alphabetting

The playable element is cool PR but the news is that endless synthetic training data for embodied AI models is basically here or close.

>The government doesn’t have to ask NYT to restrict opinions.

This 1988 model of the flow of information in free societies and their media gatekeepers was probably correct. Nearly 40 years later it is not. The digital content flows in free societies is so diverse today that widely read content extremely critical of whichever parties or power-holders you'd like to read about is everywhere and easy to find. Not the case in authoritarian systems.

the agentic benchmarks for 3.1 indicate Gemini has caught up. the gains are big from 3.0 to 3.1.

For example the APEX-Agents benchmark for long time horizon investment banking, consulting and legal work:

1. Gemini 3.1 Pro - 33.2% 2. Opus 4.6 - 29.8% 3. GPT 5.2 Codex - 27.6% 4. Gemini Flash 3.0 - 24.0% 5. GPT 5.2 - 23.0% 6. Gemini 3.0 Pro - 18.0%

I doubt there was a condition on writing positively. Other people who tested have said this won't replace engines. https://togelius.blogspot.com/2025/08/genie-3-and-future-of-...

It definitely saves system prompts and has for some time.

The one other unique thing I use from them is the interactive mind maps. Like a table of contents on steroids

I found this prompt online and tweaking it for audio overviews works extremely well for me.

https://open.substack.com/pub/lawsen/p/notebooklm-podcasts-b...

Generate a deep technical briefing, not a light podcast overview. Focus on technical accuracy, comprehensive analysis, and extended duration, tailored for an expert listener. The listener has a technical background comparable to a research scientist on an AGI safety team at a leading AI lab. Use precise terminology found in the source materials. Aim for significant length and depth. Aspire to the comprehensiveness and duration of podcasts like 80,000 Hours, running for 2 hours or more.

Over half of Amazon's third party sellers are Chinese companies who regularly false report to dodge tariffs on their products in ways that American competitors can't. Amazon claims to police them but they're extremely reliant on them at this point and the Chinese sellers just start up new brands if penalized.

https://x.com/zackkanter/status/1908343624464576666

Google team said it was outside the training window fwiw

https://x.com/jack_w_rae/status/1907454713563426883

The elo jump and big benchmark gains could be justification

The fact they are reaching out to journos to read the logs seems really misguided. Like from a customer standpoint that's the worst industry you could reach out to for checking private messages lol

Good to see but brings to mind the deal they cut with China in 2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29482351

Is the statement from Apple just PR or is this not a usable exploit?

"Based on our analysis, we do not believe this issue poses an immediate risk to our users."

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-apple-cpu...

Isn't like 70% of current VR usage for adult content?