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@TheGregYang Get well soon!

touched by yall's overwhelming support 🫂 and as i thought, many of yall are suffering from similar symptoms, looking for a light at the end of the tunnel it will take a bit of time but i'll reply to everyone with what i know we are in this together! a little chronic disease can't keep us down!

📜 Paper on new pretraining paradigm: Synthetic Bootstrapped Pretraining SBP goes beyond next-token supervision in a single document by leveraging inter-document correlations to synthesize new data for training — no teacher needed. Validation: 1T data + 3B model from scratch.🧵

In this report we describe the 2025 Apple Foundation Models ("AFM"). We also introduce the new Foundation Models framework, which gives app developers direct access to the on-device AFM model. machinelearning.apple.com/research/apple…

I just built Apple Intelligence Chat 🚀. It uses the new Foundation Models Framework to let you chat offline with the Apple Intelligence model on iOS 26. Let me know if you'd like the code and i'll make it open source. And yes the UI uses Liquid Glass 🧊

On behalf of the whole team I'm so proud to introduce the Foundation Models framework, an API to access our on-device LLM! Check out the Platforms State of the Union for an introduction and 4 sessions later today! developer.apple.com/news/?id=us98z… #WWDC25

At WWDC we introduce a new generation of LLMs developed to enhance the Apple Intelligence features. We also introduce the new Foundation Models framework, which gives app developers direct access to the on-device foundation language model. machinelearning.apple.com/research/apple…

@elonmusk This is amazing!

Just inspected the Starship booster, which the arms have now placed back in its launch mount. Looks great! A few outer engine nozzles are warped from heating & some other minor issues, but these are easily addressed. Starship is designed to achieve reflight of its rocket booster ultimately within an hour after liftoff. The booster returns within ~5 minutes, so the remaining time is reloading propellant and placing a ship on top of the booster.

As Apple Intelligence is rolling out to our beta users today, we are proud to present a technical report on our Foundation Language Models that power these features on devices and cloud: machinelearning.apple.com/research/apple…. 🧵

Our team is developing cutting-edge foundation models that power Apple Intelligence. Join our close-knit and fast-moving efforts as researchers and engineers in Cupertino, New York, or Seattle. Be at the heart of shaping the future of Apple Intelligence. Learn more at jobs.apple.com/en-us/search?s….

@DriveTeslaca @Tesla_AI @Tesla @elonmusk

The first timeline for the 2024.8 branch to receive the FSD v12 trial has passed. I have no doubt the @Tesla_AI team is working their butts off to get it out, but hopefully someone from @Tesla can chime in and provide an update now that Rohan is no longer with the company.

Police are concerned after a "recent uptick" in south Seattle home invasions targeting Asian people. komonews.com/news/local/sea…

@thecrimson @neilhshah15 😅

NEW: Harvard President Claudine Gay will submit three corrections to her 1997 Ph.D. dissertation amid mounting allegations of plagiarism. Tilly R. Robinson & @neilhshah15 report. thecrimson.com/article/2023/1…

@BillAckman @Harvard disgrace.

From a source I trust: Claudine Gay will not resign and the governing boards decided not to terminate her as president of @Harvard.

Transcript from one of the festival survivors about what happened: "I was there at the festival, there were rockets so people got nervous and everyone started to leave, We drove towards the main road, where we saw many cars standing in what looked like a traffic jam, at the end there were policemen and soldiers forming a roadblock and blocking the road. This was not a police checkpoint, these were terrorists impersonators. They waited until there were a lot of people standing in traffic then pulled out a machine-gun and started spraying the cars with bullets, at least 300 dead. 300 people gone, what they say on the news is wrong. We were the last car, so we drove reverse. We took two bullets to the windshield, a bullet penetrated Lior in the shoulder and I was injured by broken glass in my hands. We managed to get away from them with the car barely working, we opened waze and Lior told me "I served here, let's go to the military base: Gaza division." Driving towards the division's base, we were sure that we will be safe there. But they already raided this base at night and killed all the soldiers of the base in their beds, by then they had already taken over the base. We arrived at the gate with the car all broken. I saw at the gate's entrance what I was sure were soldiers but actually were 13 terrorists standing ready in crouch position with AK47s and M16s looking at us from a range of about 20 meters then started spraying the hell out of our car. We were shot all over, all the door were holes, a bullet hit me in the head, tore a part of my head off. Evyatar took a bullet in the pelvis, Lior to the shoulder. We're all in blood, they threw a grenade at us, suddenly I didn't hear anything, looking to the right, to the left shouting, "Lior get out". I garbed Lior and got out of the car, we started running and they kept shooting at us, I heard the bullets pass near my head and kept taking shots near my legs, I still have shrapnel in my legs from the bullets. We ran and saw the fence of the base, it was about three meters high, we jumped over it through the barbed wire, all my hands were cut. They kept shooting at us, but not a single bullet hit us, they didn't manage to hit us somehow. We kept running, and hid there in the snipers' bunker, We were there for about 3-4 hours, without water, bleeding, I made myself a tourniquet, Lior also made a tourniquet. We were sure the rest were already dead behind, I didn't look back. Then a team of Shayetet 13 (Israeli navy seals) arrived at the base, and real war started inside, some additional 30-40 soldiers were gone. I heard the screams of death, pull back, pull back, death, they were shooting RPGs at each other, right in the middle of the war we were. We finally went out to them, we were afraid that our soldiers would shoot at us because we looked like terrorists with shirts wrapped around our heads. We left with our hands up, I told them not to shoot that we are Israeli. They told us to lie on the floor and questioned us, checking that we were Israelis, I told him our names and that we were wounded. At the end a helicopter came to rescue some wounded soldiers, I grabbed the soldier by the hands and looked him in the eyes, I told him "My brother I have a little girl at home and a family, you are taking me with you in that helicopter". He looked and me and told me "yalla" (come on), "cooperate". So we started to cooperate, lifting injured soldiers on my shoulders, Lior helped lifting the stretcher to the helicopter, trying to save people as much as possible, People were screaming to hold on tight, and don't die in my hands, it was like a movie. He took us at the end, Thank god now we are recovering."

US open!

@DaniYogatama @RekaAILabs Congratulations, Dani!

The only defensible thing in AI is the ability to continuously innovate to be at the frontiers. @RekaAILabs is coming out of stealth with the mission of deploying generative models and advancing AI research. We have a world-class team, please reach out if you’d like to join!

SUPPORTING THE FAMILY: #Seattle gofundme.com/f/helping-sung…

@MrAndyNgo So bad.

An Asian woman who was 8 months pregnant was shot along with her husband in downtown Seattle by a black male suspect with a felony record. Eina Kwon died. Doctors tried to save the baby through an emergency delivery but the baby died. thepostmillennial.com/breaking-fatal…

@LihongLi20 @JohnCLangford Well deserved! @LihongLi20 !

Truly grateful and humbled to receive the award. It's gratifying to see this 13-year old work continues to be useful, and exciting to witness how much the field has grown since then! Congrats to my coauthors, Wei, @JohnCLangford and Rob.

Our product @sentioxyz is finally launched🚀🚀🚀. You can check it out at sentio.xyz. I am extremely grateful for the invaluable support from @ai @ravi_lsvp @tnachen @letsgoustc @marcbhargava @shumochu @ping_wu @li_mike_yue @gokulr