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Today we are announcing Genie 3, a general purpose world model that can generate an unprecedented diversity of interactive environments. Given a text prompt, Genie 3 can generate dynamic worlds...

J. R. R. Tolkien Collecting guides, forums, articles, and news. A database of Tolkien related collectibles, rare items, ephemera. A community of like-minded collectors who share ideas, trade, and stay informed of interesting Tolkien related news.

What makes venture studios succeed or fail — validated ideas, talent, and focused strategy make the difference. Venture studios have become a driving force in the global startup ecosystem, launching…

What Tocqueville, Aristotle, and Mill understood about human autonomy

PR TIMESで配信された株式会社富士通ローンチパッドのプレスリリース一覧です（最新配信日：2025年2月28日 13時50分）。株式会社富士通ローンチパッド｜富士通ローンチパッドは、富士通株式会社の東京を拠点とするベンチャースタジオ子会社です。企業ベンチャースタジオとして、ゼロから新しいベンチャーを創出し、プロダクトマーケットフィットの達成、利益を生み出す新規事業の成長を目指しています。現在、日本およびグローバルにおいて、多様な分野のベンチャーをインキュベートしています。

Product management is becoming the new bottleneck From Andrew Ng (co-creator of Google Brain)'s recent YC Startup School talk: "I don't see product management work becoming faster at the same speed as engineering. I'm seeing this ratio shift. Just yesterday, one of my teams came to me, and for the first time, when we're planning headcount for a project, this team proposed to me not to have 1:4 PM/engineers, but to have 1:0.5 PM/engineers. I still don't know if this is a good idea, but for the first time in my life, managers are proposing having twice as many PMs as engineers." Full talk here: https://lnkd.in/gju3d_CE

Venture studios are becoming a popular way to build & launch startups. But how do they really work? (#28)

Deepdive equips founders with an inside look at the financial metrics VCs use to evaluate their business.

- Sutton sees us as transitional artifacts - x-risk/EA types reduce the human good to bare survival or aggregates of pleasure and pain - e/accs reduce us to variables in a thermodynamic equation - Alex Wang calls

Announcing one of the winners of Cosmos Institute's essay contest

生成AI（人工知能）アプリケーションをノーコードで開発できるプラットフォーム「Dify（ディファイ/ディフィ）」が注目を集めている。現在、全世界で約500社の法人ユーザーを持つ。日本でも、リコーやサイバーエージェントなど大手企業が続々と社内活用を始めた。企業を越えた有志による勉強会も定期的に開催されている。Difyは米ラングジーニアスが2023年に公開したオープンソースの生成AIアプリ開発プラ

7 timeless essays you likely haven’t read but should

The most consequential figure of the 20th century

Open-source reading list from a discussion group hosted by the Liberty Fund

Make Music. Make Friends

The AI age demands a new kind of technologist

A playbook for creating an effective venture building program inside your organization

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.

My experience joining the United States DOGE Service as a software engineer, and what I learned along the way.

The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times