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New Models & releases Analysis 13h ago
GenAI market research MIT essay

Generative AI as a tool for market research | MIT Sloan

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Why this matches Markets & investment reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · MIT Sloan
“MIT Sloan associate professor @johnjhorton makes the case that large language models can effectively deliver informal market insights that can later be refined through further investigation and more formal research practices. https://t.co/IVLv1CKPze” evidence ↗
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“MIT Sloan associate professor @johnjhorton makes the case that large language models can effectively deliver informal market insights that can later be refined through further investigation and more formal research practices. https://t.co/IVLv1CKPze”

New Compute & infrastructure Signal 18h ago

The startup that built openais biggest data center is now making tiny ones 71f36a4f

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Why this matches Markets & investment reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Anissa Gardizy
“NEW: Crusoe made its name building one of the biggest AI supercomputers on earth. The firm’s next big bet is going small. Fueling the strategy is a fresh $3.9 billion funding round that values Crusoe at about $30.9 billion after the investment. https://t.co…” evidence ↗
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“NEW: Crusoe made its name building one of the biggest AI supercomputers on earth. The firm’s next big bet is going small. Fueling the strategy is a fresh $3.9 billion funding round that values Crusoe at about $30.9 billion after the investment. https://t.co…”

New AI field signal Signal 12h ago

Australia’s sovereign AI mission lagging behind UK, Canada

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Why this matches Markets & investment reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · The Mandarin
“Top CSIRO leader calls out the pace of Australia’s strides toward sovereign AI status, pointing to like-minded countries that are making serious investments. https://t.co/ZY1NVmz5xk” evidence ↗
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“Top CSIRO leader calls out the pace of Australia’s strides toward sovereign AI status, pointing to like-minded countries that are making serious investments. https://t.co/ZY1NVmz5xk”

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5 experts · 53 posts · 8h ago
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“you fell into the lie here — they don’t get funding from labs or their employees” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
SE Gyges: i cannot explain the behavior of the movement's members regarding crucial issues more nicely than that yud convinced them all to be neurotically fearful of the paperclipper, and that only this was …
SE Gyges: I think that the parsimonious explanation for e.g. Anthropic and Dario doing legitimately bizarre shit regarding "safety" which makes little or no sense is best explained by them being utterly Yud-…
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4 experts · 9 posts · 23h ago
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“Marc Andreessen and the team at his fund a16z hired — as a *partner*! — a man who has no background in finance, in tech, in startups at all, simply because that man had strangled one of my unarmed …” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Markets & investment · 1
Anil Dash: I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from bi…
Alex Hanna: I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from bi…
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2 experts · 26 posts · 7h ago
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“the bureaucracy is also extraordinarily inwardly-focused, and bringing other peoples into the Empire only increases the competition for positions in the First Whorl, which both raises your famility…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 1 Context & explanation · 1
rev. howard arson: the ice age was caused by a Dyson swarm capturing about 10% of the sun's energy, and the synchronization mechanism which kept Earth in the light going offline
rev. howard arson: yeah, this seriously underestimated the size of the reservoir on the Teph northeast of Ganat proper -- the city is built into an Antediluvian dam. though i think actuallly there are now outlets to …
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3 experts · 9 posts · 13h ago
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“Exciting that we have devoted a generation of computer scientists, vast resources, and ungodly amounts of capital to a large scale machine-versus-machine war, the prize for which is... access to so…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Mike Masnick: Training my local AI model *just* to deal with increasingly stupid recaptcha gates.
Pwnallthethings: the bit that's annoying about these is AI can already solve most of them
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