Ross Hill

This juxtaposition is crazy. Diesel near me just hit $3.59/L - about $280 to fill a Ford Ranger. At the same time, renewables via the grid were supplying my house at 5c/kWh today. At these rates, one Ranger fill-up costs more than charging my EV for a year.

Deloitte explores potential black swan events, including NHI confirmation.

Reading Dune. Frank Herbert was cooking.

Meta is shutting down its VR metaverse on June 15th.

Flour comes from a plant. Sugar comes from a plant. Chocolate comes from a plant. A cookie is a salad.

This is wild. 143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon. They were actually building one of the largest real-world visual datasets in AI history. Niantic just disclosed that photos and AR scans collected through Pokémon Go have produced a dataset of over 30 billion real-world images. The company is now using that data to power visual navigation AI for delivery robots. Players didn't just walk around with their phones. They scanned landmarks, storefronts, parks, and sidewalks from every angle, at every time of day, in lighting and weather conditions that staged photography would never capture. They documented the physical world at a scale no mapping company with a fleet of vehicles could have replicated on the same timeline or budget. Niantic collected this systematically, data point by data point, across eight years, while users thought the only thing at stake was catching a rare Charizard. The most valuable AI training datasets in the world aren't being assembled in data centers. They're being built by people who have no idea they're building them.

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I am just not doing this. This is almost as disturbing as the Australian Government feeding me TL ads about consent (I've been married 17 years, what demo am I in?).

BREAKING: The Trump Administration is preparing a rule that would restrict AI chip shipments GLOBALLY without US approval, per Bloomberg. Details include: 1. Regulation would require companies to seek US permission for virtually all exports of AI chips 2. Nvidia and AMD would be heavily impacted 3. Rules would set the US government up as a "gatekeeper" for the AI industry 4. Specific approval process is based on "how much computing power a company wants" Chip stocks are falling on the news.