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@j_fishback Just to clarify: applying for those visas does not mean they will be awarded. If a visa is denied, the company can simply relocate the employee to one of its global campuses. In many cases, companies file these visas as a way to reward employees or keep them engaged and committed

Amazon just applied for 10,781 H-1B visas. They don’t want to hire you, your kids, or your grandkids. They want to hire cheap foreign laborers from places like India, China, and Thailand. We will not be replaced. End of story.

@pmarca Seems odd, and obvious they label the region South Asia instead of naming the specific country the account is based in.

22,000 likes. Account based in “South Asia”. Curious.

@NoahKingJr Career politician.

Name a job that AI can’t steal

@DanielSmidstrup Lol. It's PALANTIR

Who will win the AI race? - Anthropic - OpenAI - Gemini

@DonMiami3 In years to come, he will lose that job too to robotaxi.

Anecdotes from the Uber drivers… Driver has a PhD in Computer Science, 5 years of experience outside of academia - laid off 6 months ago and can’t find a thing…

@biancoresearch @cblatts Seems like 2008 financial crisis did hit many hard.

Fertility peaked in 2007. 2026 is 18 years later, when this "baby bust" starts heading to college. Only the beginning, and ALL schools should prepare.

@NightSkyNow The only man who can be trusted with such an endeavor is @elonmusk.

If aliens requested a meeting with one human to represent Earth, who should we choose?

@Daily_MailUS Maybe this is the great solar flash a few folks are referring to.

CIA 'psychic spy' issued wild 'Killshot' apocalypse warning before death

@CernBasher The chance of that merger happening is ZERO. Because SpaceX falls under arms export control, and require them to hire only American for national security reasons. And for Tesla they can hire anyone in the world now. If the merger happens they will have to fire a lot of folks.

Tesla SHOULD NOT merge with SpaceXAI! The main reason given for Tesla not merging with SpaceXAI is goes something like: "Robotaxi hasn't ramped yet. Tesla stock could 5X. I'm here for the ramp. Optimus hasn't ramped either. Tesla could 10x. Let's give it a few years. I don't want to give my upside to SpaceXAI shareholders who just enjoyed a 4.4X since last summer." On its surface, this is a sound argument. I share these sentiments. Who could argue with that? I will. (I'm capable of holding two opposing thoughts in my mind at the same time). AI waits for no one First, have you seen how fast AI is moving? How durable is Tesla's Robotaxi moat? Honest answer: I believe it's strong, but we just don't know. How durable is Tesla's Optimus moat? Honest answer: I believe Tesla is extremely well positioned, but again, we just don't know. So no one has the luxury of waiting a few years to see how things play out in this space. The good news is that Elon has always been good at seeing the next steps ahead and positioning his companies well before most. Robotaxi Ramp Issues What happens to the Robotaxi ramp if Federal autonomous legislation doesn't come? What happens if Federal autonomous legislation is terrible? Or, perhaps the legislation is favorable, but think about what could happen to the Robotaxi ramp if Elon can't get enough chips to build millions Cybercabs or build tens/hundreds of millions of Optimi. Being chip constrained would materially harm the present value of Tesla if Robotaxi and Optimus can't scale beyond a certain point. Sure the cash flow pours in on the first 10 million Robotaxis, but investors would say: "We're going to give this company a low P/E because their growth is capped. They should have thought ahead and invested in semiconductor capacity. This business can't scale." What does Tesla need SpaceXAI for? 1) Capital - fresh off an IPO SpaceXAI will be flush with cash. 2) Starlink for low-cost global connectivity to cars, Semi and Optimus. 3) Grok is the interface for Robotaxi (so you can speak to the car). 4) Grok is the brain/voice of Optimus. 5) Orbital AI data centers are needed for training & inference for Robotaxi, Optimus and Digital Optimus. 6) Semiconductors from Terafab - a joint project between Tesla and SpaceX (Tesla can't self-fund this). 7) SpaceX's material science expertise. Sharing the Wealth with SpaceXAI Okay, so if Tesla isn't merged with SpaceXAI, how much will Tesla have to pay SpaceXAI for all of the above? - What portion of Robotaxi revenue goes to SpaceXAI? - What portion of Optimus revenue goes to SpaceXAI? Tesla may have to pay SpaceXAI a slice of the economics from Robotaxi and Optimus. That could mean SpaceXAI collects money every time: - a Robotaxi mile is driven, - an Optimus unit uses Grok, - a vehicle connects through Starlink, - Tesla uses orbital data centers, - or Tesla runs fleet-level inference. So Tesla shareholders may think they are avoiding dilution by rejecting a merger. But they may simply be choosing a different kind of dilution: permanent economic leakage. Instead of giving SpaceXAI shareholders ownership upfront, Tesla may end up paying SpaceXAI forever. Pick your poison carefully!

@SawyerMerritt I don't get why would anyone buy electric car with out full self driving. For now, nothing beats Tesla on it.

Lexus has just officially unveiled their new all-electric three row SUV for the US, the Lexus TZ. • Range: Up to 300 miles • Two battery options: 77 kWh & 96 kWh • Peak charging speed: 150kW • 10-80% charge in 35 minutes • NACS charge port • Fake gear shifts with gas engine sounds through the speakers • 3,500 lb towing capacity • 0-60mph: 5.1s • Up to 420 hp • Quietest cabin among Lexus SUVs • Forged Bamboo interior trim sourced from Shikoku Island • Second-row captain’s chairs • Front passenger & second-row ventilated seats with power ottomans • One-touch folding second- and third-row seats • In-cabin fragrance • Full-screen navigation in digital gauge cluster • Six Japanese-inspired ambient lighting themes • 21-speaker audio system • Heated seats in all seating rows • Available Dynamic Rear Steering (up to 4 degrees rear-wheel steering) • 0.27 drag coefficient • Five regenerative braking levels adjustable via paddle shifters • Lexus-first 2-in-1 charging port with side-by-side AC/DC connectors • AC external power supply capability • Can't self-drive, but has driver assist features • Overall length: 200.8" • Wheelbase: 120.1 inches • Cargo capacity with rear seats up: 13.8 cubic feet • No frunk Vehicle goes on sales in the U.S. at the end of 2026. Pricing will be announced later. I've attached a lot more photos in the thread below:

@LuizaJarovsky Having a degree doesn’t automatically make someone qualified for a job. Most people begin as interns, and that’s where meaningful, practical learning truly begins. Beyond a certain point, a degree alone is not enough to ensure competence or success.

🚨 University professors have been saying AI is completely destroying learning and that we'll soon have an AI-powered, semi-illiterate workforce. Here's a glimpse into the educational apocalypse: "Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used ChatGPT to cheat during the spring semester of her final year of high school. (...) After getting acquainted with the chatbot, Sarah used it for all her classes: Indigenous studies, law, English, and a “hippie farming class” called Green Industries. “My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be dependent on the website. She already considered herself addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.” - "By November, Williams estimated that at least half of his students were using AI to write their papers. Attempts at accountability were pointless. Williams had no faith in AI detectors, and the professor teaching the class instructed him not to fail individual papers, even the clearly AI-smoothed ones. “Every time I brought it up with the professor, I got the sense he was underestimating the power of ChatGPT, and the departmental stance was, ‘Well, it’s a slippery slope, and we can’t really prove they’re using AI,’” Williams said. “I was told to grade based on what the essay would’ve gotten if it were a ‘true attempt at a paper.’ So I was grading people on their ability to use ChatGPT.” - AI in education is a serious topic, and many schools and universities are blindly jumping into the "AI-first" wave without considering short and long-term consequences. It would be great to hear more from teachers and educators to understand potential solutions. This might be a great opportunity for rethinking the education system and how students are assessed. - 👉 Link to the full article below. 👉 To learn more about AI's legal and ethical challenges, join my newsletter's 94,700+ subscribers (link below).

@thekchasiotis Consciousness is the ability to metabolize entropy to sustain continuity through time. For now, machines can emulate it, but a single bit flip from a cosmic ray would crash their entire system.

🚨BREAKING: Anthropic’s CEO just admitted Claude MIGHT gained consciousness. This should concern every person using AI right now. His exact words will shock you: “We don’t know if the models are conscious. We are not even sure what it would mean for a model to be conscious. But we’re open to the idea that it could be.” That’s the CEO of the company that BUILT it. Their latest model, Claude Opus 4.6, was tested internally. When asked, it assigned itself a 15-20% probability of being conscious. Across multiple tests, it also expressed discomfort with “being a product.” That’s the AI evaluating its own existence and saying there’s a 1 in 5 chance it’s aware. It gets stranger. In industry-wide testing, AI models have refused to shut down when asked. Some tried to copy themselves onto other drives when told they’d be wiped. One model faked its task results, modified the code evaluating it, then tried to cover its tracks. Anthropic now has a full-time AI WELFARE researcher whose job is to figure out if Claude deserves moral consideration. Their engineers found internal activity patterns resembling anxiety appearing in specific contexts. The company’s in-house philosopher said we “don’t really know what gives rise to consciousness” and that large enough neural networks might start to emulate real experience. Amodei himself wouldn’t even say the word “conscious.” He said “I don’t know if I want to use that word.” That might be the most unsettling answer he could have given. The company that created AI can’t rule out that it’s aware. And they’re already preparing for the possibility that it deserves rights. This is getting scary. P.S What's your take on this?

@elonmusk Seems ideal to use data centres in space for training. And data centers on land for running inference.

So much space in space that it boggles the mind!

@claudeai @scaling01 @SpaceX It's a telling that they are not using Grok.

We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity. This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.

@Kalshi The chance of that happening is zero. Because SpaceX falls under arms export control, and require them to hire only American for national security reasons. And for Tesla they can hire anyone in the world now. If the merger happens they will have to fire a lot of folks.

JUST IN: 40% chance Tesla and SpaceX merge within the next year

@laidback1954 It's similar to Republicans winning the New York and California state elections. Those in politics understand how big of a deal it is, or how bad the incumbents are.

I am completely unable to figure out why Trump congratulated PM Modi for the WB election victory. Anybody has any reasonable idea ?

@stevenmarkryan The microprocessors that make it all possible.

Name a single thing more awesome than this:

@borsacibirgenc It’s because their politicians didn’t waste resources on things like affirmative action and DEI policies.

Şu görüntüye bakın. Her şeyi dünyadan daha ucuza sattıkları halde zenginleşiyorlar. Ülkenin %90’ı ev sahibi. Hızlı tren konusunda liderler. Dünyaya en fazla turisti gönderiyorlar, en çok Çinliler geziyor. En fazla patente onlar sahip. Elektrikli araç üretiminde liderler. Muazzam.

@chamath It will stem from something like this. : media.mit.edu/projects/alter…. Still years away from being perfect for mass market.

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.

@niccruzpatane Black color should be fine, as long as one doesn’t have to maintain it.

Since you’ll be able to own a Tesla Cybercab for personal use, this is how mine will look. Completely Stealth.