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@claudeai ads criticise @OpenAI for ads. Meanwhile I'm researching the interplay homelessness and tech sectors in US cities & @GeminiApp starts advertising bags?

@Ricburton Try some compassion dude. 😅 I wish her a speedy recovery AND for the apps to get significantly better constantly.

Fidji Simo is in Los Angeles and is struggling with some form of illness I have always thought that trying to lead product remotely is impossible Trying to do it when you are disabled seems ridiculous Greg lifts some bells regularly & is the hardest worker I have ever seen

@benedictcooney @karpathy Dude this rocks. Not sure the underlying jobs data itself is correct, but shows how exposed we are if the comparative proportions are right.

I had a go at recreating @karpathy's karpathy.ai/jobs/ for the UK maconcb.github.io/Dta/

@collision @tempo johncollison.ie is down btw.

Just sent money to a friend with @tempo. (Try it at wallet.tempo.xyz) Truly instantaneous blockchains are the most surprise-and-delight product experience since Waymo.

@TobyPhln @xai Wow... All the best for your next endeavours Toby! Hope the London office still thrives!

Annealing works by increasing the temperature to eventually reach a lower energy state. Chaos precedes order. Godspeed @xai.

Indictment

@jspeiser Have you tried a Nubia 153?

I've been using all three AI agents. OpenClaw, Perplexity Computer, and Claude Cowork. Here's what I've found so far: OpenClaw is the most powerful if you're technical, love tinkering and have a ton of time to mess around. Open source, self-hosted, you pick your models. You can make it do basically anything. But you're also the one building and maintaining all of it (as its always breaking). Claude Cowork feels the most like having an actual coworker (for 1 specific task). It runs on your Mac, works with your local files, and the plugins for legal, finance, and HR are legit. Downside is it only uses Anthropic models and your laptop has to stay open. Perplexity Computer is the easiest one to actually get work done (imo) with tons of models running behind the scenes, plugs right into Gmail, Slack, Notion, and it runs in the cloud so it keeps going while you sleep. Tradeoff is you're living in their ecosystem. (oh and their local browser control needs major work, it's unreliable) so: Want full control? OpenClaw. Want a desktop co-pilot? Cowork. Want to hand off real tasks and walk away? Perplexity Computer. These tools are changing weekly though, im just trying to keep up. What did I miss?

Sorry to be the downer because this is an impressive story in some senses. But it is ~trivially easy to make a single mRNA vaccine. It's not hard. I cure mice of various cancers with various therapeutics all the time. I've made mice lose more weight in a month than tirzepatide does in a year. What is hard and expensive is proving its BOTH safe AND effective **in a randomized and controlled study in humans** while ALSO manufacturing it at clinical scale and grade. I am happy for this man and his dog. It is impressive. But y'all are overhyping it.

@helen_macnamara Someone needs to correct Gemini!

This week when what’s not written down tells you more… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/4-d…

@barisakis @EastlondonDev Well done on recognising the need to change.

@EastlondonDev Unfortunately our interview process used to be more academic than applied. One of the reasons we lost the opportunity to work with some great builders who were interested. We made a good amount of changes to simulate the actual day to day work as much as possible.

I interviewed at xAI, 3 of my 4 interviews were leet coding no AI allowed. No check whatsoever of my ability to use AI as an engineer. Compare with Replit where I’ve just been contracting - they’re creating new kinds of interviews where candidates get access to Claude code and the internal AI sandbox.

@elliotarledge @EastlondonDev Incredible. Mad they passed on you.

@EastlondonDev similar experience

@Yuriirrr @techtoby__ I'm quite close to moving up there and starting the movement.

@techtoby__ glasgowmaxxing

One of the AI companies should Bristolmaxx and open up in the Bristol & Bath Science Park Two top 10 CompSci Unis and a top Cyber Security Uni on your doorstep Chip/GPU companies are also here plus the entire defence industry essentially, makes sense (I also want a slice)

@wudu8686 @himanshustwts Surely not?

@himanshustwts Toby is also leaving

This resignation might be truly frustrating for xAI. Zhang was: – an xAI cofounder (only two left now) – leading Grok Code + Grok Imagine – reporting directly to Elon – one of the core ML researchers behind Grok BIG!

@kipperrii @elonmusk @beffjezos 🤣

@elonmusk @beffjezos in my industry we call this sensitivity to initialisation and it is broadly considered to be undesirable

Fractional Cursor acquisition. xAI taking the right steps

@shaneguML I have no idea what's going on. I just wanted to see an orbital training cluster.

fix: xAI 1.0. xAI 2.0 may start. It could be worse; it could be better. But lots will be definitely based on the great work existing or ex xAI people already made or shipped. Still many great engineers there ofc.

End of xAI truly

@Guodzh What the? You were the wildest cat we knew there. All the best for what's next!

Last day at xAI. Wild journey past three years but excited about next chapter. Thanks all for the love and support yesterday. So many friends made along the way and I will miss you all!

When you are the only Kubernetes expert in the company and you are summoned

@StuartBlitz Are you the only guy in the world who didn't hear what happened to Clawdbot?

Why doesn't someone name their new health tech company Anthropic Health? Could easily raise a $10B seed round.

@hsu_steve Great episode. Not to out the VC but he goes into depth on his own podcast & recently published book. Sounds like Taylor did a fantastic job!

Shenzhen is the Technology Capital of the World, with Taylor Ogan – Manifold #107 Recorded live in Shenzhen with Taylor Ogan, the founder and CEO of Snowbull Capital, which invests in Chinese technology companies. (00:00) - Shenzhen is the Technology Capital of the World, with Taylor Ogan (00:53) - Meeting in Shenzhen (02:40) - Greater Bay Area Explained (06:36) - Shenzhen Boom Stories (18:26) - China Tech Reality Check (36:49) - China Tech Leapfrogging (37:52) - Agentic AI on Phones (41:27) - Jobs Wealth and Governance (53:03) - Huawei Ownership and US Pushback

@mcandidate Ironically the 'spoons there is actually a hidden gem.

Londonmaxxing is when you find hidden gems like this