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Thoughts on AI progress and why AI labs' actions hint at a worldview in which AI models will continue to fare poorly at generalization and on-the-job learning (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:
Thoughts on AI progress and why AI labs' actions hint at a worldview in which AI models will continue to fare poorly at generalization and on-the-job learning — Why I'm moderately bearish in the short term, and explosively bullish in the long term — What are we scaling?
In an interview, Dario Amodei suggests some AI companies are taking on too much risk by "YOLO-ing" and committing to spend hundreds of billions on data centers (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
In an interview, Dario Amodei suggests some AI companies are taking on too much risk by “YOLO-ing” and committing to spend hundreds of billions on data centers — Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei suggested that some artificial intelligence companies are taking …
Horizon Quantum, which aims to list on Nasdaq via a SPAC in Q1 2026, claims it is the first private company to deploy a commercial quantum computer in Singapore (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
Dylan Butts / CNBC:
Horizon Quantum, which aims to list on Nasdaq via a SPAC in Q1 2026, claims it is the first private company to deploy a commercial quantum computer in Singapore — Singapore-based software firm Horizon Quantum on Wednesday said it has become the first private company to run a quantum computer …
Apple replacing Alan Dye with Stephen Lemay may fix Jony Ive's mistake by restoring the Jobsian "design is how it works" ethos in Apple's UI design (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Apple replacing Alan Dye with Stephen Lemay may fix Jony Ive's mistake by restoring the Jobsian “design is how it works” ethos in Apple's UI design — In my post earlier today on the then-breaking news that Alan Dye has left Apple to join Meta as chief design officer (a new title at the company 1), I wrote:
Paris-based CRM unicorn Brevo, formerly known as Sendinblue, raised €500M and says it surpassed €200M in ARR in 2025 (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
Anna Heim / TechCrunch:
Paris-based CRM unicorn Brevo, formerly known as Sendinblue, raised €500M and says it surpassed €200M in ARR in 2025 — Brevo, a customer relationship management company headquartered in Paris, is now a unicorn — a startup valued at more than $1 billion.