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Logan
@loganzev
tinkering... | intern @ https://t.co/fFzpykzJov | @columbia_biz prev. @storeno8 @cornell
NYC Katılım Ağustos 2018
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210 days ago, @naturalpay was just a one-pager and a memo.
Today, we’re coming out of stealth.
Natural is the agentic payments platform powering frictionless money movement between agents, businesses, and consumers.
Wallets. Payments. Ledgering. Routing. Identity. Compliance. Credit. Observability. Risk.
Everything needed to move money. Engineered for agents and designed for humans.
These primitives give you the ability to transact without becoming a payments expert or stitching together a dozen fragmented tools.
Huge thanks to our team of 10 (soon to be 25), our early investors, and the supporters who believed in this vision from the start.
If you want to help shape how money moves over the coming decades, we’re hiring.
And if you’re building agents you should probably be moving money too. Reach out.
Read more about Natural and the products we’re launching in the blog below.
natural.co/blog/introduci…
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sent ai-landscape.artemisanalytics.com/map to my banker friend today
(dw i told him x402)

Lucas@OnchainLu
yes.
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@Steve_Yegge @iankar_ Should make these into a podcast series please then a Netflix special from one of the workers
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I just dropped the sequel to Gas Town -- the Wasteland: steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-the…
Enjoy.
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Sarah^2 🤓 loved chatting about everything from @braintrust to investing & operating to our favorite slack emojis.
Thanks for having me @_Sarah_Du !!
Sarah Du@_Sarah_Du
@maiale @charliejliao @column @GPTZeroAI @uncorkcap Each month, I sit down w/ early employees at breakout companies to understand why they joined, what they do, and what they’ve learned. This month’s guest: @sarahzengy, Chief of Staff @braintrust! 🎧here: open.spotify.com/episode/0hoxy5…
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Heading to SF this week for a bunch of awesome stablecoin events.
- @lattice_fund x @Stablecoin event 3/3
- @raincards breakfast on 3/4
- @averystableconf on 3/4
If you're a founder building at the intersection of fintech & crypto and attending any of these, shoot me a DM. I’d love to connect.
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I've decided to leave OpenAI. I'm incredibly proud of all the work I've been part of here, from helping create the reasoning paradigm with @MillionInt, scaling up test-time compute with @polynoamial, working on RL algorithms with my fellow strawberries, shipping o1-preview (which started life as of one of my derisking runs), to post-training o1 and o3 with @ericmitchellai, @yanndubs and many others. I'm most proud of having led the post-training team here for the last year -- the team has done incredible work and shipped some really smart models, including GPT-5, 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3-Codex. OpenAI has genuinely some of the most talented researchers I have ever met, and I have learned more than I could have imagined knowing since I joined as a new grad.
I want to thank @markchen90 @FidjiSimo @sama @merettm for all their support over my time here, and too many collaborators to name for the insights, ideas, and just plain fun we have had working together. After leading post-training for a year, though, I'm longing to start fresh and return to IC research work. I've been thinking about going back to technical research for quite some time, and I genuinely believe my colleagues and team here are set up to succeed going forward without me.
I'm personally very excited for my next chapter -- I'm proud to be joining @AnthropicAI to get back into the weeds in RL research, and I'm looking forward supporting my friends there at this important time. Many of people I most trust and respect have joined Anthropic over the last couple of years, and I'm excited to work with them again. I have also been very impressed with Anthropic's talent, research taste and values, and I'm excited to be part of what the company does next!
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@daydreamsagents now this is awesome, until it starts being a violation of terms of use
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@saltjsx You don't truly understand the definition of "highly available" until you see PlanetScale's uptime
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Ashish@ashishjayamohan
This is the very definition of "highly available"
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anthropic needs to poach some planetscale people
ThePrimeagen@ThePrimeagen
we are about to hit 1 9 of availability while coding is largely solved
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Here is re-post of an internal post:
We have been working with the DoW to make some additions in our agreement to make our principles very clear.
1. We are going to amend our deal to add this language, in addition to everything else:
"• Consistent with applicable laws, including the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, National Security Act of 1947, FISA Act of 1978, the AI system shall not be intentionally used for domestic surveillance of U.S. persons and nationals.
• For the avoidance of doubt, the Department understands this limitation to prohibit deliberate tracking, surveillance, or monitoring of U.S. persons or nationals, including through the procurement or use of commercially acquired personal or identifiable information."
It’s critical to protect the civil liberties of Americans, and there was so much focus on this, that we wanted to make this point especially clear, including around commercially acquired information. Just like everything we do with iterative deployment, we will continue to learn and refine as we go.
I think this is an important change; our team and the DoW team did a great job working on it.
2. The Department also affirmed that our services will not be used by Department of War intelligence agencies (for example, the NSA). Any services to those agencies would require a follow-on modification to our contract.
3. For extreme clarity: we want to work through democratic processes. It should be the government making the key decisions about society. We want to have a voice, and a seat at the table where we can share our expertise, and to fight for principles of liberty. But we are clear on how the system works (because a lot of people have asked, if I received what I believed was an unconstitutional order, of course I would rather go to jail than follow it). But
4. There are many things the technology just isn’t ready for, and many areas we don’t yet understand the tradeoffs required for safety. We will work through these, slowly, with the DoW, with technical safeguards and other methods.
5. One thing I think I did wrong: we shouldn't have rushed to get this out on Friday. The issues are super complex, and demand clear communication. We were genuinely trying to de-escalate things and avoid a much worse outcome, but I think it just looked opportunistic and sloppy. Good learning experience for me as we face higher-stakes decisions in the future.
In my conversations over the weekend, I reiterated that Anthropic should not be designated as a SCR, and that we hope the DoW offers them the same terms we’ve agreed to.
We will host an All Hands tomorrow morning to answer more questions.
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The real takeaway here is that when you have a really freaking big / fast-growing market, multiple companies can also get really freaking big.
Bloomberg@business
Cursor’s annual recurring revenue topped $2 billion in February, according to a source, a figure that underscores the fast growth of the artificial intelligence coding assistant bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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