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Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks.

The future looks bright in the hands of the tech oligarchs.

Joachim Trier, Danish-Norwegian filmmaker, who won an Oscar, "The world is at a moment where we are getting more information ever about the wrongdoings made towards children, with several wars going on at the moment" "I have two small kids, and to be personal for a moment" "Me and most of the people around me have been crying a lot, weekly, daily, feeling incapable of doing stuff" "Because we're seeing Palestinian children suffer" "We're seeing people in Ukraine suffer" "People in Sudan suffer" "There doesn't seem to be any accountability at the moment" "I can mention many other conflicts" "Any child that dies at war is a responsibility for all adults that elect politicians" "Dictatorships. We're in a time of strong men. What happened during the Holocaust during WWII" "My grandfather was a resistance fighter during the war" "When you're young, you think these things are far away in time, but actually, they happened quite recently and it happens again and again" "As an artist, I'm not a politician, but I do believe that we need to be more collaborative about how we protect children in conflict situations and in society in general"

Michael B. Jordan was just spotted at In-N-Out Burger showing love to workers and fans while holding his Oscar after winning Best Actor in a Leading Role for “Sinners” at the 98th Academy Awards.

This #WomensDay, we salute the millions of women in Gaza, Lebanon, Sudan, Yemen, Iran and beyond, who have been forced to flee their homes. They carry their families and histories through fire, enduring hunger, danger, and loss. Yet, in their courage, we see the bedrock of our future, half of the world, rising, and may this year bring them safety, the warmth of home, and peace.

More than twice as many kids killed in Lebanon just this week as were killed in Israel on Oct 7th. But no one cares. Arab lives have no value.

Zeteo ended up buying the rights to the Gaza doctors film that the BBC refused to air and you can watch it here: zeteo.com/p/watch-now-ga…

🚨BREAKING: OpenAI published a paper proving that ChatGPT will always make things up. Not sometimes. Not until the next update. Always. They proved it with math. Even with perfect training data and unlimited computing power, AI models will still confidently tell you things that are completely false. This isn't a bug they're working on. It's baked into how these systems work at a fundamental level. And their own numbers are brutal. OpenAI's o1 reasoning model hallucinates 16% of the time. Their newer o3 model? 33%. Their newest o4-mini? 48%. Nearly half of what their most recent model tells you could be fabricated. The "smarter" models are actually getting worse at telling the truth. Here's why it can't be fixed. Language models work by predicting the next word based on probability. When they hit something uncertain, they don't pause. They don't flag it. They guess. And they guess with complete confidence, because that's exactly what they were trained to do. The researchers looked at the 10 biggest AI benchmarks used to measure how good these models are. 9 out of 10 give the same score for saying "I don't know" as for giving a completely wrong answer: zero points. The entire testing system literally punishes honesty and rewards guessing. So the AI learned the optimal strategy: always guess. Never admit uncertainty. Sound confident even when you're making it up. OpenAI's proposed fix? Have ChatGPT say "I don't know" when it's unsure. Their own math shows this would mean roughly 30% of your questions get no answer. Imagine asking ChatGPT something three times out of ten and getting "I'm not confident enough to respond." Users would leave overnight. So the fix exists, but it would kill the product. This isn't just OpenAI's problem. DeepMind and Tsinghua University independently reached the same conclusion. Three of the world's top AI labs, working separately, all agree: this is permanent. Every time ChatGPT gives you an answer, ask yourself: is this real, or is it just a confident guess?

OMG！ #LionelRichie and #JackieChan just sang We Are The World on the stage of Spring Festival Gala, the world’s and China’s biggest show and most watched show! Everyone in China cries, crazy! #MichaelJackson

This aired tonight to 1 billion people in China. A year ago these robots could barely wave a handkerchief, now they can do backflips and kung fu with nunchucks. Physical intelligence is the next frontier.

Interested in #Moltbook? Social scientists have been studying whether LLMs can simulate entire social media platforms for some time. 2.5 years ago we published the paper below , and there have been dozens of studies since (pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… )

Instead of watching a 3-hour movie, watch this masterclass on AI instead

New trailer for Guy Ritchie’s ‘YOUNG SHERLOCK’ series. The series follows Sherlock’s first-ever murder mystery case in a globe-trotting adventure set during the 1870s Releasing March 4 on Prime Video.

Today is my birthday and this is my gift to you

Goosebumps! People often ask, is Shakespeare still relevant? Here is a great example, from the Steven Colbert Show, in which Sir Ian McKellen delivers an extraordinary speech. Shakespeare’s words are timeless, urgent and important. #Shakespeare #ianmckellen #stevencolbert

The hand signal for help Teach it, share it for awareness

#StarWars #Evolutions

Love this! Don’t know who to credit.

If AI can do this now, Hollywood is done within 10 to 15 years

The Adolescence of Technology: an essay on the risks posed by powerful AI to national security, economies and democracy—and how we can defend against them: darioamodei.com/essay/the-adol…