Friday, July 3, 2026
The era of model engineering is over.
July 3 · 6 videos
Anthropic Fable 5 is back online.
OpenAI is offering the US government 5% equity.
95% of AI engineers now deploy agents.
The focus shifted from models to harness engineering.
Nigel Farage earned £22,500 per hour.
Physics simulations just got 170 times faster.
“Your attention is your life. Literally, whatever you put your attention to has your life force in some sort of way. : Rob Dial”
They Said This Will Never Run In Real Time
Dr. Karoly Zsolnai-Feher · Two Minute Papers · 6 min
Watch on YouTube →A breakthrough in computer graphics enables real-time simulation of complex squishy objects. This method solves the overshooting problem that previously made fast simulations unstable.
- The new technique is 30 to 170 times faster than Vertex Block Descent.
- A dragon model with 100,000 elements now runs in real-time on a GPU.
- Pre-computation takes 7 to 67 minutes but allows for stable runtime physics.
- Five barbarian ships with 2.5 million elements can be simulated at 3 FPS.
- This closes the gap between physically accurate slow simulations and fast incorrect ones.
a16z Goes Global: Why American Tech Must Lead the World
Ben Horowitz · a16z · 42 min
Watch on YouTube →a16z outlines a new global strategy where technology is the primary arena of national power. Startups must now expand internationally much earlier to secure market share.
- Startups are now going global before reaching 10 million dollars in revenue.
- National security is now tied to supply chains for chips and software vulnerabilities.
- Silicon Valley success requires technical talent, facilitative laws, and high social status for founders.
- Saudi Arabia has reduced visa entry time to 30 seconds using modern technology.
- AI models now carry specific cultural and ethical values into global infrastructure.
what I do instead of scrolling on my phone
Rob Dial · The Mindset Mentor Podcast · 15 min
Watch on YouTube →Phone addiction is framed as a neurological hijacking by companies using slot machine psychology. Reclaiming attention is presented as a requirement for creativity and business growth.
- The phone acts as a digital pacifier to numb uncomfortable emotions like loneliness or fear.
- Picking up a phone just for a second can result in 47 minutes of lost time.
- Meaningful behavioral change often requires clean anger rather than positive affirmations.
- Boredom intolerance is a primary driver of the constant need for digital stimulation.
- Deleting social apps for 30 days is recommended to rewire neural pathways.
The World's Best AI Is Back
Ejaaz · Limitless Podcast · 40 min
Watch on YouTube →Anthropic's Fable 5 returns after a government ban with advanced visual intelligence. The industry is moving toward extreme hardware efficiency and geopolitical alignment.
- OpenAI is reportedly offering the US government a 5 percent equity stake.
- Etched has secured 1 billion dollars in pre-orders for a low-voltage inference chip.
- The new Etched chip promises a 75 percent reduction in power consumption.
- Fable 5 generates playable game universes from a single prompt.
- Inference revenue now accounts for 60 to 70 percent of earnings for top labs.
Will Farage's Extreme Wealth Be His Downfall?
Nigel Farage · The Rest Is Politics · 48 min
Watch on YouTube →Nigel Farage faces scrutiny over a 5 million pound gift and high hourly earnings. The discussion explores how voter cynicism protects populist leaders from financial scandals.
- Farage received 270,000 pounds for 12 hours of work for a gold bullion dealer.
- His hourly rate of 22,500 pounds exceeds that of top Premier League footballers.
- A 5 million pound gift from billionaire Christopher Harborne is under investigation.
- Voters often view these sums through a lens of cynical equivalence with other politicians.
- New legislation may force MPs to declare all income from the year prior to election.
WF26: Harness Engineering & Startup Battlefield ft. Garry Tan, Mike Krieger, @t3dotgg , DSPy
Garry Tan · AI Engineer · 551 min
Watch on YouTube →The AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 highlights the transition to harness engineering and agentic workflows. Engineers are now managing fleets of specialized agents rather than writing manual code.
- 95 percent of AI engineers are now deploying agents in production.
- 89 percent of these agents have been granted write access to systems.
- The 400x Engineer concept involves managing specialized agents called claws.
- Allocating specific jobs to tokens like advising or grading improves efficiency 5x.
- Cost has become a first-class engineering constraint for 76 percent of teams.
References
PeopleDr. Karoly Zsolnai-Feher (https://www.youtube.com/@TwoMinutePapers) · Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz) · Anne Neuberger (@AnneNeuberger) · Raghu Raghuram (@RaghuRaghuram) · Jen Kha (@jkhamehl) · Alonso Aznar · Rob Dial · Tony Robbins · Andrew Huberman · Matthew McConaughey · Josh Kale (@JoshKale) · Ejaaz (@cryptopunk7213) · Sam Altman · Andrew Curran · Nigel Farage · Cat Neilan · Christopher Harborne · Paul Withers · Robert Jenrick · Ziya Yusuf · Garry Tan · Mike Krieger · John Ousterhout · Bar Ron · @t3dotgg
ToolsPrecomputed Co-rotated Local Perturbation Subspace · Vertex Block Descent (VBD) · Fable 5 · Sonnet 5 · Claude Science · Etched · HOMA · auth.md · DSPy
Papers2026 State of AI Engineering survey · Representation of the People Bill (Elections Bill)