What you'll find here:
AI and the race to superintelligence, checked against the numbers.
$LCID, quarter by quarter, no hype.
Politics from Albania to the UK. Albania posts in shqip first, then English.
Every post comes with a chart and its sources. I work in construction design, so I test a claim like a drawing: does it stand up?
Follow along if that's your kind of feed.
Epoch AI finds China's top six AI firms earn about 10% of the combined AI revenue of OpenAI and Anthropic. About $11bn against $105bn on their September snapshot.
ByteDance leads that group at about $4bn. DeepSeek is at $1bn.
The figures come from different months. Cheap models travel. The revenue has not.
I love Grok bot but usage for it is quite rubbish compared to Claude Pro which is £18 a month conpared to grok £26 @mattyp do something man we are desperate here talk to @elonmusk ?
@teslaownersSV May the glory of Jesus Christ our Lord hold you in His hand and testify to you and your family that He hears if you reach out to Him. Open your heart, mind, and soul.
Scotland lets people on temporary visas sit in its parliament.
A Green MSP was elected in May on a student visa. Their graduate visa runs to 2029. The term runs to 2031.
77% of consultation responses opposed it. Holyrood's own standards committee says the rationale is "simply not clear". Swinney won't review it.
And Holyrood passed this unanimously, so the Tories complaining today voted for it too.
Commit to a country first, then write its laws.
Rama në Dublin: "S'ka asnjë marrëveshje" për Sazanin, gjithçka është "gënjeshtër" e medias.
Por më 30 dhjetor 2024, komiteti që kryeson ai i dha kompanisë së lidhur me Kushner statusin e investitorit strategjik. 1.4 miliardë euro, 45 hektarë, 10 vjet.
Kjo s'është gënjeshtër. Është vendim me vulë.
Rama in Dublin: "no deal" on Sazan, the island story is a media "lie".
Yet on 30 Dec 2024 the committee he chairs gave a Kushner linked company strategic investor status. €1.4bn, 45 hectares, 10 years.
That's not a lie. That's a stamped decision.
@GuidoFawkes British taxpayers buy the 4x4s, French police use them for riots, and the boats keep landing. If we keep paying France, pay on results. No drop in crossings, no money.
@EconomicTimes Sunday the board "has confidence in Jensen". By Wednesday it's meeting about removing him, and only now does anyone ask who's next. Biggest chip company on earth with no named successor. That's on the board, not just Jensen.
Can you be English and black? 74% of people say yes, per More in Common. England's census still only offers "English" under White.
A Lib Dem bill wants Black English and Asian English boxes. As a 10 minute rule bill, it almost certainly goes nowhere.
I'm for assimilation. Born here, speaks the language, shares the values, loves the country? That's English. A tick box won't build that. Families, schools and churches do.
Uber agreed to buy at least 20,000 Lucid robotaxis over six years. Right now more than 100 are in testing.
The Bay Area launch was meant to be "later this year". Now it's Q1 2027, and as of last week Nuro still only had a drivered permit in California.
Every Lucid date slides. Cosmos too. $LCID
Jensen Huang is out at Nvidia. 33 years building it, gone four days after admitting an affair with a woman US officials believe is a Chinese spy. Shares fell over 10% before the bell.
Nvidia didn't even have a board chair until today.
The affair is the headline. The real story is the loophole. Reuters says Chinese AI firms are rushing to rent Nvidia chips abroad before Washington shuts the cloud route. The House passed that bill 369 to 22 in January. The Senate is still sitting on it.
@clashreport Three years of negotiations and "no island sold" yet. That's not denying the deal, that's admitting it's coming. Albanians should see the contract and who gains before anything is signed, not read about it after.
The AI 2027 forecasters now expect an AI better at research than the best humans some time in 2027. Under three months ago, even their most bullish model gave this pace under 4%.
The main evidence is a METR report on Anthropic. METR says Anthropic redacted most of the evidence it found most informative.
A week before a $1.4tn IPO. Show us the data.