Jim Fan on X: “How it started: 1 DGX How it’s going: 2% of US GDP https://t.co/by57htZIJB” / X – https://x.com/DrJimFan/status/1881864383355310374
Weapons start-up Anduril wants the Pentagon to go all-in on AI and drones – The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/21/anduril-startup-weapons-drones-ai/
“Oh no, something I can be pedantic about! My very first academic paper was on Moore’s Law, and I interviewed Gordon. It wasn’t just 5 data points, he also had an idea of what was coming next as an insider (shades of AI predictions). Plus, he got a bit lucky early on as well.” / X

https://x.com/emollick/status/1880628580117524755
Harnessing AI to respond to the global threat | EurekAlert!

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1069695
LinkedIn accused of using private messages to train AI

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxevpzy3yko
The Prompt: Meta Faces Backlash Over AI Profiles

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2025/01/07/the-prompt-meta-faces-backlash-over-ai-profiles/
“What’s at stake with Meta’s decision to change its content moderation policy? @GiadaPistilli has, by far, the most thoughtful take I’ve seen on this question.

https://x.com/fdaudens/status/1881791611077902463
“Is there a secret AI? Yes. Would you share it? I wouldn’t. Would help me make my next moves. Including making lesser versions to release. I am still bullish on Grok but OpenAI has the early users and developers have built it into many things. The early adopters are teaching” / X

https://x.com/Scobleizer/status/1880039269122863320
“Google Responds to Developer Concerns About Long-term Commitment to Android XR Google’s announcement of Android XR last month was largely met with excitement, but there was a notable undercurrent of concern about Google’s long-term commitment to the platform. The company has a

https://x.com/RtoVR/status/1881802749248987462
“thank you to the external safety researchers who tested o3-mini. we have now finalized a version and are beginning the release process; planning to ship in ~a couple of weeks. also, we heard the feedback: will launch api and chatgpt at the same time! (it’s very good.)” / X

https://x.com/sama/status/1880356297985638649
“And since AI will be the defining political issue of the next decade, we should expect that such a framework will in large part focus on how to orient to a world full of AI. The New Left: of AI, by AI, but hopefully not just for AI.” / X

https://x.com/RichardMCNgo/status/1882572689245884916
“Found a crazy app where you livestream as an influencer to an audience of bots 🤳 They listen to you and then comment with questions, reactions, and criticism. You know it’s fake, but…it feels real when you’re live!

https://x.com/venturetwins/status/1879927553051541862
Strategic Buyer’s Guide to AI Solutions for Security Operations Centers (SOCs)

https://content.dropzone.ai/soc-buyers-guide
“Chinese lab Minimax launched two AI models with context windows of 4M tokens Using a new ‘Lightning Attention’ approach, the models perform comparably with top models on academic benchmarks They mark a push toward agents with extensive memory

https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1881024786190463073
“🚨 NEW: Marc Andreessen on China’s manufacturing dominance “There’s three industries that follow phones that the Chinese own the global market at: 1) Drones Something over 90% of all the consumer drones are made in China. Which is what the US Military also uses. It’s the whole

https://x.com/AutismCapital/status/1879396919107313836
“DeepSeek showed us in just 4 days: – Open-source AI is only <6 months behind closed AI – China is leading the open-source AI race (was not on my bingo card) – we are entering the LLM RL golden era – distilled models are powerful, we’ll have highly intelligent AI running locally” / X

https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1882840436974428362
“The thing about open models is that they can, as far as we know, always be jailbroken in a way that gets around their guardrails, as once they are in the wild there are lots of techniques. This applies equally to political censorship as it does to preventing harmful use of AI.

https://x.com/emollick/status/1881577479460274631
“Technologies do not revolutionize productivity immediately, at least historically You could potentially argue that AI is different for a variety of reasons, but it would be smart to acknowledge the default expectation is that it will be years until the real impact of AI on work.” / X

https://x.com/emollick/status/1881070444524261682
“The “larger anxiety about turning creative work over to automated processes” stems fundamentally from a misalignment in how we conceptualize AI’s role in creative processes. Artistic creation operates in a fundamentally different paradigm than other AI tasks, as there is no

https://x.com/c_valenzuelab/status/1882467983840145841
“This point is important. I don’t see clear visions from those seeking very capable AI about what the future world they want looks like The singularity (a point at which future predictions become impossible) is a metaphor, not an excuse. What world are you building, specifically?” / X

https://x.com/emollick/status/1881168956779839626
AI tool can give ministers ‘vibe check’ on whether MPs will like policies | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/20/ai-tool-can-give-ministers-vibe-check-on-whether-mps-will-like-policies
“Wow! Stargate Project will invest $500B over the next 4 years – that’s ~0.4% of US GDP over that period. For comparison, the inflation-adjusted dollars spent on other large undertakings: • Interstate Highway System: ~$650B • Apollo Program: ~$280B • Manhattan Project: ~$35B” / X

https://x.com/tanayj/status/1881849682063986843?s=46
“🚨 MASAYOSHI SON: “Mr. President, last month I came to celebrate your winning and promised $100B. And you told me go for $200B. Now I came back with $500B. This is because as you say, this is the beginning of the Golden Age. We wouldn’t have decided this unless you won.” 🔥 🏆

https://x.com/AutismCapital/status/1881835411238170624
Sam Altman on X: “thank you to the external safety researchers who tested o3-mini. we have now finalized a version and are beginning the release process; planning to ship in ~a couple of weeks. also, we heard the feedback: will launch api and chatgpt at the same time! (it’s very good.)” / X – https://x.com/sama/status/1880356297985638649

“Geoffrey Hinton warns about the dangers of releasing AI Model weights releasing the weights of large AI models is dangerous, similar to making fissile material available for making bombs. once these models are released, bad actors can use them for harmful purposes but it’s too
https://x.com/slow_developer/status/1880627011376312732

From Gmail to Word, your privacy settings and AI in a new relationship
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/15/from-gmail-to-word-your-privacy-settings-and-ai-in-a-new-relationship.html

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