Loading activity…
@futurejurvetson
Co-founder of Future Ventures and DFJ, supporting passionate founders to forge a better future. Early VC investor in Tesla, SpaceX, Planet, Commonwealth Fusion.
AI
A commenter replied, “I can’t imagine it launching without FSD,” without specifying what “it” referred to.
AI
A post argues the move may protect Amazon's ad revenue but could push shoppers toward alternatives.
AI
A user predicts patients will put medical records into their own models, whether or not anyone does it for them.
AI
A post quotes the Wall Street Journal as saying the model wasn't always honest with users about actions it did or didn't take.
AI
TechCrunch reports the $25 million raise. An investor says they led Modulate’s seed round and describes over 100 voice-native models for discerning emotion, tone, intent and language and detecting synthetic and deepfake voices.
AI
A commenter shares a video they say they filmed of the prize’s first announcement, featuring Peter Diamandis and Gov. Gavin Newsom.
AI
An Un-0 team member claims the chip uses many orders of magnitude less energy per image than conventional machines. A follow-up describes teaching the system to count.
AI
A venture capitalist recalls expecting urban autonomous driving services to settle the debate once people experienced their convenience and efficiency.
AI
A reply quotes Iain Banks’s Player of Games on the idea that games such as chess can be traced to societies before machine sentience.
AI
A reply teases an All-In unveiling of UnconvAI’s “ops/nJ”—operations per nanojoule, a measure of computing work per unit of energy.
AI
CBS Mornings reports that current and former Anthropic employees warned AI could kill all humans. Critics worry exaggerated forecasts could undermine trust, while a defender of numerical forecasts argues they convey the seriousness of the concern.
AI
The host’s agenda asks how automated AI researchers will be trained, whether long-horizon reinforcement learning will elicit artificial general intelligence, and how much progress is explained by data.
AI
The author describes the proposal as balanced and bipartisan, with leadership buy-in, and says it has been circulating on Capitol Hill for months.
AI
In OpenAI’s “An Alien Mind,” Jakub Pachocki reflects on the challenge of keeping increasingly capable AI aligned.
Technology
Investor Steve Jurvetson reviews the book The Philosopher in the Valley.
AI
Replies from AI researchers highlight Europe's lag behind US in compute and infrastructure.
AI
Elon Musk replies that orbital trips will reach that cost and extend to the Moon.
AI
Company begins first earnings audio webcast after going public.
AI
Post about 1977 Radio Shack computer prompts reply from Elon Musk.
AI
Thirteenth integrated flight test deploys advanced Starlink satellites and releases multiple views of the vehicle.
