Iceland's status as utopia has come to an end. No more mosquito-free haven. www.ruv.is/english/2025...

Great conversations at Launch @ethz.ch today on what it takes to scale infrastructure plays in Europe. The speakers highlighted critical new challenges that startups face, especially around timing, market entry and what differentiates category-defining companies from point solutions.

Sora 2 can solve questions from LLM benchmarks, despite being a video model. We tested Sora 2 on a small subset of GPQA questions, and it scored 55%, compared to GPT-5’s score of 72%.

Good stuff from @alexmahadevan.com

Those claiming there’s no energy transition only an “energy addition,” are wrong. I told FT: Yes, it’s correct that we are not on track globally to reduce emissions fast enough. But if you look at what’s happening across sectors, technologies, and geographies, you see real transitions underway.

My TV has a bug, either the video plays normally or the video progress bar shows, but never both simultaneously. I think it was designed by Heisenberg. I can observe either the plot or the position in the movie, but I can’t know both at once.

🧵 New paper from UK AISI x @eleutherai.bsky.social rai.bsky.social‬ that I led with @kyletokens.bsky.social y.social���: Open-weight LLM safety is both important & neglected. But filtering dual-use knowledge from pre-training data improves tamper resistance *>10x* over post-training baselines.

This can be confusing

Temu is the Temu of online marketplaces?

NeurIPS is endorsing EurIPS, an independently-organized meeting which will offer researchers an opportunity to additionally present NeurIPS work in Europe concurrently with NeurIPS. Read more in our blog post and on the EurIPS website: blog.neurips.cc/2025/07/16/n... eurips.cc

A founding NATO member, Iceland has relied mainly on America for its defence. But as Europe rearms and the Americans call out laggards, it is feeling the heat

Iceland's National Day! 🇮🇸 June 17th Last week I did the "pilgrimage" to #Iceland commemoration sites in all Baltic capitals - first to recognise their independence in 1991 Islandijos gatvė, Vilnius 🇱🇹 Islandes skvērs, Riga 🇱🇻 Islandi väljak, Tallinn 🇪🇪

Taking an epic train ride Switzerland → Finland via the Baltics 📍 7 countries 🚊 5 major train rides ⛴️ 1 ferry 🏛️ 7 capital cities 🌍 2,200+ kilometres The adventure starts now! Thread below…

A vote in #Eurovision costs as little as €0.13 and as much as €1.50, depending on where you are #Eurovision2025

Seems that Google Gemini is down

On my way back from #ICLR2025 in Singapore, I get to tick off one of my bucket-list flights – flying direct from SIN to HEL

That's a wrap for #ICLR2025! See you all next year in Brazil! Please all welcome @bharathhariharan.bsky.social as the new Senior Program Chair! (With @cvondrick.bsky.social continuing on as General Chair.)

Only one person managed to train their production AI #ICLR2025

ICLR 2026 will be in Brazil

Excited to present Composable Interventions for Language Models at #ICLR2025! 🕙 10:00 📍 Hall 3, Poster #311 Dive into modular interventions and their impact on LM behaviour. Read more 📝 arxiv.org/abs/2407.06483

Cloud Forest is worth a visit

Working on an #ICLR2025 Pack with those attending and accounts connected to the conference go.bsky.app/AusRuod Let me know if you would like to be added

Why does the Wikipedia link in Google Search have the price as if Wikipedia is selling Airpods?

"The phase 3 trial found the drug lowered blood sugar by an average of 1.3 to 1.6 per cent and reduced body weight by an average of 8 per cent" Safety profile is similar to Wegovy/Ozempic Looks promising www.ft.com/content/1de9...

OpenAI releases are on a roll this week new o3 and o4 models but o1 has been limited to pro users only openai.com/index/introd...

Happy almost summer

Two P-8 Poseidons circling around KEF with some strange-looking tracks today @flightradar24.com

Does anyone track tokens per second rates for chatGPT, Claude et al.? Maybe it's just me but chatGPT feels much slower now than a few weeks ago, with the same model selected

Testing if the new character limit is actually right or if this is an April Fools. The new characters will have a chance to be in the new season of stranger things and then they can get their own new character. Next word prediction on ios is not that great but we are almost at the limit. This is it

New volcanic eruption just started in Iceland 🌋 Nearby area evacuated Live stream: www.youtube.com/live/kXD4A9u... #volcano #iceland

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, is the War Group Chat

I was not expecting chatGPT’s alignment to suggest this while researching Meta’s current copyright case

Google is on a roll. After weeks with a bricked Chromecast they now send an email saying they’ve remotely wiped 10+ years of my Maps timeline which was saved locally on my phone. These products are becoming unusable.

Iceland just became the fastest-growing country in the world—if only for a day. UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf has approved that Iceland’s rights extend 570 nautical miles along the Reykjanes ridge. www.ruv.is/english/2025... #Iceland #UN #UnitedNations #UNCLOS

2025 is the year of agents. we're excited to bring you a new SDK and new tools to the API to help you build your own agents. github.com/openai/opena...

More agents just dropped

Now for the important part: will this mean Canada takes part in Eurovision?

Google really messing up with Chromecasts right now. How do you forget to update a certificate for millions of devices?

On this day, 75 years ago, Iceland 🇮🇸 joined the Council of Europe.   We are 46 states working together for #HumanRights #Democracy #RuleOfLaw 🇮🇸 and the Council of Europe: www.coe.int/en/web/porta...

First 11 chapters of RLHF Book have v0 draft done. Should be useful now. Next: * Crafting more blog content into future topics, * DPO+ chapter, * Meeting with publishers to get wheels turning on physical copies, * Cleaning & cohesiveness rlhfbook.com

As a refresher for Gaussian Processes this talk by Richard Turner is incredible: www.youtube.com/watch?v=92-9...

The FT needed to specify why the Swiss datapoints appear to be missing

In April 2024, a few words like "delve" had a viral moment, when researchers pointed out that GPT-4 used it often, demonstrating that the spread of the word showed AI in science papers. Did that result in a decrease in AI use in scientific writing? No, but people started avoiding the word "delve!"

Switzerland's domination at the Alpine World Ski Championships has been pretty fun to watch🇨🇭

I was very curious to see how Perplexity’s Deep Research tool compares to OpenAI’s, given the positive reaction to the latter and the fact that Perplexity is free. So, I set up an experiment where I compared the results using the same input prompts.

Interesting EU budget overview in the FT: "about one-third [of the EU budget] is allocated to farming subsidies, another third to the least developed regions — through 'cohesion' policy — with the rest covering everything else from foreign aid to EU staff’s salaries." www.ft.com/content/1756...

Anthropic just dropped their Economic Index – a look at how AI is actually used in the real world. It will be interesting to see what economists think. Data is open sourced. www.anthropic.com/news/the-ant...

Okay, so the user

Does anyone have o3-mini yet?