Rumors so far: – Google Gemini Flash 3.2/3.5 (already being tested)
– New Omni Model, maybe even updated Veo in competition to Seedance
– "spark Robin" – new visual model?
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Google Gemini Flash and New Omni Model Rumors Circulate
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Open vs Closed AI Models: Beyond Benchmark Gaps
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This is a good explanation of why the gap between open and closed models is larger than it appears in benchmarks. I would add in that current open models are also more fragile than closed: they handle out-of-distribution problems far less well & have lower emergent capabilities.
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Sex Robots Approved in China as Silicon Valley Builds Future Bots
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In China the government just approved sex robots I learned by speaking at Dreame, a big Chinese consumer electronics company. The future is weird. I ran a panel with four companies building robots at Silicon Valley AI Hub this week. One was with this guy who is helping
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Software Engineering Job Postings Reach Highest Level Since 2023
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Software engineering jobs hit their highest posting since november 2023.
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Google Omni Model Expected at Google I/O with New Video AI
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Google Omni model incoming. Probably being prepared for google i/o. However i assume they will launch a new video model with it instead of Veo 3.1 since Seedance jumped to the top a few months ago
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AI’s evolving job market: Exciting new roles emerge, then disappear
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AI will take some jobs, but it will create countless new jobs too—exciting jobs we can’t even imagine yet. A year later those will also be done by AI, but there will be new jobs—exciting jobs we can’t even imagine yet. Six months later those too will be done by AI, but
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AI to Radically Cut Marketplace Operating Costs
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AI is going to radically reduce the cost to run a marketplace
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Vibe-Kanban Shuts Down Live Onstage with 30K MAU, Goes Open Source
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Much respect to @tokengobbler who shutdown Vibe-kanban live onstage at AIE Europe – still with 30,000 MAU, and still living on as an open source project. "Everyone who is making money is doing 2 things: selling to enterprise, and reselling tokens. We were doing neither."
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Growing AI Backlash: GenAI as Net Negative for Society
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Why is the AI backlash growing? Outside of coding (where there is clear value), and a handful of other domains (e.g. brainstorming), Generative AI has been a net negative for society. GenAI has been undermining secondary and college education, opening up mass surveillance,