There has been no gap for a few months. For instance, mimo-2.5pro has been 1-shotting tasks that Opus 4.6 failed in my practical uses. OSS is just cheaper/better.

Straight out of sci-fi !

6 months ago this would be dismissed as an "AI wrapper" 😂

Introducing GLM-5.2: Frontier Intelligence, Open Weights - Significant improvements in coding and agentic tasks - Strong long-horizon capabilities with a 1M context window - Two levels of reasoning effort: GLM-5.2 (max) pushes the limits, while GLM-5.2 (high) strikes a strong balance between performance and token efficiency - MIT-licensed open weights - Same API pricing as GLM-5.1 Tech Blog: z.ai/blog/glm-5.2 Weights: huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5… API: docs.z.ai/guides/llm/glm-5.2 Coding Plan: z.ai/subscribe Chat: chat.z.ai

The state of things:

A 25-year-old housewife in Chennai earns ₹250/hour ($3) just by doing her normal housework. She wears a phone on her head and records herself making coffee, cutting fruit, folding laundry. These first-person videos get sent to AI companies training humanoid robots to handle real-world tasks. She shoots 90 clips a day. Her quote: "Who else will pay you ₹250/hour ($3) an hour just for doing housework?" She's part of a growing gig economy in India where thousands are doing the same thing, filming everyday life to train the robots of tomorrow.

Subscription plans are massively subsidized. And by massively, I mean absurdly: Claude Max 20x: $200/month, with usage reportedly worth around $8,000 ChatGPT Pro 20x: $200/month, with usage reportedly worth around $14,000

Stop Canada's bill C-22 -- effectively banning online privacy. news.ycombinator.com/item?id…

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began. The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start. Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have. If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

AI = Agricultural Intelligence

Welp, that happened faster than I predicted. Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history. radar.cloudflare.com/traffic…

Ottawa’s lawful access bill contains ‘chilling’ proposals, Signal executive tells MPs theglobeandmail.com/politics…

In 2018, Australia passed the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment. The bill bears strong similarities to C-22. 🇦🇺 What happened after? - 22% of firms cut R&D investment - 36% of firms reported TOLA made their global risk environment worse - Australian firms lost contracts. Big ones. The problem is, 🇨🇦 is much more exposed than Australia ever could be.

if you still have the facebook app please check if you have this setting turned on absolutely crazy

Imagine you spent 40 years doing the boring, responsible thing. You opened a 401k at 23. You contributed every paycheck. You ignored the noise. You bought the index because Bogle told you to, because Buffett told you to, because every honest piece of financial advice for 30 years told you the index was the safest, most diversified, most rules-based way to own America. The whole point was the rules. The rules said: a company must trade for 12 months before joining the S&P 500. The rules said: it must show four consecutive quarters of GAAP profitability. The rules existed because in 1999 the index quietly bought a lot of stocks at the top, and pensioners paid the bill. After the dot-com crash, S&P tightened the rules. Nasdaq tightened the rules. FTSE Russell tightened the rules. For 23 years, those rules held. Then SpaceX filed for IPO. And the rules changed. The S&P 500 waived the profitability requirement. Nasdaq cut its trading-history window from 90 days to 15. FTSE Russell cut its to 5. Bloomberg Intelligence estimates the major index funds will absorb between 19% and 24% of SpaceX's float within six months. That's over $30 trillion of passive 401k and retirement money, mechanically buying a single newly public company at IPO valuations, because the rules said they had to. Except the rules used to say they didn't. Here's the thought exercise: If you spend 40 years building a system designed to protect ordinary savers from buying overpriced stocks, and then you waive the protections the moment a sufficiently large stock asks you to, what was the system actually protecting? Most of investing is about understanding what's a rule and what's a guideline. A rule binds the rule-maker. A guideline binds the saver. You're allowed to find out which is which only after the fact.

Bingo! AI 🤝 People not... AI ⚔️ People

🚨 APPLE JUST DROPPED A BOMBSHELL ON CANADA’S BILL C-22: “This may be one of the LAST times we’re permitted to discuss the consequences of this legislation publicly.” 🤐 Why? The bill’s secrecy provisions GAG companies like Apple from telling YOU or the PUBLIC about SECRET government orders for your data. 💻 This isn’t “lawful access.” It’s forced encryption backdoors permanent gag orders. Apple: We will NEVER build backdoors that put every Canadian at risk. Canada is sliding into authoritarian surveillance. Kill Bill C-22 before it kills our privacy. 🇨🇦 #KillC22 #Apple #SurveillanceState

Average intelligence is becoming nearly free & on tap.

A recent observational study published in The Journal of Nutrition found an association between consuming more than one egg per week and a 47% reduced risk of developing Alzheimer's dementia in older adults, compared to those who rarely ate eggs. Researchers tracked 1,024 older adults (average age of 81.4 years) in residential facilities in Illinois, over an average period of 6.7 years. The study suggests the protective effect is largely due to choline, an essential nutrient abundant in egg yolks. Choline is vital for producing acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter crucial for memory and learning, levels of which are often low in people with cognitive decline. The researchers found that increased dietary choline intake accounted for about 39% of the protective association seen with egg consumption. Furthermore, brain autopsies of deceased participants revealed that those who ate eggs regularly had less accumulation of the toxic proteins (amyloid plaques and tau tangles) linked to Alzheimer's disease. Eggs also contain other brain-supporting nutrients like omega-3 fatty acids, lutein, vitamin B12, and folate, which may work together to protect brain health. [Yongyi Pan et al., "Association of Egg Intake With Alzheimer’s Dementia Risk in Older Adults: The Rush Memory and Aging Project", The Journal of Nutrition, 2024, DOI: 10.1016/j.tjnut.2024.05.012]

Google Omni might be too powerful 🫥