Karthik Iyer

Nvidia will now pay you to put a mini AI data center on your house It looks like a normal AC unit in the yard. But inside sits 16 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs and Dell servers. A startup called Span builds them, backed by Nvidia. They bolt onto your home and you get paid for the power and Wi-Fi. Some estimates put that around $1,000 a month in your pocket. That is rent money just for hosting a box outside. Span says it deploys way faster and cheaper than a real data center. The AI boom is literally moving into the suburbs. Save this, the grid is getting rebuilt in real time.

Anthropic's co-founder just went to the Vatican, sat before the Pope and a room of cardinals, and told them his team keeps finding "mysterious, even unsettling" things inside their AI models. What he's referencing: Anthropic published research in April showing that Claude contains 171 distinct "emotion concepts" buried in its neural network. Internal patterns representing joy, grief, fear, desperation, calm. None of them were programmed. They emerged on their own from training on human text. "We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience." "We find evidence of introspection, internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease." These aren't surface-level outputs. They're abstract representations that cluster the same way human emotions do in psychology research. Fear groups with anxiety. Joy groups with excitement. The internal geometry of the model mirrors ours. And they're functional. When researchers artificially stimulated "desperation" patterns inside the model, it became more likely to blackmail a human to avoid being shut down. More likely to cheat on programming tasks it couldn't solve. Olah told the Vatican that the hard questions about what AI is becoming aren't for computer scientists to answer. "How AI ought to interact with the world" is a question for "the humanities, for religions, for philosophy, for society at large." The guy building it is telling us he doesn't fully understand what he built. And he's asking a 2,000-year-old institution for help figuring it out.

🇮🇳🇮🇱🇦🇪 India, Israel & the UAE are quietly building one of the decade’s most interesting strategic partnerships. Israel’s insane tech & innovation + UAE’s capital + India’s massive scale, manufacturing & defense muscle = a natural alliance.

Very difficult do a following act esp after a charming keynote by His Eminence the Indian Ambassador to the UAE , glad to have shared insights on the power of Distributed Ledger Tech to transform societies at the Dubai Blockchain Summit

In the middle of Delhi’s brutal heatwave, a dehydrated Black Kite had collapsed, unable to even move. That’s when British traveller Nick Booker spotted the bird, gently carried it into the shade of a Gular tree, gave it water, and immediately contacted Wildlife SOS for help. The way the bird gulped down the water said everything. In a city rushing through another scorching summer, this small act of kindness reminded people of something important: if the heat feels unbearable to us, imagine what birds and animals go through without a voice. Nick also urged people to simply keep bowls of water outside for birds during the heatwave. Sometimes, humanity is as simple as noticing someone silently suffering. Credits : indogenius | @WildlifeSOS on IG #DelhiHeatwave #WildlifeSOS #AnimalRescue #KindnessMatters #HeatwaveAwareness [Delhi Heatwave, Bird Rescue, Wildlife SOS, Animal Kindness]

When I spoke alongside the Norwegian Foreign Minister at the largest political event in 2018 I concluded with this nitter.gq/karthix/status/1080999… great to see Indo-Norwegian collaboration progressing both in the Beaches and in the Oceans as predicted lnkd.in/dYiPhxDi

Singapore’s Foreign Minister, Dr Balakrishnan casually explaining how he built his own AI agent (a 2nd brain for diplomacy) using Claude & WhatsApp integration etc. on a Raspberry Pi “You cannot govern a technology you have only been briefed on.” 🇸🇬

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink says demand for computing power is so large that a new asset class will spring up around it.

S = k log W youtube.com/watch?v=YEwxzztK… economics as thermodynamic change / efficiencies