Russell Brandom
@russellbrandom
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AI editor at @techcrunch. The bartender says “hey, we don’t serve robots,” and the robot says, “oh but someday you will.”
New York, NY
Joined August 2010
This is maybe the worst ICE video I’ve seen
ICE grabs father by the neck—send him into violent seizure while his arms lock up around his toddler. "He's having seizure and they're trying to rip the baby out of his hands!" Agents then handcuff him—before putting in ambulance with his child. Mother is detained by agents as
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Also here is a completely unrelated thing that happened in January
The program worked flawlessly and saved taxpayers time and money. The Trump Administration killed it because a couple well-connected tax prep companies wanted them to. So be sure to thank them when you’re shelling out money for private tax prep services next year.
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There is so much alpha in being able to digest & comprehend 2-3 pages worth of text
putting the many points to discuss aside, i cant tell if ppl are fr about not being able to read all this, it’s only like 700ish words. Are we that cooked
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Maybe the sandwich was harmless & funny, but what about bowl of lo mein or a to-go cup filled with gazpacho? Where does it stop?
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You have to worry this will embolden other food-based attacks against officers
washingtonpost.com
Sean C. Dunn admitted he flung the hoagie at a federal agent. His attorneys called it a “harmless gesture” of protest as Trump commandeered D.C. police.
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$NXXT: The Tell - Converts priced at $1.82, warrants at $5.00 → incentive to guide price back to their “control zone.” Probable accumulation $1.55–1.60; near-term magnet $1.82–2.00. Trigger: Volume spike + VWAP > $1.70. Not financial advice—one trader’s view.
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Big news: we’ve released a new model and raised $50M 🚀 Our newest Mercury diffusion LLMs match the quality of Gemini Flash 2.5 on industry benchmarks—while being up to 10× faster ⚡️ Check out the story by @russellbrandom in @TechCrunch.
Mercury is refreshed – with across-the-board improvements in coding, instruction following, math, and knowledge recall. Start building responsive, in-the-flow AI solutions! Read more: https://t.co/QyTVaHAIue
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Unfortunately there is a hard limit on the number of electrons
From the people who renamed computation power as “compute” and model output as “inference”
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///BREAKING/// A federal judge is issuing an injunction putting more permanent use-of-force restrictions on immigration agents during “Operation Midway Blitz,” saying top government officials lied in their testimony about threats that protesters posed
chicagotribune.com
The incoming preliminary injunction replaces a temporary restraining order issued by U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis in early October that was set to expire at 11:30 a.m.
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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
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YouTube’s new AI summaries are great — I don’t even need to watch the video now!
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I see this use case a lot, in which AI agents are used to navigate a horrible bureaucracy that shouldn’t exist in the first place. On one hand, it seems like a suboptimal solution to the problem. But if you can do this reliably, you’ll never run out of customers.
A guy just used @AnthropicAI Claude to turn a $195,000 hospital bill into $33,000. Not with a lawyer. Not with a hospital admin insider. With a $20/month Claude Plus subscription. He uploaded the itemized bill. Claude spotted duplicate procedure codes, illegal “double
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Hard to imagine this level of success for Mamdani without the surprise reemergence of Allison Crutchfield as a creative force, mere days before the election. Indeed, many political analysts are already calling this "the Snocaps wave."
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Should have gone with the Lydia Davis reference
Zohran Mamdani saying in his victory speech “While you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose. If that must be true, let the prose we write still rhyme” and the crowd letting out a muted, slightly baffled cheer is so funny. It spoke to me, at least.
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Andrew Cuomo never called Zohran Mamdani tonight, eschewing the typical courtesy call before conceding, the presumptive mayor's press sec tells me. And yes, they checked both of his phones.
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Crucial hearing over feds' use of force could reveal 'incredible' Bovino testimony Wednesday From @Suntimes w/ @KadeHeather:
chicago.suntimes.com
A federal judge has been deluged with claims that the feds have violated a temporary restraining order, including an allegation that U.S. Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino personally tossed tear...
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Sam Altman has some regrets — one being his recent celebratory tweet announcing that ChatGPT can be used to make porn. The OpenAI CEO described it as “one of my dumbest mistakes of the year." 📝: @eshugerman
sfstandard.com
Hyping AI’s potential for enhancing pornography was not a well-thought-out move, the OpenAI chief admitted.
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We will not have our Border Patrol officers smeared
The officer Sandwich Guy is charged with assaulting testifies that he could feel the impact of the sandwich through his ballistic vest, and it “exploded all over my uniform.” He says he could “smell the onions and the mustard.”
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Elon Musk’s Master Plan for Tesla is still missing some pretty important details
techcrunch.com
Despite its imprecision, the fourth "Master Plan" is a centerpiece of Tesla's case for giving CEO Elon Musk $1 trillion in company shares.
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