@JimWalshLD19 Pretty miffed to discover a new 1.25% Heavy Equipment Rental Tax on the rental price of heavy construction equipment on top of WA sales tax. This will really "help" builders keep a lid on affordable housing / @bkheywood
The B-52's achieved Planet Claire's sci-fi groove using a clever mix of vocals accompanied by vintage Farfisa analog organ and Canadian Forces morse code played on walkie-talkie anchored by a famous Henry Mancini bassline now with digital screen AI intro. https://t.co/RqX7PzP7WC
@AGOWA Meanwhile Nick Brown and Bob Ferguson send their student athletes to private schools who uphold the separation of boys and girls cc @AnnieWright1884
@porterstansb@Doranimated Chinese gov subsidies backed by billions in state aid wiped out US / EU solar panels industry, confirmed by investigations from the OECD. Now prices for solar are surging.
@izakaminska Sick feeling depends on the temperature differential:
36C (97F) outside, AC 16C (61F) inside - yes
36C (97F) outside, AC 24C (75F) inside - no
Good restaurants in Hong Kong/Malaysia often bring women a cardigan to wear over their bare shoulders.
@FT FTโs @martinsandbu.bsky.social argument confuses three different things: regret over Brexit, support for closer ties, and support for re-entry. Those are not identical, and current evidence suggests the first two are much stronger than the third.
@izakaminska I'll defer, you have skin in the game I've known single mom give her daughter a phone at age 5-6 for coodinating pick-up after school. Essential tool.
The stupidity of these @Stanford students to take the greatest opportunity for equality in humanity ever and to really free humanity and go walk out on @google and @sundarpichai that's pioneered that. Biased, idiotic, short-sighted and very selfish. Selfish because they ignored the bottom 3 billion people on this planet that could benefit from AI and they are worried about their misinformed selfish self-interest.
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JEFF BEZOS JUST EMERGED FROM STEALTH WITH A $41 BILLION AI STARTUP CALLED PROMETHEUS
$12 billion raised. Valued at $41 billion. Coming out of stealth today.
The backers: Bezos personally, JPMorgan, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, DST Global, and Arch Venture Partners.
The mission: do for engineering and manufacturing what large language models did for text.
Bezos is calling it an "artificial general engineer." Instead of training on words from the internet, Prometheus ingests data from the physical world to accelerate the manufacturing of skyscrapers, smartphones, jet engines, and everything in between.
In Bezos' own words: "Something that today was going to take 100 engineers 10 years to build, if you can change that to taking 10 engineers one year to build, you're just going to get way more things built."
This is Bezos' first CEO role since stepping down from Amazon in 2021. He's co-leading it with Vik Bajaj, former Google X executive.
(Source Semafor)
Taylor Swift canโt believe it. Larry David canโt believe it. Jerry Seinfeld canโt believe it. You better believe it. The Knicks just completed the greatest comeback in NBA Finals history.