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AI's Upcoming Challenger‑Style Disaster Could Be Catastrophic
SocialApr 9, 2026

AI's Upcoming Challenger‑Style Disaster Could Be Catastrophic

.@simonw: "We're going see a Challenger disaster for AI and it's going to be very very very bad." https://t.co/uiElnowAUs

By Lenny Rachitsky
Altman Wants to Monetize AI Like Utilities, Selling Smarts
SocialApr 9, 2026

Altman Wants to Monetize AI Like Utilities, Selling Smarts

Sam Altman has a new plan to make money from generative AI: he wants intelligence to be treated like water or electricity — and we’ll all have to pay him for it. His chatbots are degrading people’s ability to retain information...

By Paris Marx
Mythos Launches Blackwell AI, GPUs Promise 2‑3×
SocialApr 9, 2026

Mythos Launches Blackwell AI, GPUs Promise 2‑3×

Get ready for the acceleration 🚀 Mythos is JUST the first Blackwell class AI Vera Rubin GPUs land in months → 2-3x better models by December. Feynman in 2028 → another 2-3x leap. Mythos 10T → 100T–500T+ class by end-2028

By Ryan Bethencourt
AI Judges Could Bridge Small Claims‑Arbitration Gap
SocialApr 9, 2026

AI Judges Could Bridge Small Claims‑Arbitration Gap

Problem: The large gap in commercial dispute resolution between small claims court (capped at like $10k damages in CA) and arbitration (where you're going to spend $20k+ on legal, which you may or may not get back). Proposed solution: A neutral AI...

By Moses Kagan
Investors Bet Wrong AI Layer; Profits Flow Elsewhere
SocialApr 9, 2026

Investors Bet Wrong AI Layer; Profits Flow Elsewhere

“The layer you’re investing in may not be where the profits end up.” On the latest @excessreturnpod, we sit down with GMO's Tom Hancock to discuss their excellent recent paper Hype vs. High Conviction. We cover: ☑️the 4-layer AI stack and where...

By Jack Forehand
AI Turns Knowledge Into Scalable Revenue Engine
SocialApr 9, 2026

AI Turns Knowledge Into Scalable Revenue Engine

My take: Enterprise knowledge will soon stop being a “soft asset.” AI is turning decades of tacit expertise, playbooks, and tribal know-how into owned, highly operational capital. 📈 When companies combine that with real business model redesign, with new decision rights, strong...

By Dion Hinchcliffe
DeepMind CEO Claims They'd Cure Cancer, Not ChatGPT
SocialApr 9, 2026

DeepMind CEO Claims They'd Cure Cancer, Not ChatGPT

This – “The CEO of Google DeepMind (@demishassabis) just admitted that if the decision had been his, we would've cured cancer before anyone ever used ChatGPT.” is exactly what i am trying to say in my pinned tweet, in different...

By Gary Marcus
Meta's Muse Could Boost Stock by $1 Trillion
SocialApr 9, 2026

Meta's Muse Could Boost Stock by $1 Trillion

If Open AI and Anthropic is worth $800 billion, then Meta's new Muse models should add $1 trillion to $META stock, given its vastly superior distribution with 3.5 billion users.

By Growth Value Investing
AI Is Ruining the Customer Service Experience
SocialApr 9, 2026

AI Is Ruining the Customer Service Experience

Well one thing is absolutely for sure: AI has sure made customer service a terrible experience

By Nate Luebbe
Targeted Automation, Not Broad GenAI, Drives ROI
SocialApr 9, 2026

Targeted Automation, Not Broad GenAI, Drives ROI

Spotlight: Ogilvie (p. 6): ROI isn’t broad GenAI - it’s targeted automation + narrow AI engineered into the process. https://t.co/YrxFqMpTXp #AI #Automation https://t.co/igBN0phimF

By Lisa Anderson
AI Orchestration Prioritizes Smart Token Use Over Cheap Speed
SocialApr 9, 2026

AI Orchestration Prioritizes Smart Token Use Over Cheap Speed

The delegate starts delegating. This is what I love about AI orchestration, and I thinks it’s only reasonable that we’re now entering the phase where token usage and model intelligence choices matter. I prefer this honest optimization to the subsidized...

By Arvid Kahl
SpaceX Pioneers First Sovereign AI – Deep Dive
SocialApr 9, 2026

SpaceX Pioneers First Sovereign AI – Deep Dive

For a deep dive on our @SpaceX Is Building the World’s First Sovereign AI thesis, check out @dougclinton and I on Pressure Points:

By Gene Munster
Ex‑DeepMind Team Launches ElorianAI for Visual AGI
SocialApr 9, 2026

Ex‑DeepMind Team Launches ElorianAI for Visual AGI

Very excited to be working with @AndrewDai @yinfeiy and the rest of the amazing @ElorianAI team on their quest to build visual AGI with multimodal reasoning models

By Jamin Ball
Higgs X Seedance 2.0 Cuts 90% of Production Work
SocialApr 9, 2026

Higgs X Seedance 2.0 Cuts 90% of Production Work

Thanks to Higgs x Seedance 2.0, we can skip about 90% of the production work. - No equipment - No reshoots - No endless edits It’s basically: references → cues → a full, cinematic result. Honestly, this is pretty amazing. https://t.co/B1Zd3uXVaw

By Hasan Toor
AI Compute Shortage Far Worse Than Expected
SocialApr 9, 2026

AI Compute Shortage Far Worse Than Expected

I was not emphatic enough about just how short we are of compute, memory, energy, etc. The demand curve for AI has been greatly understated. And the estimates aren’t bullish enough. Watch. 👀 We do not have even close to enough to...

By Daniel Newman
AI Completes Full SEO Audit and Fixes Instantly
SocialApr 9, 2026

AI Completes Full SEO Audit and Fixes Instantly

I've had "build out SEO content" on my to-do list for 2 years. Last week, I gave an AI agent my URL, and 15 minutes later, I had a full audit, a prioritized action plan, and every fix executed. Not...

By Chase Dimond
Mythos May Not Be Exclusively Trainium
SocialApr 9, 2026

Mythos May Not Be Exclusively Trainium

We suspected this, which was why I hadn't yet commented on the sentiment that Mythos is a blackwell trained model. May not be 100% trained exclusively on any GPU/XPU in actuality.

By Ben Bajarin
Structure Content for Question Phrasing to Appear in AI Search
SocialApr 9, 2026

Structure Content for Question Phrasing to Appear in AI Search

If your content isn’t structured for how people ask questions… it won’t show up in AI search. Alexis Pratsides shares what LLMs actually prioritize—and how to adjust without creating more content. 👉 https://t.co/YzlkH7b8Kq @FINNPartners #healthcaremarketing #hcmktg

By Colin Hung
Fearful AI Under State Control; Favor Democratic, Regulated Pluralism
SocialApr 9, 2026

Fearful AI Under State Control; Favor Democratic, Regulated Pluralism

Strong nation-state control of AI is terrifying. Democratized, plural AI with sensible regulation is the way.

By Ramez Naam
AI Spending Soars, But Real Demand Remains Questionable
SocialApr 9, 2026

AI Spending Soars, But Real Demand Remains Questionable

LIVE at 12p pt/3p et with @eglyman and @DanielTNiles on tokenmaxxing & AI demand AI spending is up 13x since last Jan.... but engineers are gaming leaderboards and getting graded on how much AI they use. How much of the demand...

By Deirdre Bosa
Daily AI Model Rankings Reveal Best Performance‑Cost Choices
SocialApr 9, 2026

Daily AI Model Rankings Reveal Best Performance‑Cost Choices

AI pro tip: Did you know you can see which models are the best for performance and cost? This site literally pits them against each other every day so that you know which model is the right tool for each task. https://t.co/TL4yPnUA9p

By Corey Haines
Fast AI Builds Risk without Solid SDLC, Testing, Security
SocialApr 9, 2026

Fast AI Builds Risk without Solid SDLC, Testing, Security

RT Vibe coding plus agents makes "build" look tempting, but without mature SDLC, testing, and security, you're just shipping risk faster. #CIO #AI @Star_CIO https://t.co/QCJX9x5Zwh

By Isaac Sacolick
AI Accelerates CIO Demands: Balance Innovation and Team Well‑Being
SocialApr 9, 2026

AI Accelerates CIO Demands: Balance Innovation and Team Well‑Being

#CIOChat Q3: AI transformation is considerably “accelerating” expectations on IT leaders, shall we say. AI appears to make things go at lightspeed. How can CIOs pursue innovation and growth while protecting the health and resilience of their teams, and themselves? https://t.co/ddMdfyFo5T

By Dion Hinchcliffe
Halve KV‑Cache Memory by Sharing Attention Across Heads
SocialApr 9, 2026

Halve KV‑Cache Memory by Sharing Attention Across Heads

Our AI group published a novel finding from pre-training research In short: you can cut KV-cache memory in half by sharing most of the attention structure across heads + keeping small per-head differences—without hurting model quality or speed I'll explain this as...

By Des Traynor
AI‑driven India to Add 1
SocialApr 9, 2026

AI‑driven India to Add 1

Google projects 1.2B people will come online for the first time by end of 2026—many through AI platforms, not browsers. Bollywood is already making AI films for them. The nightmare for Hollywood: India does not need U.S. IP, U.S. union...

By Andrew Rosen
AI Won’t Crush Software Firms; Incumbents Will Thrive
SocialApr 9, 2026

AI Won’t Crush Software Firms; Incumbents Will Thrive

Claude isn't going to destroy all software businesses. Incumbents in infrastructure software and cybersecurity will benefit from AI. They have deep pockets, enterprise customer relationships and are too deeply integrated. The market appears to be getting too pessimistic.

By Puru Saxena
OpenClaw Now Runs Karpathy’s LLM Wiki with Pgvector
SocialApr 9, 2026

OpenClaw Now Runs Karpathy’s LLM Wiki with Pgvector

I got inspired by Karpathy’s LLM Wiki, implemented it in my OpenClaw and then extended it with my own skills and a full Postgres pgvector implementation. Want to be one of the first to try GBrain? This is my personal opinionated version...

By Garry Tan
From Pandemic Trauma to AI: 1000xResist Evolves
SocialApr 9, 2026

From Pandemic Trauma to AI: 1000xResist Evolves

1000xResist was/is one of my favorite games of the past few years. It spoke powerfully to the personal and societal traumas from the early days of COVID-19. Now, they're making a game about AI? Of *course* I had to talk...

By Patrick Klepek
Claude's AI Agent Automates Growth Experiments, Matching Junior PM
SocialApr 9, 2026

Claude's AI Agent Automates Growth Experiments, Matching Junior PM

Claude is now automating it's own growth. Their team built an agent called CASH (Claude Accelerates Sustainable Hypergrowth), which works across the full lifecycle of growth experimentation: (1) identifying opportunities, (2) building the feature, (3) running the test, and (4) analyzing...

By Lenny Rachitsky
Grok Stands Out as the Most Open, Uncensored AI
SocialApr 9, 2026

Grok Stands Out as the Most Open, Uncensored AI

grok is the most open and closest to honest AI model/platform, bar none. The others are too busy self-censoring on anything sensitive. super interesting.

By Kunle Campbell
Define Audience First, Then Let AI Write Copy
SocialApr 9, 2026

Define Audience First, Then Let AI Write Copy

I wrote this because I think a lot of people are making the same mistake with AI and website copy. They’re using it to write pages before they’ve figured out the audience, positioning and what the page actually needs to do. That’s...

By Hiten Shah
CMO Builds AI‑powered Tools without Writing Code
SocialApr 9, 2026

CMO Builds AI‑powered Tools without Writing Code

I'm a CMO of a $100M+ ARR (boostrapped) company. And I have 7 parallel sessions of Claude Code running on my laptop right now. I've never written a line of code in my life. But in the past few months I've built: ▪️...

By Tim Soulo
AI Digital Workers Transform Insurance Branding and Revenue
SocialApr 9, 2026

AI Digital Workers Transform Insurance Branding and Revenue

NEWSFLASH: @outrivalAI just launched our dedicated insurance vertical, led by @JohnHenryStyle We're already live with both publicly traded and private companies, doing 3M+ calls/month across education, insurance, and travel. What Silicon Valley calls AI agents, we call Digital Workers. They...

By Ruben Harris
RAG Success Depends on Ecosystem, Not Just Model Choice
SocialApr 9, 2026

RAG Success Depends on Ecosystem, Not Just Model Choice

This is one of the cleanest visual summaries of a production-grade RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) stack I’ve seen. What it highlights clearly is an often-ignored reality: RAG is not a single tool — it’s an ecosystem. A solid RAG system spans multiple, interchangeable layers: LLMs...

By Giuliano Liguori
AI Creates Hypotheses; Medra Builds Factories to Test Them
SocialApr 9, 2026

AI Creates Hypotheses; Medra Builds Factories to Test Them

AI is generating hypotheses, Medra is building the factories that test them and deliver the life-changing discoveries:

By Shahin Farshchi
AI Rewrites 2017 Multi‑Task Paper Into Working Code
SocialApr 9, 2026

AI Rewrites 2017 Multi‑Task Paper Into Working Code

Like many people, I’m seeing another step-change in coding agents. Our reviewed and merged PRs at Wayve are up ~50% in the last month alone. It made me wonder.. what would be possible with these tools during my PhD? So I...

By Alex Kendall
AI Agents Automate Figure Creation and Paper Review
SocialApr 9, 2026

AI Agents Automate Figure Creation and Paper Review

"Introducing two AI agents to streamline academic research. These include: PaperVizAgent, a visualizer agent for drawing academic figures, and ScholarPeer, a reviewer agent that automatically and rigorously evaluates academic papers" https://t.co/roqVnGZ0Tv < via @GoogleResearch https://t.co/9jCYIvmOtA

By Richard Seroter
Marketplaces Choose Models That Meet Desired Behaviors
SocialApr 9, 2026

Marketplaces Choose Models That Meet Desired Behaviors

Good thought. We are - as a marketplace - selecting for models that do what we want them to do.

By Ramez Naam
Startups Hire Interns for Projects, Not GPA
SocialApr 9, 2026

Startups Hire Interns for Projects, Not GPA

Now… you’ve been practicing, let’s get you internships * Wellfound (AI startups hiring interns) * LinkedIn (filter: “AI Intern” + Remote) * Hugging Face job board * YC Work at a Startup Startups care about what you’ve built. Not your GPA.

By Ebere Oyek (Nelo) — Data | AI | ML
AI Replaces Human Clip Teams in Influencer Growth
SocialApr 9, 2026

AI Replaces Human Clip Teams in Influencer Growth

Top Influencers’ Secret Weapon for Engagement Might Be Replaced by AI Influencers rely on armies of clippers to flood feeds with viral short videos Creators spend big: with up to $50K monthly campaign spend, and millions paid via platforms like Whop But now,...

By Matt Navarra
Boost LinkedIn Engagement with AI-Powered Post Optimization
SocialApr 9, 2026

Boost LinkedIn Engagement with AI-Powered Post Optimization

Trying to get more involved with the @LinkedIn community, but are finding that your posts don't get engagement? Use AI to make 'em more engaging. Here's how to give it a try: https://t.co/y53idal1Jb #linkedin #chatgpt #ai #socialmedia https://t.co/ZOLyMg2fJg

By Dave Taylor
AI Poised to Transform Healthcare Into Supercharged General Practice
SocialApr 9, 2026

AI Poised to Transform Healthcare Into Supercharged General Practice

.@peteratmsr on why AI could shift healthcare away from subspecialties, and toward a supercharged version of general practice. Catch my episode with Peter (President of Microsoft Science) on Lifers: Apple: https://t.co/e5WslnfSee Spotify: https://t.co/TaqlqEsE3f YouTube: https://t.co/eAaMF0XEiB

By Christina Farr
Mythos Hype Debunked: No Real Breakthrough
SocialApr 9, 2026

Mythos Hype Debunked: No Real Breakthrough

Yesterday’s Mythos announcement from Anthropic was overblown. • Sandboxing was turned off, so test didn’t show much about the real world. • Cheap open-weight models can (already) do some similar stuff • No evidence that Mythos itself is a major qualitative jump. In short, we got...

By Gary Marcus
Background Agents Will Power Nonstop Workflow Automation
SocialApr 9, 2026

Background Agents Will Power Nonstop Workflow Automation

Right now the main paradigm that we think of agents in is chatting back and forth, but the biggest use of tokens will come from agents that are just always on running in the background doing work for us, or...

By Aaron Levie
Living Brain Cells Trained to Compute Chaos Mathematics
SocialApr 9, 2026

Living Brain Cells Trained to Compute Chaos Mathematics

Wetware #AI: Living Brain Cells Trained to Run Chaos Math by @NeuroscienceNew Learn more: https://t.co/Eipi0gfWur #HealthTech #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ML https://t.co/Hu3RezoZTu

By Ron van Loon
AI's Second Inning Promises Explosive Growth, Not a Bubble
SocialApr 9, 2026

AI's Second Inning Promises Explosive Growth, Not a Bubble

Are we in an AI bubble? Andy Jassy gave his take in the $AMZN annual shareholder letter: “I’ve followed the public debate on whether this technology is over-hyped, whether we’re in ‘a bubble,’ and if the margins and ROIC will be...

By Gene Munster
Accountant Launches AI Tax Startup, Secures $12M Seed
SocialApr 9, 2026

Accountant Launches AI Tax Startup, Secures $12M Seed

In 2023, Dave Haase was a CPA who had been running his own firm in the San Francisco Bay Area for several years when he saw a live demo of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Upon seeing the AI agent successfully file a...

By Mary Ann Azevedo
AI Revolutionizes Legal Practice: Key Findings Unveiled
SocialApr 9, 2026

AI Revolutionizes Legal Practice: Key Findings Unveiled

1/ Very interesting paper about the use of #AI in the #legal sector, by @Dschwarcz et al.👇

By David Lat
Gemini Adds Interactive Simulations to AI Responses
SocialApr 9, 2026

Gemini Adds Interactive Simulations to AI Responses

For example, see my Mt. AI simulation below :) -> The Gemini app can now generate interactive simulations and models "Previously, responses were largely just text with static diagrams. Now, we’re delivering functional simulations that can help you better ...

By Glenn Gabe