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Weekly Video Notes — a short article distilling one talk from the weekly digest. Source video and key frames embedded throughout. Sara Hooker has done the full tour — PhD, DeepMind, several frontier labs, a research career built on efficiency at scale. Which is what makes this talk land: it’s an insider arguing that the system that produced her is an unreasonably narrow filter, and that the economics of the current moment are finally prying it open....

Weekly Video Notes — a short article distilling one talk from the weekly digest. Source video and key frames are embedded throughout. Pathway staged something unusual: a panel debate, framed as a literal boxing match, on whether the transformer is the final architecture of the AI era — or whether we are already living through the dawn of a post-transformer one. In the blue corner, defending the belt: Łukasz Kaiser, co-author of Attention Is All You Need and one of the minds behind GPT-4 and o-series reasoning models at OpenAI....