Elon Musk described Lota Bhai's push for auctioning the spectrum as "unprecedented," noting that the spectrum has historically been designated by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for shared satellite use. Musk supports the administrative allocation favored by Starlink and other global players, asserting it aligns with international practices.

Anthropic CEO Dario says AGI by 2026 in this wonderful essay about post AGI world.

https://darioamodei.com/machines-of-loving-grace

Meanwhile Sam Altman have said that level 3 AGI will be achieved by 2025 and ASI ( Super intelligence) will be achieved within few years in this wonderful essay

https://ia.samaltman.com/

https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1YqJDkbjazvGV

Star Health employee offers direct illegal API access to full customer medical records for $43,000; then stiffs buyer, asking $150k because 'senior management' wants a cut, buyer then promptly blows the whistle in retaliation. How incompetent could you be at white collar crime?

Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield

Here's my quick 3 minute breakdown:

1. o1-preview: 97.8% on PlanBench Blocksworld vs. 62.5% for top LLMs, indicating shift from retrieval to reasoning.
2. 52.8% on obfuscated "Mystery Blocksworld" vs. near-zero for LLMs, suggesting abstract reasoning skills, showing transfer capability.
3. Variable "reasoning tokens" usage correlates with problem difficulty, hinting at internal search process, indicating adaptive compute.

Luma's pricing model at $0.32 per million pixels is aggressive. This suggests they've achieved significant efficiency in their infrastructure.

I wonder if they're leveraging custom hardware accelerators or novel optimization techniques to keep costs down while maintaining quality.

Black Forest Labs is behind the image generation functionality for Grok.
What's particularly intriguing is their rumoured funding round, potentially $100M at a $1B valuation. This is a jump from their previous $150M valuation. Unlike some of their peers who've stumbled after large fundraises, Black Forest Labs seems to be taking a more secretive approach.

This strategy, coupled with their upcoming text-to-video tool, could position them as a significant player in the AI arms race.

OpenAI's integration of Advanced Voice Mode (AVM) into ChatGPT is going top be super interesting in multimodal AI.

I asked it to speak to me in a Bengaluru accent and it was super amazing how great AI has become.

Found on Reddit