No smoking gun, but the preponderance of evidence points to smartphones, not economics, as the culprit for the global drop in fertility: • In the US and UK, births fell first and fastest in areas that got 4G earliest • Birth rates were stable in the US, UK and Australia until 2007; in France and Poland until 2009; in Mexico and Indonesia until 2012; in Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal until 2013-15 Each of these inflection points matches local smartphone adoption (see picture). • The younger the age group, the sharper the drop. • in-person socialising among young adults is dropping. In SK, by 50% in 20 years • Sexual dysfunction is higher among heavy social media user • Effect is largest in culturally traditional societies — Middle East, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa • Decline holds across countries hit hard by GFC 2008 and those not hit, fast-growing and not growing. Excellent again @jburnmurdoch. https://t.co/RYEMXD2bRM

Let's talk parsing charts 📊📈. Last week we released ParseBench, the first document OCR benchmark for AI agents. New in ParseBench: ChartDataPointMatch. Most document look at a chart and OCR the caption. Agents need the actual numbers. That's the gap between "OCR'd the text around the chart" and "actually read the chart." More about ParseBench, the GitHub code, Hugging Face dataset, and scientific paper→ https://t.co/2sq5ncGiel

LiteParse: our open-source, layout-aware PDF parser for AI agents. The secret? Grid projection. Instead of heavy ML layout models or flat text extraction, it projects text onto a monospace grid so alignment preserves structure. Full deep dive into the grid projection algorithm behind the magic ↓ https://t.co/pXS1ZNlIEU

ParseBench is now live on @Kaggle. The first document OCR benchmark built for AI agents — 2,000 enterprise pages, 167K+ test rules, 5 dimensions that actually break downstream agents. Benchmark your parser against 14 methods including GPT-5 Mini, Gemini 3, Textract, and LlamaParse. Read the full story → https://t.co/KPYA6gm5kH

That's a wrap at @aiDotEngineer Singapore 🇸🇬 Thanks for all the devs that tuned into our workshop, keynote, and executive dinner. See you in a few weeks at the world fair in SF 🌉 https://t.co/yY4C0iHcaS

Hello again, everyone! We've got another really fun 9b, this one specifically trained for tool calling and agentic coding workflows in @NousResearch Hermes agent. Happy to report that it crushes, and as a 9b it runs on super affordable hardware. We also hit this one with some coding domain-specific training, and it scored a 53.33% on SWE bench on a slice of 200 samples! To me, I was really shocked to see this high of a score on a 9B model in swe, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's nipping at the heels of the Gemma 4 series, much larger models on this particular benchmark, which is really incredible to see! It also crushes the HermesAgent-20 benchmark, scoring an 85 vs the base model's 71! Make sure to run it hot, --temp around 1, that seems to be the sweet spot for running these particular fine tunes in harnesses. If you have trouble, you can work your way down, but it does a much better job departing from base models, overthinking when you run it, high temp ~1. Please spin it up in Hermes and let us know your thoughts! Looking forward to hearing your feedback as always! Also, those of you waiting for Qwopus 3.6 27B, I have put together a preliminary evaluation for you in my HF repo, go check it out; we will be releasing the full model very soon! I will put the preliminary repo in the comments! https://t.co/vP2s9iP6wL

That's a wrap at AIE Singapore 🇸🇬 Thanks for all the devs that tuned into our workshop, keynote, and executive dinner. See you in a few weeks at the next one in SF 🌉 https://t.co/0YfQlFNxWI

There is no such thing as an "overworked" AI agent. They aren't sentient. They don't feel. There's no stress. The Stanford researchers are just exposing how hopelessly compromised and useless they are. https://t.co/LORCHyJWYV

Will be delivering my talk on RL and RLMS after 4pm SGT 1am PT. Tune in to the stream if you're up! https://t.co/8DyD4gTHsT

Will be delivering my talk on RL and RLMS after 4pm SGT 1am PT. Tune in to the stream if you're up! https://t.co/8DyD4gTHsT

Roger Federer’s commencement speech worked because it turned success into a lesson about failure. Winning almost 80% of his matches still meant losing many points, many games and many painful moments. That is the real leadership lesson, excellence is not avoiding failure, but recovering faster than everyone else. https://t.co/nnHCRQNEss @rustindodd @rogerfederer @FedererNews @nytimes @TheAthletic

"We in America have no interest in being polite & orderly caretakers of the West's managed decline." —Marco Rubio https://t.co/PMZQWaqPvE

and the day 3 recap for @aiDotEngineer singapore is here!! thank u everyone for the trust and all the grace that was extended to me, our team and everyone who made this work see you in 2027 for ai engineer singapore https://t.co/gbmDUWXvgL

It's over Mythos is insane https://t.co/yksqSvvBgi

It’s been a wild ride covering AIE and #RoadToAIE with @unprofeshme started by randomly offering to help with videos/media. a few weeks later and we’re helping host a 1,000+ person AI conference, meeting some of the smartest people in tech, and realizing this is about way more than just creating FOMO online. couldn’t have done this without the trust that the team at @65labslah placed in me to help put the face of @aiDotEngineer Singapore out there online❤️ @unprofeshme best fellow media IC anyone could’ve asked for

Great start to @aiDotEngineer with Dr. @VivianBala talk!! He shared about how he built his second brain with careful considerations, and what were the implications for Singapore. Super inspired !! https://t.co/455IADLU1o

THIS GUY VIBE CODED A CURRENCY CONVERTER APP AND A BUILT IN PRICE SCANNER you point your camera at a price tag in any country and it instantly converts it to your home currency no more typing it into google every time you're traveling it pulls real time exchange rates and works offline too so you're not stuck without data in a foreign airport zero ads, clean UI, and it does ONE thing and does it well it even has apple watch support so you can just glance at your wrist while walking around a market in another country simple app that solves real problem will get you infinite users

🧠 Hermes Agent Tip of the Day: `hermes send` Your shell scripts can now text you. 🚫 No agent. 🚫 No LLM. 🚫 No gateway babysitting. Pipe anything to any platform you're already configured for: 🔸`hermes send --to telegram "deploy finished"` 🔸`echo "RAM 92%" | hermes send --to telegram` 🔸`hermes send --to discord:#ops --file /tmp/report.md` Perfect for cron jobs, CI hooks, watchdog alerts, deploy notifications. Zero overhead. Just deliver the damn message. 🤘🏻

@Teknium @123mikeyd https://t.co/KrRMgXhzkP 🧙‍♂️

🛑[LIVE] on day 3 of @aiDotEngineer 🇸🇬 @khurdula, co-founder and CTO of @interfaze_ai on building alternative architecture designed for deterministic developer tasks. “The solution is: Task specific DNNs + CNNs + Transformers” https://t.co/aF1WsgNSsa

Mustafa Suleyman says 18 months until AI automates all white-collar work. Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman predicts "human-level performance on most professional tasks" within 18 months. Accounting, legal, marketing, project management, all fully automated. "Suleyman predicted “human-level performance on most, if not all professional tasks” being done by AI. Most tasks that involve “sitting down at a computer” will be fully automated by AI within the next year or 18 months, he said, naming accounting, legal, marketing, and even project management as vulnerable." (Fortune) Suleyman says his mission is building "superintelligence" and that creating a new AI model will soon be "like creating a podcast or writing a blog." Via Fortune

AI is now entering one of humanity’s hardest arenas: pure mathematics. Erdős Problem 1196 reportedly shows that AI can suggest paths humans missed, even in problems studied for decades. The real story is not AI replacing mathematicians, but humans with AI expanding what can be discovered. https://t.co/VPWmBdtEQe @bbcnews

Elon Musk is by far the funniest billionaire on this planet. https://t.co/GfAJZNnqDK

Absolutely 💯 https://t.co/4e0W7N5Kx6

AI infrastructure is becoming the next big local political fight. Data centers power the AI boom, but they also compete for electricity, water and community trust. The AI winners will not only be those with the best models, but those who build infrastructure responsibly. https://t.co/2gc87ToJnZ

AI should elevate art, not become a gimmick that distracts from it. The new John Lennon documentary shows the risk clearly: when the human story is powerful enough, unnecessary AI can weaken the emotional truth. The future of creativity will not be about using AI everywhere, but knowing when not to use it. https://t.co/TGYby1rsNR @szacharek @time

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Some resources I use to stay up to date on shifts like these: 1. Digg (by @kevinrose & @alexisohanian): https://t.co/EFX1sDALq3 Re-emerging as a high-signal internet discovery layer. Great for tracking cultural shifts, trends, and what people are actually paying attention to online. 2. Idea Browser (by @gregisenberg): https://t.co/ImTIzAhYXd One of the best places to study startup opportunities, market gaps, and emerging business ideas across categories. 3. Aligned AI (by @Scobleizer): https://t.co/U1fRysVgtV Curated AI news and developments without the overwhelming noise. Useful for keeping up with meaningful changes in the AI ecosystem quickly. 4. Lenny’s Newsletter (by @lennysan): https://t.co/psxLyFNiAw Excellent resource for product, startups, growth, marketplaces, and AI product strategy. 5. Hacker News (by @ycombinator): https://t.co/zXHOyCFt1i Still one of the best real-time filters for what technical builders are paying attention to.

Tesla FSD V14.3.3 just started rolling out, and it comes with the Spring Update! Actually Smart Summon’s top speed has also been increased to 8 mph (from 6 mph)! Downloading it on my Model Y right now. Software version 2026.14.6.6. https://t.co/KuhAhZzURv