Hiiiii here's a fun story about Monumental Labs, the startup behind the card-clutching, Renaissance-style marble sculpture at the Stripe conference this week. They make all kinds of statues w a CNC robot — including a luxury handbag and a client's dog.
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I love this. Please read it! Smart take from Ellen Huet about why we should fear the (fake Zuck) beard

WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP THINKING MY NAME IS REBECCA?!

(Someone I know casually just jogged by me and said “hi, Rebecca!” and this is almost always the way emails are incorrectly addressed to me.)

It's exhausting watching Jews become political props, used by both parties to achieve whatever it is they're looking to do. We're real people. antisemitism is a real problem. If you've seen it on the right, see it on the left and vice versa. I mean, come on people.

New: Elon Musk will be deposed on Monday as part of the arbitration hearings involving thousands of former Twitter employees. The deposition will be in-person and last for seven hours, according to an email sent to former employees. Story w/ Ed Ludlow

in a more in-depth post on linkedin, Reid writes that his avatar was made by Hour One and the voice cloning comes from ElevenLabs (you may recall Eleven Labs was used to make a robocall featuring an audio fake of President Biden's voice).

i have found a mask SO HELPFUL for my hay fever; i pop it on before i walk through a park on my way to work (i'm hella allergic to grass) and no more sneezes! if you're one of the many people sneezing your face off rn due to allergies, i highly recommend.

Ok I have a question about the Rabbit R1: what is a large action model? Is it just company-speak for chaining tasks/actions together (like an agent), or is it something else? I never heard the term before the company started talking about it.

If we are really concerned that open source AI models will allow anyone to develop bioweapons the answer isn’t to ban open source models but ban such models altogether? Why on earth would, say, a middle manager at Google get access to bioweapon making abilities over anyone else

Some news: the 🇬🇧 CMA is digging deeper into Amazon's very big investment in Anthropic, Microsoft's small investment in Mistral and Microsoft's ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ with Inflection

what exactly is a large action model supposed to be?