The latest on what I'm seeing / hearing this afternoon on the banking contagion, and what people are doing (and what I've mentioned to folks) Sorry for the all the threads, but so much to discuss! 🧵

BREAKING: "Depositors will have access to all of their money starting Monday, March 13. No losses associated with the resolution of Silicon Valley Bank will be borne by the taxpayer."

Great to see this recent announcement that all depositors will be made while #SVB federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pre…

Thanks Global National Anne Gaviola for allowing me to set the record straight about #SVB and it’s importance to the startup ecosystem in Canada.

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The smartest person in the meeting starts every sentence with “As an AI language model…”

I’m not an #American but something about Jon Stewart as US president just feels right. Maybe we can convince Eugene Levy to run for PM in #Canada…

This commentary captures the complexity of the dilemma faced by the US and other western allies of Canada very well. wsj.com/articles/who-k…

This one hit deep. So many of us arrived in Toronto as immigrants or the children of immigrants. Like Elon Musk, we all got our shot here. For this, we are all eternally grateful. Go beyond the cliches, and Canada is a platform for ideas and unbound potential.

In 10 words or less, why are LLM’s so powerful? Language encodes and compresses reasoning. Reasoning leads to emergent capabilities.

I don’t know what is harder to believe, Snoop Dog giving up weed, or Sam getting sacked from Open AI.

#GPTtell I’m immediately suspicious when anything is “scaling new heights”