The explosion of agentic AI and compute shortages are pushing up prices: Average LLM token costs are now $2.12/mil tokens,+12% this week alone and +65% since end of Feb.
Jason Calacanis: “No good comes from kids on social media … and the industry wants them addicted”
“Rough week for Zuck. Two verdicts went against Meta in two days.
They were first found liable for allowing child predators to access minors on Facebook and Instagram.
Then on Wednesday, an LA jury found Meta and YouTube negligent for designing addictive platforms that harmed a young user's mental health.
No good comes out of kids under 16 using social media.
Kids who use this 2-3 hours a day, it's massively correlated with depression and anxiety, and eating disorders, specifically in young girls.
It's obviously addicting.
Obviously, the industry has not policed itself, nor would they police themselves because they want to get people addicted now, so they're addicted when they're adults.
The rest of the world has realized this. Australia now has 16 enforced, Malaysia, 16. Other countries are right behind them, Spain, Germany, the UK.
So labeling, information, and age gating would be the logical things to do for social media, and that's what's happened in the past.
If Android and Apple showed leadership with Facebook and said, ‘We're going to, by default, when you buy a phone, you're going to have to verify kids under a certain age,’ we could solve this problem. And then parents would (have to) opt in to giving their kids access to this.”
Another huge week of AI and robotics news.
So, I summarized everything from Google, OpenAI, Figure, Scout AI, Reka, Vexa Robotics, UCSF, Tencent, Dobot, Luma Labs, and more
Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it:
Just a reminder that extended events and SQL Audit were introduced 16 years ago with SQL 2008. Both were intended to replace Profiler/trace.
SQL Profiler still exists and will never die.
#TeamProfiler
I got a rare opportunity to ask OpenAI's video generation model Sora for some videos this week! I had 3 prompts. Here's the videos with my prompts and what I learned 🧵
Some AI “math” from todays baseline:
Chips improve by 2x next year
Models improve by 2x next year
Capex scales capacity by 10x next year
Means that whatever you see today will be ~40x better in a year and another 20-40x better a year after that.
So we can expect 800-1600x by 2026.
What won’t be possible is probably the better question.
I assume any owner of a pickup truck with a gross “F Trudeau” sticker on it will have the morals and principles to refuse these kinds of government handouts.
#SkPoli#Cdnpoli