AI Threatens Our Inner Authorship and Cognitive Friction
🧵 1/2. 🚨 The internet reshaped the world around us. 🚨AI is reshaping the world within us. 👉It doesn’t just speed up thought—it can erode the friction and authorship that forge real cognition. My new article on the “unintended self” and what we risk outsourcing before we even begin. 👇👇👇
Tokyo WG14 Advances Collision‑Mitigation Standards for Automated Driving
Last week, @isostandards TC204 WG14 drafting team met in Tokyo🇯🇵 to progress the upcoming standards on ADAS & Automated Driving. A key focus of our work is to strengthen the collision mitigation & avoidance standards, & adding clarity on remote...
FIRESTARTER Maintains Post‑patch Persistence on Cisco ASA/FTD
"FIRESTARTER can persist as an active threat on Cisco devices running ASA or Firepower Threat Defense software, maintaining post-patching persistence and enabling threat actors to re-access compromised devices without re-exploiting vulnerabilities" https://t.co/wVwgbLKaNj
Migration Hardening Essential for Massive Markdown Repositories
Turns out migration hardening matters a lot when you have 50k markdown files in your brain repo https://t.co/kgoCFverRF
Get Real-Time Freight Data for $199/Month
Everyone that cares about the freight or goods economy should have access to SONAR's high frequency national freight data. This is specifically built for monitoring the situation, offering SONAR's high frequency market data. It is just $199/month. GetFreightData https://t.co/pEFTjITBlH
Delay SDR Calls: Rotate Talent Through GTM First
Hire SDRs but don't have them engage with prospects for a year or more? Radical idea from David Wilkins on The Transaction . He believes we will hire young talent like we do today but we will have them rotate...
Human‑AI Collaboration Powers True Autonomous Business
60 days ago we announced our $6M raise. today we’re on a billboard in Times Square. neither one feels as big as the seven words on that wall. 18 months ago we set out to build Swan AI as the...
Governments Cede AI Power to Wealthy Tech Elite
Governments are so in awe of tech bros' tales about the AI future "that they have given them a free pass to do... whatever they want" leading to a big "transfer of power away from the state" to...
Expert Advice on Turning AI Future Into Action
There have been an awful lot of "AI is the future" posts recently. And yes, it IS the future. But knowing that and knowing what to do about it are two very different things. So who better to ask than...
HR Overlooks AI’s Real Impact on Workforce
HR´s blind spot in assessing the impact of AI https://t.co/nntpfcj1lN #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
Scale LLMs with Iterative, Task‑Specific AI Systems
Most people are using LLMs wrong. They focus on prompts. Winners focus on systems. Shift from: ❌ One-shot prompts to ✅ Iterative AI workflows ❌ Generic models to ✅ Task-specific model selection ❌ Simple answers to ✅ Structured execution plans LLMs scale when: • Context is persistent • Workflows are iterative • Outputs are...
Melville's Emergency Fleet Goes All‑Electric with Tesla Model Ys
The emergency response fleet of City of Melville in Western Australia, MelSafe, is made up of Tesla Model Ys. Here's why: https://t.co/osDmorereW https://t.co/UAkxkH9VaR
Building AI Models Like Real-World Construction
Stuff is getting built in the real world and this is how we've built the models we run. @sonusvarghese and I discussed it on our latest Facts vs Feelings. https://t.co/5VhJA4WK7A
Advertiser ID: Personalized Ads vs Privacy Risks
The more you use your computer, the more personalized the ads become. Helpful, or big privacy problem? Here are the pros and cons of keeping "Advertiser ID" enabled for Windows and MacOS users: https://t.co/2Jztl0wWKP #privacy #mac #windows #advertising https://t.co/X64BKNNIsW
Microsoft Revives Xbox Org, Drops Microsoft Gaming Division
scoop: Microsoft is bringing Xbox back and scrapping Microsoft Gaming. During an internal all-hands today, Microsoft's new Xbox CEO announced the return of the Xbox org and lots more. Full details 👇 https://t.co/3YouKgHh7i
AI Boom Accelerates, Transformative Irrespective of Company Exits
My view is the AI boom will only accelerate and is a once in a lifetime transformation This is orthogonal to whether many AI companies should exit in next 12-18 months, as some may lack durability vs labs, new entrants, or...
Scaled AI Content Site Crashed After 2025 Success
This is another 2025 case study on a scaled AI content tool website. Just crashed in March 2026. Ecomm site too 👀👀👀 https://t.co/lC0TKteq3O
Prioritizing Cyber Risks Beats Mere Awareness
One of the hardest parts of cybersecurity right now is not awareness. It is prioritization. Everyone knows there is risk. Few teams are aligned on what matters most. How do you know if you're tackling the most important risks for your organization?
Automated AI Tool Turns Website Into Instant Sales Pipeline
RIP marketers. Someone built a money printer… you paste a website and it just starts bringing in customers in your sleep. It’s called Money Printer. It reads your site, figures out who should be buying, finds those companies, and reaches out to them...
Same Brief, Three Distinct Tiered Email Designs
GPT Image 2’s range is wild. Had it make 3 ecommerce emails for 3 different brand tiers from the same brief. Luxury. Premium DTC. Mass market. Here’s the prompt: Create a clean presentation-style image on a soft warm neutral background showing 3 different ecommerce email designs...
Meta Launches Instants, a Locket‑style Photo App
new app from Meta called: Instants it appears to be a Locket(?) inspired clone? // @alex193a https://t.co/dD6fRKthPm
Instantly Optimize Ad Spend with Top Budgets Widget
Stop guessing where your ad spend goes. The new Top Budgets widget in @Optmyzr ranks performance and flags instant optimization opportunities. Shift budgets to your best campaigns without context switching. Keep the boss happy and your ROI high. 🚀 #PPC #GoogleAds #Marketing...
AI-Driven Synthetic Evolution Accelerates Biological Design
Evolution is the most powerful optimization algorithm ever run. It just takes billions of years. Researchers are now rewriting the code. #SynBioBeta2026 is May 4-7th in San Jose, California, you can learn more about the conference and get your tickets here:...
Prize Choice Shapes Audience; Be Specific for Qualified Leads
I've run 100+ giveaways. Here's the pattern: 'Win a free iPad' giveaways got thousands of junk emails. 'Win our [product] and a 1-on-1 setup call' got a small list of hyper-qualified buyers. Your prize determines your audience. Be specific.
Regeneron Approves Free Gene Therapy, Sparks Industry Precedent Worries
$REGN wins FDA approval for its gene therapy to treat a very rare genetic form of hearing loss. The company is giving away the therapy for free. OTOF-related hearing loss affects approx. 50 newborns per year, so really rare, but......
Judge Converts TRO to Preliminary Injunction, Vacates May Hearing
NEW: The Arizona federal judge in the Kalshi/CFTC v. AZ prediction markets lawsuit will be converting the TRO granted to the CFTC into a preliminary injunction after the parties submit proposed language, vacates PI hearing scheduled for May 6th. https://t.co/Lc4JPo30wX
Data Trust and Transparency Demand Urgent Reform
A cracking podcast with @MrMBrown and @DamianPudner of @GreatBritishTT talking Data: Trust, Transparency, and the Need for Reform https://t.co/fOQA35x2rN
Reimagining Fortune 500 Processes with GenAI, Not Just Deployment
I am not helping f500 companies to deploy GenAI I help them to reimagine processes powered by GenAI
Medical Training Must Evolve Faster than Technology
The future of medicine is arriving faster than our training models are evolving. A student starting medical school in 2026 won’t earn their M.D. until 2030, and likely won’t finish residency or practice independently until 2033 or beyond. By then, the...
UK Momentum Returns: $2.5M in New Contracts
The UK wasn’t our easiest market over the last couple of years, but our team @roadzeninc stayed persistent and is now generating real momentum across multiple deals. Our announcement of 9 new commercial contracts representing ~$2.5M in projected annual revenue,...
Plaid Hits $500M ARR, AI‑Powered Growth Surge
We just published @Plaid's 2025 Shareholder Letter. 2025 highlights • >$500M ARR (~40% YoY); profitable; strong margins • >1m new connections every day • New products >20% of revenue growing at >90% • Major progress in Credit Scoring and Fraud Analytics • AI has accelerated...
Spent $1K on Claude, First Desktop Use Sparks Question
correlation or causation? I spent 1000 this week on claude and it was also the first time I used claude desktop over conductor
Automate Product Video Creation with Seedance 2.0 API
Filming videos for 50 products is the kind of project nobody wants to own. That's why most ecom brands don't have video for half their catalog. Here's what changes when Seedance 2.0 runs as an API call inside your automation stack: Your...
AI Landscape Insights From 8,400 Companies
Fun conversation about what I'm seeing in AI world (by following 8,400 companies and 50,000 of you here) with @Coffee_and_NLP https://t.co/5vZaK3pfF4
Senior Leaders Grasp AI, Now Need Firm‑Wide Translation
One change over the last six months is that in every big company I talk, at least a few senior people absolutely get AI — they experiment (a lot of OpenClaw, surprisingly) & they have an intuitive sense of the...
AI Powers Forest Management for America’s Largest Landowner
#Tech advancement meets wilderness, as #Weyerhauser, USA's largest landowner, used #AI to manage its forests. Think autonomous devices dragging felled trees. 'We probly h/as much data on forests as any org on the planet' #realestate #CRE #tech https://t.co/AlJp4iLYyx via @WSJ
Level‑5 Cars Arriving Soon, Unlocking Startup Goldmine
I predict we will have level 5 autonomous vehicles in the next couple of years. When that happens, it will provide yet another amazing platform for new startups.
Questioning the Viability of New LLM Tracking Tools
Do the people selling me brand new LLM tracking tools truly think their businesses are going to succeed at this point? Is market research a thing anymore?
Fast Delivery Crucial: 70% Abandon Cart Over 2 Days
Over 70% of shoppers abandon their cart when delivery takes more than 2 days. That's not a marketing problem. That's a fulfilment problem. Here's how to know when it's time to hand it off to a 3PL 👇 https://t.co/r4ctl4lH4h
Roche Bets on Cancer and Obesity Drugs Amid Biosimilar Pressure
Roche, facing biosimilar threats, puts faith in new cancer and obesity drugs https://t.co/IIt0INA9sI @ByJonGardner $RHHBY
Fintech Book Library: Curated Reads Shaping Finance's Future
Today we're launching our Fintech Book Library, a curated discovery hub for the books shaping the future of finance. 👉 Explore the library: https://t.co/FfXpCy9BJQ From AI in banking to digital assets, embedded finance to wealth management, every book we've discussed at...
1950s View: Coal, Oil, Nuclear Shaping Energy Transition
Coal, oil, nuclear and energy transitions - perspective from the mid-1950s. Extract from "ECE the First Ten Years" published by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) in 1957: https://t.co/xjjuqV0Lsa
Compute and Data Ingestion Power Modern Deep Learning Breakthroughs
got into the deep learning game at the multiple GPUs stage (well, 2 😂) and now we’re at data center compute sizing. the fundamentals are the same, compute (and therefore data ingestion) is what is causing most of the current...
Images 2.0 Crossed an Unseen Qualitative Threshold
Images 2.0 really got over some important qualitative threshold for me that I didn't know existed.
AI Agent Handles Tasks Autonomously, No Babysitting Needed
This is the real deal. It’s an agent you can actually give work to and then walk away. No babysitting. No constant prompting. Just “here’s the mess—figure it out.” Delegate from @abhshkdz & @yutori_ai feels like the first agent that really understands...
AI Predicts 360° Video Attention via Sound and Vision
AI model predicts human attention in 360-degree videos using both sound and vision https://t.co/wCYUUPp6ts https://t.co/tOmHyhka2W
AI Evolves in Months; Security Lags for Years
AI is advancing in months, while securing infrastructure takes years. This is a growing gap. Industry-wide collaboration shows no single company can manage this risk alone. https://t.co/j0voYvfAxQ
Empowering Users with Tools and Compute for Success
we love seeing our users win. we want to give you the best tools, lots of compute, and watch you do the magic.
Cheap Robots and Solar Prove Abundance Is Feasible
A humanoid robot will cost us $30K and works 24/7 for $0.40/hour. A solar panel generates electricity for 3 cents/kWh. What exactly is the argument that we CAN'T create abundance?
AI Funding Soars, Yet Job Impact Remains Unclear
"AI investment is skyrocketing while AI’s impact on jobs and public perception remains mixed" https://t.co/oZvHZHAlDS #AI