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Chronicling the singularity
- SITUATION EXPLAINED: Did the 1995 internet have its own Mythos moment? We asked @LouisAnslow, curator of @PessimistsArc "In 1995, there was a piece of software called SATAN... Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks. And it was a troll basically by the creators. It
00:00 - When will AI be able to design a working humanoid robot from scratch? @earthtojake, robotics researcher at @southpkcommons: "Just given the rate of change or improvement I've seen in the last two months with the model releases, I think in 12 months we could expect that kind of
00:00 - SITUATION EXPLAINED: Fable was a massive step change for generative CAD. We asked @earthtojake, robotics researcher at @southpkcommons "For the brief period of time I got to play with Fable, that was like a massive step change, and I think the reason Fable was so much better
00:00 - Will natural language replace apps and visual interfaces or will both coexist? We asked @joshelman: "I think the answer is both, I think it's gonna be this combination of natural language as a primary interface, make it really easy, but when you really get into exploring the
00:00 - How do you tell real consumer adoption from hype? We asked @joshelman, partner at a16z: "I look for the ones that people don't just try, but they start using. And they start really using and bringing into their life." "What I like to ask either users of a new product or
00:00 - SITUATION EXPLAINED: Anton Leicht just wrote the blueprint for a sovereign AI coalition. • The Fable export ban cut off US allies as collateral damage of domestic US policy • Any reasonable country should conclude it simply needs its own frontier AI, however high the cost •
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AI sovereignty debates dodge their own conclusion. If you really think frontier AI is critical and the US can't be trusted, there is only one path: build it yourself, whatever it takes. So let's drop the sovereignty theatre and look at how we'd pull off the middle power project. - MTS reposted
in the two weeks since the Fable 5 export ban, reporting has revealed more about the 24 hours that preceded it. for the MTS newsletter, i wrote about what we should take away from the event. for Anthropic, it looks to be a second signal after the supply chain fiasco that the
- SITUATION EXPLAINED: Will the future of insurance calls still be a phone call even when both sides are AI? We asked @XDeGracia, co-founder of @ProsperAI_HQ, which just raised a $30M Series A: "We real-time check eligibility through APIs on the insurance. But if we cannot get
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00:08At Prosper AI we are thrilled to have raised a $30M Series A led by @a16z We’ve grown 5x in the last 6 months, supporting now +150,000 healthcare providers and 60+ healthcare organizations, including outpatient groups and enterprises backed by firms like Blackstone, KKR, and
