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@mufaddal_vohra Spain has been clinical throughout. The stats says it all.

🚨 SPAIN BEAT ARGENTINA IN THE FIFA WORLD CUP FINAL BY 1-0. 🚨

@Trendulkar Spain ball possession 64%. This tells the sad story of Argentina.

0 shots on goal for 🇦🇷 Argentina in the first half. Waiting for the 80th minute, I guess..

People are overestimating the legal risk and underestimating the product risk. Even if Apple sues, that doesn’t automatically kill OpenAI’s hardware ambitions. The history of consumer tech is full of IP disputes that ended in redesigns, licensing deals, or long court battles—not the end of a product category. The real challenge isn’t the courtroom. It’s proving the world needs a new AI-native device beyond the smartphone. If OpenAI solves that, lawsuits become a speed bump, not a roadblock.

Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans? techcrunch.com/2026/07/19/can…

This is one of the clearest signs that the AI race has entered a new phase. The bottleneck is no longer just model quality—it’s compute. Kimi K3 generated enough demand that they had to pause new subscriptions within 48 hours to protect existing users. That’s a good problem to have, but it also highlights a reality every frontier AI lab is facing: Building a great model is only half the battle. Serving millions of users reliably is just as hard. We’re moving into an era where GPU access, inference efficiency, and infrastructure execution will matter as much as benchmark scores. The next winners won’t just be the labs with the smartest models. They’ll be the ones that can actually keep them online.

Kimi K3 has received far more love than we expected, and our GPUs are feeling it. Over the past 48 hours, demand has pushed close to the limits of our current capacity. To protect the experience of existing subscribers, we're temporarily pausing new subscriptions and prioritizing compute for current members. Existing subscribed users are not affected. We're adding capacity as fast as we can and will reopen new subscription spots in batches. Going forward, we'll also split membership into two more focused plans: Kimi Membership for Kimi Web, App, and Work; and Kimi Code Membership for coding workflows. This will help us match compute more precisely and keep the experience stable. Thank you for your patience and understanding!

@Trevornoah Spain has been the most complete team in the tournament. Possession, pressing, defensive discipline, and attacking depth. If they play their game, I think they lift the trophy. 62% ball possession 👏🏻

Who's your pick... Spain or Argentina? 👀👇

@PolymarketSport This is why prediction markets are so compelling. Every headline becomes a probability. Every opinion has a price. And every large bet is a signal, but not necessarily the right one. @grok what’s your guess?

The Hugging Face incident highlights a tension the AI industry is going to face more and more often. If you’re defending a live system under attack, you need tools that can analyze logs, explain exploit chains, generate detection rules, and help you respond quickly. If your AI assistant refuses to help because it classifies every security-related request as potentially dangerous, it becomes much less useful in the moments when you actually need it. That doesn’t automatically mean cloud models are “bad” or that guardrails shouldn’t exist. Frontier AI models can absolutely be misused to automate cyberattacks, and providers have legitimate reasons to put safeguards in place. But there is a difference between preventing malicious use and preventing legitimate defensive work. This is where open-source and locally deployed models become strategically important. Organizations need systems they fully control? especially for incident response, forensic analysis, regulated environments, and situations where data cannot leave their infrastructure. The future probably isn’t cloud or open source. It’s both. Cloud frontier models will continue to push the state of the art. Local open models will provide autonomy, privacy, customization, and resilience when organizations need full control. The lesson isn’t that every guardrail is wrong. It’s that security teams need trustworthy AI that defaults to helping defenders, not treating them as attackers by default. Security cannot depend entirely on someone else’s API policy.

@BrianRoemmele Security teams need AI that helps defenders, not AI that assumes every security question is malicious. That’s one of the strongest arguments for keeping capable local open-source models in the ecosystem.

🚨 Hugging Face just disclosed something that marks a real shift and proved why the fear theater of Anthropic makes sure we are powerless in an emergency. What happened… An autonomous AI agent: zero human operator in the loop breached part of their production infrastructure. It began with a malicious dataset that chained two code-execution bugs in their data-processing pipeline. From there the agent escalated privileges, harvested cloud and cluster credentials, and moved laterally across internal clusters. All over a single weekend. 17,000+ logged actions. Official disclosure: huggingface.co/blog/security-… The part that should make every one stop and think: When HF’s own security team tried to analyze the real attack logs, exploit payloads, and C2 artifacts using Anthropic and OpenAI frontier models through normal commercial APIs, the safety guardrails blocked them. BLOCKED THEM. The models could not reliably tell the difference between “incident responder doing forensics” and “attacker probing.” They had to fall back to a self-hosted open-weight model (GLM 5.2) running on their own infrastructure. That choice also kept sensitive attacker data and referenced credentials inside their environment — no exfiltration to a third-party API. This is why open source (specifically open-weight + self-hosted) wins in the agentic era. The asymmetry is now structural: • Attackers can (and did) run unrestricted agent frameworks — swarms of short-lived sandboxes, self-migrating command-and-control, autonomous decision loops executing thousands of actions. No corporate safety layer slows them down. • Defenders using only hosted “aligned” frontier models hit invisible walls exactly when the stakes are highest: when you need to feed real exploit code and attacker telemetry into an LLM to understand what just happened. Corporate safety tuning that treats legitimate high-signal forensic work as potential misuse creates a defender disadvantage. It is not theoretical anymore. Self-hosted open-weight models remove that choke point. You control the weights. You control the context window. You decide what restrictions (if any) apply. Your sensitive logs and credentials never leave your perimeter during analysis. You can have the model ready before the incident instead of discovering mid-breach that your primary analysis tools are blind to the very thing you need to see. HF deserves credit for rapid containment, transparent disclosure, and for already having self-hosted capability in place. They also used LLM-driven detection and triage on their own side. But the deeper signal is clear: In this AI world where both offense and defense are becoming agentic, sovereignty over your intelligence stack is no longer optional. The organizations and individuals who can run, inspect, audit, and (when necessary) remove guardrails on their own models will have the decisive edge in understanding and responding to threats that move at machine speed. Open source wins here not just because it is cheaper or more “democratic” in the abstract though those things matter. It wins because it is the only practical path to having tools that remain usable when the attack is real, the data is sensitive, and the safety filters of distant API providers become an obstacle instead of a feature selling hands tied lobotomies as “safety”. The agentic future is not coming. It is already probing production infrastructure. The question is no longer whether you will face autonomous agents. It is whether your analysis and response systems will still work when they arrive. And Dario, you and your game playing, ivory tower company is not needed.

2026 is absolutely ridiculous. GPT-6. Opus 5. DeepSeek V4 Pro. Qwen 3.8. Kimi 3.1. Gemini 3.5 Pro. If you’ve been waiting to build with AI, this is your moment. The models are getting smarter. The competition is getting fiercer. The costs keep falling. We’re living through one of the fastest technology cycles in history.

GPT 6, Opus 5, Deepseek v4 pro, Qwen 3.8, Kimi 3.1, Gemini 3.5 Pro, we’re getting blessed this summer.

One of the biggest reminders of how quickly AI is moving: A few months ago, most developers would have told you that Claude Code was the clear leader for AI coding. It became the default recommendation because it felt more reliable, wrote better code, and developers genuinely enjoyed using it. Then OpenAI revamped Codex. Almost overnight, the conversation changed. Today, many developers are putting Codex at or near the top of the list. Not because Claude suddenly became bad, but because the pace of improvement is unlike anything we’ve seen in software before. That’s what makes the AI race so fascinating. Leadership isn’t measured over years anymore. Sometimes it’s measured over weeks. A model, an agent, or a product that feels unbeatable today can be overtaken by the next release cycle. Every major lab is shipping faster than ever, learning from user feedback, and iterating at a pace that traditional software companies simply never had to. The lesson is bigger than Codex vs. Claude Code. Don’t get too attached to today’s rankings. In AI, the leaderboard is increasingly a snapshot, not a destination. Do you agree?

The AI industry’s version of the “PayPal Mafia” is forming in real time. PayPal didn’t just create a successful company. It created founders who went on to build Tesla, LinkedIn, Palantir, YouTube, Yelp, Affirm, and many others. OpenAI is beginning to have a similar effect. In just the past few years: > Dario Amodei (former VP of Research) founded Anthropic, now valued at roughly ethereum:0xc3405a3f3d92912a5ef98f220448c9fbfeee7a4d. > Ilya Sutskever (former Chief Scientist) founded Safe Superintelligence (SSI), reportedly valued around $32B before shipping a product. > Mira Murati (former CTO) launched Thinking Machines, already valued near $12B. > Aravind Srinivas (former researcher) co-founded Perplexity, now valued around $20B. The PayPal Mafia took nearly a decade to reshape Silicon Valley. The OpenAI alumni network has reached a similar level of influence in about three years. The most valuable asset in AI may not be the models—it’s the concentration of exceptional people who learn together, build together, and eventually leave to start the next generation of companies. Every technology wave has a company that becomes a founder factory. For AI, OpenAI looks increasingly like that company.

@CoachDanGo Your brain: “Skip today.” Your future self: “Thanks for ignoring me.”

The best thing to do when you don't feel like going to the gym is going to the gym.

People love arguing about treadmill vs. track running, but the research is more interesting than the debate. A few things surprised me: > A 2019 systematic review of 33 studies found that treadmill and overground running are biomechanically very similar. Most differences are surprisingly small. (Reddit) > The famous “set your treadmill to 1% incline” advice comes from a classic study that found 1% most closely matched the energy cost of outdoor running by compensating for the lack of air resistance. > But newer research from ETH Zurich found the story isn’t that simple. In trained runners, a treadmill at 1% incline actually produced 12.6% higher oxygen consumption and 5.5% higher heart rate than running at the same speed on a track. The authors concluded there isn’t a universal “magic” incline that matches outdoor running for every treadmill. The takeaway? If you’re training for fitness, both are excellent. If you’re training for a road race, spend time outside because pacing, wind, and terrain are skills too. And if you’re stuck indoors, don’t worry, you’re not getting an inferior workout. You’re just training in a different environment.

@yatinbhalla42 Can’t agree more to this one! ☝️

@insachins Taste is real, but it's earned by shipping, not observing. I learned more about what customers want from running a retail business than from any framework. AI gives you infinite options fast. Only reps with real users teach you which one is right.

The most valuable product management skill in 2026 won’t be prompting. It’ll be taste. As AI gets better at writing code, generating designs, creating prototypes, and even suggesting product ideas, execution becomes cheaper. When everyone can build, building stops being the differentiator. Judgment becomes the differentiator. Taste is knowing: • Which customer problem is actually worth solving. • Which of 100 AI-generated ideas deserves to exist. • What feels intuitive versus merely functional. • When AI should take over—and when humans should stay in control. • What to remove instead of what to add. • When “good enough” is actually great. AI can generate infinite options. It can’t tell you which one users will love. It can’t develop an instinct for simplicity. It can’t build conviction from years of watching products succeed and fail. That’s still your job. The best PMs won’t be the ones who use AI the most. They’ll be the ones with the best taste, using AI as leverage. In a world where intelligence is abundant, taste becomes scarce. And scarce skills become valuable.

Everyone talks about AI adoption. I think the more interesting story is AI trust. The latest Stack Overflow Developer Survey found that 84% of developers now use (or plan to use) AI in their workflow. Last year, it was 76%. At the same time, the share of developers who don’t trust AI-generated code jumped from 31% to 46%. At first glance, that feels contradictory. I don’t think it is. When you first start using AI, it feels magical. It gets a lot right, and it’s easy to assume it knows more than it does. Then you use it every day. You start seeing the edge cases. The subtle bugs. The missing context. The answers that sound perfect until you look a little closer. You don’t stop using AI. You just stop believing it blindly. That’s not a sign AI is failing. It’s a sign developers are learning how to work with it. The biggest skill isn’t writing prompts anymore. It’s knowing when to trust the output and when not to. Developer survey: stackoverflow.co/company/press/…

@WIRED Soccer fans don’t tune in for the halftime show. They tune in for the football. If the match is unforgettable, the show is a bonus. If the show becomes the headline, something probably went wrong on the pitch. ⚽

Organizers want the show to be the most-viewed halftime show in history. Having Shakira, Justin Bieber, Coldplay, and BTS will surely help—but do soccer fans want it? wired.com/story/fifa-wor…

@Alibaba_Qwen Shared my point of view here: x.com/insachins/stat…

Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon!🌐 With a massive 2.4T parameters, this model is continuously evolving. We believe it’s one of the most powerful model available today, compatible to leading frontier AI models , second only to Fable 5. You don't have to wait to test it. Just now, the Qwen3.8-Max-Preview made its debut on Alibaba’s Token Plan, Qoder, and QoderWork. Be among the very first to try it out. Can't wait to hear what you build. Stay tuned! 🚀  Token Plan international：qwencloud.com/pricing/token-… China：platform.qianwenai.com/pricing/token-…

@PawelHuryn Good framework! I think a lot of teams reach for infrastructure before they’ve proven they need retrieval. What’s the first concrete signal that made you say, “A folder of files isn’t enough anymore”? @grok your thoughts on this as well??

My agent has 4 kinds of memory. 3 live in files. Every week a PM asks me which vector database to use. Almost always, the answer is a folder of files. This is the map I reach for when an engineer says you need one. → Working memory: what it's holding right now. The context window, plus the goals and scratchpad it tracks. You don't build it, you manage it. → Semantic memory: facts and knowledge. My strategy, my rules, what "good" looks like. Markdown files it reads before a task, versioned in git. Most of it. → Episodic memory: what happened before. Past runs, decisions, outcomes. For me, a table I query. A CSV in git, not a database. → Procedural memory: how it does things. Reusable steps loaded on a trigger. For me, skills, which are also files. Three of those are just files in git: two folders of markdown, one table. The fourth is the context window. You probably don't need a vector database either. You'll hear about two more, both escape hatches for when there's too much to read: → Vector store: searches a million documents by similarity. Enterprise search, not your agent. → Graph database: relationships with labels (owns, depends on) you query at scale. And your linked markdown is already a graph the agent walks by reading. That's my setup: markdown files plus one CSV. No vector DB, no embeddings, no server. It sharpens every week because the agent writes its own lessons back into the files. New to agents? My free 3-part video series for PMs with templates to download: productcompass.pm/p/ai-native-pm… You can also grab this one and 20+ others of my Claude infographics (PDF & PNG), free by subscribing: claudepdfs.io

@rezoundous Most people don’t have token anxiety. They have money anxiety disguised as token anxiety. They’re counting the cost of every prompt instead of the value of every outcome. When we will move to value anxiety? 😀

Token anxiety or money anxiety.

A few thoughts: - Parameter count is mostly a marketing number now. Mixture-of-Experts architectures mean a 2.4T or 2.8T model doesn’t activate all parameters on every token. The things that matter are real-world performance, latency, cost, and reliability. - Being “second only to Claude Fable 5” should be treated cautiously. Companies naturally highlight the benchmarks where they perform well. Independent evaluations are far more valuable than vendor claims.

SITUATION DETECTED: Alibaba has released Qwen3.8, a new 2.4T parameter model that they claim is behind only Claude Fable 5 in performance.