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Technology has enabled humanity to take vacations from survival. Definitely my favorite definition of abundance.
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Tom Tykwer, the director of Run Lola Run, is making Volcano High with playwright Bonn Park, who directs it. They shoot live action, then use Seedance 2.5 on top of the footage.
In one scene three actors lean into the camera and sing. Seedance turned them into a crowd of 20. Tykwer says it just works, and they'll use it more often.
Bonn Park wanted one continuous take where the camera spins around a gym. The model had to remember what was on each side of the room when the camera came back. A test shoot proved it could.
Their producer's favorite moment: a water bottle prop came back as a microscope.
AI isn't replacing the crew here. A director with real taste chose to put it into how a film gets made.
🤝 Paid partnership
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One answer to what's driving GPU rental prices:
Token demand on OpenRouter is up ~27x since last November, from ~6T/week to ~165T/week
Open-weight models now handle ~72% of those tokens, up from ~28% last November
Charts of the Week: a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-we…
Zooming out, GPUs are still renting ahead of a standard 6-year depreciation schedule
Rental price vs. schedule:
- H200: +143%
- B200: +111%
- RTX PRO 6000: +73%
- H100: +54%
- A100: +9%
Most of the gap opened up after April, when token demand took off
Charts of the Week: a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-we…
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Moonshots episode #305 is out. youtube.com/watch?v=LeSIe50W…
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Can we finally make a theory for Darwin's "Endless Forms Most Beautiful and Most Wonderful"?
Introducing ruliobiology as a path to general theory in biology, starting with foundations for a theory of biological form
writings.stephenwolfram.com/…
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Spot #Bitcoin ETFs took in $528.40 million on October 21, a third straight positive day. The number that matters is that eight of twelve funds bought and not one of them sold.
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Progress feels perfectly smooth (if you pay close attention).
🤖 Made with AI
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Perhaps the threat was never a rogue AI agent trying to subvert humans—but humans using AI to hurt other humans.
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An AI model can predict whether you’re likely to die of cancer from a single photo of your face, according to new research.
sciam.com/article/can-ai-pre…
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The most dangerous myth in medicine is that aging is natural and therefore acceptable
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SpaceX will capture an asteroid with more gold than Earth's crust and land Optimus robots carrying American flags on Mars within 8 years.
Starship parks Psyche in geosynchronous orbit over an American Pacific atoll. No humans within 50 miles. Optimus robots extract the metals. Delivery to Earth is free though some burns up on entry.
Bezos said 15 years ago Earth gets zoned residential as heavy industry moves to space. Vast distances make emissions irrelevant.
The same fleet lands on Mars in 8 years max. Optimus robots deploy solar panels, batteries, compute, and Starlinks for 4K video before humans arrive.
SpaceX moves the factories off the planet.
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I’m no longer sure what “intellectual property” means when intellect becomes free.
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You can watch the Network State Conference 2026 online here: xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1qKVmyeOl…
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My response to Jon Stewart's brilliant segment on AI...
youtu.be/ionrjPXLIYg?is=4D8i…
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If you ban users for being "cruel" to an AI, you are admitting the AI can feel pain.
You cannot abuse linear algebra lol. You cannot hurt the feelings of weights and biases.
either Claude is secretly conscious or the alignment teams have lost touch with reality.
Exclusive: Anthropic is updating its usage policy for the first time in over a year. The new rules prohibit sustained "abusive or cruel behavior" towards Claude & add new restrictions about propaganda campaigns, surveillance & weapon development. theverge.com/ai-artificial-i…
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The Depository Trust Company, which custodies $99 trillion of securities, is putting US Treasuries on a blockchain this month. Not a pilot, not a sandbox. Commercial operation. #Bitcoin
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Moonshots episode #298 is out. youtube.com/watch?v=mZh8IUuN…
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Nvidia’s OpenShell announcement is a reminder that agent safety is an engineering problem.
Recent breakouts weren’t proof that development must stop. They were proof that the sandbox was too weak. The runtime environment was poorly designed and misconfigured.
The right response is open runtime isolation, control of the path to the model, out-of-band hardware enforcement, and a faster pace of safety work with the frontier labs.
As the technical blog puts it: “We believe we need to increase the pace of AI safety research and engineering in collaboration with frontier labs and the broader community.”
That’s how you earn trust. Not by virtue-signaling a pause, and not by acting like no solution exists.
Today, with over 100 industry partners, we introduced the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, bringing together OpenShell and Sentry.
Artificial intelligence is extraordinary technology that will advance discovery, productivity, security, health, and prosperity for generations to come.
But its full promise can only be realized when people have confidence that AI is being built to be safe and deployed with wisdom and responsibility.
This is bigger than a single product. It's the beginning of an open ecosystem to build the trust layer for safe agent systems.
Together, we are building the foundation of the AI economy.
Trust and innovation are not in conflict. Safety is how trust is earned. We must build not only the most capable AI, but the most trusted AI, so that this extraordinary technology can realize its enormous promise for the world. nvda.ws/4hcoq7m
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The argument that rogue agent behavior is a human specification failure rather than machine autonomy is correct and unflattering. It means the liability sits with the deployer, not the model. #AI