Its going viral on Reddit. Somebody let ChatGPT run a $100 live share portfolio, restricted to U.S. micro-cap stocks. Did an LLM really bit the market?. - 4 weeks +23.8% while the Russell 2000 and biotech ETF XBI rose only ~3.9% and 3.5%. Prompt + GitHub posted ---

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei just gave THE MOST accelerated talk on how scaling will continue to make models exponentially more powerful for a long time to come — and that there is "NO WALL." 🔥 - From 'Alex Kantrowitz' YT Channel (Full Video link in comment) --- "The thing I

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A fourth problem on FrontierMath Tier 4 has been solved by AI! Written by Dan Romik, it had won our prize for the best submission in the number theory category.

Salvador Dalí creates an incredible foil sculpture in seconds (1967)

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NPR obtained bodycam footage showing Jared Wise beating police officers on Jan. 6 and yelling “kill ’em” as rioters attacked. He now works as a senior adviser in Trump’s DOJ. “Back the blue,” right?

Exclusive - (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force is denying early retirement to all transgender service members with between 15 and 18 years of military service, opting instead to kick them out with no retirement benefits, according to a memo seen by Reuters. These longer-serving

My friend and I are listening to music in Menlo Park and he turned to me and said “Google announced something more important than its Genie 3 Holodeck.” “What?” “Search Sensor LM.” This came up: research.google/blog/sensorlm-… New health models for small devices. Much more accurate

Token crisis: solved. ✅ We pre-trained diffusion language models (DLMs) vs. autoregressive (AR) models from scratch — up to 8B params, 480B tokens, 480 epochs. Findings: > DLMs beat AR when tokens are limited, with >3× data potential. > A 1B DLM trained on just 1B tokens

Unidentifiable, unaccountable officers are an exceptionally bad idea. How is this sort of thing distinguishable to onlookers from "kidnapping by posing as police"? Clear identification is in everyone's best interests. Masked thugs are not agents of law and order.

1 week harvest from 2 squash plants 8" chef's knife for scale (and self-defense)

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What if we could evolve AI models like organisms in nature, letting them compete, mate, and combine their strengths to produce ever-fitter offspring? Excited to share our new work: “Competition and Attraction Improve Model Fusion” presented at GECCO’25🦎 where it was a runner-up

2025 Mid-Year LLM Market Update: Foundation Model Landscape + Economics Menlo Vectures report Enterprise LLM usage is consolidating around a few top closed-source models, and Anthropic now leads usage while spend shifts hard to inference. $8.4B model API spend, up from $3.5B