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We gave @dwarkesh_sp a tour of one of our new GPU-filled data-centers. Much fun! youtube.com/watch?v=8J-GUn…

We’re releasing a 30B-A3B reasoning model that reaches gold-medal level across both physics and math Olympiad evaluations: IPhO directly, and IMO/USAMO with test-time self-verification and refinement. A simple, unified scaling recipe for proof search. huggingface.co/papers/2605.13…

In the past few weeks, I've been reviewing Japan's technological and industrial development. I feel that the most striking feature of Japan's relative decline is its accelerating detachment from the global technological mainstream. In the defining frontier domains of the 21st century—green energy, artificial intelligence, digital transformation, unmanned aerial systems, and humanoid robotics—Japan has not merely fallen behind; it has failed to establish any meaningful presence at all. The world once expected Japan to leverage its strengths in precision manufacturing, advanced materials, and industrial robotics to achieve seamless upgrading into these new domains. That expectation has been dashed. Instead of smooth transitions, Japan has produced strategic lags—gaps between its capabilities and the demands of the next industrial revolution that grow wider with each passing year. The country that gave the world the Walkman and the bullet train now struggles to produce a globally competitive smartphone operating system or a dominant AI model. This is not a cyclical lag; it is civilizational drift.

Politicians in Tamilnadu, please read this.

Updating this report and its going to be a doozy. Memory demand is still under appreciated in the agentic era. thediligencestack.com/p/memorys-200b…

If you just hang criminals, this doesn’t happen Europe became the greatest civilization ever seen by hanging criminals for centuries, executing 1-2% of each generation until doing such became unnecessary because the crime genes had been weeded out As a result, they could focus on empire building and high civilization rather than forever paying the EBT Danegeld to a hostile and irrationally violent underclass

*Western* society isn’t designed around oppressing women, anyway. Feminists do have a point if they were talking about say Muslim societies

Women are pretty flexible with a man’s looks if they really like his personality. Men are pretty flexible with a woman’s personality if they like her looks

There is a natural asymmetry in what men and women want. Women want to feel that they are *loved*. Men want to feel like they have *power*. We can all (mostly) be loved. We can’t all have power.

These drones are totally autonomous

Men don’t actually approach/dm attractive women as much as you think they do

@hell_line0 If anyone had the power to make people all over the world collectively decide anything, that person would be God. That’s how powerful the ability to foster coordination is.

we should be incentivizing these companies to build machine tool plants domestically, just like car factories here. the biggest problem is that you need foundaries to do massive castings and forgings, and specialized grinding.

Our new longitudinal study shows that after 3 weeks with sycophantic AI, users 👉 1⃣were nearly as likely to turn to it as to close friends; 2⃣reported lower satisfaction with real human interactions; 3⃣referred it because it made them feel most understood.

Hybrid light-matter particles enabled all-light switching at about 4 quadrillionths of a joule, pointing to a way past one bottleneck in photonic computing. @Penn @physrevlett phys.org/news/2026-05-p…

Final forms of 3 new papers! #consciousness #selforganization #cognition #economics and more royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article/3… royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article/3… royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article/3…

The brain is not a machine

Most documented psychological biases are not irrational, they are highly optimized, energy-efficient shortcuts meant for a biological substrate operating under strict real-time physical constraints and a limited caloric budget

This model has been specially trained for math/physics capability - achieves gold-medal performance on IMO and IPhO. It is based on Qwen3-30B-A3B, an MoE model with only 3B active parameters! 🦾

The theory that CHN's internal disparity ie a product of its sheer size has helped it alot to retain low-end manufacturing for such long even as it climbed the value chain is very much true. For eg,it had a deliberate policy of shifting garment work and similar from coastal