NVIDIA'S BIGGEST COMPETITOR AMD BUILT A BOX THAT RUNS A 235B MODEL AND KILLS $200 OPENAI AND $200 CLAUDE CODE FOR $9 A MONTH amd's ryzen ai max 395 is the first x86 chip that runs a 200 billion parameter model on a single piece of silicon with 128gb of unified memory the gmktec evo-x2 runs qwen3 235b fully, deepseek v3 comfortably and llama 3.3 70b with headroom. on linux you get 110gb of usable vram out of 128gb amd claimed the chip beat an nvidia rtx 5080 by more than 3x on deepseek r1 inference. a lunchbox sized pc outrunning a $1,000 discrete gpu on a real ai workload a heavy ai user pays $200 for claude code max, $200 for chatgpt pro, $20 for cursor and $20 for gemini. that's $5,280 a year and the box pays itself off in 9 to 10 months ollama installs in one command and claude code points at localhost so nothing leaves the machine and nothing costs per request bookmark this and read the article below

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Congratulations to Google on open-sourcing Gemma Diffusion! I want to give a shout-out to a group of really talented Cornell students who developed in the lab a lot of the new ideas that we see in this model: @mariannearr -- Block diffusion is what enables Gemma Diffusion to generate arbitrary length sequences and support KV caching. @mariannearr @SchiffYair -- Efficient encoder-decoder diffusion (E2D2) extends block diffusion and is part of what makes Gemma really fast, speeding up inference by running a smaller decoder model. @SchiffYair @ssahoo_ @Guanghan__Wang -- Uniform diffusion LMs (UDLMs) are the family of discrete diffusion models that underlie Gemma and define its noise process and training objective. This work builds on our earlier simplified losses in MDLMs. @ssahoo_ -- Uniform diffusion supports built-in error correction and is especially effective with distilled fast samplers like the ones introduced in Duo. This is a great overview of Gemma Diffusion: newsletter.maartengrootendor… Check out the students' papers below:

How many years before fable / mythos level tech is ubiquitous and effectively free?

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Remembering David Hockney, he was kind and always had a sparkle in his eye. He never stopped experimenting and is one of the finest painters of our generation.

“It’s an absurd world, isn’t it?” Hockney told Vogue in 2025. “And it looks as though it’s going more absurd.” RIP vogue.com/article/david-hock…

The fact that Elon Musk’s father is actively carrying water for the Kremlin in Moscow is a national security blind spot for the United States and its allies. Errol Musk is a heavily compromised liability, and his relationship with Russia leaves the West exposed to unprecedented blackmail and espionage risks. Errol Musk has returned to Russia to praise the regime and enjoy his life on the Kremlin's terms. Given his dark history of abuse and scandals, Russian handlers have likely collected an arsenal of kompromat on him. The FSB does not hand out luxury treatment to foreign elites for free, since they expect a return on their investment, and Errol’s value lies entirely on who his son is (no matter if they are close or not). This arrangement poses a direct threat to Western security. Elon Musk is a vital contractor for the US military, holding immense power over critical capabilities. He is also a volatile figure who frequently acts on impulse and exhibits highly questionable ideological stances. If Moscow decides to tighten the screws on Elon by exploiting his father, no one knows what will happen, making this entire situation deeply troubling. The US should never have put itself in this situation

Love this: "Ukrainian soldiers used a "Vampire" drone to evacuate a cat and her five kittens from the frontline. The operation, which the troops dubbed "Operation Meow-Meow," was carried out by pilots from the 118th Separate Mechanized Brigade on June 8." united24media.com/war-in-ukr…

ZELENSKYY: I don’t want to agree or disagree with Trump, because he has his own relationship with Putin. But I’ve always told him that he can’t trust Putin or his inner circle, that Putin is playing games with him. God bless, American society remains strong supporter of Ukraine.

GitLab CEO, @bstaples, takes the stage at GitLab Transcend! 🎉

my X timeline today is basically fable is AGI fable isn’t that great loops CODEX members of technical staff AGI escaping permanent underclass workouts F1 Monaco people posting pictures from NYC/SF

Saw this and walked into oncoming traffic

In 793, Nordic raiders attacked and plundered the Lindisfarne monastery off the coast of Northumbria. This unprecedented assault on one of England's holiest sites shocked Christian Europe and marked the definitive beginning of the Viking Age. ⚔️🛡️

As we approach 10 years since the EU referendum, a new YouGov study finds most Britons would support a closer relationship with the EU, including rejoining the EU Closer relationship outside EU: 59% support Rejoining the EU: 55% Current relationship: 29% Looser relationship: 21%

Simon Peyton Jones is the co-creator of Haskell (pure functional programming language) and I interviewed him about functional programming, why it matters, and his thoughts on other programming languages. In this episode: • Useful and useless programming languages • Rust vs C • Haskell vs OCaml • Why functional programming matters • Static languages and their value for LLMs • Why Excel is his 2nd favorite programming language Where to watch: • YouTube - youtu.be/xcB_LF3cdqw • Spotify - open.spotify.com/episode/5d9… • Apple Podcasts - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… • Transcript - developing.dev/p/co-creator-… Thank you to the sponsor of this episode for supporting my work: • WorkOS: makes your app Enterprise Ready with easy to use APIs to add SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and more in just a few lines of code, check them out at workos.com/ Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 00:39 - What functional programming is 09:18 - Downsides of functional programming 10:53 - Specialized hardware for functional programming 21:47 - Haskell is useless 25:59 - Rust vs C 28:26 - Haskell vs OCaml 35:26 - Side effects in Haskell 44:26 - Type systems 57:30 - How the Haskell compiler works 01:04:35 - Why Haskell is talked about more than used 01:09:07 - Avoiding success at all costs 01:11:12 - LLMs and programming languages 01:13:57 - New programming language design 01:15:59 - Should students continue to learn programming 01:22:33 - Why Excel is is 2nd favorite programming language 01:25:04 - Advice for his younger self

I wrote a little something about Bowie in the 1970's for my Substack people. By no means definitive, just my thoughts most of a lifetime later. open.substack.com/pub/lloydc…

Residents of French village say US Defense Secretary Hegseth not welcome for D-Day visit ➡️ go.france24.com/bwm6

There is a widespread misconception, actively promoted by the Kremlin & its proxies, that a ceasefire between Russia & Ukraine will lead to a so-called ‘return to normal’ — a resumption of Eurasian energy trade, a return of Russia to capital markets & an end to Moscow’s political isolation. Nothing could be further from the truth. Even if Russia stops shooting prisoners on the frontlines or bombing Ukrainian civilians in their beds, it will still be illegally occupying 20% of Ukrainian territory, including Crimea. It will still be holding tens of thiusands of kidnapped children hostage, as it seeks to brainwash & militarize them. It will still be engaged in hostile corruption, influence & sabotage operations against democracies. Its leadership will still be liable to face accountability for the crime of aggression & genocide, as well as many other war crimes & atrocities. Russia has no intention of giving up on this national programme of unmitigated genocidal savagery. Instead of clinging to impossible dreams, our free societies should continue to re-evaluate what Moscow was doing before 2022, before 2014 & even before 2008, when it invaded Georgia. The Kremlin was never interested in having ‘normal commercial relations’ with anyone. They wanted cash in order to rebuild their economy so they could start invading neighbours again. Even after 1991, post-Soviet Russia never stopped occupying parts of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova & Ukraine. After their many defeats & failures in Chechnya, they knew they needed larger armed forces & more sophisticated active measures fully to subjugate any of these neighbouring countries. By its valour & military prowess, Ukraine has almost shattered this agenda of neo-colonial fascist military expansion. As a result, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Moldova & Syria have moved steadily away from Moscow’s orbit. Mali may do the same. Iran is also weaker. The upshot is clear: Russia now has fewer vassals in Europe, the Middle East & North Africa, although Belarus & Georgia remain under Russian control & occupation, & Russian mercenaries & spies retain influence in Burkina Faso, Burma, CAR, Venezuela & elsewhere. The fact that so many democratic leaders were deceived with regard to Moscow’s intentions in 1991-93 & again in 2000-02 need not blind people today to the reality of Russian treachery, manipulation & hostile intent. Even if the guns fall silent in Donbas & elsewhere, as still remains most unlikely, Russia will not be a normal country. It will remain a neo-imperialist genocidal occupier with an unbroken history of aggression over centuries against neighbours & states further afield. Even if one theatre of operations becomes less active, democracies will still need to deter & defeat this Kremlin war machine. We will need a workable strategy for victory to liberate occupied areas of Ukraine, as well as Belarus, Georgia & occupied Moldovan Transnistria. Russian coercive control must end in the Caucasus & Central Asia, as well in remaining parts of Asia, Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean, where it lingers. The new normal should be a world free of Russian aggression, invasion, occupation & repression. That remains a goal well worth fighting for.