Happy Fourth! I love this quote from a monument in Washington Square in Philadelphia: "Freedom is a light for which many men have died in darkness."

This Fourth of July, let us reflect with gratitude on the extraordinary nation in which we are privileged to live in. The Fourth is not just a celebration of our independence. It is a celebration of the enduring principles that define America: liberty, the rule of law, the

My favorite edits: - changed “a people” to “one people” - changed “We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable” to “We hold these truths to be self-evident” Also, further down in the full draft, the word “subjects” is crossed out and changed to “citizens” Just beautiful

Happy Fourth of July! #Veo3

User gives AI their medical data and discovers a 10+ year issue doctors couldn’t figure out before. AI Agents will be able to process vastly more context about a patient than any human could, leading to far more of these outcomes in the future. Context is king.

As AI transforms society, the Vatican brings a distinct voice—treating it not just as a technical issue, but one of human dignity, agency, and personhood. Shane Tews spoke with Paolo Benanti, AI advisor to the Vatican, about the Church’s role in shaping global AI ethics. Explore

joining Sesame as head of design today! when I first met Brendan Iribe a few months ago, his vision for sesame and his way of talking about design and craft inspired me. felt the same when i met Nate Mitchell. couldn’t be more excited to build with this amazing team.

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” — Fred Rogers

Opportunity Zones are now permanent! The new framework brings certainty to a policy that’s already sparked ~$100B in private investment We’re reviewing what this means for Utah & how we can help make economic growth reach every neighborhood 🇺🇸 eig.org/eig-hails-pass…

'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

Today we published a targeted transparency framework for frontier AI development. Our framework focuses on major frontier model developers while exempting startups and smaller developers to avoid burdening the broader ecosystem.

Against "Brain Damage", by Ethan Mollick oneusefulthing.org/p/against-brai…

As models advance, a key AI safety concern is deceptive alignment / "scheming" – where AI might covertly pursue unintended goals. Our paper "Evaluating Frontier Models for Stealth and Situational Awareness" assesses whether current models can scheme. arxiv.org/abs/2505.01420

State school test score data releases begin! Follow the Education Data Center on Substack for updates. First up: Florida statetestscoreresults.substack.com/p/florida-2025…

Big news: We’re proud to support the launch of the Center for Pediatric CRISPR Cures at UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley which will bring personalized CRISPR cures to children with rare genetic diseases. 🔗 chanzuckerberg.com/newsroom/cente…

"The race is on, ready or not" Important insights from my colleague James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️.

Arbor removes CO₂ while also producing clean electricity. We're excited to announce a $41M offtake between Arbor and Frontier buyers: frontierclimate.com/writing/arbor

"It taught me how to play with great players and made the game easy playing with them." Cooper Flagg, liammcneeley, derik queen, and Asa Newell reflect on their experience at Montverde Academy 💯

for every 10 likes, I will make this statement more analytic philosophy-like: “What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

New Anthropic research: Why do some language models fake alignment while others don't? Last year, we found a situation where Claude 3 Opus fakes alignment. Now, we’ve done the same analysis for 25 frontier LLMs—and the story looks more complex.