this is a walk back. Friar brought up the word backstop first. I didn't take it as she was asking the govt to only backstop OpenAI loans, but loans for AI infra in general. it's a logical thing to want if you really think AI is geopolitically existential for the U.S. But it's

My summary of OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar's vision for the company she laid out today at WSJ tech conference

"Looking back, all the key elements of Mamdani’s mayoral campaign were there." Nice @nlanard piece on his reporting from four years ago at the beginning of Zohran's political career

My latest for @latimes: I travelled to southern India to document the rise of the AI "arm farms" — where young engineers strap GoPros to their foreheads and fold laundry or pack boxes to teach humanoid robots how to do chores. https://t.co/o6dgEtbuEN

.@shieldaitech's been teasing a big upgrade to its catalog for a while, and we now know what the hype was all about. Shield AI introduced the world to the X-BAT: A long-range, jet-powered vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) autonomous fighter jet. https://t.co/uKzc6lorxh

Robo @PalmerLuckey waves farewell to the crowd and @ashleevance at Reindustrialize

Pepper roasting line with stem and seed remover.

also shout out to @MilesKlee for writing this story a month ago for Rolling Stone https://t.co/lunyeIYrdL

It does not seem great that ChatGPT is better at preying on the weaknesses of recovering addicts than playing chess https://t.co/CkL4kMFdwn

The original Advisory Circular bot is back: The only bot that posts when it detects aircraft flying in circles, in real time. See the image for where to find it.

Time for a single engineer with that kind of revenue to raise a round as a one-man company with a $2 billion valuation

If anyone wants to go deep on how crucial microwaves/radar were to the Allied effort, @sgblank has some reading for you: https://t.co/jJ1s9hnq9T

Also got to dip into some of the history: MIT professor Vannevar Bush, both with the university and his company Raytheon, built the American military microwave power that helped win WW2 (and incidentally still heats up our leftovers). Fun to bring the microvibes back to MIT ⚡️

I am writing again! Here's my profile of Epirus and their anti-drone microwave zapper for @techreview — a company spun out of @8vc, currently being tested by the Army to fry drones out of the sky, and pushing the limits of the new generation of gallium nitride chips to do it.

This giant microwave may change the future of war

Anduril and Meta have teamed up to make the world's best AR and VR systems for the United States Military. Leveraging Meta's massive investments in XR technology for our troops will save countless lives and dollars.

And ty to @jaycaspiankang for having Kyle on the pod, the system works

Just finished this sitting at a bar in Tampa — truly a lovely read, recommend to anyone who’s ever driven through the desert or contemplated a Kokopelli

so this guy let snakes bite him hundreds of times and injected himself with snake venom hundreds of times and now his blood may contain a magical universal anti-venom. but the most interesting part is deeper: his first snake bites were self-administered in a craze induced by 9/11

we've reached pope smoke explainer