It’s so fascinating to me that many of the researchers working at the frontier of AI, arguably the most consequential technology of this decade, are quietly very depressed and anxious. The only thing keeping them going is FOMO, not fun or passion.
BREAKING: Google is planning to release 32 million mosquitoes across Florida and California.
The company has asked the EPA for permission to proceed, with the public given until June 5 to respond.
The mosquitoes are infected with Wolbachia bacteria, which stops them from reproducing and slowly collapses the wild population from within.
Google's previous Debug Project trial in California's Central Valley nearly eliminated mosquitoes from three test sites entirely. A separate trial in Singapore cut dengue cases by 70% within 12 months.
Google has now released over 1 billion mosquitoes across four continents. This new proposal is the largest deployment in US history.
Introducing https://t.co/ymuN68eFXG Dev Station: every workspace now has a persistent, multi-repo dev station that tasks fork from.
@twill_ai station is now the source of truth for the project: repos connected, dependencies installed, env vars configured, dev/test servers running, and project context warm.
Agents and humans can both configure it, so the workspace keeps getting closer to the way your team actually builds software.
Tasks are no longer independent cold starts. Each task forks from the station’s current working environment into its own isolated sandbox. Powered by @daytonaio.
That means:
• No cold-start, so tasks start/finish faster.
• Multi-repo work across frontend, API, and shared libraries.
• Less setup work for agents, which means fewer tokens spent re-setting the dev env.
This is the model we think coding agents need: a persistent workspace that stays warm, then forks cleanly for each job.
Try it at https://t.co/BjDTPcquKi
Hosting a happy hour next Thursday at @CVPR with @iScienceLuvr from @SophontAI!
Also will be talking about our bet on causal intelligence at CV4Science workshop.
your average nyc party chitchat:
- favorite pizza spot
- favorite bagel spot
- favorite tacos spot
- which neighborhood they “discovered”
- if expat, what visa they are on
- rationalizing {insert expensive private club} membership
- rent
- mamdani
the reality of the vast majority of vertical ai app layer companies:
website describes one single agent that works across all use-cases listed, across all customers
FDEs have built N+ agents/systems, where N is the number of customer. some common abstractions but maintenance and improvement is largely a pain in the butt. each new customer is increasing complexity with small and odd quirks.