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ancorevard··on Omacom Foundation launches with $8M
These guys are fighting the good fight.
ancorevard··on Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails
Apology not accepted.
ancorevard··on We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued
You should beware of the predictive power of Morningstar before you read/take their advice.
ancorevard··on Omarchy Is Not A Distro
Love Omarchy
ancorevard··on OpenAI Acquires TBPN
X
ancorevard··on Cloudflare threatens Italy exit over €14M fine
From TBPN today: https://x.com/tbpn/status/2011930385555566600
ancorevard··on Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines
True. CCP does not attempt to impose their censorship on other countries, while EU have asked Cloudflare to DNS block their wish list for the entire world.
ancorevard··on Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines
"he's technically in the wrong for not abiding to the law"

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

ancorevard··on It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
This one better hurt the Apple employees who still cares:

"On the upside: it’s not that hard anymore to design better than Apple!"

ancorevard··on X Just Accidentally Exposed a Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans
You can still opt in today to tag your location in a post, that never changed.
ancorevard··on X Just Accidentally Exposed a Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans
This is incorrect.

The old Twitter and its API had "source" field which showed the client app a tweet was sent from.

{ "created_at": "Mon Nov 20 12:34:56 +0000 2023", "id_str": "1726578932412345678", "full_text": "Example tweet", "source": "<a href=\"http://twitter.com/download/iphone\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter for iPhone</a>", ... }

ancorevard··on Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k
Rookie mistake. Should have identified as an undocumented immigrant. $0 bill.
ancorevard··on Claude Sonnet 4.5
Can't use Anthropic models in Cursor. Completely cost prohibitive compared to gpt-5 and grok models.

Why is this? Does Anthropic have just higher infrastructure costs compared to OpenAI/xAI?

ancorevard··on From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring progress through MedHELM [pdf]
so since reasoning_effort is not discussed anywhere, I assume you used the default which is "medium"?
ancorevard··on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
Deep betrayal by Apple.

"privacy is a fundamental human right" - Tim Cook.

ancorevard··on Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant
There is a lot of upside of inviting CCP into your home, for instance...
ancorevard··on SpaceX Super Heavy splashes down in the gulf, canceling chopsticks landing
Yes, we must demand they stop improving at such a speed.

How dare they have ambition to develop tech advanced enough to go to Mars.

ancorevard··on Meta Fined $843M by EU over Marketplace Ads
Will future tech companies bother making their products available in the EU? Will it be worth it, or is just too big of a risk with uncertain outcomes?
ancorevard··on Two new Gemini models, reduced 1.5 Pro pricing, increased rate limits, and more
Microsoft's OpenAI models seems even worse. They run their own "safety" filter.

Using their models in a medical setting is impossible. It refuses to describe scientific photos and will not summarize HCP discussions (texts) that it misinterprets.

ancorevard··on Two new Gemini models, reduced 1.5 Pro pricing, increased rate limits, and more
This is the most important update.

Pricing and speed doesn't matter when your call fails because of "safety".

ancorevard··on Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio
Are there any services like this that exist with an API?

I would like to send a text and then get back a podcast dialog between two people.

ancorevard··on When RAND made magic in Santa Monica
Any books recommendations for this part of history?
ancorevard··on HumaneAI pin maker selling itself for $1B
How did you arrive at 200M? Sounds generous.
ancorevard··on Study found corporate recruiters have a bias against ex-entrepreneurs
You should look into types of people are running the various parts of Rippling.
ancorevard··on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production
Zero dependency on China is a pretty significant bonus.
ancorevard··on I spoke with a Google worker fired for protesting $1.2B Israel contract
Remember how much public beatings Coinbase received when they announced they were going to be a mission and merit driven company?
ancorevard··on I spoke with a Google worker fired for protesting $1.2B Israel contract
The Overton window has changed. Imagine Google saying this during peak BLM.

"But ultimately we are a workplace and our policies and expectations are clear: this is a business, and not a place to act in a way that disrupts coworkers or makes them feel unsafe, to attempt to use the company as a personal platform, or to fight over disruptive issues or debate politics. This is too important a moment as a company for us to be distracted."

There is hope here that Google will not fade into irrelevance.

ancorevard··on Fine-Tuning Increases LLM Vulnerabilities and Risk
Is this sponsored by EA?
ancorevard··on Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5
Is this a blog post of did they actually ship?
ancorevard··on Qdrant, the Vector Search Database, raised $28M in a Series A round
Honest question, how long before EU makes it unattainable for Qdrant to remain in Germany/EU?
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