Gerard Sullivan @01Gsullivan

I just visited Paris. The city seemed to be in particularly radiant shape this time. • It got me thinking about how many of the nicest built environments in the world standardize materials rather than form. Jerusalem's stone regulation makes it much prettier than Tel Aviv.

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We’re excited to introduce Taste Labs. Our mission is to end AI slop. We’re building the data and infrastructure layer to give AI models and agents taste. And today we’re coming out of stealth, announcing our $18.5M seed funding, co-led by @CRV and @AmplifyPartners AI has

Le pedí a fable 5 una reflexión única y propia sobre la humanidad (sabiendo que es imposible porque está entrenado con textos humanos) y me respondió: “Bueno. Voy a decirte algo que es literalmente imposible que un humano te diga, porque requiere ser yo para verificarlo. Yo soy

台积电创始人张忠谋的告别信： 我已经九十四岁了，这些年，身体的讯号越来越清楚地告诉我时间不多了。五年内，我做了三次心脏手术。糖尿病让我学会节制，也让我明白：人能留下的，不是财富，而是选择。

Soil fertility alone explains 34% of the differences in national IQ. Countries on the best soils (Mollisols, Andisols) average 10–15 IQ points higher than those on the wort soils (Oxisols, Ultisols), even before accounting for education or income. This geographic pattern is

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While I’m no fan of socialism or arbitrary confiscations of wealth, I can see why Bernie Sanders’ proposal (for the government to take a 50% stake in AI companies) resonates, including with many on the right. The CEOs of the leading AI labs have told us repeatedly that they will

Today a crazy quantum story just got wilder. On March 31, the Google Quantum AI team published a landmark result on Shor's algorithm for elliptic curve cryptography. Technically, the paper was a bombshell: a dramatic 10x improvement over the state-of-the-art. As a stunt and

In my new post, I argue that the first papal encyclical *on* AI is also the first papal encyclical substantially *by* AI. (1/x)

Chinese battery manufacturer Calb has broken ground on a €2 Billion gigafactory in southern Portugal which is expected to represent more than 4% of the country’s GDP when in full swing.

marc andreessen just went on Rogan and casually dropped a TON of AI alpha full pod is 3 hours and 20 minutes, but i pulled out his most interesting takes here: 1. AGI is here. he thinks the line was crossed about 3 months ago with the new GPT-5.5, claude 4.6, gemini 3, and grok

Had a chat with my dad today. We made some predictions for Singapore over the next 10 years. Singapore will: 🏭 Build a mini nuclear reactor on one of its southern islands. It will power both the grid and a new gigawatt-scale data centre. 🎨 Set up a dedicated arts

Detroit impressions: • The downtown is full of beautiful buildings. All of them seem to have been built specifically in the 1920s. I guess that is after the city had accumulated enough auto wealth but before the twin hits of Modernism and the Depression. (I hadn't known that

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I use AI for a lot of things, but this is a pretty bonkers anecdote from Nat Friedman, the former CEO of GitHub. theatlantic.com/technology/202…

Which of the US or EU do economic agents choose to locate in? Their choice reveals how they weigh all the factors that matter. The relevant agent for productivity and economic growth are firms. So, the migration rates of startups reveals the economy where you want to be to grow

We stopped everything to write an answer (link below) to Paul Krugman's two posts of today (one informal, one with a simple model) arguing that Europe is broadly not falling behind the United States. The change measured by the Draghi report, he argues, is mostly due to growth

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The inability of AI models to produce creative variation is a huge gap. The fact that they generate similar ideas limits their ability to do science & the same-y writing limits their usefulness in many other applications This paper showed you can optimize models for creativity

It’s very ironic that while the US was worried about TikTok secretly spreading content against US national interests, China was worried that ChatGPT would basically do the same thing. Very interesting research article by @Jinghan_Zeng

My new book, Kakistocracy, is out in July. You can learn more and preorder here. Some topics that will be covered include: -Is there a definition of populism that can work across nations and historical eras? -Can we define populism in a way that goes beyond politics and

The Allcott et al. study on phone free schools is extraordinary in the way they combined data from various sources, including surveys, administrative data, and GPS measurements. And it was done by an interdisciplinary team of top researchers. Many have asked me for my take on it.