Colin Dismuke
Engineer and runner.
Perth, Western Australia. Everything I make lands here first: photographs, short notes and found links in the stream, longer essays, what I’m reading, a training log kept for the long view, and projects at every stage of finished. More about me.
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Cloudflare's Matthew Prince and Nous's Dillon Rollnick discuss who controls internet infrastructure as AI crawlers and agents reshape traffic, arguing content creators and publishers need new mechanisms to get paid when bots scrape their work instead of sending visitors.
jack @jack We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence. https://t.co/r0qFLdvd6c
A humanoid robot practices tossing beanbags at a cornhole board while controlled or coached via Gemini 4 Argon, demonstrating the model's ability to translate visual feedback into physical motor adjustments for a real-world game.
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