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Model 🤝 stress

Silicon Valley VC being founder friendly 30yrs ago

One thing Africa needs to learn a lot about is Corp Structure. Now China is innovating corporate Structure like silicon Valley.

MiniMax has just closed a new $2B funding round.

the scaffolding around the model matters as much as the model itself.

Shot on iPhone. This is to say building non-trivial apps with AI requires more expertise, not less. beware ai psychosis. you cannot vibe code your way into building non-trivial apps to solve problems.

China's March-10B completed its test flight The Chinese used a sea-based net to catch the landing rocket, while Musk's SpaceX uses massive steel arms of the launch tower, also referred to as giant "chopsticks" It's all about making spaceflight efficient and cheaper

“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.” is Alan Kay's famous words, now DeepSeek aims to make its own AI chip

America launching furniture and ambassador show up. Where as China...

Gerald Weinberg 🔥

Capability indices are becoming multidimensional, coz useful insight is how sharply rankings reshuffle by domain and how steep the price/performance frontier has become. Artificial Analysis also introduced six domain-specific indices (Finance & Accounting, Legal, Healthcare & Medical, Strategy & Ops, Engineering, Economics) to move past single scalar model scores

When we are surrounded by machines that know a lot about a lot of subjects, what really distinguishes people is their desire to work hard and put knowledge to creative effect.

a new non-profit called The Human-Centered Computing Foundation (HCCF) announced they're launching a campaign for a new top-level domain dedicated to self-hosting (.self).

Likely a response to the modern internet's transparency problems with AI and bots, the foundation is proposing a few features to ensure the new TLD avoids the same spammy reputations shared by other modern domains (.xyz), which include limiting domains to one per person, shared services via open source software (VPN and mail), and open governance.

The top 15% quarterly net new ARR companies are fascinating mix 🤯 CyberSec players like PaloAlto, Crowdstrike, Fortinet. CF are the new top 15% net new ARR companies in the world now, along with AI Labs Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, salesforce etc were there in the list for the last 25+ yrs Net New ARR = New + Expansion - Churn - Downgrade

New ARR: Revenue from brand new customers. Expansion ARR: More money from current customers (like upgrading a plan). Churn: Lost revenue when customers leave completely. Downgrade: Lost revenue when customers pick a cheaper plan

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Android folks aim to distribute $1M USD to help 10 indie studios scale through the GooglePlay Indie Games Fund in Africa. Each selected studio will receive $50K–$200K in grant funding, paired with dedicated mentorship and technical support. Open to Sub-Saharan African developers with a launched mobile, PC, or console game. Check your eligibility and apply by July 31 - http://goo.gle/indiefundafrica

Adam Smith understood that the human desire to better one's life is inexhaustible. Because of this, there is no "lump of labor" that AI could destroy because there will always be work to be done. Mokyr helps us understand how disruptive technologies lead to new opportunities. Link: https://lawliberty.org/the-lump-of-labor-fallacy-in-the-age-of-ai/

Researchers documented JadePuffer, what they believe is the first known “agentic ransomware”, which adapts in real time and retries steps to execute an end-to-end extortion operation Not a new kind of evil, exactly. Just the old kind with fewer coffee breaks.

In order to prevent stores from evading taxes, every receipt in Taiwan is automatically a lottery ticket, too, which can win up to $300k, turning customers into voluntary tax auditors. Turns out that they have been doing this since 1951 already. Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Slovakia all copied it. The most effective compliance tool ever built looks like a game

I think a lot about this tyler cowen's "the high return activity of raising other's aspirations"