moritzjakobsen

1/12 El caso de una persona que puede entrar en un estado "psicodélico" a voluntad Es una mujer de 37 años que, sin entrenamiento alguno, altera su consciencia cuando quiere para alcanzar un "estado visionario trascendental" (paper) DOI 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2026.121784

💥Stanford bombshell: “The U.S.-China AI model performance gap has effectively closed.”💥 Last year, Stanford said China’s AI model performance was at “near parity,” but one year is a long time in AI, and China is now tied with the US. Despite chip bans, tariffs, and loud proclamations from Washington that China can’t beat the US in AI, its mastery of LLMs and research shows that China is now effectively equal, and the trajectory suggests it will likely pull away. The 2026 Stanford AI Index shows how China’s models are no longer lagging behind US models. 👉Chinese and American models have traded the top spot multiple times since early 2025: ↳ In February 2025, DeepSeek-R1 briefly matched the top U.S. model. ↳ As of March 2026, Anthropic’s leading model is ahead by just 2.7%. ↳ China produced 30 notable AI models in 2025, second only to the U.S. at 50. 👉Where China’s lead is more striking is in research, where it is the unquestioned global leader: ↳ China holds 74.2% of all AI patents granted globally in 2024. ↳ Chinese AI publications account for 20.6% of all global AI citations. ↳ China’s share of the top 100 most-cited AI papers rose from 33 in 2021 to 41 in 2024. But here’s the moment Silicon Valley and Washington should be losing sleep over. China’s leading models are open-weight, free to use, have lower compute requirements, and are far more efficient to develop. 👉China does more with less: ↳ U.S. models remain more computationally intensive than Chinese models — models like Grok 4 sit significantly higher on the compute scale than Chinese counterparts like DeepSeek-V3 and Qwen3-Max. ↳ DeepSeek V3 produced approximately 597 tons of CO2 during training — described by Stanford as “much less than models of comparable size.” Grok 4, by comparison, produced 72,816 tons. ↳ DeepSeek R1’s efficiency gains were so significant that U.S. tech stocks shed over $1 trillion in market value temporarily as investors reassessed whether America’s high-compute business model still made sense. 💥 ↳ U.S. private AI investment hit $285.9 billion in 2025 — more than 23 times China’s $12.4 billion in private funding. And yet the model performance gap is 2.7%. 💥 The question is no longer how many months lead the US has over China. China closed the gap, and Stanford just confirmed it. The question that will keep Silicon Valley and Washington up at night is when China will overtake the US altogether. I wouldn’t bet against China. Link to Stanford Report: buff.ly/eyJ8Rb2 ♻️ Repost. The Stanford data says what Washington won't. #fintech #tech #finserv #AI @BetaMoroney @efipm @BrettKing @spirosmargaris @jasuja @enricomolinari @mikeflache #China #techwar #chips #tech @baoshaoshan @thecyrusjanssen @DOualaalou @lajohnstondr @PSTAsiatech

Generative AI in nutshell: "If the technology is as formidable as the [tech CEO's] claim, then they could be leading us toward existential disaster; if the technology proves less transformative, and thus less valuable than the hype suggests, then they are merely setting us up for global economic disaster." --@chaykak in The New Yorker

Aron D'Souza, the man who coordinated with Peter Thiel to take out Gawker Media, has a new venture that says it will use private investigators and AI to apparently push back on unfavorable media stories. It's claiming it has developed an "AI Tribunal," whatever that means.

Torching the @InternetArchive & the @WayBackMachine is akin to burning the Library of Alexandria and wiping our digital memory - at a moment when media corporations & the government want to hermetically seal us in a bubble of their propaganda. We can't let this happen.

The biggest gap in your life is that between what you know and what you do.

Trump-is-a-psychopath reporting—and there's been mountains of it over the years—IS Iran War reporting. It IS "Trump Gaza" reporting. Because it explains that the man has been mentally unwell for decades, and is a danger to the world. If only Americans could connect these dots.

NEW: Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters today that Pope Leo XIV doesn't understand “something called the just war doctrine.” Pope Leo is an Augustinian friar who spent twelve years leading Augustine’s religious order. Augustine invented the doctrine. thelettersfromleo.com/p/something-ca…

¿Estadios vacíos, en USA, en el mundial de fútbol?

As wealth concentrates, so does power — the power to influence elections, shape policy, tilt markets and define the terms of public debate. That’s why we’ve been told for far too long that tax reform is politically infeasible, too complex, and too radical. Taxing billionaires is not radical. What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship — and where billionaires can in effect opt out of contributing to the society that made their success possible. 
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(6/11) When OpenAI announced that Altman would be returning to the company board, it released only some 800 words acknowledging a "breakdown in trust"—and no report detailing what it had found.

From Molotov cocktails to data center shutdowns, the AI backlash is turning revolutionary Fortune published a piece. The story is less about 1 attacker than a wider pileup of anger around jobs, trust, and the feeling that AI firms promised relief while many people got more risk, more uncertainty, and fewer clear benefits. Young people sit at the center because they use AI a lot yet often see it as something that can flatten entry-level work, flood the internet with synthetic slop, and give abusive people cheap tools for manipulation at personal scale. The same backlash now shows up far from social media, because towns fighting new data centers are reacting to higher power demand, water use, noise, and land pressure rather than abstract fears about superintelligence. The deeper split is between the industry story, where AI soon expands abundance, and the public story, where AI already acts like a bargaining chip for layoffs, a source of everyday fraud, and a machine that keeps asking society to absorb the costs first. --- fortune .com/2026/04/14/ai-backlash-revolutionary-sam-altman-molotov-cocktails-data-centers/

The United States is so toxic on the world stage right now that it can’t fill hotels or sell World Cup tickets. Let that land. FIFA projected $30.5 billion in economic impact from millions of international visitors. That demand never showed up. Hotels in Atlanta, Dallas, Miami, Philadelphia and San Francisco have slashed match-day rates by a third from their peak. FIFA has cancelled tens of thousands of reserved rooms across all 16 host cities. Some hotels report cancellation rates above 95%. The reasons aren’t hard to find. Anti-American sentiment. Fear of border crossings. The Iran war driving up oil prices and airfares. And tickets priced into the stratosphere, with finals seats hitting $10,990 a pop. Industry executives are now openly blaming the Trump administration for the shortfall. Tourism economists say the Iran war made an already bad sentiment problem worse. Empty stadiums are now a real possibility. It happened at the Club World Cup last summer. It could happen again, on American soil, at the biggest sporting event on the planet. The White House says this will be “the greatest World Cup ever.” The market disagrees. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

A retired lawyer in the U.S. was watching the news when he saw the story about the new Trump commemorative coin and something immediately didn't sit right with him. So he did what lawyers do. He went digging... And he found it. A federal law passed in 1866 that explicitly prohibits living people from appearing on U.S. currency. It's not a grey area. It's not open to interpretation. It's been sitting in the books for over 150 years. The last time this actually happened was 1926 when a coin featuring Calvin Coolidge was minted while he was still alive and serving as president. The backlash was immediate. The coins were pulled. And the law was reaffirmed... Now this retired lawyer has filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Mint not because of who is on the coin, but because the law says it simply cannot be done. Full stop... No political agenda. No protest. Just one guy, a dusty legal statute, and a federal case that nobody in Washington apparently saw coming

@antonello ¿Quién convierte la tecnología en guerra cultural? De por si es violenta y manipuladora con las personas en quienes, a la vez, pretende generar confianza. Algo está mal en la estructura, no solo en el mensaje, ¿no?

Algo que observé en las reacciones a la noticia de que un hombre fue arrestado por lanzar un cóctel Molotov contra Sam Altman. Esto es en IG a un medio de comunicación en San Francisco. Eché un ojo también en Bluskai y un patrón similar: los comentarios más votados, los más celebratorios, reivindicando la justicia del acto. Mi tesis es que más que un suceso excepcional, fruto de la piscosis antiinteligencia artificial o un odio a OpenAI... ... me recordaron a cuando atentado contra Charlie Kirk o a cuando Luigi Mangione apareció acusado del asesinato del directivo de una empresa de seguros. Es decir, la tecnología y especialmente la inteligencia artificial están quedando subsumidos en la guerra cultural. Dentro de la pasión política identitaria. Sobre psicosis antiinteligencia artificial, guerra cultutal y violencia: error500.net/p/primero-conv…

“Made without AI” is the new prestige label.

@minipetite @NewYorker A por la IPO, no interrumpas chica!

@NewYorker Síntesis del repor: "Altman es descrito como un líder altamente estratégico, adaptable en narrativa, orientado a construir estructuras de poder tecnológico a gran escala, y dispuesto a asumir riesgos para acelerar el desarrollo". Y sugiere: HABLEMOS DE DARÍO

Mucha risa hablando con chatGPT del reportaje del @NewYorker. Y un recordatorio para todos aquellos que piensan que el único que altera las respuestas de su plataforma es Elon Musk.

@BertaGDeVega @antonello Hasta que se convertía en ruido blanco.

@antonello pero, vamos, que mis abuelas se pasaban todo el día con la televisión encendida.

Se habla mucho de niños y móviles, pero lo de los vídeos cortos, plataformas y ancianos jubilados es un tema: Aquí el ex editor del Wall Street Journal Steve Yoder y su esposa Karen explicando que su tiempo libre se desvanece en el scroll de videos en YouTube, Instagram y TikTok Lo que explican: La adicción se intensifica en la jubilación porque no hay horarios ni responsabilidades que lo obliguen a despegarse del teléfono. A pesar de haber prometido abandonar el hábito, pero reconocen que la voluntad no es suficiente. En metro, autobús, la cola del médico y mil sitios más se puede ver. Hay un porcentaje altísimo de la ancianidad que vive dentro de una pantalla. wsj.com/tech/personal-…

La prisión gerontológica del scroll.