Software, novels, music, tennis & a Fujifilm. I make things around what I love. 📍NYC
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Yask Srivastava retweeted
Introducing Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, designed to tackle the most daunting technical challenges.
They’re capable collaborators on ambitious projects in many fields, and show improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision.
Yask Srivastava retweeted
In Budget 2026, we’re cutting Canada’s marginal effective tax rate on new business investment from 13% to 6.4% — the lowest of any major economy in the world.
That means businesses, large and small, can deduct the full cost of most new investments.
Making Canada the best place in the world to build.
Yask Srivastava retweeted
Introducing Gemini 4 Carbon, it's a big jump over Argon which we released just 2 weeks ago.
Gemini 4 Carbon is SOTA on cyber, long horizon tasks, ranks #1 on Artificial Analysis V5, significantly improves on usability in domains like coding, and is more aligned.
Yask Srivastava retweeted
This morning, I spoke with Premier @ABDanielleSmith about the results of yesterday’s vote.
Over the past 18 months, our governments have worked together to deliver on what matters most to Albertans. Now, we have an opportunity to build on that progress.
Albertans have chosen Canada, and we’re moving forward together with renewed purpose and high ambition — to build a stronger future for all.
Yask Srivastava retweeted
We’re bringing the magic of Waymo to Toronto! 🇨🇦
In the coming days, you’ll begin seeing Waymo’s all-electric vehicles driving through Toronto’s streets as we lay the groundwork for our ride-hailing service.
Our goal is to begin serving riders in 2028.
Sign up for future updates: waymo.com/waymo-in-canada
Yask Srivastava retweeted
Some rumors I've heard. I'll start with Google, then Anthropic and OpenAI.
Google: Insiders say Google has either cracked RSI (recursive self-improvement) or is very close. Their pace has picked up fast in recent months. They went from GPT-5 level to Opus 5.5 level in months, and speculation is that RSI made that possible.
Anthropic: About a week ago, Anthropic started a new pretraining run. It is not Fable 5.5 but what would become Fable 6, or something bigger, to catch up to OpenAI's Bel.
OpenAI: Bel (it may have another codename) is the model behind the math results OpenAI published a few days ago, and RSI apparently helped there too.
From what I'm hearing, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are all very close to cracking RSI or already have. It will get scary and exciting at the same time.
Yask Srivastava retweeted
It’s feeling really magical inside of Shopify right now. It’s clearly the greatest time in the history of tech industry right now. I hope it feels similar everywhere else.
Yask Srivastava retweeted
Canadian Poet & Essayist Anne Carson Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature nytimes.com/2026/10/08/books… via @NYTimes
Yask Srivastava retweeted
People seem shocked that the author of Clean Code doesn't read code anymore. But that should not be surprising.
Why did I write Clean Code? What is the goal of keeping code clean? To get it out of the way of the real job -- thinking.
Yask Srivastava retweeted
I was paying almost $300/year for a YouTube research tool that shall go unnamed.
The product was getting too complicated so I decided to check if Claude can build the core feature set that I actually needed.
Claude built it in 5 min. 🥹
Yask Srivastava retweeted
Mark Carney is for me, right now, the most interesting man in the world. Gift link for his recent NYT interview: nytimes.com/2026/09/23/world…
Yask Srivastava retweeted
Claude 5.5 is crazy good with animations.
Following is one-shot journey from a single bacterium cell all the way to quantum fields constituting it.
Awe-inspiring! (It chose to add an original score to it too!)
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PM Carney has become ‘the intellectual leader of the free world’: Former foreign affairs minister bnnbloomberg.ca/video/econom…
Yask Srivastava retweeted
Our house in Toronto had this fancy glassed wine cellar, but we are not big wine drinkers.
Anyways, it had good climate control so here is my rack cellar.
Yask Srivastava retweeted
muse for mac is HERE!! your agent can now get stuff done right on your computer — files, messages, calendar, notes, all of it.
you're in control of what it can access, and it always asks before doing anything sensitive.
Add it to the dock - ai.meta.com/muse/download/
Yask Srivastava retweeted
Dear @MarkJCarney we want to bring the relationship with Canada to the highest level possible.
I would like to work with you on opening the door for Canada to being the first associate member of the EU.
And create a common prosperity and economic security space.