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Apple and Google have formed a mult=
iyear partnership to power Apple's
AI features with Google's Gemini model=
.. Apple's future foundation
models will lean on Google's cloud technology=
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Apple picks Google's Gemini=
to run AI-powered Siri coming this year (4 minute read)
Apple and Google have formed a multiyea=
r partnership to power Apple's AI features with Google's Gemini model. Appl=
e's future foundation models will lean on Google's cloud technology. Models=
will continue to run on Apple devices and the company's private cloud comp=
ute. The terms of the deal have not been made public, but in August, Apple =
was reportedly planning to pay about $1 billion a year to utilize Google's =
AI.
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Meta Creates High-Powered T=
eam to Oversee AI Infrastructure Buildout (4 minute read)
Meta Compute is a new initiative by Met=
a aimed at securing the enormous amounts of computing power the company's A=
I models need. Meta plans to build tens of gigawatts this decade as it race=
s to develop superhuman untell agency. The company named Dina Powell McCorm=
ick as the new president and vice chair on Monday. Powell McCormick will wo=
rk on developing partnerships with governments to finance and deploy data c=
enters across the world.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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Nvidia to Invest $1 Billion=
in AI Drug Laboratory With Eli Lilly (4 minute read)
Nvidia plans to invest $1 billion over =
five years in a new laboratory with Eli Lilly. The facility, to be built in=
Silicon Valley, will bring Lilly's lab expertise close to the center of AI=
innovation. It will help AI engineers learn what it takes to run lab equip=
ment and research tasks. Nvidia plans to make its suite of AI models and ag=
ents tailored for the healthcare industry open source, so anyone will be ab=
le to tinker with the technology and adapt it to their needs.
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1X unveils 1XWM world model=
for NEO robot platform (1 minute read)
1X has integrated its new video-pretrai=
ned world model, 1XWM, into its NEO robot platform. The 1XWM model predicts=
robot actions by generating text-conditioned video rollouts and then trans=
lating them into motion commands through an Inverse Dynamics Model. It uses=
a 14B parameter generative video model as a backbone, with inference curre=
ntly taking about 11 seconds per rollout. The method enables faster adaptat=
ion to new tasks as it doesn't require tens of thousands of robot demonstra=
tion hours.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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Why We Built Our Own Backgr=
ound Agent (17 minute read)
Inspect is a coding agent that closes t=
he loop on verifying its work by having all of the context and tools needed=
to prove it. It can run tests, review telemetry, and query feature flags, =
and it visually verifies its work and gives users screenshots and live prev=
iews. Each session runs in a sandboxed VM with everything an engineer would=
have locally. This post contains the spec for Inspect so anyone can replic=
ate the tool.
|
First impressions of Claude=
Cowork, Anthropic's general agent (8 minute read)
Claude Cowork is a general agent with a=
UI now available as a research preview to Max subscribers as part of the u=
pdated Claude Desktop macOS application. It looks very similar to the deskt=
op interface for regular Claude Code. The general agent is designed to brin=
g the powerful capabilities of Claude Code to a wider audience with a less =
intimidating interface. Screenshots of the feature are available in the art=
icle.
|
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The AI-powered Veblen econo=
my (9 minute read)
We will still want human-sourced goods =
and services in the future. Humans have been shown to be incredibly creativ=
e when manufacturing scarcity for the purpose of playing status games. This=
ability is increasing, and the trend is accelerating. Humans will be able =
to create enough scarcity to employ people to produce artisan goods.
|
The AI revolution is here. =
Will the economy survive the transition? (37 minute read)
This post contains a conversation betwe=
en Michael Burry, Dwarkesh Patel, Patrick McKenzie, and Jack Clark on the A=
I revolution and its impact on the economy. Burry, who called the subprime =
mortgage crisis when everyone else was buying in, is skeptical of the trill=
ions powering into AI infrastructure. Clark is one of Anthropic's co-founde=
rs, and McKenzie and Patel have interviewed many people across the industry=
..
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What is an Engineer? (22 mi=
nute read)
Engineers make the right observations, =
make the right decisions, and take the right actions, in the right sequence=
, to accomplish the right intentions.
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