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The bitter lesson in scaling.

This is a story about Grok 3, which has come from behind not because of the constraints (see: Deepseek), but because of their huge fleet of the latest GPUs. The author’s point is that constraints breed creativity, but its still […]

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The deep research problem.

Ben Evans does a lot of research, and would like to use OpenAI’s Deep Research, but he can’t really. Here, he explains why: “This table looks great – hours of work compiling this data all done for for me by […]

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Anthopic’s tips for building AI agents.

First, they helpfully clarify that most things people call agents are really just workflows. Also, they were not able to reference actual agents in production yet. Yet, I think there remains cause for hope. “Anthropic’s Barry Zhang (Applied AI), Erik […]

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DeepMind robots playing 1v1 soccer.

Click for video! “Training Robotis OP3, the researchers found they were able to learn movement skills like walking, kicking, and being able to recover from a fall. According to the report, the robots were also able to develop an understanding […]

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Boomless Cruise.

Supersonic aircraft startup Boom demo’d a quiet supersonic flight. “When an aircraft breaks the sound barrier at a sufficiently high altitude, the boom refracts in the atmosphere and curls upward without reaching the ground. It makes a U-turn before anyone […]

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100x defect tolerance.

Super interesting view into the semiconductor tech world. “Conventional wisdom in semiconductor manufacturing has long held that bigger chips mean worse yields. Yet at Cerebras, we’ve successfully built and commercialized a chip 50x larger than the largest computer chips – […]