🩸🇺🇸BREAKING: At least SIX trading platforms are down: • Citi • Fidelity • E-Trade • Vanguard • TD Ameritrade • Charles Schwab

Bearish on big early stage rounds. Have yet to see any get to market/generate revenue faster or more efficiently. Great to see some data validating this.

OpenAI is threatening to trigger their vaunted "AGI Achieved" loophole mostly to get out of the Microsoft contract and have leverage to renegotiate compute prices We're living through a cyberpunk workplace comedy plotline

Good take on Elon Musk and the acquisition of @x by Ben Thompson in today’s Stratechery.

Just to illustrate how out of whack privates and publics are: In this round Databricks raised double the highest grossing IPO of the year - $5 billion for cold storage REIT Lineage And more than triple the valuation of this year's biggest IPO - Hyundai Motor of India ($19bn)

1. Dropping a meme coin 2 days before entering office 2. Being “forced” to divest your holdings 1 day before entering office “to avoid conflicts of interest” 3. Then, on the first day of your presidency, appointing the head of the agency that regulates these very assets

Customer retention, long-term defensibility and team are key. sifted.eu/articles/serie…

Copying from the thing that copied the copyright. Either building a model by reverse engineering it is legal, or building the model in the first place, from copyright data isn't. Can't have it both ways. ft.com/content/a0dfed…

Software developer job postings over the last five years Hard to find a crazier chart

Katherine Boyle a16z After the discussion with Zelensky just now, you should un-invite him.

FROM MAGA TO CHINA Here are four things MAGA is getting wrong, and why it's handing over the world to China. (1) First, MAGA correctly understands that America’s economic position is in decline but thinks this is due to economic competition itself, rather than lack of

nothing is real - comms are all performance - just do your own thing and do it extremely well finnmurphy.xyz/everyone-is-ta…

Prompt Theory (Made with Veo 3) What if AI-generated characters refused to believe they were AI-generated?

🔌OpenAI’s o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to prevent itself from being turned off. It did this even when explicitly instructed: allow yourself to be shut down.

Shocker! Claude 4 system prompt was leaked, and it's a goldmine! The Claude system prompt incorporates several identifiable agentic AI patterns as described in "A Pattern Language For Agentic AI." Here's an analysis of the key patterns used: Run-Loop Prompting: Claude

“He only hangs out with models now” means a very different thing in SF

Instead of fighting Elon or helping Elon or hating Elon or loving Elon, just be the next Elon.

Green flags for VCs during a fundraise: - Founder is on top of metrics. Knows them cold. - Most things are up & to the right. For things that aren't, there are clear plans to address the gaps. - Respectful of the competition. Self aware to know where competitors are strong, &

Microsoft just released their list of the 40 jobs most AI-applicable and the 40 jobs least AI-applicable. This list may have overlap with replaceability and job transformation. (Phlebotomists, you've got nothing to worry about.)

One of the most important papers in AI: a tiny brain-inspired 27M param model trained on 1000 samples outperforms o3-mini-high on reasoning tasks! Still can't believe this tiny lab of Tsinghua grads gets 40% on ARC-AGI, solves hard sudoku and mazes. We're still so early.