Funny thing that layoff has nothing to do with AI. Man over hired during COVID. Tried to build several companies and split employees there and is now trying to streamline. CEO's have been doing this lately and trust the media to fly with it instead of holding them accountable.
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METR’s Exponential AI Capability Evals and Emerging Threat Models
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METR’s @joel_bkr on exponential Time Horizon Evals, Threat Models, and the Limits of AI Productivity https://
latent.space/p/metr Everyone is going beserk over the @METR_Evals plots going exponential. Yet we -do- think Something Big Is Happening and it kicked off with Opus 4.5 in -
WordPress Categories for AI-Related Content
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Several people have asked me for a link, so here it is:
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Tech Giants: Netflix Deal Collapse, AI Workforce Shifts, Gap Partnership
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Top stories in tech today: – Netflix walks away from Warner Bros. deal
– Jack Dorsey replaces 4K Block employees with AI
– Sam Altman’s eyeball scanner nabs deal with Gap
– NASA killed its hunt for Martian life, but China has a plan
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OpenAI Secures $110B Funding Round from Amazon SoftBank Nvidia
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BREAKING: OpenAI raises another massive round: $110B at $730B pre-money valuation – $50B from Amazon
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Weekly Dose of Optimism: Good News in AI and Tech
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Read All the Good News That's Fit to Print in this week's Weekly Dose of Optimism from @notboringco
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Cheaper AI coding model beats Claude
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Everyone's paying $15/month for Claude to write code. I just found a model that codes BETTER than Opus 4.6, runs 3x faster, and costs $1/hour for unlimited scaling. Self-hosted. Always-on agents. 10B activated parameters. The agent economy just became profitable:
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Top AI Stories: Nano Banana 2, OpenAI Hires, New Tools
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Top stories in AI today: – Nano Banana 2 claims No. 1 at half the cost
– OpenAI snags Meta's $200M+ AI hire
– Create an AI Assistant with its own phone number
– Pew study shows how teens are using AI
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Tech Layoffs Reveal Bloated Workforce Problem
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one of the first essays i ever wrote on not boring was about how the covid job loss wasn't as bad as it seemed because a lot of people were comfortably stuck in bullshit jobs in bloated companies. block almost certainly didn't need 10,000 people.
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Qwen3.5 Flash Launches on Poe: Fast Multimodal AI Model
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Qwen3.5 Flash is live on Poe! A fast and efficient multimodal model that processes text and images seamlessly. Built with linear attention and a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture, it delivers improved inference efficiency and stronger performance than the 3 series across