Sean Yang retweeted
Just last month, DoorDash couldn’t seem to find the money to pay their deliveristas — until our administration forced them to give back $131M+ in stolen wages and penalties.
This week, they’ve managed to find $17 billion to acquire one of their main competitors.
Corporate consolidation means higher prices, harsher exploitation, and greater economic inequality for New Yorkers.
We’ve stood up to these giants before. That doesn’t stop now.
BREAKING: DoorDash just agreed to buy Instacart for $17 billion. Here's what that means for customers and shoppers. apnews.com/article/doordash-…
Sean Yang retweeted
Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse.
We gave it 19 gene therapy vectors in a spreadsheet, a mouse model of epilepsy, access to a motorize surgery rig with cameras and one goal: reduce seizures.
It picked the drug. It picked the brain region. It derived the coordinates from three papers. Then it drove the stereotaxic arms into the brain and injected 250 nanolitres while watching the entry site through the rig camera for bleeding.
A licensed vet gated every irreversible step and held a physical kill switch to stop the AI agent.
Thread on what it decided, what it saw, and the moment it refused to let me override it.
[Writing this on the spot out of excitement, but I've been 18hrs in front of my laptop coding and coordinating this, so keeping it brief and descriptive, more cohesive thoughts on this soon...]
Sean Yang retweeted
Pond, our linux operating system, is now available for anyone to try!
Our updated website includes the installers and a detailed look at the operating system
butterfly.so/pond
over the past while we have been working on teaching @watonomous' humanoid "Pioneer" to play badminton. recently, i finished the first step towards this goal: training a PPO policy to bimanually receive badminton serves: watonomous.github.io/humanoi…
hou kee bistro is the best restaurant for value AND quality at the waterloo plaza, no contest
$13.55
Sean Yang retweeted
Gemini 4 Carbon is our next frontier model.
It’s state-of-the-art across cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities.
Sean Yang retweeted
Students shouldn’t have to scale down their research ideas because they can’t get access to compute.
The @generalcatalyst Research Fellowship will support 20 undergraduates with up to $25K in compute from Modal to power their most ambitious ideas.
We're excited to see what you build!
Introducing @generalcatalyst Research Fellows - a program for undergraduates ready to pursue their most ambitious ideas.
We’re supporting approximately 20 exceptional undergraduate builders from leading schools. In partnership with @Modal, each fellow will receive up to $25K in compute for a 90-day project of their own.
For the bold, the curious, and those building what they wish existed: applications are open now. Tell us what you want to build! generalcatalyst.com/research…
Sean Yang retweeted
BREAKING:Bradford has fled the Tronto mainland following its fall to socialist Olivia Chow. Sources say he will establish a new govt on the Toronto Islands with the goal of eventually reclaiming the entire city. Chow has promised to purge all remaining Fordmintang on the mainland
Sean Yang retweeted
#BREAKING: Olivia Chow has been re-elected as mayor of Toronto, the CP24-CTV Election Desk is projecting.
ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/o…
