Holy shit... this might be the next big paradigm shift in AI. 🤯 Tencent + Tsinghua just dropped a paper called Continuous Autoregressive Language Models (CALM) and it basically kills the “next-token” paradigm every LLM is built on. Instead of predicting one token at a time,

The elephant in the room: What happened to Europe? While US and Chinese AI companies are announcing trillions of dollars in AI deals, the EU is rolling out a $1.1 billion AI plan to "ramp up AI." There is virtually no competition coming from the EU when it comes to AI

GM has been doing this for a while.

Which city in the world will be the first to ban human drivers? With growing evidence that AVs are safer than human drivers and with increasing AV availability, the ethical debate will shift from “should we allow them?” to “should we require them?”

Human drivers will be priced off the road by insurance rates to reflect their relative risk.

China shock 3.0 incubating.

This strange square 👇 is undoubtedly the most extraordinary work of literature in human history. Yet, unfortunately, barely anyone in the West has ever heard of it. There was this woman poet in 4th century China called Su Hui (蘇蕙), a child genius who had reportedly mastered

This Spectator piece reads like gossip until you realize it’s actually a warning. A senior English barrister takes a real appeal he spent a day and a half writing, feeds it to an AI model, and gets back something better in 30 seconds. It matched the standard of the very best

Jeffrey Sachs - An Open Letter to Chancellor Friedrich Merz: Security Is Indivisible – and History Matters A history-and-reality-based open letter to Germany’s unfortunate Chancellor Friedrich Merz braveneweurope.com/jeffrey-sachs-… #Geopolitics #Germany #Europe #Russia #Diplomacy

Long before Coca Cola advertising gave him a nice red and white hat, Father Christmas was actually a real Byzantine saint- St Nicholas, Bishop of Myra or ‘Santa Claus’ in Dutch. He was renowned for his generosity and gift giving.

How Sega saved Nvidia from oblivion.

When will these be good enough to play video games on the night sky?

Map of every battle since 2500 BC according to Wikipedia (10,624 battles)

Vietnam has quietly crossed a line. Latest manufacturing labour cost (≈2022): • China: ~$8/hr • Vietnam: ~$2.3/hr • Malaysia: ~$2.1/hr • Thailand: ~$1.9/hr • India: ~$1.1/hr Vietnam has overtaken Malaysia on wages yet factories keep moving there. This isn’t about cheap

two weeks in Shenzhen and it’s an been eye-opening experience im here for a month with MIT SCALE and the speed of hardware production is easily 10× faster than sf. from product concept to production, everything is streamlined within a single building. Nearly every component you

I JUST BROKE DOWN THE REAL NUMBERS ON TRUMP'S TARIFFS Everyone expected tariffs to reduce the current account deficit and restore US jobs. But the numbers tell a different story. China just posted a $1.2 trillion trade surplus in 2025. The biggest in history. Up 20% from

Canada leads. Will others follow? Europe? Australia?

Tranquillement, sans effet de manche, ce petit bonhomme procède à un bouleversement géopolitique, que d’autres suivront probablement.

Classic confusion of value creation vs value capture. The crucial question is who will capture the productivity gains from AI? Top1% or masses? The answer may be different in China vs the West. And that may define the underlying battle of systems this century.