Shakeel
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Editor @ Transformer. Prev: AI safety and EA comms, journalist @TheEconomist, @Protocol, @finimize
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Joined October 2009
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RT @rebtanhs: Not just Malaysia. Nvidia chip smuggling / workarounds are becoming rampant in Thailand too, say IT distributors. https://t.c….
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RT @AndyMasley: Folks, I ran the numbers on the UK government's recommendation to delete old photos and emails to save water. Link below ht….
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RT @jordanschnyc: a supermicro ad in the middle of the reuters piece talking about how tracking devices in ai servers just priceless https:….
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oh MY.
US has been putting location tracking devices in targeted shipments of advanced chips they see as being at high risk of illegal diversion to China.
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I can feel that it's too late to do anything about this, but I constantly seethe at how "one shotted" has lost all meaning.
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RT @AlecStapp: Still think about this every time I hear someone romanticizing the pre-industrial era
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"if Anthropic loses big it will be because what it did wrong was also big".
there's an update in the anthropic copyright case (h/t @GarrisonLovely) . anthropic wanted the trial put on hold, judge said no
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Read my piece on Trump's Very Bad Deal:
transformernews.ai
Giving China access to advanced chips for a $2bn payoff is a bad deal for US security
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RT @adamkovac: Silly earned media strategy by Perplexity, but OTOH reporters keep buying it, so.
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👀.
China hawks are slowly realizing that Trump is bought and paid for.
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RT @ohlennart: I told Bloomberg:."Beijing appears to be using regulatory uncertainty to create a captive market sufficiently sized to absor….
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This whole thing is insane, but it is particularly ludicrous that “eat less meat” isn’t listed.
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RT @petereharrell: There is a fair debate about whether to allow H20 exports to China. I think the risks outweigh the benefits, but I can s….
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I wonder if this is going to lead Trump + co. to now do a u-turn on location verification mechanisms.
China urges companies to avoid using Nvidia's H20 chips, complicating the chipmaker’s bid to recoup billions in lost revenue
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FT reports that some Trump officials are considering resigning over the H20 debacle
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Comms around GPT-5 release have been an absolute disaster for OpenAI:.
I saw a lot of people complaining about 32k context size in ChatGPT for plus users, which would be terrible for coding. But actually we are giving 196k context size for plus users when using GPT5 thinking and that’s the model you should use for coding use-cases!. 32k is for the.
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