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
Predictable costs https:// ollama.com/pricing Ollama's Cloud comes with fixed subscription rates at $0, $20, and $100. This means you won't wake up to surprise overage bills if you leave Claude Code or OpenClaw running. In the future, we are adding additional plans for higher
This is wild. https:// theaustralian.com.au/business/techn ology/tech-boss-uses-ai-and-chatgpt-to-create-cancer-vaccine-for-his-dying-dog/news-story/292a21bcbe93efa17810bfcfcdfadbf7 …
European style destruction of economic value via overbearing state and runaway bureaucratic bloat This is a systematic sabotage of the American tech ecosystem Bureaucratic-political form of warfare
A common trap early stage founders fall into is believing they have the strongest product in category{x} that has 10+ others that have raised / grown fast, so "we will eventually catch up / overtake". What we are seeing is that (1) gaps between brand/GTM/team are increasing much
Yet another example of a socialist obsessed with splitting up the pie that exists, while totally ignoring what makes the pie grow. This *exact* line of thinking leads to Cubans squatting in the ruins of buildings the capitalists built in the '40 and '50s, which the communists (Also discussed by @amasad)
Beauty in physics is not complexity mastered, but simplicity revealed.
Ai is out of control
The AI lab is revamping its effort to build an AI coding tool, with two new executives joining from Cursor.
I'll be speaking next week on March 19th at GTC! Will be covering a bunch about Ollama, building agent harnesses properly to make sure it works with local! Will even toss in a few fun demos. If you're at GTC and want to learn (or even just want some stickers which will never be
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 routes, all with some help from the latest Gemini models — New Gemini features (Also discussed by @GoogleAI)
Are you attending @NVIDIAGTC ? Ollama + NVIDIA are doing a developer session on local AI on RTX AI PCs Come learn how to build agent harnesses, and optimize them for your local use cases. Demos. Thursday, March 19th, 2pm SJCC 230B (L2) We will be giving away
Andreessen Horowitz shares insights on rag/embeddings. From @a16z (Andreessen Horowitz): "Christian Catalini on where humans still add value in an AI world: "Across pretty much every profession—law, engineering, strategy—there are components where machines are really good at average, or even above average. They've ingested the right materials, they've seen enough"
The data infrastructure startup raised $5.3 million in seed funding led by Wischoff Ventures and South Park Commons.
Xbox is getting ready to launch its Gaming Copilot AI assistant on "current-generation consoles" this year, according to a report from GamesRadar. Sonali Yadav, Xbox's product manager for gaming AI, revealed the news during a panel at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), adding that the company will also add the assistant to "more services that players are playing." Microsoft has been working on its gaming-focused Copilot assistant for months now, with the company launching it in beta on th...
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 less busy on Tuesday nights” Maps performs multi-step reasoning across 300M+
Unicode that's invisible to the human eye was largely abandoned—until attackers took notice.
At SXSW, Steven Spielberg said AI has uses in many fields, but not when it comes to replacing creative people in film and TV writing.
The AI industry is constantly churning out news, like major acquisitions, indie developer successes, public outcry, and existentially dangerous contract negotiations.
Gavriel Cohen is living an open source developer's dream as his project has achieved acclaim and a partnership with Docker in a matter of weeks.