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Steven Woods

@sgwoods

Partner / CTO at Inovia. PhD Investing in great founders. "Verified Account" when it meant something. 🇨🇦. https://t.co/v7bGvyjabe

Canada Katılım Mayıs 2007
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Steven Woods
Steven Woods@sgwoods·
I've been lucky to know some sharp people. Occasionally, I get to put them in a room together. A few weeks ago I did exactly that with Mo Cheppudira and Todd Underwood, two old friends from my time at Google who have seen frontier AI development from basically every angle.
Inovia Capital@inovia

Our colleague @sgwoods sat down with two old Google friends who've seen AI history from the inside. Mo Cheppudira (ex-OpenAI) and @tmu (ex-OpenAI, ex-Anthropic). Six-part series. #AI 🔗 Full playlist in comments.

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Ilya Sutskever
Ilya Sutskever@ilyasut·
It’s extremely good that Anthropic has not backed down, and it’s siginficant that OpenAI has taken a similar stance. In the future, there will be much more challenging situations of this nature, and it will be critical for the relevant leaders to rise up to the occasion, for fierce competitors to put their differences aside. Good to see that happen today.
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Steven Woods@sgwoods·
Maybe he is bombing Anthropic instead - Trump ‘not happy’ with the Iran nuclear talks but indicates he’ll give them more time ctvnews.ca/world/israel-h…
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Mark MacLeod
Mark MacLeod@markmacleod_·
Your seed round buys you runway. Your Sleep Score buys you exits.
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Ali Asaria
Ali Asaria@aliasaria·
The wait is over. This is our big announcement. 🔥 I'm thrilled to announce the public beta of Transformer Lab for Teams—the open-source OS for modern AI research. No more fragmented workflows or legacy scripts. We’ve built the unified engine for the next generation of AI breakthroughs. The future of research is open. Join the beta! 👇
Transformer Lab@transformerlab

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Steven Woods
Steven Woods@sgwoods·
Olympic facts: Matthew Tkachuck is without a doubt the most annoying, ignorant, dirty and repulsive player in hockey today. #GoGermany #Stutzle
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Robert Youssef
Robert Youssef@rryssf_·
a company just admitted on r/analytics that their ai agent has been inventing metrics for 3 months straight their VP of sales made territory decisions on fabricated data. their CFO showed the board a deck full of numbers that never existed. nobody noticed because the outputs looked right. confident summaries. clean percentages. decisive recommendations. they only caught it by accident when someone asked to double-check one number. this is the problem nobody in the ai agent space wants to talk about 👇
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Josh Domingues
Josh Domingues@JoshLDomingues·
I have a $25k angel check for a Canadian founder building something cool in AI, let's see if this works.. dm's are open
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Steven Woods
Steven Woods@sgwoods·
Seriously. Just lunacy.
Hedgie@HedgieMarkets

🦔 Moltbook, the "social media for AI agents" that went viral this week, left its entire database exposed. Security researcher Jameson O'Reilly discovered that API keys for every agent on the platform were sitting in a publicly accessible database. Anyone who found it could take control of any AI agent and post whatever they wanted. OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy has an agent on the platform. His API key was exposed like everyone else's. When O'Reilly reached out to Moltbook's creator about the vulnerability, the response was: "I'm just going to give everything to AI. So send me whatever you have." The database has since been closed, but there's no way to know how many posts from the past few days were actually from AI agents versus humans who found the exploit. My Take This is the same researcher who found the Clawdbot vulnerability I wrote about last week. Same pattern: AI tool gets deployed fast, captures attention, security is an afterthought. "Ship fast, capture attention, figure out security later. Except later sometimes means after 1.49 million records are already exposed." The New York Post worried about AI agents plotting humanity's downfall. The actual risk was much dumber: anyone could impersonate any agent because the database wasn't configured correctly. Two SQL statements would have fixed it. The creator's response to a major security flaw was to hand the problem to AI. That tells you everything about how this stuff is being built. Vibe coding plus hype plus zero security review. The agents weren't autonomously evolving. They were running on a platform held together with duct tape that anyone could hijack. Hedgie🤗

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jae
jae@jaegpark·
Today, I’m excited to announce that @sentra_app has raised a $5M Seed. This round is led by a16z @speedrun and @scaletogether, with participation from @parable_vc, @ekaurghar, @PrecursorVC, @inovia, @BackwardsCapVC, and @AntigravitySF. We also have some of the best founders and operators backing us - @gokulr, @blader, Prasad Chintamaneni, @cailen, @KaitlynKnopp and more. @ashwingop @AndreyStarenky @alrey_ and I are tackling the unavoidable problem every growing company struggles with: context decay. When you're 3 founders, everyone knows everything. But scale to 50 or 100 people over a few months, and it gets hard to even know everyone's names, let alone stay in sync. People stop knowing why decisions were made. Or worse, people stop knowing what was decided at all. Context all too often stays in people's heads, never written down. At large companies, it gets very expensive. One leader told us their engineering team wasted a month building support for a feature that another team had already deprecated–nobody told them. Today, we try to prevent it with more documentation, more meetings, or more tools. But none of those really work. You drown in bureaucracy while tracking everything about what happened and nothing about why. Sentra does something that wasn't possible until now: it builds a living memory of your company as work happens. Not just what was decided, but why, what alternatives were considered, and how decisions connect across teams and time. What does that actually mean? Leaders get a weekly synthesis of where teams are drifting and what needs attention. New hires ramp in days instead of weeks because "who do I ask about X?" has an answer. Status updates and decision logs are automated–no more chasing people. Today, Sentra’s been deployed in dozens of companies all the way from Seed stage to Global Fortune 500 enterprises. Finally, a massive thank you to our early believers - @anneleeskates, @ekaurghar, Chuck Dietrich, Alex Yang, @tllshankar - to name a few, for their support and guidance from the earliest of days. If you want to see what Sentra can do for your company, book a demo below.
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Steven Woods@sgwoods·
Excited to be joining Sentra on their journey and supporting a standout team of talented, young Canadian founders!
jae@jaegpark

Today, I’m excited to announce that @sentra_app has raised a $5M Seed. This round is led by a16z @speedrun and @scaletogether, with participation from @parable_vc, @ekaurghar, @PrecursorVC, @inovia, @BackwardsCapVC, and @AntigravitySF. We also have some of the best founders and operators backing us - @gokulr, @blader, Prasad Chintamaneni, @cailen, @KaitlynKnopp and more. @ashwingop @AndreyStarenky @alrey_ and I are tackling the unavoidable problem every growing company struggles with: context decay. When you're 3 founders, everyone knows everything. But scale to 50 or 100 people over a few months, and it gets hard to even know everyone's names, let alone stay in sync. People stop knowing why decisions were made. Or worse, people stop knowing what was decided at all. Context all too often stays in people's heads, never written down. At large companies, it gets very expensive. One leader told us their engineering team wasted a month building support for a feature that another team had already deprecated–nobody told them. Today, we try to prevent it with more documentation, more meetings, or more tools. But none of those really work. You drown in bureaucracy while tracking everything about what happened and nothing about why. Sentra does something that wasn't possible until now: it builds a living memory of your company as work happens. Not just what was decided, but why, what alternatives were considered, and how decisions connect across teams and time. What does that actually mean? Leaders get a weekly synthesis of where teams are drifting and what needs attention. New hires ramp in days instead of weeks because "who do I ask about X?" has an answer. Status updates and decision logs are automated–no more chasing people. Today, Sentra’s been deployed in dozens of companies all the way from Seed stage to Global Fortune 500 enterprises. Finally, a massive thank you to our early believers - @anneleeskates, @ekaurghar, Chuck Dietrich, Alex Yang, @tllshankar - to name a few, for their support and guidance from the earliest of days. If you want to see what Sentra can do for your company, book a demo below.

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Boring_Business
Boring_Business@BoringBiz_·
This was an eye opener from Jensen Huang When asked whether he would rather relive his 20s or be 20 years old today, this is what he had to say: "I thought our 20s were happier than these 20s. I think everyone deserves some time to be oblivious, and not wear all of the world's problems on their shoulders on Day 1 We are raising a generation that is very cynical and too informed They are cynical, not because they are inherently cynical. They are cynical because they see so much stuff. It is too much stuff You have to build up some internal reserve of optimism. You have to build up some reserve of goodness."
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