The New York Times’ final list of the 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century is now complete. What do you make of the final ranking? Which placements surprised you the most?

Anthropic has set up a wet lab in San Francisco, their bio research has advanced beyond in silico. They are now conducting physical research both in-house and with external partners. The NYT also broke the news this morning that Anth now plans to scale its compute to 5 GW by the end of the year, and 10 GW within the next 16 months. Bio is next after math, and I think we are going to see some medical announcements much sooner than people are expecting.

Canada not seeking EU membership in any capacity: source bnnbloomberg.ca/business/int…

Blackcomb lift construction update. The old Showcase T-Bar’s gone and a new Skytrac quad will run skier’s right of the dwindling glacier.

London’s Hyde Park has transformed into the Dubai desert.

A wild boar cools off under a nasone fountain in Saxa Rubra in the northern outskirts of Rome.

Temperature check on AI recruiting, here's an n of 1: a friend of mine just left OpenAI ($2M/year total comp) to go to Google ($8M/year total comp, cash/RSUs). They joined OpenAI well past ChatGPT launch and are research adjacent, but mainly software dev, not researcher.

This was fun! Looking through the top 3 submissions the main improvement over mine (4th) was more careful optimisation of how many threads per row, I just used one warp in all cases.

The Elizabeth line has transformed how Londoners move across the city. 🚇 Tottenham Court Road station is now the busiest Tube station, with 63.4m journeys in 2025 (Northern, Central & Elizabeth line connections).

DeepSeek launched a preview of its new AI model adapted for Huawei chip technology, marking a shift from Nvidia chips and highlighting China's advances in artificial intelligence reut.rs/4vUpBOe

LLOYDS, BANK OF SCOTLAND AND HALIFAX APPS SHOWING CUSTOMERS OTHER USERS' TRANSACTIONS – BBC

but bro, you're a model that costs hundreds of millions of dollars to train...

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Panoramic House Hampstead 🇬🇧 Mata