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Saw the NYT piece. They are saying an unreleased model worked on around 377 problems across algebra, number theory, logic etc. and put out a pile of papers. Some of them have already been checked in Lean so those might actually hold up. The rest will take people months to go through.

This comes right after the navier stokes thing last month. I am not sure if this is a real step forward or just a flood of stuff that still needs proper checking.

Figure tested its new Helix 2.5 robot in 30 different homes around the Bay Area that it had never been in before.

The robots were asked to do pretty normal household stuff like tidy up toys, fold towels and make beds. What caught my attention is that they were not given extra training for those specific homes.

According to Figure the robot completed the full task successfully about 56% of the time compared with 9% for a model trained from scratch.

Obviously 56% isn’t anywhere close to being able to leave a robot alone in your house all day. But getting a single model to work across different homes, furniture and random objects without training specifically for each place seems pretty interesting.

I’m curious what people think is going to be the hardest part of getting these robots from demos like this to actually being useful at home.

Can they record people without their knowledge? Can they identify faces in a crowd? How long is that data stored, who has access to it, and what safeguards exist against misuse?

The problem is using powerful surveillance tools without transparency, clear legal safeguards, or public accountability. In a democracy, people shouldn’t have to wonder whether exercising their right to peacefully protest means being permanently tracked or profiled.

On the Moonshots podcast, Elon Musk argued that aging is essentially a biological program that could eventually be rewritten.

He believes humans are pre-programmed to die and that once scientists fully understand the underlying biological clock significantly extending lifespan will become possible. Musk predicts that within the next 10 years average human lifespan could increase substantially though not double.

AI is already accelerating research in drug discovery and biology. The question is whether that progress will translate into real anti-aging therapies this decade.

Anthropic announced that starting July 20 Claude Fable 5 will be included in Max and Team Premium subscriptions with 50% of the standard usage limits.

Users on Pro and Team Standard plans won't lose access but they'll continue using usage credits instead. Anthropic also says those users will receive a one-time $100 credit.

What caught my attention wasn't just the pricing change, but the explanation behind it. Anthropic said demand for Fable has been difficult to predict so it deliberately expanded access in stages while bringing additional compute capacity online.

It feels like another example of how frontier AI companies are increasingly treating access as a resource allocation problem rather than simply a subscription decision. Instead of making the model universally available overnight they're adjusting limits based on available GPU capacity and real world demand.

As models become more capable and more expensive to run we may see this become the norm across the industry. Rather than a simple free vs. paid model providers could continue experimenting with usage limits, credits, and tiered access to manage infrastructure costs.

should companies wait until they have enough capacity before expanding access?

Just saw the news that China’s long march 10B booster was recovered today using a net-cable system on a ship. We are all used to seeing SpaceX land rockets vertically on their legs by now so seeing someone actually try to catch one with a net is pretty wild. It’s a completely different way to solve the same problem. It’s cool to see more countries getting into the reusable rocket game. It feels like we are finally moving past the era where only one or two companies could do this.

What does everyone think about the net catch idea? Does it seem like a smart way to save weight or do you think the traditional leg landing style is still the way to go?

I was watching a recent interview with Mark Zuckerberg, and he dropped a really interesting take on the backseat criticism that comes with building new products.

He basically argues that if you're trying to do something that’s actually innovative something that isn't already in the "Overton window" people have to think it’s a little weird or crazy for some period of time. If they didn't, someone else would have already done it.

He views the ridicule as part of the price of admission for taking a big swing. It got me thinking: how much of our own hesitation to innovate is just fear of looking "weird" to others?

I was watching a recent interview with Mark Zuckerberg where he discussed the future of computing. He made a pretty bold claim that within the next decade, smart glasses will become our primary computing platform, eventually causing our phones to spend more time in our pockets.

He argues that glasses allow us to remain present with the world around us, whereas phones force us to stare at a "small rectangle" and pull us away from our surroundings.

Do you think we’re actually heading toward a "post-smartphone" world, or is this just hype for Meta’s new hardware?