David Speiser

tips @techmeme Fundamental emerges from stealth with first major foundation model trained for tabular data venturebeat.com/technology/fun… via @VentureBeat @carlfranzen

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Read & Give by Bono: Read the news. Make a difference. Instantly. producthunt.com/products/read-… by @ronch h/t @benln for hunting!

Spacetop AR desktop is now available as a Windows app liliputing.com/spacetop-ar-de… via @liliputingnews tips @Techmeme

tips@ techmeme Spacetop AR is now a Windows app instead of a useless screenless laptop engadget.com/ar-vr/spacetop… via @engadget

tips @Techmeme pcworld.com/article/275223…

@LordGrimdark Already bought via preorder. We got your back dude.

9 chapters free? I'm cutting my own throat here...

@mattdinniman Goddamit Donut

Happy hardcover book release day to Dungeon Crawler Carl book 5, The Butcher’s Masquerade. Now available in bookstores everywhere.

"What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca Cola, too. A coke is a coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it." -Andy Warhol (thanks @benthompson)

Carbon Arc offers a marketplace for buying and selling licensed, real world transaction data to power LLMs and enterprise applications venturebeat.com/data-infrastru… via @VentureBeat tips @techmeme

@mattdinniman not being a dick, I swear. This is very sad. But Donut and Zev specifically, are going to be heartbroken : nytimes.com/2025/02/26/art…

@lsvaranasi wanted to circle back with you on the Palona AI story. Can you DM me with your Signal?

tips @techmeme Former Google VP raises $10M for new startup building AI agents for retail businesses geekwire.com/2025/former-go… via @GeekWire

tips @techmeme zdnet.com/article/the-fu… (also GeekWire, Ad Week, Bloomberg, etc.)

@lsvaranasi could you please DM me your Signal email? tks

@LordGrimdark I’m on my 4th re-read of the first law series. Still in love with the world you built. I especially love the nods to Excalibur (which I loved too), with Bethod and the charm of making, and the fishing scene in the mountains in BTAH. I keep wishing/hoping you’ll do a prequel someday to tell the stories of the Rock of Uffrith, how Dow lost his ear, and how Logan and Berhod first conquered the north, etc. Regardless, thank you for the wonderful writing and the countless hours of joy.

“It has been said that necessity is the mother of invention. In the same vein, desperation is the father of compromise, panic is the sister of slapdash improvisation, and despair is the second cousin of quiet apathy. By that reckoning, dinner was a dismal family reunion.” — J. Zachary Pike I’m looking forward to cultured political discourse at the family dinner table in very the holidays. Thank you @jzacharypike for the eloquent summary of my second cousins, despair and apathy.

Badass quote by @trySkyfire co-founder @CryptoCwby in an interview with @ZeffMax from TechCrunch: “AI agents can’t do anything if they can’t make payments, it’s just a glorified search,” said Skyfire co-founder and Chief Product Officer Craig DeWitt in an interview with TechCrunch. “Either we figure out a way where agents are actually able to do things, or they don’t do anything, and therefore, they’re not agents.” techcrunch.com/2024/08/21/sky…

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Crypto Payment Network for AI Agents Launched by Former Ripple Execs ► decrypt.co/245632/skyfire… decrypt.co/245632/skyfire…

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Skyfire lets AI agents spend your money tcrn.ch/46VsWQQ