Ethan B. Holland

FinRL-DeepSeek – new trading AI agents combining Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models — AstroWind https://melwy.com/finrl_deepseek

“I built a multi-agent framework that pre-approves loan applications in under 5 minutes 🎉 1. Integrated 5 agents that make use of @Experian and @Plaid APIs for real-time credit and financial verification 2. The agents look up credit score, DTI, LTV, assets, property valuation https://x.com/n_sri_laasya/status/1890132203419627562

“Announcing Native Mobile App support on Replit. Now you can build iOS and Android apps that you can take all the way to the App Store without writing any code, powered by Replit Assistant. This is early access—full Agent support coming soon! https://x.com/amasad/status/1888727685825699874

“📈 A multi-agent Financial Analyst with #crewai 💰 The user submits a query and then: ✅ Query Parser Agent extracts structured outputs form the query using #pydantic ✅ Code Writer Agent writes #python code to visualize the stock data using #pandas, #matplotlib, and https://x.com/crewAIInc/status/1889437990214357125

“Last week, @NWischoff asked for an “AI agent to underwrite a mortgage or even do a partially underwritten pre-approval in less than 24 hours.” @AgentOpsAI build a fully functional agent that pre-approves loan applications in under 5 minutes. Comment below if you are interested https://x.com/AtomSilverman/status/1891965335169008133

Statement from Dario Amodei on the Paris AI Action Summit \ Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/news/paris-ai-summit

“Anthropic introduced the idea of sandbagging a few years ago – showing that AIs may give you worse answers if you ask questions in an ignorant way. This new research shows sandbagging extends to alignment. Ask the AI to do something bad and it might pretend it can’t do that. https://x.com/emollick/status/1891905364376862966

The Augmented Intelligence Era: Unlocking Unlimited Potential for the Future of Legal Work with Eudia https://www.eudia.com/blog/the-augmented-intelligence-era-unlocking-unlimited-potential-for-the-future-of-legal-work-with-eudia

“Organizational life is about to get much weirder. This paper creates an early form of meeting delegates, where you send an AI to a meeting on your behalf, and it uses your voice and knowledge to advance your agenda A lot of old organizational methods need to be rethought for AI https://x.com/emollick/status/1891527817826828565

“The inaccuracy in financial queries on Perplexity Deep Research is being addressed. Examples of current failures include using old bitcoin prices or old market caps of the companies for a task like make me an investment case for Palantir or Bitcoin. We’re fixing this. For finance” / X https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1891535474315149662

“Deep Research as a small business incorporation legal consultant. Usually charged hundreds or even thousands of dollars an hour to offer this. Now free, only on Perplexity. https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1891563239240069245

“.@harvey__ai is THE vanguard AI app startup 🆕 @NoPriorsPod w/ Cofounder-CEO @winstonweinberg on: *capability improvement *co-pilots, end to end task completion, and product strategy for AI apps *selling AI to enterprise *hiring philosophy *what lawyers do in 5 years links 👇 https://x.com/saranormous/status/1890437612327874751

“Can LLMs earn $1 Million from software engineering? SWE-Lancer is a new Benchmark from @OpenAI that test if LLMs can do freelance tasks from Upwork valued at $1 million USD total in realworld payouts. SWE-Lancer includes independent engineering tasks (IC) from $50 bug fixes to https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1891780812497887289

“@benbybit @safe i like how in crypto you can steal over a billion dollars by getting someone to click a button and theres nothing they can do about it after they click the button except make a tweet saying sorry i clicked the button i wish i would not have clicked it” / X https://x.com/nearcyan/status/1893029628845138408

seeing lots of groaning about this, but isn’t it simply the case that LLMs are media publishers? they thus will have viewpoints: it’s bias-as-a-feature, not a bug there will be a FOX news & a NYT model etc etc (however, there will not be a maximally truth seeking model”..)” / X https://x.com/fabianstelzer/status/1891234868664668380

The New York Times adopts AI tools in the newsroom | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/news/613989/new-york-times-internal-ai-tools-echo

“so. this will never* happen because law firms have to be owned 100% by attorneys. so it’s impossible* to make a law firm that is also a tech company that rewards non-lawyers with equity” / X https://x.com/andersonbcdefg/status/1891329620558983633

“Announcing our first open-weights model: R1 1776 – a version of DeepSeek R1 that’s been post-trained to remove the China censorship and provide unbiased, accurate responses. Here’s a graph showing % of Chinese censorship by the model (the lower, the better). https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1891917148869755058

“I think this is directionally accurate tbh I am increasingly bearish on service companies (consulting/accounting/law firms) increasing their margins and becoming more akin to software companies” / X https://x.com/finbarrtimbers/status/1891308159530082315

“Many on Twitter expressed surprise at China’s rapid progress—especially with projects like DeepSeek and Qwen—but for those of us who have been closely following the latest ML research, these developments were hardly unexpected. Although these projects have attracted attention https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1891886896659517754

“Really hard to know what jobs are the best jobs in the future. We have pretty good evidence of which jobs are going to overlap most with AI (coding, yes, but also teaching, journalism, marketing, etc.) but overlap doesn’t mean destruction, it can just mean major transformation.” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1889905489196069079

“Introducing @MistralAI batch API UI! Now you can easily create and monitor batch jobs right from la Plateforme: https://x.com/sophiamyang/status/1891869154770026502

“Next big AI drop from China’s Alibaba. 🧵1/n Animate Anyone 2, an AI that transforms a single still image into a fully animated character, seamlessly integrating it into any environment. The technology captures environmental features and employs a shape-agnostic masking https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1890741283003486495

“put differently if Harvey (WLOG) is actually the future of law (which I largely believe) the natural conclusion is to launch their own law firm and dominate the vertical” / X https://x.com/finbarrtimbers/status/1891308426841461054

“I think people underestimate the sincerity of these smiles. Wenfeng isn’t just a competitor or a Party darling now – he’s boosted the entire Chinese stock market, these guys too, by ≈$1.3 trillion. DeepSeek narrative did what no stimulus could. Rising Whale lifts all boats. https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1891502835910459731

“libraries should only print to STDOUT if there is a serious risk to life or limb or if there has been enthusiastic consent from a user” / X https://x.com/typedfemale/status/1890221911143330221

“AI NEWS: Elon Musk’s xAI just unveiled Grok-3 and ranked #1 on the Chatbot Arena. Plus, more news from Mistral’s new regional AI Saba, Ilya’s SSI, Nous Research, and a new open-source Chinese video model. Here’s what you need to know:” / X https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1891773915560583258

“HuggingFace’s datasets and models platform is one of the most inclusive, backed by VCs. It hosts a wide range of content—academic and adult, copyright-free and copyrighted, liberal and conservative—attracting users not only from the West but also from the Chinese AI community.” / X https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1892971292003115032

South Korea bans new downloads of China’s DeepSeek AI https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyzym0vn8go

Advanced Flood Hub features for aid organizations and governments https://blog.google/technology/ai/advanced-flood-hub-features-for-aid-organizations-and-governments/

“Rolling out starting today, you can ask Gemini to consider your past chats to craft its responses. Easily pick up where you left off or have it summarize a previous topic. You can view, edit, or delete any chats you’ve had with Gemini, and see when it’s used. Try it in Gemini https://x.com/GeminiApp/status/1890137961871605863

Google is adding digital watermarks to images edited with Magic Editor AI | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/06/google-is-adding-digital-watermarks-to-images-edited-with-magic-editor-ai/

“As a rule of thumb, AI has not yet caused any major changes to labor markets that would be visible on charts. The only significant changes so far have been to freelance markets. That likely will change, but any pattern so far is due to other macroeconomic factors.” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1890437845820584386

“As an academic, the relative silence of the humanities and many social sciences about the future of our world with AI (besides far too many saying “AI is bad” without nuance), is a shame. These are fields with a lot to say about the nature of being human, silent at a key moment.” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1892344362702410097

“As someone who is pretty good at keeping up with AI, I can barely keep up with it all. That leads me to believe that very few other people are keeping up, either. So, on one hand, don’t feel bad you aren’t on top of it all. On the other, it means no one has the whole picture now” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1891913605890609624

“Piracy and memory in AI: a number of LLMs are trained on the Books3 archive, a pirated set of tens of thousands of books. It turns out that LLMs trained on Books3 are indeed better able to recall details of those books, and that this effect is much larger for less popular books. https://x.com/emollick/status/1890169244773671318

“Remote interviews are not going to be useful anymore, joining a long list of talent identification techniques that AI is invalidating (like take-home essays, etc.). I don’t think institutions are adjusting fast enough.” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1890933227973427676

“Representative survey of US workers finds that GenAI use continues to grow: 30% use GenAI at work, 1/3 of those use it every day And the productivity gains appear large: workers report that when they use AI it triples their productivity (reduces a 90 minute task to 30 minutes) https://x.com/emollick/status/1890236327582658595

(4) The EU AI Act is Coming to America – by Dean W. Ball https://www.hyperdimensional.co/p/the-eu-ai-act-is-coming-to-america

“Actually I quite like the new ChatGPT 4o personality, whatever they did. – it’s a lot more chill / conversational, feels a bit more like talking to a friend and a lot less like to your HR partner – now has a pinch of sassy, may defend itself e.g. when accused of lying – a lot of” / X https://x.com/karpathy/status/1891213379018400150

“- We’ll never be lost again, but what have we really found? – Every song ever made at our fingertips, but when’s the last time we listened? – All the world’s answers instantly, but are we still asking the right questions? – Every moment captured forever, but how many do we” / X https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1889888195262710220

“I sometimes see comparisons on X between AI & electrification, claiming that (unlike AI) electrification was slow & good use case were unclear at first. Not true: In 1882, Edison revealed both the electric light & a generation system. By 1892 New York City was electrified. Fast!” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1890585468208574773

Fiverr Go | AI-Powered Tools to Amplify Human Talent https://www.fiverr.com/go

Introducing Radar — real-time protection against bots, fraud, abuse — WorkOS https://workos.com/blog/radar

“A question I get a lot is: “Is AI going to use up all the energy on the planet and destroy us?” Yes, AI will increase demand for energy, but there is an important counterbalance. AI has the potential to make all technology more efficient. Cars used to get 8-14 MPG in the” / X https://x.com/JonathanRoss321/status/1891938726671945757

Radar — WorkOS https://workos.com/radar

“i particularly love when the anti-AI crowd makes up shit about our water usage while eating a hamburger” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1890820962993533232

Surprise Move: Judge Walks Back AI Copyright Ruling in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS | BakerHostetler – JDSupra https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/surprise-move-judge-walks-back-ai-6219521/

“@shinboson Silly con valley narrativemongers with personas optimized to invoke effortless Sheldon Cooper or Richard Hendricks gestalt make my blood boil they make it boil that much hotter because they cast real outliers (like Wenfeng) into doubt as their fraudulent VC pitches expire https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1891834083455430945

“Perry is gloating but that *is* the correct thing to say. «I’m afraid we did win». Safetyism was one of 3 Great Filter events on the road to mature humanity I see. Remaining: – economic obsolescence and extinction (with or without uploading). – total war. Let’s not fumble it.” / X https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1891414501011968390

Tinder will try AI-powered matching as the dating app continues to lose users | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/06/tinder-will-try-ai-powered-matching-as-the-dating-app-continues-to-lose-users/

What is device fingerprinting and how does it work? — WorkOS https://workos.com/blog/what-is-device-fingerprinting-and-how-does-it-work

“everyone who bought the $700 AI pin got literally rugged” / X https://x.com/nearcyan/status/1892049572546904319

“ロボット犬が襲いかかってくる展示を見て感動している。なんだこれ！　ヤバすぎる！！！ https://x.com/takahiroanno/status/1890350288554397709

“A Japanese expo displayed a chained robot dog that was programmed to attack anyone who came near While the specifics of the creepy Black Mirror-like robot remain unclear, the message is evident: we need to do more on the AI safety front https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1891177603312067056

“In our lifetime you will see more humanoid robots than humans when you’re out and about” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1889946006558744898