We are excited to announce that @shengjia_zhao will be the Chief Scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs! Shengjia is a brilliant scientist who most recently pioneered a new scaling paradigm in his research. He will lead our scientific direction for our team. Let's go 🚀

This doesn't seem the right place to focus right now. It feels more like "can we build some unique differentiation on top of something we don't want to change or a runtime we don't quite own".

Cervical cancer is being defeated thanks to two things: Pap smears and the Gardasil vaccine. HPV vaccination is so effective that many countries will have practically eliminated cervical cancer in the next two decades. Here's why🧵

Kitten has now decided he likes to make me watch Bluey. He obviously knows me much better than I believed to be the case.

Seattle Mayoral race is lunacy. Incumbent is campaigning on having made the city safer [sic] while being endorsed by a member of the defund the police Squad (who reps Seattle). The key challenger is campaigning on supporting taxes even though employers keep leaving the city and being _more_ "progressive" and not aligned with corporate interests [he is not].

Less than 24 hours after maintenance crews painted the entire 2nd street tunnel in downtown Los Angeles, dozens of taggers “reclaimed” their territory.

The most interesting work in "AI-first" is happening in development tooling. At first this seems wonky and self-serving. But every generational change in computing led with tooling innovations first. BASIC was a dev tool. SmallTalk was a dev tool. NextStep. Excel.

Heart Disease Mortality in the United States, 1970 to 2022 | Journal of the American Heart Association

Just got off the earnings call - great quarter and it was our (and my) 40th call as Alphabet. August will mark 10 years since we announced Alphabet. Been thinking about the incredible growth in our new businesses since then - Cloud, YouTube, Play, Subscriptions etc. To give a sense of progress, in 2015 all of Alphabet’s revenue added up to $75B. YouTube and Cloud alone ended 2024 at an annual run rate of $110B.

What else did people think was impossible? + 1928: There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. + 1895: Heavier‑than‑air flying machines are impossible. + 1956: All this talk about space travel is utter bilge.