Articles by alexcos
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I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year (zeitgeistofbytes.com)

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Andrej Karpathy: "I've never felt this much behind as a programmer" (twitter.com/i)

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The Data on Self-Driving Cars Is Clear. We Have to Change Course (nytimes.com)

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The Thinking Game(DeepMind Documentary) Available for Free on YouTube (youtu.be)

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How do LLM's trade off lives between different categories? (arctotherium.substack.com)

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A Mother's Moonshot (stanford.edu)

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95% of kids with "bubble boy" disease cured by one-time gene therapy (newatlas.com)

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Google DeepMind and CFS partner to make limitless fusion energy a reality (deepmind.google)

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A Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway (blog.google)

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Gemini 3 Pro simulated macOS in a single HTML file in 1 prompt (twitter.com/chetaslua)

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Linus Tech Tips calls for major YouTube changes and removes members only videos (dexerto.com)

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Young people are falling in love with old technology (wsj.com)

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Designers Should Look to Demis Hassabis. Not Jony Ive (suffsyed.com)

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Why don't fund managers treat AGI like the Black Swan it is? (linkedin.com)

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Terence Tao:"An extended AI chat helped me answer a MathOverflow question" (mathstodon.xyz)

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Please let the robots have this one. Self-driving cars are way safer than humans (theargumentmag.com)

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Engineers build first artificial neurons that can connect to living cells (nature.com)

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Micro Men(2009) – movie about the creation of ARM (youtube.com)

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I unknowingly had cancer for ten years, only being diagnosed after I gave birth (reddit.com)

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Scoop: Stripe in talks to buy back stock from investors (axios.com)

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New detector to cut costs, boost quality in nuclear medicine (nature.com)

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There isn't an Al bubble-there are three (fastcompany.com)

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What will AI look like in 2030?- study commissioned by DeepMind (epoch.ai)

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Zuckerberg: If AI progress keeps accelerating, our investment may exceed $600B (threads.com)

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Hackers demand Google fire 2 staff and halt probes, or they will leak databases (newsweek.com)

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Zuckerberg's AI hires disrupt Meta with Swift exits and threats to leave (ft.com)

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TikTok owner eyes valuation of over $330B as revenue surpasses Meta (reuters.com)

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20 years ago the news that Google had bought Android broke out (archive.org)

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[dupe] Steve Wozniak:I gave all my Apple wealth away because that's not what I live for (slashdot.org)

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A personal health large language model for sleep and fitness coaching (nature.com)

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Phil Knight, Ex-Nike Chief, and His Wife Pledge $2B to Cancer Center (nytimes.com)

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MIT engineers develop DNA sensor to detect HIV and cancer at home for under $1 (news.mit.edu)

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The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k for this report (chromium.org)

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Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 billionaires gave away half their wealth (fortune.com)

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Testing Bitchat at the music festival (primal.net)

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Epic Effort to Ground Physics in Math Opens Up the Secrets of Time (quantamagazine.org)

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Searching for Secrets in Public GCP Images (trufflesecurity.com)

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Life Through Quantum Annealing (vesselproject.io)

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Leak confirms Nvidia N1X PC chip features 20 CPU cores and 6144 CUDA cores (videocardz.com)

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Will Al outsmart human intelligence? – with 'Godfather of Al' Geoffrey Hinton [video] (youtube.com)

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Leak: Anthropic Says the Company Will Pursue Gulf State Investments After All (wired.com)

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Many lung cancers are now in nonsmokers (nytimes.com)

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China's Dark Factories: So Automated, They Don't Need Lights (youtube.com)

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Cantor Fitzgerald close to $4B SPAC deal with Bitcoin pioneer(Adam Back) (ft.com)

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BlackRock hit by $52B withdrawal from single client (thetimes.com)

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A summer of security: empowering cyber defenders with AI (blog.google)

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Andrew Kassoy, 55, Dies; Saw Capitalism as a Force for Social Good (nytimes.com)

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Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI (arxiv.org)

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State for Virtual Cell Challenge (colab.research.google.com)

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Ask HN: What dream did you give up on?

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Status of World Nuclear Forces (fas.org)

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Alphabet's Isomorphic Labs is preparing to launch human trials (fortune.com)

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Synthetic proteins are being built with the help of AI models (economist.com)

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Penn Engineers Turn Toxic Fungus into Anti-Cancer Compound (upenn.edu)

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We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube (ksagar.bearblog.dev)

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OpenAI turns to Google's AI chips to power its products, source says (reuters.com)

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Mark Zuckerberg: The Facebook app's "cultural relevance is decreasing quickly" (techemails.com)

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How much I have(n't) made angel investing (halletecco.substack.com)

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The Most Dangerous Hackers You've Never Heard Of (wired.com)

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I've Worked at Google for Decades. I'm Sickened by What It's Doing (thenation.com)

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Zuckerberg: Snapchat would have grown faster if it accepted $6B buyout offer (techcrunch.com)

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Ilya Sutskever taps Google Cloud to power his AI startup's research (techcrunch.com)

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Aussie jumping spiders pull more gs than a fighter pilot (newatlas.com)

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AI masters Minecraft: DeepMind program finds diamonds without being taught (nature.com)

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Paralysed man stands again after receiving 'reprogrammed' stem cells (nature.com)

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Harmattan – European Defense company(semi-autonomous drones) (harmattan.ai)

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Infected: From Side Project to Google:The Journey Behind VirusTotal (amazon.com)

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How is Google using AI for internal code migrations? (arxiv.org)

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Cancer lab to receive over $1M in donations after charity memecoin MIRA soars (theblock.co)

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Ask HN: Why isn't Alex Krizhevsky as famous as Ilya Sutskever or G.Hinton?

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Jim Simons (1938-2024) [pdf] (ams.org)

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2022 Recommendation System paper from ByteDance – the parent company of TikTo (arxiv.org)

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OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment (techcrunch.com)

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Research Note: Meta's Role in Romania's 2024 Presidential Election (checkfirst.network)

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GenCast predicts weather and the risks of extreme conditions with accuracy (deepmind.google)

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François Chollet is leaving Google to start a new company with a friend (twitter.com/fchollet)

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They don't just fall out of trees': Nobel awards highlight Britain's AI pedigree (theguardian.com)

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The lifesaving, Nobel Prize-winning discovery that almost didn't happen (vox.com)

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How Apple Rules the World (bloomberg.com)

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Nokia Mobile Networks Assets Said to Draw Samsung Interest (bloomberg.com)

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Coinbase awarded a $500k bug bounty (hackerone.com)

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Google co-founder backs biotech studying psychedelic African shrub (ft.com)

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Warren Buffett donates record $5.3B Berkshire shares to charity (reuters.com)

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Bridge RNAs direct programmable recombination of target and donor DNA (nature.com)

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David Turner Obituary (theguardian.com)

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Harald Zur Hausen, 87, Nobelist Who Found Cause of Cervical Cancer, Dies (nytimes.com)

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New Android and Google Device Vulnerability Reward Program Initiatives (googleblog.com)

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It’s time for Alphabet to spin off YouTube? (economist.com)

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Fog of war: how the Ukraine conflict transformed the cyber threat landscape (blog.google)

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Apple Sales Miss Estimates on Sluggish Economy, Supply Snags (bloomberg.com)

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Google’s Fuchsia and Area 120 see significant cuts in layoffs (9to5google.com)