Society if chrome hadn’t deleted all of Karpathy’s tabs
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Google Expands Flood Hub AI Forecasting Features
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Floods devastate communities around the globe, but Google Research is committed to leveraging AI to improve flood forecasting and response. Today, we shared that we’re expanding Flood Hub with new features:
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Independent AI Research: Breaking Through Company Evaluation Barriers
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Third-party AI research is essential to ensure that AI companies do not grade their own homework, but few companies actively protect or promote such research. Our latest brief examines the barriers to independent AI evaluation and proposes solutions:
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LlamaCon First Edition April 29 and Meta Connect September
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April 29, see you at the first-ever LlamaCon. 🦙 https://t.co/pVpqNEgjKG
— AI at Meta (@AIatMeta) 18 février 2025
& we'll see you again later this year at Meta Connect, September 17-18. pic.twitter.com/vMRe25yOb1April 29, see you at the first-ever LlamaCon. https://
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xAI expands compute cluster to million GPUs for Grok3
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When the frontier labs say they need to unlock orders of magnitude more compute to advance AI…. take their word for it. @XAI quickly moving to cluster that houses a million GPUs. (5x bigger than Colossus now.) After #Grok3 wins, Elon Musk is the strongest horse in the race
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DeepSeek founder meets Xi Jinping on AI strategy consolidation
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Guess who else is consolidating their AI strategy? Liang Wenfeng, Founder of DeepSeek meets Xi Jinping.
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Government Transparency Erosion: Tech Giants Accountability Crisis
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This is an important and urgent story about the reported erosions of government transparency & accountability. It also has this throwback to the now infamous autoreply journalists got when emailing Twitter for comment after Elon took over:
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New AI Frontier Lab Led by Industry Veterans Launches
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Finally!!! An AI frontier lab run by adults. Congrats to @miramurati
, @johnschulman2
, @barret_zoph
, @Luke_Metz
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Apple Intelligence Dictation Feature Works on Latest macOS
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I upgraded to the latest version of macOS and finally I'm seeing some signs of Apple Intelligence. For example, this post is dictated without any manual intervention. So far it looks good.
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European AI Regulation Creates Digital Divide, Blocks Access
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Donc Grok 3, la nouvelle IA que les benchmarks considèrent déjà comme la plus puissante du monde, est inaccessible en Europe à cause de la réglementation. Comme Sora. Comme Apple Intelligence. Comme Veo2 et tant d’autres. J’ai l’amère sensation de vivre dans un Berlin 1965
