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Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude
This Week in Charts: Agents Denied
Agents Denied Agentic commerce is a thing. Muse and others advanced the timeline to “ agentic commerce is here right now—it was nice knowing you, old-school ecomm ” but then more…
Wallet Wars
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Making Startups Powerful
One of the most useful heuristics I have when doing office hours with startups is to ask: what would make this company more powerful? Asking how the company could make more money is a good heuristic too, but it tends to…
Anthropic
See allDesigning more efficient quantum circuits with Claude
Working largely on its own, Claude designed quantum circuits that improve on the best published versions, in some cases by an order of magnitude or more.
Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins
The decades-old mystery of the origins of one of the most popular cryptographic standards has been explained.
The AI expectations gap
How will AI reshape the economy in the years ahead? What is the core source of disagreement about AI's future impact on the economy? This note presents new survey evidence on these questions.
Paul Graham
See allMaking Startups Powerful
One of the most useful heuristics I have when doing office hours with startups is to ask: what would make this company more powerful? Asking how the company could make more money is a good heuristic too, but it tends to…
How Universities Should Prepare Founders
How should universities prepare students to start startups? Y Combinator is in the perfect position to answer this question, because we get them next. We're like grad school. And because YC has had 20 years to refine it…
How to Earn a Billion Dollars
(This is based on a talk I gave at the Oxford Union.) Since this is apparently the future prime ministers' club, I'm going to tell you about something it would be good if more politicians understood: I'm going to tell y…