I have many times demoed a new voice agent to my family in a noisy environment. In the privacy of my office, where my voice is the only voice the AI can hear, these things go very, very well.

However, when you place that same product into a coffee shop or a restaurant or a car, and other voices begin to react as they hear either the lack of quality or the incredible quality, the demo breaks down terribly. The AI can't tell which voice to listen to and has a very difficult time separating the background noise from the purpose noise.

I've been using Krisp probably since the first week of its launch as a noise cancellation tool on my computer. They are, in my mind, the very best people to try and solve this problem. It sounds like they may have done that.

The specifications on this 2 TB portable SSD are ridiculous. I remember our first large hard drive at my first company. By "large," I mean, 500 MB. It was a beast. It was so big that we named it after a desert. We named the hard drive, "Sahara."

That was forty years ago. At the time, we thought we could never use all of the space on that hard drive. Of course, we burned through it quickly and bought another large one. We named it after another desert, Mojave. I could never have imagined where we'd be today.

I think I probably am like a lot of people. A very cheap laptop sends a signal to my brain. When my children were younger, so they could each have a device to work with, we chose Chromebooks. They were cheap in every way. They just felt different. So when Apple came out with their MacBook Neo, my brain automatically heads to those experiences.

Now, I've worked with Apple products since 1984. My experience should have taught me that that is not something that Apple would produce. This article indicates that my experience with Apple, not Chromebooks, should have been my guide. I'll need to touch a MacBook Neo myself to understand what a quality $599 product feels like.

“Under the proposed agreement, eligible U.S. customers who purchased the iPhone 15 or iPhone 16 between June 10, 2024 and March 29, 2025 could receive up to $95 per device.”

If you purchased an iPhone 15 or 16 during this time, you qualify for compensation under a $250 million settlement for Apple promising AI capabilities it did not deliver.

From the article, "it’s possible Sabi’s founders have massively underestimated how advanced their brain foundation model really is." Ya think?

Do VC's just have too much money? Even a quick look at the established science around this would lead me to run in the other direction. It took all of five minutes to find the real science.

Most of the good results come from surgically implanted electrode arrays sitting directly on the motor cortex of a single patient with extensive per-subject calibration. That is the high-water mark, invasive, single-user-tuned, in a clinical setting. Sabi's claim is comparable performance, non-invasively, off-the-shelf, generalized across users, in a beanie. I'm more than a bit skeptical.

This guys wants you to buy his house with Anthropic stock. The San Francisco Standard reports that Duncan described this as a “diversification play,” as he’s “under-concentrated in AI investments relative to the importance of AI in the future, and over-concentrated in real estate,” while a young Anthropic employee might be “in the exact opposite scenario.”