On February 9, 1990, Carl Sagan gave this speech before the 5th Emerging Issues Forum at NCSU, expounding on climate observations and energy strategies for a sustainable future, emphasizing solar [full speech: buff.ly/3RZhLOY]

Congratulations, Team Sightline Climate (CTVC). Well deserved raise. Your newsletters are informative and inspiring, and looking to see more such content and the change it brings.

"If you want me to go all in on you, you better be all in on what we're doing together. If you're not all in, if you are only kinda into it, I don't want to work with you." A Tiny Thought in the The Knowledge Project newsletter fs.blog/brain-food/aug…

This world works today: ✅ Run a model on a peer-to-peer network, on a random consumer machine. Just like BitTorrent. 🙏 You don't have a critical need on OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Rabbit, Devin, Hugging Face, etc. It just works.

This here is one consumer Macbook requesting a LLM to be run on another *random* consumer machine and getting the results back in real-time. 100s of models across 1000s of nodes today.

Major update coming to the points system: we are making it more accessible and fair for hobbyists running nodes. You will now earn a bonus to your reward multiplier for every 4GB quantized block of VRAM you contribute. More VRAM = more rewards 🔥 More details in the days ahead.

The AI in Mission Impossible didn’t need a Google account to sign in. Just a self-sovereign keypair. PS: Unlike the movie, the AI aligned with humanity will also use this.

Join me on Tuesday, July 15th at Shack 15 in San Francisco where we will only talk about the agentic browser. This is the most ambitious and necessary product of this decade, and it is important to do it right. Billions of people will be using one..

The Agentic Browser Summit, tonight in San Francisco at Shack 15. Fireside Q&A with Robert Scoble