The 'Lindy Effect' is the observation that some non-perishable things have a remaining lifespan proportional to their current age. A company that has been around 158 years will very likely survive another 158 years. That rule of thumb does not work when ransomware is involved.
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OpenAI Significantly Raises Stakes in AI Competition
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OpenAI is upping the ante massively https://
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Meta New Hardware: Quality vs Weight Trade-off at 2000 Yuan
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线下试了，质感稍差
如果用料扎实的话，就会超重
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China leads in open source AI while US dominates cutting-edge models
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The AI war is not over. But at this point in time, PRC related entities seem to be pulling ahead. U.S. based companies may lead in cutting-edge closed models like Gemini, Grok, ChatGPT. But Chinese firms are dominating in open source and in applied AI diffusion (for example, into
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ByteDance Lynx: Photo-to-Video AI Model with Identity Preservation
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🚨 ByteDance unveils Lynx, a next-gen video model that turns a single photo into smooth, lifelike clips while keeping facial identity intact.
— Futurepedia – Learn to Leverage AI (@futurepedia_io) 28 septembre 2025
Key highlights:
▪️1 photo → full video with strong identity, motion & quality scores
▪️Built on a Diffusion Transformer with two clever… pic.twitter.com/LZfwiJ65i1ByteDance unveils Lynx, a next-gen video model that turns a single photo into smooth, lifelike clips while keeping facial identity intact. Key highlights:
1 photo → full video with strong identity, motion & quality scores
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AI Platform Optimization: Time Spent, Ads, and Negative Impacts
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platforms optimize for 2 things time spent
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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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Morgan Stanley warns Adobe faces severe risk without AI monetization
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Morgan Stanley warns that Adobe, a 42-year-old software giant, faces severe downside risk if it fails to monetize AI quickly or if competitors leap ahead. Adopt AI or lose everything.
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Data Sovereignty Challenge: New Nations Dependent on US Chinese Models
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I get data sovereignty in some cases, but there is just no way for new countries to join the frontier model race as long as scaling (in any sense) matters. There is no sovereign model. You will be dependent on the production of Chinese (or US or French) open models as a base.