10 (bold) predictions for AI in 2026: 1⃣ Anthropic will go public. OpenAI will not. 📈 2⃣ Details of SSI’s research and technology will leak to the public. The big labs will make meaningful adjustments to their research roadmaps as a result. 🤫

.@_robtoews predicts humans will be able to communicate through telepathy by 2030. He argues the breakthrough has already been demonstrated in research labs, where scientists have translated thoughts directly into words using BCIs. "I would actually say that telepathy has been achieved today. What I would define as telepathy is if you can think thoughts and have your thoughts translated into words that other people can read or hear. That's already been accomplished by BCIs." "Eddie Chang, who's one of the world's leading BCI researchers at UCSF, runs the neurosurgery department. His lab has demonstrated in recent years that you can implant BCI chips into people's brains, tell what they're trying to say, and turn those brain signals into actual words."

.@_robtoews predicts that by 2030, AI will become so integrated into everyday life that society will be debating whether AI systems should have rights. "I think five years from now, everyone will interact in very extensive ways with AIs and have close relationships with them that endure over time. We'll have AI employees, we'll have AI friends, we'll have AI doctors, and AI girlfriends and boyfriends, which is a punchline today. But that will be a mainstream thing." "AI will not just be in the digital world anymore. Humanoid robots will also start to proliferate. These things will have physical forms that look like us. As the models get better and better, we will eventually start to feel like maybe these are things are not just objects that we can abuse or treat as property. Maybe they do have something approaching sentience and maybe we need to be thinking about how to treat them properly." "It sounds ridiculous today, but it is worth noting that all the frontier labs have started hiring people to work on model rights, model sentience, model consciousness, etc."

I feel like people aren't talking enough about Terafab....

Happy Thursday. On today's show: - @deanwball (FAI) - @isaiah_p_taylor (Valar Atomics) - @andrewcollinst (Flexjet) - @vipulved (Together AI) - @_RobToews (Radical Ventures) - @tuhinone (Baseten) See you on the stream.

It’s been a big week (month? year? decade?) for ultrasound and I’m getting dozens of DMs so I’m going to do another one of these “the science behind” threads. On this weeks’ edition: Aleph’s incredible images and the ultrasound science behind them. 🧵🔊 x.com/alephneuro/status/2070…

What can a neuron compute? Real biological neurons are complex, but how capable are they? Using a new method, we found that a single cortical neuron can classify cats vs dogs, recognize spoken words, and solve 10-bit parity, all tasks thought to require entire networks. (1/15)

the boys are back

Robotics is going to get its Claude Code moment long before its ChatGPT moment. Everyone keeps waiting on the big general-purpose humanoid demo, the one that's supposed to make the whole thing click. But that's not how LLMs broke through. Coding got there first. It was narrow, hard, and mostly ignored. But it was the first place models got good enough to pay for, and that usage and data loop compounded into everything people point to now. Robotics has the same kind of wedge in front of it: dexterity. The precise manipulation that real work is made of, like plugging a cable into a socket, kitting, repackaging and assembly. It's the hardest unsolved problem in the field, and the first thing that actually turns into revenue. Whoever cracks that owns most of what comes after. Which is why we backed @GeneralistAI's $400M round. More here: 8vc.com/resources/announcing…

wherever @ColinearDevin goes, we invest but srsly the generalist models have singlehandedly resurrected my belief in robots. join em.

I’m coming around to @ylecun’s JEPA … When you study quantum mechanics deeply enough, you realize that living systems have holographic computing substrates called microtubules … which form long-range coherent networks … and those are holographic! JEPA is very hologram-esque: — predicts in embedding space, not pixels (holograms encode interference, not images) — masked prediction = whole-in-part (any fragment constrains the whole) — relational, not absolute (meaning = predictability between parts) — EBM framing = learned holographic associative memory (cf. Plate HRRs, Kanerva SDM)

This is it. Everything learned spending millions on longevity. From: Your Immortal Unc and Auntie. To: Our Immortal nieces and nephews. 0. Sleep is the world's most powerful drug. 1. Be in your bed for 8 hours 2. Same bedtime every night, any time before midnight 3. Don’t eat right before bed 4. Calm foods for dinner 5. No screens 1 hour before bed 6. Avoid added sugar (be aware it’s in everything) 7. Avoid all things in an American convenience store 8. Avoid fried foods 9. Shoes off at the door 10. Eat whole foods, particularly veggies fruits nuts legumes berries 11. Walk a little after meals or air squats 12. Get your heart rate high routinely 13. Lift heavy things 14. Stretch daily 15. Water pik, floss, brush, tongue scrape, morning and night 16. Make an effort to drink water 17. Get sunlight when you wake up (UV is low) 18. Protect skin in midday sun 19. Stand up straight 20. See at least one friend once a week 21. Avoid plastic where you can (in all things) 22. Circulate air in rooms 23. When stressed, breathe, learn to calm your body 24. Go to the dentist 25. Avoid sitting for long times 26. Protect your hearing, the world is too loud 27. Alcohol is bad for you 28. Finish coffee before noon 29. Avoid bright lights after sunset 30. If obese, look into a GLP 31. Sleep in a cold room 32. Texting while driving is dangerous 33. Turn off all notifications 34. Limit social media use 35. Don’t smoke anything 36. If you struggle to sleep, read a physical book before bed 37. 1 hour before bed have a calm wind down routine: bath, read, light walk, listen to music 38. The body is a clock and loves routine. Have a daily morning and evening schedule. 39. Avoid long distance travel where you can 40. Baby steps first: incorporate new things slowly 41. Do less… most things don’t work. Bonus points if you get your blood checked. Start here, it will change your life.

So worth the listen on how to build an asymmetric life/deeply authentic life