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Google has scanned over 25M books, but you can’t read them. Fears over cannibalization of print sales & copyright concerns killed much of the project. But it turns out that digitization INCREASED print demand. The effects are big: an average of around $3,750 more sales per book.

I've been noodling on: what is my "field" anyway? (Well, it's a proto-field, if anything). I recently attended a conference with a bunch of Ink & Switch and unusual HCI people and felt a strong kinship there, even though our work seems quite different on its surface. What unites

I got tired of this not existing. Feel free to contribute. neverjust.net

We spent 20+ years debating the semantic web (web 3.0) and why it would never work, but somehow nobody seems to acknowledge the fact that LLMs are almost exactly what Tim Berners-Lee predicted? ("intelligent agents") The idea of manually creating and maintaining semantically

Video, meet audio. 🎥🤝🔊 With Veo 3, our new state-of-the-art generative video model, you can add soundtracks to clips you make. Create talking characters, include sound effects, and more while developing videos in a range of cinematic styles. 🧵

Say goodbye to the silent era of video generation: Introducing Veo 3 — with native audio generation. 🗣️ Quality is up from Veo 2, and now you can add dialogue between characters, sound effects and background noise. Veo 3 is available now in the Google Gemini App for Google AI Ultra

We live in the era when people insist that AI already has free will, but also many people believe that human beings don’t have free will.

Get into the zone with Flow. 🎬 It combines the best of our most advanced models Veo, Imagen and Gemini into 1️⃣ master filmmaking tool - helping you weave cinematic clips, dynamic scenes, and compelling narratives into stories with consistent results.

The most painful part of writing is realizing you don’t quite know what you actually think

Today we introduced Gemini Diffusion⚡️ (& DeepThink, Veo3, Imagen4, 2.5 updates...). It's been a dream of mine to remove the need for "left to right" text generation. It's so fast, that we had to *slow down* the video during the presentation. deepmind.google/models/gemini-…

This stream isn't real... entirely generated by Veo 3

Linear for Agents. Now ready to deploy. linear.app/agents

Remind me who will deal with keeping tech debt at bay; nonfunctional requirements (like the app performant, latency low), rationalising resource usage (to not go bankrupt with cloud bills), keeping on top of security and I can go on and on. Today, “AI” cannot do either of these

el.cine Angry Tom This tech basically lets you A/B test voice styles the same way you test ad copy. Instead of hiring 5 voice actors, you can generate different tones, accents, or energy levels instantly. Quick test: Take your best-performing video ad script and run it through 3 voice variations

Give away your how. Charge for their why.

Acquiring knowledge is easy, the hard part is knowing what to apply and when. That’s why all true learning is “on the job.” Life is lived in the arena.

No one talks about the real reason driving the ~500k tech layoffs. Section 174 in the 2017 tax cuts turned engineer salaries from an instant tax deduction into a 5yr write off, causing billions in tax bills. It even incentivizes offshoring R&D, which has a 15yr write off! 1/4

the singularity is here

LLMs are far worse at competitive programming than we thought. Every one scored 0% on Hard problems. LiveCodeBench-Pro is a new benchmark with 584 always updating problems from IOI, ICPC and Codeforces. What's most interesting is the categories they perform really poorly on:

Claude Code can now connect to remote MCP servers. Pull context from your tools directly into Claude Code with no local setup required.