David Shenk and @doubledaybooks in 2001 made it so relevant for today's world of deep mind and mind games. Mind boggling facts about 🧠 #theforgetting

We are working towards a new web: one built for agents instead of humans. To celebrate the weird, whacky, and magical parts of the journey that made the human web, we are putting together something fun and unique! Online: museum.parallel.ai Pop-up in SF May 8-16

ByteDance just published something I've been waiting for someone to build: CUDA Agent! It trained a model that writes fast CUDA kernels. Not just correct ones — actually optimized ones. It beats torch.compile by 2× on simple/medium kernels, ~92% on complex ones, and even outperforms Claude Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3 Pro by ~40% on the hardest setting. The key idea is simple but kind of brilliant: CUDA performance isn’t about correctness, it’s about hardware. Warps, memory bandwidth, bank conflicts — the stuff you only see in a profiler. So instead of rewarding “did it compile?”, they reward actual GPU speed. Real profiling numbers. RL trained directly on performance. That’s a big shift. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2602.24286 Project: cuda-agent.github.io/

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Anthropic had 16 AI agents build a C compiler from scratch. 100k lines, compiles the Linux kernel, $20k, 2 weeks. To put that in perspective GCC took thousands of engineers over 37 years to build. (Granted from 1987 - however) One researcher and 16 AI agents just built a compiler that passes 99% of GCC's own torture test suite, compiles FFmpeg, Redis, PostgreSQL, QEMU and runs Doom. They say they "(mostly) walked away." But that "mostly" is doing heavy lifting. No human wrote code but the researcher constantly redesigned tests, built CI pipelines when agents broke each other's work, and created workarounds when all 16 agents got stuck on the same bug. The human role didn't disappear. It shifted from writing code to engineering the environment that lets AI write code. I don’t know how you could make the point AI is hitting a wall.

This didn't seem good at all. Deep scientific expertise is needed in nearly every government agency to tackle all kinds of important problems.

Is x.com down, @elonmusk?

Announcing the completely reimagined vLLM TPU! In collaboration with @Google, we've launched a new high-performance TPU backend unifying @PyTorch and JAX under a single lowering path for amazing performance and flexibility. 🚀 What's New? - JAX Pytorch: Run PyTorch models on TPUs with no code changes, now with native JAX support. - Up to 5x Performance: Achieve nearly 2x-5x higher throughput compared to the first TPU prototype. - Ragged Paged Attention v3: A more flexible and performant attention kernel for TPUs. - SPMD Native: We've shifted to Single Program, Multi-Data (SPMD) as the default, a compiler-centric model native to TPUs for optimal execution. Dive deep into the new architecture and see the performance benchmarks in our latest blog post! blog.vllm.ai/2025/10/16/vllm… #vLLM #TPU #JAX #PyTorch #AI #OpenSource

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We Have Won! No one can use ‘ORS’ on their label unless it’s a WHO-recommended formula. This is the story of Dr. Sivaranjani Santosh, a braveheart paediatrician from Hyderabad, who fought for 8 years against sugar-rich drinks falsely marketed as ORS. Her persistence led to FSSAI’s landmark order, protecting children and patients from misleading claims. “These drinks had 10x the sugar WHO recommends, worsening diarrhoea and complications in millions of kids,” she explains. This victory is not just hers, but belongs to everyone who stood with her — doctors, advocates, parents, and citizens demanding truth in labeling. Scroll down to see how her 8-year battle changed the game for public health and children across India. Credits : drsivaranjanionline on IG #HealthVictory #PublicHealthIndia #ChildSafety #TruthInLabelling #FSSAI #DoctorsForChange #IndiaFightsBack [ORS Ban India, Dr Sivaranjani Santosh, FSSAI Order, Public Health Victory, Sugar Drinks Misleading Labels]

Meet the person behind the illustrations of the 2025 Nobel Prize laureates. Check out artist Niklas Elmehed. Here he is painting the illustrations for our new medicine laureates, Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi. #NobelPrize

Just wrapped an interview with a candidate. Palo Alto born & raised, Palo Alto High school, Ivy League CS, internships at tier-1 startups & ai labs. On the call he literally melted down from the pressure. Parents, peers, expectations, he was completely overwhelmed. Palo Alto parents, please love your kids. Please put aside your own ego and just love them.

RIP. Jane Goodall, renowned chimpanzee researcher and animal advocate, dies at 91 nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/… via @nbcnews

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My longtime collaborator Dave Patterson (long-time faculty at @UCBerkeley, @TheOfficialACM Turing Award winner, and fellow @LaudeInstitute board member) wrote a very good op-ed about how continued investing in basic science and technology research is essential for the U.S. Dave describes the government funding his labs received, but also the impact: "For decades, my research received support from the NSF’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, through grants and Ph.D. fellowships. All told, American taxpayers invested just under $100 million in the labs I helped lead. Accounting for inflation, technologies that came out of them went on to generate over $1 trillion in product sales. That is a 10,000-to-1 return on investment to the public and surely at least 1,000-to-1 return directly back to the government in taxes. Not from luck, but from decades of public investment." ... "Every American taxpayer is a silent shareholder in that success. If we walk away now, we lose not just future breakthroughs but also what we have already earned." Continuing to invest in basic research in the U.S. is what leads to these sorts of extraordinary outcomes. thehill.com/opinion/technolo…

Penguins are capable of defying the harshest conditions, and they have plenty more secrets to share—as @bertiegregory discovered 🐧 #SecretsOfThePenguins premieres April 20 on @natgeotv. Stream next day on @DisneyPlus and @hulu. #ourHOME

Hey @ycombinator could you claim back the @Google panel (tested browser-wide) when you do a plain search of your name? It shows the picture of #boycotted @BeerBicepsGuy for no reason (with @Wikipedia source). We'd at least see @paulg @garrytan as the front face

Dont worry what the packet says. The flavor is all natural, but the intelligence behind it is very artificial. #perplexity @perplexity_ai @AravSrinivas What better to sip the best morning coffee and knowledge together. Order your fruity flavor on perplexity.supply/shop/coffe…