Techcrunch·25mFounders Fund hires former OpenAI exec Ryan Beiermeister (and not because of her Mafia skills)Ryan Beiermeister, who demonstrated cool analysis in the Founders Fund YouTube series "Mafia," has joined the firm as a partner.
Lesswrong·1hThe State of AI Consciousness ResearchEpistemic status: a survey, not an argument. I am agnostic on whether any current system is conscious; the claim is only that the question is researchable. This piece surveys the empirical research on AI consciousness. The premise of that research, and of the survey, is that the question does not have to wait on a solution to the hard problem of consciousness: methods familiar from psychology, cognitive science and mechanistic interpretability can be applied to AI systems now, and their results
Wired - AI·1hHere's Why Anthropic Is Pushing States to Regulate AI FasterThe company endorsed landmark AI transparency laws in California and New York last year, but its head of US state and local policy says they may already be outdated.
Techcrunch·2hGoogle Vids now lets you star in your own AI videosGoogle is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini Omni-powered tools for generating and editing videos from prompts and reference images.
Techcrunch·2hRoblox launches an AI-powered game creation feature in its mobile appRoblox's new "Build" feature lets users generate basic games using a single text prompt.
Hacker News·2hGerman AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarksA German research consortium has released Soofi S 30B-A3B, an open language model trained entirely on Deutsche Telekom's cloud infrastructure in Munich. The model uses an efficient hybrid architecture that activates only a fraction of its 31.6 billion parameters per token, keeping throughput steady even at very long contexts. With a training dataset deliberately weighted toward German, Soofi S tops all fully open competitors on both German and English benchmarks.
Lesswrong·2hRecap of bike trip/street interviews across AmericaA ~month ago I left from Chicago to bike (and amtrak) to plzdontkillus in Berkeley. I've been street interviewing/conversing with a wide variety of people I ran into about AI futures and philosophy. I also have been live streaming since I got to PDKU , leaning more talking to young founders but a variety overall. I'll try to share what I've learned about the American public, persuasion, social media and the EA movement. 1. Almost no one in "Normal America" has any idea what is going on. They don
LLogan Kilpatrick@OfficialLoganKtoday we are rolling out new cost controls for managed agents, a free tier so everyone can try!!!, and our first set of triggers so you can kick off agent tasks on schedule! very cool to see managed agents in the Gemini API improving week over week
Techcrunch·2hOil giant BP shutters its corporate venture arm after 20 yearsBP Ventures is shutting down, ending a nearly 20 year run that was marked by reportedly lackluster returns.
Techcrunch·3hUber’s $14.8B Delivery Hero deal would nearly double its global footprintUber has agreed to acquire Delivery Hero in a $14.8 billion all-stock deal that would nearly double the company’s global footprint and create one of the world’s largest food delivery platforms outside China.
Hacker News·3h42% of adults rely on their parents for financial supportParents can maximize the impact of their support by ensuring their gifts alleviate financial stress or help their kids move closer to their long-term goals.
Techcrunch·3hNewsletter platform Beehiiv’s now lets subscribers chat with each other, adds AIBeehiiv is launching an AI Copilot to help publishers with user growth and analytics
Techcrunch·3hNewsletter platform Beehiiv now lets subscribers chat with each other, adds AIBeehiiv is launching an AI Copilot to help publishers with user growth and analytics
Lesswrong·3hThe Halo DefenseOnce upon a time, A Relatively Famous Guy On The Internet was accused of having been simultaneously dating multiple women, without those women's knowledge, those women (according to the accusation) having been convinced that they were his exclusive partners all along. Then, one of his friends, another Relatively Famous Guy On The Internet, defended him by claiming that he is "a great friend, a wonderful human being, and that his podcast was incredibly helpful to a lot of people". This is a great
RRohan Paul@rohanpaul_aiOpenAI and Worklouder was in the news yesterday for their new hardware and today its Aina. AI is moving out of chat windows and into real-world interfaces. And Aina just raised $5.5 M. 2 years of AI in a chat window and now everyone's racing to devices.
Hacker News·3hDetecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning.admonition { margin: .75em 0; padding: .6rem; overflow: hidden; font-size: 12px; page-break-inside: avoid; border-left: .3rem solid #42b983; border-radius: .3rem; box-shadow: 0 0.1re
Techcrunch·3hX cracks down on creators who steal contentX will use Grok AI to better detect stolen content, redirect payouts to original creators, and crack down on engagement bait.
Hacker News·4hPhotos of items from families in different countries with different incomesImagine the world as a street. Everyone lives on Dollar Street. The poorest to the left and the richest on the right. Every else live somewhere in between. Where would you live? Visit Dollar Street and see homes from hundreds of homes from all over the World.
Hacker News·4hDecoy FontDecoy Font combines every letter with a decoy, making it harder for AI to read what you type. Type a message to try it out or download the TTF directly.
Techcrunch·4hAI-powered travel agency Fora hits unicorn status, raises $60MTravel agency Fora announced a $60 million Series D round led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, valuing the company at $1 billion.
Hacker News·4hNotebookLM is now Gemini NotebookNotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook: the same standalone product with deeper Google integration and a secure cloud computer.
Hacker News·4hMicrosoft Comic Chat is now open sourceMicrosoft Comic Chat is now open source. Explore the IRC client that turned conversations into comics and helped introduce Comic Sans to the world.
Nvidia Dev Blog·4hIntegrating Context-Aware Video AI Agents Into Enterprise Workflows | NVIDIA Technical BlogA video analytics AI agent that can perceive, reason, and act based on massive amounts of video footage must be integrated with existing workflows and…
Huggingface·4hNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed Ranks #1 Overall on RTEB, Advancing Agentic RetrievalA Blog post by NVIDIA on Hugging Face