From 1264 to 1827, anyone who received a Master of Arts degree from Oxford had to swear that they would never forgive Henry Symeonis. By 1608, no one knew who he was or what he had done.

The AI opportunities plan from Keir Starmer is brilliant. The start of what could be truly transformative for the state. It's modest, pragmatic and fiscally conservative today, but I hope it can grow into something even more ambitious: The UK's Manhattan Project for AI

1/ Really great leadership from Keir Starmer on AI

Thank you to everyone who came to our Interpretability Hackathon this weekend! We were astonished by the quality of submissions and we had a great time meeting you all. Here were some of the projects on display: Grand Prize (£1k) - COIN (Nitish Mital, Simon Malzard, Piyush

Pure joy for Madison Keys. Crying. Laughing. Just taking every single drop of this moment in 🥹

redemption

My favourite paragraph in all of Thoreau, lean in

DeepSeek and what happened yesterday: Probably the largest positive tfp shock in the history of the world.

We absolutely should deflect the rock, the odds of it doing real damage are probably very low, but we need the practice. You don't want your first asteroid deflection to be a continent-killer with no margin for error. Let's try things out on the little guy

Pure magic

I think this is almost right. What I would say is rather that there’s no such thing as a “PhD-level math problem” — many of the problems math grad students do over the course of their PhD are hard because they require lots of background, not because they require deep insight.

C. S. Lewis on friendship, magical read it slowly

If you're thinking about AI for maths, recommend this thread

Very excited to launch Deep Cogito and the Cogito v1 models today! We started Deep Cogito last year with the belief intelligence gains will move away from pre-training into post-training, and general superintelligence will be built via breakthroughs in learning algorithms,

𝐁𝐘𝐎𝐑: 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐎𝐰𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡! For builders experimenting with crazy ideas, join us on May 3rd-4th in Indiranagar. Theme: "Rethinking Interfaces and Interactions with AI". Registration: lu.ma/52b0bh30 PS: Check out our inspiration list!

Still remember myself jumping with joy and recognition ("there are other people who think like me!") from when I first watched this as a teenager

Byrne Hobart This is entirely the fault of everybody involved