Nick Allevato

Disney has existed since 1923.

SoftBank raised another twelve billion against OpenAI last week.

Amodei’s pacing essay is read as a proposal to slow down.

NVIDIA shipped a first-party way to write GPU kernels in Rust.

The oldest confirmed evidence of a human being using a drug on purpose just moved back by about twenty thousand years.

Dario Amodei’s pacing essay has three steps.

I said the other day that I like to make people think.

Published as an experiment.

Nobody ever voted for a national identity database.

The Boring Company just raised three billion dollars.

The state has started underwriting compute.

A quantum computing announcement where the interesting number is a latency budget.

The story isn’t that AI agents ran the attack.

Six of the seven moments of silence have a minute attached.

You pay a company every month to keep your systems running.

Here is a sentence that sounds like it explains something: consciousness exists because we observe ourselves.

Entry eight of ten in “the end of the wire,” a series on the terminal.

Europe spent four years writing a law about artificial intelligence.

Apple just handed the company to the man who builds the enclosures, in the middle of the model era.

The Hugging Face deal is confirmed and Huang made the promise everyone wanted.

The same bones have been a giant woodlouse, a crustacean, and the largest scorpion that ever lived.

ChatGPT’s ad business hit a billion-dollar run rate faster than any ad product I can find a comparison for.

Sony and Warner sued Anthropic and named two founders personally.

A follow-up to sixty dollars.

Swing a wrecking ball at a building and watch it come down properly — a Lua physics game compiled to WebAssembly, driven by exactly one slider.

Entry six of ten in “the end of the wire,” a series on the terminal.

A Lenovo Teams appliance freed from its kiosk, running mainline Linux with the speaker driver its manufacturer never wrote down.

A Microsoft Teams appliance, a signed-firehose wall, an amplifier driver that has worked for two years and was never sent to anyone, and the four times I was confidently wrong.

Entry five of ten in “the end of the wire,” a series on the terminal.

A sixty-dollar Walmart tablet the manufacturer abandoned, running LineageOS 23.2 and a live lab dashboard instead.

A follow-up to forty terminals: one line from that piece turned out to be a specification defect, and I am now writing it up properly.

Entry four of ten in “the end of the wire,” a series on the terminal.

A tablet the manufacturer stopped updating, a bootloader the internet said was welded shut, and a toggle sitting in Developer options that nobody checked.

Nvidia is not buying two million models.

The AI buildout is not only financed by investors.

The attacker had its refusals turned off for the test.

Gates says every line has been crossed.

The parking company did not refuse mercy.

Meta has turned the recording LED into a safety interlock.

The terminal is fine.

Entry three of ten in “the end of the wire,” a series on the terminal.

Someone is standing next to your desk.

Entry two of ten in “the end of the wire,” a series on the terminal.

Archaeologists at Aspendos, in southern Türkiye, pulled a 2.2-meter marble group out of the ground this month.

Thirty-five countries signed something called the AI Opportunity Statement.

That sentence, typo and all, was hidden in white text inside a filing submitted to the Connecticut Superior Court.

Three hundred fifty-four proteins that had never existed were designed by a language model, manufactured, and tested in a lab.

Four hundred seventy-four gigawatts.

Alibaba says Qwen has been downloaded three billion times.

Entry one of ten in “the end of the wire,” a series on the terminal.