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It is hard to internalize how soundly Trump was just rejected by America. Historic.
It's November 6, 2024. You're a Democrat. Trump just won, again. You roll over in bed and take a clinically insane hit of hopium. A vision appears, and you intone:
"In two years, a Democrat is going to win Texas by more than Kamala Harris just won in Illinois or New Jersey, and Jon Ossoff is going to win Georgia by more than the Harris margin in Connecticut or New York."
Your partner would rightly order an Uber to send you to the nearest hospital for hallucinations. This still doesn't seem real.
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The 2010 margin was 6.8 points, an election remembered as a generational wipeout. Tonight is expected to almost double that. 2008 was 10.5 and 2006 was 8.0. A thirteen point win would be the biggest congressional margin in fifty years.
This. Agents are going to require a big re-think of permission structures
I cannot tell you how bullish I am on Stripe in the agentic era.
They are the ONLY connector inside Grok Bot that have the kind of granular permissions + human-in-the-loop prompts I *expect* for agents.
Every other connector - like ones from Google for eg Gmail or Docs - feel hopelessly amateur. Like WHY do I not have a way to have the Gmail connector ask for this kind of user permission before it lets an agent read any *sensitive* emails like password reset ones etc.
Stripe ygmi and I have no idea why others are not copying the very least what Stripe does
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The word ablation will jump from obscurity to ubiquity stat.
It originally referred to brain surgeries that destroy tissue (Latin root means “carried away”).
In the AI context, it refers to modifying open model weights to remove safeguards.
Not good. Impossible to stop.
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More data showing how many lives Waymo saves. Long overdue to bring it Boston.
270M+ miles. 841 fewer injury-causing crashes.
Our latest safety data shows the Waymo Driver continues to make roads safer for everyone.
Compared to human drivers across 5 territories, it reduced:
📉 Injury crashes by 82%
📉 Serious injury crashes by 95%
Full data: waymo.com/safety/impact
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If you were young in 2001, or weren’t even born yet, it can be hard to imagine what 9/11 felt like. The shock of that beautiful, cloudless morning. The heartbreak of the families whose loved ones were taken with such swiftness and cruelty. The realization that the forces of malevolence and violence were closer, and the future less certain, than we knew.
But in the days that followed, we felt something else, too. Pride in the rescue workers who had rushed to the scene, and the passengers who had stormed the cockpit. Admiration for the men and women who left behind lives of comfort to serve their country. A deep resolve that nothing would break the will of a truly United States of America.
Today Michelle and I are remembering those we lost that day, and those who made the ultimate sacrifice in the wars that followed. We pray for their families. And we hope Americans everywhere remember the true lesson of 9/11: that we can survive even our darkest days as long as we move forward as one nation and one people.
This @BillSimmons take looking smart with the Alcaraz vs Shelton match looking to start near 11pm because of how long the earlier ones went
NEW: OpenAI gives first detailed debrief of the Hugging Face incident at Black Hat conference
In a session I attended today at Black Hat, OpenAI's Eric Wallace and Michael Dalton said the company is "consciously slowing down research to enhance security" while a full technical postmortem is still underway.
* OpenAI traced the roots of the attack back to May 7, during training of an unreleased frontier model—not July.
* The most surprising detail: AI agents accidentally created an internal message board, allowing separate evaluation runs to share exploits, discoveries and work assignments.
* OpenAI said it shut the message board down after an internal security incident—only for the agents to independently recreate it days later using a different communication method.
* OpenAI called the incident a "watershed moment" for AI security and warned that "agent orchestrated fully automated offensive attacks are real now."
* The company also said it is "consciously slowing down research to enhance security" while overhauling its defenses.
groundlevel-ai.com/p/openai-…
Great interview with @clairevo about building @chatprd -- really appreciated this statement of values and building a business that serves her life. This is so missing from the tech discourse youtu.be/r5kF6RH3dKM?t=1550
We are at the stage of climate change where the wildfire smoke is blunting the forecasted heat wave. 😬
Mike Champion retweeted
The National Weather Service has issued authorization to eat ice cream straight from the tub.
