imagine you shipped a clock with L44l batteries, but 4 days later the cell batteries aren't produced anymore and you have to switch to wired power for some reason. also some guy has figured out how to astral-project through the clock to steal your customers' money

BREAKING: Anthropic has urged for a global pause in AI development as artificial-intelligence models are nearing capability to improve without human intervention, per WSJ

If big companies can't make a net return on their LLM token costs, that doesn't mean it's impossible to. In fact this is exactly what you'd expect to happen with a new technology. Incumbents can't use it well, and are replaced by upstarts who can.

During the #MicrosoftBuild keynote, @cassidoo took the stage to demo the new GitHub Copilot app, showing how agents, multi-model reviews, custom UI canvases, and enterprise-ready deployment through Rayfin come together in one workflow.

Bernie Sanders unveils plan to take 50% stake in AI companies for government wealth fund

"The easiest people to fire are those you haven't hired yet," says @AndrewYang. "So are we replacing junior analysts, junior engineers with AI? 100%. And if we are, then I guarantee organizations around the country are doing the exact same thing." cnb.cx/4vxlNkU

🚨 Sam Altman warns OpenAi and Anthropic are experiencing severe pullback on Ai spending as companies put significant restraints on spending to restrict costs. The company warns investors it’s the first time this has happened in Ai and something we never expected. The buildout costs aren’t sustainable to allow profitability to hyperscalers or end users. $soxx $dram

Copilot’s biggest issue isn’t cost. It isn’t product. It isn’t even the brand dilution. They have the insurmountable problem of having the actual stupidest user base of any AI product. The average Lovable user understands basic software development better than Copilot users.

Gross oversimplification of what happened. Short version: 1. They charged per message because nobody knew what a token was 2. “Messages” got longer and more expensive because of agents 3. they delayed changes because people like you would flip out 4. It went too far and they ran out of compute. Long version: youtu.be/3A4y_Iw_gpU

Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Whatever [the next outbreak] is, we ain’t ready for it. We still have anti-vaxxers running around.” “I don’t trust scientists. I saw a YouTube video, so I’m not going to take it.” (mocking) “I don’t want you to ever forget this story.” “20,000 years ago, we’re in the cave. Do you know what the life expectancy was?” Shannon Sharpe: “10 years? 15 years?” Neil deGrasse Tyson: “30. Half of everyone born was dead before they were 30.” Shannon Sharpe: “Wow!!!” Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Fast forward to 1840… everyone born in the world was dead by the age of 35. We gained five years of life expectancy. And every one of them ate organic, breathed clean air… Science matters here.” “We’ve doubled the life expectancy with antibiotics, vaccines, and sanitation. The three biggest forces operating on our longevity. So to come around and say I don’t need vaccines because I’m not getting sick, that’s like saying, why are you using dandruff shampoo? You don’t have dandruff.” Shannon Sharpe: “Well, I don’t want to get it.” Neil deGrasse Tyson: “That’s my point. If you’re successful, people think you don’t need it when that’s what’s creating the ongoing success in the first place.”

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Great to be back at Microsoft Build today. For us, it is not about any one piece of technology or even the platform. It is about how we can build a frontier intelligence ecosystem together. Sharing some of our big announcements today ...

How to make a key employee feel like an owner without giving them ownership: Phantom equity. You (and your partners) own 100% of the business. You create a separate document called a phantom stock program. It mirrors your equity but lives outside your operating structure. It says: “If we ever sell this business, you get X%.” No liability. No tax consequences. No changes to your LLC or corporate docs. But if they leave, it goes away. Now your A player is building the business like they own it. Because in the outcome that matters most, they do. It's the cleanest way to recruit, retain, and align without giving up control.

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We experienced an outage at Coinbase last night, which is never acceptable. The root cause was a room overheating in an AWS datacenter when multiple chillers failed. We design our services to be redundant to downtime in any one AWS Availability Zone (AZ), and most of our systems worked this way last night, but not all. Our centralized exchange did not. Exchanges have unique architectures that optimize for latency and co-location of clients. It is possible to make exchanges resistant to AZ failures, but this can introduce latency delays that are not desirable along with breaking customer co-location. Given this incident, we'll revisit these tradeoffs to ensure we're giving you the best possible venue to trade. At a minimum, the duration of an outage should be able to be reduced considerably when an AZ move is needed. Thank you to the AWS and Coinbase teams for working through the night to mitigate the issue. We’ll share the detailed technical summary once it's ready.