The X4 sitting idle, showing the cover of whatever I am reading. E-ink holds the image at zero power, so it waits there like a paperback left face up. (Photo: Clinton Stark / Stark Insider) I was ...

It’s not every day that a regional arts organization reaches the half-century mark. Theatre Bay Area, founded in 1976, kicks off its 50th anniversary celebrations this month with festivities ...

Anthropic just jumped from $60 billion to $183 billion. In less than a year. Let that sink in. The four-year-old San Francisco-based AI startup raised $13 billion in one of the largest venture rounds ...

This acclaimed Italian film has been shown at several festivals in the United States — Palm Springs, Miami, Sonoma, Santa Barbara and Phoenix. Look for standout performances by Umberto Orsini as Igor, ...

The ninth edition of Stanford’s AI Index Report landed this week, and the headline from co-chairs Yolanda Gil and Raymond Perrault sets the tone. “The data does not point in a single direction,” they ...

I’m publishing these notes before the summit so I can’t revise my expectations after the fact. What follows is unpolished: observations, questions, doubts, and hypotheses as they occurred to me during ...

The Panasonic GH5. Still a modern classic. The Panasonic GH5 and its successor the GH5 Mark II remain two of the most capable mirrorless cameras for filmmakers who need serious video specs without a ...

TurboQuant compresses AI model vectors from 32 bits down to as few as 3 bits by mapping high-dimensional data onto an efficient quantized grid. (Image: Google Research) The AI industry loves a big ...

Claude just went from giving pointers to building the actual files. Anthropic’s AI assistant can now create working Excel models, convert data into charts, and even reformat a PDF report into a ...

Canon 46.5% Sony 27.9% Nikon 11.3% Fujifilm 6.0% Panasonic 3.6% As noted in the article these numbers do not source directly from the companies themselves. Rather, they are published by a third party ...

Alamo Drafthouse will rename its historic San Francisco New Mission theater the Christopher Nolan Cinema, honoring the filmmaker ahead of The Odyssey. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema will rename its historic ...

Royal by Loni Stark, Oil on canvas, 2020. The actual Q&A from The Third Mind Summit will be published separately on starkmind.ai. But I felt the meta observation from trying to pull it together was ...