At this point autonomous weapons are an inevitably www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/...

What do people mean when they talk about world models for robots? Why are world models so exciting? New blog post talking about the ~3 kinds of world models, what they do and why they matter: itcanthink.substack.com/p/will-world...

Do I end my sentence in actually too much? My daughter is always saying stuff like "its dinner time actually" "that doesnt go there actually" is that from me?

This is really cool actually

What do people mean when they talk about world models for robots? Why are world models so exciting? New blog post talking about the ~3 kinds of world models, what they do and why they matter: itcanthink.substack.com/p/will-world...

The grift will not stop til he and the entire bloody lot of grifters are extracted, then banned from ever holding a governmental position again. This once great nation has never witnessed an entire admin with such brazen corruption & utter incompetence. They all must be held to account.

MolmoSpaces is an impressive effort to build all the simulation tools you need for embodied intelligence; watch the podcast: open.substack.com/pub/robopape...

Not sure how I missed this! Sora is going away, possibly soon? If you want AI generated doorbell video of various things being swept into tornados, do it soon! (This + the investing thing makes me wonder if OAI is having money issues...)

According to Brett this is human speed

Figure 03 sorting packages. Speed is much improved.

Donald Trump is mother earth's strongest soldier apparently

Incredibly interesting read with lots of weird implications

this is crazy — bro topped an LLM benchmark without changing weights at all he sliced an LLM wide open, in the middle, and duplicated a block of ~7 layers circuits ftw! dnhkng.github.io/posts/rys/

Take a look at the Humanoid Atlas by Julian Saks: www.humanoids.fyi

Photo with a celebrity, the unitee h2

FYI Cursor paid Kimi for the ability to not announce what model Composer 2 is based on X is giving them grief for not giving Kiki credit, but cold hard cash beats free internet points any day

Nearly all culture and media is an instrumental proxy whose purpose is to get us to relate to other people. The fate of society rests on everyone realizing that in time.

For the ends to justify the means, you are claiming "this is the only way," which it basically never is.

the thing about "the ends justify the means" is that it's always a perfect after the fact justification for any evil. because what happened, happened

IMHO, the most valuable innovation from EA is operating a charity like a business, where some quantitative measurable success metric substitutes for profit. If you don't do that things rapidly get fluffy and dumb, and you waste all the money.

yeah there's some weird and self-serving shit in EA, but the basic idea of "it matters if things work. we should try and see if the things we are doing work." is *shockingly* controversial and groundbreaking in parts of the non-profit sector.

This is a shame

so Astral as an independent organisation is now dead: openai.com/index/openai... either this means that uv will be supported forevermore by megacorp power, or Python as an ecosystem will die either way, I'm onboard. death to python

Bluesky needs to see this tremendous content.

Basketball players are COOKED

by popular request --dangerously-skip-permissions hoodie lightcell-energy.creator-spring.com/listing/dang...

Little guy did not like being picked up

When leadership demands a five fingered end effector and isn’t willing to wait

The kind of thing you see at gtc

This is closer to the situation inside the major labs

Upcoming interview with the team behind Asimov, an open source humanoid you can build for about 15k

Something that's driven me insane in climate communication is that there hasn't been (to my knowledge) a carbon footprint calculator that compares your individual cuts to things you can do to green the grid. I vibecoded one and I'm pretty happy with it: www.andymasley.com/visuals/carb...

ngl i find a lot of hope in this, but i’d be more impressed by uses of AI to speed up and (especially) do more thorough reviews of drugs i don’t think unregulated medicine is a good idea, but the current system also isn’t a good idea

Turning the real world into the digital one, and turning the digital world into the real one. Closing the loop.

Increasingly obvious the next big bottleneck is turning digital models into real things… chemicals, drugs, materials, structures… going to get really interesting

I joined Anthropic (alignment team) this week — exciting place to be at an exciting time!

chat is this good

Social media is like going to the casino but when you hit the jackpot bees fly out of the machine.

This is a really interesting story for so many reasons. But I think it bodes well for the future.

industrial semi-humanoidcore

This is the GenBot semi-humanoid, an industrial multi-purpose robot with configurable payload, built by Kerala-based General Robotics. I love this bot, really looks like industrial hardware

a political ideology solely motivated by bringing others down will never succeed

the trump admin rn

Everyone wants abundance in their lives, in all practical terms; but on social media we play idiots

Without a doubt the most infuriating thing. War is not something you take lightly! Not to say we can't wage war; sometimes it's a solemn necessity, but it's never something to take lightly. You sociopaths killed a hundred and fifty kids.

What

i feel like if i was tasked with not starting a war and bringing back US manufacturing jobs, i could have done a better job than this

The big problem is that science often doesn't have the advice people WANT. Like, weight loss isn't much more complicated than calories in/calories out. Sometimes you get lucky/unlucky but vaccines still work at the population level. etc. individual papers aren't meant to draw conclusions from, etc.

is anthropic paying him to go on tv and advertise for them

This seems true. You can only maintain that these things don't work if the most important quality of your work is not whether the work is completed but instead what it means to you.