Chinese drone maker DJI, the world's biggest drone producer, is disabling geofencing in the U.S. You can now fly your drone over airports, military bases, prisons, infrastructure, wildfires, and the White House, if you want. This is a gloves off move by China. viewpoints.dji.com/blog/geo-sys...

It’s incredible that Elon Musk could get a 60 year old government agency with a $50 billion budget shutdown overnight.

The entire website is now just a farewell message.

There I was thinking no one would ever match the value Elon destroyed almost overnight by buying Twitter. He proved me wrong.

Not an easy chart to read, but worth spending a minute on. It tells you a few key things:
1) Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking sets a new high in price-performance, better than DeepSeek r1 (on ELO) and cheaper
2) The cost of GPT-4 capability dropped 1,000 fold in 18 months
3) Pace of improvement is swift

wrote about Deep Research, which is very, very good at doing nuanced and complex research.

It is also the first narrow agent that can do sophisticated and likely quite economically valuable work, which tells us something important about the future. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...

List of CDC information that appears to have been taken down so far:
1. CDC Atlas
2. CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
3. HRSA Target
4. Language removed for LGBT work
5. CDC Social Vulnerability Index

Here's the roster of youths carrying out Elon Musk's government takeover.

Recent high school grads and interns from SpaceX, Palantir, Meta, Neuralink, and xAI, and an engineer for a high-frequency trading firm.

By @telliotter.bsky.social:

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