Daniel Bogda

My conversation with Sergey Levine (@svlevine). Sergey is the co-founder of @physical_int -- a company building foundation models that can control any robot to do any task in any environment. The company's thesis is that generality is more scalable than specialization, meaning that a model trained across many different robots and tasks will ultimately outperform any system built to do one thing well (eg, just wash dishes). Sergey is a researcher by background, but I think you will appreciate how practical and commercially grounded this conversation is. We discuss: - Why changing a diaper will be the last task a robot masters - The simulation v. real-world data debate - How multimodal LLMs give robots common sense - Moravec's Paradox + Robot Olympics - Why robots can do long-horizon tasks now - A realistic timeline for robots in our homes I should note that I am an investor in Physical Intelligence -- I made the investment because I believe it is one of the most important companies tackling the problem of robotics. Enjoy! Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:39 Defining Physical Intelligence 5:19 The Challenge of Building General Models 6:34 The Stakes and Future of General Purpose Robotics 8:15 Pros and Cons of Humanoid Robots 10:12 Historical Milestones in Robotics Research 15:31 Combining Generative AI and Deep RL 21:24 Moravec's Paradox 25:33 Kitchen Robots 29:30 Simulation vs. Real-World Data 30:48 The Robot Olympics 36:31 The Physiological Reality of Embodiment 38:56 Controversies in the Robotics Community 44:18 What Makes a Great Researcher 48:27 How Businesses Should Prepare for Robotics 54:09 Tracking Progress Through Research Papers 57:02 The Next Step: Mid-Level Reasoning 1:02:00 The Kindest Thing

Today, we're announcing Heaviside, our foundation model for electromagnetism. Trained on tens of millions of designs and over 20 years of proprietary simulation data, Heaviside predicts electromagnetic behavior from geometry in 13ms, which is 800,000x faster than a commercial solver. Heaviside is not a language model, and it’s not a surrogate model. Heaviside marks a new class of foundation model for physics which understands the fundamental relationships between materials, the geometries and the electromagnetic fields they generate. We’re releasing a research preview of Heaviside in Atlas RF Studio, an interactive agentic sandbox where you describe the EM behavior you want and the model generates the physical structure that produces it. @arenaphysica , we believe the implications of this class of model extend well beyond RF, as the frontier of exquisite hardware is electromagnetically-governed: wireless communication, radar, power delivery, high-speed computing, and the interconnects inside every chip on earth. In the months ahead, we’re excited to scale up Heaviside to broader frequency ranges, design spaces, and to support silicon-level designs, and deploy it with our closest partners and collaborators in service of their biggest design challenges. If you’ve read our thesis, this is just Step 2 in our pursuit of electromagnetic superintelligence. Read the full announcement and try Atlas RF Studio…tell us what you think: arenaphysica.com/publications/r…

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vibe coded a fuzzing ai agent last month and let it run for a week using my $200 claude max. it then found 21 high/critical vulnerabilities in Chrome.

Grok automatically translating and recommending 𝕏 posts from other languages is starting to work

Huge Anthropic leak just dropped: the entire Claude Code CLI source is now public. A misconfigured .map file in their npm package exposed a direct download link to the full unobfuscated TypeScript codebase from Anthropic’s own R2 bucket. Discovered by Chaofan Shou (@Fried_rice), the dump is massive 1,900 files, 512,000+ lines including the complete tool system, 50+ slash commands, multi-agent coordinator, React/Ink terminal UI, IDE bridge, permission engine, and several unreleased features. Full repo is live on GitHub(@nichxbt ): github.com/nirholas/claud… Clean mirrors are already up for easy browsing(@baanditeagle): cc-poster.vercel.app cc-hidden-deploy.vercel.app It’s spreading fast, the entire dev community is already tearing through it.

@FutureJurvetson @_BryceTech @SpaceX One private American company controls 83% of global rocket launches. Every government space agency in the world combined makes up the remaining 17%. Let that restructure how you think about power.

🚀 The Q4 Rocket Report just came out, with a record breaking surge in launch activity. SpaceX had 97% share of U.S. launch, and 83% globally. China was 8%, Russia 4%, all other U.S. 3%, Korea 1%, Japan 0.6%, Europe 0.2%, and India 0.1%

The zoomed-in section is cute

In WWII, USA built 18,000 ships in 1943.  Today, we're lucky to break 10. But that’s changing.  @Saronic is rebuilding USA’s Freedom's Forge: hundreds, then thousands of autonomous ships, up to 180 ft long.  Proud to have created Saronic out of @8VC & backed them at each step.

The only way to solve robotics is to ship a lot of robots

Teslas displaced my exotic cars many years ago, but with the Roadster still an indeterminate distance in the future, I had been feeling an urge for something a little more… analog. I was initially thinking about a 60’s Camaro with modernized running gear, but a part of me was also nostalgic for my old MGB. I eventually remembered that there was a car right at the intersection of muscle car grunt and British roadster charm – the ‘65 Shelby Cobra. It is kind of amazing that the federal Low Volume Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Act of 2015 authorizes small runs of replica vehicles to basically ignore all the safety and emissions regulations. All the paternalism and crusading was just pushed aside in the name of letting small companies make badass cars. On my birthday, Trista nudged me into visiting @EMotorcars where they had a dozen different replicas on hand. I was partial to the idea of a carbureted 427 with a magneto as a Mad Max post-EMP LARP, but practicality prevailed, and I wound up with a modern Coyote crate motor in a @Backdraftracing chassis.

In addition to having the full high-functioning autist power set, Elon also genuinely likes being around and working with other people, which is a bit rare. The correlation between deep technical ability and anti-social hermit tendencies is real, and it limits a lot of people (ahem). @Project2501_117 had to point this out to me.

This could be the offramp the world needs. You can think of it as the best outcome for everyone, under the circumstances. (1) From MAGA’s perspective, if Trump declares victory here and moves on, the US won’t waste yet more blood and treasure in the Middle East. It won’t invade Iran. It also won’t take all the blame for the ongoing global supply chain crisis. It just pulls out and lets everyone work out the regional security equation for themselves. Trump can say he’s fulfilled both his campaign promises: stop Iran from getting a nuke, but also no endless Middle Eastern wars. (2) From Israel’s perspective, Iran has now been shown to be quite hostile to its neighbors, and its military has been substantially degraded. Stopping now is good. Otherwise there’s a danger of overreacting to Oct 7 as Americans overreacted to Sept 11. Israel can stand back and call it a win, because after a US pullout, Iran will have much less excuse for holding the Strait hostage. (3) From the Iranian diaspora’s perspective, it’s unfortunately clear that the current war isn’t going to result in liberalization. Further attacks would push Iran further into fundamentalism, making it even harder to eventually do a liberal reformation. (4) From the long-suffering Iranian people’s perspective, ending the war now would also save countless lives. Otherwise they’ll get hit by friendly fire and drafted by the regime to fight for fundamentalism. (5) Finally, from the world’s perspective, once the US declares victory and goes home, substantial diplomatic pressure will be applied to Iran to simply open the Strait of Hormuz and allow ships through. Iran’s leadership has shown, perhaps surprisingly, that they care about global public opinion…and they would be on the hook for the suffering of billions of people if the Strait remains blocked. TLDR: if Trump declares victory and leaves, Iran no longer has any excuse for blocking the Strait and holding the global economy hostage. Let the matter be worked out diplomatically with pressure from all the 100+ affected countries on Iran. America shouldn’t have to spend a single cent more, or send a single soldier more, to the Middle East.

He's the lead electrostatics scientist at NASA who's contributed two commonly-accepted principles to electrostatics. He now runs experiments getting propulsion without fuel: essentially antigravity (that he says vindicates Thomas Townsend Brown). A leap forward for humanity

API usage through MCP/CLI has accelerated in the last months. This trend creates a paradox for PMs. Your product is getting more usage, but you understand less about how it's being used. API logs show you what was called, not what was built. That's a dangerous blind spot. The real threat isn't going headless — it's losing the feedback loop. Your power users are now building custom apps in Claude Code that you'll never see in your analytics dashboard. They're solving problems your product should have solved. The race isn't against Anthropic, it is against your own customers. They're already building the product they wish you had. Every day you don't talk to them, that gap widens. What does this mean: 1. Your MCP users are your most important research cohort right now — go talk to them 2. What they're building tells you what your product is missing. Build those capabilities natively, with the UX and reliability that a Claude Code hack can't match. This is your roadmap. 3. Ship it to the 90% of your users who will never touch an MCP and use your distribution to your advantage

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How the Japanese timeline cleanse on X has felt to us Americans

🚨NEW: Mainland China CCP factory employees and Taiwanese warehouse workers have provided written affidavits on how they and others have installed illegal corrupted components into U.S. voting machines for years. From @EmeraldRobinson & @PatrickByrne x.com/PatrickByrne/s…

You can't accurately call something a milestone when the more impressive alternative would be not to hit it.