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The exact same steepness that drives progress also drives catastrophic risks. When a slope is this steep, a single misstep can lead to an uncontrollable slide.

AI is one of the steepest gradients humanity has discovered.

Two thinking AIs walks into a bar

System 1: “That’s a cat.” 🐈 System 2: “Let me reason about this. I’ll examine the visual features, consider alternative hypotheses, estimate probabilities, and—” System One AI: “Cat. 97% confidence. Next.” 🤖 System 2: “But I haven’t finished thinking.” System One: “Exactly.”

ig this is someone's opprutunity to build agentic commerce. Amazon redefined retail, reshaped countless businesses. Now at risk itself from ai shopping agents like Instinct and Muse. today Amazon says it blocked Meta's Muse AI agent from accessing Amazon.com to shop on users' behalf, citing ToS violations, security risks, and no merchant consent  also this is proof that both: 1. Owning the UI is still a moat (for now) 2. The UI is under attack btw last month, a US appeals court let Perplexity's AI shopping agent back on Amazon, will Meta sue Amazon or does it value their many cloud deals too much?

Jev is now open for all https://console.typesafe.ai/login Here is a playground if you want: https://openrouter.ai/labs/jev btw Jev enables agents to make split second decisions in workflows, data classification But if you want to run something similar locally on your own, check https://github.com/bespokelabsai/nimble. Nimble gives you the mechanism, not just an API

[Blog] Reading is easy, understanding is hard.

As Per (CNN) the US "almost started a war" after an AI-assisted report hallucinated that a Chinese ship was carrying nuclear weapons components in the Middle East. imagine the miscalculation for Claude to say: "I'm sorry for recommending that you launch a first strike against a nuclear power based on hallucinated data, that's on me. If you like, I can help you put together a PowerPoint briefing on the likely amount of casualties caused by their nuclear counterattack"

Marc Benioff is a beast in software biz. GOAT. 🤯Marc's hands-on familiarity with the trends and technologies (from social to mobile to AI) has kept Salesforce consistently relevant and ahead of the curve for over two decades a lot to learn from him...

there is an image that lives in my head rent free. day before yesterday watched this years AI’s Future at Dreamforce 2026 where Marc Benioff was doing a walking interview with Jensen Huang and the secuirty guy is in the frame at Moscone Center. Jensen is a definition of hype man btw😅 “With electricity, we could power everything,” “With the internet, you can find anything" "with AI we can know everything and do anything."

Compute export controls is the new Berlin Conference, in silicon

🤯Until 2 months ago, any user or OpenAI employee logging into OpenAI’s own help forum could have had their ChatGPT and Codex accounts taken over. Hacktron team is 10/10. Insanely talented group, AI alone could not have achieved this it required taste and true expertise Security researchers in an OpenAI bug bounty program hacked OpenAI, accessing its “monorepo” on GitHub, using a cybersecurity version of Opus 4.8 and Opus 5  $6,500 award that number is quite a bit smaller than I would have expected given the magnitude of this "To demonstrate impact while minimising exposure, we used one affected employee account connected to OpenAI's GitHub org. Codex created a harmless PR in their internal monorepo without us reading sensitive code. That proved to us that the access was real." This is wild thread btw, https://x.com/S1r1u5_/status/2100777814291276084 Team websites. https://www.hacktron.ai/blog/hacking-openai

not saying don't trust AWS. just making a point for, Don't outsource your disaster-recovery responsibility to the cloud provider.

"Cloud" does not mean geographically neutral. A cloud region is still a physical place.

Please don't joke on your Backups fells. As per WSJ report AWS says it can't restore some data stored exclusively in data centers across Bahrain and one UAE availability zone after Iranian drone strikes in the spring  Amazon's announcement is the first indication that some data stored exclusively in Bahrain and the U.A.E could be gone forever. stop asking:

"Is my cloud provider highly available?"

Two questions to keep in mind for multi-Region DR strategy. - If this entire geographic area disappears, where is my last independently recoverable copy? - Can an attacker, administrator, regional disaster, or cloud failure destroy both production and the backup?

Interesging counter positioning play by https://typesafe.ai/ They claim 193.6x Faster, 444.6x Cheaper.🤯 lets see if they live the hype can't wait to try.

Aerospace veteran Gwynne Shotwell is the most underrated COO ever. led the company a record-breaking IPO, something that shouldn't have existed

Soon your LLM is gonna ask when is your knowledge cut off date

So you think you know async/await? https://cel.cs.brown.edu/blog/design-space-async-await/