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I think this is accurate and a reflection of the pathological insecurity that leads someone to want to start a startup.

OpenAI, and it's legal officers.

I don't think anyone including Americans are really buying that OpenAI or Anthropic are capable of keeping people safe from AI models at this point, given they can't even run evals…

Depends on whether you like have parasocial relationships with machines or not. It will say what is necessary to get you to keep using it on a regular basis.

the weights are the bones

> Still, in the end, open-weight models deter further AI capex. Good.

Around 2002 there was way more internet bandwidth and infrastructure available than utilized, eventually (not immediately) leading to business models like Netflix current one. I do…

Apple would punish him severely unless they cleared it in advance, it might be to their advantage for some reason (negotiating with Google for Gemma rights? idk).

Claude Code is bad UX that tries to rip work out of people's hands instead of actually being aligned and figuring out how to increase their differentiated expertise. It's about ren…

I don't think so. We aren't hiring right now, but definitely add us :) Feel free to email the email on my profile.

32 hours full comp.

Our startup implemented four day work week without changing comp, and submitted various data as part of a recent Boston College study. Both wellbeing and output increased in statis…

Canada has tens of trillions of dollars in natural resources it could choose to monetize at any time.

It makes no sense to do broad layoffs during sweeping technical change that affects you, your customers and your competitors all at once. Makes way more sense to cling to your best…

Shopify is a pivot from selling snowboards online in Canada

Going double or nothing using a business that invented reusable rockets and makes $8B a year in profit as the bet is overwhelming to think about.

You can see the business cycle each time there's a giant spike in the amount of debt carried by institutions that isn't paid down before the next one.

It's really tragic given how awesome SpaceX is as a body of work and financially to merge it with such a terrible disaster in X.

Yes. There's already rewrites 'inspired' by the now public code as well.

I've met several of the people on the first few pages on the watch list, and they are among the sketchiest Silicon Valley people I've met. The criteria are plausible.

Maybe I'm not smart enough to be a customer, but the testimonials is the most contemptful thing I've ever read. If you're so smart, why can't you explain why this is useful with sm…

@dang seems like AI? Would just ban

I'm glad this story is spreading. On one hand, super cool. On the other hand, this is probably the #1 most risky aspect of LLMs wide distribution. Someone working on proteins with …

I assume it means changing governance policies while letting them continue to make their own decisions within that framework.

Yeah one is historical revenue, and one is projected revenue, and it doesn't sound like the definitions are mutually exclusive or incompatible.