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One of the greatest business thinkers of all time shares timeless life and career advice
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DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis:
"One person who really understands AI will outperform an entire startup team
In 5 years, the people who build with AI will run whole companies with a tenth of the headcount"
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Releasing the model weights of Kimi K3.1 Pro: huggingface.co/moonshotai/Ki…
We'll keep advancing open intelligence.
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ChatGPT in Germany in 2027
Yesterday France announced tax of €0.055 per GB on internet traffic
Today Germany is considering taxing all AI-generated revenue
You will see European countries keep clawing more and more money from foreign companies as they are slowly running out of money themselves to pay for their pensions and welfare state
Add to this the planned wealth taxes and exit taxes on any European who will try to leave (already active in many EU countries)
Europe is running out of money
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The post inaccurately claims France "announced" a data tax; it was a narrow 11-10 vote on a budget amendment in a near-empty chamber, opposed by the government and far from law. German AI tax ideas remain unadopted ministerial discussions without formal proposals.
stephanelarue.com/taxe-au-gigaoc…
tagesschau.de/inland/ministe…
davemanuel.com/2026/10/30/wha…
rootkid ✌️ retweeted
Yesterday France announced tax of €0.055 per GB on internet traffic
Today Germany is considering taxing all AI-generated revenue
You will see European countries keep clawing more and more money from foreign companies as they are slowly running out of money themselves to pay for their pensions and welfare state
Add to this the planned wealth taxes and exit taxes on any European who will try to leave (already active in many EU countries)
Europe is running out of money
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The post inaccurately claims France "announced" a data tax; it was a narrow 11-10 vote on a budget amendment in a near-empty chamber, opposed by the government and far from law. German AI tax ideas remain unadopted ministerial discussions without formal proposals.
stephanelarue.com/taxe-au-gigaoc…
tagesschau.de/inland/ministe…
davemanuel.com/2026/10/30/wha…
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By the way, in case anyone was still wondering whether they are completely useless, Binance holds SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, and several other certifications.
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Today's Claude extension compromise is a good reminder to do this. If you're using VSCode @code, Cursor @cursor_ai, or any other IDE built on VSCode, I would immediately enable extensions.installCooldownHours.
I've set this setting to 72 (hours), which is a much safer delay to install new updates to extensions than the default setting of 0 (immediate updates).
This prevents extension updates from getting installed for 3 days, which would hopefully eliminate most of the risk from compromised updates. It's not foolproof, but it's better than no delay.
Heck, set it to something even higher to be safer, like 336 (2 weeks).
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Patrick Stewart says his biggest regret is the things he never said to the people he loved and not being vulnerable sooner.
“Being brave, being open, being sensitive to other people, tuning into them, becomes more and more important to me.”
He regrets the things he never got to say to his family.
“I wish I could go back, There are things I would like to say to my parents and my brothers that I never said. That makes me very, very sad.”
He’s learned the power of vulnerability.
“Being vulnerable is the primary objective in my life now, with those I care about.”
Rip patrick Stewart 🕊️🤦🏽♂️
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"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life." - Captain Jean-Luc Picard 😭
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BREAKING NIUS: Noch-Ministerpräsident Sven Schulze soll die gesamte CDU-Fraktion in Sachsen-Anhalt dazu gedrängt haben, eine vorbereitete Eidesstaatliche Versicherung (liegt NIUS vor) zu unterschreiben. Darin sollten die Abgeordneten bekennen, keine Absprachen mit der AfD getroffen und den AfD-Politiker Tobias Rausch nicht zum Landtagspräsidenten gewählt zu haben. Bei einer Falschaussage sollten sie ihr Mandat niederlegen. Das berichten mehrere Abgeordnete gegenüber Ralf Schuler. Bei der Sitzung kam es laut Aussagen zu tumultartigen Szenen, weil Abgeordnete sich weigerten und nicht unterschreiben wollten. Am Ende wurden die Zettel wieder eingesammelt. Ein solches Vorgehen könnte tatsächlich im strafbaren Bereich der Nötigung liegen, weil Abgeordnete im Zusammenhang mit einer geheimen Wahl mit Sanktionen bedroht wurden.
nius.de/politik/cdu-abgeordn…
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Excited to share Genie 4 today our most realistic and interactive world model:
- steer dynamic environments in real time, shaping events, camera angles, and actions
- generate native audio matched to the world, from realistic background sounds to characters who can converse in real time!
- simulate photorealistic scenes and real-world physics
- create more coherent multi-step events through reasoning from Gemini
We've started to roll out as a research preview to trusted testers. Coming soon to Google AI Ultra subscribers in Project Genie and early access partners via the Gemini API and AI Studio.
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“who should we lay off first”
CEOs:
BREAKING: Microsoft, $MSFT, is offering buyouts to 60,000 workers as part of the company’s efforts to cut costs amid AI adoption, per Bloomberg.
Personnel on select teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK at a vice president level and below will be eligible.
This reflects ~27% of Microsoft's total workforce.