Iason Koukas

I'm a computer engineer with great interest in #AI and #SciTech

[Lee Roach @leevalueroach]

You can track Nancy Pelosi’s stock trades on X. But once you start tracking Donald Trump’s that’s a no no. What’s up with this @nikitabier.

[Iason Koukas @ikoukas]

@VoteAK @ZacksJerryRig That's no defense, you should have seen what he was

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

“He bought the app to save freedom of speech”

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

I think both Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 get approved for general release next week, and for use outside of the United States as well. But people should remember this moment and remember this feeling, because it is almost inevitable that we eventually reach a point where approval does not arrive.

Capitalism is going to tip the scales this time. I doubt they will approve one model and not the other, because doing so would be seen as incredibly anti-competitive. Fable and GPT-5.6 will probably receive the same clearance, probably on the same day. I also doubt they want to restrict sales outside the US, because that would be seen as anti-business and would trigger a major backlash against American closed-source AI. The rumblings of which you can already hear today. There is also a plan now taking shape on both the US left and right to create some version of an AI public wealth fund that pays a dividend directly to American citizens. That fund needs to be fed by the global sale of the big labs top models to people outside the US. So I think there will be no freeze on their use outside the United States this time.

The other reason is that allowing this will make people happy, and it will soften the fact that Mythos, as was announced yesterday, is available only to a vetted group of US agencies and companies. I do not think that this basic structure will change from here on out. Mythos may eventually be made available to certain allies, but only after the US government, its agencies, and then some chosen American companies have access to Mythos-2, Sol-2, or whatever the new uber-model turns out to be.

I do not think this gap ever closes again, not even for allies. And that means the US will increasingly possess an intelligence advantage that touches almost everything: voting, markets, corporations, academia, infrastructure, and the internal operations of foreign states. Having Mythos-n will always be trumped by whoever has Mythos-n+1. Anthropic themselves have said within nine months Mythos will look like a toy. That advantage, standing at the top of this tower, is too large to give up voluntarily. It also means that many things will become suspect. People will see shadows everywhere. Barring espionage, a deliberate leak, or the emergence of a non-US competitor at the top end of the scale, this structure will persist for some time. The public fight is about access to models. But the real fight is about access to the future. And from this point forward, whoever holds this power will also become increasingly capable of keeping it for themselves.

[David Miller @Tracking_Power]

Microsoft whistleblower on the firms deep integration into the Zionist genocide:

After nearly two years as a Critical Environment Technician at a Microsoft Italy data center, I choose to resign. This is because, right now, Microsoft is massively expanding its European data centers (aka mass surveillance centers) to use Palestine as a laboratory for its experimental digital weaponry. For the past 994 days, Microsoft has powered the genocide of our people in Palestine, and the company’s European data centers are fundamental to how Microsoft abets crimes against humanity.

On August 6, 2025, reports exposed how Microsoft hosted 11,500 terabytes of intercepted Palestinian phone call data in the Microsoft Netherlands data center, with additional data stored in the Irish data center, amounting to 200 million hours of audio. This trove of mass surveillance data has been described as “one of the world’s largest and most intrusive collections of surveillance data over a single population group.”
This data is used by the Israeli military to identify targets for airstrikes, arrests, and blackmail from the entire Palestinian population. It is also used as training data to build AI-targeting programs. These programs invent arbitrary justifications to murder non-combatants, intentionally adding civilian workers to the Israeli military’s generated “target bank“; the programs also facilitate massacres of entire families at once.

[Geoffrey Hinton @geoffreyhinton]

I just watched an amazingly good lecture by Adam Brown about the future impact of AI on physics
https://t.co/EjiKpoiKZr

[IRI Embassy in Armenia @iraninyerevan]

Ana Kasparian talking about the Palestinian girl Hind Rajab, who was executed by Israeli soldiers with 355 bullets

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Yoga. The best thing after a hard day’s murdering.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Stop and digest this…

I know it’s relentless and heartbreaking

But don’t just scroll past.

[Reflection🪩 @0xReflection]

You just realized you’re the exit liquidity for an unprofitable $2.5T company

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

Elon is running ads on his already boosted posts, on his own platform to defend himself, against voices he’s already suppressing with the algorithm. A pathetic self-serving trillionaire.

[🇬🇷Dimitris Savvidis @DimitrisSavvid4]

Σας προτρέπω να πάτε στα δημοσιεύματα και τις συνεντεύξεις της περιόδου εκείνης. Σας προτρέπω να αναζητήσετε τα γνωστά κυβερνητικά τρολ και να δείτε τι έγραφαν δημόσια.

Έλεγαν ότι "πετάμε λασπη". Έλεγαν ότι ένας τύπος από την Ολλανδία δεν ξέρει τι του γίνεται. Έλεγαν ότι είναι γελοίοι όσοι μιλανε για παραβίαση του νόμου. Έλεγαν ότι κάνουμε επίθεση στην κυβέρνηση. Και άλλα τέτοια...

Έκτοτε κάποιοι ελάχιστοι ανεξάρτητοι θεσμοί και κάποιοι ελάχιστοι μη χειραγωγουμενοι δικαστές έχουν επιβάλει πρόστιμα εκατοντάδων χιλιάδων ευρώ και έχουν αποδώσει τις ευθύνες όπως ορίζει ο νόμος για την παραβίαση προσωπικών δεδομένων.

Οι πρώτοι πολίτες έχουν ήδη αποζημιωθει.
Εκατοντάδες βρίσκονται ακόμα στην αναμονή. Προσωπικά όπως είπα από την πρώτη στιγμή οποιαδήποτε αποζημίωση θα την προσφέρω σε οικογένειες που έχουν ανάγκη.

Δεν ζητάμε λεφτά από αυτό το σάπιο κράτος. Αξιοπρέπεια και νόμους που εφαρμόζονται ζητάμε.

#gdpr

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I’ve never defended a rapist in my life.

You, however, worked hard to elect a man to the presidency who was found liable for sexual abuse by a jury of his peers. A man accused of sexual misconduct by two dozen women.

But sure, tell me more about your values.

[Jimmy Apples 🍎/acc @apples_jimmy]

NSA saying Mythos, in hours broke into nearly all of their classified systems ??

Per The Economist

[Kydo @0xkydo]

🤯 Midjourney -- yes, the AI image company -- just shipped a brand new type of imaging machine. 🤯

- 100x faster than an MRI.
- 10x cheaper.

Full body scanned in 60 seconds instead of an hour in a tube. Ultrasound based, MRI-level resolution.

And it's real -- not a concept, a working machine. You step into a shallow pool of warm water, a ring of half a million sensors sends sound through your body from every angle, and ~60 seconds later you have a 3D map of your insides down to a fraction of a millimeter. No radiation, no tube, no lying still.

They're not even building it as a hospital machine -- they're building a spa. The scan is a side-effect of a place you'd want to hang out anyway.

Lastly, it is built by 9 people. NINE PEOPLE.

You can just do things.

[Midjourney @midjourney]

Midjourney will be announcing its first hardware project tomorrow (Wednesday 6/17) at 6pm PT. Stay tuned for a livestream of our in-person launch event in San Francisco. If you're in town and want an invite, reply below, we have just a few slots left.

[Midjourney @midjourney]

Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical"

[Midjourney @midjourney]

We're gonna do a Midjourney Medical AMA (ask me anything ) right here all afternoon. Post your questions below and we'll try to answer as many as we can! ❤️

[Taelin @VictorTaelin]

I'm kinda speechless, not sure what I could write. This was the most unexpected and important launch of the year, and that includes Fable. If this is real it will save countless lives

[Iason Koukas @ikoukas]

@RMac18 Seems Musk loves surprising himself