Fei-Fei Li, the godmother of AI. “AI is absolutely a civilizational technology. I define civilizational technology in the sense that, because of the power of this technology, it’ll have—or [is] already having—a profound impact in the economic, social, cultural, political, […]
Reluctantly influential: Lenny Rachitsky. “I have a rule: no meetings before 3pm,” Rachitsky says. It’s part of how he protects a “chill life” while still shipping an absurd amount of content and community work. ~ learn more
Peptides are going legal. “Whenever a government tries to ban something people actually want, the same sequence of events plays out every time.” Max Marchione argues the FDA’s peptide crackdown mostly pushed supply into sketchier channels, and that the reversal […]
The internet is real life now. “Have you spoken to a normal person recently? They aren’t actually normal anymore. Nobody is. In all aspects of American life, the internet is upstream of everything else. Sooner or later (and, more often […]
Sprinkle your vitamins. “We have invented a world first oral delivery format that is designed to be sprinkled on meals!” Dr Glitter makes “nutrient crystals” that are “tasteless, odourless” and meant to go on your food instead of downing big […]
Startup promoting health via a daily inhaler. I heard of someone developing for this form factor last year, and I think this is not them, which means there are going to be several DTC inhalers coming to market! “One inhale […]
Not consistently candid. “They were not consistently candid in their communications,” Dylan Field said about Anthropic, just days after it launched Claude Design and after Mike Krieger resigned from Figma’s board. Also, Claude Design is quite impressive and allows me […]
250 documents can backdoor a model. “Only 250 malicious documents roughly 420 thousand tokens or just 0.00016 percent of a large dataset are enough.” Roemmele argues this kind of data poisoning gets “permanently embedded in the model weights” and the […]
Patents may get narrower. If AI becomes part of the “person having ordinary skill in the art,” more things start to look obvious in hindsight, and today’s portfolios might age badly in court. “The net effect could be that the […]
Brain interface that knows 96 milliseconds early. “A new type of non-invasive brain-computer interface that knows what you will do 96 milliseconds before you do it.” BRILL Neurotech and UIUC’s CNL built it by “hacking 25-year-old equipment.” ~ learn more