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#GPT5 arrived in the midst of my chat!
Checking it right now!
August 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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June 11, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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The failure to deploy rural broadband has become synonymous with excessive bureaucracy, Asad Ramzanali and Benjamin Dinovelli write. The real story is more complicated:
Red Tape Isn’t the Only Reason America Can’t Build
The failure to deploy rural broadband has become synonymous with excessive bureaucracy. The real story is more complicated.
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June 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Anthropic continues to put out solid studies of how Claude is used, this time in universities

It shows both AI perils & promise. Students are getting direct answers from Claude, making up a lot use, but there are many cases of AI supporting their learning; too. www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...
April 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Large scale job displacements due to AI are likely to occur more slowly than a lot of people talking about AI and work might suspect.

Translators were paid more and in more demand a year after GPT-4 than they were the year it launched. Change is likely to come, but the timing is hard to predict.
April 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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What went wrong with Skype?
What went wrong with Skype?
Skype’s issues started a decade ago.
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March 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Randomized trial AI for legal work finds Reasoning models are a big deal:

Law students using o1-preview had the quality of work on most tasks increase (up to 28%) & time savings of 12-28%

There were a few hallucinations, but a RAG-based AI with access to legal material reduced those to human level
March 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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nato made a lot of sense to americans when the united states wanted troops to fight alongside in afghanistan.
February 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Vance calls Zelenskyy "disgraceful" for pushing back on Trump's claim that Ukraine started the war. If Trump tells you that night is day, you'd better echo him or you will pay. America is now a predator nation. thenationalpulse.com/2025/02/19/e...
EXCLUSIVE: VP J.D. Vance Warns Zelensky Over 'Disgraceful' Public Attacks on Trump, Confirms Ukrainian Elections Are Now U.S. Policy.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In an exclusive interview with The National Pulse on Wednesday morning, Vice President J.D. Vance issued a stern warning to Ukrainian
thenationalpulse.com
February 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Even if Europe’s leaders can unify to shore up collective defence, it is far from clear whether that will be enough to deter an aggressive, badly mauled Russia.
Trump’s ‘electroshock’ on Ukraine ends the debate: Europe cannot rely on the US for its security
Europe will still hope to make good use of its cards in any peace negotiations Trump plans with Moscow. But now it must decide how to pay for its own defence.
www.chathamhouse.org
February 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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New randomized, controlled trial by the World Bank of students using GPT-4 as a tutor in Nigeria. Six weeks of after-school AI tutoring = 2 years of typical learning gains, outperforming 80% of other educational interventions.

And it helped all students, especially girls who were initially behind.
January 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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YIKES! Duckworth asks Hegseth to name a country that's in ASEAN. He names three -- none of which are in ASEAN.

"I suggest you do a little homework," she says.
January 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Paper shows very small LLMs can match or beat larger ones through 'deep thinking' - evaluating different solution paths - and other tricks. Their 7B model beats o1-preview on complex math by exploring 64 different solutions & picking the best one.

Test-time compute paradigm seems really fruitful.
January 11, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Holy cow. Just woke up to this view from mid-Wilshire looking downtown
January 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Mediterranean diet rules ok!
Lack of overall benefit of time-restricted eating (TRE, early or late or self preference) over a Mediterranean diet in a 12-week randomized trial with some exceptions as noted below.

SAT-subcutaneous adipose tissue, primary endpoint: VAT-visceral adipose tissue, by MRI
nature.com/articles/s41...
January 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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What percentage of students are you willing to falsely accuse of cheating with AI?

There is a trade-off between false accusations and detection rates for AI. At a 10% false positive rate, detectors find 80% or less of AI content. At a 1% rate most find 60% or less.

Don’t trust AI detectors!
January 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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it's 2025: what do @eurasiagroup.net and i say is the biggest risk of all?

our flagship #toprisks2025 report is now live. check it out: eurasiagroup.net/TopRisks2025
Eurasia Group | The Top Risks of 2025
eurasiagroup.net
January 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Reminder for the new semester that you can’t detect AI

Researchers secretly added AI-created papers to the exam pool: “We found that 94% of our AI submissions were undetected. The grades awarded to our AI submissions were on average half a grade boundary higher than that achieved by real students”
January 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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In some countries, far more people consider friends very important than in others
December 24, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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Honda and Nissan have started talks toward a potential merger, a historic pivot for Japan's auto industry that underlines the threat Chinese EV makers now pose to some of the world's best known car makers reut.rs/3DpLA8W
Honda and Nissan start merger talks in historic pivot
The integration of the two storied Japanese brands would mark the biggest reshaping in the global auto industry since Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and PSA merged in 2021 to create Stellantis.
reut.rs
December 23, 2024 at 9:43 AM
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o3, trained on ARC-AGI-1 Public Training set, scored 75.7% on ARC Prize's Semi-Private Evaluation at the $10k compute limit; a 172x compute version scored 87.5% (ARC Prize)

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December 20, 2024 at 7:21 PM
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‘I received a first but it felt tainted and undeserved’: inside the university AI cheating crisis
‘I received a first but it felt tainted and undeserved’: inside the university AI cheating crisis
More than half of students are now using generative AI, casting a shadow over campuses as tutors and students turn on each other and hardworking learners are caught in the flak. Will Coldwell reports on a broken system The email arrived out of the blue:…
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2024 at 7:29 AM
Is this to create competition to Meta?

Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft www.wired.com/story/harvar...
Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft
The project’s leader says that allowing everyone to access the collection of public-domain books will help “level the playing field” in the AI industry.
www.wired.com
December 13, 2024 at 7:00 AM
US is "an anxious nation desperate for change ...
focused on two issues: inflation and ­immigration"
"Among working-class ­voters, 53% agreed the Dems had gone “too far in pushing a woke ­ideology”.
December 8, 2024 at 5:08 AM