Ethan Bloch

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Ethan Bloch

Ethan Bloch

@ebloch

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Ethan Bloch
Ethan Bloch@ebloch·
Hiro is joining OpenAI! For 13 years, I’ve been on a mission to make personal finance suck less. At Digit, I helped millions of Americans save over $9 billion. At Hiro, we built an AI personal CFO and helped clients plan for and manage over $1 billion in assets. I’m excited to continue that mission at @OpenAI. I'm grateful to our team, our investors, and especially the customers who trusted us. Building Hiro has been a privilege.
Hiro Finance@hirofinanceai

We started Hiro with the vision of building an AI personal CFO. Joining @OpenAI gives us the chance to pursue that vision at a much greater scale. Important dates: - Today: Hiro is no longer accepting new signups - April 20, 2026: The product will stop working, but data export will remain available - May 13, 2026: All user data will be deleted from our servers Existing users can export their data from the Settings page in Hiro’s web app. Thank you for trusting us with your time, feedback, and finances. Building for you was a privilege. We hope to serve you again through what we build next at OpenAI.

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Can Sar@cansar·
A personal update: I’m joining OpenAI to work on Codex, the best agent app in the industry. After years building consumer products, my obsession since September has been to make Block one of the most AI-native engineering orgs in the world. I’m proud of what we’ve built: faster Eng velocity with RPI in October, an internal multi-harness ADE in January, Slack-based cloud agents in February, and AI woven into every step of product development. The team is just getting started. Along the way I tried almost every agent orchestrator out there — 30+ over the past year. Codex felt special from the day it launched. Lately, it’s started to point at something much bigger. What used to be scattered across prompts, tabs, tools, files, and handoffs is starting to come together in one place. The app is becoming the single surface for knowledge work — letting you accomplish more than you ever thought possible, while staying calm and focused. You can already see the early signs: making a slideshow and editing it right there, working inside a custom site built just for you and your team, handing off to the browser and the computer while you watch it go. Getting this right takes powerful models. But it also takes taste, product thinking, and real care for the person on the other end. You see that in the product, and you feel it the moment you talk to the team. I couldn’t be more excited to join the Codex team. Together we’re going to build the future of computing and knowledge work, and we’re going to build it for you.
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Ethan Bloch
Ethan Bloch@ebloch·
Berkshire’s $10B Google investment may be the first clear sign of the Greg Abel era. Buffett’s Berkshire could concentrate. Coca-Cola, American Express, Apple — when the business was understandable and the odds were right, Berkshire was willing to put real weight behind it. But this is different. Google is now close to 10% of Berkshire’s public equity portfolio. A 10% bet on one of the central companies of the AI boom! For decades, Berkshire mostly watched the great technology waves from the porch. Microsoft. Intel. Early internet. Even Google itself for many years. The answer was usually the same: too hard, outside the circle of competence. Abel now seems to be drawing the circle differently.
Evan@StockMKTNewz

JUST IN: GOOGLE $GOOGL JUST ANNOUNCED AN $80 BILLION CAPITAL RAISE TO BUILD AI INFRASTRUCTURE And Berkshire Hathaway $BRK.B is writing a $10 billion check to get in. Here's the full breakdown: THE DEAL: - $30B in underwritten public offerings - $40B through an at-the-market stock program starting Q3 2026 - $10B private placement to Berkshire Hathaway THE BERKSHIRE PIECE: - $5B in Class A Common Stock at $351.81 per share - $5B in Class C Capital Stock at $348.20 per share - Berkshire has been building this position since Q3 2025 THE PURPOSE: - Scale AI compute infrastructure to meet "unprecedented customer demand" - Approximately $30B of the ATM proceeds will cover 2026 employee equity tax obligations - Remaining proceeds go directly to AI infrastructure buildout

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Jim Bianco
Jim Bianco@biancoresearch·
2/2 In the repost below, I argued that the stock market is the most concentrated in a single theme in 150 years. The last time we saw anything resembling this level of concentration was the railroads in the late 19th century. It should be that way! The railroads literally transformed this country, and no other technology has had this potential until AI. The chart below is the generic Gartner Hype Cycle. Yes, the "Peak of Inflated Expectations" is in the future. But I would argue we a lot of the expectaion curve to rise before we get their. x.com/biancoresearch…
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John Ennis
John Ennis@johnennis·
In the middle of my longest Codex run ever, coming up on 3 straight days I've adapated @elves_skill with a workflow for pure math research, and I've been working with my former PhD advisor on some open problems in differential geometry Looks like I'll get my first pure math paper in a while, and I've learned a ton about what is actually possible when it comes to AI for math The short of it is that AI is amazingly useful, and any mathematician who doesn't use these tools is at a big disadvantage, but the idea that there will be nothing left for human mathematicians to do is just wrong I'll write up more about this experience when done if people are interested, and I'm thinking about adding a math module to Elves
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Ethan Bloch
Ethan Bloch@ebloch·
Great piece. I understood the battery/ev body design constraints but the bit about ICP I think is insightful and likely spot on. I literally thought to myself “I should get one” especially after watching Lewis and Charles test drive. But then I don’t want that expensive or “stand out” of a car.
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Josh Elman@joshelman·
@ebloch Even if it is, I don’t think it will create the same level of envy the core set does
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Ethan Bloch@ebloch·
Exceptional production and story. Joyce, Ganassi & entire production crew, wow! 👏
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Jeff Weinstein@jeff_weinstein·
This came up twice today, so figured I'd tweet it. People, internally and externally, talk [read: complain] to me that their product isn't growing, or isn't growing enough. 100% of the time they are missing at least one of the following minimum requirements for success: (A) A *burning* user problem [not a "it'd be nice if" problem] (B) Users with that problem, each in a [Slack] room [I'll accept WhatsApp or iMessage, but it can't be email] (C) Narrow the problem such that you can build a 10X better solution than the current alternatives [you are very likely biting off too much to early and then you can't quick make a wow-better solution] (D) A chart with _daily_ counts of users using the product [do not kid yourself into measuring weekly or monthly] (E) At least 2 people, but probably under 5, working on it full-time, that like each other and meet at least once per day [new things are just more fun together than solo] In terms of order of operation: it's first (E), then (A) which begets (B), then you just have to daily iterate back and forth between (C) and (D) unless it's growing faster again.
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Axel Delafosse
Axel Delafosse@axeldelafosse·
Today is my first day at @OpenAI! I'm joining the Codex team. I'll be splitting my time between building the Codex app and working with developers/entrepreneurs to help them make the most of Codex. As a @YCombinator alum, I'm really looking forward to working with early-stage startups and couldn't be more energized about OpenAI's $2M investment in new YC startups. Despite OpenAI being the largest company I've been part of, it certainly feels like @sama, @gdb and the whole Codex team are in founder mode. I've never seen another startup move as fast as this team does. I'm truly honored to be joining such a brilliant team. As always, it's all about the people... so I'd like to thank @romainhuet, @dkundel, @coreyching, @ajambrosino, @embirico, @thsottiaux, and the rest of the Codex team for their trust. And thanks to @pankaj, @gilad, and @willhorn for believing in me, bringing me back to Silicon Valley after almost ten years, and giving me the opportunity to learn about AI.
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