Amazon didn’t scare investors this Halloween. They’re quite pleased, actually. They’re not public but we now know how much money OpenAI lost this quarter. Nvidia’s generous investment strategy. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Amazon cloud records 20% sales growth, topping estimates (CNBC) Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter (The Register) Sora now lets you pay extra to make more AI videos (The Verge) Nvidia to Invest Up to $1

Tsvi Benson-Tilsen spent seven years tackling the alignment problem at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI). Now he delivers a sobering verdict: humanity has made “basically 0%” progress towards solving it. Tsvi unpacks foundational MIRI research insights like timeless decision theory and corrigibility, which expose just how little humanity actually knows about controlling superintelligence. These theoretical alignment concepts help us peer into the future, revealing the non-obvious,

In this lecture, military historian Sarah Paine explains how Russia—and specifically Stalin—completely derailed China’s rise, slowing them down for over a century.This lecture was particularly interesting to me because, in my opinion, the Chinese Civil War is 1 of the top 3 most important events of the 20th century. And to understand why it transpired as it did, you need to understand Stalin’s role in the whole thing.Watch on YouTube; read the transcript.SponsorsMercury helps you run your business

On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we dive back into the Vision Pro. Apple's new Vision Pro headset features the M5 chip for better performance and efficiency, 10% more rendered pixels, a refresh rate of up to 120Hz, longer battery life, and an all-new counterweighted Dual Knit headband with a focus on improved comfort. Arriving 20 months after the original model, the Vision Pro now runs visionOS 26 and offers widgets, hands-free scrolling, enhanced Mac Virtual Display mode,

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/how-construct-koin-plans-to-bridge-a-$300-trillion-market-gap-in-real-estate-financing.Construct Koin targets $300T real estate market with $100M presale. Analysis of ReFi protocol, AI lending, risks, and RWA tokenization trends. Check more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3. You can also check exclusive content about #web3, #blockchain,

Nik and Michael discuss the concept of gapless sequences — when you might want one, why sequences in Postgres can have gaps, and an idea or two if you do want them.And one quick clarification: changing the CACHE option in CREATE SEQUENCE can lead to even more gaps, the docs mention it explicitly. Here are some links to things they mentioned:CREATE SEQUENCE https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createsequence.htmlSequence Manipulation Functions

Revisiting an annual tradition--Books in the Box! Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends share book recommendations (and--sometimes--anti-recommendations). Take a listen if you're looking for your next read.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by some guests noted below:Previously, on Oxide and Friends:OxF s05e06 - A Half‑Century of Silicon Valley with Randy ShoupOxF s05e26 - Technological Revolutions with Jerry NeumannOxF s04e03 - Fork in the Road for TerraformOxF

This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Vice President and Fellow at Google, and CTO of Technology & Society. In this conversation, Blaise talks about how life and intelligence seem to move in a single direction - toward greater complexity and deeper interdependence. Blaise describes this movement as an arrow of evolution, shaped by cooperation and merging - from the earliest partnerships between simple organisms to the way human ...

Become a Client: https://www.thebitcoinway.com/podcast In episode #88 of The Bitcoin Way Podcast, Ric Edelman, legendary investment and financial advisor, joins to discuss why the 60/40 portfolio is dead, what has prevented financial advisors from recommending Bitcoin, and more. 00:00 - Recap 01:08 - Guest Introduction 01:52 - The Death of the 60/40 Portfolio 06:56 - Retirement: A New Perspective 11:40 - Economic Headwinds and Bitcoin's Role 17:01 - The ...

Önde gelen uzmanlar ve aydınlar, özellikle ChatGPT gibi 'geniş dil modellerinin' çok büyük hızla gelişmesi ile ortaya çıkan büyük riskler konusunda insanlığı uyarmaya devam ediyor.Biz de; Nobel Ödül sahipleri, üst düzey AI Güvenlik uzmanları, dünyaca ünlü ekonomistler, sosyal bilimciler ve bilim insanlarının imzaladığı 'Yapay Zekâ Kırmızı Çizgileri için Küresel Çağrı' başlıklı yeni çağrı metnini konuşuyoruz. Ülkelere, devletlere ve kural koyuculara 'Kırmızı çizgilerin çizilmesi ve

Vos tik prabėgus Linux Diegtuvėms - pasikvietėme ir pakalbinome pagridinį Diegtuvių organizatorių - Vaidą. Trumpai apie panašius kadaise vykusius renginius (Ubuntu Release Party, yay), organizacinius klausimus ir problemas bei kodėl būtent Linux Mint? Taipogi apie tai, kaip prabėgo pačios Diegynės bei kas gi toliau? :)Pagrindiniai Linux Diegtuvių rėmėjai - NKKM Kompiuterių Mokykla: https://kompiuteriumokykla.lt/ Diegtuvių

In Südkorea haben sich der amerikanische Präsident Donald Trump und der chinesische Staats- und Parteichef Xi Jinping erstmals seit Jahren zu einem persönlichen Gespräch getroffen. Zuvor war der Wirtschaftsstreit der beiden größten Volkswirtschaften der Welt eskaliert: Peking verkündete, die Ausfuhr der sogenannten Seltenen Erden drastisch zu beschränken, Washington drohte daraufhin hohe neue Zölle an.Davon betroffen sind immer wieder auch Deutschland und Europa, wo Unternehmen mitunter indirekt

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How do you deploy your Python application without getting locked into an expensive cloud-based service? This week on the show, Michael Kennedy from the Talk Python podcast returns to discuss his new book, "Talk Python in Production."

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