BREAKING: OpenAI has slashed its funding target by -$10 billion and its valuation by -$150 billion amid this week's technology stock selloff, per FT. OpenAI is now seeking to raise $20 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, down from $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation. The company set a deadline of today for investors to commit to the funding round. That "first close" is now expected to bring in less than $20 billion, after some of its investors lowered their allocations to the round. This comes just weeks before the expected Anthropic IPO.

I believe the most important role in society by far is the homeschooling mom. It is a privilege to be useful to them. And yes, we are rapidly expanding what Synthesis teaches, and will go through 8th grade.

Another beautiful to Sir Patrick Steward tribute that I ran across on Reddit If the creator of this would let me know, I am happy to flag it Collection of scenes from Star Trek: The Next Generation I'm not crying, you're crying! Paying tribute to a great actor and a fine human being

This is INSANE. Cisco’s president Jeetu Patel has given a 27-year-old engineer unlimited AI tokens to try to rewrite 98% of the company’s legacy code within 24 months, Fortune reports. Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy thinks he can do it with a two-person team. He has just four weeks to prove the approach.

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I’m now convinced our kids are being intentionally setup to fail by our education system American parent has her child show the new way they are being taught to do math This is the most insane thing you’ll ever see. You just need to see this for yourself…. Apparently this is called TouchMath and instead of doing math, you just count dots on letters No Math is being done here

China may be the FIRST country to burst the AI bubble. Its stock market, the world’s 2nd-largest, is now OFFICIALLY in a bear market. Its blue-chip CSI 300 has now fallen -20% from its peak. Mainland stocks have lost $2.4T since May. What caused? AI. Over the past 2 years, investors piled into Chinese AI stocks until they made up 42% of the entire market. That frenzy sent new listings flying. GPU makers Moore Threads and MetaX jumped 400% and 700% on their debuts, and robot maker Unitree’s IPO was 8,000x oversubscribed. By the peak, the STAR 50, China’s AI index, was trading near 250x earnings. But the profits never caught up to the prices, and investors started selling. By late October, the index had fallen 40%, erasing $480B. AI makers MiniMax and Zhipu down over -85%. Unitree, Moore Threads, and MetaX all cut in half. AI was too big to fall alone. It took the whole market with it. Moreso, Morgan Stanley sees another 10–15% drop before a bottom. So far, the selling CONTINUES.

AGIBOT Innovation Day 2026: Embodied AI, From Innovation to Real Work. 🤖 What does it take to turn embodied AI into real-world productivity? At AGIBOT Innovation Day 2026, we introduced Worken, a proposed framework for measuring the productive work robots perform in real-world environments — looking beyond deployment numbers to how autonomously and effectively they complete tasks. We also showcased advances across embodied AI: 🤖 AHA3 — our third-generation humanoid hardware architecture and first commercial “Three Intelligences in One” hardware platform 🏃 AGILE — advances in motion intelligence, including self-evolving agent capabilities 🧠 GO-3 Preview — our next-generation embodied AI foundation model 💬 WITA-Omni 1.0 — a multimodal foundation model for human-robot interaction 🏭 G2 Max — an industrial robot designed for demanding material-handling tasks in manufacturing and logistics 🌐 Link-U OS 1.0 — our embodied AI operating system, officially released at the event From hardware and models to industrial applications and commercial services, we continue to explore how embodied AI can translate into productive work. The next step isn't just smarter robots. It's more productive work. #AGIBOT# #Worken# #AGIBOTInnovationDay# #EmbodiedAI#

WAIT… I can’t believe Sam Altman really said this out loud about local AI: “A lot of people want local inference. And they assume that the problem is solved now because we are going to have open source models. And so we're not going to need all the stuff in the data center. But from a global allocation perspective, actually, it's quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer. And, being used 5% of the time.” this is such a bizarre thing to say in the open. I don’t get why people buying hardware for their own use is framed as a competition with data centers spending billions to buy hardware at scale. if anyone should be complaining about how the world’s memory is allocated, it must be the average consumers facing the skyrocketing hardware prices. it just doesn’t make any sense.

I joined @GoogleDeepMind to develop a research program on the economics of AGI. Today, together with Andrew Koh (@andrewjkoh) and Shane Legg (@ShaneLegg), we are incredibly excited to release The Economics of Intelligence, the first in a series of projects from our group on how AGI will change the economy. How do capability improvements transform the economy, and when? In this project, we define thresholds of economic capabilities, e.g., minimal AGI, based on how they transform the economy. We then track how the economy–market structure, employment, and wages–changes during the transition across capability regimes. We have seen exponential increases in what AI agents can do but the broader economy seems almost remarkably unchanged. Part of the reason is that the solo AI agent is the wrong economic object; economic transformation is an equilibrium outcome where organizations compete. Looking at how intelligence functions within organizations, transformation will depend on when two key capability thresholds are crossed: competence (gains on individual skills, e.g., coding, math) and coordination (gains on ability of agents to cooperate and work together). We show that what economic transformation looks like depends on whether AI becomes supercompetent, supercooperative, or both—the regime of artificial superintelligence (ASI). Tracking this transition shows why the real visible transformation may come from improvements in coordination—a capability most benchmarks don’t yet track. Past a certain threshold, AI capabilities can break the Coasian ceiling on firm size and lead to an economy that looks drastically different than the one we see today. Two main takeaways: 1. To understand the path of transformation, we should be tracking agentic coordination more closely. 2. The impact of AI will likely show up in wages before market structure or employment. We are really excited about this paper. Excited to hear people’s thoughts. Link:

I am speechless. Thomas Aquinas College just dropped a study on the rigor of the new SAT. It compares the 1980/87 test with 2026. The findings should terrify every parent and teacher... Vocabulary has collapsed. Old SAT: 70.6% of questions tested vocab. New SAT: 15%. The old test forced students to know a wide range of words through analogies, antonyms, and sentence completions. The new test abandoned that. Most vocab questions now just ask students to fill in one blank from context. Reading passages also got radically shorter (average ~97 words vs 300–340). The new test uses short expository passages and hands you the necessary background knowledge inside the text. The older tests leaned much more heavily on argumentative and persuasive writing, assumed far more historical, scientific, and cultural knowledge, and penalized students who lacked it. This is a redefinition of what "college readiness" means. If you believe that kids should develop rigorous vocabulary, be capable of sustained reading, and possess background knowledge, I have bad news for you. The SAT no longer measures these. If you want a future where children can actually read difficult texts and construct complex arguments, the SAT must be replaced now. This cannot go on.

SCOOP: Both Moonshot and DeepSeek distilled #OpenAI#'s Astra when developing their latest models (Kimi K3.1 & V4.1-Flash 1017), after Anthropic intensified the crackdown on distillation recently. w/ @JuroOsawa @QianerLiu via @theinformation

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Tuition costs at private schools in San Francisco according to the SF Chronicle Average private high school in the city is $56k per year. Middle school $30k and elementary $28k The Catholic schools on this list stand out as having substantially lower tuition and many are regarded as being some of the top schools in the city