chair

[chair @tablefourthree]

Wouldn’t a pause or a slowdown include all the labs including Anthropic?

Also they said a pause/slowdown would be a good *option* to have. Saying Anthropic is “calling” for a pause sounds misleading.

> We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology

https://t.co/OfV4MpHGAp

[chair @tablefourthree]

@dummdidumm_ @evanyou Now if we can just create an alternate Svelte file syntax that’s parseable by default tsc we’re golden

[chair @tablefourthree]

@jstein_star Does Trump get partial ownership and control of the AI companies?

[chair @tablefourthree]

@agraybee Le epic basedness comedy is now legalized

[chair @tablefourthree]

Scary thing about the future is that even with ASI and economic abundance where you can have all your needs met, there will still only be 1 ContraPoints video a year because there’s only 1 ContraPoints

[Stuart Buck @stuartbuck1]

@TECleveland @cremieuxrecueil I can see the DOGE tweet: "We canceled a contract for Panamanian screwworms, saving $165 million dollars!!!" [https://t.co/Bip6tKzkG1]

Meanwhile: "The slightest oversight could undo all the work that came before."

[Stuart Buck @stuartbuck1]

@TECleveland @cremieuxrecueil Despite some bogus grants, a lot of government is like this cartoon. I bet this "small team" would find a line item for "screwworm sterilization" and delete it, not knowing that they just devastated American farming: https://t.co/OAnAkxDSEK

[chair @tablefourthree]

@ProjectLincoln Screwelon Muskworm

[chair @tablefourthree]

@Timodc @TaylorLorenz @pmarca This is not the first time @pmarca has been caught straight up lying to fit a narrative

https://t.co/T9cJLPj20h

[chair @tablefourthree]

@Bitcoin_Teddy https://t.co/T9cJLPj20h

[chair @tablefourthree]

@DammitBits It's been a rough month for @pmarca

[Tyler Johnston @tyler_johnston]

If I ran the OpenAI/a16z super PAC, I would simply not pollute the commons with repeated, egregious astroturfing.

Alas!

[Tyler Johnston @tyler_johnston]

A few months ago, I found an anonymous sockpuppet account linked to the OpenAI/a16z super PAC. Now, @TaylorLorenz and I have uncovered two more — and they're even more brazen than the first.

https://t.co/TJHAABeq2A

[chair @tablefourthree]

@scaling01 Mythos is Agent-1

[chair @tablefourthree]

Yeah CLI was a good kickstart to agentic coding. But you can create a much more rich/powerful experience on desktop and Claude Desktop feels duct taped together.

[SemiAnalysis @SemiAnalysis_]

OPINION: Codex Desktop App UX & in-app browser is so good for vibing now. Once the OpenAI base model gets better at design, I can imagine codex beating Claude Code CLI soon on SemiAnalysis VibeMAX benchmark just due to better UX. Right now Claude is S tier on VibeMAX & Codex is A+ tier on VibeMAX. Anthropic over investing in Claude Code terminal CLI & underinvesting in Claude Code Desktop App is a fork in the road in the wrong direction.

[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

[chair @tablefourthree]

Except accessibility based bots might be easier to block than pixel based bots.

[chair @tablefourthree]

Seems like Codex went for an accessibility-based Computer Use and Cowork chose a pixel-based Computer Use.

In theory Cowork should work across more apps because it doesn’t have to depend on the quality of accessibility support across apps.

But accessibility-based Computer Use makes Codex a much faster and smoother experience. And the demand for AI might make good accessibility support table stakes for all apps; you either build good accessibility support in your app or you lose customers. So any gaps in capabilities for Codex might close faster than Cowork can improve the pixel-based experience.

I’m afraid Cowork might have made the wrong call on Computer Use approach.

[chair @tablefourthree]

@yacineMTB Just move to San Jose but work SF. San Jose is much less woke so it’s better. The commute is fine.

[chair @tablefourthree]

@cormachayden_ Damn! $1.8 million a year to Apple

Apple should never improve Apple Health

- Let my competitors do the work
- Don't compete for their users
- Get 30% of revenue anyways😂