ICML frenzy!

Industry

  • [Tweet] OpenAI music model named Sonata?

  • [Blog] OpenAI revenue directly related to compute. Compute is the scarcest resource.

  • [Tweet] Claude Code was built in 1.5 weeks.

  • [Blog] Energy hiring and acquisitions.

  • [Tweet] From product-led to agent-led growth.

Paper

  • [Paper] Pool tables are Turing-complete.

  • [Paper] Recursive Language Models. Extra-long context can be viewed as external environment, subject to tool calls and recursive LM calls.

  • [Blog] iOS<14.8 vulnerability where the JBIG2 image parser could overflow when collecting referenced segments, essentially allowing an attacker to use the image parser’s logical operators (AND, OR, XOR, etc) to build a Turing-complete computer inside an image file.

Other

  • [Link] The startup graveyard. Plenty of dead startups.

  • [Blog] Paul Graham on Founder Mode.

  • [Tweet] Growth playbook. Build a system to test enough candidates to find the outlier.

Have a great week!

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