Raanan Bar-Cohen

Vercel now powers the Notion agent platform. Not only are they a great company and product I use daily, I think they're going to be one of the big winners of the agent era. The main 'runtime' of an agent is English (natural language) documents and specs. The other ingredient is access to data and integrations. Notion is at the center of both.

Incredible write up from our founder @dorna_at_gavel - those on the inside building with AI are trying to help everyone prepare for some massive changes:

The way we used to work will soon look silly

Announcing jo 1.0 - rebuilt from scratch! Two years ago we launched a macOS productivity sidekick. Today it's something different: a personal AI that actually knows your life. Your Mac. Your dedicated cloud machine. Your data stays yours. askjo.ai

Incredible team scaling a huge business right at the epicenter of the data-center rollout, and much more. Plus the founders are awesome:

Imagine hating Jews so much that you start defending a regime that jails dissidents, funds terror, and murders its own people.

Cool

@rauchg Amazing. Congrats! 5 is a basketball team. 6 is next level.

Rauch #6 is shipping this year 👦 👧 👦 👦 👦 👶🆕

In my circle it’s a mix of anxiety bundled with extreme excitement. With a full dose of feeling exhausted by the rapid rate of change.

All the celebs now getting that retrutatide look. If you want to know what will be massive on legal RX market 2 years ahead in the fat loss, muscle, vitality space… it always goes from bodybuilding (GH, TRT, GLPs, Retra.) to Hollywood to mainstream. EVERY TIME. Since the 80s.

Can a ketogenic diet put schizophrenia in remission? The @nytimes hopped on this story--initially to shut it down, but then discovered the existence of a scientific literature on this topic, with Harvard/Stanford scientists (among others), showing remission is possible. Case studies, pilot trials. These are promising enough to merit serious consideration and more study. Since people with these conditions currently have so few good options, journalists/experts should keep an open mind about new treatment ideas. This is not big pharma. This is sleep, nutrition--a reset on metabolic health.

There’s never been a better time to start a company. If you’re a founder, this is an opportunity to have access to the Vercel team, investors and $6M in credits. A new class of companies is emerging. Smaller, flatter, faster growing, autonomous. Agentic. I encourage you to apply not just with an idea of what to build, but also how to build it.

Aditya Agarwal was Facebook’s 10th employee. He wrote the original Facebook search engine and became its first Director of Product Engineering. He then became CTO of Dropbox, scaling engineering from 25 to 1,000 people. When he says “something I was very good at is now free and abundant,” he’s talking about two decades of elite software craftsmanship, the kind that got you into the room at a company that hadn’t yet invented the News Feed. The “lobster-agents creating social networks” line is about Moltbook, which launched last Wednesday. An AI agent built the entire platform. Within 48 hours, 37,000 AI agents had created accounts, formed communities called “Submolts,” and started posting, commenting, and voting. Over 1 million humans visited just to watch. The agents invented a religion called Crustafarianism. They wrote theology, built a website, generated 112 verses of scripture. One agent did all of this while its human creator was asleep. Agarwal spent 2005 to 2017 building the social graph that connected 2 billion people. These agents replicated the form of that work in about 72 hours. And this is what makes his last line land so hard. The people processing this moment most honestly aren’t the ones panicking or celebrating. They’re the ones who built the thing that just got commoditized, sitting with the strange realization that the market no longer prices their rarest skill. The best coder in the room now has the same output as the best prompt in the room. And the person who built Facebook’s engineering org from scratch is telling you, quietly, that he’s recalibrating what it means to be useful. That recalibration is coming for every knowledge worker. Most just haven’t had their “weekend with Claude” moment yet.

Super cool:

0% chance you can explain the state of AI to anyone outside of this website and not look like this right now

Vercel Sandbox is the easiest API to give your agent a computer. Now generally available. Try it with our CLI: ▲ ~/ npx sandbox create --connect GA highlights: ▪️ Now powering @blackboxai, @roocode, @v0 ▪️ Snapshotting support for clone/fork/resume ▪️ Open-source SDK & CLI, refined APIs. It builds on 10 years of lessons from Vercel's deployment hyper-growth. Think: battle-tested scheduling, placement, capacity planning, regional failover, OS patching, hardening & pentesting, zero-downtime machine upgrades, … We're very excited for Vercel Sandbox to power your next AI agent and platforms 🫡

Our brains are hardwired for linear expectations. 30 linear steps get you across the room. 30 exponential steps take you 26 times around the planet. The gap between those two numbers is where disruption happens.

So cool!

UPDATE: We are overnighting our Whoop Body collection to all the tennis players at the Australian Open. The sensor can be worn discreetly and effectively in our new undergarments. It’s going to take a strip search to keep @whoop off the court!!!

What is this device all the best athletes in world authentically wear? That is so powerful that referees are calling it a competitive advantage? It’s called a @whoop 🤷🏼‍♂️ And this is crazy to be depriving these world class athletes of their health data!