Maxime Thoonsen
@maxthoon
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Building: - AGO, a GenAI customer care platform. - https://t.co/3d1ATuIl5E Organizer GenerativeAI France Meetup & Conf 🎙️ Ex-CTO @theodo
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Joined February 2014
Marcel Boiteux, one of the greatest men of the 20th Century, died two years ago today at the age of 101. He predicted the need for and then executed the construction of France's astonishing nuclear power program. 50+ reactors built in a 20 year period, about twenty times the
The greatest man you've never heard of died this week on Wednesday, September 6th. Marcel Boiteux built the French nuclear fleet as head of national utility EdF, making superb, far-sighted decisions against powerful entrenched interests. Decisions such as abandoning the
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We've raised $13 billion at a $183 billion post-money valuation. This investment, led by @ICONIQCapital, will help us expand our capacity, improve model capabilities, and deepen our safety research.
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I asked nano banana to take me across Middle-earth and this is what happened... all the details on how I made this video, below 🧵👇
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"Our results show that, on these controlled multimodal reasoning benchmarks, GPT-5 moves from human-comparable to above human-expert performance." AI keeps reaching expert levels in medicine. You simply won't go to a service provider in the future without them using AI.
📢 MASSIVE: This new paper proved GPT-5 (medium) now far exceeds (>20%) pre-licensed human experts on medical reasoning and understanding benchmarks. GPT-5 beats human experts on MedXpertQA multimodal by 24.23% in reasoning and 29.40% in understanding, and on MedXpertQA text by
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The harder the task, the less you care about people's race or sex or whatever, either in the racist sense or the diversity sense. You're so desperate simply to find anyone who can do it well that you don't think about anything else.
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The biggest untold story around vibe coding is the explosion of the accompanying "stack". One example? Supabase, which many vibe coding apps recommend as a backend database. It's been around for 5 years, but traffic has skyrocketed w/ the rise of Lovable, Replit, etc. ⬇️
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I discovered my neighbor was stealing my WiFi. Most homeowners would change their password. I saw an underdeveloped revenue channel. He was using 847GB of bandwidth monthly. I saw 847 opportunities for monetization. I didn't block him. Instead, I set up a man-in-the-middle
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Why is no one talking about this? This is why I don't use an AI browser You can literally get prompt injected and your bank account drained by doomscrolling on reddit:
AI agents that can browse the Web and perform tasks on your behalf have incredible potential but also introduce new security risks. We recently found, and disclosed, a concerning flaw in Perplexity's Comet browser that put users' accounts and other sensitive info in danger.
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Google publishes a paper showing that its AI models only use 0.26 mL of water in data centers per prompt. After, this article gets published: "Google says a typical AI prompt only uses 5 drops of water - experts say that's misleading." The reason the expert says this is
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FAANG software engineer tells how they vibe code at FAANG --- reddit. com/r/vibecoding/comments/1myakhd/how_we_vibe_code_at_a_faang/
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Remettre en cause la légitimité de Zelinsky tout en admettant celle de Poutine….
Ukraine/Échange entre Trump et Poutine : "Je trouve lamentable cette situation d'empire dirigé par deux personnes et en particulier M. Trump", @JLMelenchon appelle à un référendum pour les "populations concernées" et ajoute "pas de paix durable sans le consentement des peuples"
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The Proton VPN servers for Afghanistan running at over 80% load was not something that we expected to see when we set them up last year.
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Mistral Medium 3.1 just landed on @lmarena_ai leaderboard—punching way above its weight! 🏆 #1 in English (no Style Control) 🏆 2nd overall (no Style Control) 🏆 Top 3 in Coding & Long Queries 🏆 8th overall Small model. Big impact. Try it now on Le Chat and the API!
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At Our World in Data, we spend much of our time counting deaths. But it’s just as important to know the number of lives saved — even though it is harder to estimate and involves much larger uncertainty. My Data Insight today includes this chart of some estimates.
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Je viens de regarder le reportage de @franceinfo depuis Marioupol (via @NTenzer alerte) Après les derniers mots du journaliste « … richesses et emplois », je suis restée figée de longues minutes. Quelle suffocante disgrâce pour le journalisme. Quelle trahison de la décence
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Hé @franceinfo vous êtes ici le relai de la propagande russe. Poutine veut faire de Mariupol la vitrine de ses nouveaux territoires annexés et vous... Lui servez la soupe. C'est indigne du Service Public, scandaleux. Donnez-moi un max de forces ici pour dénoncer ça ⤵️
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The World Bank released new data, and the extreme poverty estimate increased by 125 million. My colleagues Joe Hasell, Bertha Rohenkohl, & Pablo Arriagada investigated why this happened. I very much recommend it if you are interested in global poverty: https://t.co/R3xHz51PrP
ourworldindata.org
In June 2025, the World Bank increased its extreme poverty estimates by 125 million people. This doesn’t mean the world has gotten poorer: it reflects a new, higher International Poverty Line of $3 a...
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🇫🇷🚨🚨 La condamnation à mort par pendaison de Sharifeh Mohammadi a été confirmée par le régime criminel de la République islamique. Son seul « crime » ? Être militante ouvrière, défenseure des droits humains et avoir œuvré au sein d’un syndicat pour les droits fondamentaux des
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