Michael Arrington 🏴‍☠️

buying bitcoin.

I don’t think people realize how absurd this is. Scottish runner Josh Kerr just broke the mile world record in 3:42.66, an average speed of 16.2 mph. Most people couldn’t even briefly reach that speed, let alone sustain it for an entire mile.

Congratulations to Spain on winning the soccer thing!

@girdley Oh I’d really like to hear your thoughts on your channel. Lots of business insights and advice there.

@arrington I've resisted covering it though Youtube seems to love talking about it. My comments mention it all the time. Wild.

BREAKING: No single blockchain can handle DTCC’s $4 quadrillion in annual settlements, according to its Head of Digital Assets. “We're working with Canton, Stellar and a few others.”

JUST IN: Gen Z electricians working on AI data centers are reportedly earning up to $280,000 a year, as demand surges.

The Bricks and Minifigs drama MUST be made into a Netflix movie

BREAKING: The House has passed legislation to make Daylight Saving Time permanent nationwide, ending the twice-a-year clock changes by a 308-117 vote. Backed by President Trump, the bill now heads to the Senate. If approved and signed into law, Americans would no longer have to change their clocks.

@yangcliu Ok I rented Exhuma and will watch tonight!

@arrington saw it last night too and i was a bit underwhelmed, perhaps i had just seen exhuma (2024) 2 days before that kept me on edge the entire time. check it out

Obsession (2026) is a tightly edited, well written, perfect movie. It cost a tiny $1m to make, and has made $375m at the box office. Saw it last night. Super good movie. Perhaps even a masterpiece. We need more movies like this. youtu.be/gMC8kkwbIQQ?is…

$META: Muse Spark 1.1 From testing it today, I am very bullish on Muse Spark 1.1. It's nothing like the Llama Models and I would say comparable to OpenAI/Anthropic for a decent sized subset of my usage. Overall, the model accuracy is frontier worthy and the RL on it is almost magical as it's very intuitive akin to Fable 5. One surprising thing is that Muse Spark is blazing fast, almost so fast that I wonder if more people adopt it would we see it slow down. But really I think Meta has an vertical integration advantage as it's essentially it's own cloud. This makes me wonder if the best AI Models will all become their own Clouds and be co-designed with their own ASICs which we are seeing from OpenAI and Anthropic already. I think Muse Spark can serious become a top 3 model edging out Gemini as Meta has the best RL team and data which is critical for models nowadays. Having Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger user data is an unfair advantage. Stock Research I re-queried the stock research tasks that I had asked ChatGPT-5.5 Pro yesterday on Muse Spark instead. The results were: ChatGPT-5.5 Pro 1. Runs for longer 2. More detail oriented Muse Spark Thinking 1. Very Intuitive - get's me the information I need and understands concepts with less prompts. It's like asking for RCA and actually getting RCA. 2. Lightning fast - I'm on my company's enterprise subscription for ChatGPT and Free Muse Spark Thinking got my task done 5x faster. Coding For coding, most developers are used to having a harness so I would like to see a "Muse Code". It's not natively supported by Cursor so Meta should take a lead here and come up with a harness. Coding is where some of the most complex AI usage is and would be useful for Meta to collect data and feedback. Synergy With Core Business Although I am not a Facebook or Instagram user, I tested it out by querying for videos and extracting information and was very impressed. I had expected Grok to be superiorly integrated to X but it felt like agentic search like ChatGPT or Claude querying the web. Muse Spark, on the other hand, is much more tightly integrated with Facebook and Instagram and able to perceive more deeply into the content. Shopping Yes, I do use AI to research for buying items like baby products. Previously using ChatGPT but Muse Spark does a way better job because it's way more intuitive. I wonder if Meta has some secret sauce from it's ad targeting as the three modes are "instant", "thinking" and "shopping". This would be pretty big as one of the previous strong holds for Google is that many people still use it over ChatGPT/Claude for shopping/shopping research. However I got to say Muse Spark wins here and it's a very lucrative AI segment.

BREAKING: EU Parliament advances “Chat Control 1.0,” allowing mass scanning of private communications through 2028.

@JesusDe97577992 Just a double sided one. Red is softer

@arrington Is that a left handed soft hammer ?

Who knows what this means?

@0x3y3 Plus the dado

@arrington means you’re $100 lighter and 10/10 digits intact

@tylerokc Hah

@arrington Due to the stop saw device and the airpod, I'd say you nearly cut your ear off.

@ihouman I’ve heard they are illegal in Europe

@arrington Just realized that’s a dado blade too

@htormey Nice

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HAPPY 250th BIRTHDAY AMERICA!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@cameronpriest Hah. These things save hot dogs like nothing else!

@arrington someone dropped their 4th of july hotdog in your workshop?

@raintures Look up sawstop table saws and the safety feature they include

@arrington No idea, but I’m curious now