Arjun Gupta

What a privilege to host a conversation with two amazing legal minds! Thank you so much for your time @USAmbCanada @viraniarif @uocommonlaw

@3mendous Professor Mendes, just flagging a brief email from last week in case it was filtered. Thank you.

🎾Introducing LATENT: Learning Athletic Humanoid Tennis Skills from Imperfect Human Motion Data Dynamic movements, agile whole-body coordination, and rapid reactions. A step toward athletic humanoid sports skills. Project: zzk273.github.io/LATENT/ Code: github.com/GalaxyGeneralR…

We learn a latent action space from imperfect human motion data and train a high-level policy to sample from it for task accomplishment. We propose two novel designs that enable the high-level policy to effectively correct and compose the imperfect primitive skills in this space.

800,000 layoffs in 2025. 10,000 in September alone tied to AI. Jobs are disappearing fast. But here’s the truth no one wants to say: It’s the start of a new gold rush... for those who learn how to build with the machines, not fight them.

"If you want to do great work it's an advantage to be optimistic, even though that means you'll risk looking like a fool sometimes." Paul Graham on earnestness and doing great work:

The Canadian Ditchley Foundation’s annual conference reminds us of the importance of hearing new ideas in addressing global challenges. I was pleased to contribute to the conference discussions by sharing my vision for Canada’s foreign policy.

La conférence annuelle de la Canadian Ditchley Foundation nous rappelle l’importance d’entendre de nouvelles idées pour relever les défis mondiaux. J’ai eu le plaisir de contribuer aux discussions en partageant ma vision de la politique étrangère du Canada.

“The doers are the major thinkers.” ~ Steve Jobs

Jeff Bezos: focusing on customers helps small companies beat big ones.

The secret to building fast isn’t working more. It’s working relaxed. You think better when your nervous system isn’t on fire.

We already are. Just through a fairly narrow communication bottleneck.

If you imagine every job function and workflow will have an AI Agent counterpart to automate work, it’s clear we’re in the earliest stages of the AI wave. Every vertical and line of business represents a new market category and brand new TAM that didn’t exist before.

China proposes global body to advance artificial intelligence on.ft.com/4f8KixB

Diplomacy, borders, trade. Ottawa Law sits at the heart of Canada’s defining conversations. Next week, those conversations come to life with the U.S. Ambassador, who will reflect on his time in office. LIMITED AVAILABILITY Register at ftx2025.ca

1. Project Digits: NVIDIA's Latest AI Supercomputer Introduces an exciting breakthrough with the new NVIDIA GB10 Superchip, offering a compact AI supercomputer that efficiently handles 200B-parameter models. NVIDIA’s Project DIGITS is a powerhouse you can hold in the palm of your hand. With two Project DIGITS units, developers can easily work with AI models up to 405B parameters in size. Available by May.

Introducing Willow, our new state-of-the-art quantum computing chip with a breakthrough that can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits, cracking a 30-year challenge in the field. In benchmark tests, Willow solved a standard computation in <5 mins that would take a leading supercomputer over 10^25 years, far beyond the age of the universe(!).

I am honored to receive President Trump’s @realDonaldTrump nomination to serve as the next Administrator of NASA. Having been fortunate to see our amazing planet from space, I am passionate about America leading the most incredible adventure in human history. On my last mission to space, my crew and I traveled farther from Earth than anyone in over half a century. I can confidently say this second space age has only just begun. Space holds unparalleled potential for breakthroughs in manufacturing, biotechnology, mining, and perhaps even pathways to new sources of energy. There will inevitably be a thriving space economy—one that will create opportunities for countless people to live and work in space. At NASA, we will passionately pursue these possibilities and usher in an era where humanity becomes a true spacefaring civilization. I was born after the Moon landings; my children were born after the final space shuttle launch. With the support of President Trump, I can promise you this: We will never again lose our ability to journey to the stars and never settle for second place. We will inspire children, yours and mine, to look up and dream of what is possible. Americans will walk on the Moon and Mars and in doing so, we will make life better here on Earth. It is the honor of a lifetime to serve in this role and to work alongside NASA’s extraordinary team to realize our shared dreams of exploration and discovery. Grateful to serve, Jared

There are four basic team cultures, with different emphases on psychological safety and different emphases on intellectual honesty. Each culture supports or discourages learning and innovation to different degrees. mitsmr.com/3XyG09v

Arjun Gupta: More regulations won't solve Canada's business confidence problem nationalpost.com/opinion/arjun-…

YC Batch W24 - What're the AI trends? 247 companies just presented at demo day, I looked at them all to see where AI is going My favorites at the end. Link to full list below Popular Categories: * Voice Agents (6): @marrlabs, @retellai, @OpenCall_AI, @usearini, @hemingway, Hemingway AI * ChatGPT For Business: (5): @quivr_brain, @GoSenso, @OcularHQ, @getdiana, @DanswerAI * Video Generation (4): @magichourai, @focalml, wuri/ai, @eggnog_ai Surprising: * @KabilahInc - 80% of serious medical errors occur at patient handoff. Kabilah improves the patient handoff * Apriora - Interviews with AI Recruiters Greg's Picks: * @dragoneyeAI - Giving apps the power to see * @camelQA - Agents testing your app every way imaginable * @zep_ai - Personalization and memory for agents * @nuanced_dev - Defensive AI detector