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In July 2025, the United States passed three landmark pieces of legislation that together attempt to define the future of digital finance: the GENIUS Act, the CLARITY Act, adn the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State…
https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral Mistral has unveiled Voxtral, an exciting new AI audio model that positions itself as a strong open-source competitor to Whisper, the reigning champion of speech recognition. With claims of…
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-meta-ai-talent-poaching-spree-leaked-messages/ It’s still too early to declare a winner in the AI arms race, but one thing is clear: the competition is accelerating, and OpenAI may struggle to maintain its…
https://www.ted.com/talks/audra_a_diptee_the_records_the_british_empire_didn_t_want_you_to_see In his thought-provoking book Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari explores the concept of historical records being erased as a means of political change. This phenomenon is not new; throughout history,…
Starting to write my WWDC25 wishlist #WWDC25 Wishlist: Can Apple fix m4b import into Books app? ePub works fine and can sync across to all devices with iCloud, but not…
https://www.nber.org/papers/w33777https://futurism.com/time-workers-save-ai-jobs A research working paper pointing to LLM not having a big impact. And not improving salary even if it helped with productivity of workers. It’s just 2 years in…
https://bgr.com/tech/17-insane-veo-3-ai-videos-thatll-stop-you-from-trusting-anything-you-see-online/
https://openai.com/sam-and-jony Jony Ive made a lot of money since leaving Apple, more than what he could have made at Apple. $6.5B is a great deal for him, the new entity…
https://github.com/KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChat Cool project to play around with. Still haven’t found any good natural voice based computing system. Siri and others are just for small tasks around the house. But to…
In Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari, as well as in several of his recent interviews, he repeatedly emphasizes that money is one of the greatest stories humanity has ever invented. While it…
https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/04/04/project-liberty-bid-to-buy-tik-tok-protect-user-rights/ It’s very hard to tell who has the upper hand on this. Did TikTok actively seek the extension? Or US avoiding a Gen Z revolt? Sure, 170m users in…
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/18/tech/google-wiz-acquisition/index.html Google is still very much an advertising company, only around 20% by revenue from non-ads related business. They are good with indexing data. Should you really trust them with…