Voyager 1 is 24 billion kilometers from Earth.
It communicates with us using a 23-watt transmitter.
Less than a refrigerator light bulb.
The signal takes 22 hours to reach us, traveling at the speed of light.
By the time it arrives, it's 20 billion times weaker than the power of a digital watch battery.
NASA's Deep Space Network picks it up using 70-meter dish antennas cooled to near absolute zero to reduce electronic noise.
The engineering required to hear a 23-watt signal from 24 billion km away is arguably more impressive than the spacecraft itself.
Launched 1977.
Still transmitting.
Still being heard.
We built something that works perfectly, 47 years later, in conditions no one has ever tested in.
That's what engineering for the long term looks like.
Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.
Was at the WH Correspondents dinner last night, a rare DC trip for me without a subpoena. On the positive side—was exciting, no one was killed, and ended early. I noted a new litmus for status among the gov’t elite—whether you were whisked away by secret service, or left to fend.
Kudos to @xAI for being the first AI company to challenge a Colorado law requiring it to censor truthful answers if they could have a “differential impact” on protected groups. This is Woke AI. It teaches AI models to lie. And it’s a violation of the First Amendment.
this is the MOST important 4 minutes you’ll watch on AI this year.
anthropic built a model so good at finding vulnerabilities they didn’t release it to the public.
>CLAUDE MYTHOS PREVIEW
it’s unreleased to the public and here’s what it did in a few weeks:
>found a 27-year-old vulnerability in OpenBSD
>caught a 16-year-old flaw in FFmpeg that automated tools missed after 5 million tests
>chained together multiple linux kernel exploits autonomously. no human steering.
AWS, google, microsoft, apple, nvidia, crowdstrike, JPMorgan. all got access.
Anthropic committed $100M in credits to let these companies hunt vulnerabilities in their own systems before attackers do.
>93.9% on SWE-bench verified. >77.8% on SWE-bench pro.
nothing else is comes remotely close. Anthropic just pulled away in this AI race…
The single-chip era is giving way to massive, interconnected systems.
Intel's New Mexico advanced packaging fab is pushing the boundaries of what’s physically possible. By stacking chips using Foveros technology and interconnecting them with EMIB, @Intel_Foundry is scaling packages to 8x the industry’s reticle limit today—and 12x by 2028.
U.S. leadership in advanced packaging is here. Watch: https://t.co/Z3zxdbuS2K
Just tried it. Push ups. Not proper form or speed, but the best I could do for now.
I am 49. I challenge you to do better. 😉
(Unedited, no AI, straight from camera)
Intel is proud to join the Terafab project with @SpaceX, @xAI, and @Tesla to help refactor silicon fab technology.
Our ability to design, fabricate, and package ultra-high-performance chips at scale will help accelerate Terafab’s aim to produce 1 TW/year of compute to power future advances in AI and robotics.
It was fun hosting @elonmusk at Intel this past weekend!