WSJ: “The technology is shifting away from conventional large language models and toward reasoning models and AI agents. Training conventional large language models—the kind you’ve encountered in free versions of most AI chatbots—requires vast amounts of power and computing time. But we’re rapidly figuring out ways to reduce the amount of resources they need to run when a human calls on them. Reasoning models, which are based on large language models, are different in that their actual operation consumes many times more resources, in terms of both microchips and electricity.”
JP Morgan’s Teresa Heitsenrether:”The third horizon, and we’re not there yet, is for the models to be able to do more reasoning. What happens is they get a chance to think, OK, based on the complexity of the problem that you’re asking me, let me think in the same way a human being would approach it. It lets the model find the resources it needs. Maybe it’s going to go to the internet or some system outside JPMorgan’s databases. You can effectively take the workflow of somebody who’s an investment-banking analyst or client-service person and teach the models the steps they would take to get their jobs done. We will always have a human in the loop to check the models’ work. I don’t think we would, certainly not at this juncture, let these things be autonomous.”
NYTimes: “Vibecoding, a term that was popularized by the A.I. researcher Andrej Karpathy, is useful shorthand for the way that today’s A.I. tools allow even nontechnical hobbyists to build fully functioning apps and websites, just by typing prompts into a text box. You don’t have to know how to code to vibecode — just having an idea, and a little patience, is usually enough.”
David Brooks on America: “If we still have a country when he is done, we’re going to need a better establishment. So I’d close with some questions for educators. Every society on earth has a leadership class of one sort or another, so are you educating your students so that they can build a better establishment? Are you arming them with sensible views about authority so that they don’t childishly dismiss all forms of it? Are you training them to be in touch with their fellow citizens, so that they don’t rule imperiously from above? Are you training them to embrace the obligations that fall on them as leaders, to serve the country and not their own kind? Are you trying to inculcate in them both the humility to know what they don’t know and the audacity to reach for abundance?”
FT: “Quantum computing, the big hope for solving problems out of reach of today’s computers, is still struggling to reach its own silicon moment. Some of the biggest tech companies have started ramping up their attempts to build a working machine, convinced that the field has finally passed the threshold between interesting science experiment and practical engineering challenge. Yet there is no consensus about the best way to make the most basic elements of quantum computers, known as qubits — or indeed, whether future machines will be based on an array of different technologies rather than just one, with different types of machine suited to different computing problems.”
