Advantage Reward Model Boosts Towel‑Folding Success to 99.4%
New paper achieves 99.4% success rate on bimanual towel-folding using a new Advantage Reward Model (ARM), an upgrade of SARM. Key Innovation: Swaps strict monotonic progress for a simple relative advantage signal (-1, 0, +1). This handles messy demos and DAgger error-corrections better than previous methods. Success Rates (Behavior Cloning + NVIDIA GR00T 1.5): 📉 Standard: 62.1% 📈 SARM: 78.5% 🏆 ARM: 99.4% Project: https://aiming1998.github.io/ARM
AI Replaces Tasks, Not the Ownership of Jobs
AI is not replacing jobs. AI is replacing tasks. A real job means having goals and the agency to figure out how to reach them. Deciding what tasks matter. Owning the outcome either way. AI just executes. It doesn't own anything. If you don't...
Google Gemini Forces Fast Model, Ignoring Compute Limits
Thanks Google for reminding me dozens of times a day that you are too compute constrained. Each time I open a new chat in gemini -> defaults to Fast model. I have to change it every single time. Even Anthropic who's arguably more...
AllBirds AI Pivot Sparks Bold Market Experiment
I’m excited about the AllBirds AI pivot because this is the first completely pure act of retardmaxxing in the public markets and I’m so on board with watching that journey play out.
World Unprepared for Rumored New OpenAI Image Model
the world is not ready for the rumored new OpenAI image model // @flowersslop https://t.co/KdyNmjFh6C
Open-Source Tools Quantify AI Offense-Defense Gap
👀 Mine the Gap: Open-Source Tools for Measuring the AI Offense-Defense Gap | Dreadnode https://m.cje.io/4mxNV3P
AI Becomes the Next Sales Enablement Teammate
The Evolution of the “Sales Enablement” Role: Why AI is the New Teammate by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/O9HsMURJtm @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #SalesEnablement #RevOps #Marketing #MarketingStrategy #MarketingSuccess #Leadership #ArtificialIntelligence
AI's Promise Demands Community Investment, Not Cost Shifting
I believe AI will deliver enormous gains to the global consumer: better products, better services, better healthcare, and tools that make ordinary people more capable, even superhuman. The upside is so large, and the geopolitical stakes so real, that we...
China Urges Platforms to Stop AI‑fear Amplification
There was an editorial in China's Science & Technology Daily last month saying that internet platforms should not amplify content about falling behind if you don't use AI. https://t.co/h9qdo6Uni4 (seen via @mattsheehan88's Substack) https://t.co/vgi6mK6kOa https://t.co/6Oboqu56BI
Claude’s $20 Plan Hits Limits on Simple Queries
$20/mo Claude plan: Me: "What should I have for dinner?" Claude: "Steak." (You have reached your weekly limit)
Great AI Needs Seamless Design, Speed, and Guidance
Behind every AI system that works is good design. Bad UX = users drop off Slow response = lost trust No guidance = no conversions Your AI should feel seamless, especially on your website.
AI Fails to Make Me a Doctor‑Christ Hybrid
Weird. I asked AI to create an image of me as a medical doctor and it didn't turn me into Christ: https://t.co/jIZXqB7Vb1
Patients Choose Risky Care When Health Systems Fail
I don’t think patients want ChatGPT or an AI doctor startup to replace their health system - but when you’re desperate, you’ll take what you can get - the safety and efficacy be damned. So if health systems don’t fill...
Qualcomm Invests in Wayve, Boosting AI-Driven Automotive Tech
Today we announced new investment from @Qualcomm and I got to spend time with CEO @cristianoamon and EVP @nakulduggal. I'm excited about the scale and potential Wayve's AI and Snapdragon will bring to global automotive industry. https://t.co/Zeb42SVPWb
AI in Cybersecurity Will Mostly Augment, Not Replace, by 2027
Fun insight from @Gartner_inc "By 2027, 90% of successful AI implementations in cybersecurity will be tactical — task automation and process augmentation — rather than role replacement." (https://t.co/EC2MwkKYqC)
AI's Biggest Legacy: Ending the Billable Hour Forever
When the history books are written*, the death of the billable hour might very well be AI's greatest contribution to humanity *Written by AI, obvs https://t.co/s3t8cvnoht
Easy Corrections Boost AI Session Success
Interesting data on AI products from @Amplitude_HQ: "1/3 of user sessions succeed because the user corrects the agent mid-stream. Build UX that makes correction easy. The highest-quality sessions were the ones that recovered well."
Microsoft’s AI Push Fuels Methane Deals, Spiking Emissions
Microsoft’s AI expansion is driving large-scale methane gas deals, increasing emissions, and raising concerns about energy costs, health risks, and climate commitments https://t.co/xmlzfMAlQd
AI Excel Nails Basics, Stumbles on Complex Updates
Uploaded my Skill files and tried this out 1) Passed Level 1 Test: simple AMZN quarterly update, where I update the architecture, just needs numbers input (17/17) 2) Badly Failed Level 2 Test: real-world situation with UBER model 6 quarters out of...
Nano Banana Cuts Concept Sketch Time From Hours to Minutes
As someone who spent years wishing I was better at drawing little conceptual images like these for articles or presentations, the ability to do this with Nano Banana now is absolutely amazing. This was maybe 5 minutes and 3 versions and...
AI's Jagged Intelligence: Powerful Yet Limited by Scope
Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Stupidity: The ‘Jagged Intelligence’ of AI is said to be "reframing" the debate, but many cognitive scientists have noted it from the get-go: any implementation of intelligence is not a magic wand that can solve all...
Salesforce Repositions as Runtime Layer for Agentic Enterprise
1/ @Salesforce just made one of its largest agentic moves yet at #TDX26. - Not a new AI feature. - Not another agent demo. A full repositioning of Salesforce as the runtime layer for the agentic enterprise. 🤖⚙️ And a lot is riding on...
Podcast Highlights Deep Divide Over AI Timelines
The @dwarkesh_sp and Jensen podcast is a great listen. it illustrates the schism in a lot of industry debates around “AGI” and the concept of AI timelines. Both parties represent a different school of thought and this is a...
AI Assistance Erodes Persistence, Harms Independent Problem‑solving
The mindless use of A.I. is rotting the brains of too many people. "A.I. assistance reduces persistence and impairs independent performance: After brief A.I.-assisted sessions (10 minutes), participants were significantly more likely to give up on problems and performed significantly worse...
OpenAI Highlights Amazon Partnership, Blames Microsoft for Restrictions
OpenAI touts Amazon alliance in memo, says Microsoft has 'limited our ability' to reach clients https://buff.ly/UKRgSK6
Claude App Adds Features, but Still Requires Manual Markdown Edits
new claude code in app has lots of nice things, i still need to edit md files all the time tho (which you cant do)
AI Agents Can Craft Precise Bitcoin Options for Political Outcomes
.@itseneff: 'If you think Bitcoin hits 76–80K if Trump does X, but crashes to 50K if he doesn't — AI agents can translate that into the exact right options structure.' The most concrete AI + DeFi argument I've come across....
AI Inference FLOPs Replace Tokens as Currency
Instead of the gold standard, we can imagine an inference standard of exchange, the FLOP. (As opposed to tokens, this accounts for AI ability) With some AI help, I figure $1 buys roughly 10^17 managed-LLM inference FLOPs. So that $4 coffee would...
Nike CEO Eyes AI Data Centers After Allbirds Surge
POV: The CEO of Nike — which is down 28% YTD — calling an emergency meeting with his C-Suite after seeing Allbirds pump +600% and demanding that the fitness giant pivots into AI data centres, leveraging Oregon’s abundance of hydropower....
Google Cloud Partnership Speeds AI Delivery for Portfolio Firms
Exciting day for @thomabravo and our portfolio companies. Our partnership with @googlecloud will accelerate how our companies build and deliver AI solutions for their customers. The opportunity is massive and we’re moving fast.
LLMs Still Struggle to Master Video Game Play
Large language models still have no ability to play video games well. @juliantogelius , the director of New York University’s Game Innovation Lab, talks about why. https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-video-games-llms-togelius
Humans, Not AI, Drive Revenue Growth
PSA to CEOs: AI is not going to save your revenue performance. AI is not going to save your revenue performance. AI is not going to save your revenue performance. AI is not going to save your revenue performance. AI is not going to save...
Powerful AI Stays Controlled, Weaker Tools Spread Widely
Inspired by Miles's post, and the announcment of the open source nano-analyzer by @Aisle_Inc yesterday, my view of the AI cyber landscape. I think this is roughly the dynamic we want. The most powerful tools are held closely. Less powerful...
Carrier Launches Voice‑cloning AI for Autonomous Calls
"REALLY, the wireless carrier that operates on T-Mobile's network, today announced a first-of-its-kind technology that allows subscribers to clone their voices and have their phone make and answer calls and take autonomous action on their behalf" https://t.co/FAF7lQNVQx ...really
Consumers Prefer Robotaxis Over Owning New Luxury Robocars
A new robocar: https://t.co/yEijU7C02N I can see how this would sell a few. Rich people like having something that's different than the flood of Teslas here in Silicon Valley. And seeing a new approach to transportation that's based wholly around autonomy...
AI's Jagged Intelligence: Brilliant One Moment, Dense the Next
Nice piece from @CadeMetz about AI's "jagged intelligence" - why it can appear brilliant in some contexts and completely dense in others. https://t.co/NbupKZf5wE
Instant AI Answers Turn Traffic Into Conversions
If your website isn’t powered by AI yet, you’re leaving opportunities on the table. Visitors come with questions. If no one answers instantly, they leave. AI chatbots turn: traffic → conversations → conversions
AI‑powered Ghost Automates Structured Data Behind the Scenes
Experimenting with some AI-assisted features in @Ghost for helping with generated structured data and site administration Kinda fun. Not sure what the UI should be. Don't really want to have to click a button, would be even better if it just...
Persistent Gender Gap in AI Use Remains Unaddressed
Wish there was information about where this data came from, but this is a very significant change. Since AI use comes from experience, the persistent gender gap in AI use across every study of AI was something that a lot...
NVIDIA's Moat: Turning AI Complexity Into Cost Savings
Drastically symplifying, but one take as the strategy/competitive advantage that is becoming more clear from $NVDA is: NVIDIA’s moat is the ability to continuously compress the full AI factory problem into better economics for customers.
Aron D'Souza Launches AI-Powered Truth Adjudication Platform
SCOOP: Aron D'Souza, founder of Enhanced Games and the lawyer who helped bring down Gawker, is back with another startup. Objection, a platform that aims to use AI to adjudicate the truth of journalism. https://t.co/9N5ySNnW64
Systems Thinking Beats Prompting for AI Success
Most people think mastering LLMs = better prompts. That’s outdated. 🚫 Prompting is not the moat. ✅ Systems thinking is. The real shift: From chatbots → structured cognitive systems 🔑 What actually works: 1. FOUNDATION • Persistent, structured context •...
AI Tweaks Speaker Images, but True Selves Remain
AI on the left. Profile pic on the right. Gotta love AI being used on images for speaking engagements. Maybe it looks the same to onlookers, but I always know the difference. No need to change how people look. The...
RoboFlow NAS Cuts Latency 25% Without Accuracy Loss
We are using @roboflow NAS for a client and found a model that improved latency by nearly 25% (6.8ms to 5.1ms) for roughly the same accuracy. @josephofiowa : This is looking good. https://t.co/STYVtjrEok
A1Laboratory Introduces Free, Private Voice Transcription Keyboard
The @A1Laboratory team is working to add a custom keyboard in @A1Echos for quick voice transcription. Local models, private, free, open-source, and no need to KYC. AI must be free in every way.
Grok Lacks Personal Feed Integration with X API
It is annoying how Grok does not integrate with the X API in such a way that I can ask it to search for links in my own feed (not the entire network), summarize my lists for the day or...
One Person Plus AI Outperforms a Hundred Humans
The Organizational Singularity Is Here 1 person + AI beats 100 people without it from @PeterDiamandis https://t.co/ko1iyX3cpd https://t.co/qTdaiygvUv
AI Rejects AI‑crafted Resume for AI‑written Job
got rejected by AI after using AI to tailor my resume for a job posting written by AI https://t.co/E3icHbCq9t
Agentic AI Cuts Waste, Fraud in IT Procurement
How agentic #AI can empower your IT procurement processes to reduce waste, fraud, and software vendor smoke screens … https://t.co/UPWPGtZROC @ChiefInvOfficer
Align AI Teammates with Your Go‑To‑Market Strategy
How do you practically “ground” an AI teammate in a company’s specific Go-To-Market strategy? https://t.co/RQDmR8BMQn via @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Leadership #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #TechNews #AgenticAI #AIAgents #AI #FutureOfWork #Strategy #Sales #Marketing
