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Erdal Çokol retweeted
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
Erdal Çokol retweeted
Kılıçdaroğlu "kul hakkı yemedim" demiş. Hatalıdır. "Vakit" de kul hakkı kapsamındadır. Başkasının malına, şerefine, emeğine veya vaktine haksız el atan kişi, ahirette hak sahibiyle hesaplaşır. Bir kuşağın ömrünü yiyen insan, hele de bunda ısrarlıysa, "kul hakkı yemedim" diyemez.
İstanbul; Merkez Asya ve Doğu Avrupa grubunda yer alıyor. Küresel endekste 101. sırada. Bir önceki sıralamadan 13 basamak aşağıya düşmüş durumda.
Destansı söylemlerle Dubai’nin İstanbul’a geleceğini söyleyen bazı İş Dünyası temsilcilerine,
İstanbul’un neden bir Dubai olamayacağını tane tane anlatmaya çalıştım.
Kelime sayısının yer verdiği ölçüde elbette 😉
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The universe did not begin by chance.
The universe began in the only form that was logically consistent.
And we are:
• not a miracle of probability
• but an echo of necessity
Roger Penrose calculated that the probability of a universe like ours arising by chance is on the order of 1 in 10¹⁰¹²³, an inconceivably small number
but you're here
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Erdal Çokol retweeted
Shots fired.
Anthropic is running a Super Bowl Ad making fun of ChatGPT for adding Ads.
Tbf though, I wonder how many consumers actually use Claude to begin with.
The point is to recognize that the old inputs will no longer produce the old results. Labor, skills, and knowledge are depreciating assets in a system optimized for AI and robotics, and pretending otherwise will just delay the painful adjustment.
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The same is true in business, in relationships, and in almost everything that truly adds value to life.
Winning is one thing; sustainability is another.
Character and stability come first.
Pep Guardiola doesn’t rotate players randomly.
He explains why using Savinho as the example.
You can lose the ball.
That’s not the issue.
The issue is what you do in the next two seconds.
Guardiola talks about an action: the ball is lost, the cross doesn’t happen, the striker attacks the box…
And the winger?
He doesn’t run back.
That’s when Pep is clear:
“You lose the ball and you walk — you come to the bench.”
Lose the ball → sprint back.
Foul → sprint back.
Again. And again. Like a machine.
Quality matters.
But stability comes first.
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Erdal Çokol retweeted
lack of urgency is one of the most telling traits in both an investor and a founder
if you can’t maintain velocity on the small things you will very likely struggle to generate the momentum needed to overcome the big things
Erdal Çokol retweeted
This November, history changes.
An NVIDIA H100 GPU—100 times more powerful than any GPU ever flown in space—launches to orbit.
It will run Google's Gemma—the open-source version of Gemini. In space. For the first time.
First AI training in orbit. First model fine-tuning in space. First high-powered inference beyond Earth.
And the CEO just said: "Within 10 years, almost all new datacenters will be built in space."
This is Starcloud-1. Here's why it matters.
Ülkemizin oyun ve savunma dışında anlamlı bir refleksi kalmadı.
Oyun sektörü de yakında AI ile bambaşka bir forma girecek.
Sanki bir kara büyüyle efsunlanmış gibiyiz; en zekilerimiz bile salmış durumda.
Tembelliğin, vizyonsuzluğun bedeli ağır olacak maalesef.
Türkiye'de 1980'lerden,Özal döneminden kalan, bir algı şirketler biraz uğraşsa marka olurlar ihracat yaparlar. O zamanlar bu işler çok daha kolaydi. Şimdi dünya çok farklı. Çin faktörü dışında çoğu gelişmekte olan ülke de ihracat yapmak istiyor. Rekabet zor. Almanya zorlanırken bizim zorlanmamiz cok doğak. Patron vizyonsuzluğu, inovasyon yapın eleştirilerini bence çoktan aştı konu. Çok daha iyi bir durum tespiti gerekiyor. Sadece şirketlerden beklenecek bir şey de değil. Planlama, sektör tercihleri, doğru anlamlı teşvikler. orta doğu ülkelerinin bazılarındaki AI seviyesi bile bizden ileri. herkes bir şeyler yapıyor. temel ihtiyaç çok iyi bir kurumla durum tespiti ve öneri. sadece taktikle olmayacak bir yerdeyiz.
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İnsan beyni, “ben” duygusunu zaman içinde sürdürebilir ancak.
Geçmiş, şimdi ve gelecek arasında bir süreklilik hissi vardır.
Bu da anlamın temelidir: “Bu yaşadıklarımın bir nedeni ve yönü var”
Anlam kayboluşu ile süreklilik hissinin yitimi aynı anda gerçekleşir.
Boşluk, kaybolma.
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Most businesses get zero distribution channels to work: poor sales rather than bad product is the most common cause of failure.
If you can get just one distribution channel to work, you have a great business. If you try for several but don’t nail one, you’re finished.
Google just made a subtle but massive change
Last month, Google quietly removed the num=100 search parameter.
This means you can no longer view 100 results at once. The default max is now 10.
Why does this matter?
- Most LLMs (OpenAI, Perplexity, etc.) rely (directly or indirectly) on Google’s indexed results, alongside their own crawlers.
- Overnight, their access to the “long tail” of the internet was cut by 90%.
The fallout:
- According to Search Engine Land, 88% of sites saw a drop in impressions.
- Reddit, which often ranks in positions 11–100, saw its LLM citations plummet. Its stock dropped 15%.
For startups, this is brutal. Visibility just got harder. Reddit as part of AEO just changed entirely.
It’s no longer enough to build a great product you need to crack distribution first. Because if people can’t discover you, they’ll never get to evaluate you.
Most engineers seem to always neglect this reality, but a mediocre product with great distribution will always beat a great product with mediocre distribution.
As Peter Thiel says:
“Most businesses get zero distribution channels to work: poor sales rather than bad product is the most common cause of failure. If you can get just one distribution channel to work, you have a great business. If you try for several but don’t nail one, you’re finished.
Superior sales and distribution by itself can create a monopoly, even with no product differentiation. The converse is not true. No matter how strong your product — even if it easily fits into already established habits and anybody who tries it likes it immediately — you must still support it with a strong distribution plan."
Distribution > Product
(h/t Adarsh Appaiah on LinkedIn)
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If checkout happens inside agents, websites risk losing their role as the primary place to transact, marketplaces could be reduced to fulfilment backends, and app stores may lose control over payment flows. The commercial entry point moves from owned platforms to AI intermediarie
ChatGPT already helps millions of people find what to buy. Now it can help them buy it too.
We’re introducing Instant Checkout in ChatGPT with @Etsy and @Shopify, and open-sourcing the Agentic Commerce Protocol that powers it, built with @Stripe, so more merchants and developers can integrate agentic checkout.
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JUST IN: Apple $AAPL unveils AirPods Pro 3 with live translation feature.