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Quantum computers at Los Angeles port.

Quantum computers at Los Angeles port. The port is testing a quantum computer algorithm to optimize containers and trucks at one of its docks. It can “assess all the possible solutions to a problem and find the best one almost […]

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Goodbye SEO, hello AEO.

Goodbye SEO, hello AEO. The shift from SEO to Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is underway. “As humans shift FROM ‘keywording’ for 10-blue links to do all the work themselves TO typing resolution questions to have the LLMs do nearly all […]

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Quantum Echoes algorithm.

Quantum Echoes algorithm. I guess this quantum thing is about to get real. Google’s “Willow quantum chip demonstrates the first-ever algorithm to achieve verifiable quantum advantage on hardware.” The Quantum Echoes algorithm runs 13,000 times faster than the best supercomputers, […]

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AI web browser’s hidden vulnerability.

AI web browser’s hidden vulnerability. The good folks at Brave, a competing browser, found vulnerabilities in Perplexity’s Comet browser. “While looking at Comet, we discovered vulnerabilities which we reported to Perplexity, and which underline the security challenges faced by agentic […]

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Living dangerously with Claude.

Living dangerously with Claude. “Why you should always use `–dangerously-skip-permissions`.” Simon Willison explores the exhilarating freedoms and grave risks of using Claude Code’s YOLO mode at a recent coding agent meetup. ~ learn more

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Andrej Karpathy on Dwarkesh podcast.

Andrej Karpathy on Dwarkesh podcast. Karpathy predicts, “AGI will blend into 2% GDP growth.” The conversation covers LLM cognitive deficits, the evolution of intelligence and culture, and the future of education. It’s fantastic. Also, right after, Karpathy wrote this great […]

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Starlink’s mobile ambitions shake the industry.

Starlink’s mobile ambitions shake the industry. “The spectrum will allow SpaceX to provide phone, text, and broadband services from space to mobile users throughout the United States and around the world, especially in areas where terrestrial systems do not reach.” […]

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Sequoia’s big cheese Roelof Botha.

Sequoia’s big cheese Roelof Botha. This is a fun watch if you are interested in venture capital, which Botha insists is not an asset class. Botha argued that investing in venture capital is a “return-free risk” for the vast majority […]

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Data poisoning is easier than we thought.

Data poisoning is easier than we thought. “As few as 250 malicious documents can produce a ‘backdoor’ vulnerability in a large language model—regardless of model size or training data volume.” This revelation byAnthropic suggests that data-poisoning attacks might be more […]