Genesis Molecular AI CTO @edunov says Anthropic just automated months of PhD research with a 16,000-token prompt: "They actually put together a 16,000 token prompt and they released it, and it's a very interesting read. If you haven't read it, I highly recommend." "It has many interesting pieces, from the details of how you connect together all of these different underlying models, down to where do you download them from, how you configure them, how you monitor the runs. What is an advanced error runbook? What do you do if something happens? How do you screen and filter out the results?" "It's something you would give after a lot of work to an intern to execute in a project like this. In their case, an agent was able to use that." "Previously, you would need an intern or a PhD student to run those kind of experiments over a couple of months. Now you can just pay Claude to do that work for you." @genesismolai

BREAKING: US data center construction spending jumped +34% YoY in March, to a record $50 billion annualized rate. Spending on data centers is up +437% since the beginning of 2021, when the annualized rate stood at ~$9 billion. This is also up +688% since the start of 2018, when the annualized rate was just ~$6 billion. Meanwhile, office building construction spending fell -9% YoY in March, to $46 billion, the lowest since 2015. This means that spending on data centers now exceeds office building construction by $4 billion, or +9%. To put this into perspective, office construction spending exceeded data center spending by $65 billion, or +650%, in 2020. AI is fundamentally transforming the US economy.

LeBron reportedly felt like the Lakers took him for granted when Rob Pelinka didn’t give him the game ball after he broke the record for most wins in NBA history, per @mcten “James, who played the past eight seasons in Los Angeles and helped deliver the franchise its 17th championship in 2020, saw Pelinka's priority in that moment as yet another example of the Lakers taking him for granted, sources said.” (Via espn.com/nba/story/_/id/4875…)

After 10 years these all end up roughly the same place: Solo founder with $1M/yr in revenue VC-backed founder with a $50M exit Principal engineer at FAANG Managing Director at Goldman Sachs A landlord with 80 units A VC managing a $40M fund