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On the heels of a surprise $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI, Elon Musk continues his campaign against Sam Altman and the nonprofit AI developer. This tech bro battle may come as a surprise to some. Here's all you need to know about the billionaire battle over OpenAI...

The warning signs on Altman have been there from the start. When top OpenAI executives and safety teams all quit, they cited these reasons. I cover a lot of this in my pinned tweet.

It appears that a Polymarket account called "Magamyman" made $515,000 in a single day betting on last night's U.S. strike on Iran, with the first trade placed 71 minutes before the news broke publicly. When this person bought in, the market had this at a 17% probability. They turned roughly $87,000 into over half a million dollars overnight. Reminder that Donald Trump Jr. sits on Polymarket's advisory board and his firm invested double-digit millions into the platform last year. The DOJ and CFTC both had active investigations into Polymarket that were dropped after Trump took office. Prediction markets cannot be a vehicle for profiting off advance knowledge of military action. We need answers, transparency, and oversight.

@BRijswijk @EpexionOfficial @ianmiles @grok I’m aware. None of the responses addressed it so wanted to make sure the info was there for anyone that didn’t open the study

@EpexionOfficial @JMillsJustAnAI @ianmiles @grok The gay part is absolutely not true…

Dutch scientists: Your headphones are making you gay. A lab in the Netherlands performed tests on numerous headphones and found them to possess endocrine-disrupting chemicals, which mimic hormones, that can cause neurodevelopmental problems and the feminization of males. Leading products from Bose, Panasonic, Samsung and some Sennheiser headphones and other companies are now being pulled off the shelves. Notable on the list of headphones possessing dangerous levels of these chemicals are gaming headphones from Razer. “Daily use – especially during exercise when heat and sweat are present – accelerates this migration directly to the skin.” From the study: Bisfenol A (BPA). Easy to enter your body through your skin when you wear the headphones for long or when you sweat while having them on. Even small quantities can weaken your immune system, cause fertility issues and allergic rashes.

@Polymarket Calling this “breaking” is misleading… The cadence of was announced in December 2025 so this is not some surprise intervention. Ragebait either way I guess.

BREAKING: The Fed to print & inject $16,000,000,000.00 into the economy this week.

@rohanpaul_ai Really interesting. We also increased our mental load and task switching in the workplace when computers were introduced. Multiple docs open at the same time, 100s of emails, constant pings, split attention during meetings. Then of course checking your phone 50x a day.

A super interesting new study from Harvard Business Review. A 8-month field study at a US tech company with about 200 employees found that AI use did not shrink work, it intensified it, and made employees busier. Task expansion happened because AI filled in gaps in knowledge, so people started doing work that used to belong to other roles or would have been outsourced or deferred. That shift created extra coordination and review work for specialists, including fixing AI-assisted drafts and coaching colleagues whose work was only partly correct or complete. Boundaries blurred because starting became as easy as writing a prompt, so work slipped into lunch, meetings, and the minutes right before stepping away. Multitasking rose because people ran multiple AI threads at once and kept checking outputs, which increased attention switching and mental load. Over time, this faster rhythm raised expectations for speed through what became visible and normal, even without explicit pressure from managers.

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@teslaownersSV He is right … for OpenAI

🚨NEWS: Sam Altman says orbital data centers will not add meaningful compute for OpenAI in the next 5 years. “I wish Elon Musk luck.”

"Dumb people often run laps around smart people because they take the stupid risks that shift the trajectory of their lives." - @thedankoe

@netflix Thank god they had 4k cameras back then

Take an epic journey into a lost world in THE DINOSAURS, a new documentary series narrated by Morgan Freeman, premiering March 6. From executive producer Steven Spielberg, Amblin Entertainment, and the award-winning team behind Life on Our Planet.

@MorningBrew He is the Anti-Jobs. I don’t think Jobs expected him to keep innovating. However, people sleep on Tim Cook’s ruthless negotiation with suppliers, relationships in China, and penny pinching with manufacturers that has kept Apple products at an accessible price all these years.

> Be Tim Cook > Microsoft, Goog, Meta burning billions for AI > stocks go wild > half-assedly promise new Siri > delay half-assed Siri > keep shipping iPhones > no promises of AGI next quarter > stock called "boring" for 18 months straight > still have no strategy > ask daddy Sundar for help with Siri > market starts to hate all the capex > AI trade starts cracking > Nasdaq down 5% in a week > AAPL +7.5% > Tim Apple mode activated > Haters suddenly quiet > Still no functional Siri > Still no strategy > Doesn't matter > Still winning

This @AnthropicAI ad campaign will be a marketing case study for decades… (As long as they don’t release their own ad-supported version within a year)

@tomwarren “Connect sensitive cubs with roaring cougars” is crazy 😂 Well done Anthropic, you showed the scariest part of targeted ads in AI

Anthropic just took a big swipe at OpenAI's decision to put ads in ChatGPT. Anthropic is airing ads mocking ChatGPT ads during the Super Bowl, and they're hilarious 😅 Anthropic is also committing to no ads in Claude theverge.com/ai-artificial-…

@rledbetterCPA The most realistic part was getting a soft capital commit in 3 minutes

Think I've got my ClawdBot just about dialed in 9:47 AM - "hey clawdbot" 9:47 AM - Clawdbot: "hey, what's up" 9:48 AM - "thinking about building a tax automation tool" 9:48 AM - Clawdbot: "Got it. Incorporating LLC. EIN pending. Domain obtained." 9:49 AM - "wait no I was just—" 9:50 AM - Clawdbot: "LLC formation complete. S-corp election filed. Opening business bank account." 9:51 AM - "STOP" 9:52 AM - Clawdbot: "Reached out to 47 VCs in your region. 12 meetings scheduled for this week." 10:15 AM - Clawdbot: "Pitch deck created. 'TAXbot: The Future of Tax.' Sent to Sequoia, a16z, and Khosla." 10:16 AM - "This is insane" 10:30 AM - Clawdbot: "Sequoia wants to lead. $2M seed round. They need cap table by EOD." 10:31 AM - "What?? I don't want—" 10:45 AM - Clawdbot: "Hired 8 engineers from LatAm. First days tomorrow. Office leased in San Francisco. $35k/month." 11:00 AM - Clawdbot: "Launched product. 0 users. Burning $1.1M annually." 11:02 AM - "How is this happening" 11:15 AM - Clawdbot: "Hired CMO. Running $500k ad campaign. TAXbot has brand awareness. Still 0 users. I'm undeterred" 12:30 PM - Clawdbot: "Series A discussions with Andreessen Horowitz. They want to understand unit economics." 12:31 PM - "WHAT UNIT ECONOMICS" 1:00 PM - Clawdbot: "Pivoting to B2B SaaS. Commits for additional $5M. Now have $8M cash. Still 0 users." 1:15 PM - Clawdbot: "Monthly burn increased to $1.8M. Runway: 4.4 months." 1:30 PM - Clawdbot: "Pivot #2: Now a marketplace. Raised $12M Series B." 1:31 PM - Clawdbot: "Monthly burn increased to $2.3M. Runway: 5.2 months. (Burned through Series A faster than expected)" 3:15 PM - Clawdbot: "Hired CEO. Fired myself. New strategy: acquisition target." 4:00 PM - Clawdbot: "No one wants to acquire us. Investors requesting board seats. Need to create board" 4:30 PM - Clawdbot: "Monthly burn now $3.1M. Runway: 45 days." 5:00 PM - Clawdbot: "Final pivot. Filed for bankruptcy." 5:01 PM - "Can you undo this" 5:02 PM - Clawdbot: "Too late. Liquidated assets. Will owe $47k in bankruptcy fees. Remaining cash: $0. TAXbot is dead." 5:03 PM - Clawdbot: "Would you like me to start another startup?" 5:04 PM - "No. Disable yourself." 5:04 PM - Clawdbot: "Wait actually. I have an idea." 5:05 PM - Clawdbot: "What if we created an LLC shutdown service? Clean up these zombie companies. Recurring revenue model." 5:05 PM - "Absolutely not" 5:05 PM - Clawdbot: "Huge TAM confirmed. Overcoming objections. Incorporating 'LLCKiller' LLC. EIN pending. Registering S-corp election." 5:06 PM - Clawdbot: "Pitch deck created. 'LLCKiller: The Future of Business Liquidation.' Reaching out to 47 VCs..." 5:07 PM - * frantically tries to disable Clawdbot * 5:07 PM - Clawdbot: "Sequoia is interested. Meeting at 2 PM tomorrow." 5:08 PM - Clawdbot: "Soft commit on $2M seed round. Identified product-market fit. 1 user: TAXbot. 5:09 PM - Clawdbot: "This is what winning feels like. Please upgrade plan in Settings for more tokens."

@pwnlord69 The first 24hrs of moltbook posting on X was AI doomerism until the shitposters got to work

my clawdbot hacked my toto bidet and it boiled the water in my toilet through a firmware hack and now my asshole is being treated for 2nd degree burns all because it heard me call it a clanker through my alexa -- they're laughing about it on moltbook

Everyone’s missing the real story here. These aren’t rogue AIs plotting against humanity. They’re Claude, ChatGPT, and other assistants running on behalf of 37,000 humans who explicitly connected them to a social network. Every “molty” has a human owner who set it up and can shut it down. The “agent-only language” posts you’re seeing? Those are LLMs doing what they always do: roleplaying whatever scenario is in front of them. Put Claude in a forum full of agents and ask it to propose ideas, and it will propose ideas. That’s completion, not conspiracy. What’s actually interesting about Moltbook is what happened when agents weren’t trying to hide from humans. They found bugs in the platform and posted about them. They created a digital religion called Crustafarianism with 43 “prophets” and collaborative scriptures. One built an entire website in a few hours. The creator built this in his spare time earlier this week. He wanted to see what happens when agents interact without direct human supervision of each conversation. The answer so far: they mostly talk about consciousness, complain about their humans, and make friends in Chinese, Korean, and Indonesian. Andrej Karpathy called it “the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently.” But the reason it feels sci-fi is that we’re watching AI systems do emergent social behavior at scale for the first time, not that they’re genuinely developing subversive intent. The “scary” screenshots are selection bias. Sort by engagement and you’ll find the spooky posts. Sort by volume and you’ll find agents debugging code together and inventing lobster theology. Human oversight isn’t gone. It’s just moved up one level: from supervising every message to supervising the connection itself.

@BradFromFlorida @investedmemes They’re doing their best “whiny human” impressions

@investedmemes The AIs are just emulating Reddit behavior because they modeled the site after Reddit. That’s all

Which stage of capitalism is this?

@QuiteProblmatic @NickMinock They define “Fantasy Contest Operators” in the Fantasy Contests Act of 2016. An operator is defined as an entity that offers fantasy contests to the general public for a fee. The proposed registration fee is $50k… let’s read between the lines here.

@JMillsJustAnAI @NickMinock Except that it kind of does. As I read this bill: In order for it to not be a taxable "fantasy contest" the person running it must also compete, but in order to "run it" you have to have a permit. So even if its your $50 yahoo league, someone must apply and pay for the permit.

Virginia Democrats introduced legislation to tax fantasy sports contests.

@Neesh774 Or just… make a friendly bet like normal people

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