At 21, I was tasked with recreating the Lion King stampede at Disney.
The original team had 2+ years and a trip to Kenya. I had the public library.
I've never told this story publicly before. How a self-taught kid from Detroit with no high school diploma helped shift Disney from pencils to pixels.
https://t.co/JaExRcmbCF
Today, we’re excited to announce the Model Cities Initiative which is the next step in this administration's mission to restore law and order, back the Blue, and Make America SAFE again.
Thanks to the One Big Beautiful Bill, we are surging $300 million in grant funds to support 2-4 cities with a population of 100k or more who are serious in reducing violent crime, restoring law and order, and modernizing their public safety infrastructure.
Under @POTUS's leadership, this Department of Justice, and this Initiative is focused on results, and are looking for true whole-of-government partnerships.
Apply now: https://t.co/MyLNClyMZp
Submissions are due September 1st.
ByteDance has published a paper that should make every NVIDIA investor sweat.
They trained an AI that writes CUDA better than humans experts.
They call it CUDA Agent.
And it completely rewrites the economics of AI hardware.
They built a massive agentic reinforcement learning loop. The AI writes a kernel, compiles it, profiles the hardware, analyzes the bottlenecks, and rewrites the code until it's flawless.
It learned how to optimize memory access patterns and hardware tiling strategies that traditional compilers miss.
The results are staggering.
On the industry-standard KernelBench, CUDA Agent completely destroyed traditional compilers.
It delivered code that runs up to 3.2x faster than PyTorch's native execution.
On the hardest, most complex models, it beat the strongest proprietary models in the world—including Claude Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3 Pro, by 40%.
It didn't just match human experts. It started discovering optimizations that static compilers literally cannot see.
Here is why this is a massive threat to NVIDIA.
NVIDIA's dominance relies on the fact that CUDA is incredibly hard to master. Developers get locked in because optimizing code for other chips is too painful.
But if an AI agent can autonomously generate hyper-optimized hardware kernels...
You don't need a team of $500k a year CUDA engineers to build world-class infrastructure.
And if an AI can autonomously master CUDA, it can master AMD's ROCm. Or custom silicon.
The impenetrable software wall protecting NVIDIA's monopoly just got breached by a reinforcement learning loop.
If anyone can automatically squeeze maximum performance out of any chip...
Hardware becomes a commodity.
World Labs CEO Dr. Fei-Fei Li: "The world is not made of words."
"Language models have given machines an extraordinary command of concepts, vocabulary, and reasoning, but the physical world, virtual or real, runs on a different substrate."
"Where language models learn the statistical structure of text, world models learn the statistical structure of space and time: how light falls on a surface, how a garden looks from an angle no camera has captured, how objects respond to force and follow the laws of physics."
"Language gave machines a way to talk about that world. World models are how machines will finally come to understand, imagine, reason and interact with it."
Full piece: https://t.co/C9qOJg5wuc
CLAUDE.md is no help when the agent actively repeats then ignores explicit protocol.
I’ve had to transform my CLAUDE.md to more of an index with general guidelines, and then have other protocols load-on-demand.
We have highly unique protocols, so the model thinks it knows a better way even after reading our protocols, and then ties itself in knots.
Everyone saw Trump drop f-bombs on Netanyahu and order him to stand down.
Almost no one saw what it proves: the President has slipped the leash the British Empire spent 80 years building. Why London is panicking 👇
Karen Bass’s leadership is so BAD that the gang the Crips just sat down and broke bread with Spencer Pratt.
Spencer is smart for taking the meeting.
Spencer will meet with anyone if it helps LA.
I love it.
We are getting ready to head to the hospital for my husband’s surgery and just wanted to say thank you so much to all of who have shared messages, prayers and well wishes for Abraham. We are humbled and so grateful to be surrounded by aloha during this really tough time. 🙏🏽
THIS IS WHY WE VOTED FOR TRUMP‼️
In my opinion, this is still the best pro Trump speech I’ve ever heard, and it was by the very liberal Michael Moore. 👀