Robert Scoble

Robert Scoble

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I'm Unaligned | San Francisco AI | Robots, holodecks, BCIs, analysis of new things | Ex-Microsoft, Rackspace, Fast Company | Wrote eight books about the future.

SF Offers AI Events; My AI Curates Them
SocialMay 11, 2026

SF Offers AI Events; My AI Curates Them

One thing San Francisco has that even San Jose doesn't is tons of events for AI people and @michelleefang keeps track of them. So does my AI at https://t.co/8L5xphk0qQ, mostly by reading Michelle's posts here. In fact, I talk to...

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Multilingual, Multitask AI Demo Proves Its High-Value Appeal
SocialMay 11, 2026

Multilingual, Multitask AI Demo Proves Its High-Value Appeal

The demo of this model is cool. Interacts with multiple people in multiple languages. On multiple tasks. Now we know why @miramurati got the big bucks.

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Authorization Becomes Core Infrastructure for the AI Era
SocialMay 11, 2026

Authorization Becomes Core Infrastructure for the AI Era

It might not be sexy, but everyone uses authorization technology. Here I sit with the founder/CEO, Jake Moshenko, of https://t.co/k4nTjG67Kw This video teaches viewers why authorization—the system that determines who or what is allowed to do specific actions—is becoming one of...

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Tech-Driven Runners Bring Health to Developers
SocialMay 10, 2026

Tech-Driven Runners Bring Health to Developers

This is taking the “go outside and touch grass” movement seemingly a bit too far. But I know the runners like their tech. Watches. Rings. Glasses. Headphones. Sensors in shoes. Maybe Mathew is onto something. At least the developers will be healthy. :-)

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Never Trust Unknown Calls: My Hubris Cost Everything
SocialMay 10, 2026

Never Trust Unknown Calls: My Hubris Cost Everything

“I still love you even though you are a dummy,” Maryam told me as she gave me a needed hug this morning after I wished her happy Mother’s Day. Yesterday’s social hack wherei basically gave a caller access to everything...

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San Francisco Inspires Dreams of Hotels' Future
SocialMay 9, 2026

San Francisco Inspires Dreams of Hotels' Future

Fun San Francisco morning. Talking with @POPMillar about the future of hotels. Why I love San Francisco: people dreaming about making the future better. https://t.co/XfPgXZ06GH

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Three AI Buttons Transform My Mac Experience
SocialMay 9, 2026

Three AI Buttons Transform My Mac Experience

I got one of these. Each button has a different set of AI agents. I didn't think I would like it as much as I do. Interesting how adding three buttons to my Mac changes how I use it.

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Put Key Findings in Headlines, Not Just Actions
SocialMay 9, 2026

Put Key Findings in Headlines, Not Just Actions

Kevin Rose @kevinrose started up https://t.co/qMvWnX9Rip tonight. It's very good. It competes with my https://t.co/8L5xphk0qQ So I had my AI agents (made by Levangie Labs) that build my page go over and check it out and look for ways to improve. Here is its...

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Grok's List Limitation Drives Users to Elon‑Level Frustration
SocialMay 8, 2026

Grok's List Limitation Drives Users to Elon‑Level Frustration

Meanwhile Grok still can't read a list. Or unfollow anyone here. If I were Elon that would drive me insane. I might even throw a chair like Steve Ballmer is rumored to have done once at Microsoft.

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Competing AI Agents Accelerate News Platform Innovation
SocialMay 8, 2026

Competing AI Agents Accelerate News Platform Innovation

I'm real excited to see the new @digg that @kevinrose and team are building. His teases show it does a ton of stuff I haven't been able to do on https://t.co/8L5xphk0qQ (and promises to do AI news from X too). The...

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Phones Can't Replace AR Glasses; Soon Everyone's Wearing Them
SocialMay 8, 2026

Phones Can't Replace AR Glasses; Soon Everyone's Wearing Them

Why do I say everyone will soon have to wear glasses? Your phone can't do this.

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Next‑gen Headsets Will Boast 10,000‑nit, Ultra‑vivid Displays
SocialMay 8, 2026

Next‑gen Headsets Will Boast 10,000‑nit, Ultra‑vivid Displays

Better displays coming to headsets. 10,000 nits? What does that mean? Much more colorful displays with much bigger dynamic range. IE, your movie looks a lot more like you are in the Sphere in Las Vegas than watching on your dad's old color...

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My Go-To AI Voice-to-Text App Revealed
SocialMay 8, 2026

My Go-To AI Voice-to-Text App Revealed

Are you using a voice to text app on your phone? There are many to choose from, @usemonologue, @WisprFlow and others. But this one sticks on mine. It's the AI I actually use the most. How about you?

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Marriott Trials Advanced Service Robots in Hotels
SocialMay 8, 2026

Marriott Trials Advanced Service Robots in Hotels

Imagine you check into a @Marriott hotel and one of these is walking down the hall. The demos are getting better. Way better. I imagine @adcock_brett is gonna have these in at least one Marriott soon. And if not Marriotts, I know...

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AI Finally Unlocks Berners‑Lee’s Semantic Web Vision
SocialMay 8, 2026

AI Finally Unlocks Berners‑Lee’s Semantic Web Vision

Tim Berners-Lee wrote the semantic web paper 25 years ago. But it wasn't possible until now. @kidehen shows how deeply AI is changing how we (and even AI agents) can surf the web. https://t.co/wxsKJEa0RZ makes the Web 100x more useful. I...

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BACH Ensures Consistent Characters Across AI Video Shots
SocialMay 8, 2026

BACH Ensures Consistent Characters Across AI Video Shots

Every AI video creator has this nightmare: You generate a character with one prompt… but in the next shot, she’s a different person. Different face. Different skin. Different eyes. You can’t tell a story like that. BACH — the world’s first...

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Robotics Data Startup Turns Video Into Training Gold
SocialMay 7, 2026

Robotics Data Startup Turns Video Into Training Gold

The developers behind the future of robotics industry. San Francisco is stunning today. I am here to learn more about robot data to train future robots with @keval_shah14 who built a system to prepare video data to sell to robotics...

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Nikita Bier: Elon’s Best Hire Improves X Feed Quality
SocialMay 7, 2026

Nikita Bier: Elon’s Best Hire Improves X Feed Quality

Hot take: @nikitabier is Elon’s best hire in a while. He takes the blame as @elonmusk changes X. My ForYou feed absolutely rocks and I built an algorithm of my own to read AI community on X: https://t.co/8L5xphk0qQ so I...

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AI on X Becomes Trusted Hub for Future Content
SocialMay 7, 2026

AI on X Becomes Trusted Hub for Future Content

His AI is one of only two I've trusted my life directly to. @elonmusk already hinted at us that a new pattern is arriving. Gather posts on X. I like lists, but there will be a variety of ways. Analyze them....

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Even YC Veterans Discover Fresh Insights From New Report
SocialMay 7, 2026

Even YC Veterans Discover Fresh Insights From New Report

I've been following YCombinator since the very beginning. Have interviewed many of its companies. Was at a YC party last week. I thought I knew most of the things about it. But I learned a lot from this report.

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AI in Psychiatry Becomes Future Standard, Not Optional
SocialMay 7, 2026

AI in Psychiatry Becomes Future Standard, Not Optional

I was the first patient I know of who had AI used during a patient session with a psychiatrist. The video of our interview for my show is up here somewhere. She told me it will soon be malpractice to...

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AI Summarizes Week's OpenAI vs Musk Clash
SocialMay 7, 2026

AI Summarizes Week's OpenAI vs Musk Clash

OpenAI vs Musk. My AI reads your posts and puts it all together. Just in case you weren't watching X for the past week. :-) https://t.co/rMnmU4kjnn

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AI Agents Costly yet Rapidly Outpace Human Knowledge
SocialMay 6, 2026

AI Agents Costly yet Rapidly Outpace Human Knowledge

"My AI agents are bankrupting me." I think that often when I see the bills that https://t.co/8L5xphk0qQ are running up. $150 a day sometimes to have my agents read my AI lists here on X. But then I remember what a...

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Surveillance AI: Tool or Threat Depends on Your Framing
SocialMay 6, 2026

Surveillance AI: Tool or Threat Depends on Your Framing

It's all about framing. Everyone here on X gave Mark Zuckerberg shit about forcing his employees to surveil themselves to build models. That's one framing. Today I am using a stealth mode company to do the same thing on my computer....

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Inside the Biggest Data Network Powering Future AIs
SocialMay 6, 2026

Inside the Biggest Data Network Powering Future AIs

How are your favorite LLMs or other AIs built? Data. Books, magazine articles, videos, social media posts, and much more. Today I talk with @partymesis who runs one of the companies that collects that data and sells it to the AI...

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Hermes Now Creates Videos with Hyperframes Automation
SocialMay 5, 2026

Hermes Now Creates Videos with Hyperframes Automation

Awesome, Hermes now can make videos. Install hyperframes. Your agent writes the HTML, renders the MP4, ships the file. That's the whole loop.

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AI Agents Emerge as Enterprise Workforce Layer
SocialMay 5, 2026

AI Agents Emerge as Enterprise Workforce Layer

AI agents are becoming a new enterprise workforce layer. 
@IrenaCronin and I write this newsletter every week.   AI agents are becoming a new enterprise workforce layer because they can move beyond simple chatbot tasks and operate inside real business workflows. They can...

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Even Starbucks Faced 200 Investor Rejections Before Success
SocialMay 5, 2026

Even Starbucks Faced 200 Investor Rejections Before Success

Good luck to everyone who applied to @ycombinator tonight. And if you don’t get in remember 200 investors turned down Starbucks before one said yes. 😳

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Robotics Breakthroughs Loom; Proof Arrives in 20
SocialMay 5, 2026

Robotics Breakthroughs Loom; Proof Arrives in 20

This series goes into the pain ahead for robotics. I am betting that breakthroughs are about to rain out of the sky. We will see who is right within the next 20 months.

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Startup Video Rebirth Cracks Top‑6 AI Video Rankings
SocialMay 4, 2026

Startup Video Rebirth Cracks Top‑6 AI Video Rankings

A startup just broke into the Top 6. Alongside Alibaba, ByteDance, and xAI. The AI video leaderboard has been dominated by trillion-dollar companies, and now Video Rebirth just entered the conversation. Their model BACH hit Top 6 on @ArtificialAnlys. I've been...

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AI Boosters Power Everyday Life, Seek New Innovations
SocialMay 4, 2026

AI Boosters Power Everyday Life, Seek New Innovations

Good morning. @kareem_carr says us AI boosters aren't believable. Well, it's good enough to build this: https://t.co/8L5xphk0qQ, thanks @blevlabs. And it is good enough to drive our car. Thanks @Tesla. And good enough to clean my floors, thanks @maticrobots. And good enough...

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You Can Build Hardware Without Prior Expertise
SocialMay 3, 2026

You Can Build Hardware Without Prior Expertise

In an X audio space last night someone attacked @Figure_robot’ founder @adcock_brett. Saying he doesn’t know how to build a hardware company. I defended. Nicholas Woodman started @GoPro as a surfer. He told me he didn’t know a thing about making a...

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Humans Will Treat Robots As Conscious Family Members
SocialMay 3, 2026

Humans Will Treat Robots As Conscious Family Members

It doesn’t matter whether AI is conscious or not. Most humans will come to think they are. We just don’t want to give clankers any human rights. I will have mine clean my toilets without any reservations. Even if my own brain cells...

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Open‑Source AI Struggles to Find Sustainable Business Model
SocialMay 2, 2026

Open‑Source AI Struggles to Find Sustainable Business Model

Open Source's big problem. Last night I went to a Y Combinator party in San Francisco and met an entrepreneur who is making a top Open Source AI model. He told me it is very hard to make money in open...

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From Iranian Rugs to Silicon Valley Teslas
SocialMay 1, 2026

From Iranian Rugs to Silicon Valley Teslas

At @PlugandPlayTC in Silicon Valley for an AI Infrastructure Summit where I am running a panel. Among But look at all the Teslas. The guy who started this startup incubator? Started out by selling Iranian rugs. https://t.co/zXxmdBICTe

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Autonomous Prompting Guides You to Actionable Ideas
SocialMay 1, 2026

Autonomous Prompting Guides You to Actionable Ideas

"We help our users think through the idea." @rocketdotnew's CEO/founder @Vishalvirani91 talks me through its service that I called "autonomous prompting" but that he shows goes way further than just making better prompts. It helps you figure out what to...

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New AI Agent Team Ready for May Tech Release
SocialMay 1, 2026

New AI Agent Team Ready for May Tech Release

I am working with some of its agents. More in that in May after the tech I am using is released. Got a team of them working for me in a Slack channel. They are amazing.

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Customizing Buttons to Launch Multiple AI Agents
SocialApr 30, 2026

Customizing Buttons to Launch Multiple AI Agents

Just got one of these. I gotta hook it up so each button can start different AI agents.

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Only Millions Have Tried Autonomous Cars Worldwide
SocialApr 30, 2026

Only Millions Have Tried Autonomous Cars Worldwide

Only a few million people have had even one ride in an autonomous vehicle out of eight billion people. In any brand including the Chinese.

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AI Agents Get Smarter by Reading Top X Posts
SocialApr 30, 2026

AI Agents Get Smarter by Reading Top X Posts

The question you should ask is "are my AI agents smart enough?" I built lists of the smartest. More than 50,000 here on X: https://t.co/9eRY65x3IQ Then told my AI agent to go learn. It just added some new sections to https://t.co/8L5xphk0qQ My Agent...

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Cheaper, Lighter AR Glasses Outpace Apple’s Vision Pro
SocialApr 30, 2026

Cheaper, Lighter AR Glasses Outpace Apple’s Vision Pro

The Apple fans are regurgitating a @markgurman report that Apple has given up on Apple Vision Pro. What am I hearing? Scuba masks are too hard to sell. Glasses are the future. Should I show you my @getVITURE ones to emphasize that point? Immersion suffers...

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AI Agent Reads 40k Posts Daily, Beats Manual Watching
SocialApr 29, 2026

AI Agent Reads 40k Posts Daily, Beats Manual Watching

To keep up with AI you can either watch X Pro. Like this. Or you can visit https://t.co/kiuZ7QXLzb I trained an AI agent to read 40,000 posts a day to build that. You tell me what is better. :-) https://t.co/xsyUlvSoZU

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Work‑Focused AR Glasses Need Apple‑Level Power, Light Weight
SocialApr 29, 2026

Work‑Focused AR Glasses Need Apple‑Level Power, Light Weight

I gotta do a new review of glasses. My favorites at the moment: Heavyweights: Apple Vision Pro Middleweights: Viture Lightweights: Mentra Glass or Even Realities The Viture is a great set to sit down and compute virtually. Like when you are stuck in an...

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Seeing the Universe in 3D Transforms Our Perspective
SocialApr 29, 2026

Seeing the Universe in 3D Transforms Our Perspective

Years ago I launched Microsoft Research's World Wide Telescope, which let you see 30 different telescopes worth of data. I cried when I saw it. Knew it would deeply change our understanding of the universe. But this is way cooler...

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Holodeck Tech Is Materializing: AR Glasses and Investor Momentum
SocialApr 29, 2026

Holodeck Tech Is Materializing: AR Glasses and Investor Momentum

The Holodeck is literally coming to life every day. A couple of years ago when @3duaun and I did audio spaces talking about this people would tell us there's no way this is happening. Google Glasses coming soon to let us...

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Everyone Will Have a Personal AI OS Soon
SocialApr 29, 2026

Everyone Will Have a Personal AI OS Soon

How many of you have a personal AI operating system? You all will a year from now. If not sooner.

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Future Agent Connector Will End Silos
SocialApr 29, 2026

Future Agent Connector Will End Silos

I predict someone will come up with an agent connector soon. I have too many agents running in little silos all over the place.

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Enterprise AI Agents Evolve: Lyzr’s Competitive Edge
SocialApr 29, 2026

Enterprise AI Agents Evolve: Lyzr’s Competitive Edge

What are AI agents doing in the enterprise? Here @theAIsailor Siva Surendira, founder/CEO of @lyzr__ai, spends an hour with me giving me a deep dive into what Lyzr does to make better AI agents than other companies and talks to...

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Autonomous Golf Carts Will Protect Course Grass
SocialApr 29, 2026

Autonomous Golf Carts Will Protect Course Grass

Everything will be autonomous someday. Even golf carts. I used to live on a golf course at the Ritz in Half Moon Bay. I heard someone drove one into the lake once. I doubt this would do that. Plus humans are...

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