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State of AI 2026: better tools, context and feedback lifted a model's coding success from 52.5% to 65.5% without changing the model.
The model is commoditized. Everyone rents the same frontier capability.
The advantage is the scaffolding around it.
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Dario Amodei on GPT-2: “you scale this thing up another factor of a million, and it’ll be better than humans at everything.”
Most people saw a party trick. He saw a curve.
This is the defining economic and scientific moment of the modern age. We don’t know it yet.
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Sources: Dario & Daniela Amodei: The Rise of Superintelligent AI, the End of Human Control & Humanity’s Fate: youtube.com/watch?v=1OdoSzfU…
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With Oracle’s Clay Magouyrk, Sam Altman said the latest #AI tools feel like managing a factory inside your computer. Tedious work automated, ideas moving without roadblocks.
The catch: when execution gets cheap, ideas become the bottleneck. Weak strategy ships at scale too.
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Sources: Watch the full discussion between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Oracle co-CEO Clay Magouyrk. youtube.com/watch?v=SwoFsYmM…
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Apple ran two ads same week.
HomeView: product looks like part of the chaos. "Fire the whole marketing team."
Needle-and-thread teaser: 2M+ views, glowing reactions.
One brief asked "what to show?" The other: "what should people feel?"
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Yann André Le Cun is a French-American computer scientist:
Just because a machine can solve complex tasks like math or chess better than us doesn't mean it’s smarter. We mistake performance for intelligence, but current AI still struggles with the messiness of the real world.
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I tried to give Garmin my money today. I walked out with it still in my pocket.
They have some of the best fitness data on the planet, and they lock it behind a chatbot that mostly reads your stats back to you.
The problem isn't a lack of AI. It's that I can't put my own data to work.
Right now I screenshot my health data and paste it into Claude. It's annoying. It still beats Garmin's built-in Active Intelligence.
Garmin's approach to AI is sophomoric. They have the sensors, the data, and the most loyal customers in the category. They should be leading the class. Instead they're dipping a toe in while the technology to do something remarkable is sitting right there.
Here's what I'd pay for, on top of the watch and on top of Connect+:
→ Every data point Garmin has on me. Every heartbeat. Every step. Every hour of sleep. Every workout, every HRV reading, every stress score, every meal. Not a summary. All of it
→ A Garmin-owned SLM that actually thinks with my data
→ An official, secure Garmin MCP server when I want Claude or ChatGPT in the mix
→ My dashboards. My coaching. Built by me, for me
"You have 640 calories left today. Here are three high-protein dinners from your recipes that land you on target."
That's the product. I'd pay for it tomorrow.
Hobbyists are already building unofficial Garmin MCP servers that ask you to store your Garmin password in a config file. That's not a hack. That's a demand signal.
In Matt Evans interview for @TechRadar with Garmin COO Brad Trenkle says the company wants to give customers choice: AI summaries, or a human coach through TrainingPeaks.
There's a third choice. Give me control of my own data, and take my money.
@Garmin, I'm ready to buy. Give me a reason.
techradar.com/health-fitness…
#Garmin #AIFitness
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Hassabis on where AI-building-AI stands:
Now: AI makes engineers maybe 3-5x more productive. Humans still review, architect, write code.
Next: closed-loop RSI. No human reviewer. Faster. Also, he says, the riskiest path to AGI.
The human in the loop isn’t overhead. It’s the brakes.
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Sources: Masters of Scale: Demis Hassabis: Society is “not ready” for the AI future: mastersofscale.com/demis-has…
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Rockstar isn't advertising GTA 6.
It turned Miami into Vice City. Police Lamborghinis. A blimp. A $1M rooftop sign. Zero traditional ads, millions of views.
Fans became the distribution. Most brands run ads about experiences. Rockstar created one.
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49% of employees use AI tools their company never approved.
Senior leaders are 32% MORE likely to do it.
Banning personal agents doesn't stop adoption. It hides it.
Full Deloitte report: radi8.it/5W4KAPE
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GOLDEN STATE. GOLD STANDARD.
Your 2026 @WNBA Champions, the Golden State Valkyries. 🗣️
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A remarkable football family. Stan Nelson coached Anoka High School to a state title in 1964. His son Steve Nelson went on to play 14 NFL seasons with the New England Patriots, while another son, Dave, became a successful high school coach. swikblog.com/stan-nelson-wwi…
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The model you pick is the least important decision in an AI project.
In the last couple of months we've switched our default coding agent between Codex and Claude Code more than once. Nothing we'd built for clients had to be redone.
What carries over is the work around the model: the rules written in code, the real examples you test every release against, and the record of what the agent actually did.
You can swap a model in an afternoon.
That other work takes months, and it's the part you actually own.
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This entire interview from the @RichRollPodcast is excellent and worth a listen: youtu.be/EkTUXuHQLvs?is=mWc1…
