Looking for the frontiers. — AI/App consulting, founder @apptentive (acquired), ex-Apple, 5th gen California cattle rancher.
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Very hard to reconcile what I am seeing firsthand working on and using AI products and what the market/public sentiment is.
Last night I mentioned to a VP at a major auction house that several hundred billion dollars of wealth was about to drop on people in San Francisco because of the Anthropic IPO, and they should probably reopen their auction house here.
This was news to her, it seemed.
Andrew Wooster retweeted
🚨 Gemini 4 Carbon vs Opus 5.5
Carbon is SERIOUSLY good at 3D I don't think their is a model better than carbon at 3d, Overall this model deserves The top
this is just the Arena one Imagine what the official version will be capable of
Google is cooking
Andrew Wooster retweeted
This likely means that Sundar Pichai has officially declared RSI. No wonder the Gemini 4 Carbon is so outstanding.
Pichai literally: "I would expect the next twelve months to see continued acceleration because of RSI"
I hope this depresses the AI stocks so I can buy more at a lower price.
“Is this just a big circle jerk?” Jon welcomes Ed Zitron (@edzitron), host of the podcast Better Offline, to make sense of the financial house of cards propping up AI and big tech. New pod out now!
Andrew Wooster retweeted
Announcing Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5, featuring 2 new benchmarks and 3 upgrades. For the first time, the majority of the Index is built on private datasets
The Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index is our composite measure of model capabilities across tasks reflecting real-world usage today. v5 is our biggest upgrade since v4 launched in January. With v5, 60% of the Index is now based on evaluations with private test sets or held-out answers.
Alongside Intelligence Index v5, we’re launching the Artificial Analysis Progress Index v1, which tracks model capability over time on one continuous scale.
New to the Intelligence Index:
➤ FrontierCode 2.0: Cognition's newly-launched private benchmark of real-world coding tasks, graded on whether a repository maintainer would merge the agent's change
➤ Terminal-Bench-Science: 70 agentic scientific research tasks, run in a terminal environment
Upgraded:
➤ HLE-Diamond (replacing Humanity's Last Exam): a refined 1,000-question version of Humanity's Last Exam, split evenly between reasoning and knowledge questions
➤ AA-Omniscience v1.1: An updated dataset with saturated and public set questions removed, new questions added, and ambiguous or erroneous questions revised
➤ CritPt v2: a private, 40-question hard subset of CritPt v2, revised by the CritPt authors and run with a code-execution tool
Staying in the Index: AA-Briefcase, AutomationBench-AA, GDP.pdf and Terminal-Bench 4.0
Removed from the Index: GDPval-AA v2.1, SciCode, and AA-LCR v1.1
Key results:
➤ Claude Opus 5.5 (max) leads at 58, ahead of GPT-6 Astra (max, 57) and GPT-6.1 Sol (max, 55): Anthropic and OpenAI hold the top five models. Gemini 4 Argon (high) is next at 50
➤ The open weights gap widens from 3 points to 12: Kimi K3.1 Pro (weights not yet released) is the top open weights model at 46. Among released weights, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (max) and GLM-5.3 (max) lead at 32 - 26 points behind the leader and below Claude Haiku 5.5 (max, 36)
➤ Cost per task varies by more than 13x among the leading models: of the 10 highest-scoring models shown, GPT-6.1 Terra (max) is the cheapest at $0.96 per Intelligence Index task and Claude Fable 5.1 (max) the most expensive at $13.04
Andrew Wooster retweeted
Meet NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe 🎙️
An open-weight, promptable 30B MoE model with ~4B active parameters that brings transcription in 40 languages, speaker attribution, translation, contextual prompting and audio understanding into one checkpoint.
Watch it keep track of who said what when everyone’s talking at once.
1/ 🧵
Andrew Wooster retweeted
I built AppTraction, a native Mac app that makes Apple App Store analytics easy and useful. It:
• Monitors your apps and surfaces "Insights": issues, milestones, and trends
• Shows App Store Connect tables and graphs instantly
• Includes AI that can actually improve your listing
• Lets you chat with AI about your listing, sales, and trends
All while running 100% locally on your Mac.
It's in beta and I would love your feedback. Link and invite code below 👇
“we remember what you were saying in 2019. You have no credibility on this matter”
People are allowed to change their minds as they get new information. Come on.
Dario reveals the people who called his GPT-2 fears "pseudoscience" in 2019 are now all applying for jobs at AI labs
"I personally was super freaked out by [GPT-2]. I looked at it and I said, my God, you just scale this thing up another factor of a million and it'll be better than humans at everything. This is the defining economic and scientific moment of the modern age. We just don't know it yet. This is going to determine the fate of nations and economies and the future of humanity."
"Maybe 10% of the people around me had exactly the same reaction, and it was often the smartest ones. 90% of the people around me, because GPT-2's capabilities in any particular area were not that impressive, it could translate languages, summarize a document and write a few lines of code here and there. It was the broadness and the generality."
"But people would look at it and say, in any particular area, that doesn't seem so smart. And so many people just shrugged and they just dismissed it."
"I just look at it and I say it's the same thing over and over again. The limitations of the models, six months from now, the things that seemed hard, they're going to be easy. 12 months from now, the things that seemed impossible, the models are going to be doing them regularly."
"It's everything we saw with GPT-2; we're seeing it over and over again in wider and wider swaths of the world. And the world is gradually finally being convinced."
Daniela Amodei: "I remember at the time there were some very well-respected computer scientists and AI and ML leaders who basically bullied some of the researchers who worked on [GPT-2] on Twitter and were like, this is stupid. We don't know why you guys are even talking, this model is so incapable."
"It was like you were sort of a quack if you believed this was a really significant moment."
Dario: "That's all been memory-holed. All the researchers who were like, oh, this is pseudoscience, it doesn't make sense, all of them are applying for jobs at the LLM companies."
"We never say it out loud to any particular one, but we look at them and they're like, we remember what you were saying in 2019. You have no credibility on this matter."
Andrew Wooster retweeted
A lot of people are mad that they're priced out of the real estate market. But I've been saying in recent years that it's a blessing in disguise because US real estate looks like a poor investment at these prices.
Global stocks have absolutely trounced real estate in recent years:
I’ve stayed in downtown Portland quite a bit the past few years and it is in a really sorry state.
Portland’s Royal Sonesta: bought for $108.3M in 2016. Now reportedly sold for $6.83M for 220 rooms—just $31,000 per key. A staggering 93.7% price collapse.
This is what happens when government fails at public safety, downtown disorder spirals, Measure 110’s consequences go unaddressed, and Multnomah County’s mental-health system fails people in crisis.
Tourism doesn’t thrive where visitors feel unsafe and downtown businesses struggle to survive.
Portland didn’t get here by accident. Policy choices have consequences—and taxpayers, workers, businesses, and property owners are paying the price.
@mitch4portland
@pnwpolicyangel
@TeacherTiff4PDX
@kanalforpdx
@MayorKWilson
Andrew Wooster retweeted
🔥兄弟们，全体起立
我为了找到一款能替代 ESP32 的 AI 智能音箱，要求它能接 Grok Bot，要求它能接 Claude，还要音质好，音量大，最好能带个屏幕，真的煞费苦心
终于找到了非常满意的设备，它就是 ThinkSmart View，我今天直接来线下仓库看货
买它的原因，满足上边说的几点以外，它可以深度定制，可以刷入 Linux 系统，你能想象的它都能做，主要是价格非常实惠
🤖折腾了一圈 ESP32 小智设备，我想明白了：我需要的不是一个会动、有表情的小家伙，而是一个像小度、小爱同学、天猫精灵那样，摆在床头、音量大、音质好的智能 AI 音箱
ESP32 设备基本都是 1W 左右的小喇叭，声音实在太小，得贴得很近才能听清、才能和它交互
这不是我想要的。我想要的是：放在客厅或卧室，在家里任何角落都能听到它通知我：重要邮件来了、GitHub 有新 issue 了。还能随时问它生活上的问题，以及当下的 AI 热点，还能让它把任务派给 Grok Bot 去干活
当初买会动、有表情的 ESP32，是想着能提供点情绪价值，当摆件也不至于吃灰。但这两天越来越觉得，还是需要一个小爱同学那样的大喇叭。如果它还能打通我的 Grok Bot、打通 Claude，那就完美了
这两天翻了很多小智 DIY 音箱，都不尽如人意：有的喇叭功率还是很小；有的支持 AUX 输出，前提是你得另有一个音箱；有的是专门给小朋友学英语的
小爱音箱我也买了，但它还不是我心中的最优解。音质好、音量大是前提，再多一块屏幕就是锦上添花。带屏的小爱型号倒是有，可惜不支持对接我的网关服务，接不上 Grok Bot
AI 给的结果，所有智能音箱里能接入小智服务的只有两款：一款是我买的这个，另一款是小爱音箱的另一个型号，大家可以自行核实
🚨但是大家现在不要跟买，可以先看看后续的进展再决定
接下来我先试试把它和网关服务打通，接上 Grok Bot。同时也还在继续找更合适的产品，有推荐的欢迎评论区告诉我🙏
Andrew Wooster retweeted
experimenting with a lil personal project: an AI-native macOS dock with custom modes (writing, building, etc.) to help me stay focused
my agent is able to customize mode behavior and add new modes, it uses jev to classify my activity + notifications in real time & act on them
What
Announcing 3 Critical vulns for hundreds of millions of IoT, Firewalls, OT, and Military devices including: Palo Alto Networks, Comcast, D-Link, HP, Canon, Honeywell, GE, Oracle, Siemens, Rockwell, Digi, Lockheed Martin, Boeing...
The vulns are with GoAhead Web Server which is a backend library used by these devices. There's a patch available from GoAhead but that doesn't mean there's a patch available for the devices yet -- that's up to the manufacturer.
- TLS traffic over DHE ciphers have a 1-byte secret, "04", meaning anyone can decrypt connections to these devices and steal login credentials and session tokens if the client negotiated with DHE ciphers like the latest TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256, which is extremely likely.
- LibreSSL mTLS has been completely bypassed, meaning anyone can connect over mTLS. If you have one of these devices listening on the internet and are expecting mTLS to protect it from attackers, take it offline or patch asap.
- OpenSSL Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) are not enforced, meaning if a user device is stolen or compromised, and you revoke that mTLS cert, nothing actually happens. There are a lot of other attacks this can be used for.
These are critical because these types of devices run our world. Water systems, electricity, military, firewalls, critical infrastructure.
foxio.io/blog/choose-your-ba…
