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Google and Accel say about 70% of AI startup pitches tied to India were "wrappers" as they reviewed more than 4,000 applications for their Atoms cohort.
Hollywood and AI continue their uncomfortable relationship. Actor Will Arnett, while presenting the award for Best Animated Short Subject at the Oscars: "Tonight, we celebrate people, not AI. Animation is more than a prompt — it's an art that deserves protection."
A deep dive into why Codex Security doesn’t rely on traditional SAST, instead using AI-driven constraint reasoning and validation to find real vulnerabilities with fewer false positives.
Sitting next to a woman on a plane using ChatGPT on Auto mode. I need someone to physically restrain me from telling her to turn on Thinking mode at the very least.
someone's getting started early!
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Tonight, we’re celebrating the artists nominated for Best Visual Effects at the 98th Annual Academy Awards. From @ILMVFX and @Framestore to @WetaFXofficial and @Cinesite , these teams continue to push the boundaries of visual storytelling on the world’s biggest stage at the
Great men of history had little to no introspection. The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself. @pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about: David: You don't have any levels of
a16z Podcast on openai & gpt. ". @pmarca said something recently that struck me. He said, 'Forget about the internet. This is bigger than the wheel.'" "I don't think that's an overstatement." @illscience explains why he belie
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The company is reportedly delaying the launch as its engineers and lawyers work to avert further legal issues.
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But innovation isn't just about peak speed—it's also about flexibility. Whether utilizing existing Hopper capacity or the latest Blackwell architecture, the NVIDIA platform empowers providers to deliver diverse user experiences and cost profiles, allowing them to scale
What does relentless optimization in AI inference look like? Watch the rapid evolution of the Kimi K2.5 model on the @ArtificialAnlys leaderboard. Inference endpoint providers are continually pushing boundaries on NVIDIA Blackwell, leveraging custom optimizations, NVFP4,
AI chatbots have been linked to suicides for years. Now one lawyer says they are showing up in mass casualty cases too, and the technology is moving faster than the safeguards.
We went from “AI is just a next token predictor” to “Awkshully you’re doing custom mRNA research with ChatGPT all wrong” real quick.
"You're absolutely right—that was actually your neighbor's house I sold by accident. If you want, I can also show you one simple trick to transfer the deed back before they notice. It's a small legal detail but it makes a massive difference in avoiding prosecution."
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Need a new tennis partner? This robot from Tsinghua University researchers has some serious skills:
Shardul Shah of Index Ventures walks us through Google's biggest acquisition ever.
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If you've got strong creative instincts, the ability to authentically portray emotion, and are capable of staying true to a character's voice throughout a scene, there's a job listing calling for your experience. The catch: You won't be performing in a theater, a film studio, or an underground performance space. You'd be using your talents to train an AI model for "one of the leading AI companies," according to the open role posted by Handshake, a company that provides training data to OpenA...
Greg Brockman on rag & embeddings. “The more you use AI, the more confident you’ll become in leveraging those tools”
+100 Stealth mode is for fighter jets, not startups. (This is a slide from a 15+ year old slide deck )
TechCrunch on xai & grok. ‘Not built right the first time’ — Musk’s xAI is starting over again, again
Ollama on meta & llama. Ollama's cloud is updated to use NVIDIA's latest data center hardware: B300 for Kimi K2.5 and GLM-5 models. This significantly improves the model performance with faster throughput and lower latency Signup to try for free: https:// ollama.com/signup Kimi K2.5 is one of the most recommended models for use with OpenClaw. It is now much faster and more reliable with Ollama's cloud using the lat
This is what I mean when I say the world is going to get very weird, very soon. Expect more stories like this, each sounding increasingly more insane.
Chatbots were just the beginning. The era of Claws is here. At #NVIDIAGTC, we’re diving into the rise of autonomous, self-evolving AI agents that don’t just assist—they operate and learn independently. Join Ali Golshan and leaders from @CrowdStrike , @ServiceNow , and
Love it. We should all aspire to do the little things that help each other.
Can confirm what @travisk said. Has certainly been true for @HubSpot . Figuring out how to make SMB work is playing in "hard mode". The good news is that if you figure out how to make the math work in SMB, it is its own form of moat.
Google AI on google & gemini. Here’s everything that happened this week : — @GoogleMaps released 2 new features, Ask Maps to handle your most complex questions about places and trips and Immersive Navigation for intuitive route We’ve reimagined the way our Gemini models power @GoogleMaps . Here are some use cases you can try (and the advancements that make them possible): “Find a well-lit pickleball court that’s usually le
The Army described this as a single enterprise contract consolidating more than 120 separate "procurement actions."
Scientists put kids through 100 hours of reading, then scanned their brains. New wiring had physically grown inside the language regions. Communication between brain areas sped up by a factor of 10. Kids who didn't read showed zero change. That was a 2009 Carnegie Mellon study.
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Software was eaten by AI. (Also discussed by @AmazonScience)
The man captured the most beautiful moment of his life on camera.
These layoffs could help Facebook's parent company offset its aggressive spending on AI infrastructure, as well as AI-related acquisitions and hiring.
I think one of the conclusions we should draw from the tremendous success of LLMs is how much of human knowledge and society exists at very low levels of Kolmogorov complexity. We are entering an era where the minimal representation of a human cultural artifact... (1/12)
Microsoft Azure shares insights on anthropic/claude. From @Azure (Microsoft Azure): "Long-context AI just got easier. Claude Opus 4.6 & Sonnet 4.6 now support 1M token context (GA), flat pricing, and 600 images/PDF pages per request."
this is so fucking wholesome guy used AI to save his cancer-ridden dog by sequencing its DNA and creating a CUSTOM cure. the tech behind this is fucking awesome (well done @demishassabis and the google team): - used CHATGPT to sequence dogs DNA discovers mutations - ran the
Learn how to use Spotify, Canva, Figma, Expedia, and other apps directly in ChatGPT.
nvidia on ai hardware. NVIDIA is partnering with universities worldwide to accelerate breakthroughs in AI, robotics, quantum, and more—fueling research with GPUs, grants, fe Efficiency isn’t just about better tools anymore—it’s about autonomous teammates. Get ready for a CLAW-some NVIDIA GTC: If you’re joining us at #NV
Multiple AI thought leaders are discussing ai agents. Accounts including @levie, @Azure have posted about this topic in the last 48 hours. From @levie (Aaron Levie): "A subtle dynamic today that will likely end up being quite fundamental in the future is that AI agents implicitly will end up procuring a significant portion of tech in the future for you and your company. For companies that have existing standards for a particular tech or where" | From @Azure (Microsoft Azure): "Transform your development workflow! From AI-assisted coding to automated pipelines, master agentic DevOps with GitHub Copilot & Azure in 4 milestones: https:// msft.it/6013QlTaU #AgenticDevOps #Microsoft"
Multiple AI thought leaders are discussing ai news & insights. Accounts including @MatthewBerman, @Azure have posted about this topic in the last 48 hours. From @MatthewBerman (Matthew Berman): "Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe: "The next 10 years will be the most important period in human history." The full interview: 2:45 Rivian’s big 2026 moment 4:23 The origin of Rivian 6:25 The pivot that changed Rivian 7:21 Rivian’s core mission 9:06 Obsessing over details 9:57 Why R2" | From @Azure (Microsoft Azure): "Getting started with Python on Azure just got easier. On #AzureFriday, @shanselman and @nirmsk break down simple ways to deploy Python apps on Azure App Service, plus what’s new on the platform:"
DataCamp shares insights on ai funding & startups. @DataCamp: "Which Python library supports lazy evaluation? (Btw we have an AI-Powered Python week going on soon, if you want to learn 🐍)"
Augment Code shares insights on rag & vector search. @augmentcode: "Code review may be one of the first outer-loop engineering tasks where agents beat the average human reviewer. In production: Augment led to 1.03 bugs fixed per PR. Human reviewers: 0.54. True-positive rates were comparable (45% vs 50%)."
Lightning AI shares insights on ai robotics. @LightningAI: "Founders, engineers, and infra teams at @NVIDIAGTC , take a break from panels and play arcade games with other AI builders. Donkey Kong. Street Fighter. NBA Jam. Star Wars + Stranger Things pinball. + more. Food, drinks, builders talking shop. Wed"
Scientific discovery is reaching the limits of human capacity: too much data, too many disconnected fields, and too few ways to connect ideas fast enough to matter. The next breakthroughs in materials, medicine, energy, and beyond will not come from scaling today’s AI paradigm