A 1 hour (largely) coherent qubit? 🤯 quantumcomputingreport.com/alice-bob-se...

DeepMind puts out pretty cool features with their new Gemini Robotics models, including motion transfer. deepmind.google/discover/blo...

@theatlantic.com launches its #AI #Watchdog where you can interrogate datasets on whose data LLMs have been trained: www.theatlantic.com/category/ai-...

Albania appoints an AI as minister to take corruption out of procurement. Nice use case. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Here's an interesting new model: a Swiss-made foundation model crafted by #EPFL, @ethz.ch and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) that is open and multi-lingual #AI ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

Oof, seriously cool: @google released a thing called #AlphaEarth, effectively a virtual satellite view of earth anyway you want it. #AI #EO www.nature.com/articles/d41...

So here's a massive #data set of almost the entire body of US case #law: huggingface.co/datasets/com... #AI #LegalAI

Have you met #Kimi2 yet? Chinese, open source, built on top of #DeepSeek’s architecture and sports 1 trillion parameters. Here’s a write-up by @azeem.bsky.social : www.exponentialview.co/p/kimi-k2-is...

#Meta is said to be ramping up its #AI efforts (I wonder what @yann-lecun.bsky.social might say to that; I thought he was doing OK - short of a Nobel…). Link below. Also this screenshot from the other place… 👀😱🤯 www.reuters.com/business/met...

I watched some UK commentators spitting their usual Brexit feathers over fisheries. You all know that over 50% of the British fishing quotas are owned by Dutch, Spanish and Icelandic companies, don’t you? Aside from the fact that fisheries represents 0.03% of the UK economy, whom are we kidding?

Very much on point and what I have long been musing about in my talks on #AI and #TheFutureofWork 👇

#AI in #education seems like a battleground. It shouldn’t be. Here’s an example: www.ctinsider.com/news/educati...

Size matters, yes? But at what cost? Possibly owing to my background in mobile (with its inherent constraints), I have been looking at cost per compute for a long time. So it's nice to see this getting some airtime on @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/why-re...

Have you played with #OpenAI's #DeepResearch tool? It shows how an agentic approach can go pretty far. Here's @wired.com's take on it: it's coming for your job! (as I have been talking about for about a decade...): www.wired.com/story/openai...

This is an image by @reuters.com showing what happened in the US: the deportation of suspected (not convicted) gang members who were deported by unidentifiable soldiers (the military is NOT part of law enforcement) whilst ignoring a court order. There no longer is the rule of law in the US.

At around dinner time EST today, the EU should just declare 1,000,000% tariffs on MAGA hats, then watch... #tradewars

For my fellow data nerds, here's an amazing resource I only stumbled across today: datareportal.com is a gorgeous (and big - all of 640 [!] pages) view of what is happening online, kinda literally. Enjoy! :)

Here's a call for the European tech sector to support Ukraine 🇺🇦. I signed it. Will you, too? www.change.org/p/sunflower-...

Our very own @bluebeckai.bsky.social retrained #DeepSeek R-1 to remove certain, erm, historical memory lapses, shall we say. You’ll find it here: huggingface.co/BlueBeck/Lla...

@crunchbase.bsky.social switching from providing a historical view of *actual* things happening (to which I subscribe) to going all in on #GenAI predictions is a pretty bold move. Congrats, *I guess*... Can we perhaps have both? Anyway, here's their video intro www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHGu...

New quantum computing breakthrough from Microsoft? A new state of matter? 🤯 on.ft.com/4hITgCm Microsoft claims quantum breakthrough after 20-year pursuit of elusive particle

If you’re on iOS (I assume it’s similar on Android), they’re increasingly introducing some AI features. On Apple, one of these is to highlight “priority messages.” Well, turns out the scammers have better AI: all phishing messages I get are being prioritised… 🙄

So who has played with #OpenAI #DeepResearch yet? Do tell!

Musk wants to buy #OpenAI? Sam Altman's response is pretty funny... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fei-Fei Li's lab released a new #AIreasoning model (called s1) that performs on par with the big ones, but cost only $50 to train and uses 1,000 samples. @techcrunch.com: techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/r... @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social: arxiv.org/pdf/2501.19393

This, by the @nytimes.com's @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social (well, not his bot, but, you know...) is pretty prescient: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

Meet #Quibim, the Spanish company deploying #AI-powered #multimodal #biomarkers. It is a *very* cool approach to advanced diagnostics AND drug discovery, so they just raised another $50m. (disclaimer: the fund I was a partner in led their Seed round) www.insideprecisionmedicine.com/topics/preci...

I found this comparison of the various #AI models useful. Source: artificialanalysis.ai/models

Soooo... (incoming: #prouddad moment): @drlenny.bsky.social just dropped this gem, and on @science.org no less: doi.org/10.1126/scia... (if you are, like me, not a quantum physicist, let me tell you that @notebooklmdeepdive.bsky.social is only "vaguely" your friend: this is too far out...) 🤩

We're seeing more utility of AI-enabled workflows every day now. Here's one Google just released: www.theverge.com/2025/1/22/24...

I was just trying to buy a cook book (as one does), and, astonishingly, found that there is exactly 1 copy of Philip Howard's 2012 "The Square: Savoury" available on all of the Internet. In Brazil. For $570. How?

An artificial human DJ tonight. Well, artificially generated moving images of one, anyway.

Many years ago, I had mused in a talk about future job profiles. I *did* have #AI therapists on there, but not AI boyfriends. Here’s a cool piece by @kashhill.bsky.social on the latter: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/t...

So an #AI apparently just raised an $8m Seed round by itself. 🙃 www.linkedin.com/posts/boardy...

I am grateful for what notebooklm.google.com allows me to do: I have a reasonably well-honed inkling of those domains I dip into, and I will still know when to call unto true domain experts (stay humble, folks!), but it provides a narrative that is just on the right side of "simple-enough".

Some remarkable announcements from the #UK government this morning on their #AI policy going forward: www.gov.uk/government/n...

I just stumbled across an interesting source: the #EDPS (European Data Protection Supervisor, @ec.europa.eu's agency overseeing #GDPR and the #AI Act) publishes sub-sector focused "TechDispatches", amongst which neurodata and explainable AI. It's here: www.edps.europa.eu/data-protect...

Riverlane just published a paper in @nature.com Electronics on a new "real-time, scalable, fast and resource-efficient decoder for a quantum computer." Impressive progress on quantum error correction. Paper (paywalled): www.nature.com/articles/s41... Report: thequantuminsider.com/2025/01/07/r...

Here's an interesting paper that reports on a survey on the state of the art (disclaimer: possibly redundant next week or so) of #LLM-trained (brained?) #GUI #agents. The marriage of #AI and #browsers and things. arxiv.org/pdf/2411.18279

#AI has led to a 7.5x increase of hacking attempts on Amazon’s AWS this year: from an already 100m (!) attempts a day to 750m for a total of 2.7t (yup, that’s a t) hacking attempts this past year. Woah! www.crn.com/news/securit...

A great, if depressing (and long!) piece on Netflix and how it changed movies and TV. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

Some (a lot?) of you have probably been rolling your eyes when I was yapping on about how AI might change our lives. It’s getting closer and closer, though. Don’t take it from me, but from the man who won the Nobel for it… (ignore the slightly alarmist headline) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Ben Evans dropped his usually interesting annual "big presentation." The 2025 version is called "#AI eats the world." You can find it here: www.ben-evans.com/presentations

Gemini 2.0 & ChatGPTo3 are here. Are we paying attention? Here's bsky.app/profile/shak... take (as pointed out by @yoshuabengio.bsky.social) on it: www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-... Gemini 2.0 release: blog.google/technology/g... OpenAI release: www.newscientist.com/article/2462...

@stanfordopenlab.bsky.social (right handle?) has an interesting tool out, called #Storm: it describes itself as creating a Wikipedia page for your question complete with references. Pretty cool! You can find it here: storm.genie.stanford.edu

New UK rules for trading in private shares. I’m not 100% sure if this will bring the type of trade they are seeking… Insider trading can be legal, FCA says on.ft.com/3VOmTcC

Oh my word! Our son just had his (3rd) paper from his PhD thesis accepted by @science.org. I am feeling distinctly 🥹! (you probably have to be a parent to feel how I feel right now)

We have been visiting #Gouda and LichtKunstGouda.nl where our daughter and her friends are presenting their evocative piece Sonder. I’m obviously biased, but it’s stunning!

When 35 of the world’s leading scientists in the field warn to advance, we should probably listen. I know little, nay, nothing about “mirror life,” but we should probably get familiar with it: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New Google Quantum chip, people. This looks reasonably big (error correction, anyone?): blog.google/technology/r...