What I’m Reading Today

Maybe There Was an Egg Cartel After All — Evidence that the spike in egg prices was driven by monopoly power and not the avian flu. China Space Junk Lands in MN Farmers Field — The description says it all… The DNS Museum — A quirky collection...
AI News

AI News

First, some notes on Gemini as I posted them to my Slack group: Last week Google released Gemini 2.5. Free on their AI studio website if you don’t mind them training on your chats. In the API, Gemini has a context window of 2,000,000 tokens, about 1,500,000 words....
Google Removes DEI Language

Google Removes DEI Language

The Information reports that Google is removing language from studies, even old ones, or telling researchers to restrict access to such documents. This is a clear example of government pressure leading to self-censorship like we are used to seeing China. Two imporant...
DeepSeek No Travel

DeepSeek No Travel

The Information is reporting that some DeepSeek employees are no longer allowed to travel after the company’s rise to fame. “Management asked some staff to hand in their passports, the three people said.” This is a part of why I’m bearish on...
OpenAI: Up & To The Right

OpenAI: Up & To The Right

This gem came in my inbox this morning from The Information: Still, OpenAI’s business dwarfs competitors like Cohere and Mistral. OpenAI is expecting to more than triple revenue this year, from $3.7 billion to $12.7 billion, we scooped Friday. OpenAI told...