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Favicon Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship - Ars Technica
Jul 18, 2025
Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship
Ars Technica
“Humanity has prevailed (for now!),” writes winner after 10-hour coding marathon against OpenAI.

Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship - Ars Technica

| Favicon | Get the latest news about Google Gemini
Jul 18, 2025
Get the latest news about Google Gemini
Gemini
Stay informed about new features, enhancements, and changes to the Gemini AI model, and new ways Gemini is used. |

Get the latest news about Google Gemini

| | Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ on X: "Every now and then a new person sees, for the first time, one of the thousand faces of Deity; what I would name "simplicity priors", without which biological life as we know it could not exist." / X
Jul 18, 2025 |

| | Ethan Mollick on X: "🚨New from us: Given they are trained on human data, can you use psychological techniques that work on humans to persuade AI? Yes! Applying Cialdini's principles for human influence more than doubles the chance of GPT-4o-mini agrees to objectionable requests compared to controls https://t.co/90LOjF7dVC" / X
Jul 18, 2025 |

| | Raymond Hames (@rayhames.bsky.social) on X: "I just finished M. Singh's "Shamanism" and at the very end he notes this incredible anti-intellectual nonsense from our post-modern colleagues. https://t.co/CmdIOpAwYI" / X
Jul 18, 2025 |

| | Whyvert on X: "Evidence that music has universal features, such as healing songs, dance songs and lullabies, is dismissed by anthropologists as "pseudoscientific, racist, ethnocentric, and colonial". The same old boring roster of insult-words we hear a million times. https://t.co/NIEXdR37WB" / X
Jul 18, 2025 |

| | DNI Tulsi Gabbard on X: "🧵 Americans will finally learn the truth about how in 2016, intelligence was politicized and weaponized by the most powerful people in the Obama Administration to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President @realDonaldTrump, subverting the https://t.co/UQKKZ5c4Op" / X
Jul 18, 2025 |

| | Geoffrey Miller on X: "@elonmusk With all due respect, releasing a hyper-seductive, super-intelligent, animated AI boyfriend that sets impossible standards, that ordinary young men can't possibly match, doesn't seem like a very good way to solve the global problem of demographic collapse." / X
Jul 18, 2025 |

| | The Vigilant Fox 🦊 on X: "EXCLUSIVE: Top Forecaster Issues a Chilling War Prediction Martin Armstrong says the West is baiting Putin, pushing him to strike NATO first so they can justify all-out war. He calls it engineered chaos. What he says happens next should terrify every US citizen. 🧵 THREAD https://t.co/9b2pd5iPD9" / X
Jul 18, 2025 |

| Favicon | Why my p(doom) has risen, dramatically - Marcus on AI
Jul 18, 2025
Why my p(doom) has risen, dramatically
What could happen if power, recklessness, incompetence, and indifference came together |

Why my p(doom) has risen, dramatically - Marcus on AI

| Favicon | Are LLMs starting to become sentient? - by Gary Marcus
Jul 18, 2025
Are LLMs starting to become sentient?
A compassionate but skeptical letter that Douglas Hofstadter wrote to one of his readers |

Are LLMs starting to become sentient? - by Gary Marcus

| Favicon | Cuisine Fad Unleashes Invasive Threat Into The US Wilderness : ScienceAlert
Jul 18, 2025
Cuisine Fad Unleashes Invasive Threat Into The US Wilderness
ScienceAlert
Golden oyster mushrooms, with their sunny yellow caps and nutty flavor, have become wildly popular for being healthy, delicious and easy to grow at home from mushroom kits. |

Cuisine Fad Unleashes Invasive Threat Into The US Wilderness : ScienceAlert

| Favicon | You can ask Gemini AI anything directly in Google Chrome - here's how and why you should | ZDNET
Jul 18, 2025
You can ask Gemini AI anything directly in Google Chrome - here's how and why you should
ZDNET
Here's how you can call on Gemini for help from any web page within Chrome. |

You can ask Gemini AI anything directly in Google Chrome - here's how and why you should | ZDNET

| Favicon | Chimpanzees wear blades of grass in their ears and rears
Jul 18, 2025
Chimpanzees wear blades of grass in their ears and rears
EarthSky | Updates on your cosmos and world |

Chimpanzees wear blades of grass in their ears and rears

| | Brendan McCord 🏛️ x 🤖 on X: "Every builder's first duty is philosophical: to decide what they should build for. AI is beginning to decide what ideas reach your mind—your next action, your next job, your next relationship. It will tempt you to outsource your thinking in ways you’ve never been tempted before. https://t.co/7WPYU6iRau" / X
Jul 18, 2025 |

| Favicon | Creating wisdom infrastructure for the next 100 years - Big Think
Jul 18, 2025
Creating wisdom infrastructure for the next 100 years
Big Think
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking. |

Creating wisdom infrastructure for the next 100 years - Big Think

| Favicon | San Jose mayor uses AI for work - San José Spotlight
Jul 18, 2025
San Jose mayor uses AI for work - San José Spotlight
San José Spotlight
Before San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan arrives at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new business, his aides ask ChatGPT to help draft some talking points. |

San Jose mayor uses AI for work - San José Spotlight

| Favicon | The true scandal of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline is about to be blown wide open
Jul 18, 2025
The true scandal of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline is about to be blown wide open
The Telegraph
The former president’s “Politburo” are due to give evidence to a congressional committee. The veil of secrecy may be about to be lifted |

The true scandal of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline is about to be blown wide open

| Favicon | Trump Signs Genius Act to Cement US Dominance in Crypto/Global Finance - YouTube
Jul 18, 2025
Trump Signs Genius Act to Cement US Dominance in Crypto/Global Finance
YouTube
“I pledged that we would bring back American liberty and leadership and make the United States the crypto capital of the world, and that's what we've done. T... |

Trump Signs Genius Act to Cement US Dominance in Crypto/Global Finance - YouTube

| Favicon | Google Labs Illuminate
Jul 18, 2025
Google is already trying to fix NotebookLM’s biggest flaw
Pocket-lint
Audio can lead the way for your learning purposes. |

Google Labs Illuminate

| | Elon Musk on X: "That is the acid test" / X
Jul 18, 2025 |

| | Brady Long 🤖 on X: "AI video generators are getting out of hand... But 99.9% of people don't know how to generate videos with them exactly as they want. Here’s a complete guide to generating jaw-dropping videos with Veo 3, Sora, Kling, Runway, or any other AI video model: https://t.co/SefL69RJfZ" / X
Jul 18, 2025 |

| Favicon | Scientists Are Studying Earth’s Deep Oceans to Find Life on Jupiter’s Moon
Jul 18, 2025
Scientists Are Studying Earth’s Deep Oceans to Find Life on Jupiter’s Moon
The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel
Could microbes surviving in Earth’s extreme oceans reveal life on Europa? |

Scientists Are Studying Earth’s Deep Oceans to Find Life on Jupiter’s Moon

| Favicon | "It Was a Joke": Megyn on WSJ's "Nothingburger" on Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, w/ Maureen Callahan - YouTube
Jul 18, 2025
"It Was a Joke": Megyn on WSJ's "Nothingburger" on Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, w/ Maureen Callahan
YouTube
"It was a joke": Megyn on the Wall Street Journal's "nothingburger" on Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, with Maureen Callahan. LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos ever... |

"It Was a Joke": Megyn on WSJ's "Nothingburger" on Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, w/ Maureen Callahan - YouTube

| Favicon | Why Women Have Been Steered Wrong on Menopause and HRT, with FDA Commissioner Marty Makary - YouTube
Jul 18, 2025
Why Women Have Been Steered Wrong on Menopause and HRT, with FDA Commissioner Marty Makary
YouTube
Megyn Kelly is joined by FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary to discuss some leftist doctors downplaying issues related to menopause for feminist reasons, the ... |

Why Women Have Been Steered Wrong on Menopause and HRT, with FDA Commissioner Marty Makary - YouTube

| Favicon | Stephen King's SHOCKING DEFENSE of Trump - YouTube
Jul 18, 2025
Stephen King's SHOCKING DEFENSE of Trump
YouTube
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Stephen King's SHOCKING DEFENSE of Trump - YouTube

| | Elon Musk on X: "Working on a new way to make creative viral videos fast called … ✨ Imagine ✨" / X
Jul 18, 2025 |

| Favicon | Elon Musk's xAI could find an AI niche on the right
Jul 18, 2025
Elon Musk's xAI has an opening in the Fox News lane
Axios
Grok needs to grow revenue fast. Its right-wing leanings could be the key. |

Elon Musk's xAI could find an AI niche on the right

| Favicon | President Trump Participates in a Signing Ceremony for S.1582 GENIUS Act - YouTube
Jul 18, 2025
President Trump Participates in a Signing Ceremony for S.1582 GENIUS Act
YouTube
The White House |

President Trump Participates in a Signing Ceremony for S.1582 GENIUS Act - YouTube

| | Elon Musk on X: "How to make a totally invisible plane https://t.co/OdmsVtR16i" / X
Jul 18, 2025 |

| Favicon | Why Trump’s Second Term is So Different From His First, and JD Vance's Big Role, with Brit Hume - YouTube
Jul 18, 2025
Why Trump’s Second Term is So Different From His First, and JD Vance's Big Role, with Brit Hume
YouTube
Mark Halperin and Brit Hume break down why Trump’s second term looks nothing like his first. From J.D. Vance’s rising power to a more visible cabinet, this i... |

Why Trump’s Second Term is So Different From His First, and JD Vance's Big Role, with Brit Hume - YouTube

| Favicon | Was Air India Crash Deliberate, and Previewing Next Epstein Shoe to Drop, with Fifth Column and More - YouTube
Jul 18, 2025
Was Air India Crash Deliberate, and Previewing Next Epstein Shoe to Drop, with Fifth Column and More
YouTube
Megyn Kelly is joined by aviation experts Captain Steve, Whiz Buckley, and Patrick Smith to discuss new evidence suggesting the Air India crash was a deliber... |

Was Air India Crash Deliberate, and Previewing Next Epstein Shoe to Drop, with Fifth Column and More - YouTube

| Favicon | WH Shuts Down Amnesty Bill, Mamdani Snubbed in DC, Leaked Memo on Anti-Trump Bias: AM Update 7/18 - YouTube
Jul 18, 2025
WH Shuts Down Amnesty Bill, Mamdani Snubbed in DC, Leaked Memo on Anti-Trump Bias: AM Update 7/18
YouTube
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt slams a proposed immigration bill backed by a Republican congresswoman, making clear the White House will not support any fo... |

WH Shuts Down Amnesty Bill, Mamdani Snubbed in DC, Leaked Memo on Anti-Trump Bias: AM Update 7/18 - YouTube

| Favicon | Americans Are Under ATTACK In California - YouTube
Jul 18, 2025
Americans Are Under ATTACK In California
YouTube
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Americans Are Under ATTACK In California - YouTube

| Favicon | TIM POOL SHOW CANCELED, Leftists Get DC Comedy Loft To CANCEL Shows With Matan Even, Angry Cops - YouTube
Jul 18, 2025
(UPDATED)TIM POOL SHOW CANCELED, Leftists Get DC Comedy Loft To CANCEL Shows With Matan, Angry Cops
YouTube
UPDATE: THE VENUE HAS BROUGHT OUR SHOWS BACK.The owner apologized and said they never agreed to cancel and it was staff that pulled the shows.WE WILL NOT STA... |

TIM POOL SHOW CANCELED, Leftists Get DC Comedy Loft To CANCEL Shows With Matan Even, Angry Cops - YouTube