“An LLM which, however amazing you might find it to be, is trained on yesterday, is at some point going to run into problems inventing tomorrow.” Johnathan and Melissa Nightingale discuss how AI agents are winding their way through the workforce—but can’t replace creative humans: theatln.tc/SaVv6fPI

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JD Vance, while in Budapest to campaign for Viktor Orban, not even 10 min after stating that Viktor Orban must absolutely be re-elected: "We want you to make a decision about your future with no outside forces pressuring you or telling you what to do."

This is absolutely crazy. Anthropic trained a model that is "dramatically" smarter than Claude Opus 4.6. Think about how good Opus already is. Can you even imagine what a far better model might be able to accomplish? The world is changing, and it's changing fast. Buckle up.

Fantastic news in the UK today - the government has apparently ditched its plan to force creatives to 'opt out' if they don't want AI companies training on their life's work. The opt-out proposal was unfair and unworkable. Many couldn't realistically have opted out at all, and it would have affected small rights holders disproportionately negatively. We should be grateful to the government for listening to reason on this, rather than just listening to the big tech lobby. They have done the right thing by putting opt-out behind us. They should now reaffirm what the law says - that AI companies must license people's work if they want to train on it - and commit not to change that law. thetimes.com/uk/technology-u…

Schön heute Abend in Berlin zu sein und mit führenden Vertretern der deutschen Industrie zu diskutieren. Die Botschaft des @Europarl_DE: Wir handeln, um ein starkes, stabiles und verlässliches wirtschaftliches Umfeld zu schaffen, das Unternehmen in ganz Europa brauchen. Wir müssen gemeinsam weiter und schneller vorangehen. Vielen Dank an @Der_BDI für den hervorragenden Austausch. Wir werden diesen Dialog fortsetzen.

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A nasty rash was seen on President Trump's neck at the White House press conference. 😖 tmz.me/dFif0Jx

I spent time in Shenzhen last year and when I saw Merz come back from China saying Germans need to work more I immediately knew what broke his brain because I lived the exact same cognitive shock my first week in Huaqiangbei I burned through 4 prototype iterations of a motor controller board for less than a thousand bucks total, back home a friend was working on something similar and spent over 12 thousand for a single revision that took almost two months to arrive when you live that contrast in your own hands with your own project something permanently shifts in how you see the world and it goes way deeper than speed & cost what Shenzhen actually built is a collective learning organism, imagine 20 PCB fabs 15 injection mold shops 30 component distributors and a hundred firmware freelancers all within a 2km radius, looks insanely redundant from the outside until you realize redundancy is actually information density in disguise I watched this firsthand with an injection mold supplier I was working with, this guy had seen a hundred founders iterate similar thermal designs over 6 months so he proactively modified his tooling before I even opened my mouth, he knew what I needed before I knew what I needed, the intelligence lives in the relationships between the nodes and it compounds daily the west thinks about manufacturing as a cost center you optimize by centralizing… China accidentally built a distributed neural network of manufacturing intelligence where knowledge diffuses horizontally across thousands of agents faster than any single western company can process internally so when Merz comes back and says we need to work a bit more I think he saw the problem but COMPLETELY misdiagnosed the solution, telling Germans to work harder is like telling a horse to gallop faster when the other side built a combustion engine the gap is ARCHITECTURAL it’s ecosystem density, you need a custom connector in Shenzhen you walk 200 meters, in Munich you send an email and wait 3 weeks it’s iteration speed, parallel search vs sequential optimization at the system level, it’s risk tolerance, Chinese founders ship something broken on Monday fix it Tuesday ship again Wednesday while European companies are still in the approval phase for the pilot program of the feasibility study… and Merz only saw the surface, what he missed is the tier 2 cities like Hefei Chengdu Wuhan replicating the Shenzhen model at scale right now BYD going from irrelevant to outselling every european automaker combined in roughly 5 years, Huawei building its own 7nm chip under maximum sanctions when every analyst said it was physically impossible & behind all of that a government that treats advanced manufacturing as an existential national priority while europe debates whether AI needs another ethics committee I think what we’re watching is the most asymmetric economic competition in modern history and most western leaders are still framing it as a productivity problem when it’s actually an ontological one Europe & America are optimizing variables that China stopped tracking years ago meanwhile China is compounding on dimensions the west has no framework to even measure Merz at least had the courage to name it out loud and I respect that genuinely but working a bit more inside a broken architecture just means you arrive at the wrong destination slightly faster

The @sidefx Mardini challenge starts this Sunday. It looks exciting. I’ll try my best to participate and have fun! :) sidefx.com/community-main-me…

Three-quarters of UK workers considering leaving the film and TV industry screendaily.com/news/three-q…