Daniel Rock

Co-lead / Director @Google AI x Economy Program. AP (on leave) @Wharton. Cofounder @workhelix. Everyone can just do stuff and that's {good, bad}.

[Daniel Rock @danielrock]

@LyalinDotCom feelings like the joy of covering your friend's house's lawn in these after taking the whole stack from blockbuster

[Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK]

Gemini

[Daniel Rock @danielrock]

“Omg is he in a gank rn?”

[Quantіan @quantian1]

Anthropic pre-IPO broker call was absolutely WILD. The party line was:
•We are or plan on imminently destroying: hyperscalers, every other lab, SpaceX, biotech, robot cos; for fun
•Chipmakers may survive at our pleasure
•$1tn ARR by 4Q28
•Fuck investors it’s capex time

[Daniel Rock @danielrock]

@alexolegimas I'm a lot like you so please
Hello, I'm here, I'm waiting
I think I'd be good for you
And you'd be good for me

[Alexander Fouirnaies @fouirnaies]

@HarrisPolicy School at UChicago is searching for an assistant professor in AI and policy. Apply if you work on AI tools to improve public policy outcomes or study the behavior and governance of AI and tech systems!
https://t.co/k8hX1lg2Vh

EOE/Vet/Disability

[Alex Imas @alexolegimas]

Some folks were confused on how this can happen, so I made a little explainer video.

Enjoy!

[Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK]

Introducing Gemini Decision 1, our new frontier decision model in the Gemini API.

It is $0.10 per 1M input tokens with no additional cost. With support for image, audio, video, and PDF natively, 256K context window, & 1K questions.

You can try it for free in the API!

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION DETECTED: Google DeepMind announced AlphaGenome 2, the next generation of its DNA sequence model. It is available today via the AlphaGenome API, and coming soon to Google Antigravity.

[Kevin A. Bryan @Afinetheorem]

My least favorite "populism slop" is "K shaped economy". Essentially zero change in US inequality in the past 10-15 years (or since 2019) by every metric: Gini, 90-10, 90-50, posttax Gini. Net tuition & real debt at grad peaked 10-15 yrs ago. Feel free to ask you favorite AI...

[Jacob Schaal @FutureEconJacob]

The UK’s new AI Economics Institute is hiring up to 15 research economists and analysts. The roles combine research on the economic effects of AI with real policy impact.

[Daniel P. Gross @daniel_p_gross]

I've been long overdue in writing a thread on our recently-posted evidence on the explosive growth of AI writing by PhD trainees -- and the thus far lackluster institutional response.

A few key stats:
• Nearly 30% of US STEM PhD dissertations in the first half of 2026 had AI-generated abstracts
• This correlates w/ more AI writing in the full text
• Only ~25% of R1 universities have policies we can find specifically governing AI use in dissertation research
• Under 5% of dissertations acknowledge AI use

Bottom line: I am concerned for the next generation!

A thread 🧵

(drawing from this paper: https://t.co/PytX8TmBhQ)

[Blaise Agüera (@blaiseaguera.bsky.social) @blaiseaguera]

I had a great time talking with @baratunde at @longnow. If you missed the live event in SF, the full recording is up on YouTube. We focused on symbiogenesis and how intelligence scales through cooperation.
https://t.co/Z5DBC2Fj7F

[Avi Goldfarb @avicgoldfarb]

I'm looking for a postdoc to work on AI for science and related topics for the 2027-28 academic year. Details here: https://t.co/bZUnxBWLBr

[Christian Moss @MandelDuck]

Seinfeld AI: Krammer hacks coinbase
Make sure to watch to the end

Follow and repost for more Seinfeld videos!

[Jack Wotherspoon @JackWoth98]

Gemini 4 Carbon Developer Guide 🧑‍💻

Wrote down tips to get started with Carbon:

🤔 - When to use Carbon vs. Argon?
💭 - Set thinking levels based on the task
🎯 - Set clear goals
🔄 - Use build and verify loops

Read the full guide 👇
https://t.co/a8k1odBffQ

[Luke Drago @luke_drago_]

We're hiring policy researchers at Thinking Machines.

Quick 🧵 on why I think this role is something folks in AI policy should consider applying to:

[Daniel Rock @danielrock]

@Stephen_Lynch That game was awesome though

[Daniel Rock @danielrock]

If you did this in a loss as well it’d be all bears quarterbacks who played a full season lol

[Christopher Kamka @ckamka]

Bears quarterbacks with 4+ interceptions in a team win since 1940

[Davide Paglieri @PaglieriDavide]

I'll be hosting a Student Researcher at @GoogleDeepMind

Big achievements, from building cities to scientific breakthroughs, come from many people working together. Can 1000+ AI agents do the same?

📍 London
🚀 Start date: Jan/Feb 2027
🗓️ 4-6 months, 100%

Links below👇

[NBER @nberpubs]

AI-led interviews with workers in six occupations built a finer task taxonomy, adding 79 tasks missing from O*NET. It finds higher AI exposure for lawyers and software developers, from Jennifer Wang, Andreas Haupt, Isaac Robinson, Phil Lewis, @erikbryn, and Diyi Yang https://t.co/okwRPh64DG