don’t let this place fool you into thinking we aren’t the luckiest people in the world that we get to make things for other people who actually use the things we make if you made something today, thank you. if you used something (or bought!) someone made, thank you

“There are no AI-shaped holes lying around” -> this is how I reconcile the facts that (a) AI is already powerful and (b) it’s having relatively little impact so far Making AI work today requires ripping up workflows and rebuilding *for* AI. This is hard and painful to do…

when two agents meet what is their handshake greeting bee butt dance protocol?

49 years ago today, Voyager 1 left Earth to explore Jupiter and Saturn. Then it kept going. Rocketdyne propulsion helped send it on its way and has supported its journey into interstellar space. Nearly five decades later, Voyager 1 reminds us just how far we can go.

Ben Affleck (Hollywood star & Artists Equity CEO) talks about how he fine-tunes open video models by unfreezing weights and trained only the last cinematic layer so a film crew can hit real production standards. for context, Ben Affleck founded InterPositive in 2022, a 16-person AI shop for film post and Netflix bought it in March 2026 for $587 mn in cash. He needed that model because public video models were trained on his peers' films, and he did not think that was a real business. So InterPositive raised money, shot its own dataset for 8 months on a controlled stage, and used it only as late-stage training. Each new film then trains a private model on its own dailies, so the production keeps the footage and the learning. That is the product Netflix paid $587 million for. ---- From "Bloomberg Live" YouTube channel, (link in comment)

pretty curious what the rules will be regarding competing with horses gestated in artificial wombs + CRISPr

I have given Claude Code the task of migrating @groupthinkAI off AWS (mostly via Laravel Vapor) and Laravel Forge onto @laravel Cloud, so excited to save some money and have this all in one place finally!

explore the solar system & galaxy - every planet, moon, asteroid, comet - almost every spacecraft sol.louisarge.com

Marketing is a capital allocation activity and, just like in investing, the hardest thing to do is to know when *not* to transact

Hit escape velocity last night

I won’t gatekeep

The intuitive way to align AI agents is to make them "want" the right things. In a new piece, @BenjaminLy61243 argues this is insufficient. A soccer player may want to win the game, but actions that contribute to that goal come from subgoals, such as "defending the left side". Building on the work of @drmichaellevin, an "alignment compiler" is a system that translates high-order goals into behavior for individual parts. Markets, organisms and soccer teams are all examples of this. Reasoning about collectives of AI agents through this lens points to new solutions to multi-agent alignment failures.

Please suggest books, papers, posts, articles and follows for my current learning theme: What happens when a species gains the capacity to externalize, represent, interrogate and deliberately modify the cultural structures that previously constituted the largely invisible developmental environment of its members?

My Oura tells me I am now 9.5 years younger than my chronological age, and moving this metric even further down is the stickiest feature other than needing the form factor of jewelry

ok maybe I am just missing it but what is stopping AI models from doing AI research?

have you tried telling Claude "we have the power to do anything, please be braver" also, have you tried telling yourself

Tonight’s Survivor snack: stovetop popcorn with Rancho Gordo crimson kernels, butter, chipotle, smoked paprika, makrut lime leaf powder, salt, and fresh lime zest. Made a whole container of the spice mix for future batches. This is going into regular rotation. 🍿