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“Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible” -René Magritte
AIML
Stanford: Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2024
The Last Stock Photographers Await Their Fate Under Generative AI
A.I. Start-Ups Face a Rough Financial Reality Check
AI leaderboards are no longer useful. It's time to switch to Pareto curves.
Humanity is one convincing deepfake away from a global catastrophe
Microsoft Makes a New Push Into Smaller A.I. Systems
Amazon-backed Anthropic launches iPhone app and business tier to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT
Ukraine Unveils AI-generated Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman
Searching for the Next Big AI Breakthrough at the TED Conference
Painting
The Blank Signature, 1965, René Magritte(1898-1967), oil on canvas, 32 x 25 in., Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Crypto
Even as He Faces Prison Time, Binance’s Founder Plans a Comeback
Cyber
Satya Nadella’s Microsoft memo on putting security first
OpenAI's GPT-4 can exploit real vulnerabilities by reading security advisories
Markets
Insurer to Make $350 Million Payout in Baltimore Bridge Collapse
30 Years of Financial Market Returns
Major Asset Classes | April 2024 | Performance Review
Berkshire after Buffett 1: can any stockpicker follow the Oracle?
Berkshire after Buffett 2: the risk ‘genius’ pulling the insurance strings
Stocks Trade for 390 Minutes a Day. Increasingly, Only 10 Matter
US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana in a historic shift, AP sources say
Johnson & Johnson Proposes $6.5 Billion in New Talc Settlement Offer
Jane Street is big. Like, really, really big
Jane Street’s $1 Billion Trade Puts Spotlight on Indian Options
Misc
How to Build a $20 Billion Semiconductor Fab
Why Engineers Should Study Philosophy
In a first, an orangutan was seen treating his wound with a medicinal plant
Haunting Sounds From The World's Largest Living Thing Recorded
Decades Later, People Have Noticed A Quirk In James Cameron's 1989 Film 'The Abyss'
Former FTX Executive Pays $1.5 Million for Gold Watch Recovered From Titanic
Papers
Two interesting and potentially very important catalytic papers this week.
Research from Meta on predicting more than one token at a time
An alternative to Multi-Layer perceptrons (MLPs) called Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs).