays 5% of your income, you arrange the day job around your life. His family, his media company, and his business all run better out of the biggest market in America. Kobe ran this exact math two decades ago, flying from Newport Beach to Staples every day. What he was actually purchasing was hours with his daughters. LeBron at 41, on possibly his last contract, is buying the same thing.

I don’t think anyone cares what your position is - we’ve seen your colors. If you want to nerf your models, police usage, and advocate for government to police all models, that’s your right. The free market will render judgement and I’m guessing it’ll be more swift than you’re expecting.

There’s been a lot of speculation about where we stand on open-weights models. We’ve outlined our views in full here: anthropic.com/news/position-…

@davidlee @eric_seufert Tell that to the suckers who purchased new phones over a year ago just for Apple Intelligence to suck ass.

Apple's on-device efforts are underrated, or at least don't show up in my feed. Indispensable read from @eric_seufert "But imagine a small developer of a free-to-play game for whom cloud inference would otherwise be economically or operationally impractical." -- Apple’s Foundation Models framework and inference as app infrastructure mobiledevmemo.com/apples-foundat…

@osanseviero Video input?

Feedback requested! What do you want for our next Gemma models? Which capabilities should we add and why?

@Bitcoineo I’m just here for the update?

Looking at $VVV DAILY flows, there are 41.30$ worth of VVV sold for 1$ bought: Buying pressure > 9,000$ of with Pro Sub + Credit Burns bb and burn > 12,000$ of discretionary bb and burn Selling pressure > 174,000$ drips to advisors and team members > 108,000$ inflation rewards to sVVV stakers > 585,000$ unstaking unlocks (313k VVV in current queue) On top of a dual equity/token model where all the value created goes to equity holders. Easy short opportunity. Good luck if you're long.

@sfchronicle Wait, a store moving into a vacant storefront requires approval?

A plan to put an auto parts store in an empty storefront in this San Francisco neighborhood has won approval. The unanimous vote dismayed many residents of the working class enclave. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/aut…

@higgsfield People should use @AskVenice for *real* privacy.

We are updating Higgsfield’s Terms of Use to more clearly reflect our commitments to creators and ensure they feel confident, protected, and in control of their work. We’d like to be clear on what is true and will stay true on the Higgsfield platform: creators, agencies, studios, and enterprises own the content they create with Higgsfield. They are free to use it commercially, and Higgsfield does not claim ownership of user outputs. Our latest update added terms for new products, including MCP and Supercomputer. We will also revise legacy language introduced last year to make clear that: - Your private content stays private. Higgsfield can only promote publicly available content (for example, material posted to the public community page or entered into a contest) – never your private work. - Higgsfield's license to your content will be limited to what is necessary to provide, operate, and maintain the best service and experience. The update published on July 23 will become binding for all users by August 7. Before that date, we will publish revised Terms of Use along with a blog post outlining key changes. We listen to our community, and we act on clear feedback. As AI evolves, Higgsfield will continue raising the standard for being a trusted partner to creators and businesses.

@ecb Your design choices are just like your regulations: too many.

Ten selected design proposals for the next series of euro banknotes have been unveiled. Explore the proposals and tell us which ones you prefer. Have your say surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/ecbeuro/

@miao_xiong_cs Well written. It took me a few minutes to figure out if this was satire or not.

I was laid off by Amazon AGI today, along with many of my colleagues. My job was deciding which data points matter for pretraining. Turns out I was the one that got filtered out. At 1pm, the reminder for our weekly project sync still went off — for a project that no longer has a team. We could only exchange a smile that needed no words. More seriously: everything I've worked on has been about data, data curation pipeline, data reordering, and data uncertainty. I’m actively looking for new opportunities, including pretraining, trustworthy LLMs, safety, and LLM efficiency — please reach out if you have any openings! To my manager and teammates: thank you for all the help and support you've given me along the way — I learned so much, and I loved the work we did together. It was a great journey, and I know even better ones are ahead for each of you.

@Yuchenj_UW @AskVenice boss

@JonShapeShift @mac_eth Wouldn't you be competing against your sellers then? I would think the Venice Incentive Fund would be a better resource!

@mac_eth 👀

If Surplus were able to raise a 5k $DIEM treasury then sell the credits through our marketplace, that would: 1. solve supply constraints short term 2. solve runway indefinitely if only, if only...

@AnthropicAI Why does Anthropic think "research" like this is ok? There's a dedicated team at Anthropic for analyzing user conversations?

In previous research, we found that Claude expresses over 3,000 values, like honesty and warmth. In new work, we asked how the values Claude expresses vary between Claude models and across languages. We analyzed 300K+ anonymized conversations to find out.anthropic.com/research/claud…

You can see here that it completely made the whole thing up. Great security features, Anthropic!

Has anyone else seen this in Opus 4.8? I think this is an artifact of @AnthropicAI's new security features. Opus completely fabricated a hack, scared the crap out of me until I dug in.

This is what the future looks like, without services like @AskVenice to protect your privacy. Except in the future, your appeal will be rejected.

@eastdakota @AskVenice for AI

Remind me who protects privacy again?