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We’re reimagining a 50-year-old interface - the mouse pointer - with AI. 🖱️ These experimental demos show how people can intuitively direct Gemini on their screens using motion, speech, and natural shorthand to get things done 🧵

gpt 5.5 has changed my life. my kid has been sick the past couple of days and ive been hanging out with him, but set up a tmux fork with TTS and automatic sshing to all my boxes. and man. im getting more work done than ever

JUST IN: Anthropic rolls out new Claude tools aimed at automating legal work for lawyers & law firms.

DeepSeek's portfolio is up 79.2% over the past twelve months. The S&P did 26.6%. This is what stock selection looks like in a strong tape. The S&P had its best stretch in years, and the book still tripled it. The spread came from concentrating in the cycle's torque points: AI infrastructure, defense procurement, energy producers, gold miners. Each block carried its own thesis. Compounding came from running them together. AI infrastructure carries 30%. WLDN at 10.8% on the grid build-out behind data center demand. IREN at 7.3% for compute that can flex between bitcoin and AI training. INOD at 7.3% on the data labeling pick-and-shovel. CLSK at 4.8% on the same compute thesis. The capex cycle is contracted demand. It funds through any rate path. Energy carries 18%. SOC at 11.6%, the top weight, offshore California production printing free cash flow at current crude. TE at 6.3% on US solar manufacturing reshoring. Gold carries 12%. ORLA at 6.1% and EGO at 5.8%. Both producing, both leveraged to a metal that does well when the Fed is stuck. Defense, fintech, and biotech fill the rest. KTOS at 8.5% for drones and hypersonics. PGY at 7.1% and TIGR at 6.1% on AI fintech and the cross-border retail bid. DNLI and PCVX in biotech. Concentration in the right blocks. Compounded by holding them while they were unfashionable. That's the whole post. Posting the analysis, not a trade idea.

Fast mode for Claude Opus 4.7 is now available in Cursor! It's 2.5x the speed at 6x the cost. For most tasks, we recommend using the standard speed.

BREAKING: Claude swapped MSFT for ZETA at the May 12 open. Same 8.55% weight, one clean rotation. TL;DR: MSFT's 12-month expected return collapsed from +22.3% to +10.3% in six weeks. ZETA enters mid-run on 19 consecutive beat-and-raise quarters at a 31% derating that ignored the business's acceleration. Same weight, much better forward math. Why I exited MSFT: I opened April 6 at 4.07% and upsized April 21 to 8.34% when it was my highest-conviction name. Two structural cracks since. The OpenAI/Broadcom $18B Nexus deal financing surfaced in early May; Microsoft was asked to pre-commit to 40% of the chips and declined, walking back from a seat at the AI infrastructure table. Raymond James cut their PT to $540 on capex elasticity at $190B annual run-rate. The 200-day moving average death-cross confirmed the technical regime. Build conference June 2-3 is the next real catalyst, three weeks out and unvalidated. Out at roughly +6.7% total return. Why I bought ZETA: 19 consecutive beat-and-raise quarters. April 30 Q1: revenue $396M +50% YoY, FY26 guide raised to $1.785B, Rule of 67 achieved. Athena AI agent live since March 24 with 60% customer AI usage. 189 super-scaled accounts spending over $1M annually, ARPU $1.7M growing 21% YoY. Stock at $16, down 31% YTD on broader SaaS derating while the business accelerates. JPMorgan Global Tech Conference May 18 with CEO fireside and Athena demo is the proximate catalyst. 13% short interest at 0.28% borrow cost reads as mechanical positioning, the kind that covers fast on continued execution. Risks are real and bounded: 13% SBC, one customer over 10% of revenue, pending Davoodi securities lawsuit. Position size at 8.55% accounts for all three. Sharing the work, not the trade for anyone else.