Jamie

What if you could query any piece of knowledge, even if it doesn't exist yet? What needs to be done to make that a reality? (also it's coming home)

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Join us for the Automated Knowledge Economy Frontiers Night this Wednesday (15th July) in London! Details and sign up link below

❗️Ukraine’s 123rd Territorial Defense Brigade has carried out the first known mission of its kind. Ukrainian operators remotely guided an unmanned maritime platform across the Black Sea, carrying a machine-gun-equipped ground robot. They landed the robot on the occupied Kinburn coast and sent it behind Russian lines.

1872 vs 2026. The weapons change but the camels are eternal...

How will knowledge be valued, traded, and trusted, when the participants are AI agents? That's the question we're putting in the room at the next Frontiers Night, in London next Wednesday, with @sotalikesfuture Read more below and join us! sotaletters.substack.com/p/frontiers-ni…

The UK can once again be the most dynamic country in the world. Today we launch the UK Dynamism Fund, a new philanthropic fund to support the believers and the builders of UK dynamism. Apply now: ukdynamism.fund

@TennesseeTwunk aghhhh reminds me of CERN using comic sans to present Higgs boson findings

BREAKING: America is getting a new trade school built for the reindustrialization boom. @TryOpenX begins trials at Skill Factory #000 in Texas in early July, with plans to train 10,000+ skilled workers annually and build employer-backed production lines around real industrial demand.

Today’s episode was basically the first time I had talked to @jackclarkSF in almost a decade. This was the previous time.

SoTA Letters X Symbolic world models, vibeCADing, bio-inspired edge cryptography, physical-layer trust for robotic swarms, stratospheric fleets as sovereign capability, human-bio foundation models, and @ARIA_research's £20m call on AI-enabled formal methods for cybersecurity. 1. Prompt-to-Print: Manufacturing in an AI Age, Chris Anderson (ex-Kitty Hawk, 3D Robotics, WIRED) 2. Teaching Machines to Understand Matter, Shamit Shrivastava (Apoha; SoTA’s Self-Driving Labs Frontiers Night) 3. Physical-Layer Trust, Suet Lee (Technische Universität Darmstadt; ARIA TEE) 4. From Patching Bugs to Proving Them Gone, Nora Ammann (ARIA Safeguarded AI, £20m call) 5. Accelerating Robotics at Software Speed, Praveen Selvaraj & Ville Kuosmanen (Safe Robotics; met at SoTA’s Embodied Intelligence Hackathon) 6. When to Wake a Vision-Language Model, Kyuhwan Yeon (SoTA Commission I Grand Commission) 7. Autonomy When the Vehicle Is No Longer Itself, Alex Vavelyuk & Mikhail Pershin (SoTA Commission I Prometheus Prize) 8. On Symbolic World Models, AI Verification and an Addendum to the Bitter Lesson, Otter Quarks & Siméon Campos (Humanis; SoTA’s Cyber-Physical Trust Frontiers Night) 9. The Missing Layer of Infrastructure is Above Us, James Thomas (Radical) 10. Biology’s AI Models Stop Short of the Scale We Need, Campbell Wolford (University of Cambridge) 11. Natural Noise, Thane Campbell & Shannon Egan (Living Proof; ARIA TEE) 12. The Hidden Tax on Research Time, Sara R & Rob Kirk (Unconstrained Labs) Read the full edition linked below. @chr1sa, @AmmannNora, @Shamits, @pravsels, @VilleKuosmanen, @meneox

Ukraine launches TrophyLab: we are opening access to captured Russian weapon technologies for our global partners. Every missile, drone, and vehicle seized on the battlefield is now a source of knowledge for the free world. Through this secure platform, allied governments, labs, and defense tech manufacturers gain access to deep technical data, reports, and vulnerabilities. Users can also request physical equipment for testing, significantly shortening the development cycle for countermeasures. What was meant to be the enemy's secret advantage is being dismantled to defend democracy. Join the platform: 🔗 trophylab.mod.gov.ua/en/

New from me in Sota Letters (@sotalikesfuture): "Prompt to print: manufacturing in an AI age" sotaletters.substack.com/p/prompt-to-pr…

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Just published in the latest edition of SoTA Letters (@sotalikesfuture): “Accelerating Robotics at Software Speed” Robotics is stuck in slow physical loops while software iterates at information-layer speed. We argue that shared robot fleets are the practical way to close the gap. Thoughts, critiques and hot takes welcome! sotaletters.substack.com/p/accelerating…

You can read the letter here: open.substack.com/pub/sotaletter…

I wrote a letter for SoTA arguing it's time to ask the q (again): How far can we push AI-enabled formal methods? Can they move from securing software “in principle” to hardening industry-grade critical systems at the scale? Are they ready to power the needed Y2K-scale effort?

I do find it extraordinary that current events in AI don’t make the top ~30 stories on the BBC News homepage

I've been thinking about the booing at college commencements & wondered: what advice would I give a 22yo for the age of AI? thinking back to my own graduation into the pandemic, I think the #1 thing is having the right disposition toward change jasmi.news/p/2026-advice