The UK Health Secretary in 2021, Matt Hancock, ordered 100m vaccines, rather than 30m, because of the film Contagion

https://x.com/LBC/status/1356882697222836226

A few days ago, Amodei claimed that 90% of code at Anthropic (and some companies they work with) is being written by AI

https://www.themidasproject.com/watchtower tracks changes to AI company policies

Great piece! One minor detail is that Llama 4 curiously only used 32k H100s, rather than the 100k+ mooted

@Jsevillamol 

The Midas Project is a good place to keep track of AI company policy changes. Here is their note on the Anthropic change:

https://www.themidasproject.com/watchtower/anthropic-033125

Also picked up here

Also consider modafinil

Not withstanding

Stigler’s Law of Eponymy: “No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.”

:P 

@Alex Lawsen  has written about this too:

https://lawsen.substack.com/p/another-conversation-about-other

https://lawsen.substack.com/p/notebooklm-podcasts-but-good

https://lawsen.substack.com/p/getting-the-most-from-deep-research

https://lawsen.substack.com/p/my-current-writing-workflow

https://lawsen.substack.com/p/my-current-claude-projects