Royal Ambition Turns Impossible Canal Across Mountains
“There are mountains, but there are also hands… and for a king of Castile, few things are impossible.” - 16th C Spanish priest Francisco López de Gómara on where to put a canal across the isthmus
Easy Management-Fee Gains on Anthropic Face Market Retribution
1. Anthropic may be a $5T co in a couple years. 2. Never in the history of markets has ridiculously easy money (a decade’s worth of income surpassed by management fees brokering a deal for Anthropic shares you sourced via tweet)...
Anthropic Poised to Hit $900B with Negative Cash Flow
If the rumored Anthropic at $900 billion round goes through, Anthropic will be the first company in history to cross the $900 billion mark with negative Free Cash Flow. Which is just an interesting data point is all. https://t.co/hYHA0npZye
Our Essay Tops World Models Search over Nvidia, GitHub, Nature
Pim just pointed out that our essay is the top organic result for World Models, ahead of Nvidia, the original Ha and Schmidhuber GitHub, Reddit, Nature, and Wikipedia. https://t.co/CkWZ9n95Bf
YC Startup List Idea Turned Family Into Millionaires
Mom how did we get so rich? Back in 2026, your dad read the YC Request for Startups and just built one of the ideas on the list. https://t.co/RKVqG1b7NB
AI “The
Game time. Took this opportunity to explain to the kids how insane it was that The Answer carried that roster to the 2001 Finals. Still the most impressive thing an AI has ever done. https://t.co/HFMdCOOSdO
Optimistic Week: Cancer Vaccine, SpaceX, Biotech Advances
Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results SpaceX buys Cursor option Fervo files S-1 Humble unstealths cabless truck Madra launches robot arm bio lab + Science Breakthroughs + Extra Doses What a week for the optimists. https://t.co/7I37VTu3Hr
Industrializing the Ocean: Protecting a Precious Resource
The ocean is too precious to leave to the pirates. Will O'Brien makes the case for industrializing the ocean (like JFK and our grandparents intended). https://t.co/DLoKvSmjN6
Two Analysts Clash on Tim Cook’s Legacy
two of my favorite tech analysts coming to fairly different conclusions on tim cook's reign. Ben Thompson: basically, Cook is an operational genius who implemented Steve Jobs' ideas exceptionally well, but we've gotta acknowledge he had pretty great timing on...
IMessage Autocorrect Reveals Apple’s Upcoming Product Names
the best way to learn about new apple products is to just type a lot of things in iMessage and watch what it capitalizes.
Week of Wild Breakthroughs Fuels Optimistic Future
Quaise 1st superhot geothermal plant Panthalassa wave-powered lollipop AI DC Vital Lyfe Access drinkable water in a box Sabi hat that can read your mind Prophetic dream lucidity Salk Lab gets $41.3M Sonogenetics +Science Breakthroughs + Friedberg What a week for the optimists. https://t.co/ZOV7BGYruW
AI Firms Devour NYC Office Space, Leasing Data Shows
My friend and broker from the Breather days, Ramsey Fehrer at CBRE, shared NYC tech leasing data they pulled for a client recently. AI is eating NYC office space. https://t.co/tEdfzI97NT
Infinite Compute Demand Keeps Ailbirds Perpetually Undervalued
if demand for compute is basically infinite, ailbirds isn't even close to fully valued here and never will be https://t.co/QaRr1LZGs6
Claude Hits Search Budget Limit Mid‑chat, Is This New?
Claude just told me it "ran out of search budget" halfway through the first message in a fresh chat. Is this new?
Info Overload Sparks New Crisis of Control
Study The Control Revolution. Industrial Revolution --> Crisis of Control --> Information Revolution We have the opposite Crisis now: info has outstripped that which it was born to control. Like going off the gold standard, but for information. https://t.co/CLPrtXBQxu