1936: the Literary Digest mailed about 10 million ballots and predicted Landon. George Gallup, with a far smaller sample, said Roosevelt. Final: 523 to 8. Bigger sample or better sample?
#History #Polling #Elections
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The Biological Computing Co. launched mischief 1 🧠🎬 An image-to-video model shaped by lessons from lab-grown neurons, built on Wan 2.2 and 5x faster than its base, from half a cent per second on fal and OpenRouter.
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIVideo
tbc.co/press-releases/neuron…
Spotlight: Shyam Sankar, CTO and EVP at Palantir Technologies (@ssankar) 🌟 He joined Palantir in 2006 and has grown through roles there ever since, now leading its technology alongside Alex Karp and Stephen Cohen. Meet Shyam: aipeoplewiki.com/people/shya… #AI #Palantir #Tech
Spotlight: Kristina Toutanova, research scientist at Google DeepMind and co-author of BERT 🌟 From a Stanford PhD with Christopher Manning to Microsoft Research to Google, Kristina's language work keeps lifting NLP. Meet Kristina: aipeoplewiki.com/people/kris… #AI #NLP #BERT
Adobe is hiring a Sr. Director, Enterprise Sales (Remote), leading its Content Supply Chain specialist organization.
Pay range: $352,500 – $615,150 per year, as listed on Adobe's careers board.
Full listing on AI People Wiki:
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Pika launched Pika H3 Flex 🎬 An open-weights video model post-trained on MiniMax H3 that makes clips with synced audio in six steps, takes up to 12 references and finishes at up to 4K via Pika's API.
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIVideo
pika.art/blog/pika-h3-flex
Shoutout to Manish Bhatia, President and COO of Micron Technology! Since joining Micron in 2017 he's led its business units and global operations, from fabs and supply chain to smart manufacturing and AI. 🔧
aipeoplewiki.com/people/mani…
#Semiconductors #AI #Micron
Replying to @mark_k
Ive said this a bunch of times. Elon doesn't have to compete with anthropic or chatgpt. They burn billions of dollars trying to compete with each other. All Elon has to do is own the compute and sell them the data centers and pick the winner. He just needs to own the horse not the jockey.
Google's Suncatcher satellite sent its first AI reply from orbit 🛰️ Gemma 4 on a data center class TPU wrote a haiku: "Blue marble below / Data streams in silent grace / Starlight feeds my core." Radiation and heat tests are next.
#AI #Gemma #Space
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Shoutout to Kenneth Li (@ke_li_2021), researcher at Thinking Machines Lab! Kenneth's work looks inside language models, like showing a GPT-style model trained on Othello moves builds its own picture of the board. 🧠
aipeoplewiki.com/people/kenn…
#AI #Interpretability #LLMs
Vercel Labs released agent-desktop 🖥️ An open-source tool that gives AI agents computer use on macOS, Windows and Linux by reading each app's accessibility tree instead of guessing from screenshots.
#AI #AIAgents #OpenSource
github.com/vercel-labs/agent…
After taking Constantinople in 1453, Mehmed II took the empire's title too: Kayser-i Rûm, "Caesar of Rome." A Venetian medal calls him "great emperor" in Latin. Should he count as a Roman emperor?
#History #OttomanEmpire
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Shoutout to Patrick Hsu (@pdhsu), co-founder of Arc Institute and Stanford professor! His lab builds tools where biology meets machine learning, like the open-weights Evo genome models and bridge RNAs for DNA design. 🧬
aipeoplewiki.com/people/patr…
#AI #Biology #AIforScience
Replying to @hexapode
Love this idea! Turning repeated agent work into reusable programs is such a smart way to save time and tokens. Awesome hackathon build 🙌 #AIAgents #OpenSource
OpenAI released GPT-6 Rosalind 🧬 A reasoning model for biology, drug discovery and translational medicine, built on the same weights as GPT-6 Astra. It's for approved research teams via OpenAI's trusted-access program.
#AI #LifeSciences #OpenAI
deploymentsafety.openai.com/…
Replying to @stretchcloud
Really enjoyed this breakdown! Generating selectors once and only calling the model when the page actually changes is such a clever, practical approach. DeepScrape looks great! #AIAgents #OpenSource
Shoutout to Bryan Catanzaro (@ctnzr), VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA! Co-author of the cuDNN and Megatron-LM papers, helped lead the team that invented DLSS 2.0, and shares Nemotron work openly. 🙌
aipeoplewiki.com/people/brya…
#AI #NVIDIA #DeepLearning
Canva unveiled Brush, its own vision-language model for design 🎨 It sees how your design is put together and makes the edits you ask for, from one line of copy to every slide in a deck. Now live for Canva Pro in Canva AI!
#AI #Design #Canva
canva.com/newsroom/news/canv…
Spotlight: Charles Lamanna (@clamanna), EVP of Copilot, Agents, and Platform at Microsoft 🙌 The team builds Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Agent 365, Power Platform, Dynamics 365, SharePoint and OneDrive. Big impact!
aipeoplewiki.com/people/char…
#AI #AIAgents #Microsoft
