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“The best part of this moment, he thought, is that everything is still possible.” - Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
AIML
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Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle
Big Tech Launches Campaign to Defend AI Use
Testing and mitigating elections-related risks- Anthropic
A Picture is Worth 170 Tokens: How Does GPT-4o Encode Images?
AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead
Goody- The World’s Most Responsible LLM
OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance
OpenAI and Google DeepMind workers warn of AI industry risks in open letter
Elon Musk reportedly diverted thousands of AI chips from Tesla to X
OpenAI seeks ‘vast quantities’ of nuclear fusion energy to power superhuman AI
Painting
Martin, a terrier, Rosa Bonheur , 1879, Oil on canvas • 47 x 37.2 cm
The Redemption of Rosa Bonheur
Crypto
Cyber
Microsoft Will Switch Off Recall by Default After Security Backlash
Markets
Major Asset Classes | May 2024 | Performance Review
The Insurance Market Is Flirting With Natural Disasters
Sam Altman Was Bending the World to His Will Long Before OpenAI
The Aging U.S. Power Grid Is About to Get a Jolt
Airlines Are Mastering the Dark Art of the Upsell
The warring conmen at the heart of a €5bn carbon credit scam
Heuristics on the high seas: Mathematical optimization for cargo ships
Misc
The Best Podcasts of 2024 So Far
The Opaque Investment Empire Making OpenAI’s Sam Altman Rich
The Man Who Couldn’t Stop Going to College
South Pole Water Infrastructure
Martha Gellhorn Was The Only Woman to Report on the D-Day Landings From the Ground
secret hand gestures in paintings
Why Are Debut Novels Failing to Launch?
How Mount Everest killed George Mallory
Books
3 books I’ve read and 6 books I want to read