Farshad Taheri
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Farshad Taheri
@farshadtaheri
Early Stage Investor. Founder / CEO at Arbor
San Francisco, CA Katılım Ocak 2011
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This is the way.
The past 50 years of computing was about inventing form factors to interact with information. Retrieve information. Search for information. Edit information. Save information.
AI is about interacting with knowledge. It's completely different. Agents and models are there to do the dirty work aka interact with information). We need a new layer - more executive function, less tactical tools.
So instead of trying to jam AI into old form factors, its time to imagine a new form factor. From scratch. From first principles.
It's probably not a phone tbh, but what it is, I have not a clue. That said, like most breakthroughs we'll know it when we see it though.
Good luck to the teams building this.
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🚨 OpenAI is reportedly building a phone designed to replace the iPhone. And it’s further along than anyone realized. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the same man who predicted every major Apple product cycle for 20 years, just dropped this. Important details: 1: OpenAI is partnering with Qualcomm AND MediaTek to develop custom smartphone processors, not one chip partner, but two competing giants simultaneously 2: Luxshare has been named the exclusive system co-design and manufacturing partner, the same company that assembles Apple products 3: Mass production is targeted for 2028, the hardware roadmap is already in motion 4: The phone will run OpenAI’s own OS, replacing traditional apps entirely with AI agents that complete tasks autonomously, without you ever opening a single app 5: The processor is being designed around on-device AI performance, with complex tasks offloaded to OpenAI’s cloud infrastructure for seamless integration 6: OpenAI’s core thesis: users don’t want apps, they want results. The phone will continuously understand context, habits, and preferences in real time This isn’t a gadget. It’s a direct attempt to replace the operating system layer that Apple and Google have owned for 20 years. I’m doing more research, and what I’m about to post will blow your mind. You’ll wish you followed me sooner, trust me.
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@saranormous @gradypb @sequoia What’s one practical mistake most AI founders are still making here in 2026, and what does customer-first actually look like in an AGI-era product?
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*New Lecture*
Stanford @CS153Systems '26, Session 5 (Full Video)
Unified Intelligence with Amit Jain (@gravicle) from @LumaLabsAI
01:32 Luma's Origin Story
05:33 Differentiable World Learning
06:36 From 3D Capture To Video
10:40 Dream Machine Flywheel
13:48 Inside The Luma Factory
23:04 Unified Models Explained
32:29 Future Architectures
34:02 Skills and Tools
41:04 Creativity and Exploration
43:03 Sora Shutdown
47:08 GANs Diffusion and Hybrids
51:19 Hollywood Business Model Reset
55:01 What Makes Video Models Useful
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If we apply the current pace of Silicon Valley's shipping speed and innovation to the construction industry, everyone in the U.S. will own a home by 2030.
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I got into @ycombinator solo
After 7 rejections
Before the batch:
-$2.1M raised alone
-Sold 200K ARR
-6M+ views
I'm building the first database sandbox @ArdentAI
We let you infinitely clone any Postgres DB in <6s so coding agents can test code on a 1:1 of prod
Time to win
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Farshad Taheri retweetledi
In honor of 50 years of Apple, we're sharing - for the first time ever - Don Valentine's original 1977 memo for Sequoia's investment into Apple Computer. #Apple50
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One sort of person, when he has done a kindness to another, is quick also to chalk up the return due to him. A second is not so quick in that way, but even so he privately thinks of it as a debt, and is well aware of what he has done. A third sort is in a way not even conscious of his action, but is like the vine which has produced grapes and looks for nothing else once it has borne its own fruit. A horse that has raced, a dog that has tracked, a bee that has made honey, and a man that has done good—none of these knows what they have done, but they pass on to the next action, just as the vine passes on to bear grapes again in due season. So you ought to be one of those who, in a sense, are unconscious of the good they do.
“Yes,” he says, “but this is precisely what one should be conscious of: because it defines the social being to be aware of his social action, and indeed to want his fellow to be aware of it also.”
True, but you misunderstand the point I am making; and for that reason you will fall into one of the first categories I mentioned. They too are misled by some sort of plausible logic. But if you want to follow my meaning, don’t fear that this will lead you to any deficiency of social action.
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Farshad Taheri retweetledi
Clawdbot is controlling LMStudio remotely from telegram, downloading Qwen, which it will then use to power some of my tasks with Clawdbot. 🤯🤯
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Something's changed in Iran. Watch any video from there now, and you'll see it: families who've lost loved ones no longer dissolve in grief. Instead, they stand firm, channeling sorrow into quiet defiance against the regime. It's a shift that reshapes how we think about resistance—and the world.
Stay strong. Fight evil.
#IranRevolution2026
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This is the funeral of a young protester who was killed by Islamic Regime last week.
Traditionally in Iran, funerals are marked by sorrow: sad music, Islamic sermons, and recitations from the Quran.
But here, something completely different is happening.
The music being played is the kind normally heard at weddings. People are clapping. They are dancing. At a funeral!
This is not celebration, it is protest.
By rejecting religious rituals and replacing them with wedding music, people are sending a clear and defiant message:
how deeply they despise this so-called “religious” government, how strongly they oppose the regime and its imposed ideology.
There is hardly any way more difficult, more profound, or more unmistakable to express opposition to this regime, and yet, the people of Iran continue down this path.
They do not retreat.
They do not back down.
#IranMassacre
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@OliLondonTV IMPORTANT: The point of this video is the regime using the technique to make them addicted to some crazy drugs so they can kill easier and faster, like they are playing a game. 21st-century Nazi.
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Iranian regime deployed SNIPERS to rooftops to be used against protesters in the city of Mashhad during the digital blackout.
In the two days following the Internet blackout that began on Jan 8th, IRGC forces massacred thousands of protesters.
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@BillAckman @RoKhanna Exactly. And do you know that the second-largest Iranian population in the US lives in the he is district of Santa Clara County?
He didn’t even tweet once.
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.@RoKhanna, I can’t believe I made the mistake of supporting you. If you want to understand what a genocide is, take a look at the 43,000 men, women and children in body bags in Iran that were summarily executed over the last two weeks for marching against the regime. And thousands more are being killed and maimed every day.
Civilian casualties in Gaza are not evidence of genocide. They are the tragic outcome of war. And in Gaza, the ratio of civilian loss to combatant loss was the one of the lowest ratios in history in urban warfare (according to experts see @Spencerguard) because of actions taken by the IDF to minimize civilian casualties.
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Ms. Rachel immediately apologized for hitting the like button on an antisemitic tweet.
Have you apologized yet for supporting the Israel government's genocide in Gaza?
StopAntisemitism@StopAntisemites
@RoKhanna You also support antisemite Ms. Rachel so we're not surprised you're attempting to cut off Israel's ability to defend itself against Palestinian terrorists whose sole goal is to murder Jews and anyone in their way.
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@marklevinshow The world will eventually acknowledge your efforts to protect it and oppose this evil regime.
Your voice is one of the few that expresses this concern, prompting us to wonder why others, particularly your colleagues in the media, do not speak out.
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Iran International TV, the Show 24 — these are the good guys.
Fardad Farahzad | فرداد فرحزاد@FardadFarahzad
In an interview on my show tonight, @marklevinshow said that Iran has effectively become a concentration camp under the Islamic Republic, that the regime must go, and outlined why he believes the United States should support the Iranian people. The full interview in English:
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@soh3il Amazing work!
I think you can add a section to gather ideas/intel from both internal and external sources and share them with the Reza Phalavi Team. That would be very helpful!
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Please, don’t scroll past.
300 Hours of Darkness. 🌑
A nation of 88 million people has been systematically disconnected from the world.
The news cycle is fast, the world’s attention is drifting. A new headline breaks, a new trend starts, and the algorithm moves on. But while our feeds change, the reality on the ground in Iran does not.
When the news fades, the risk for those on the streets triples. This is why we cannot stop talking. Visibility is the only shield they have left. Silence is not neutral, it is dangerous.
History is being written in blood right now. The least we can do is make sure the world is reading it.
We created Iranmonitor.org as a real-time dashboard to centralize reports and ensure the world’s eyes remain fixed on the truth within Iran.
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Farshad Taheri retweetledi
@npovmedia @Wikipedia This is very important and no one is talking about this. @PahlaviReza @shervin @FoxNews @SGhasseminejad @Vahid
@Grokipedia
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🚨 BREAKING: A new @npovmedia investigation finds an extensive, coordinated effort by pro–Iranian regime editors shape @Wikipedia's record of the Islamic Republic — including protest and human-rights coverage.
This narrative campaign is done with the aim of shaping downstream platforms like @ChatGPTapp, @Gemini, @Google, @AmazonAlexa, and more. Receipts:
+ On "2017–2018 Iranian protests" article, editor Mhhossein deleted entire paragraphs describing conditions inside Iran months after the protests ended—a post-event historical “mop-up” operation
+ Mhhossein leveraged source “reliability” disputes, targeting dissident outlets like @IranNW as the procedural mechanism to delete unfavorable material.
+ Iskandar323, a "Gang of 40" leader has continued editing highly sensitive Iran-related atrocity content as recently as 18 January, while Wikipedia runs an ongoing site-ban process over long-term narrative manipulation.
+ On the live "2025–2026 Iranian protests" entry, a newly created account, SwedishDutch, disputed casualty figures, attacked major sources—including @thetimes and @IranIntl as “unreliable,” then the account was deleted hours later.
The edit histories are public and the pattern is consistent: once attention fades, editors move in to reshape what “history” says happened — and that narrative then propagates downstream into AI systems trained on Wikipedia.
Full report in link below.
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