Engineering Insights

Musk sides with Hassabis. Stakes: Whether trillion-dollar AI buildout makes any sense. Nobel winner Hassabis clashes with AI godfather LeCun over intelligence A heated public debate between two of AI's most influential minds threatens to undermine the entire premise of the trillion-dollar AI buildout, with DeepMind founder and Nobel winner Demis Hassabis arguing current large language models are "already on a credible path to general intelligence" while Meta's former chief AI

Google's new Flash model delivers Pro performance at lightning speed Google just pulled off something remarkable—their new Gemini 3 Flash model beats their previous Pro model on nearly every metric while running three times faster at a fraction of the cost, prompting Google chief scientist Jeff Dean to reveal this was intentional: "We strive to make each new Flash model as good or better than the previous Pro model." The release sparked unusual excitement from Google insider

Executive order blocks states from AI regulation. DOJ litigation campaign threatened. China rejects H200 chips. GPT-5.2 ties Gemini but can't break away from pack. Trump's AI order threatens to withhold federal funding from states with "onerous" laws President Trump's executive order attempts to block all 50 states from passing their own AI regulations , establishing a DOJ task force to launch litigation campaigns against states while instructing Commerce to withhold federal

ChatGPT shopping research uses reinforcement learning to outperform GPT-5. Nvidia panics about Google TPUs. HP cuts 6,000 jobs blaming AI adoption necessity. ChatGPT's shopping AI asks questions like a human sales expert OpenAI discovered millions were already using ChatGPT to "find, understand, and compare products" so they trained a specialized GPT-5 Mini model using reinforcement learning that actually outperforms full GPT-5 on product accuracy benchmarks a fascinating rev

Google CEO Sundar Pichai just confirmed Gemini 3 release by retweeting 69% Polymarket odds with thinking emojis while OpenAI employees are suspiciously excited about their competitor's launch. Google CEO teases 69% Polymarket odds with emojis. OpenAI employees excited means they have "monster model." Buffett buys $4.9B Google while Burry closes fund. Google executives confirm Gemini 3 while OpenAI stays suspiciously calm The entire AI community is convinced Gemini 3 drops Tue

Every day, cameras record what matters — yet almost none of it is ever seen. Imagine if finding the truth took seconds, not hours. Most of the world’s video is recorded… then forgotten. This blog explores a simple but powerful idea: what if you could instantly find the moments that matter instead of spending hours watching footage? A gentle, emotional look at the future of video understanding. The Problem With Video We Don’t Talk About Enough Every day, cameras around us reco

Data fragmentation kills 70% of deployments while employees report being "too busy to learn tools that save time" because executives provide AI without training time. Super Intelligent audits show 52% agent readiness, data fragmentation #1 blocker. Employees "too busy to learn time-saving tools." Internal support bots drive adoption. Data fragmentation blocks 70% of agent deployments Data remains the universal nightmare fragmented, unstructured, and inaccessible even in organ

Jeff Bezos returns as co-CEO of Project Prometheus with $6.2B seed funding. Grok 4.1 beats GPT-5 on creativity. AI shifts from models to manufacturing atoms. Bezos launches $6.2B AI startup to revolutionize manufacturing Jeff Bezos shocked Silicon Valley by leaving retirement to become co-CEO of Project Prometheus, an AI startup with an unprecedented $6.2 billion in seed funding—dwarfing Thinking Machines Lab's $2B and SSI's $3B raises. The company has poached 100 researchers