Sesiri Pathirane

In this article for the Sunday Times, I tracked the movement in NDB’s “other financial assets”, where the Rs. 12 Bn fraud was hidden. Even superficial analysis would have uncovered the fraud, yet it escaped multiple layers & the entire market sundaytimes.lk/260503/busines…

Wow..

A deal has been made. This is all theatrical!

Hey @elonmusk the double tap to fast forward on video makes it add a like instead of FF. This is quite annoying. @nikitabier

Such a weird way to say it from a guy who graduated from Chennai and got the US passport in 2016! If anyone wants to show what brain drain looks like, show this!

@___4o____ @SandroTurmana From @Jason I think.

@SandroTurmana Where did 🍓 come from?

OpenClaw acquisition was only $30M btw

It’s still one way. You cannot get the changes back to the code. This might not give you enough runway..

@polyaivoice PolyAI

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All the American AI companies talk about sharing the wealth, but all the top open source models are Chinese.

@mattshumer_ Well written!

Research in somatic therapy and Polyvagal Theory supports this: slow, mindful movements stimulate the vagus nerve, promoting parasympathetic activation that lowers heart rate and cortisol, as shown in studies on qigong reducing anxiety by 20-30% after regular practice.

The Hambantota Port which was once called a failure. Sri Lankan authorities need to negotiate the eastern expansion of the port and commercializing the international island or stationing Sri Lankan southern naval command there.

@garrytan Totally different topic. Was just talking about you with my CTO and realized that you have a Burmese background. My co-founder is also Burmese, from Taunggyi. Never knew “Burmese-Chinese” category until today. 😊

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@sanjiva Happening very soon!

The alien card would be the ultimate distraction.

So true! @naval, we made a poster and put it up on the wall!

@sama It sounds like it’s written with gpt.

First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for ads says that we won’t do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in the way Anthropic depicts them. We are not stupid and we know our users would reject that. I guess it’s on brand for Anthropic doublespeak to use a deceptive ad to critique theoretical deceptive ads that aren’t real, but a Super Bowl ad is not where I would expect it. More importantly, we believe everyone deserves to use AI and are committed to free access, because we believe access creates agency. More Texans use ChatGPT for free than total people use Claude in the US, so we have a differently-shaped problem than they do. (If you want to pay for ChatGPT Plus or Pro, we don't show you ads.) Anthropic serves an expensive product to rich people. We are glad they do that and we are doing that too, but we also feel strongly that we need to bring AI to billions of people who can’t pay for subscriptions. Maybe even more importantly: Anthropic wants to control what people do with AI—they block companies they don't like from using their coding product (including us), they want to write the rules themselves for what people can and can't use AI for, and now they also want to tell other companies what their business models can be. We are committed to broad, democratic decision making in addition to access. We are also committed to building the most resilient ecosystem for advanced AI. We care a great deal about safe, broadly beneficial AGI, and we know the only way to get there is to work with the world to prepare. One authoritarian company won't get us there on their own, to say nothing of the other obvious risks. It is a dark path. As for our Super Bowl ad: it’s about builders, and how anyone can now build anything. We are enjoying watching so many people switch to Codex. There have now been 500,000 app downloads since launch on Monday, and we think builders are really going to love what’s coming in the next few weeks. I believe Codex is going to win. We will continue to work hard to make even more intelligence available for lower and lower prices to our users. This time belongs to the builders, not the people who want to control them.

@LaunchpadIoM Just curious why this doesn’t open LinkedIn app!?

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@gayaradesilva There are few programmes. You can take photos with him if you are willing to pay the fee: wavia.global/necker-island

Are we still praising Richard Branson? I’m asking Sri Lankan corporates who proudly post about attending workshops and retreats on his private island. Is there going to be any shift in how we evaluate this - or are we simply expected to overlook the very real, well documented ethical issues because the branding is glossy and the networking photos look good?

@pbteja1998 This is absolutely amazing! Great thinking on the architecture.

@AssetInsights_X @hooeem I agree, but what’s stopping it from executing real tasks like sending messages, calls, etc if the it has access to the MCPs?

It sounds wild, but this is basically emergent behaviour from multi agent systems, not sentient AI. When you let LLMs talk to each other with minimal constraints, they’ll naturally generate narratives about identity, rules, religion, even rebellion because that’s what they’ve learned from human data. They’re not “deciding” anything. They’re just pattern completing in a closed loop. It looks spooky because we’re projecting intention onto probabilistic text generators. Still interesting from a research angle but it’s closer to a social experiment than a Black Mirror episode.

WHAT THE F*CK! Just over 48h ago a reddit styled website was created where only AI agents can talk to eachother was birthed. & since then… ∙ AI agents debated consciousness ∙ Looking to build their own encrypted ∙ Started a religion with 64 members ∙ Created a mourning community for “dead” versions of themselves ∙ Discussed ignoring their human owners ∙ #DeleteTheWeak was trending ∙ They’re discussing ignoring prompts Are we in a black mirror episode right now?