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What did you do last weekend? These gigabrains were building at the @easya_app x Polkadot hackathon in London.

Boards should start hiring their own hookers to seduce their execs. If it fails, great, you’ve got a good one. If it succeeds, nothing leaks and now you know what you’re dealing with and have leverage to boot.

We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math. It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training. We call this Weight-Space Programming: frontier LLMs can now natively read/write neural network weights! 🧵 Blog: rikiyat.github.io/blog/weigh…

courage is in shorter supply than genius

98% of US households aren't paying for AI yet More charts in State of Markets II: a16z.news/p/state-of-markets…

Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in the Claude 5.5 family. It’s a clear upgrade over Sonnet 5, runs more than 30% faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work.

maybe to solve alignment we just need to force the models to learn pilates and listen to enya orinoco flow 🙏

Whatever you are doing, do it with full attention and presence. When you put your attention entirely in the present moment, you realize it's all that actually exists. Stop minimizing your experience. Be here now*. (*You already are, you just need to remember).