What are the chances that Meta found out about OpenAI's AI video/social app plans, got a partnership with Midjourney /BFL and rushed out a similar app just before OpenAI did?
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Accenture exits 11,000 staff unable to retrain for AI age
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As growth softens, expect more “AI is taking our jobs” headlines. Accenture says it will exit about 11,000 people – described as staff who “cannot be retrained for the age of AI.” The cause is uncertain, but the scale isn’t: since 2020, Accenture has added ~273,000 roles (+54%).
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Acquisition via equity wealth understanding in tech context
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Read cash = wealth, in a more general sense – obviously clumsy wording. They don't need actual cash to acquire anyone, acquiring via equity is perfectly normal too
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OpenAI Researchers Allowed Outside Contrary Popular Belief
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Contrary to popular belief, OpenAI researchers are in fact allowed to go outside
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Professor Newcombe’s 1903 Critique of Aeroplanes: Power and Safety
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Quotes from Professor Newcombe from 1903, where he criticised aeroplanes: 1. Animal muscle vs. machines: the power source is fundamentally different. We have to substitute “crude and clumsy” engines and batteries 2. The aeroplane’s safety problem: sustained only by speed, with
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GPT-5 Pulse Feature Underwhelms with Vanilla Responses
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I really don't get it, maybe I tuned it badly but got a similar kind of Pulse today too – a few vaguely relevant but not very interesting responses from simple prompts from what I can tell just vanilla GPT-5. Their benchmark should be LLM generated feed that would compete with… https://t.co/PabJaMaomL
— Peter Gostev (@petergostev) 27 septembre 2025I really don't get it, maybe I tuned it badly but got a similar kind of Pulse today too – a few vaguely relevant but not very interesting responses from simple prompts from what I can tell just vanilla GPT-5. Their benchmark should be LLM generated feed that would compete with
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Using Codex LLMs to create HTML and React visualizations
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In terms of how it was made – nothing complicated, just ask Codex to make a visualisaiton in HTML, or you can ask for React too, but a bit more complex to run. In this case it is using D3 js libary. I usually ask for light colours (since LLMs like dark neon ones for some reason).
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OpenAI plans 125x energy capacity increase by 2033
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OpenAI have 9x'd their capacity this year, and have a goal to 125x further by 2033, thus exceeding current energy capacity of the whole of India – as per @alexeheath reporting of @sama
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GPT-5 Release: User Expectations for Advanced Thinking Models
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Going to sleep now, I would be very disappointed if it is just regular GPT-5 slop, if it is the thinking model with a bit of special flair, then I might be impressed. Fingers crossed, looking forward to waking up tomorrow