Anthropic has confirmed that it has a wet biology lab in the Bay Area
where it uses AI models to run physical
experiments
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BIG TECH & STARTUPS
APPLE'S `PERSONAL HUB' AI STRATEGY HINTS AT UPCOMING HOME DEVICE
(12 MINUTE READ) [4]
Apple is set to introduce a smart home screen as early as next month.
The display will serve as a hub for the home, bringing together connected-device controls, video calls, intercom capabilities, media,
and access to Apple services and apps. It will feature a new operating
system built around Siri AI. The device is currently being tested
widely in employees' homes.
ANTHROPIC IS OPERATING A LAB THAT CONDUCTS BIOLOGY EXPERIMENTS (3
MINUTE READ) [5]
Anthropic has confirmed that it has a wet biology lab in the Bay Area
where it uses AI models to run physical experiments. The lab's main
focus is on fundamental biology rather than drug discovery. Anthropic
is working on some research in the lab with external partners. The
company has launched a Life Sciences Verification program to give
vetted bio researchers access to its most powerful models.
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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY
MUSK'S BORING CO. WORKING ON TUNNEL TO LINK AUSTIN AND SAN ANTONIO (2
MINUTE READ) [6]
Elon Musk's Boring Co. venture is working on a tunnel project in
Texas to connect Austin and San Antonio. It has also raised $3 billion
to support the development of underground transportation
infrastructure across the United Arab Emirates. The company is
building tunnels in Bastrop, Texas, to link Musk-owned properties and
allow the employees of his companies to travel between them.
CHINA UNVEILS HL-4 TOKAMAK AS WORLD'S FIRST HTS STEADY-STATE
`BURNING' FUSION FACILITY (4 MINUTE READ) [7]
China's HL-4 tokamak is designed to achieve steady-state burning
operation. It is aiming to become the world's first high-temperature superconducting, high-field steady-state burning experimental
platform. The project's goal is to verify the reliability of
high-temperature superconducting magnets under complex fusion
conditions. Once the core scientific and engineering questions are
validated, the program will construct a demonstration reactor to prove
the technology commercially.
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PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE
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THE SENIOR ENGINEER DEATH SPIRAL (5 MINUTE READ) [9]
You never want to be in a situation where people don't know what you
are working on. However, instead of talking too much about work,
assume everyone around you is operating in good faith and try to be a
good teammate. Move away from an outcome-based mindset to a
momentum-based mindset - by getting momentum going and fixing your relationships with people, you get stamina. Go for reliability and
take the burden off your teammates and manager, because once you build
that trust, they will give you bigger work.
WHAT I BELIEVE ABOUT THE FUTURE OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT (5 MINUTE
READ) [10]
AI will make many parts of the current software development
environment obsolete. However, the craft of building software will
become more important than ever. Models will become so fast that UI
will be generated on the fly. It will take a while for this to happen.
However, by that time, while people will still be employed to write
code, it might not be such a desirable career anymore.
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MISCELLANEOUS
FORWARD DEPLOYED (38 MINUTE READ) [11]
Palantir vertically integrated deployment to build the capabilities
and process knowledge required to make building institution-specific
economic computers as easy to build as possible. Vertical integration
is fine if it's the only way to get permissioned access to the ground
truth knowledge needed to help customers and society uncover new,
valuable secrets. However, used to rent-seek, concentrate power, or
build your customers' or partners' replacement, it jeopardizes the
whole promise of economic computing: making progress programmable in a
way everyone can contribute to and own. It also reduces institutional
fitness and creates a broader neglective selection pressure in
society.
THERE'S NO POINT AT WHICH TURNING YOUR BRAIN OFF WILL WORK (17 MINUTE
READ) [12]
People turn off their brains when they use LLMs. People assume the
code they write will just work, and then if it doesn't, they ask the
LLM to figure out the problem and solve it. Being a meat proxy is
surprisingly effective now. If models keep improving, companies will
be able to just run LLMs in a loop and lay off the employee.
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Society should refuse to outsource moral responsibility to any class
of people who claim a special competence and authority to calculate, accelerate, democratize, liberate, harmonize, or otherwise determine
the 'correct' future.
GALAXY BRAIN RESISTANCE (28 MINUTE READ) [15]
If your arguments can justify anything, then your arguments imply
nothing.
MATHEMATICS IS EFFECTIVELY DEAD (28 MINUTE READ) [16]
AI labs are simultaneously competing for mathematical results,
selling mathematical assistance, and controlling most of the
information required to evaluate either.
THOUGHTS ON THE FUTURE OF WEB BROWSERS (4 MINUTE READ) [17]
Every Firefox fork needs to commit to working together to maintain a
hard fork isolated from Mozilla if the independent, non-slop web has
any future at all.
HOW CHINESE AI RADICALIZES (26 MINUTE READ) [18]
China's views on American AI have grown more cynical, but that
doesn't mean we should be pessimistic about safety coordination.
SATURATION AT GITHUB: THE SAGA CONTINUES (8 MINUTE READ) [19]
GitHub continues to suffer collateral damage from the AI boom.
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