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@DylanAbruscato @DeadCaitBounce Huge!! Congrats

OpenAI is acquiring TBPN This has been a dream job and the show only gets better from here

We're publishing an exclusive chapter from @scmallaby's brilliant new book about Demis Hassabis and DeepMind. This is the inside story of Project Mario. How DeepMind's co-founders spent 4 years trying every mechanism they could think of to put guardrails around AGI, only to watch each one fail, and conclude that the only safeguard was themselves. It reveals that Hassabis ran a secret hedge fund team inside DeepMind trying to beat Renaissance Technologies; Mustafa Suleyman assembled lawyers for a $5 billion walkaway plan; Reid Hoffman committed $1 billion of his personal fortune to back them; Google kept saying yes and no at the same time—and the endless negotiations left Hassabis so distracted that when the transformer paper dropped in 2017, he was less alert to its significance than he might have been. Meanwhile, OpenAI was fighting the mirror-image battle with Musk, Altman, and Sutskever tearing each other apart over the same question: who gets to control AGI? Musk proposed folding OpenAI into Tesla. When that failed, he stormed out. When OpenAI's nonprofit board finally tried to assert authority in 2023, it was crushed in days. Both camps arrived at the same unsettling conclusion, that governance structures don't hold. The best safeguard either side could come up with? Trust us. Read the chapter in the link below.

@reaIityobserver Ye’s agentic workflow was quite busy working on his album. Forgive him

@knowerofmarkets all that free time and my last Yeezy order never shipped

It’s interesting that Ye (the artist formerly known as Kanye West) went through a phase where he used AI to automate the boring parts of his work (recording vocals) in order to free up more time to be creative in the work he actually enjoys most (production)

Everyone is talking about AI replacing jobs, nobody has mapped where the damage actually hits. We scored every US county on its exposure to AI killing white collar jobs. Indexed all of the US. Link on the next post Built it with my homie @0xCatDev

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@SpencerApplebau @shayonsengupta Congrats!!

Excited to share that I've been promoted to General Partner and Co-Head of Venture at Multicoin Capital alongside the best colleague anyone could ask for @shayonsengupta multicoin.capital/2026/03/24/inv…

@based16z Hand em over man

I'm a bit late, but this is by far the best (and maybe the only) realistic analysis of not only what agentic / micro payments will look like, but what their implementation actually leads to. Highly recommend this as the most polished writing I've seen on agentic payments to-date!

@netcapgirl @eriktorenberg @a16z 🫡

i’ve spent enough time on the internet to know it’s the most important place in the world. it’s not separate from real life anymore. it is real life. i’m joining @eriktorenberg on the @a16z new media team to help shape the narrative arc of the future

Liking this post and nodding my head as I scroll past it

I am “continuing to monitor the situation”.

@PixieChess cant wait

Pixie Chess launches April 2. Chess is History.

I once tried to sneak a copy of Honor Levy's 'My First Book' onto a domestic flight and was stopped by TSA. They made me surrender it and denounce autofiction before I was allowed to make my way to the gate. Everyone clapped and shouted at me. They called me book boy.

I've definitely warmed up to the idea of using AI in writing and/or research processes in the past six months, and although I personally haven't published any writing that's been done with AI, the performance leaps in recent LLMs have made me question why I even bother to do things "the old fashioned way" I've tried to run a few internal experiments where I give an LLM 20-30 documents, essays, and write-ups to tie together into a singular argumentative piece around a topic (ex: agentic payments, DeFi) and while the writing would absolutely be passable for a college paper or a sanitized blog post, it has yet to come close to the bar I have for publishable writing, or the level of writing I actively seek out everyday I'm aware of the now commonplace process of running a few prompts into an LLM, receiving 2,500 words written by Claude or GPT, and tweaking this to pass off as your own writing - but I have yet to find an example of this in public (and there are countless) that meets the expectations I have for defining "good writing" LLMs have gotten really, really good. They're now routinely blowing past the baseline on OpenAI's GDPval benchmark, requiring entirely new benchmarks just so we can try to measure progress, and even writing their own code. But they aren't human. Just like Ben says, I still believe that writing is a very human process and the best writing can only come from human, lived experience. There's a chance that existing LLMs are approaching some undefinable level of consciousness, and they are obviously good at doing much of the same work we do, but human readers subconsciously crave writing that is born out of the human experience, and I don't see this changing anytime soon. Highly recommend reading this.

my simple take on agent stuff is all the perf on top of models comes from context, so you need to give it access to all your data, the most sensitive of the sensitive data, more than you've ever thought is OK to share before and that will mean you will want to self-host at scale

@mydegendiary @iamgingertrash Oh i definitely know I would like to purchase one

@knowerofmarkets @iamgingertrash they don’t know

Via Qasar Younis' personal blog, but the idea is still the same There's still too much friction expecting everyone to a) buy a mac mini b) set up open claw and c) know what to even do with agents Whoever collapses this, makes probably a gajillion dollars, not just a billion