Very funny as of late to see the trend of invite-only engineer dinners in SV. Why are these invites landing in my inbox?

Bless the very out-of-Bay-Area Venture Associate who is diligently contacting everyone on LinkedIn associated with "Stealth Startup" and asking what stage their startup is in...

> To be very clear, Gemini 3 isn’t perfect, and it still needs a manager who can guide and check it. But it suggests that “human in the loop” is evolving from “human who fixes AI mistakes” to “human who directs AI work.” And that may be the biggest change since the release of

Moar home robots!!!

Fully open Western model at parity with Qwen3 32b Thinking. The American DeepSeek Moment

Context for people outside the AI bubble... This post is, ah, slightly bemusing if you are familiar with the current hiring trends for non-AI labs right now.

I was able to generate a vastly improved version of the Tush Push infographic with Nano Banana Pro. If you're not relying on primary sources (e.g. papers, articles, etc.) to generate, then a design brief-like (longer than you think it should be) prompt works best.

My header image is from the Turicum Pixelwald (2021) by Pipilotti Rist exhibit at the Kunsthaus Zürich. I spent a wonderful afternoon at the museum during my stay in Zürich last fall. visitorguide.kunsthaus.ch/ch-en/51936441…

Internal documents: Amazon's data center operations total 900+ facilities in 50+ countries, including AWS colocation facilities, higher than commonly understood (Matt Day / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… techmeme.com/251124/p15#a25… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…

One trend to watch wrt recent Anthropic releases is their practice to burst out of the gate and bluntly state this is "the best model in the world for ..." From a product comms perspective: if you've got it, flaunt it. Simple declarative communication wins.

my mom after ten minutes in a waymo: “is there a mode where you can talk to it”

My Waymo just welcomed me…and then gobbled at me quite unexpectedly. I love the little graphic here.