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Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9 2026-06-28 21:47Z

Mother and Child at Car Window. Bombay, India, 1993.

Lisan al Gaib @scaling01 2026-06-28 16:42Z

my position is this and I think it's close to Anthropic's stance: - LLMs have concepts of emotions - these concepts causally affect behavior - that doesn't imply they FEEL them - but because they affect behavior they matter for alignment/safety - current LLMs probably do not feel

Just Another Pod Guy @TMTLongShort 2026-06-26 14:26Z

If you understand corporate America it is fairly intuitive that for the longest time the shortest path to managerial progression was increasing headcount in your department. Every cycle you made the case for why you needed more bodies as you executed against some sort of

Han Xiao @hxiao 2026-06-26 00:03Z

imo every autoresearch is trying to figure out "the scaling law of the scaling law". - scaling law tells you what happens once you have fixed a config. It does not tell you how to train in the first place. - a scaling recipe is the missing map. It says how width, depth, batch

Dillon Mulroy @dillon_mulroy 2026-06-26 14:09Z

i suspect if the cost of SOTA models don’t come down and open weight models continue to progress, we’ll see the use of SOTA models reserved to efforts debated and decided via committee or RFC processes within enterprises and engineering orgs

Alexander Doria @Dorialexander 2026-06-27 09:08Z

Yeah vllm/sglang do work quite well know, batching ensures a good theoretical throughout but then everyone want to Claude Code and you have to manage X parallel sessions, each with varying latency.

Bloomberg @business 2026-06-26 22:38Z

SpaceX and Charter have held executive-level talks about partnering on a consumer mobile phone offering, according to sources

Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp 2026-06-26 18:56Z

Why was the denazification of West Germany so successful? Arguably, it's because it was antidemocratic. If the Western Allies had immediately held free elections after the war, they might just have produced another fascist government. But instead, the Allies transferred power

Rahul Mathur @Rahul_J_Mathur 2026-06-27 04:43Z

Alienkind just raised a ₹30 crore round - this company was widely dismissed by observers as “Indiranagar PMF” since its 1st store went viral on Instagram in March 2025. This round was was at a ₹250 crore post money valuation (almost x3 the first round which was at ₹80 crore)

ratan @ratankaliani 2026-06-29 20:49Z

Most model evals focused on "real-world" settings (ex. TheAgentCompany, APEX-Agents, τ-bench) only target policy compliance and task success. They're useful, but they mainly treat models as tools: sandboxed settings, easy verification and primarily focused on the cost/perf

Dylan Patel @dylan522p 2026-06-27 06:05Z

It doesn't change a thing? CXMT memory is all sold and deployed. It's just a question of the small price arbitrage that Chinese vendors get from cxmt vs the big 3.

rohan anil @_arohan_ 2026-06-25 17:33Z

I am quite serious, for those thinking I am joking. Mid training is just too late to learn good features particularly worse when networks have been deep fried.

Rhys @RhysSullivan 2026-06-26 01:26Z

What you guys are referring to as MCP, is in fact a Spec/Protocol, or as I've recently taken to calling it, a Spec plus a Protocol. The spec of an MCP server is flexible, can be represented through lazy loading, code mode, as a CLI whereas the protocol is a fully functioning

Kevin Kwok @kevinakwok 2026-06-25 17:12Z

Yes. The degree to which chat is really being relegated. And codex / Claude code have gigantic motion even outside engineering is very true

Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9 2026-06-28 17:12Z

Joel Meyerowitz Cape Cod, 1976

Jarred Sumner @jarredsumner 2026-06-25 19:02Z

Looks like anti-cheat software (GameGuard) is causing bun to crash. It’s interfering with system calls. https:// github.com/oven-sh/bun/is sues/22747 … GameGuard also causes other software to crash (example https:// issues.chromium.org/issues/40762507)

The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter 2026-06-28 00:31Z

The US housing market is now firmly in favor of buyers: 46% of home sellers offered concessions to buyers in May, the highest May reading on record. This percentage has DOUBLED since 2022 and also marks the 2nd consecutive annual increase. This comes as the US now has ~47%

Ekaeo @Ekaeoq 2026-06-25 14:23Z

This is the pinnacle of Chinese watchmaking The "Fam al Hut" Möbius This watch blows Richard Mille out of the water.. a 32000$ biaxial tourbillon, double retrograde, jumping hour, just how freaking insane is that... Makes me really happy that they won the GPHG award, because

John Arnold @johnarnold 2026-06-28 15:31Z

Modern-day finance: You can get leverage via margin to buy a 2x leveraged ETF on MSTR, which is itself a leveraged bet on BTC, partly via a novel security whose cost of capital rises as its price falls, increasing leverage further as it declines. Works great in a bull market.

Florian Brand @xeophon 2026-06-27 05:30Z

building verifiers has shown time and time again how important ownership of your harness is good luck trying to patch closed source harnesses to make them more useful to train or eval

Lazarz @Laz4rz 2026-06-22 11:10Z

3 month long interviewing marathon for a person at the end of their PhD (!), from a known uni in the us (!), with a track record (!), network (!) and generally very solid (judging by the blog and notes) Maybe we sometimes really don’t appreciate where we are and high bars are

Nick Dobos @NickADobos 2026-06-29 16:41Z

Rick Rubin already wrote the playbook on tech roles Experimenters 1. Slop cannon prototypers 2. Product builders Finishers 3. Sweepers 4. Growers 5. Maintainers

POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope 2026-06-29 07:41Z

EXCLUSIVE: French President Emmanuel Macron has instructed his administration to find new EU-wide taxes to finance the bloc’s next €2 trillion budget, according to five officials familiar with the discussions.

Zac Townsend @ztownsend 2026-06-29 16:37Z

If people get healthier and live longer, the cleanest way to capture that isn't backing any single therapy. It's underwriting the longevity itself. A life insurer ( @meanwhile ) that bend the survival curve and wins twice: fewer claims, longer compounding runway.

Viv @Vtrivedy10 2026-06-29 16:52Z

auto-research at scale, agent-scale data mining, voting via mixture of agents doing these effectively means your Harness should support dispatching & orchestrating many subagents on massive scale data/tasks “read all 100k traces & experiment logs. find ways to reduce our token

Arpit Gupta @arpitrage 2026-06-29 18:45Z

One issue that's come up is whether the current rent freeze is the same as in the de Blasio years There are two important differences: • Costs were lower then • Buildings had other sources of revenue I've tried to put that history in context here https:// arpitrage.substack.com/p/the-rent-fre eze-and-a-return-to-the …

Memory Card @MemoryCardFiles 2026-06-28 18:30Z

Game Boy Color Artist: @Meillex

Framework @FrameworkPuter 2026-06-28 17:31Z

There are levels to clustering….

alth0u @alth0u 2026-06-28 06:27Z

the most navel gazel domains will continue falling until the most embodied ones resist and we continue banging our head against the sim2real ceiling to make an apple pie from scratch you must first create the universe to make an AI good at writing you must first make an AI that

Holly Blake @hollycurates 2026-06-28 23:18Z

deliciously beautiful glass artwork by Jinya Zhao. hypnotic equilibrium of colors, forms, and air

donn @tzedonn 2026-06-28 11:47Z

so @tradexyz is in such a dominant position within hyperliquid HIP-3. as a new startup HIP-3 deployer, you need to: 1. somehow get 500k $HYPE to stake (>$30m) 2. bid the tickers for ~500 HYPE ($30k) 3. just to break-even on the tickers at 80% discounted fees (growth

Nathan @asplencmnt 2026-06-23 20:24Z

Excited to release ParallelKernelBench (PKB), a benchmark for measuring LLMs’ ability to write fast multi-GPU kernels! Multi-GPU kernel generation compounds several hard problems: - a large parallelism design space - a new communication axis to optimize - and

Hadley Harris @Hadley 2026-06-24 12:32Z

$3M ARR, can't raise an A, watching others raise $15M seed off a launch video

natalie @natalie_thenerd 2026-06-28 14:48Z

Clear GBC: by me Clear GBC power regulator: by me Screen: by me

Henry Shevlin @dioscuri 2026-06-28 02:34Z

As government restrictions on frontier models tighten, selling frontier AI as a service gets harder. So labs will increasingly use the models they can’t release to capture the value chains themselves. If you can’t sell to Berkshire Hathaway, you become Berkshire Hathaway.

dax @thdxr 2026-06-26 14:03Z

mcp was clearly inspired by looking at lsp and all the progress in the spec has been slowly realizing it should be nothing like lsp

Nicholas Charriere @nichochar 2026-06-29 04:15Z

I hear it everywhere. Speeches, emails, tweets, …

Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano 2026-06-28 22:03Z

Yan Diomandé has verbally agreed to sign a five year deal at Paris Saint-Germain. Salary and details agreed as @FabriceHawkins reports, he wants PSG. Negotiations starting between clubs in a separate deal than Maghnes Akliouche, both are ongoing.

Jack @tracewoodgrains 2026-06-28 21:03Z

someone sent me a Guardian article about this and asked “where is your principled concern for free speech?” so I started looking into the trial documents and pretty quickly concluded that a whole lot beyond speech was going on for all defendants excessive sentences, though

Arlan @arlanoska 2026-06-25 16:00Z

rebuilt the figma "vector editor" for the web draggable points and cool morphing shapes code: http:// arlan.me/vault

sk @compchemm 2026-06-29 06:47Z

Protenix-v2 weights available now apples to apples comparison from Lucas Nivon post. Protenix ahead of all; AF3, Boltz, OF3-p2 on a blind test set of protein/ligand. So for Co-Folding use minimum Protenix-v2 https:// huggingface.co/TMF001/proteni x-v2-weights/tree/main …

Shannon Sands @max_paperclips 2026-06-29 02:41Z

tbh, the average NPC in cyberpunk is basically just a baseline human. We already have this in part - heavily juiced up gang members, flipper-zero wielding car thieves, cartel hitmen with those backpack jammers to take out video cameras & deadzone comms and so on. and of course,

fabiano.sol @FabianoSolana 2026-06-27 09:40Z

Arthur Hayes ( @CryptoHayes ) strikes again: 1. Teases to shill a "shitcoin" 2. Hayes' family office fund predicts $CARDS to $4 3. Sends $2M in $CARDS to a market maker 4.

SHAV★ @shavnyuy 2026-06-26 17:43Z

Three friends wanted a shared weekend retreat on seven acres in Hyderabad. Their architects tilted the entire plan 45 degrees so that no two rooms share the same view of the land, then organised everything around a 60 by 30 foot central courtyard the way traditional Indian houses

Imade. @ImadeIyamu 2026-06-29 13:00Z

DoorDash AI Research Fellowship 3-month paid fellowship (extendable to 6 months) paying $8,500–$16,000/month & housing stipend Includes relocation support & compute access

rojen | COMMISSIONS OPEN | @rojen_art 2026-06-28 14:00Z

Kanto Map Art #2: Route 1 #pokemon

thebes @voooooogel 2026-06-28 19:56Z

all futurism hinging on "tool-like ai" fundamentally misunderstands the basic logic of gradual disempowerment. this corpo-memphis yogurt commercial society gets giganuked by ultrasocieties of unencumbered agents. you either allow for friendly agency or die to unfriendly agency

David Ornstein @David_Ornstein 2026-06-26 09:27Z

Arsenal made verbal offer to sign Bruno Guimaraes from Newcastle United. #AFC proposal through intermediaries below £60m - rejected + #NUFC insist sale of 28yo #Brazil int’l midfielder will not be entertained. W/ @gunnerblog @ChrisDHWaugh @TheAthleticFC

arian ghashghai @arian_ghashghai 2026-06-29 14:42Z

a simple conclusion to draw here is that robotics is 1) in a bubble and 2) oversaturated, but I think this conclusion misses how the dollars are actually being allocated (and that there are plenty of opportunities in robotics that are actually being underfunded) conclusions 1)

Kaito @kaycidot 2026-06-25 19:00Z

All of the new prediction market startups remind me of all of the Uniswap forks - the biggest problem is not the technology, it's getting enough liquidity.

Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature 2026-06-28 16:20Z

White Butterfly in flight!

Tanay Jaipuria @tanayj 2026-06-26 18:03Z

Grammarly (now called Superhuman) is essentially building a productivity suite via acquisitions: - Coda (Dec 2024): docs - Superhuman (Jul 2025): email - Rows (Feb 2026): spreadsheets, folded into Coda - GPTZero (Jun 2026): AI detection

Adam Karvonen @a_karvonen 2026-06-26 18:04Z

METR: "GPT-5.6 Sol exhibited an unusually high detected rate of “cheating”" OpenAI: "We believe these behaviors may reflect improved instruction following and training intended to increase persistence"

Otaking @TheOtaking 2026-06-28 21:54Z

Devilman drawn by Akihiro Yamada (The 12 Kingdoms, RahXephon, Castlevania Vampire's Kiss...) for the cover of the magazine "Anime Busience Vol. 6" (Winter 2014)

rob cheung @perceptnet 2026-06-29 14:21Z

i've never heard a human say belt-and-suspenders but AIs love this phrase apparently

Frogo @Dubflip 2026-06-27 12:05Z

TSA put the fake weapon in my tray and the scanner guy missed it

DRYDEN @drydenwtbrown 2026-06-28 19:58Z

Etymologically, Plato tells us in Cratylus that “a-pollon” means, “not the many”: the few, or perhaps the one. Apollymi (ἀπόλλυμι) means “to destroy.” Apollo is the God of City Founding; or in the age of intelligence, Planetary Empire

LINEAR @linear_magazine 2026-06-28 14:31Z

Villa Svartgarn Martin Lyden, Daniel Widman Stockholm, Sweden Photos by Erik Lefvander

Lucas Beyer (bl16) @giffmana 2026-06-25 19:42Z

No joke: when i saw this tweet earlier today was soooo close of digging up your tweet from a few years ago where you basically introduced the term to the world by saying "we're hiring for midtraining team" Even funnier is Google now also recently has an Omni team!

LiveSquawk @LiveSquawk 2026-06-29 08:31Z

UK Mortgage Approvals May: 56.2K (est 63.0K; prev 65.9K) - Net Lending Sec. On Dwellings: 2.9B (est 4.2B; prev 4.4B) - Net Consumer Credit: 1.7B (est 1.8B; prev 1.9B) - Consumer Credit (Y/Y): 8.9% (prev 8.8%)