Benjamin Pring

Certified Human.

[Web Design Museum @WebDesignMuseum]

Happy 36th Birthday World Wide Web!

On 12 November 1990, British scientist Tim Berners-Lee set out his proposals for creating the WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project.

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

NVIDIA letting Jensen go is a huge mistake, for America and for humanity. It's Apple firing Steve Jobs all over again, but much bigger, given the role of AI in defining the future of our world.

I've been keeping quiet on this out of respect for Jensen's family and team, who I've met and who are amazing humans, and because I personally hate infidelity. So my heart goes out to them in this difficult personal family moment.

But I can also say that Jensen is human, and makes mistakes like all of us do. Not that I matter at all, but I've known Jensen for a long time and have gotten the chance to spend a lot of time with him, behind the scenes, away from mics and cameras. I have seen him show kindness, humility, care to everyone around him, including strangers, including from the poorest most struggling parts of society, treating all the same with the same thoughtfulness and attention, because they are fellow humans and not because he has something to gain from them. That shows rare character, to maintain humility and humanity through all of it.

Another data point is what people who know him well have said privately to me about Jensen over the years. I've never had anyone tell me anything but how awesome he is or how much they love him. Probably over a thousand people at this point. This includes hundreds of engineers, CEOs, colleagues, friends, etc.

Also, since there was some spy talk. Jensen is as proud an American as it gets. I'm in shock frankly at all of this, including the mass hysteria around it. I love America, and I think NVIDIA letting Jensen go is terrible for America.

I stand with Jensen.

Love you all ❤️

[Sam Lyman @SamLyman33]

This campus was just one of many.

The CCP-aligned PSL successfully blocked or delayed $24 billion in data center investment here in the US.

The nonprofit/activist ecosystem is massive vector for foreign influence.

Read our full report here:
https://t.co/fMk5xTjcbK

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

Microsoft's diagnostic AI solved 83% of 304 complex New England Journal of Medicine cases. Generalist physicians with reference materials solved 36%. We need to get this technology into clinics safely and fast. We need to stop making people wait for the right answers.

[TFTC @TFTC21]

US water use per year:

Data centers: ~17 billion gallons
Golf courses: ~500 billion gallons
Farm irrigation: ~27 trillion gallons

[NASA Solar System @NASASolarSystem]

No other traveler has ever journeyed so far from home.

Voyager 1 is about to become the first human-made object to reach a distance of one light-day from Earth, or about 16 billion miles. ½

[Berry @BerryAshford]

This ring is fuc*ing Scary 🥶

it has literally replaced

Google Maps
Spotify
Door Dash
Calendly
Telegram
Wisprflow
Granola
Uber
Whop
Gmail
Whatsapp
Alexa
Zoom
Dialer

and so much more

Phones are gonna be so useless 😭

[Charts By Andy @ChartsByAndy]

@GoogleAI The AI Race...

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

Huge AI announcements from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google in the past 48 hours.

Here's everything going on in AI right now:

1. The authors of AI 2027 just moved their timelines up. They now expect AI on par with the best human AI researchers to arrive in 2027, after METR estimated Anthropic is improving about 2x as fast thanks to AI. Daniel Kokotajlo gives it a 50-50 chance by May 2027 and says he's "scared, sad, and angry."

2. Anthropic opened the investor pitch for its IPO, with shares likely trading as soon as Thursday next week. An updated filing also says it has now crossed its own safety line for AI-driven progress.

3. OpenAI launched Businesses in ChatGPT, a beta hub where brands can set up AI agents for shoppers, claim a verified profile, and track how often ChatGPT mentions them. Paid ads can point users to those agents too. This is like the start of SEO for chatbots.

4. Anthropic rolled out Claude Sheets and Whiteboards in beta, made Claude Data generally available, and announced Claude Meetings, an assistant that sits in on your video calls. Add those to Slides, Design, and Docs. Seems like Claude is slowly rebuilding the entire office suite.

5. Anthropic also released Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 yesterday, with Fable debuting at #1 on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, 5 points ahead of Google's Gemini 4 Carbon. It's also 20% cheaper and up to 30% faster than 5.1. Google lost the top spot before Carbon even shipped (!)

6. Meta released Muse Ember, its smallest model, built for high-volume agent work. It ties Claude Haiku 5.5 on the Intelligence Index at roughly one-third of the cost per task ($0.14 vs. $0.41 on an average test). Meta shipped its first Muse model in April and now has an answer for every tier OpenAI and Anthropic sell.

7. Google announced 2 new AI chips coming next year: the TPU 8tx, which keeps data encrypted even while a model is working on it, and the 8i Max, which joins 2 chips into one for agents that need to hold an entire codebase in view. Google already has nearly 100 TPU customers (including Anthropic and Apple) and every available chip is spoken for.

8. Nvidia's top lawyer reportedly emailed agents in August 2025 while they were investigating whether Singapore's Megaspeed smuggled its chips to China. The Commerce Department then halted the case and handed it to the Justice Department. Not a great week for Nvidia.

9. Adobe signed a multi-year deal with Disney to build custom AI models trained on Disney's characters and visual styles, with work already underway for theme parks, film, and ESPN. Pretty interesting to see one of the most protective IP owners in entertainment is now training its own AI models.

10. OpenAI acquired Odessia, a months-old AI trip-planning startup from Sonder founder Francis Davidson, who is joining OpenAI to work on travel. Between this and #3, ChatGPT is coming for shopping and travel.

11. France unveiled the Paris Call for AI Safety and Security, with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Mistral committing to build emergency off switches into their most advanced models. Interesting timing given #1 on this list.

Daily reminder that this is the worst AI will ever be.

[Benjamin Pring @BenjaminPring]

@emollick The faster the frontier develops the slower enterprise deployment will be. Serious biz people running mission critical operations won’t risk buying Betamax.

[Benjamin Pring @BenjaminPring]

@econcallum Tim BL? No Jensen? Curious …

[Benjamin Pring @BenjaminPring]

Spot on.

[Idea Browser @ideabrowser]

Fable 5.2 on the business moats for next 10 years

[Benjamin Pring @BenjaminPring]

@TomRachman Excellent point. (Hopefully mine is succinct enough😉).

[Benjamin Pring @BenjaminPring]

@bgtennisnation BG & Jonny!!! Nice!!!

[Benjamin Pring @BenjaminPring]

@_The_Prophet__ Well if you didn’t know this already - that you were a small dinghy afloat a very turbulent and indifferent sea - you really weren’t paying attention (intentionally or unintentionally).

[Benjamin Pring @BenjaminPring]

@JoshuaBarzon 6.9% is cities/towns/roads etc. 2% is parks/gardens. Correct? Amazing/interesting. I always think when flying into 🇬🇧 that it’s a giant farm. This confirms it. Thx for sharing!

[Benjamin Pring @BenjaminPring]

@batcountry1980 Ah, I missed that! Makes sense!

[Benjamin Pring @BenjaminPring]

@neil_mccormick @Telegraph The latter. The whole exercise is silly. Call it your favorite 50 songs. That’s what it is.

[Benjamin Pring @BenjaminPring]

@PincheOgro1 Tweet/X of the year/decade/century.