It must be acutely embarrassing for Google and DeepMind’s... top management that, despite having: 1) a multi-year head start, with most of the top minds in the field working there; 2) their own custom training and inference silicon now on its EIGHTH generation; 3) total investment in property, plant, and equipment of $281 billion; 4) over 80k engineers; 5) most of the world’s data collected and indexed for 20 years (including ungodly amounts of documents, emails, code, books, photos, videos, etc.); they have been utterly upstaged by Kimi, a company with fewer than 500 employees and founded by Zhilin Yang, who only received his PhD from CMU in 2019 (recall that Hinton had been working at Google since 2013!). Something is deeply dysfunctional and broken there to lead to an outcome this bad.show more

Between 2013 and 2015, Evaldas Rimasauskas from Lithuania scammed... $99m from Facebook and $23m from Google by forging invoices for goods they hadn't ordered. Evaldas had established an incorporated company in Latvia with a name very similar to that of Quanta Computer Inc, a Taiwan-based computer and electronic hardware manufacturing firm that did a lot of work with tech companies. But rather than paying for legitimate services, Meta and Google were instead wiring money over to bank accounts in Latvia and Cyprus that were controlled by Evaldas. To explain the massive influx of money to the banks, he used forged invoices, contracts, and letters that appeared to have been signed by executives and agents from Google and Facebook. In 2017, aged 50, Evaldas was caught by Lithuanian authorities before being extradited to New York. He pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and in 2019 he was sentenced to 60 months in prison for his criminal scheme.show more

It's 2030 and you are reviewing humanoid robots. A... Tesla. A Google. An Apple. An OpenAI. A Meta. A Figure. And a bunch of Chinese-made ones. Which one is best, and why? I think the Tesla understands the world much better. Why? There were eight Teslas around me on the freeway today. Start there. No other robot company has that data. But my robot is parked at the local high school twice a day. Its cameras see humans in all of our weirdness. How we move. Where we go. Where we walk. Who we talk with. What you are wearing. Whether your hair was combed this morning. That data will lead to robotics breakthroughs. Apple might keep up with its Vision Pro data, but it is too freaked out by the privacy implications of using said data. (On the front are six cameras and a couple of TOF -- Time Of Flight -- sensors that can see everything in your home in great detail). Google has a lot of data, for sure. All my: 1. Email. 2. Calendars. 3. Photos. 4. TV watching behavior. 5. Contacts. 6. Documents and spreadsheets. 7. Files. 8. Location data. So I expect Google's robot will be attractive to many. But how do you see the others shake out over the next five years? Make some guesses. But remember what an AI pioneer told me years ago about AI: it's all about the data. The Chinese ones have huge advantages: the Chinese have more data on their citizens, and many more citizens to boot AND they can make robots cheaper than we can. But now that you know OpenAI is building its own robot you have caught wind of what I've heard from many in San Francisco and Silicon Valley: that humanoid robots are the real prize of AI and will be highly profitable for those that can make them and find customers willing to buy them. Here, too, I learned long ago never to bet against Elon Musk. Will you?show more

(🧵1/11) For the past year and a half, I've... been investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman for The New Yorker. With my coauthor Andrew Marantz, I reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtained 200+ pages of documents related to a close colleague, including extensive private notes, and interviewed more than 100 people. OpenAI was founded on the premise that A.I. could be the most dangerous invention in human history—and that its C.E.O. would need to be a person of uncommon integrity. We lay out the most detailed account yet of why Altman was ousted out by board members and executives who came to believe he lacked that integrity, and ask: were they right to allege that he couldn't be trusted? A thread on some of of our findings:show more

⚠️⚠️⚠️ Russian officials in Crimea have been ordered to... begin evacuating equipment and documents. 🔹 The occupation administrations of Kerch and Feodosia are preparing to remove documents by July 4th. According to sources from the "Atesh" movement, the occupation administrations of Kerch and Feodosia have received an urgent order from the so-called "authorities" of Crimea to fully evacuate valuable documents and equipment. The deadline for fulfilling this order is the entire month of July. 🔹 This directive has also been sent to several other departments. In light of this directive, some officials, who previously had access to official fuel, have suddenly "fallen ill" and have taken leave due to health reasons, quickly leaving for Krasnodar Krai. As a reminder, previously, "Atesh" agents reported that the occupiers were urgently relocating their operational headquarters to work around the clock and were preparing for something with increased intensity by June 21st. 🔹 The Crimean collaborators understand very well that accountability for their actions is approaching, and that Russian air defense will not save them. Video is made Grok AIshow more

🚨 do you understand what happened to Apple.. Apple... just announced Siri AI at WWDC 2026. The new "revolutionary" assistant is literally Google Gemini running in a costume. - Apple pays Google 1 billion dollars a year for a custom 1.2 trillion parameter Gemini model - the only Apple part of Siri AI is the logo and the privacy marketing - Siri AI launches in fall 2026 and only works on iPhone 15 Pro and newer - Tim Cook leaves as CEO on September 1, three weeks before it ships the company that used to be the most valuable on earth couldn't build its own AI and had to rent one from the search engine.show more

Meanwhile, Putin arrived at an aircraft plant in Irkutsk... and is delighted with the long-suffering "Russian-made" MS-21 airliner. They showed him the supposed production of the first 18 aircraft, but it is just dust in the eyes of the dictator. The MS-21 is more than 10 years behind schedule. Development costs have ballooned from 150 billion to over 1 trillion rubles, and the unit cost has roughly tripled. Due to sanctions, the plane gained 5–6 tons in weight, lost half its range, was shortened, and now carries almost 30% fewer passengers. By mid-2026, only a third of the required test flights with Russian components had been completed.show more

Big news! Today we are announcing that Shopify is... acquiring the Threads team. There are a million feelings and thoughts from this journey, but nothing more than gratitude to all of our users and customers for building with us, my colleagues (both current and former) for making all of this possible, our investors, especially Mike Vernal, Elad Gil, Avichal Garg - Electric ϟ Capital, and Jessica Verrilli for their unwavering support and guidance, and all of our friends and family who put up with the late nights, canceled plans, and the general roller coaster that is startup life. To our customers and users who have been asking, here’s how we got here: The past several months have been some of the most interesting and intense of my life. It all started with the rise of Instagram Threads, which presented us with the opportunity to sell our domains. Around the same time, a handful of companies approached us, wondering if we would be open to an acquisition. When this happened in the past, we would politely decline. However, this time, things were different. We weren't that excited about the time it would take to invest in a rebrand, and with mind-warping technological advances now being a commodity, we were excited about joining a place where we could tinker at scale. Each company we chatted with was incredible. However, what ultimately led us to choose Shopify over others was their culture; two distinct things in particular: 1) Craft-obsessed. Their obsession with not just building the right thing, but also building it the right way is inspiring. Sacrifice shows priority, and hearing stories about some of the hard decisions they made to ensure that what they ship is robust, scalable, and trustworthy, even at the cost of short-term metric gains, really proved that their obsession with craft was much more than a feel-good slogan. Their discussions and decisions have me truly believing they're going to be around for 100 years. 2) For entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs. Just about every product and engineering leader I met was an ex-founder who grinded for years to turn nothing into something. They all still had that air of resilience, obsession with the details at every part of the stack, and a compelling vision of the future for whatever they were working on. Threads leadership is also made up of ex-founders, so the entrepreneurial focus at Shopify made it clear that it would be the best environment for us to grow and thrive. Very excited for this next chapter with the team and grateful for all of the support we’ve received over the years from those who believed in us. As always, thanks for (th) reading.show more

My opinion on Tour de France Champs Elysees route... change with adding Montmartre climb is clear… The last stage of the Tour de France is one of the most watched days of cycling for non-usual cycling viewers, if not the most. And you simply can’t have there a race where all you need is to watch the last 500 metres to know the results. And you also don’t want "unknown" riders like Groenewegen vs. Meeus to battle for the win. You want the biggest stars attacking there and battling for the win. Yes, it still might end in a sprint, but at least it won’t be 100% certain. Because the breakaway there didn’t succeed for 20 years now. Simply Paris and the Tour couldn’t refuse an opportunity to have one of the most beautiful races in one of the most watched cycling days of the year, instead of a regular boring race. And I am happy they did it. 🇫🇷❤️ #TDF2025show more

A man identified as Hardik has been detained by... police in #Moradabad for allegedly murdering his twin sister and attempting to kill his mother following a family dispute. According to reports, Hardik had previously worked at Google but later left his job and started working as a YouTuber. He reportedly wanted to marry a woman from #Pune, a decision that was opposed by his mother and twin sister. The incident reportedly took place around the time of #Holi, when Hardik had returned home with his twin sister. Following an argument within the family, he allegedly attacked them, resulting in his sister’s death and injuries to his mother. Hardik had been living in #Gurugram with his twin sister Himshikha, who worked as an officer in an IT company. Police have detained the accused and launched an investigation into the case.show more

Why is Indian Media not reporting this? N. Ramachandran... (65) from Kochi, was one of the victims of Pahalgam terror attack, and he was forced to read Kalma and gunned down by Pak terrorists - in front of his wife, daughter and grandchildren. Muhammed Sanoop Abdul, who is a resident of Kerala, and working in SaudI Arabia, had celebrated Pahalgam terror attack. Abdul warned that they will caputre Kashmir and split India. And their sleeper cells have been waiting for this "Holy War". Abdul has now been arrested by Kerala Police.show more

In 2026 there are 3 types of people left... on Polymarket. I have been all 3 and only one of them stopped losing money. Type 1: programmers. They write bots, make $11K to $120K a month. They are 2% of the platform. I tried to become one of them. Lasted two weeks and one broken script. Type 2: people who found type 1 and copy their trades. No code, no servers, no sleepless nights. They are 5%. Type 3: everyone else. Trading by hand, trusting their gut, and steadily handing money to the first two types. They are 93%. I sat here for 4 months and lost $1,800. The most frustrating part is that all the information is right there. The blockchain shows every trade from every wallet. I stared at it for 4 months and kept trading on my own. To become type 1 you need months of coding. To become type 2 you need to stop believing you are special. The team at PMX built a tool that copies the best wallets automatically: I did not get smarter. I just stopped being type 3.show more

The past year has seen me have a renaissance,... in the truest sense… I won’t go into details now but will at some point before long. What has brought so much happiness to my life and those around me this past year has been my falling back in love with sport. Cycling has, and always will be, my number one. Yet I’d forgotten that I simply love sport, not for results but for the sheer joy of doing it, I’d completely forgotten that the health of my mind is intrinsically connected to the health of my body. I’ve rediscovered the love I had for sport that existed before the world of professional cycling took over in the way it did. I’ve been pushing myself and trying new things this past year, indifferent to the results, just out having fun and at times going deeper than I thought I was capable of anymore. Last week I got on a TT bike for the first time in a decade, Factor Bikes built me a bike, I’ve been looking at it for two years and decided it was time to get fitted, getting back on it felt like going home. Anyway, the long and the short of this is that it’s inspired me to create a club to inspire and be inspired. A community for us to share our love for getting out there and doing it, because I’ve realized that although I spend most of my sporting life on my own I derive the most pleasure when feeling part of something. It’s in its early days, I’ve called it Sporting Club CHPT3 aka SCC3, I’d love you to check it out and join. It’s still in its infancy, but I hope it’s going to grow into something that will inspire you as much as me.show more

in software, we're entering a new age of skyscrapers:... rather than a small group of humans hand-typing code into a computer, software is now built by thousands of humans and agents working together to build applications at a scale that was previously unthinkable. the unsung heroes of this new era are infrastructure engineers. they are the people who are figuring out how to make software with 100x the amount of code, and 1000x the amount of contributors actually work OpenAI is one of the few companies already operating at this scale so we Every 🪨 spent a few days deep inside of the company to learn how their infrastructure team thinks about building software skyscrapers—and how they use agents to do it one of the most important articles we've written this year:show more

There are some actions that must be taken with... extreme urgency. One of them is to begin firing gendarmes and former gendarmes. Leo XIV has started putting the “Pontifical Household” and his closest collaborators in order. Now is the time to remove the valets who in recent years have been wandering around the State with the envelopes of cash entrusted to them by Bergoglio to pay the bills. This smug, arrogant and dismissive attitude that has defined Zanetti for years has finally worn out many. It would be wise for him to be reassigned to St. Paul Outside the Walls as well.show more

🇨🇳🇷🇺Chinese tourists are traveling to Siberia and the Far... East for sex with Slavic women, according to media reports. In Irkutsk and Blagoveshchensk, there has been an increase in demand for the services of sex workers from tourists from China. They are buying tour packages that include visits to saunas with prostitutes. Most often, they request petite women with soft voices and a youthful appearance. However, the Chinese themselves are often strict and rude, which is why the prices for their services are higher. This year, China accounted for 56.3% of the total foreign tourist flow to Russia.show more

May be the most difficult hurdle for a wrestler... to clear—trusting that the same offense that built the lead is what protects it. The instinct is to protect the lead, but the approach that creates better odds, less regret, and is simply more logical is to keep wrestling the same way that created the lead. Stay on the attack, stay in position, and keep applying pressure. The one who needs to change and create opportunity is the opponent who is losing. So why would you go ahead and assist them in this by back peddling and lead protecting, opening up two windows that weren’t there before? 1 – Stall points 2 – Allowing your opponent to solely focus on their offense as they no longer have to respect your attacks. You hear wrestlers in post-match interviews “We do this all the time in the room! Down 2 with 30 seconds left and working to find a takedown.” Not so much the opposite… “up 2 with 30 seconds left and just have to find ways to back up to protect the lead!” So why resort to something you don’t practice in the most crucial moments of a match—or your season? This is from the excellent series “The Climb” by Stilly Boys on YouTube — a segment from Episode 2: Road to the Big 12s.show more

🧵THREAD: RICHARD HEART IS WORKING WITH ALL MAJOR PLAYERS... IN ETH TO PULL OFF THE BIGGEST STUNT IN CRYPTO SINCE BITCOIN. YOU ARE NOT BULLISH ENOUGH. 1/ Eric Wall is one of the most well connected engineers in blockchain. He’s been dropping subtle clues, and even directly stating, that he’s been working with Richard Heart. In January 2025, he posted this PulseDoge picture of him and Richard imitating a scene from Scarface where Frank asks Tony to work for him. Since then, he has posted more directly about working with Richard, as evidenced below. “What would you do if I told you all the people saying bad things about HEX are actually my friends, and in on it, promoting through drama?” — Richard Heart, 2019show more