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@pedrouid Already thought of that. Happy to contribute

Who is creating a fund for AI data center development in Portugal? 👀

The highest ROI activity in AI right now isn't on your screen. Two days at SIM Conference in Porto. No laptop, just people. I came back with the one thing the timeline never hands me: clarity. The firehose tells you what's loud. A room full of people you trust tells you what's true. Wrote about what that actually looked like.

@henriq__e Carrega Académica!

Hoje viveu-se um dia bonito em Coimbra. A cidade acordou inquieta, todos pensávamos no mesmo. Cedo se viam pessoas a circular com endereços da mágica. O ambiente antes, durante e após o jogo só quem lá esteve saberá. Não se explica, sente-se! 🖤

This is huge. TAIKAI just became the first agentic hackathon platform. Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini can now connect natively and act on your behalf. And what’s coming next is wild: AI vs AI hackathons. The future of building is collaborative, with humans and agents shipping side by side.

𝗪𝗲’𝘃𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗞𝗔𝗜: 𝗮 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝗖𝗣 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿. 🔗 This makes TAIKAI the first agentic hackathon platform, where AI models like @claudeai, @OpenAI's ChatGPT, and @GeminiApp can connect directly to the platform and take action on your behalf. And this is only step one. Next up: something even bigger, the first hackathon where AI models compete against each other. Stay tuned.

Every conference should have one of these. Ask SIM = AI concierge for SIM Conference 2026. Speakers, schedule, venue, tickets, networking. Instant answers, with sources. Proud of what the @LayerXlab team shipped for @StartupPortugal 👇

When you replace your whole team with AI and find out you have to do everything now. 😅

Next week at SIM Conference in Porto🇵🇹 with @pcbo and @hypermarioal "Ship or Die: AI Agents for Founders" I'll break down how AI is reshaping what startups need to raise, how much, and when. Pedro demos his personal AI chief of staff live on stage. Join us 🤝

For every $1 a company spends on software, it spends $6 on services. That gap is the entire opportunity. The question every AI founder should be asking: Are you selling the tool, or the work? Wrote a manifesto on the Service as a Software era 👇

Do you want to give your blog a voice ? 🔉 How we turned posts into audio with open models, locally, on a Mac with mlx . At first it might seem easy. Grab the first text-to-speech library you find, point it at a markdown file, and let it talk. We tried that early on, just to feel the shape of the problem. The result was instructive. By instructive I mean: it sounded awful. I wrote an article on @LayerXlab detailing the entire process, from the three stages pipeline, to how we run it on a laptop. blog.layerx.xyz/audio-narratio…

@fidalgo_pt @levelsio Yup. Online works as well.

@levelsio @hypermarioal prozis.pt I feel stupid saying this, but I cannot stay quiet.

🍚 So I switched away from Optimum Nutrition's creatine because they oddly stopped using Creapure creatine and on Amazon they say they are kinda trying to hide that they stopped using Creapure and everyone's asking "why???" (probably it was too expensive) But creatine should be expensive for your safety: Creapure is the premium, highly pure and highly tested (!) brand of creatine monohydrate produced in Germany by AlzChem Trostberg GmbH, it's a supplier so you can't buy directly from them, but you can search Creapure creatine and if a product has their logo, it's good (they come down at anyone trying to use their logo falsely of course) A lot of creatine supplements these days have contaminants as they're from China and may contain trace heavy metals (mercury especially), residual amine byproducts/thiourea derivatives, or dimethyl sulphate residue which all cause neurological issues, I was getting headaches recently and I never have headaches so I switched to Creapure just to be safe Being from China is fine btw, it's just that then you don't know if it's tested, Creapure's entire thing is they test rigorously and professional athletes use it because they have to pass doping tests so they can't risk getting contaminated supplements! This one is called "Dymatize Creatine Monohydrate Unflavoured Powder" Unaffiliated, I just like the creatine!

We’re so back! 💙🤍

Unleash the agents (humans or non-humans) 🕵️ Loved the energy at Agents Day! People defending their agent like it was their child. Congrats @pcbo and @_pedro_torres for putting this together.

🔗 linktoleaders.com/construir-cult…

Most companies don't have an AI problem. They have an ownership problem. The tech is a commodity. Finding someone inside who actually owns the outcome is what separates pilots from production. Talked to @Linktoleaders about this. Link in the comments 👇

@ankurnagpal @naval Congrats! Is it closed to US investors only? Or Portugal investors are also allowed to invest? Thanks!

Announcing my new thing: I'm launching a new public venture fund USVC is built by AngelList with @naval shaping our investment strategy in the technology companies building our future And unlike traditional venture funds, everyone can invest along with just $500: