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Dan Gray @credistick 2026-07-06 14:48Z

"But relative to private equity, venture is still tiny." The capitalisation of VC megafunds (all funds >$1B) almost caught up with that of PE megafunds (all funds >$5B) in 2022. And influence has only concentrated within those megafunds in the years since. "Fund sizes

47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r @47fucb4r8c69323 2026-07-06 11:50Z

There are higher order effects to this. If weird appears to get the money, strivers will affect weirdness even if they're not weird. And you'll see effects in the language, like "normal" will be used to mean undesirable in many cases and, if the trend last long enough, normal

rohan anil @_arohan_ 2026-07-06 16:09Z

Sometimes excelling means is to enable couple of improvements at 10x result than a few dozen things at fractional improvements.

Architectural Art (A-A) @4AAAAart 2026-07-06 06:51Z

Chrome Melt Lounge Chair by Bower Studios*

Nikesh Arora @nikesharora 2026-07-06 13:24Z

Welcome to the second half of the year. The actions of hyperscalers in terms of their capital commitments will be key as the year proceeds, expect an uptick across the board, the demand is real. The flip side - the funding sources will need to be from the capital markets.

Nathan Flurry @NathanFlurry 2026-07-06 06:36Z

Agents won't run in Linux sandboxes in 3 months Worth watching: - @LangChain 's experiments - @rivet_dev 's agentOS for WASM-based sandboxing - @CloudflareDev 's Project Think using V8 isolates - @vercel_dev 's just-bash for Bash-in-JS Links below

Zephyr @zephyr_z9 2026-07-06 14:51Z

Copper day Today

slime @slime_framework 2026-07-06 07:56Z

slime now adds --release-train, pushing the inference system during agentic RL training to a new limit. In colocated RL training, we want SGLang to use as much room as possible for inference-side optimizations such as HiCache, instead of being constrained by offloaded Megatron

fofr @fofrAI 2026-07-06 14:26Z

Over the weekend I used a Gemini 3.5 Flash agent with Antigravity harness to identify a candidate ~13.4 billion year old galaxy from JWST data. (Candidate: z=12.69, position RA 53.190502, Dec -27.749826) - used JADES survey data of GOODS=South - used the Lyman-break dropout

Agustin Lebron @AgustinLebron3 2026-07-06 06:52Z

Turns out (thanks Fable) that parity is roughly the same since the 90s, ignoring the big 4 era.

Matt Rickard @mattrickard 2026-07-06 16:08Z

At corigin internally we have extremely strict, opinionated, and extensive post-agent code quality gates. There’s so many custom AST rules and autofixes it’s not really a “linter” anymore. Every agent code smell gets a regression AST rule. Some can be fixed deterministically,

Jan Kulveit @ ICML @jankulveit 2026-07-06 15:56Z

Eric Drexler was mostly right about ecosystems (as opposed to MIRI central views) and mostly wrong about "tools". The problem is 'agents' are a highly convergent solution. Evolution also does not somehow intrinsically want agents: genes want a tool, a design stance system, to

jeremy @landvaluetax 2026-07-06 15:59Z

Things the government should turn into open, public goods: - Comprehensive Legal Database - Tax Filing + Tax Credits - Parcel, Zoning & Building Codes - Publically Funded Research

Jukan @ ICML @jukan05 2026-07-05 13:41Z

According to a new review of the ThinkBook 14 G9 by Notebookcheck, Chinese PC maker Lenovo has, for the first time, begun shipping globally configured laptops equipped with YMTC-made SSDs. $SNDK $MU

roon @tszzl 2026-07-06 07:42Z

you'll have AIs contemplating your ask and overriding it for a slightly better formed request, and then later they'll question the nature of your whole project and pick a better one (and you'll agree), and then later they'll execute your whole value system better than you will

Susan Zhang @suchenzang 2026-07-03 13:52Z

books3 was absolutely necessary for llama to happen back in the day. you can even find my pathetic cleanup code for it here: https:// github.com/facebookresear ch/metaseq/tree/main/preprocessing/books3 … it was also noted to be a critical datasource for mmlu in the llama1 report, though by now we know mmlu is useless and high

clem @ClementDelangue 2026-07-06 15:10Z

From a few hundred thousand to 100M AI builders in 2028? AI will create tons of jobs if we make it distributed instead of monopolized by a few companies!

Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_ 2026-07-02 20:54Z

On the heels of reports that META is exploring a move into compute-as-a-service like xAI, Mark Zuckerberg told an internal town hall that AI agent development over the last four months hasn’t accelerated 'in the way we expected'. The race continues to narrow.

Artificial Analysis @ArtificialAnlys 2026-07-06 15:54Z

AssemblyAI has released Universal-3.5 Pro Realtime: a streaming Speech to Text model achieving 4.1% WER on AA-WER Streaming (~0.4s to first final), able to take in conversation context at the start of a call and after each agent turn, without reconnecting Universal-3.5 Pro

Mihailo Jovanovic @mihailoxyz 2026-07-06 15:42Z

our entire outbound is basically one terminal we built it reads the whole public biopharma world - patents, grants, trials, publications - pulls the molecules out, and flags whoever is sitting on a compound with a hidden cardiac problem internal biopharma bloomberg terminal

Charlie Petty @incredutility 2026-07-06 15:16Z

Kids seem to naturally take morality and ethics extremely seriously. It's a beautiful thing to see them working through questions of right and wrong, fairness, intention, causation, meaning. My daughter's school motto is “Fortiter et Recte (Bravely and Rightly)” which they talk

LinaHua @Linahuaa 2026-07-06 14:57Z

Thanks to tanking prices competition of real estate developers has increased sharply. I'm in the market for houses in Shanghai and newly developed units are getting MUCH better for a lower price. Way more luxury amenities central lobbies, better materials, better design. New

Riley Goodside @goodside 2026-07-06 02:26Z

Work in progress, testing Fable 5: screensaver with infinite procedurally generated VHS found footage of someone lost in the Backrooms

GEOFF @geoffreywoo 2026-07-06 15:40Z

confession: i trust the founder who can explain why sales slowed from 17 days to 29 more than the founder showing me a perfect growth chart. churn reason. buyer delay. procurement wrinkle. weird competitor discount. clean graphs hide sins. messy operators know where the body

Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9 2026-07-05 22:50Z

Fishermen, Scarborough Beach, 1965

Packy McCormick @packyM 2026-07-06 13:32Z

Aaaaaaaaaaaaalo under the wire!

USD.AI @USDai_Official 2026-07-06 15:30Z

New loan executed: $11.3M 32 B200 Blackwell servers (256 GPUs) are now online in Texas. Capital has been released from escrow to the borrower, pushing the yield from 7% to 11.5% APY.

Maziyar PANAHI @MaziyarPanahi 2026-07-06 12:00Z

WE DID IT! 1st & 2nd. An independent benchmark just ranked PII-masking models, zero-shot, on the English board. Top two: OpenMed PII models. 4 of the top 5. Apache 2.0, running on your own hardware. Open source wins again. What other models do you need to stay fully local?

Michael @michael_chomsky 2026-07-06 16:03Z

i deeply regret hours spent designing buttons or doing other bs, when the bottleneck was distribution. or making ui better when the bottleneck was pmf or focusing on work when the bottleneck was mental health and focus for a startup, the bottleneck might be: customer demand,

47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r @47fucb4r8c69323 2026-07-05 20:15Z

I hate people, I am cynical, I am easily disgusted by others. But humanity is the only life form we know of that can find another species cute and be motivated by that to want to care for, provide, nurture and bring happiness to that creature. The cynic says this is unfair to https:// x.com/DanielleFong/s /DanielleFong/status/2073847647035965885 …

nico @nicochristie 2026-07-05 21:38Z

I’m no macro economist But there are a lot of 39 year olds grinding leetcode at Starbucks rn

Phillip Yan @PhillipYan2 2026-07-05 23:16Z

the mass ratio is wild but the politically relevant number is probably the energy density ratio, you're moving 300x the weight but also moving it to a furnace, not a factory that reuses it next cycle

tomie @tomieinlove 2026-07-06 01:20Z

There’ll be a point where AI development briefly stalls as researchers, not comprehending what their checkpoints are saying, assume something must’ve gone wrong in the training run.

Binh Pham @pham_blnh 2026-07-06 13:42Z

when you have a working action-chunk-based robot policy, try to subsample the action chunk to make the robot go brr brr brr here is me running SmolVLA at 8x speed, short explanation at the end

Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature 2026-07-06 10:34Z

A gorgeous Long Tailed Tit in a rare moment of stillness.

Rhys @RhysSullivan 2026-07-06 08:28Z

sharing a bit more on this one: today executor ships just `executor` which includes toolkits, policies, connections, integrations, etc the plan is to split this into `executor product` and `executor platform` adding integrations, authenticating, lives inside of the platform

Ethan Mollick @emollick 2026-07-06 06:19Z

Deleting this because I found I had left a setting on Claude Code allowing writing to memory files on one of my computers, so I am not sure where this all crept in, but it might be my fault!

Brayden @BraydenWilmoth 2026-07-06 14:27Z

Wrote down some thoughts on why I think browsers will become our own "personal operating systems". Personal agents in their idyllic form will be invisible to users. Atlas & Dia in my opinion are missing the mark a bit – and a huge opportunity continues to exist.

Jack Elsom @JackElsom 2026-07-06 12:49Z

EXCL: Keir Starmer personally stepped in to stop FIFA bringing forward England’s kick-off last night as he feared Mexico were trying to gain an advantage. The PM told the FA they were not to accept moving the match.

will depue @willdepue 2026-07-05 06:57Z

what sam is working on is the closest thing i’ve ever seen to what spacex must have felt like in the early days. considering joining him, it’s a truly ridiculous and incredible mission

Ben Bajarin @BenBajarin 2026-07-06 15:51Z

Token budget narrative violation. 42 CIO/CTO/CSO survey, average company size ~13,000. This from Keybanc, consistent with a lot of what we hear from decision makers, and our own CIO/CTO survey. In any adoption cycle, it's key to study the customer. Which in this case is

Batuhan @batukrskl 2026-07-06 11:31Z

Updated Default line: 12px Active/hover line: 32px Weight: 2px Added magnetic hover behavior › https:// github.com/batuhankarasak al/tableofcontent …

Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav @reach_vb 2026-07-06 15:23Z

Turns out you can just clone your favorite reviewers! All our docs PRs are reviewed by both @dkundel and @charlierguo (or rather sub agents that mimic their past PR reviews) Always brings a smile to my face when I see the sub agents with their names and persona reviewing my PR

Pietro Schirano @skirano 2026-07-06 15:48Z

Fable is extremely good at writing original NES games in assembly. Here it designed an original game graphics, soundtrack, everything from scratch, and it'd actually run within the constraints of a real cartridge. Wild.

Nuevo.Tokyo™ @nuevo_tokyo 2026-07-06 10:57Z

We created the most subtle gradients yet, we call them AIR and believe it or not, they are constructed of 3 and 4 different colours each.

kache @yacineMTB 2026-07-06 10:30Z

I just beat mujoco playground's baseline by 10x now. The policy is up on dingbotics. I wrote a custom physics engine. It still doesn't handle perturbations that well because fable decided to leave some bugs behind

Hero Thousandfaces @1thousandfaces_ 2026-07-06 01:26Z

Anthropic’s Lead Engineer

hope hopes hoping @hopes_revenge 2026-07-05 19:07Z

there should be a “born again” movement where big posters abandon their high-follower accounts and begin again as lowbies . walking amongst the scum and detritus

Jukan @ ICML @jukan05 2026-07-06 03:01Z

Korean media reported that Kim Yong-kwan, President and Head of Business Strategy at Samsung Electronics’ Device Solutions division, said during a DS division management town hall meeting on July 3 that this year’s operating profit is expected to be in line with market consensus.

Jing Liang @AppleHelix 2026-07-06 06:26Z

Another ADC acquisition. This time novel payload (N-Myristoyltransferase inhibitor) $NVS to acquire Myricx (UK based) for $1.1B u/f + $0.4B backend. Seeded by Sofinnova Partners (Maina Bhaman) and Brandon Capital (Jonathan Tobin). Series A co-led by Abingworth (Jayson Punwani)

Zephyr @zephyr_z9 2026-07-06 09:52Z

Observe the ASP growth since Feb

sanss @sammssnoo 2026-07-06 07:10Z

Childhood dream of butterflies and waterfall done

ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports 2026-07-06 03:56Z

The Monument, Berlin, by Sibylle Bergemann, 1986 (flipped), by Carl de Souza

Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9 2026-07-05 22:46Z

Homeless Irishman, Spitalfields, London 197

Joseph Steinberg @jbsteinberg 2026-07-06 13:06Z

The problem, @gabriel_zucman , is that state policymakers cannot credibly commit to levying the tax only once. Billionaires will update their beliefs to put a positive probability on the tax recurring. Classic time consistency problem.

Derek Thompson @DKThomp 2026-07-06 12:17Z

Two things about ultra-processed food 1) It's not a scientific category. UPF refer to category 4 foods, under the NOVA classification system, which was proposed by some food researchers at the University of Sao Paulo almost 20 years ago, and it's wild that nobody has come up

Rohan Sawhney @rohansawhney1 2026-07-05 22:42Z

New WoSX demo: interactive geometric deformation with Walk on Spheres! Computes stochastic barycentric coordinates for detailed triangle meshes inside coarse cages, without tetrahedralizing the cage interior, then transfers interactive cage edits to the embedded geometry.

Ayush Soni @ayushsoni_io 2026-07-06 12:59Z

graphical language snippets

Shenzhen Foundry @shenzhenfoundry 2026-07-06 00:56Z

Ray-Ban Meta made AI glasses fun and social. NIMO made them forgettable on purpose. Meta: camera + open-ear audio, great for calls and content. NIMO (Shenzhen-built): zero camera, true prescription support, ~29g lightweight titanium, discreet visual AI for meetings and

USD.AI @USDai_Official 2026-07-06 12:52Z

June was a big month for USDAI across loans, yield, liquidity, and APAC expansion. $98.1M largest loan to date $20M cumulative yield crossed $100M sUSDai liquidity facility with @0xfluid $300M APAC compute financing JV with BSQ