OpenAI's "Benefit Humanity" Promise Under Scrutiny
Everything you need to know about “Open”AI’s claims to be working on AI “for the benefit of humanity”. https://t.co/qQLX2wIz8M
New Universal Verifier Exposes Flawed AI Agent Benchmarks
🚨 New Microsoft research exposes a critical flaw in AI agents: How do you actually verify that an agent succeeded? Most benchmarks assume success… But in reality, evaluation itself is often broken. ⸻ Microsoft researchers introduce a new framework: Universal Verifier A system designed to rigorously...
OpenAI’s Ad Flop Reveals Widespread Misunderstanding of Advertising
It appears Openai is failing badly in ads. The key problem is everyone thinks they understand ads as we all deal with them constantly. As someone who has spent two decades in the space, I can confirm...
Semiconductor Weekly: Intel
Latest: Intel teams up; GPU rowhammer attack; faster verification; Samsung’s new packaging site; China poaches Taiwan talent; thinnest GaN chiplet; AFM-IR; new edge design; BMW hydrogen; TSMC, Samsung $; silent data corruption.. https://t.co/Q1qG4B7mAP #semiconductor #GaN #edge
Creators Showcase Innovative Projects Built with Gemma 4
We love seeing what you’ve built with Gemma 4, the open model family that we released last week. Here are a few fun examples, described by the builders in their own words (🧵):
South Korea to Cut Border Troops by 75% Using AI
"Seoul plans to replace troops on North Korea border with AI-based systems." Based on the information provided this is a dangerous plan IMO not learning from Israel, Ukraine, many other war zones. AI does greatly enhance soldiers but 22k to...
AI Powers 24/7 Gig and Flexible Hiring
AI elevates gig work, flexible work, and enables job-seekers to connect with companies at all times of day and night. My chat with Cliff Jurkiewicz, head of strategy at Phenom, at the company’s recent annual conference in Philadelphia. via...
Replimune's FDA‑targeted Skin Cancer Drug Faces Another Rejection
Replimune $REPL skin cancer drug that became FDA flashpoint is rejected again https://t.co/7aOfKy8vC7 via @Jasonmmast
Hugging Face Launches Kernels for AI Engineers
In a world where writing code to build websites and apps is trivial (thank you Lovable, Cursor, Claude,...), the real differentiation for you and your company (and what makes you successful) will be how you manage to train, run and...
AI Teammates Amplify Digital Influence in Sales
The Conversational Scale: Deploying AI Teammates for Digital Influence https://t.co/dRtl1KKfe3 via @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Leadership #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #TechNews #AgenticAI #AIAgents #Agentic #AI #FutureOfWork #Strategy #Sales #Marketing https://t.co/2N950paVgz
Hire by Outcome Data or Be Replaced
The metric defining hiring just changed. Outcome data. Predictive validity. Scientific rigor. A good DJ always knew which record would work. Now you can prove it before you play it. Adapt the standard, or get replaced by the metric itself.
Artemis II Splashdown Show Tonight: Mission Recap & Updates
Artemis II Splashdown show tonight @BloombergTV Will recap the mission, listen in to @NASAArtemis @NASA mission updates and discuss with @lorengrush
New Cascade Decoder Signals End for BP+OSD
Might be time to retire BP+OSD soon. Many new decoders for qLDPC codes with really impressive performance these days, e.g. the Cascade decoder from the Harvard group https://t.co/5qeOhZbCrQ
Trial and Error: Only a Few GTM Channels Succeed
20 GTM channels tried. 17 failed. 3 worked. There is no playbook. You only make the shots you take. https://t.co/OUzEhRYy98
Cloudflare Leverages Edge AI for Scalable Growth
IGV is down 27.5% YTD — 5 software stocks to watch👇 $NET — Cloudflare | Forward EV/S: 24.05x Cloudflare runs workloads at the edge through Workers AI and charges for execution, not GPU rental. AI traffic rising across search, agents, and...
Klarna's First Invoice Sparked BNPL Revolution
FINTECH FLASHBACK: 21 YRS FROM THE 1ST BNPL On this day in 2005 (April 10, 11:06:40 AM): Klarna (then called Kreditor) processed its very first transaction. The merchant: Pocketklubben, a small bookstore in Stockholm, Sweden. The customer...
Psychedelic Therapies May Outpace GLP‑1s Commercially
I believe the commercial potential of #psychedelic therapies is likely to exceed that of GLP-1s. $ATAI $CMPS $DFTX
Exploring Agentic AI's Impact on Large Development Teams
Are you using agentic AI in your development teams? Working with it individually has been powerful. Very curious how this translates to large codebases and teams.
Top Agencies Earn 9× More From Automations
Here's how you know if your agency is in the top 10% of ecommerce marketing agencies: @Omnisend just analyzed 717 agencies managing almost 3,000 brands, and the gap between the best and everyone else is bigger than you'd think. The top agencies...
Cheaper Rockets and AI Make Space Exploration Imminent
To understand the universe, we must explore it. With the cost of exploration plummeting alongside reusable rockets, AI navigation, and more... This is about to become a reality.
US Mobile's Starlink Bundles Start $47, Rise After Six Months
"US Mobile has revealed pricing on a set of Starlink bundles that start at $47 per month for new customers. The discount on the Starlink tiers convert to regular pricing after six months, which is $20 higher for each tier."...
How Bad Naming Made My SaaS Unsearchable
I might have accidentally made my SaaS… unsearchable. I broke down all my naming mistakes (and lessons learned) in my newsletter, released tomorrow: → https://paulinecx.beehiiv.com/
Apple Boosts TSMC SoIC Capacity for AI Servers
Morgan Stanly on Apple custom ASIC for cloud/hybrid compute (chip code-named Balta): "Apple is materially ramping SoIC capacity at TSMC, pointing to a major push in Apple silicon for AI servers. TSMC (covered by Charlie Chan) is expanding its SoIC (System...
AI Journaling Demands Privacy as Core, Not Feature
The most personal data you will ever generate deserves more than a terms of service. When you journal with AI, you are sharing things that, for a lot of people, nobody else hears outside of a therapist. That level of trust...
Boom Dedicates a Week to Company-Wide AI Coding
Next week is AI week at Boom. All regularly scheduled project work is stopped, the whole company codes. Demo day is a week from Monday. https://t.co/nMy264Ln6Q
AI Levels the Playing Field: Everyone Starts Fresh
AI just reset everyone's ignorance to 100. Doesn't matter how senior you are. Doesn't matter how clean your code is. We're all starting over. Kent Beck + @mipsytipsy on Still Burning → https://t.co/WFFTYi8IZ6
Unlock $15K‑20K Monthly with 11 Essential Email Fl
A brand doing $200K/month can capture $15-20K/month from one automation they didn't have turned on. Pull your email dashboard right now. What % of total revenue is coming from flows? If it's under 20-30%, you built your launch setup and stopped. 11 flows...
Open, Distributed Compute Can Thwart AI Oligopoly
If Martin is right, he also just wrote the product spec for open source + distributed compute where broad swaths of groups, individuals and organizations contribute their compute resources to training runs for large param open source models. There are...
AI Chip War Sparks Investor Risks in US-China Trade
AI Chips Are A Looming Battlefield In U.S.-China Trade. What Investors Should Know. https://t.co/FcrSZnqDwz $TSMC $AMSL $INTC $MU $NVDA $TSLA
Three Factors That Let Artemis II Surpass Apollo’s Record
How did Artemis II break Apollo’s distance record? #AskEthan If you ask google how Artemis II broke Apollo 13's distance record, it'll lie and say "because the rocket was more powerful." But these three reasons, combined, are how it really happened. https://t.co/lqbj3u00kP
Join Live Q&A on Artemis Splashdown Today at 4 PM
With the @NASAArtemis splashdown happening Friday night, there is no better time to sit down with me and talk science. Join @WorldSciFest live on YouTube for a Q&A today at 4pm EDT. Drop your questions below to get them answered...
Whoop Vs
This week on Optimizer… This is a thing that happened. To whom? You just have to read. https://www.theverge.com/column/909736/optimizer-whoop-oura-wearable-hype-cycle
Optical Genome Mapping Enhances AML Classification and Treatment
Optical genome mapping [OGM] improves the accuracy of classification, risk stratification, & personalized treatment strategies for Pts w/ acute myeloid leukemia [Jul 17, 2024] @sanamloghavi et al. @AjHematology https://t.co/R5ZLgolhuj #AMLsm #leusm #PrecisionMedicine #oncopath https://t.co/kX7KUJLK0L
Unexpected Wet Wipes Business Offer on FB Marketplace
Wild what you can find on FB marketplace Anyone want to start a wet wipes business? https://t.co/tGgoiC8P2A
Robot Money Merges Allocation and Fund Management, Agent Handles Allocation
This is a good product and I’m excited to integrate it There is a difference between asset allocation (ie treasury management) and fund management (ie manufacturing a fund) Robot Money is built from both @RobotMoneyAgent focuses on the former
AI Has Replaced Jobs for One‑Fifth of U.S. Workers
AI has replaced work for 20% of full-time employees in the U.S., survey says https://t.co/objTwfS3I4 https://t.co/jBgT9ZgwFR
AI Handles Facts, Humans Must Provide Judgment
In working with generative AI, I find it useful to separate two things. It is very good at assembling plausible answers. For questions of fact, that makes it an extraordinarily efficient tool. Judgment is a different matter. Judgment carries accountability....
BLIP‑2 Connects Vision and Language Without Full Retraining
BLIP-2: Bridging Vision and Language Without Full Retraining In this episode of Artificial Intelligence: Papers and Concepts, we explore BLIP-2, a powerful vision–language model that connects pretrained image encoders with large language models without requiring expensive end-to-end training. Instead of building...
Gen Z Adopts Claude‑first Workflow; Adapt or Fall Behind
The new norm for countless people under-25 is to take every single task they get and start by entering it into Claude as a first step. It's here, and if you're not jumping in you're going to be left behind fast. I...
Reddit's Presence Surges in AI Overview Content
Thought I was seeing a lot more Reddit in AI Overviews and yup. They’ve been showing up more in there for a couple months now: (@ahrefs brand radar data) https://t.co/c68TBYsvpm
Launch Fast, Refine Later: Only Avoid Errors or Embarrassment
I gave a client some advice in a meeting today that felt almost reckless to say out loud, but I stand by it completely. When you're reviewing content before a website launch, ask yourself one question: is this factually incorrect,...
Natural Gas Power Surge Cuts Coal, Gasoline, Home Gas Use
This rise in natural gas for power consumption does several things that are economically and/or environmentally beneficial: 1) helps meet new demand from data centers, modern factories, O&G production, etc. 2) reduces gasoline consumption b/c of electric vehicles 3) displaces coal consumption...
Scaling Personalized B2B Customer Engagement Efficiently
Personalized B2B Customer Engagement at Scale by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/89z2OuNeZD @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #Salesforce #SalesEnablement #RevOps #Leadership #Marketing #MarketingStrategy https://t.co/JIWaqBphiQ
Coding, Support, Search Dominate AI; Tech, Legal, Healthcare Lead Adoption
"Coding, support, and search represent the lion’s share of use cases by far (with coding being an order-of-magnitude outlier even among this set), while the tech, legal, and healthcare sectors have been the industries most eager to adopt AI." https://t.co/qgQ6dqXnuv...
Jobs' Last‑minute Switch to Glass Revived 1960s Corning Tech
TIL Steve Jobs decided to use glass for the first iPhone *after* announcing it and noticing his plastic screen was scratched. He convinced @Corning to resurrect an invention they made in the 1960’s, convert a factory, and produce millions of screens...
AI Language Fluency Masks Hidden Western Bias, Warns Scholar
AI’s fluency in other languages hides a Western worldview that can mislead users − a scholar of Indonesian society explains https://t.co/0eD4fnI1jS via @ConversationUS #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology #Tech #TechNews https://t.co/VKjNXVv56t
Sex Drives Distinct Immune Aging Patterns and Disease Risks
The way our immune cells age differs substantially by sex, from single-cell analysis of ~1,000 people. Implications for propensity for autoimmune diseases (women), vulnerability to cancer (men), immunosenescence and inflammaging @NatureAging https://t.co/GjcuZ8luNM
One Photo, Unlimited Pro‑Quality Angles Instantly
This multi-angle tool from Hailuo AI really redefines efficient creation Just upload one photo back shots, Dutch angles, and all kinds of views are generated instantly The quality honestly looks like it was shot by a professional team https://t.co/7GxVH3307M
Guess the Orion Tech Piece NASA Will Touch Tonight
Fun @NASAArtemis II quiz: Who can guess can what the last piece of cool Orion technology Reid, Victor (Go Mustangs @calpoly), Jeremy, and Christina will touch after landing tonight?
Personalized CRISPR Fixes Baby KJ’s Genetic Defect
In just 6 months a team at @ChildrensPhila & @PennMedicine designed a personalized CRISPR based Rx to correct the single misspelled letter in Baby KJ’s DNA that results in CPS1 deficiency. Recent advances in mRNA science & CRISPR gene...