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https://archive.is/KDqg6

Altman and other OpenAI executives have suggested that each of America’s leading AI developers allot 5 per cent of their equity to a vehicle like the Alaska Permanent Fund, a sovereign fund that invests the state’s oil wealth into stocks and pays dividends to the state government and residents.

Sounds like it is for benefit of public rather than govt' office, and this would continue to benefit public even after current US administration is out of picture.

https://archive.is/m1qrN

OP to me sounds more authentic and seems to have inside information.

After a quick search I found a publication actually mentioning about these tools:

Ford previously told Business Insider that it had developed two bespoke AI-enhanced scanning tools that helped validate that cars were properly assembled before rolling off the lot. The tools, called AiTriz and MAIVs, both debuted in 2024. https://autos.yahoo.com/policy-and-environment/articles/ford...

And after doing cursory research on these tools, it is clear they are rudimentary (as compared to SOTA LLMs), they were essentially smartphone mounted on stands and doing visual checks using the camera - so OP could be very right.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-uses-ai-cameras-in-fact...

Original title: As AI eats into paid creative work, people are taking up the same skills — drawing, writing, crafts — on their own time, for no money, just to feel human

Slow breathing (in yoga: pranayama) instantly down-regulates your nervous system by boosting vagal tone and lowering sympathetic "fight-or-flight" activity. When your breath lengthens, it signals your brain that you are completely safe, dropping your heart rate and lowering blood pressure.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12858147/

It is perhaps very relevant what Chris Olah (Anthropic co-founder) said to pope..

I am a scientist. I lead a research team that studies the internal structure of these models—what is actually happening inside them. And I will be honest: we keep finding things that are mysterious, even unsettling. We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience. We find evidence of introspection. We find internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/chris-olah-pope-leo-encyclica...

My feeling seems to be getting validated. Offlate GPT 5.5 seems to be more precise and to the point, whereas Opus 4.7 is verbose, not in bad way, but still is kind of distracting. This aligns with the report finding where they say Opus 4.7 looks at 'surrounding enviornment' and bring in those aspect during task completion.

Google seems to have made an official post on Reddit describing the feature set in detail:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1tb8xls/introducin...

[Edit]

And, the feature set references the 'AI mouse pointer' from this Deepmind blog..

https://deepmind.google/blog/ai-pointer/

It is AI

https://archive.is/y2dGC

It is from July last year. There seems to be no more update after that in this Science daily article.

Source: https://news.ki.se/gene-therapy-restored-hearing-in-deaf-pat...

https://archive.is/VdzLq

Strange article. Blanket statement that most Indians don't read since English books are not sold in large numbers. The 'Jaipur book festival' that the article refers to published the following stats..

Indian languages together accounted for roughly ~80% of titles published, with English making up a smaller share.

The Indian publishing industry is one of the most prominent publishing industries across the globe. Indian publishing industry at the second spot in the world (English publications) with approximately 19,000 publishing houses across the country publishing approximately 90,000 titles per year according to 2020-21 stats (Mallaya, 2016).

The EIBF International Bookselling Markets Report 2023 (EIBF Report, 2024) affirms that India is the sixth-largest book market in the world, and currently the second-largest market for books in English, right behind the United States. It also figures India’s current growth rate at 7%.

https://jaipurbookmark.org/key-statistics

Towards the end it says..

Amiry-Moghaddam of Iran Human Rights said the death toll could be higher than 20,000, based on evidence reviewed by his organization.

I'm almost certain that you'll hear in the upcoming earnings reports that big tech sent ..billions in advance payment to secure memory supply years from now.

And this would be no different than investing billions in R&D (Ex. Meta and AR) for future payouts.

Or, Apple buying 10000 advance CNC machines for their manufacturer. In this case timeline for future payout is perhaps much shorter but the pertinent point will be Apple invested in Capex upfront.

One indicator is intern hiring. I have seen the intern budgets getting slashed by 60-70% (4 interns in 2025 vs 14 interns in 2024).

https://archive.is/yPBtl

Curious about the bushfire and recovery there after, found this from Lonely Planet (2023)..

A dangerous mix of hot weather, highly flammable eucalyptus oils in the air and strong winds meant that flames quickly scorched their way through the vegetation, burning almost half of the land in the process.

Australia’s native flora and fauna regenerates and even thrives after burns; in fact, some seeds will only germinate after a fire.

Kangaroo Island has turned out to be astonishingly resilient. Just 48 hours after the flames died down, a rock-like fungus started growing on the ash.

As the fungus digested the ash, it changed the pH levels of the soil, allowing other microorganisms and eventually plants to take root. Some of the plants, says McKelvey, hadn’t been seen for decades. Unlike on the Australian mainland, there were no rabbits to eat the new growth – meaning there was nothing to hold back the regeneration.

It helped that donations flooded in from all over the world after the fires. This money helped to eliminate some of the feral pigs and cats that had been damaging the local ecosystem and killing endangered wildlife.

Three years on, Flinders Chase National Park is as lush as ever, with thick undergrowth providing shelter for the island’s camera-shy wallabies.

The only reminder of the fires that ravaged this land? The blackened branches of eucalyptus trees poking out from the greenery below, giving the landscape an eerie, post-apocalyptic air.

Providing a nesting ground for birds and habitat for insects, even these uncomfortable reminders will disappear in a couple of years, as they get swallowed up by the island’s resilient vegetation.

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/kangaroo-island-south-aust...

Thanks.

The video link seems to be missing in the section: Bonus: MCP vs API video

Annapurna Pictures is owned by Megan Ellison. The studio have produced Oscar nominated marquee films like Her, Zero Dark Thirty, American Hustle.

WSJ: Altman said OpenAI would be pushing back work on other initiatives, such as advertising, AI agents for health and shopping, and a personal assistant called Pulse.

These plus working with Jony Ive on hardware, makes it sound like they took their eyes off the ball.

Altman said OpenAI would be pushing back work on other initiatives, such as advertising, AI agents for health and shopping, and a personal assistant called Pulse.

These plus working with Jony Ive on hardware, makes it sound like they took their eye off the ball.

https://archive.is/6hBg3

https://archive.is/6UbyV

Op is right.

https://imgcdn.stablediffusionweb.com/2024/4/19/8e54925a-004...

For the above pic I asked "What is wrong with the image?"

Result: - It totally missed the most obvious one - six fingers.

Instead it said this:

Based on a close inspection of the image, here are the things that are "wrong" or anomalous, indicating that it is likely an AI-generated image:

- The Thumb Anatomy: This is the most obvious error. The digit in the thumb's position (far left) looks exactly like a long index finger. A natural human thumb has two segments (phalanges) and is shorter and thicker, opposing the other fingers. This digit appears to have three segments and is roughly the same length and shape as the other fingers, giving the hand the appearance of having five fingers and no thumb.

- Unnatural Skin Texture: The skin is unnaturally smooth, waxy, and free of normal human imperfections like distinct pores, fine wrinkles, or hair. It has a "plastic" or "airbrushed" look typical of generative AI.

- Palm Lines: The creases on the palm are vague and generic. They don't follow the distinct pattern of major flexion creases (like the heart, head, and life lines) found on a real human hand.

- Wrist Connection: The connection between the hand and the wrist looks slightly distorted, with tendons that appear too prominent and smooth for the pose.

[Edit: 3.0 is same as 2.5 - both answered almost identically]

The published paper:

(Pdf link) hhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65586-2.pdf

Key takeaways:

- Traditional (Solar): Typically limited to 1 cycle per day. Sorbents collect moisture at night and use sunlight to release it during the day. Requires a large horizontal footprint to maximize exposure to sunlight.

- Ultrasonic: Can perform multiple cycles per day. The extraction takes only 2 mins, and the hydrogels used can adsorb moisture in about 40 minutes. This allows the system to continuously cycle 24/7, rather than waiting for the sun. Allows for vertical stacking (e.g., 5+ rows high) without losing efficiency, drastically increasing the water output for the same amount of land area.

- Ultrasonic per day output: 3.25 L (1 layer) to 16.25 L (5 layer)

Same with me and others..

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1p09pf7/chatgpt_we...

Canva acquired Affinity year and half back - Mar 2024.

https://www.canva.com/en_in/newsroom/news/affinity/

Look at it this way, this could challenge Adobe to make Creative Suite free and charge only for AI in their product (one can dream at least).

This site seems to be the old one - they don't mention their acquistion by Canva in 'About Us' section.

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/about/

Also there is no link anywhere for downloading their products.

The current site seems to what OP has posted: affinity.studio

Strange choice to keep the old site up and running, and to complicate things the old site is the top result when searched.