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Shopify merchants will be able to sell directly in ChatGPT. We’ve been working with @OpenAI for quite some time so people can search and buy products in chat, and it’s something we’ve had a hard time keeping quiet. Rollout is coming very very soon.

Built an AI phone agent that calls hotels and gets better prices (and it actually works lol) Prior coding experience: almost 0 My stack: @usebland API PHP MySQL Claude, gpt4o, DeepSeek Coding pose © @levelsio First heard "AI haggling" idea on @gregisenberg podcast w/@mikekarnj

THE DEFINITIVE STATE OF ECOM REPORT: Over the past 2 weeks I met with 100+ founders in NYC and SF. These 100+ brands represent BILLIONS in GMV across all of ecom. Here is what is really happening in ecom in 2024...

3D capture is dope for media & entertainment, but the utilitarian applications might be even more impactful - literally x-ray vision making the unseen seen. With tools like Pix4D + RTK GPS (cm level accuracy) you can capture critical infrastructure, and overlay it at real-world locations in the future - allowing you to 'see' through concrete for future maintenance and construction.

The European company landscape is ran by dinosaurs and today I studied it so I can produce you with my evidence 🦖 🇪🇺 80% of top EU companies were founded before 1950 🇺🇸 Only 36% of top US companies were founded before 1950 🇪🇺 Median year top EU companies were founded is 1913 🇺🇸 Median year top US companies were founded is 1963 Difference: 50 years! *top 25 companies by size in US and EU This was very hard data to collect because most EU companies have gone through lots of mergers and they like to state their founding year as way more recent than it actually is (e.g. LVMH was founded in 1987, but actually originates in Louis Vuitton from 1854) So yes the EU company landscape is run by dinosaurs mostly, the latest big company to actually get founded in EU is clothing maker Zara, aka Inditex, in Spain, almost 50 years ago Meanwhile the latest big US company is Facebook in 2004, 20 years ago, not so great either actually If you'd add China to this you'd see more big young companies The point here is that you see large scale incumbent companies are ruling Europe, and European governments are servicing them with regulation, so that new startups cannot flourish, and they love that Not a conspiracy, just a status quo that benefits the powerful, big and rich companies and families of Europe

In 2009, Stanford business professor Tina Seelig split her class into groups and issued a challenge: Each group had $5 and 2 hours to make the highest return on the money. At the end, they'd give a short presentation on their strategy. What happened next was fascinating:

In grad school, I worked part time at @lululemon (retail, not corporate). I learned more about business from that part time job folding & selling yoga pants than any other job I had. ❤️ Here’s what they did differently:

Today we're excited to introduce Devin, the first AI software engineer. Devin is the new state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, has successfully passed practical engineering interviews from leading AI companies, and has even completed real jobs on Upwork. Devin is an autonomous agent that solves engineering tasks through the use of its own shell, code editor, and web browser. When evaluated on the SWE-Bench benchmark, which asks an AI to resolve GitHub issues found in real-world open-source projects, Devin correctly resolves 13.86% of the issues unassisted, far exceeding the previous state-of-the-art model performance of 1.96% unassisted and 4.80% assisted. Check out what Devin can do in the thread below.

This is how you market yourself in the age of AI taking jobs.

You won't see this very often. Presidential election winner @alexstubb drops in on supporters' gathering of runner-up @Haavisto & the 2 election rivals share warm words & thank each other for the journey shared during campaign. #Democracy at its best. #Finland 📸 @yle broadcast

Shopify deleted 12,000 meetings this year. Today, they went a step further with a tool that shows the $$$ cost of holding meetings. I spoke to @nejatian (Shopify's COO) about meeting bloat and protecting craft time. Here are 6 spicy takes from our interview 👇

The Tesla Bots Uprising! It legit blows my mind that I can make this whole video in an hour 🤯 Breakdown of my AI creation process: 1. Make Skynet inspired visuals in @midjourney 2. Separate Tesla Bot video into clips using "Scene Edit Detection" in @adobe Premiere Pro 3. Process clips with @runwayml Gen-1 video2video, providing Midjourney creations as style reference. 4. Clip out 5 minutes from an Elon podcast 5. Use "Instant Voice Cloning" in @elevenlabs 6. Use @OpenAI ChatGPT to write a short heartfelt speech 7. Try a few voice generations (still hard to control tonality, so combine a few good ones together) 8. Edit it all together in Premiere I think the real magic will be creation tools that weave together this entire workflow. We're already seeing early instantiations of this with products embracing a "storyboard" view. Yet it's still a lot of jumping around apps and duct-taping stuff together. But once you can hop between these contexts without losing the big picture, content creation will go from being waterfall to being agile.

These last weeks reminded us again how banks work. Give a bank your money for free, they lend it for profit and might not have it when you need it. This is why we built Interest with @Wise Assets. How it works and why is it safer than banks?

This is the current level of homemade deepfake video. Even though Atmaca did this with a single Nvidia RTX, the end result is still convincing enough (except that I don't speak Turkish). youtube.com/watch?v=_jtfaz…

Wise Interest launched in 6 EU countries🇳🇱🇪🇸🇫🇷🇫🇮🇦🇹🇱🇺 Hold ultimately 100% government-backed assets, keep spending like your current account and earn variable rate after fees. £ - 3.43% € - 1.87% $ - soon capital at risk of governments defaulting, interest rates going negative.

I worked in bank liquidity and treasury for the better part of the last decade, and there is one very interesting risk factor from the SVB collapse that I do not think we have ever witnessed before in modern finance, a 🧵:

”The arc of history only bends towards justice when people of goodwill grab hold of it and wrench it in the direction of justice.”

Think text-to-image is cool? Tons of research came out in the last 2 months that will blow your mind: 🗨️speech-to-text 🔊text-to-audio 🔊audio-to-audio ⏯️text-to-video (2x) 🕺text-to-motion (2x) 🧊text-to-3d (3x) 🧠 brain-to-text (2x) Check these out 👇

Netflix Director Mike Cessario sold $130M worth of water last year. His company Liquid Death is dominating the water industry with edgy branding and masterful storytelling Here's how it grew to a $700 valuation overnight

Pure genius