Netizen: 12: Trade War

Monday, May 12, 2025

12: Trade War

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Another huge week of AI and robotics news.

So, I summarized everything from OpenAI, Google, Meta, Microsoft, FutureHouse, Mistral, Unitree, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Hugging Face, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it:
— Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett) May 11, 2025

OpenAI ditched its for-profit push, saying it will convert its existing for-profit arm into a PBC but keep its non-profit in control with a majority stake

This comes after pressure from several ex-employees and an ongoing legal battle pic.twitter.com/sfUeybV7vi
— Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett) May 11, 2025

Google updated two key models:

—Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O Edition), with video understanding and improvements for UI, code, and agentic workflows

—Gemini 2.0 Flash image generation with improved quality, text rendering, and fewer content restrictionspic.twitter.com/ohdNLIKqUL
— Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett) May 11, 2025

Beyond Motion: How Robots Will Redefine The Art Of Movement
ChatGPT For Business: A Workbook
Becoming an AI-First Organization
Quantum Computing: Applications And Implications
Challenges In AI Safety
AI-Era Social Network: Reimagined for Truth, Trust & Transformation

Meta dropped two new models:

—Perception Language Model, an open AI for visual tasks like extracting details of a subject's actions at a given time

—Locate 3D, an object localization AI, aimed at helping robots understand and interact with surroundingspic.twitter.com/bszNjjdL1E
— Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett) May 11, 2025

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt-backed FutureHouse dropped five 'AI Scientist' agents:

—Crow for general research
—Falcon for deep literature reviews
—Owl for identifying previous research
—Phoenix for chemistry workflows
—Finch for discovery in biologypic.twitter.com/prDJf1KRyz
— Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett) May 11, 2025

Stanford researchers debuted a Teleoperated Whole-Body Imitation System (TWIST)

It enables coordinated, versatile, whole-body movements of humanoids, using a single neural network

This will enable functional general-purpose robots in different domains!pic.twitter.com/gEn48ABq9Z
— Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett) May 11, 2025

Yes https://t.co/E5ekn8usJo
— gorklon rust (@elonmusk) May 11, 2025

🚨 Tesla $TSLA is officially a trillion dollar stock (once again) pic.twitter.com/dGZWY3zlzW
— TESLARATI (@Teslarati) May 12, 2025

If Trump cuts prescription drug prices by 30-80%, I will give him all the credit in the world. And I won't care if anyone on the left cries about it. But he has to actually do it! Don't give him credit until it's done! He loves to make promises for marketing and then not do them.
— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) May 12, 2025

If Trump is serious about making real change rather than just issuing a press release, he will support legislation I will introduce to ensure we pay no more for prescription drugs than people in other major countries.

If we come together, we can get it passed in a few weeks. pic.twitter.com/GtJC2aWSby
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) May 12, 2025

It’s been almost five years to the day since the idea first hit me.

I was working at Goldman Sachs, watching wealthy clients grow their fortunes. There was nothing magical about it — they just had the one thing that mattered most: capital to compound. pic.twitter.com/265uCx1GJW
— Abdul Al-Asaad (@Abude_al_asaad) May 12, 2025

Actually, @kimbal and @ToscaMusk also graduated with over $100,000 in debt. During those years, I was living in a rent-controlled apartment in Toronto, and was a research officer at the University Of Toronto. I had a dietetic practice, and modeled part time. My income could… https://t.co/dHVA7vRACQ
— Maye Musk (@mayemusk) May 12, 2025

Unfortunately, this was true https://t.co/wCbkMZ9pBD
— gorklon rust (@elonmusk) May 11, 2025

Moderna unified the role of CTO and head of people - the new leader determines which jobs are better done by humans or AI.

It's among the first in what will very likely be a series of org chart reimaginings. pic.twitter.com/GGM3zB5FtD
— Tomasz Tunguz (@ttunguz) May 12, 2025

The whole system prompt of Claude has been leaked on GitHub, 24,000 tokens long.

It defines model behavior, tool use, and citation format. pic.twitter.com/gHWeE5NFDy
— Lior⚡ (@LiorOnAI) May 11, 2025

Letting my wife sleep in a little longer for Mother’s Day before we wake her up and ask what’s for breakfast.
— Douglas A. Boneparth (@dougboneparth) May 11, 2025

It’s about power and controlling every aspect of life, not religion. There are centuries of writings on whether this or that religion forbids chess or other games of skill (often distinct from games of chance). Read Murray on chess in Islam. This is just typical Taliban thuggery. https://t.co/01HgOpaaXT
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) May 12, 2025

Woodstock for AI happening June 16-17 in San Francisco https://t.co/o1yBNZFYIZ
— Garry Tan (@garrytan) May 12, 2025

“I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten.”
Joel 2:25
— Ryan Salzer (@salzer_ryan) May 12, 2025

Homeownership is out of reach for too many Americans. We need to pass my Stop Wall Street Landlords Act to rein in private equity. https://t.co/YpmNX3yvwY
— Rep. Ro Khanna (@RepRoKhanna) May 12, 2025

More evidence from Denmark that AI does not instantly change work, that depends on organizations figuring out how to use it:
1) Companies that encourage use see more adoption and more impact
2) As of 2024, no overall impact on wages or employment.

Tech is fast; process is slow. pic.twitter.com/yAqMi4YKRn
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) May 12, 2025

After 3 years of wait, calculations and precise astronomical timing, Leonardo Sens captured this photo pic.twitter.com/RFOEDYkP2Q
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) May 12, 2025

BREAKING: Google has officially announced the launch of its AI Futures Fund

> a new initiative aimed at investing in startups that are building with the latest AI tools from Google DeepMind pic.twitter.com/NDXIH15yUp
— NIK (@ns123abc) May 12, 2025

When I was living in Berlin, I was amazed when spring finally arrived - after a cold, bleak winter - and the city was transformed by thousands of cherry blossom trees. I was so curious about how that came to be.

It turns out that in 1990, after the joy of reunification, a… pic.twitter.com/jmAFy8r5dn
— Lisa Wehden (@lisawehden) May 11, 2025

Nothing about getting Air Force One from a foreign government feels right. It may be legal, but I wouldn’t do it.

Air Force One should be American through and through. It shouldn’t pass through foreign hands and it shouldn’t be a gift from a King.

Don’t do it.
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) May 12, 2025

Charlie , you aren't close. Drug prices are too damn high. But the big culprit isn't the brand manufacturers, it's the big middlemen. Namely PBMs. They work so hard to distort pricing the first lines in their contracts with everyone is "you can't disclose any of this "

How bad… https://t.co/oMnlvlOPtl
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) May 12, 2025

Feels like a friend died pic.twitter.com/OqSXEz7fzp
— Justine Moore (@venturetwins) May 12, 2025

Notable that Trump is not letting Bibi’s opposition to hostage deals prevent him from getting American citizens out of Gaza. Biden always deferred to Bibi even though U.S. lives were at stake https://t.co/69SNTudwJ5
— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) May 12, 2025

You are getting bipartisan applause for this. The India Pakistan ceasefire has given you wind.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2025

‘Donald Trump will also claim he won the World Cup single handedly, invented the Internet, landed on the moon..’ sharp words from @mrubin1971 . Must listen. https://t.co/v99in20rcf
— Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) May 12, 2025

🤡🤡🤡 pro max ultra https://t.co/K14SLZufwA
— Kunal Bahl (@1kunalbahl) May 12, 2025

President Trump says he might join Russia-Ukraine talks in Turkey on Thursday. “I would fly there if i thought it would he helpful,” he said.
— Steve Holland (@steveholland1) May 12, 2025

a wild ride
us/china tariffs since february

with the united states leading escalation
and deescalation pic.twitter.com/vXWzIH2bs1
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) May 12, 2025

BOEING CAN'T BUILD A NEW AIR FORCE ONE.

That's the buried lede. It's the central problem.
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) May 12, 2025

Was thinking today that if Google didn’t kill off Google Reader it would have been like the ultimate resource for LLMs

One of the AI labs should build the best RSS reader ever

Or maybe we should do it 🤔
— Emad (@EMostaque) May 12, 2025

Should it not be the opposite?
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2025

It took four months of pissing off the entire world, but we made it back to right where we started.
— Douglas A. Boneparth (@dougboneparth) May 12, 2025

Today on @CNN @Kasie asked me, who blinked Trump or China? I think it's very clear that it's President @realDonaldTrump who blinked. We had said that we were determined to impose these policies for an indefinite period. China didn't make any consequential or significant change in…
— Lawrence H. Summers (@LHSummers) May 12, 2025

S&P 500 is now higher than it was on Liberation Day.

Tariffs are still being implemented and the trade playing field is getting more equal daily.

The anti-tariff crowd must be in disbelief.
— Anthony Pompliano 🌪 (@APompliano) May 12, 2025

Sounds very ambitious. But makes sense to split the hardware and the software of robotics, just like with PCs. Might mean faster progress.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2025

So few women actually understand how their cycle works. We’ve become totally disconnected from our bodies.

Part of it is the excessive use of birth control which essentially shuts down your monthly hormonal cycle.

The other reason is tech. When you’re staring at a screen all…
— Preethi Kasireddy (@iam_preethi) May 12, 2025

You can now export your deep research reports as well-formatted PDFs—complete with tables, images, linked citations, and sources.

Just click the share icon and select 'Download as PDF.' It works for both new and past reports. pic.twitter.com/kecIR4tEne
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) May 12, 2025

Scaled Foundations is now General Robotics.

We’re building general-purpose intelligence for every robot. Across any scenario in the physical world.

Blog: https://t.co/gsRC3OK0Yz
— Ashish Kapoor (@akapoor_av8r) May 12, 2025

But China is also the biggest car buyer!

This year, China will BUY more cars than America and Europe combined. https://t.co/Kz6GZ9xE4n
— gorklon rust (@elonmusk) May 11, 2025

By enabling high-speed, low-latency and affordable Internet globally, Starlink will do more to educate and lift people out of poverty than any NGO ever
— gorklon rust (@elonmusk) May 11, 2025

As a military kid, I don't speculate publicly on war. Besides a few, absolutely no one has all the information that's both correct and timely. I will however say a few things that I've learned in conversations over the last few days with some of the people who are in the know and…
— Hemant Mohapatra (@MohapatraHemant) May 11, 2025

Very few people realize that Europe’s entire electricity needs can be met with solar panels covering an area less than the size of the island of Sicily!

Battery packs can cover the energy needed during the night. https://t.co/CTtbrPvvNy
— gorklon rust (@elonmusk) May 11, 2025

Z-E-R-O!
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2025

Future Starships will be even bigger https://t.co/3pJ83cssEj
— gorklon rust (@elonmusk) May 12, 2025

The Top Developments In AI In 2025 So Far https://t.co/HHED9MCOso
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 12, 2025

(labour) british pm keir starmer says he will bring down migration, end the country’s “failed experiment in open borders”

“we risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together.”pic.twitter.com/8OfPFu3TIe
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) May 12, 2025

OpenAI for programming a robot: https://t.co/lXy0gyyOy6
— Greg Brockman (@gdb) May 12, 2025

An inspirational address to the nation by PM @narendramodi this evening. #OperationSindoor: A promise redeemed.

Peace through strength; strength through action.

Jai Hind, Jai Bharat.

🇮🇳 https://t.co/I3hdFY5AHS
— Dr. S. Jaishankar (@DrSJaishankar) May 12, 2025

Dow soars 1,000 points after Trump team and China dramatically lower tariffs
Donald Trump Scores Four Diplomatic Victories a ceasefire between nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan; the prospect of talks between Kyiv and Moscow over the war in Ukraine, and the announcement of a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs between China and the U.S. ........... Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades military wing spokesperson Abu Obeida said that Edan Alexander will be freed on Monday from the Gaza Strip........... Trump was thanked in a statement by Alexander's family which said "on Mother's Day, we received the greatest gift imaginable—news that our beautiful son Edan is returning home after 583 days in captivity in Gaza." ........

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said both sides agreed to pause their reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, bringing their rates down by 115 percentage points.

........ The deal would see tariffs imposed on Chinese goods fall to 30 percent, and those imposed on U.S. goods by Beijing to 10 percent, with further negotiations underway. ........
He said it was striking how quickly it happened—suggesting both sides were more economically boxed in than they let on.
......... Trump was the first to announce a truce between Pakistan and India, following U.S.-talks. Although hours after the agreement was announced, India accused Pakistan of "repeated violations," as of Monday, the ceasefire appeared to holding. .......... Trump praised the leaders of both countries for agreeing to halt the aggression, posting on Truth Social he would "substantially" increase trade with them. ......... He also said he would work with both sides to see if "a solution can be arrived at concerning Kashmir." ......... Putin's proposal followed a demand by Kyiv's allies on Saturday that Russia agree to an unconditional 30-day ceasefire or face "massive" new sanctions. This position was endorsed on Sunday by Trump's Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg. .......... This would make sense if Moscow had some hint that the White House is going to be more specific about what walking away from talks means as it has threatened ........ The diplomatic developments give Trump a boost as he starts his trip to the Middle East on Monday in his first major foreign trip of his second presidency during which he is scheduled to visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE.

T 5377 - Alertness is a virtue every Mumbaikar should possess.
Stay Alert, Stay Safe!#AlertMumbaikarSafeMumbai pic.twitter.com/QONkJF8Ckk
— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) May 12, 2025

We've just released HealthBench — a new eval for AI systems for health.

Developed with 262 physicians who have practiced in 60 countries. https://t.co/XGU6TKQLYj
— Greg Brockman (@gdb) May 12, 2025

(Unproven) arguments on why AI might have more rapid impact than previous tech:
1) Broad-based & fast diffusion means more impact
2) Knowledge work is different, transforms faster
3) Agentic systems shortcut the need for complex adaption of systems
4) Supersmart AI just does work
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) May 12, 2025

I support @realDonaldTrump effort to ensure Americans do not pay more for drugs than those in other countries. But instead of an EO that will get challenged again by Big Pharma, why not work with @BernieSanders & me to make this law! https://t.co/ydXvrv1y1v
— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) May 12, 2025

will be visiting stanford tmrw with my sister who's working on some multimodal interp stuff to watch @thebasepoint's talk at CS25

hmu if you wanna catch up or chat abt interp & architecture! pic.twitter.com/LotLJkqxCT
— Rohan Pandey (@khoomeik) May 12, 2025

Important words https://t.co/UgRUg5pfwd
— gorklon rust (@elonmusk) May 12, 2025

How is this trade deal a win for Trump? China has agreed to nothing. The 145% tariffs we imposed have been reduced to 30%. The 125% tariffs they imposed in response have been reduced to 10%. If 145% tariffs were just a bargaining chip, China already called Trump's bluff and won.
— Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) May 12, 2025

How healthy are your gums? New study finds a significant genetic overlap between gene variants for gum disease and age acceleration

How might gums affect aging & how do I maintain excellent oral health? 🦷🧵 pic.twitter.com/Ia3Klkk9QI
— David Sinclair (@davidasinclair) May 12, 2025

We at Lux are proud to be first institutional investors in @getbasiccapital alongside partners @BillAckman + Henry Kravis. A powerful idea to enable everyday Americans to finance their retirement savings. Abdul is a force-of-nature founder who will change the world https://t.co/lWOBsgwN5n
— Peter Hebert (@peterjhebert) May 12, 2025

A lot of modern marketing is the equivalent of buying your own brands name on SEO and thinking it's a better ROI than anything else you do.
— Tom Goodwin (@tomfgoodwin) May 12, 2025

Trump’s team had grand ambitions for reordering global trade. They’re backing down. https://t.co/EgmKFGlwvV
— Vox (@voxdotcom) May 12, 2025

"Critically, MBS wants to steer Trump away from Israeli plans to strike Iran"

By @samdagher https://t.co/BJgCJGlXkC
— Ziad Daoud (@ZiadMDaoud) May 12, 2025

Donald Trump's plan to accept a $400 million jet from a foreign government is corrupt and unconstitutional.

He’s making deals for himself while making life less affordable for you. https://t.co/SisQAl6Xny
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) May 12, 2025

(Reuters) - Hamas said it had freed an Israeli-American hostage as fighting paused in Gaza on Monday but there was no agreement on a wider truce or hostage release as a global hunger monitor warned of famine in the devastated enclave.
— Parisa Hafezi (@PHREUTERS) May 12, 2025

When a new dataset comes out, I get excited and check it out and then only realize that this is another meta-mixed dataset combining a collections of other existing datasets. My brain immediately acts like "oh fork ... contamination!" No meta-meta-mixed dataset plzzzz :lolsob:
— Lilian Weng (@lilianweng) May 12, 2025

AI coding is used to generate a lot of bulk code that is often blindly accepted, but it seems there is at least as much opportunity for AI to help make codebases more beautiful.

Keeping a codebase in great shape or cleaning up a hairball takes a lot of effort beyond raw…
— John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) May 12, 2025

Sir @DrKumarVishwas can you please translate in hindi? 🇮🇳pic.twitter.com/1l7OvYSq5B
— The Cricket Lab (@funnycric) May 12, 2025

तपस्वी योद्धा रामजी ने तीन दिन तक समुद्र से विनयपूर्वक मार्ग माँगा जिसे उस जड़बुद्धि ने स्वीकार नहीं किया। विनय व सौम्यता के इस तिरस्कार पर कुपित रामभद्र नें कहा कि “दुर्बुद्धि जनों से, भय के बिना प्रेम संभव नहीं है।”
— Dr Kumar Vishvas (@DrKumarVishwas) May 12, 2025

1/ Excited to share I’ve raised a $26M venture fund to back early-stage founders.@Mercury is still my 100% focus but I’m formalizing my angel investing in this fund.🧵 https://t.co/yls6cLs4vF
— immad (@immad) May 12, 2025

I spoke with the President of Türkiye @RTErdogan to discuss key details of the meeting in Türkiye, which could help bring an end to the war. I am grateful for his support and readiness to facilitate diplomacy at the highest level. We share a common view on the need for a… pic.twitter.com/BX1pw28f3x
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) May 12, 2025

5 huge AI agents, MCP, and LLM updates today:

1. China just dropped an opensource Deep Research multi-agent framework with MCP support.

It connects AI Agents with specialized tools for tasks like web search, crawling, and Python code execution.

100% opensource. pic.twitter.com/7o9k8IR4tt
— Unwind AI (@unwind_ai_) May 12, 2025

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Monday, May 12, 2025

12: Trade War

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said both sides agreed to pause their reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, bringing their rates down by 115 percentage points.

He said it was striking how quickly it happened—suggesting both sides were more economically boxed in than they let on.

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