Innovators Persist Because They Resist Social Pressure
“the innovator keeps going, not out of arrogance, but because they structurally don't bend to social pressure.”
Ted Nelson’s “And You Do” Note Becomes Cherished Keepsake
ted nelson is one of the 🐐s for sure. his “and you do” note to me on my first edition of computer lib is one of my treasured possessions https://t.co/DcOOI3a0Dd
AI Set to Overhaul Legal Practice Within Three Years
“Holy shit this is going to change the business and practice of law as we have known it for decades in less than 3 years.” 👀 https://t.co/Qe988vxjSs
CMS Partners with Innovators to Empower Patients and Streamline Care
“CMS is teaming up with innovators to give patients control of their data, reduce burdensome paperwork, and harness AI to deliver faster, smarter, more compassionate care.” ‼️
ManiacVC Built as Fully AI‑Native Investment Firm
this is why i chose to build @maniacvc to be AI native from the ground up. all of maniac is AI native from outbound sourcing, analyst work, inbound handling, investment memos, and everything in between.
Drone Autonomously Matches Live Imagery to Terrain Maps
“At the final stage of the attack, the drone turns off communication and becomes fully autonomous. It compares images from its cameras with a pre-loaded map of heights and terrain in real time.” - this is non-generative AI btw
Non‑invasive BCI: Thought‑controlled Software and Hardware
now imagine this, but a non-invasive BCI, and you can control software and hardware with just your thoughts. non-invasive BCI is the next breakthrough.
From RAG to Zero‑Trust: Verifying Hostile LLM Memory
“i came in thinking I’d build a RAG system. i left with a zero-trust verification pipeline that treats the LLM’s parametric memory as hostile.” 👀 🔗 https://t.co/nFZBhpfUKq https://t.co/HYoRr2wYhf
Westlaw's AI Hallucinations Undermine Legal Citation Credibility
“Really bad look for Westlaw, the top brand in the legal space, to be hallucinating legal citations within an accurately cited case.”
Users Demand Westlaw’s Data Be Factual, Not Fabricated
“Users have every right to expect that a Westlaw product isn’t spewing made up garbage.” 👀
Legal AI Firms Overstate RAG's Hallucination‑free Promise
“Recently, certain legal research providers have touted methods such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) as “eliminating” (Casetext, 2023) or “avoid[ing]” hallucinations (Thomson Reuters, 2023), or guaranteeing “hallucination-free” legal citations” 👀 https://t.co/kn1551aRr5
Westlaw AI Delivers Gibberish on Tough Queries Despite Paid Service
“when I fed it intermediate to hard to very difficult questions in the past, Westlaw AI shrugged, gave me unhelpful gibberish…And people are paying for this (loads).” 👀
Howe Debuts Westlaw CoCounsel in Appellate Brief
“Howe claims that this appeal was his first time utilizing Westlaw CoCounsel “in this way for a Court of Appeals brief.”” 👀 https://t.co/FBc20Es4dL
Deep Learning Once Needed Heavy Promotion Due to Obscurity
in the olden times you had to promote deep learning hard because most people had never heard of it
AI Is Reshaping Legal Research, Resistance Inevitable
“Al is already changing how legal information is accessed and applied at scale. The only real question was whether that shift would be resisted or structured” 👀 https://t.co/iu12fpk15G
US AI Training Risks Illegality, Undermining Global Dominance
if training AI isn’t fair use ↓ all US base models are now infringing & unlawful ...
NYT Sues OpenAI yet Embeds AI in Its Own Review
“the New York Times — which has sued OpenAI for copyright infringement — itself has published a book review of Jean-Baptiste Andrea’s book “Watching Over Her,” apparently with AI generated parts that mimic an earlier book review.” via @edleeprof https://t.co/Wd7W8kuwN3 https://t.co/XPRgs1Yc21
AI Threatens Legal Databases, Reducing Them to Free Case Data
“i think AI is a disaster for them [westlaw and lexis]…AI will compress their value to the value of their database of court cases” 👀 - court cases are free though, the law is free
Case Law Databases: The Real Competitive Edge in Legal Tech
“the main moat for these tools are (1) the case law database” 👀 - reconcile this with the fact that the law is supposed to be free https://t.co/oETBD2q80h
AI Emerges as Healthcare Cornerstone, Validating Flexpa’s Vision
AI is firmly becoming a cornerstone of the healthcare system. when we founded @flexpa this was core to our bet. great to see.
Thomson Reuters Ruling Set to Shape All AI Lawsuits
"the pending appeals in thomson reuters and ongoing litigation in other cases may significantly shape the legal landscape.” 👀 - what gets decided in thomson reuters v. ross will apply to all other AI cases (all 90+ of them right now)
Notebook LM Outperforms CoCounsel when You Supply Sources
“Been using Notebook LM more than CoCounsel. I think it's better at finding the "needle in the haystack." If you load your own sources, it's more accurate…The tradeoff is that you have to give it the sources yourself.” 👀 - this...
Early Bets on Founders Still Paying Off
this is why i invested in as many gundo founders i could a few years back. and most are still just getting started
Shared Foundation Models Drive Universal AI Improvements
“the underlying AI is tied to the same foundation models everyone else uses, and those models keep improving across the board.” 👀 - so that means…precisely what i’ve been saying for a long, long time y’all https://t.co/cNzG1UuFtE
Iran's Threat Highlights AI as U.S. Security Issue
if iran has threatened to attack US AI companies and data centers does that mean AI is a matter of US national security or no? asking for a friend
Law Paywalls Fuel Ongoing Legal Hallucinations
the hallucinations will continue for as long as the law remains behind paywalls and held ransom by gatekeepers
Deep Learning Originated in Our CS Dept, Spawning ROSSIntel
that’s because deep learning was pioneered in our computer science department, which @ROSSIntel spun out of directly
Beyond the First Choice: Later Effects Matter More
the second and third order effects of decisions are often more important than the initial decision itself
Non‑generative AI Crucial for National Security and Legal Search
non-generative AI and the training of non-generative AI is integral to our national security. drones don’t generate prose, images or audio. the search and target, exactly what ROSS Intelligence built but for locating the correct passage of verbatim law.
AI Training Relies on Unsettled Fair Use Assumption
base AI models (domestic & foreign) are all trained on copyrighted material. this assumes that training AI is fair use. now we await the judiciary’s confirmation to ensure this is all kosher, which it must be in order for AI...
Fair Use Needed for Courts and Lawyers Using AI
fair use must apply for the judiciary to continue to use AI as well as lawyers. think of this as an LSAT logical reasoning question folks
Predicted Outcome: AI Training May Lose Fair Use
things are playing out exactly as i said they would. if fair use doesn’t apply to training AI in the US, it’s all over
Bet on Patterns You See, Not Overanalyze
i learned to just start betting on the patterns i spot instead of trying to figure that out
License‑Gated Data Centralizes AI, Stifles Startups
large-scale pretraining data is the substrate of AI. if access to this substrate becomes license-gated in the united states but not elsewhere, then foundation-model innovation centralizes, startup entry collapses at the base layer, and long-term technological leadership shifts
China Deploys Latest AI Models in Military, Data Sources Unclear
"China is not using the oldest model. They're using the newest Qwen. They're using the newest Kimi. They're using the newest DeepSeek in their military applications." - AND WHAT DATA DID THEY USE TO TRAIN THESE MODELS?
Major Outlets Reveal Journalists Turning to AI Writing
yesterday both WSJ and WIRED published pieces about journalists using AI to write their stories https://t.co/G8CQwY7lRr
Agent-Powered Startups Will Outpace Incumbents with Speed, Cost, Agility
this means both older incumbents and younger market participants will face an onslaught of agent enabled startups. faster, cheaper, nimbler.
Flexpa Powers the Emerging AI-Driven Healthcare System
.@flexpa is integral to enabling the AI-powered healthcare system currently being built. and we're ready for all of it.
Explore Undersea Cables: Unlock High-Value Market Insight
start learning about the cables under the oceans, you won't regret it. lots of alpha in knowing about the cables under the ocean now
Flexpa Shows Patient‑Agent Future, Decentralization Neutral
“The @Flexpa experience was my big ah-ha. Decentralization isn’t inherently good or bad - it’s more of the current, unchangable state of things.” - @AndreaCoravos 👌 - patient to agent is the future of healthcare and flexpa has built the infra...
China's Open-Source AI Trained on 1.4M arXiv Papers
and how are china's open-source AI trained? here's what deepseek said, on the record: “we collected source code and compiled PDFs from 1.4 million arXiv articles ... we cleaned 860K English and 180K Chinese e-books from anna’s archive (anna’s archive,...
Old Metrics Still Rule Media Success
same as it always was though: neilson ratings, top 40 charts, new york times best sellers list etc.
Model T Succeeded After Nine Failed Ford Prototypes
“success did not come easy. the model T was ford's ninth attempt at producing a profitable automobile, after models A, B, C, E, N, R, S, and K all proved relative failures.” https://t.co/afusdFZddJ
America's WWII Industrial Mobilization: The Untold Story
“how this remarkable mobilization of american industry, technology, and material production happened remains the great untold story of world war II.” https://t.co/uLEMiAoxFI
Check Citations on Westlaw to Dodge AI Hallucinations
“And it’s not even hard to avoid citing AI-hallucinated cases. All you have to do is use Westlaw or Lexis to cite check the brief.” 👀 - a fish in water never realizes it’s wet. legal data is born free and...
AI Legality Hinges on Output Reproduction, Not Learning
if learning from existing media makes AI outputs illegitimate, then learning from existing media is illegitimate. copyright doesn’t ban learning from works, it bans reproducing them. our neurons make brain copies. the real issue is whether outputs reproduce protected expression.
America Must Lead AI to Safeguard National Security
the US relies on commercial AI models for the department of war. there is no AI manhattan project. this means we must ensure US AI models are the best in the world -- our national security depends on it
Free Online Access to Laws Solves the Mess
what if i told you there’s a relatively simple fix to this mess and it involves ensuring the law is easily available and free to all citizens on the internet?
Swarm Drones Use Simple Neural Nets to Track Warm Targets
“optically-coordinated swarming drones with simple neural nets, that simply target anything warm and moving.” - are you paying attention yet?
Living in the Past or Fantasy, Not Present Reality
“they are no longer capable of seeing contemporary reality. the world which they see is not the one that really exists. it is either the one that used to exist or the one that they would wish to have exist.”...
