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[David Sinclair @davidasinclair]

Are GLP-1 meds longevity drugs in disguise?
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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Arthur C. Clarke on BBC's Horizon in 1964, when he gave some astonishing predictions about the future.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Google just quit the AI race on purpose, and it is about to make MORE money than everyone still running it.

4 of the most cited AI researchers alive walked out of Google in a single afternoon.

Jeff Dean, the man who built the systems Google runs on, gone after 27 years. Sanjay Ghemawat, his longtime partner, gone. Oriol Vinyals, a Gemini co-lead, gone. Quoc Le, a Google Brain co-founder, gone.

That same day, Demis Hassabis stepped back from running DeepMind. Hassabis co-founded the lab, won a Nobel Prize for AlphaFold, and had been the face of Google AI for a decade.

The stock dropped 5% within hours. Analysts called it a brain drain. Headlines called it the day Google fell behind.

But turns out that's completely wrong, because the numbers underneath tell a completely different story:

Google is not trying to win the frontier model race anymore. It looked at where the money is and walked toward it.

Gemini, Google's flagship model business, generated about $12 billion in annual revenue last quarter. That is the entire payoff from competing head to head with OpenAI and Anthropic.

Now look at the other number.

By the end of 2027, Google Cloud is projected to do over $73 billion selling AI infrastructure to other companies, plus another $120 billion selling its TPU chips. That is roughly $200 billion of external sales at high margins, against a $12 billion model business.

Google understood that the frontier race is the expensive part while selling the shovels is the profitable part.

And the customers buying those shovels include Google's own rivals.

Over 20% of Google's TPU shipments for 2026 and 2027 are going to Anthropic, one of the two labs supposedly beating Gemini. Google now makes money every time Anthropic trains a model designed to crush Google's OWN product.

Cede the frontier, own the layer underneath it, and collect a toll from everyone racing across the top.

The researchers leaving is the symptom of a company that already decided models are not where it wins.

Jeff Dean said it himself on the way out. He told the New York Times that leaving a public company gives him room to make decisions "not necessarily in the company's purist financial interests."

Read that from Google's side:

The people who wanted to chase the science left, because Google is now optimizing for the FINANCIAL interest.

Gemini 3.5 Pro is running months behind, with staff blaming low morale. DeepMind's comms, legal, and marketing teams are being folded into Google proper. A former manager told the Guardian the era of DeepMind as an independent lab is over.

None of that reads as failure once you see the strategy.

Yet Wall Street is pricing this as Google losing.

The parallel that should worry the frontier labs:

If open weight models keep compressing the price of inference, being the best model stops being a business. It becomes like semiconductor fabrication, strategically vital and financially brutal, a race you win and still lose money running.

Google is the first giant to admit that.

The company that invented the transformer just handed the frontier to OpenAI and Anthropic, and positioned itself to get paid on every model both of them ship.

Those labs will be burning billions to stay one benchmark ahead, and Google will be cashing in hundreds of billions from it.

The model business is actually just a race where everyone loses.

Apple understood that from the get-go and never joined the race, Google understood it now and left it to OpenAI and Anthropic.

Who will go bankrupt first?

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

Reminder to go touch grass

A scientist in Japan demonstrated that the air inside a forest strengthens your immune system for a full month

The study is incredibly fascinating:

Qing Li, an immunologist at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo, took 12 men on a 3-day forest trip. These were slow walks with no breathing exercises and no set route.

Then he tested their blood and found a surge in natural killer cells -- the immune cells your body uses to fight cancer and virus-infected cells.

Remarkably, the effect didn't fade when they went home, it was still measurable 30 days later.

A control group that walked the same distance through a city showed no change at all.

Pine, cedar, and cypress trees release compounds called phytoncides to defend themselves from insects and bacteria. You breathe them in, and Li believes they switch your immune cells into high gear.

He estimates one forest walk a month may be enough to keep those cells elevated all year.

The best medicine might not even need a prescription -- just a walk among the trees.

[thomaspham @thomaspham]

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[Nelly; @nrqa__]

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[divyansh tiwari @DivyanshT91162]

107 Mind-Blowing AI Tools;

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2. Presentation

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5. AI Models

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6. Meeting

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• ChatGPT
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7. Automation

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8. UI/UX

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9. Image

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[el.cine @EHuanglu]

this is the craziest AI we have now

Google’s Genie 3 can generate any interactive 3D world, you can literally walk around in it and interact with things..

example 1:

step inside an old painting or a real location and explore it…

[Poonam Soni @CodeByPoonam]

Google just dropped Edge AI Gallery, an official open-source app to run AI models locally on your phone.

- No internet needed
- Completely FREE
- Multimodal

5 Powerful features you don't want to miss:

[thomaspham @thomaspham]

Google Open Source Blog: El Carro for Oracle: Data migration and improved backups https://t.co/MrJUnwmFZM

[Khairallah AL-Awady @eng_khairallah1]

How to get started in Web 3.0?

Roadmap to Learn Web3 💪

🧵 thread ↓

[Swapna Kumar Panda @swapnakpanda]

Which programming language

➤ C
➤ C++
➤ Java
➤ C#
➤ PHP
➤ JavaScript
➤ Python
➤ Rust

to start with as a beginner or, a newbie?

⇩

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

What’s the most mind blowing presentation / talk you’ve ever seen?

Bonus if there’s a YouTube or recording available

[MIT CSAIL @MIT_CSAIL]

Four deep learning papers to read right now: https://t.co/YSCof14ija

credit @RobertTLange

[Google Design @GoogleDesign]

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[Saurav Jain (Open Source + Communities) @Sauain]

Five FREE Certifications which you can learn and add to your Resume 😉💯

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[Alex Macdonald @alexfmac]

💰Here are 13 investor databases for seed stage Founders looking to raise money.

100k+ investors.

Not Techcunch. Not AngelList. These are the databases you haven't heard of.

This is to all the Founders hustling on a Saturday 🍻 Happy hunting 🎯

[Pique @getpiqueapp]

And just like that, we're live! 🎉 The new Pique brings the 5-minute experiences you know and love to the non-fiction books that are on your bookshelf — or should be.

In the coming days, we'll highlight some gems in our library. Get ready to discover your next "must-do" book 📚

[Code for Science & Society @codeforsociety]

Who's doing critical #openscience #openscholarship work and could use a hand (or a bridge) this year? #jrost2020 is stepping up