Language models’ “thoughts” can be a window into their intentions, if we can read them. CoT monitoring is promising for AI safety, but as companies tweak training methods, these thoughts may become harder to understand. Fragile transparency. #AISafety tomekkorbak.com/cot-monitorabi…

COVID-19 Recession from February to April 2020 caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, was the most recent recession in American History. This was the shortest on record but had the second-highest unemployment rate at 14.7%. Probability of #recession risk remains highest in August!

Why you should be wary about clicking that “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of unwanted emails on.wsj.com/3UvylZm

Video-generating AI software startups like #Runway and #Luma AI are making inroads into Hollywood! Next target #robotics & #selfdrivingcars ... AI Films Make The Leap From Social Feeds To IMAX Theaters via @forbes forbes.com/sites/leslieka…

Inference Providers by numbers (annualized) - Fireworks $200M - Together AI $150M - Modal $40M - Baseten $30M Investors believe cheap, easy access to open-source AI models will become increasingly important as the number of AI apps built on such models explodes! #OSS #inference

Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot has surpassed 20 million users & is used by 90% of the Fortune 100! Cursor reportedly had more than a million people using its product every day in March, according to Bloomberg. Coding market is growing! #githubcopilot #Cursor

the feeding frenzy for ownership in the AI labs has spawned a set of bottom feeding multi layered SPV brokers that have no relationship with the company, and straight up grifters. careful of that nonsense.

Between Epic, Doximity offering free AI scribing, and 100 other startups competing on price, I'm struggling to understand how the price of AI scribes doesn't go to zero in the next 24 months

40% The share of McKinsey’s revenue that now comes from advising on AI and related technology 1/4 of its work today is outcomes-based, paid partly on whether project achieves certain results #saas outcome based pricing shift came fast to consulting firms! #mckinsey #consulting

New startup orgs might look like mckinsey projects "Traditionally, a strategy project might have required a project leader,4 consultants & a partner. Today, it might need a leader and 2 or 3 consultants, alongside a few AI agents and access to deep research #futureofstartuporgs

Notetaker agents seem to be cool however they're a nuisance when they pick up small talk and private discussions meant for a select audience and then blasting transcripts to everyone, often with hilarious results. #notetakeragents #genai

Great to see my alma mater #cmu will take the lead in this "As generative AI upends computer science education, universities like Carnegie Mellon are rethinking their curricula to focus less on coding and more on AI literacy and computational thinking." #logic #algorithms

"Employees are attending meetings in which humans are outnumbered by AI note-taking apps. The Washington Post has more here." Haha I wish we can compare the notes in between the note-taking apps :)

Sad to see ChatGPT5 is still bad at easy real estate math question :( #chatgpt5 #math

"Over the last decade, we’ve gone from 90% of companies blocking secondaries to 10% as both employees and VCs increasingly seek liquidity w VCs now accounting for roughly a 1/3 of all secondary volume as they sell down stakes to return capital to LPs." #secondarymarkets #VC

Is it Midwest VC time because of government's manufacturing focus? "Investors rush in during boom times, then retreat to the coasts when markets turn sour." #VC #midwestVC

Vibe coding is like jazz improvisation whereas Context engineering is like composing sheet music for an orchestra! #vibecoding vs #contextengineering