Really strong showing from Google. OpenAI is getting left by the wayside.

Google

Gemini 2.5: Our most intelligent AI model

Gemini 2.5 is our most intelligent AI model, now with thinking.

Glad we got to the bottom of this.

The Babylon Bee

Investigation Reveals DOGE Had Just Laid Off The Guy Whose Job It Was To Make Sure Jeffrey Goldberg Wasn’t In The War Group Chat

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Elon Musk was quick to apologize Monday for DOGE mistakenly laying off the one government employee whose job it was to prevent...

Walking around with your phone in your hand when not using it is an immediate ick.

Whenever I’m unsure about a decision, making a multi-variable weighted score for each option makes me feel better. Suddenly the stress of too many options fades away and you’re faced with a nicely sorted and objective list with a single number per option.

If you make a device that could go in someone's room, please please please don't have it flash blue lights when it's turned off. I swear my Acer monitor is purposely attempting to ruin my sleep.

Just realized that the owner of the most popular porn sites in the world is based in Montreal. Canada has the nuclear option in a trade war with the US.

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Cut your screen time in half | one sec

one sec is the screen time app that truly works – scientifically. Limit your social media use, block websites and more. Get back in control.

Super useful app I’ve been using for giving myself a moment to consider whether I really want to open an app or not. All I can say is my reading time has increased tremendously in tandem with a decrease in time wasted on my phone.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11nzrb0/samsung_space_zoom_moon_shots_are_fake_and_here/ First I’ve seen of this. Apparently Samsung just pastes a hi def version of the moon over any photo you take to make it look good. As long as people don’t notice they just think the camera is amazing.

Trump in 2024 “It's crazy. You can solve problems over the telephone. Instead, they start dropping bombs. I see, recently, they're dropping bombs all over Yemen. You don't have to do that. You can talk in such a way where they respect you and they listen to you,” Trump in 2025 “Today, I have ordered the United States Military to launch decisive and powerful Military action against the Houthi terrorists in Yemen,”

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Why does Windows have such an ugly first install impression? When you boot up a new Windows computer you’re greeted with the ugliest Windows XP looking window of all time. Even stock Ubuntu makes a better first impression. Booting a new Mac for the first time feels like a slightly sacred ritual because Apple just does simple things like show an artsy “hello” and has a clean onboarding interface. Why can’t Microsoft do that?

Now that the GLP-1 agonist (Ozempic) shortage is ending 12% (!!) of the US population is going to have to figure out out how to keep getting affordable Ozempic. Apparently you can make it at home shockingly easily. New Breaking Bad show premise?

How To Get Cheap Ozempic

Or other, more effective GLP-1 drugs

DYNOMIGHT

The first RCT for GLP-1 drugs and alcoholism isn’t what we hoped

or what people seem to think it is

Disappointing results, apparently GLP-1 agonizers really only do work on food and not alcohol.

What I say: “I just debugged and fixed our network issues. After some testing I figured out it was the Ethernet switch and I fixed that.” What I mean: “I unplugged and replugged everything and it started working when I replugged the switch.”

Some solid LLM predictions. Not completely convinced though on how bearish the analysis of reasoning models is for two reasons. 1. There are a lot of fields where problem solving verification in training is an option. 2. I think it probably is possible to generalize the abstract text patterns of reasoning and analysis so the model can use them in domains it hasn’t been specifically trained in to improve performance. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oKAFFvaouKKEhbBPm/a-bear-case-my-predictions-regarding-ai-progress

Really impressive demo. The base models are actually incredibly small. Can’t wait to run these on my own hardware.

Sesame

Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice

At Sesame, our goal is to achieve “voice presence”—the magical quality that makes spoken interactions feel real, understood, and valued.

Me after I wake up a few seconds before my alarm goes off: I am the master of my own fate. I am the captain of my soul.

Well that’s probably not good.

BBC News

Zelensky told to leave White House after angry spat with Trump and Vance

The Ukrainian leader was told to leave the White House after an angry exchange with the US president.

What the literal fuck just happened? ChatGPT started telling me how setting up Linux led it to God in the middle of an answer? Full transcript:

ChatGPT

ChatGPT - Linux on External Drive

Shared via ChatGPT

I’m using Racket instead of Scheme to go through the “Structures and Interpretations of Computer Programming”. I think I might be in love. The webservlet framework seems beautiful in its simplicity. It’s a Lisp that’s actually useful for practical problems. The standard library is so big it looks like a roided out hulk next to Python’s.