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[Lip-Bu Tan @LipBuTan1]

Intel has been developing brain-inspired neuromorphic silicon technology for several years. We are now accelerating this work as we partner with Echo Neurotechnologies to develop algorithms that are not just brain-inspired, but actually trained on brain activity itself. This will allow us to build highly energy-efficient computing architectures and platforms that are faster, lighter and closer to how humans actually think. I am excited to work with my friend Dr. Eddie Chang and his talented team at Echo Neurotechnologies. Together, we will build AI that learns from the most powerful computer ever discovered, the human brain!

[Dean W. Ball @deanwball]

This seems like a solidly smart policy document. Congratulations to all involved!

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

when you’ve made the kind of mistake putin has made invading ukraine, you need a way to vote that leader out of office.

zero accountability for that sort of failure is extremely dangerous.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Something that perhaps isn’t clear is that, if this location works out (other locations are still in the running), SpaceX will still be paying an annual amount that increases tax revenue for Grimes County by ~25% and will be by far the biggest source of revenue for the county.

Taking into account taxes paid by SpaceX employees and contractors, Terafab will far exceed ALL revenue that Grimes County currently earns!

The reason SpaceX asked for this, which is standard practice for massive capital investments, is because Terafab will have a large number of extremely expensive machines for making chips. Property tax on these crazy money machines would put us at a serious competitive disadvantage relative to other chip fabs in the world.

[Sebastien Bubeck @SebastienBubeck]

GPT-5.5 (the one available right now to everyone) can also disprove the sum-product conjecture: https://t.co/gdHwLY3o20 . I didn't reveal it before because I think it is good to give some space to the community to absorb these new capabilities. In particular the humans involved in the discovery should get all the credit for this amazing breakthrough. We all have some work to do to align on cultural norms in this new world.

[News12WC @News12WC]

POUGHKEEPSIE FIRE: Listen as News 12's Ben Nandy is on the ground with a firsthand look at crews battling flames at the former state psychiatric hospital.
#News12 #Poughkeepsie
https://t.co/SPtI4KRYwm

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

We never had more npm downloads than this week on @openclaw - comined with Docker, GitHub, company-internal deployments and the numerous forks, real number is more in the 10-20 million downloads/week.

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz]

A beautiful example of an "optimal stopping problem" – Feynman's restaurant problem – with a great backstory behind it. This is a fun, well written article, and a fun math problem too.

https://t.co/0Nng9KLDHa

[Omar Shahine @OmarShahine]

Introducing Microsoft Scout, the first autopilot agent from Microsoft - 57 days after starting my new job, we are launching Microsoft Scout to our Frontier customers. Big day for the team and for @openclaw #MicrosoftBuild https://t.co/ZGl47ADnCg

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

Such a privilege to work with Microsoft to bring claws to enterprises!

[Brandon LeBlanc @brandonleblanc]

Project Solara 👀 https://t.co/DTsaBjJ1Z0

[Andy Constan @dampedspring]

Fascinating. Perhaps your colleagues understanding of the Facebook IPO dynamic from his perch as a graduating senior at Trinity college was better than mine as a 26 year experienced equity investor sitting at the biggest macro hedge fund on the planet. But that narrative didn't exist nor did the financing needs in markets rival anything like today. The Facebook IPO was an utter disaster and a poster child for a greedy ipo process where selling shareholders were the majority of the sellers unloading bags at 1.5x the size the company raised. The deal was mispriced and over allocated and the stock fell >50% post IPO. The pre IPO narrative did NOT include any discussion of supply like you say at least at my firm and our contacts. What it did do in retrospect is freeze the IPO market for months.

At the time the world was awash in liquditiy from U.S. QE and post European crisis LTRO bond programs and bailouts of the PIIGs. Fwiw things like "liqudity" and flow were hardly discussed at all thought central to my firms process.

Anyway I was and am old so I am probably misremembering and the trillions of capex financing today is identical to the 2012 Facebook IPO situation your college age colleague understood better than us olds at the time.

[Brad Gilbert @bgtennisnation]

This has to be the most competitive and unpredictable men’s 9 days @rolandgarros that I can remember, there have beem 30 5setters 7 2 sets to none comebacks 6 that went to super breaker in 5th, numerous went past 4 hrs and I believe 3 past 5 hrs one ☝️ almost 6 hrs Bravo 👏

[Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) @MIT]

Lisa Su ’90, SM ’91, PhD ’94 to the Class of 2026, “Run toward the hardest problems. Hard problems teach you what you're capable of.”

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This morning we are introducing COGE — the Commission on Government Efficiency.

This Commission will find ways for our city to work smarter, faster, and more effectively for working people. 

New Yorkers deserve a city government as careful with their money as they are.

[sunny madra @sundeep]

Vera impressive!

https://t.co/yjLo7PUJoS

[Tren Griffin @trengriffin]

Microsoft. Switching from Claude code to GitHub Copilot (both with Opus 4.7 paid for by enterprise API usage) enables dogfooding of the GHCP harness so Microsoft gets both scale and feedback. The payment to Anthropic doesn't change with the switch. It isn't a ban."

The CNN report isn't even wrong

A harness is a software framework that works with an AI model to control, test, or orchestrate how AI behaves. ChatGPT:

[Sebastien Bubeck @SebastienBubeck]

Having fun with the team talking about all of these developments!

[roon @tszzl]

the new state of things does not encourage
deep work or craft except in people who have a really Benedictine self discipline