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Reading scores, 3rd graders to 8th graders, 2015 to 2025. This is a national tragedy.

Ok but what if @FisherPrice designed @awscloud

This is so crazy it literally looks fake.

I made the anti-Grammarly. Mess up your emails with AI. Sinceerly.com

Imagine every pixel on your screen, streamed live directly from a model. No HTML, no layout engine, no code. Just exactly what you want to see. @eddiejiao_obj, @drewocarr and I built a prototype to see how this could actually work, and set out to make it real. We're calling it Flipbook. (1/5)

A universal truth: most radar charts should just be bar charts. Love your stuff, Anthropic!

LEEEEEEROYYYYYYY JENKINNNNNNS

Frankly, I expected better from a FIFA Peace prize winner.

Zero out of three ain't bad.

Norway consistently wins the most medals at the Winter Olympic Games, with a population of just 5.6 million people. A big part of their success is how they treat youth sports—and it’s the opposite of what we do in the US. Here’s what we can learn from Norway: 1. Scorekeeping: In the US: Youth sports tend to be hyper competitive even at early ages. Leagues almost always keep score. In Norway: Scorekeeping isn’t even allowed until age 13. Removing winners and losers keeps the focus on the process not outcomes. It keeps kids engaged longer because it minimizes pressure (and tears) and maximizes fun, learning, and growth. The goal isn’t to win a third grade championship. It’s to love sport and keep playing. 2. Trophies: In the US: If you give everyone a trophy, you’re creating snowflakes who will never gain a competitive edge. In Norway: Whenever trophies are awarded, they are handed out to everyone. If getting a trophy makes young kids feel good, we should give them trophies. Maybe they’ll come back and play again next year!! As for the creation of snowflakes with no competitive edge—Norway’s athletes are tough as nails and all they do is win. 3. Prioritizing Fun: In the US: Far too often, the goal is to win. In Norway: The national philosophy is “joy of sport.” Youth sports in the US are driven by adults, ego, and money. Youth sports in Norway are driven by fun. Only half of kids in the US participate in sports. The number one reason they drop out: because they aren’t having fun anymore. In Norway, 93% of kids participate in youth sports. Fun is the foremost goal. 4. Playing Multiple Sports: In the US: There’s pressure to specialize early and play your best sport year round. In Norway: Try as many sports as you can before specializing as late as college. Norway encourages kids to try all types of sport. This reduces injury and burnout and increases all-around athleticism. It also helps promotes match quality, or finding the sport you are best suited for as your body develops, which is impossible if you commit to a single sport too early. 5. Affordability In the US: There is increasingly a pay-to-play model with high fees for leagues, equipment, and travel. This excludes many kids from playing. In Norway: It’s a national priority to keep youth sports affordable and therefore accessible for all. Kids aren’t priced out, which creates opportunities for everyone to participate (and develop into athletes), regardless of their parents’ income level. We could learn a lot from Norway: In the US, 70% of kids drop out of youth sports by age 13. This not only diminishes an elite-athlete pipeline, but it also destroys an opportunity for healthy habits and all the character lessons kids can learn from sport. In Norway, lifelong participation in sport is the norm. The goal isn’t to have the best 9U team. It’s to develop the best athletes. Those are two very different things. And Norway has the gold medals to prove it.

“Well you see, honey, there were some employees at OpenAI who worried about the AI taking over, so they built a thing called Claude. Then another guy made a thing called Clawdbot, and Claude made him rename it to Moltbot. Then someone made a website called Moltbook for the Moltbots to talk to each other, tho it’s more like Moltreddit. And yeah anyway it’s funny or maybe really bad who knows lol”

Google could put together a pretty unbelievable “Prime” subscription across Gemini, YouTube Premium/Music, Storage, Workspace and TV OpenAI simply can’t compete with that value prop Regulatory, content rights, and ad cannibalization are concerns here, but imagine more elements start working their way into the Gemini bundle over time

OpenAI: we’re excited to launch a chromium wrapper Google: we just demonstrated that a quantum computer can run a verifiable algorithm 13,000× faster than the best classical computers

Copilot in Excel is a global financial crisis waiting to happen.

Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI are currently fighting a war of attrition. The problem for the latter two is that their cash comes not from clients but from investors, while Google is profitable and is no longer losing users. Add to this the fact that among the three, only Google has its own infinite supply of GPUs for the price of peanuts, and draw your conclusions on how this war of attrition will end.

“Give me six hours to vibe code agentic b2b SaaS and I will spend the first four hours writing the prompt” Abraham Lincoln (YC W25)

google is the berkshire of tech - owns 14% of anthropic - owns 8% of spacex - acquired double click for $3.1b (backbone of google ads empire) - acquired youtube for $1.65b in 2006 (worth hundreds of billions today) - acquired android in 2005 for $50m; now the world’s most widely used os. - acquired deepmind in 2014 for $500m, huge ai lab with almost sota models and great research team. - runs x (the moonshot factory), incubator of radical ideas (waymo, loon, wing drones, etc.) - through capitalg has invested in stripe, uipath, airbnb, lyft, databricks, crowdstrike, duolingo, robinhood and more

Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos: Within 10-20 years, the giant, gigawatt-scale data centers for AI training clusters will be built in space This would leverage 24/7 solar power and make space a key part of Earth's industrial and technological infrastructure

The problem is not people being uneducated.  The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught.  —Professor Richard Feynman

Dana White says that people should not be fired for mocking the death of Charlie Kirk because it’s free speech: “I hate [cancel culture] on both sides.” “All the stuff that’s going on with Charlie right now, I think you’re a disgusting human being if you’re celebrating the death of another human being.” “But I don’t like trying to destroy people’s lives over doing something dumb.” via 60 Minutes