US defense giants Lockheed and Raytheon are reportedly resistant to licensing Patriot missile production to Ukraine because they fear that Ukrainian manufacturers will be able to “improve the Patriot and then produce them at scale faster and for much less money.” -The Atlantic
Tony Robbins on the three questions that reveal why you're unhappy:
"People don't experience life, they experience the life they focus on. If you're happy, you are deleting all the things you could be pissed off about. If you're unhappy, you're deleting all the things that are great in your life. Our brains delete and distort and generalize, so if you don't direct it, you get whatever shows up"
"What's wrong is always available. What's right is also available. It's just which one you pick. And it isn't about positive thinking. I've never been into positive thinking. I believe in intelligence, because when you're in a lousy state of mind, you treat people poorly, you don't perform, you're not happy"
"There are three decisions you're making every moment of your life. The first one is what are you going to focus on. If you're supposed to meet someone at 7 o'clock and it's 7:30 and they haven't called, some people are pissed off, some people are worried. It's the same event. Whether you're angry or worried had nothing to do with the event, it's the habits of your mind"
"Do you tend to focus more on what you have or what's missing? Do you focus more on what you can control or what you can't? Do you focus more on the past, the present, or the future?"
"If you constantly look at what's missing, it's hard to ever stay fulfilled. If you focus on what you can't control, you're overwhelmed and stressed. And if you focus on the past, which you can't change, that makes you angry or sad or frustrated. If you focus on what you have, you're going to be more fulfilled"
"Instead of saying I want a New Year's resolution, another rule for myself, I need to change the ruler. A lot of times we don't even see that we're the ruler"
Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, went on CNN and put a number on the thing most AI CEOs will not say out loud:
Half of all entry-level white-collar jobs gone. Unemployment at 10 to 20%. Inside 1 to 5 years.
"The most salient feature of the technology, and what is driving all of this, is how fast the technology is getting better."
"A couple of years ago, you could say that AI models were maybe as good as a smart high school student. I would say that now they're as good as a smart college student, and sort of reaching past that."
"I really worry, particularly at the entry level, that the AI models are very much at the center of what an entry level human worker would do."
"What is striking to me about this AI boom is that it's bigger and it's broader and it's moving faster than anything has before."
"People will adapt, but they may not adapt fast enough. And so there may be an adjustment period."
The tell: this is not a critic outside the industry. It is the man building the models saying the quiet part on camera -- because he thinks the people whose jobs are on the line adapt slower than the models improve.
High school to college in two years was the warm-up. The entry level is where it lands first.
Sri Lankan navy marines Ideal motors CATV which is based on a re-designed & heavily modified version of the chassis of Indian Mahindra Armado ASLV . Ideal motors apparently had a joint venture partnership with Mahindra back in 2018-2019 with tech assistance for making new ground vehicles for SL Army
This is an excellent interview btw
Nicolai (Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund CEO) asks the IBM CEO if AI a bubble
Listen very very carefully to his answer
SEN. KELLY: I've spent 15 years working with Russian cosmonauts. Took me 5 years to understand what motivated them.
Number one, appearance that they were in charge of something. Two, who to blame when something goes wrong. Three, what to steal today. Only four, mission success.
I think as Ukrainians, as Americans, as Brits, we're often motivated by mission success. You want organization you work for to be successful, you want your country to be successful, you want British Army to be successful, I want US Navy to be successful, I want NASA to be successful.
That wasn't my experience with Russian cosmonauts I worked with. I'm talking about dozens of people that I knew well, what motivated them when they went to work every day.
At the top of the list was that they really cared about the appearance that they were in charge of something, not mission success. Now, whether they were really actually in charge of it or not didn't matter so much. Mission success wasn't even number two.
Number two on the list, I would say, was whether they knew who to blame when something went wrong, like placing the blame. Russians have a position in their Mission Control Center which is called "mistakes officer." When a Russian cosmonaut makes a mistake, they keep track of it and they take money out of their pay.
I would say the third thing, even before mission success, was what am I going to steal from my employer today. And we would talk about that. They were very open about this. And apparently there's a saying in Russian that if you didn't steal something at work that day, you did not have a good day.
For us, and I think everybody in this room here, mission success is the thing that matters more than anything else. And for the Russians I worked with, it might have been number four on the list. So I actually was not that surprised about their incompetence.
This was one of the most interesting conversations I’ve had in a while.
Michelle Thaller a wealth of fascinating information about space, time and all things the cosmos. And she’s an incredibly compelling speaker. These kinds of podcasts are some of my favorites
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It is getting genuinely difficult to keep track of all of the names of AI products being unveiled. In the last hour, Google's unveiled Google Pics (which is not Google Photos), and updates to Google Flow, Nano Banana, Veo (all media generation), Google Antigravity, Gemini Spark, Gemini Omni, Gemini 3.5 Flash