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Elwood Haynes, born on this day in 1857 in Portland, Indiana, with his invention, the first automobile to be operated successfully in the United States.
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At his monument dedication in Kokomo in 1912:
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We were able to fine tune an open weight model (Qwen3.5-9B) on proprietary internal data at @coinbase, and it out performed frontier models, at much lower cost and speed, for a specialized task (fraud prevention in this case).
I think we'll see more of this pattern inside companies. The frontier models are amazing generalists. But increasingly you'll see specialist models out perform on more narrow tasks, either working on teams, or by themselves.
We're making it easy to fine tune models internally for our employees. We even have a skill for it in our internal harness that makes it easy to spin these up and start training them:
"/fine-tune-and-serve-llm I want to fine-tune Qwen for payments risk review. help me get started"
I imagine we'll have some backend services that could be replaced entirely by this new architecture.
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Dusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is *widening*. It's now less "two groups of people speaking past each other" and more a sharp funnel.
- Napkin math somewhere around 6B people (~75% of the population) have barely come in contact with LLMs at all.
- Around 1-2B (~20%) are casual and infrequent users of free-tier ChatGPT-like products. This group sees derpy chatbots and treats them a bit like a better Google search, a writing aid, or etc. Maybe an agent tries to book you a flight. I have non-tech friends who (reasonably, imo) say they have not much use for it at all. Even many professionals outside of math&code are in this tier. For example, execs and many other functions spend a lot of their time talking to other people, so while they understand what is happening intellectually, it is still second-hand and a bit abstract.
- Now we get to professional use of frontier-grade LLMs in math&code. Somewhere around 20M people (0.2%) see first-hand that large, complex projects that used to take them weeks/months can now be completed by agents with a prompt. Building apps, copying apps, translating apps, decompiling apps from binaries... This has all happened very quickly and recently - less than 1 year ago, I was writing code manually by hand, typing memorized computer code commands into a code editor character by character, occasionally pressing Tab to autocomplete a little chunk of code.
- And finally we get to the ~5,000 people (~0.00006%) with access to frontier-grade systems internally. The external world has seen the preview. It looks like swarms of thousands of agents collaborating over weeks on software mega projects: minting zero days, running cyber attacks and defenses at machine speeds, discovering new science, advancing the frontier of mathematics. Things that would have taken top professionals in the industry years of work. Meanwhile, human review and comprehension are starting to fall behind. For example, people are still involved in the "archeology" of the OpenAI-HF incident from many months ago. Mathematicians may be poring over the 722 manuscripts on frontier mathematics for a while.
The funnel is driven by a combination of factors:
1. The impact scales with ambition, problem size, and horizon. A question with a paragraph answer barely stresses the system. You need a reservoir of big, difficult problems that you really care about. This aspect drives the consumer / professional dimension of the funnel.
2. The jaggedness of the system (which I have written about a lot separately). Capability peaks in domains that are digital, verifiable and economically valuable. This is because LLM capability emerges from reinforcement learning on verifiable rewards on a curated environment mixture driven by revenue potential. This aspect primarily drives the area (e.g. math&code) dimension of the funnel.
3. Access. Free-tier, paid-tier, internal.
So this is the weirdness of the moment. The general public has mostly not interacted with these systems. When they have, it looks like a derpy chatbot. The majority of professionals still see only a modest uplift. And a small sliver of professionals are experiencing the vertigo of the curve going vertical. And it is all happening at the same time.
Judging by my tl there is a growing gap in understanding of AI capability.
The first issue I think is around recency and tier of use. I think a lot of people tried the free tier of ChatGPT somewhere last year and allowed it to inform their views on AI a little too much. This is a group of reactions laughing at various quirks of the models, hallucinations, etc. Yes I also saw the viral videos of OpenAI's Advanced Voice mode fumbling simple queries like "should I drive or walk to the carwash". The thing is that these free and old/deprecated models don't reflect the capability in the latest round of state of the art agentic models of this year, especially OpenAI Codex and Claude Code.
But that brings me to the second issue. Even if people paid $200/month to use the state of the art models, a lot of the capabilities are relatively "peaky" in highly technical areas. Typical queries around search, writing, advice, etc. are *not* the domain that has made the most noticeable and dramatic strides in capability. Partly, this is due to the technical details of reinforcement learning and its use of verifiable rewards. But partly, it's also because these use cases are not sufficiently prioritized by the companies in their hillclimbing because they don't lead to as much $$$ value. The goldmines are elsewhere, and the focus comes along.
So that brings me to the second group of people, who *both* 1) pay for and use the state of the art frontier agentic models (OpenAI Codex / Claude Code) and 2) do so professionally in technical domains like programming, math and research. This group of people is subject to the highest amount of "AI Psychosis" because the recent improvements in these domains as of this year have been nothing short of staggering. When you hand a computer terminal to one of these models, you can now watch them melt programming problems that you'd normally expect to take days/weeks of work. It's this second group of people that assigns a much greater gravity to the capabilities, their slope, and various cyber-related repercussions.
TLDR the people in these two groups are speaking past each other. It really is simultaneously the case that OpenAI's free and I think slightly orphaned (?) "Advanced Voice Mode" will fumble the dumbest questions in your Instagram's reels and *at the same time*, OpenAI's highest-tier and paid Codex model will go off for 1 hour to coherently restructure an entire code base, or find and exploit vulnerabilities in computer systems. This part really works and has made dramatic strides because 2 properties: 1) these domains offer explicit reward functions that are verifiable meaning they are easily amenable to reinforcement learning training (e.g. unit tests passed yes or no, in contrast to writing, which is much harder to explicitly judge), but also 2) they are a lot more valuable in b2b settings, meaning that the biggest fraction of the team is focused on improving them. So here we are.
Supermarket produce has been optimized for speedy growth, appearance, and shelf-life, not nutrition. Plant a greenstalk and/or a small garden to supplement.
Today’s fruits and veggies are half as nutritious as they were in the 1960s…
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.@Sonderling47: "I am hereby suspending from the Permanent Labor Certification Program some of the largest IT outsourcing firms in the world — Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL, and Capgemini — and also, due to multiple active federal investigations, @USDOL is suspending Microsoft and Adobe from the program."
.@VP: "There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused this system more than Microsoft."
Microsoft laid off 6,000 American workers in 2025 after certifying that it could not find qualified American employees — yet the company was approved for more than 6,000 H-1Bs and filed 3,682 PERM applications, including nearly 1,000 applications for the same positions as the laid off American workers.
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Vice President JD Vance on the lie being pushed to the American people:
“There’s this pernicious idea, and @StephenM alluded to it, which is that Americans are not good enough for the jobs in their own country… To the American people, this visa fraud is a frontal assault on the idea that you deserve to inherit the jobs and the positions in your own country. Never believe the lie that Americans are not good enough to build a future for Americans. That’s what visa fraud tells you, it is a lie, and the President of the United States does not stand for it, and neither does anybody on this stage.”
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Vice President JD Vance breaks down the data:
"If you are working as an H-1B visa in the United States of America, you’re earning $20,000 less than an American citizen hired in the same position. If you were brought in by one of these foreign outsourcing firms, you’re making $48,000 less than an American citizen in a similar position. So I’m sure that everybody here understands the game that is being played. You bring in indentured servants from outside the country, you lay off American workers and, if you’re a corporation, you make a ton of money by under cutting the wages of American workers, replacing them with people who frankly shouldn’t be in the United States of America to begin with."
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State Sen. Ron Alting is accused of shoplifting from two Walmart stores, according to a source cited by the Journal & Courier.
Lafayette police say a male and female suspect were stopped by loss prevention before fleeing in a green pickup.
Police identified two persons of interest and sent the case to prosecutors.
A special prosecutor has now been appointed.
No charges have been filed.
Alting says he’s dealing with concerning changes in his judgment and cognitive functioning, is undergoing medical evaluation and treatment, and is stepping back from campaigning.
He says the actions were “completely out of character” and takes responsibility.
Alting is 70 and has served in the Indiana Senate since 1998.
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People still don't understand how H-1B hiring in higher ed reflects who is being trained at U.S. universities. In 2024, over 50% of Engineering PhD degrees went to foreign students.
It is unlikely that Purdue "imported" anyone for these jobs. Purdue almost certainly hired people who were already here, who recently completed U.S. PhD degrees as F-1 students. Maybe even recent Purdue grads.
Fix the PhD pipeline: recruit and train Americans, and stop giving U.S. taxpayer-funded jobs to F-1 students. They (or their home country) should pay their own way.
You can actually argue that academia prefers U.S. citizens. In 2024, 60% of academic jobs in Engineering went to U.S. citizens even though they received just under half of the PhDs. In CS, 46.8% of jobs went to U.S. citizens even though they only received 33% of the PhDs in the field. In Math, 68% of jobs went to U.S. citizens even though they received just under half of the PhDs.
Data is from NSF's Survey of Earned Doctorates, Tables 1-6, 6-2, & 6-3.
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Statement from Indiana Republican Party Chairwoman Lana Keesling:
I am glad to share that Paul Tinkle will be returning to his position with the Indiana Republican Party.
After learning more about the situation, it became clear that I did not have the full picture. I made the wrong decision regarding Paul’s employment, and I take full responsibility for it. I want to personally apologize to Paul for jumping to a conclusion that was not supported by the facts.
With Election Day approaching, I am grateful for the people who give their time and energy to our party, and I look forward to having Paul back as part of that effort. Together, we will continue working hard through November 3.
Texas-based Digital Realty is planning to construct a data center on about 476 acres at Kokomo's Industrial Park North, to begin operations in 2033.
"Digital Realty plans to host a community open house on Saturday, Oct. 10, from 2-4 p.m. at Big Ben Coffee Co. in Kokomo to answer questions and address concerns from residents."
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Thanks to the dedicated efforts of my team and me, working closely with State Rep. Jim Pressel during the last legislative session, every Indiana-issued commercial driver’s license held by an illegal alien was revoked.
That was real progress, but the problem didn’t stop at our borders. Illegal aliens who obtained CDLs in other states can still drive into Indiana and put Hoosiers at risk. We’ve already seen this end in tragedy. That’s why, if you know of or see any CDL fraud, contact the ICE CDL Fraud Tip Line. Your tip can help keep our roadways safer for all of us.
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Hamilton County GOP Chair Mario Massillamany denied that he played a prominent role in Paul's termination. But multiple sources familiar and text messages obtained exclusively by Blaze News tell a different story.
Read Paul's exclusive account of events and our tumultuous interview with Massillamany, which the chairman ended when asked about DEI, below:
"Republican Senator Todd Young and then-Senator Joe Manchin introduced a version in December 2024."
REVEALED: A think tank co-founded by Facebook’s founding president wants an entirely NEW visa category to repopulate struggling American communities with foreign workers.
It’s called the HEARTLAND VISA.
They’ve already mapped roughly 1,700 potentially eligible counties—home to 58 MILLION Americans.
The Economic Innovation Group, co-founded by Sean Parker, wants at least 100,000 visas a year.
The pitch is explicit:
“In exchange for living in a Heartland Visa community, workers with sufficient earnings will gain permanent residency”
American communities become the destination. Green cards become the incentive.
The proposal targets places struggling with population decline, including rural communities and former industrial centers.
Foreign workers would have to live in a participating area—but could work for an employer located elsewhere.
The think tank also proposes replacing labor certification with an earnings test for the green-card pathway. That would remove the usual labor-market test from this proposed route to permanent residency.
The idea has already reached Capitol Hill.
Republican Senator Todd Young and then-Senator Joe Manchin introduced a version in December 2024. Supporters included AOL co-founder Steve Case, Americans for Prosperity and the Niskanen Center.
County officials would decide whether their communities participate.
EIG continued lobbying for the proposal in 2026.
This is an organized push to turn population decline into a justification for a new immigration program.
H-1B labor trafficker @amazon says that it is ending its use of NDAs with governments that it works with on its data center projects.
The company also announced that it will invest $1 billion into the communities where it operates data centers. Amazon has an $11 billion project in Joseph County, & is currently evaluating Posey County for a data center.
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Indiana is suing to block the company formerly known as DuPont from moving assets into a new company to avoid accountability for its use of "forever chemicals".
"The suit seeks to unwind a coordinated transfer that moved DuPont’s most valuable business assets into Vylor and left the PFAS liabilities behind, out of reach of the states and other plaintiffs."
"Attorney General Rokita is already in court with these companies. In April 2024, his office sued 22 PFAS manufacturers — including DuPont, EIDP, Corteva, Chemours, and 3M — in Shelby County, alleging they kept selling these chemicals after they knew the risks and hid that knowledge from the public."
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