AI Humanoid Girlfriend “Melody” Speaks Multiple Languages
Meet Melody—The #AI-Powered, Multilingual Humanoid Girlfriend by @MarioNawfal #Robotics #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #MI #ML #Innovation https://t.co/DFAIoGFBSh
Gap Introduces AI-Powered Checkout via Google Gemini
Gap says it will launch checkout within Google's Gemini, in an AI first from a major fashion company https://t.co/7Yr8fgyRp9
Communities Fight Back Against AI Data Center Resource Drain
As AI drives an explosion in new data centers, local communities from Texas to Ireland are saying no to Big Tech’s insatiable water and electricity demands. My short (9.5 minutes) documentary spotlights the backlash and explains why local communities are...
Google Launches Apache‑licensed Gemma 4 for Local AI
So happy to see Google release Gemma 4 today in apache 2.0 that gives you frontier capabilities locally. You can use it right away in all your favorite open agent platforms like openclaw, opencode, pi, Hermes by asking ...
Superintelligence Redefined: From Human Supremacy to Product Value
Talk about moving goalposts. This one from MSFT’s Suleyman may well take the cake. “Superintelligence” just went from intelligence beyond all humans to merely “delivering product value”. 🙄
Unsupervised Coding
We’re likely < 12 months from unsupervised software development. Not just better models. Full closed loops: generate → run → evaluate → fix → repeat. Using @openclaw you can already see it. Once loops + models improve together, supervision will stop making sense.
AI Dominates Medium, Gaining Ground on Reddit
Per @max_spero_ over 50% of Medium was AI-written as of a year and a half ago. Reddit is now up to 10% AI-generated content, up from 7% last year
Structured Prompting Can Supplant Execution Environments in Code Review
Meta's Semi-Formal Reasoning Shows How Structured Prompting Can Replace Execution Environments in Code Review https://t.co/Y9sW9DKSmx
Grok 4.1 Surpasses Newer Models in Drug Discovery Benchmarks
Whoa, @grok 4.1 beats many newer models in BVP. Btw. it is surprising that Grok does such a good job (not SOTA but better than frontier foundation models) in many drug discovery tasks https://t.co/UWaQZucawU
MIT Study Shows AI Progressing Rapidly Yet Steadily Across Jobs
A first-of-its-kind study from MIT measures how successful AI is in completing thousands of tasks done by workers in the US economy. Across these real-world tasks, they found that AI capabilities are improving quickly, but performance is rising smoothly: https://t.co/tAD0bDezIh https://t.co/brXTxFh62A
New AI News Hub Built on X API
Just updated: all the top AI news here on X. https://t.co/kiuZ7QXLzb My AI wasn't fooled by any April Fools joke too. So proud of it. All built with the X API by an idiot. Me. With a better AI than you...
AI's Perfect Answers Breed False Certainty and Hidden Costs
🤔Today's curious perspective... 🚨Borrowed Certainty and the Cost of AI's Perfect Answers | Psychology Today https://t.co/Dm5uAa6UKE #AI
Usage Caps Push for Cheaper, Less Capable Alternatives
The big coding model providers are acting like they have a collective monopoly. Usage caps create a powerful incentive to create lower cost/lower capability options.
Free Open‑Source AI Beats Claude, Threatening Closed Tools
A serious competitor to Claude just appeared and it’s free. Open-source, locally hosted, and already beating it in research tasks. This is what happens when devs take control. Is this the beginning of the end for closed AI tools?
Claude Drives Exponential Growth Across Podcast and Fund
The most fascinating exponential growth that you can get in any enterprise: use Claude. I've been stating this previously before, however, due to the active usage of Claude. Our podcast: - Doubled in subscribers in 3 months - Increased viewers base of 2K average...
Agent Economy: Infrastructure, Not Just Software
The Clawconomy: Why the Agent Economy Is an Infrastructure Story, Not a Software Story https://t.co/ztpFwTlK4Y
Eliminate User Input, Boost MRR to $40K
How Parseur reached 40K MRR: they removed all user inputs. Sign up, upload document, AI identifies what to extract. "We don't ask anything from the user." Took months of watching session recordings to find every friction point. https://t.co/0u2bk1NmPG
Google's LangExtract: Free, Open‑Source Alternative Beats $100K Tools
RIP document extractors. Google just released LangExtract: Open-source. Free. Better than $100K enterprise tools. Here’s what it does: 🧵
AI Reshapes Competition; Infrastructure, Power, Talent Limit Entrants
AI isn’t just enabling global trade, it may be reshaping who gets to compete. Infrastructure, power, and talent are the real constraints. New podcast episode: https://t.co/tKNDnOb8bQ https://t.co/eX3Ua07F1E
LLMs Boost Output Volume, Not Literary Quality
The real question all the "authors must use LLMs" pieces ignore is how they improve *quality* in any way. There's plenty of evidence they aid *quantity*. LLMs cam generate infinite low quality text. But what book is improved by that?...
OpenAI CEO Informs Disney CEOs About Sora Shutdown
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called both former Disney CEO Bob Iger and new Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro to tell them about the decision to shutter Sora. "I get it," D'Amaro told Altman, the tech exec said in a new interview.
LLMs Erode Book Culture, Threatening Their Own Host
The value of LLMs "depends on our continued esteem for bookiness. But as they take over the tasks both of reading and (...) writing, they necessarily eat away at that esteem. They are a parasite that threatens to kill the...
Local File-Based Memory Boosts Agent Accuracy Post-Leak
This is exactly what the ecosystem needed after the claude code leak. local, file-based memory for agents with top market accuracy, proven in real production. Crazy how fast open source moves right now.
Real‑World AI Transforming Communications Through Tested Processes
Two people doing AI in comms the right way: @KyleArteaga at @bulleitgroup and @DandotLewis at The Comms Stack. Not theory. Not vibes. Actual process, actual testing, actual answers. Kyle has been doing the work at Bulleit, testing wire services for...
Humanoids: Real Reasoning or Just Pattern Matching?
Humanoids look impressive, but are they reasoning or just pattern matching? Gill Pratt’s take might change how you see current demos. https://spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-robots-gill-pratt-darpa?share_id=9330907
US AI Training Risks Illegality, Undermining Global Dominance
if training AI isn’t fair use ↓ all US base models are now infringing & unlawful ...
Altman and Ive Team Up on Cognitive Hardware
So, whatever happens to this "big" idea? Are Sam Altman and Jony Ive Creating Cognitive Hardware? https://t.co/G9DgJPeVg0
GPU Power Draw Beats Scheduling as Utilization Metric
Without getting all the way down to performance counters, GPU power from nvidia-smi is a better indicator of true utilization than job scheduling or “gpu busy”. I would love to see animated “heat maps” of the big data centers, with...
Havelock AI Parses Trump's Speech, Mostly Accurate with Minor Mislabels
Running Trump's speech last night through @Havelock_AI. Overall does very well. Not all span identifications are perfect. It flagged "Tonight, Iran's navy is gone" as a proverb, for example. But note the Self Correction in sentence 14, which is not...
AI Revolutionizes Communications Strategy for Greater Impact
How AI Is Transforming the Communications Industry — Lessons From FleishmanHillard AI is reshaping communications strategy and execution, and the insights from FleishmanHillard show how leaders can harness it for more impactful engagement. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/eHyXPmS4 #AI #Communications #Innovation...
Fix Real-Time AI Voice Lag with Right APIs
Got a hitch in your real-time AI voice app? That little lag throws off the experience. @anniewangtech figured out what was going on, and did a deep dive into the right APIs and patterns to apply. GREAT post. https://t.co/Xz0J6M0tcL https://t.co/Rmp0xlERUq
AI OS Replaces Social Media Manager, Handles Everything
You no longer need a social media manager. Neon is an AI OS that handles your entire account from DMs to daily content, end-to-end. → DMs managed completely on your behalf → Fresh niche-based inspiration every single day → Replies...
Claude Code: A Revolutionary Breakthrough Rivaling Bitcoin
I’m not gonna lie Claude code has to be one of the most revolutionary things to happen to society since the creation of bitcoin
Established Firms Win by AI‑enhanced Products and New Ventures
Some of the biggest beneficiaries of AI will be established companies with a profitable business model that manage to leverage AI to make their existing products more compelling and even start new ones (like Adobe Podcast which is both new...
MAI Suite Launches on Foundry: Best Transcription, Voice, Image Models
We’re bringing our growing MAI model family to every developer in Foundry, including … · MAI-Transcribe-1, most accurate transcription model in world across 25 languages · MAI-Voice-1, natural, expressive speech generation · MAI-Image-2, our most capable image model yet Start building: https://t.co/Mls2y7nRQT
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AI Agents Will Soon Need Crypto Wallets via X402
Every AI agent deserves a crypto wallet. In fact, there will be more AI agents transacting online than humans very soon. x402 is the internet payments layer (which has been missing for the last 30 years), and will enable this. The new...
AI Generates Full Landing Page and Theme in 20 Minutes
I gave an AI design tool a rough brief and a screenshot of a website this week. What came back was a polished, interactive landing page. Not a rough wireframe. An actual design with relevant copy, hover states, and responsive layouts....
Stop Waiting: AI Must Drive Immediate Sales
Rethinking the Sales Process: Why “Wait and See” AI is Failing Your Revenue Goals by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/7UsnSpKjGN @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #Salesforce #SalesEnablement #Marketing #Leadership #MarketingStrategy #ArtificialIntelligence
AI as Second Reader Boosts Breast Screening Accuracy
Impact of using artificial intelligence as a second reader in breast screening including arbitration https://t.co/15eScV9DfT
AI Enhances Creative Therapy, Not Replaces Artists
Seems a category error to suggest you can’t work something out with the most useful tool we’ve ever had to work something out (ie simulate different scenarios quickly, look up threads quickly, challenge assumptions quickly) This argument is frustrating as it...
AI “Junior” Becomes 24/7 Employee, Reporting Everything
Meet 'Junior', The New AI Coworker Who Won't Stop Snitching To Your Boss "It's very much like a human employee, but a very extroverted, 24x7 worker for whom I don't need to set up payroll," said co-founder and Chief Executive Officer...
Launch a $M Business in 90 Days with AI
If I had to start over tomorrow with nothing but a laptop and Claude, here’s how I’d build a multi-million dollar business in 90 days. I'd create a 5-person AI department that works 24/7. Let me introduce you to the team…
AI Fear Stems From Mistaking Tools for Jobs
Fear around AI often comes from misunderstanding what is actually changing. Jensen Huang argues that people confuse their job with the tools they use, when in reality tools evolve but the underlying role can adapt. The shift is not about losing purpose,...
Coinbase AI Payments Protocol Joins Linux Foundation Alliance
JUST IN: Coinbase’s AI payments protocol x402 joins the Linux Foundation with Google, Stripe, and AWS to standardize high-frequency, micro AI transactions https://t.co/nL9YqAaVsW
AI's Strangeness Matters: Don't Simplify It to IT Automation
My piece in the Economist where I argue against de-weirding AI. It is a strange technology with both risks & opportunities that need to be discovered. Pretending AI works like normal IT automation can result in bad outcomes for companies...
Abundance of AI Threatens Depth of Meaningful Thought
🤔Can "too much" and "too easy" undermine what makes thought meaningful? 💡AI and the Abundance Bubble https://t.co/Uc4MgjZT1b
Velma Tops HuggingFace: 98.9% Deepfake Audio Detection
🚨 A startup just hit #1 on @HuggingFace for deepfake audio detection. 98.9% accuracy. 30–1000× cheaper than every competitor. Nobody is talking about this. It's called Velma by @modulate_ai and it changes everything about voice security. https://t.co/XGlxDUoCj2
Senior Developers Resist, yet Benefit Most From Coding Agents
Resistance to coding agents like Codex or Cloud Code typically comes from senior engineers rather than juniors because these tools can feel like a challenge to their hard-earned expertise. While their concerns about code quality often stem from professional discomfort,...
AI Must Cut Costs or Boost Lifetime Value
ecom folks… what is something you’ve built with ai that had a meaningful impact on: - lowering cac - increasing customer LTV - lowering opex if it doesn’t make a *meaningful* difference to any of these…you’re just playing dress up as a washed out...
