Bill Gates has announced he’s giving away 200B over the next 20 years to help address 3 moonshot global needs. Here’s the announcement from Gates Foundation
There are a lot of people that idolize billionaires and I am not one of them. A have an internal screed about them and how they are MONEY HOARDERS (old school caps for emphasis). I don’t respect that behaviour when the obvious suffering blah blah blah – no one wants to hear the screed here.
Bill Gates is really the only one that has a gotten pass from me. He has actively worked through his Gates Foundation to try to make the world a better place. I admire that.
Always clever Google
Tuckahoe! I wanted information on how RAG and Live Intenet Search work with LLMs. I chose Gemini 2.5 Pro Reasoning, Math & Code for the task. The final example included as a follow up to expand on real time search included my physical location, which is freely...
Oh the Humanity!’s Last Exam!
Humanity's Last Exam Benchmarks are interesting. Here's the deep thought - at what point in the overall benchmark process will AI inject bias into the benchmark test? And to what end? Maybe not so deep a thought. Humanity's Last Exam has been bantered about...
Rollups best left to fruit
The Neuron newsletter served up this TechCrunch article about Read the article https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/01/early-ai-investor-elad-gil-finds-his-next-big-bet-ai-powered-rollups/. Here's a quote from the article: "The idea is to identify opportunities to buy...
Copilot Summarizes just the page
I saw a headline Windows dashboard about a popular internet provider that filed for Chapter 11. I was curious and decided to check it out and clicked the story. The news item is from "TheStreet" and the initial page does not show the entire article, just the first...
Character.AI and possible suicide
I came across this news item from a while back: This mom believes an AI chatbot is responsible for her son’s suicide Wow, this is just brutal and my heart goes out to his family and friends. Character.ai and the other named defendents tried to use free speech in...
SMH – AI-Driven Layoffs
Shaking my head in response to someone responding "We acted too quickly" with respect to downsizing as a result of AI implementation. Step 1 - Jump on AI bandwagon Step 2 - implement (pricey?) AI stuff hot off the presses Step 3 - Layoffs = more $$$ for us! Or more...
TEDs v 2.what?
I came across this TechCrunch article covering the recent news that Google is committing 150M to develop AI glasses with Warby Parker: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/20/google-commits-150m-to-develop-ai-glasses-with-warby-parker/ My immediate thought was a new take on...