GOOGLE SET TO RELEASE GEMINI 3.8 FLASH THIS WEEK: WSJ Google $GOOGL is expected to release Gemini 3.8 Flash, internally called “Skimaki,” as soon as Wednesday, with a major focus on coding. In internal head-to-head tests inside Google’s coding tool Jetski, engineers reportedly preferred 3.8 Flash over Anthropic’s Opus model. Flash is designed to be smaller, cheaper and faster than Google’s flagship Pro models. Google has also scrapped internal Gemini 3.5 Pro candidates that weren’t sufficiently better than Flash, while Gemini 4 has performed well in pretraining evaluations but still needs to complete posttraining.

20,000 baht in pocket in thailand and you can do anything (fine dining, yacht for 4 hours, jetski, spa, etc)… like $650 usd and you have max freedom NYC you live in a broom closet with anxiety and can’t do anything without overpaying, open air prison

Delhi Cabinet Minister and New Delhi MLA Parvesh Sahib Singh shared a post on X after enjoying a jet ski ride on the Yamuna. Describing the experience, he wrote that he enjoyed riding amid the waves of "Mother Yamuna" and called the experience in her lap truly memorable. #Delhi# #Yamuna# #ParveshSahibSingh# #BJP# #Jetski#

Eyewitness states: An unmanned sea drone (?) just sped past my balcony in near Greenwich? As the title says - was out on the balcony having a fag and I suddenly see a very tiny, very fast vehicle approaching without any lights on (very unusual and I guess illegal?). I thought it was a jetski for a second but then realised no one was on it. In the space of the following 5 minutes two Chinooks followed its path.

DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞️ — Sept 2 OPENAI 🔥: > Official “Path to Astra” post is out. Astra is the first model OpenAI has designated as Critical for cybersecurity under the Preparedness Framework. It scored 100% on ExploitBench, found 2 zero-days in evals, and is “coming soon” — advanced cyber tools stay limited to testers / Daybreak Blue at first. > @M1Astra reported on a fresh Astra test prep the same day. Models in testing: vega-alpha (new) and ultima-alpha. GOOGLE 🔥: > Gemini 3.8 Flash is already answering on Gemini and in the Gemini app. Some people still have 3.7 selected and get 3.8 anyway. > WSJ: Google engineers preferred it to Opus for coding in Jetski tests. Official drop looks like today. > Agentic video understanding is on Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, and 3.5 Flash-Lite. The model hunts transcript/audio/frames instead of eating the whole file. Up to 88% fewer tokens, 66% lower cost, ~7% better accuracy on long video. API + AI Studio now, Gemini app later. ANTHROPIC 🔥: > Claude Fable 5.1 (and Mythos 5.1) is live. 52.6% on Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 (more than 2x Fable 5) and 55.8% vs 42.0% on Terminal-Bench 4.0. Same list price as Fable 5, 75% cheaper cache reads — about 25% cheaper typically, up to 45% on heavy agent runs. META 🔥: > Muse Voice Transcribe is live — MSL’s first real-time audio perception model. SOTA streaming speech-to-text, native diarization (20+ speakers) and endpointing in one model, multilingual with code-switching. Rolling out on the Meta Model API, Meta AI for Mac, and Muse Code. Zero-data-retention tier available. XAI 🔥: > Elon: “Grok 4.7 comes out in 10 days.” That’s ~Sept 12. Reply to Tobi on Grok 4.6. ALIBABA 🔥: > Qwen3.8-Max-0902 is live on QwenCloud. Same 2.4T / 1M-context Max line, with extra post-training on coding and cowork. $2 in / $6 out per 1M tokens. Arena has it #1# on Code Arena: WebDev at 1691 — 3 pts above Claude Opus 5 (Max) and 22 pts above the previous 3.8-Max. WORLD LABS 🔥: > Fei-Fei Li’s lab shipped Atlas, an omni world model. Few photos > pixel-perfect camera control, up to 1 min of 1440p video, plus 3D reconstruction (point clouds / Gaussian splats). Early access only; it will power future Marble. No paper, no public API yet. * Too much is happening, and I have some scoops planned for today, so I don't want to spam the algo. ** I used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing.

As an ambitious former hedge fund PM, now current entrepreneur, it's always been hard for me to turn my mind off. I got to a point maybe 10 years ago where I could really never relax, and it got to be too much. Even on the weekend, with my young kids, my mind was active with work problems and it was hard for me to be truly present to the moment. Not only is this a hard way to live, but I found myself showing up Monday morning intellectually fried. I eventually wore myself out so severely that I needed many months away from work to feel "normal" again. Maybe you feel this way. If you do, ahead of this holiday weekend, I wanted to two few rituals I've learned along the way that helped me. Ritual 1: Empty Your Head on Paper. Write for 3-5 minutes (pen and paper always best) about all the work-related problems still bouncing around in your head. People to call, ideas, problems, things you're worried about. Get it out of your head, onto paper. Even better, ask whatever higher entity feels personal to you to help you untie these knots over the weekend ("dear God/guides/Universe, here are a few things I am struggling with, please help me on these over the next 48 hours"). It's woo-woo, but it works, and I instantly feel better, like I've done something crafty but temporarily assigning my struggles to a higher, wiser entity. Those "aha" moments have a way of finding themselves into my brain come Sunday afternoon, and this sort of work can be just as or even more powerful than more hours behind a computer screen. Ritual 2: Self Talk, "I Did Enough This Week": Look at yourself in the mirror, and tell yourself, "you did enough this week...I did enough this week". Celebrate the progress you've made and what you completed, get into gratitude and thank yourself for all the progress you made. This shifts the anxiety of "I didn't do enough this week" to "you did enough this week", and that kindness with yourself will cause a subtle but important energy shift. Just be kind to yourself. High achievers are very good at flogging themselves into hard work. There's a time for that, too. But be kind to yourself as well. For me, when I'm busy (and I've been quite busy lately, working long hours), this stuff just makes me feel better. And even in the context of long hours, tight deadlines & big opportunities, just slightly, makes work feel a bit more like play. Try it out. Maybe it will work for you, too. I hope everyone has a great holiday weekend with their families. Mrs. Caughran on a sister trip so the Caughran boys are excited for the first ASU football game tomorrow night and riding our new jetskis on Lake Saguaro. Go Devils!