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Mistral OCR 4.1

True, but that isn't EU/US/China, it's OpenAI/Anthropic/Grok/ …/DeepMind (based in UK)/… DeepSeek With a lot of Chinese nationals in American companies, and an American corporation owning DeepMind, and a lot of people very upset with all of them at the same time, this is very messy.

Mistral OCR 4.1

True, but that isn't EU/US/China, it's OpenAI/Anthropic/Grok/ …/DeepMind (based in UK)/… DeepSeek With a lot of Chinese nationals in American companies, and an American corporation owning DeepMind, and a lot of people very upset with all of them at the same time, this is very messy.

Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview

> > Or we are just assuming that was a PR stunt, which it almost certainly was. > It wasn't. Prove it. But you can’t, which is problematic for you. Nobody should believe anything OpenAI says about anything. They either lied about it breaking out of a sand box, or they’re incompetent by building a sandbox their AI could break out of. It’s a cute story, though.

Anthropic Plans Invisible Watermarks for Claude-Generated Text and Files

Gemini 3.7 Flash

I wasn't aware of this. Seems Google is lagging the big 3 (Anthropic, xAI, OpenAI) when it comes to frontier models for programming and hard problem solving. I guess Google's betting on consumers being price-elastic (preferring to tradeoff intelligence for significant cost savings)

Gemini 3.7 Flash

How are you doing this with Opus. Clearly I’m missing something. I always turn to ChatGPT when I need images because Opus typically refuses. I’ve tried Claude Code and Claude online in the past. I’m pretty sure neither created images for me and I thought this was because Anthropic was focused on code. I guess I need to try harder. :)

Don't Look Up

The infra expansion of the hyperscalers is predicated on, and financially justified by, the presumed future growth of OpenAI and Anthropic, and their projected revenue. If the latter is not going to happen, I expect OpenAI and Anthropic to go bankrupt, which will trigger a restructuring of the hyperscalers, which should flood the market with either training HW or training capacity at very low cost, and it's not necessarily the hyperscalers that will benefit the most: I believe some of the GPU clouds are using HW leased or bought form NVidia, and running inside second-tier datacenters, not the hyperscalers.

Graduate student proves a quantum uncertainty principle for fractals

If quantum probability is a wave function, and interaction introduces a phase shift, this alone is enough to lead to decoherence through the same mechanics as classical optical (de)coherence. In the same circumstances a light beam stops producing an interference pattern in the Young experiment, quantum wave functions do as well. This is pretty easy to derive, just introduce a random phase shift term, and average across it, and the interference pattern disappears and a bell curve emerges instead.

Gemini 3.7 Flash

The "let's make money by selling/renting out TPUs" faction has won and the "let's make money by training and selling a frontier model" faction has lost. And it's arguably not crazy, at least if SemiAnalysis's estimates are to be believed: * 20% of all TPU shipments from Q3 2026 through Q4 2027 are sold to SPVs serving Anthropic ($150B of contracted revenue); vs * ~$12B ARR for Gemini. https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/gemini-is-cooked-but-g... Because they compete for the same scarce resource, the result is a resource crunch for the group that's lost: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-05-18/inside-ai-...

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Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe

This is why people, organizations, and nations really should be holding multiple currencies. Holding only Yuan isn't necessarily going to save you from what's coming. I completely understand the growing need to reduce the US dollar dependency. But these drawdowns should happen in an orderly fashion, with due consideration to addressing issues inherent in the old global financial order. Clearly, in hindsight, being completely dependent on a single currency was one of those issues. It would be folly to replicate that environment with a different currency.

Nvidia doubles RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell's MSRP to a staggering $16,000

i think maybe by pricing up they want to make a reliance for people on their services rather than developing running their own. if these devices are out of reach for many it means less innovation and then less competition. nvidia is now tightly coupled financially to business who offer services that owners of such devices might replicate without using services of their partners.

Grok 4.6

> We didn’t replicate the human brain. We built systems that can statistically approximate some of what the human brain might output in certain limited situations. Which is equivalent to "We didn't replicate the human brain. We partially replicated its functionality."

Why Social Media Generates Incoherence in the Reader, and Great Books Coherence

AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?

> I don’t know if that’s true. More schooling does not mean more trustworthy or careful doctors. And I suspect some negative trait selection. The medical boards are well aware of this, which is why the standards are far more than just about having more schooling. I am familiar with Friendman's dissertation, and while the economic claims it makes are solid, it isn't a take down about the medical impact of the boards. It really doesn't say one thing or another about them. Let's put it this way: if you are going to inflate the cost of a service, it's hard if the quality of the service is terrible and easily replicated by someone else.

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813

Honestly they should all use their respective pelicans as their logos. Or maybe a browser plugin to do do that on the Hugging Face and OpenRouter sites.

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813

Yeah, Dax from OpenCode said that it appears to just be traffic shaping, nothing to do with the inference economics. He also said that OC have already replicated the inference cost in internal experiments.

GPT 5.6 Cyber

The program existed under a different name well before the Hugging Face incident. Hugging Face certainly would have qualified for admission. They just didn't bother to apply.

Grok 4.6

> Anyone else find it weird how within 2 months of Fable releasing all the major labs suddenly had Fable-level models? Frontier model release cycles generally take around 6-8 months anyway. OpenAI and xAI (or however you spell it, branding almost as bad as X/itter) were probably working on their next generation of models already, and Anthropic just beat them 2 months to this release. You also say "near-concurrent release of the same jump" - but 2 months isn't "near-concurrent", it's a full quarter of the normal release cycle. I don't think that the other explanations you gave are implausible, though - for both human circulation and distillation, you can apply those during a training and development run (with reduced effectiveness). Reasonable to imagine those as bumping them up an…

Grok 4.6

> Anyone else find it weird how within 2 months of Fable releasing all the major labs suddenly had Fable-level models? Frontier model release cycles generally take around 6-8 months anyway. OpenAI and xAI (or however you spell it, branding almost as bad as X/itter) were probably working on their next generation of models already, and Anthropic just beat them 2 months to this release. You also say "near-concurrent release of the same jump" - but 2 months isn't "near-concurrent", it's a full quarter of the normal release cycle. I don't think that the other explanations you gave are implausible, though - for both human circulation and distillation, you can apply those during a training and development run (with reduced effectiveness). Reasonable to imagine those as bumping them up an…