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AI Avatars Become the New Fake Supplement Influencers
SocialApr 18, 2026

AI Avatars Become the New Fake Supplement Influencers

An Amish Avatar and an A.I. Monk Are Pitching Supplements on Social Media “Influencers have long hawked supplements on platforms like Instagram and TikTok. Increasingly, the influencers are fake…” 🤖 https://t.co/1aifYzZbY2

By David Barzilai, MD PhD
Teens Shocked by Soaring Memory Card Prices
SocialApr 18, 2026

Teens Shocked by Soaring Memory Card Prices

14yo needs new storage card for his photos. Comes running in and says OMG when did memory cards get so expensive??! Me: https://t.co/Mv24yXvxzc

By Stacy Rasgon
AGIBOT Launches Genie G2, Next‑Gen Wheeled Humanoid
SocialApr 18, 2026

AGIBOT Launches Genie G2, Next‑Gen Wheeled Humanoid

AGIBOT Unveils Genie G2: Next-Generation Wheeled Humanoid #Robot by @CyberRobooo #Robotics #EmergingTech #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/g9gfZdXMRz

By Ron van Loon
Quiet Followers Decide; Stay Visible for Unseen Prospects
SocialApr 18, 2026

Quiet Followers Decide; Stay Visible for Unseen Prospects

The person who needs you most is never the one loudly asking. They're not commenting. Not filling out forms. Not engaging with every post. They're watching quietly. Building conviction on their own timeline. Reaching out only when they've already decided. Tracked the last 20 clients...

By Vinay Katiyar
Hugging Face Powers Agents with Access to 1M Spaces
SocialApr 18, 2026

Hugging Face Powers Agents with Access to 1M Spaces

Hugging Face is becoming the platform for agents to use and build AI. Now they can call 1M HF spaces to do everything the latest specialized models can do! https://t.co/8VHxutX1PD

By Clément Delangue
AI‑Generated Code Lacks Human Oversight, Risks Standards
SocialApr 18, 2026

AI‑Generated Code Lacks Human Oversight, Risks Standards

RT Here's a problem: One AI writes the code, another "reviews" it, and no human challenges assumptions or checks alignment with enterprise standards. #CIO #AI. @Star_CIO https://t.co/p18hdtdbZn

By Isaac Sacolick
Enterprise Developers Spend Thousands Annually on Tool Subscriptions
SocialApr 18, 2026

Enterprise Developers Spend Thousands Annually on Tool Subscriptions

Enterprise devs: How much do you or your company pay for the tools you use to produce your work product? I’m still gathering the info needed to calculate the costs of my portion of tools we use collectively, but we’re up...

By Robert Taylor
Loving Anthropic, but Claude Design Disappoints
SocialApr 18, 2026

Loving Anthropic, but Claude Design Disappoints

I love how I said I didn’t like something (by Anthropic, god forbid) and people are acting like I took a shit in their cereal. Just to be clear, I pay $200 for my Claude subscription, I use Claude code...

By Dr. Axali (Seena Labs)
Amgen's Potts Lab Unveils Universal Molecular Glue Platform
SocialApr 18, 2026

Amgen's Potts Lab Unveils Universal Molecular Glue Platform

Next up #aacr26 is @pottslab from Amgen discussing their broad and diverse molecular glue & degrader platform “any target, every time” https://t.co/SfJ0jGYene

By Sally Church
AI Benchmarks May Be Skewed by Selective Reporting
SocialApr 18, 2026

AI Benchmarks May Be Skewed by Selective Reporting

How much p-hacking is happening among AI benchmark makers? IE: Coming up with 100 model capability tests, and then only publishing results that show a nice upward slope that matches our intuitions about improving strength over time?

By Joe Weisenthal
Rule of 40 Shifts to Rule of 60—Adapt Now
SocialApr 18, 2026

Rule of 40 Shifts to Rule of 60—Adapt Now

Why The Rule of 40 is Becoming the Rule of 60 -- and What You Can Do About It. https://t.co/PN2EcIhJ8S

By Dave Kellogg
AI Elevates Top Talent, Threatens Average Performers
SocialApr 18, 2026

AI Elevates Top Talent, Threatens Average Performers

the thing nobody talks about with AI replacing jobs: it's not the bad employees who should be scared. Bad employees get fired anyway. Great employees become 10x with AI. It's the person doing adequate work at adequate speed who's in...

By Matt Gray
Beware: X DMs Vulnerable to Hacking Attacks
SocialApr 18, 2026

Beware: X DMs Vulnerable to Hacking Attacks

I almost fell victim to an @X hacking attempt. Likely, the same people who got @SharkAlertsBio. Folks, be REALLY careful these days, especially with DMs.

By Adam Feuerstein
Trucks Become Mobile Drone Command Centers
SocialApr 18, 2026

Trucks Become Mobile Drone Command Centers

From Road to Sky: Trucks Transformed into #Drone Command Hubs via @ZappyZappy7 #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/umQdQnwloh

By Ron van Loon
New Kindle Updates Regress: Auto Language Detection Removed
SocialApr 18, 2026

New Kindle Updates Regress: Auto Language Detection Removed

While others are complaining about dropped support for older Kindles, I’m finding dropped features from new Kindles. Latin dictionaries end up assigned to “English” language, which is bad enough. But it used to automatically detect the language. Now you have to manually...

By David Kadavy
NASA Shuts Voyager 1 Instrument to Extend 49‑year Mission
SocialApr 18, 2026

NASA Shuts Voyager 1 Instrument to Extend 49‑year Mission

NASA turned off one of the instruments on Voyager 1. The decision is considered the best option to keep the 49 yo spacecraft operating while they finalize a plan -- the "Big Bang" -- to keep it going even longer. https://t.co/hyqr7StQI0

By Marcia Smith
AI's Completion Bias Prevents True Wonder
SocialApr 18, 2026

AI's Completion Bias Prevents True Wonder

🚨The Tragic Flaw in AI Built for completion, AI can mimic curiosity but never wonder. https://t.co/xSStNmwZk3

By John Nosta
Air‑launched Drones Protect Army Surveillance Jets, Deepen Intel
SocialApr 18, 2026

Air‑launched Drones Protect Army Surveillance Jets, Deepen Intel

Air-Launched Drones Key To Keeping New Army Surveillance Jets Out Of Harms Way The Army also sees drones launched from ME-11Bs offering a major boost in its ability to peer deep into hostile territory. https://t.co/0klt8FcdFn

By Tyler Rogoway
U.S. Energy Policy Must Balance Speed, Cost, Reliability
SocialApr 18, 2026

U.S. Energy Policy Must Balance Speed, Cost, Reliability

Since 2020, the private sector has preferred wind and solar power with federal incentives. These sources with batteries have dominated recently, accounting for 90% of all new capacity, largely credited for saving the Texas grid. Nuclear power offers a different set of...

By Jigar Shah
Genie Code Agents Auto-Discover and Reuse Existing Code
SocialApr 18, 2026

Genie Code Agents Auto-Discover and Reuse Existing Code

Yes, Genie Code agents are smart and they'll find existing code in notebooks, dashboards, and reuse it!

By Ali Ghodsi
Amazon's Next-Gen Delivery Drones Soar over Kansas City
SocialApr 18, 2026

Amazon's Next-Gen Delivery Drones Soar over Kansas City

Skies of Kansas City Witness Amazon’s Next-Gen Delivery #Drones in Action via @ZappyZappy7 #Innovation #FutureTech #Tech #SupplyChain https://t.co/gez4kvOm1y

By Ron van Loon
Model Predicts Moves Easier in 1000‑Elo Games than 2000‑Elo
SocialApr 18, 2026

Model Predicts Moves Easier in 1000‑Elo Games than 2000‑Elo

Still fiddling around with this as a benchmark. I created 200 synthetic chess games (with Stockfish). One batch at 1000 elo, and another batch at 2000 elo. I show the models a board and ask it to guess the last...

By Joe Weisenthal
Effective Prompt Engineering Unlocks Codex's Design Capabilities
SocialApr 18, 2026

Effective Prompt Engineering Unlocks Codex's Design Capabilities

what’s the skill that actually gets codex to do decent design work? i’ve tried a bunch

By Ben Tossell
AI Agents Democratize Software, Empowering Every Industry
SocialApr 18, 2026

AI Agents Democratize Software, Empowering Every Industry

When people think software engineers, they tend to think jobs at tech companies building apps. The growth of the tech industry is so wired into our heads that that’s what we think the point and limit of software is. That’s...

By Aaron Levie
New AI Models Rarely Improve Agents without Effort
SocialApr 18, 2026

New AI Models Rarely Improve Agents without Effort

If you’re building AI bots, agents or whatever we want to call it today, then you know the headache that starts when new models show up. It doesn’t end until everything is working at least as good as it was...

By Hiten Shah
AI Girlfriends Flood Feeds, Blurring Scam vs Companionship
SocialApr 18, 2026

AI Girlfriends Flood Feeds, Blurring Scam vs Companionship

How many people even interact romantically with bots? I’m seeing a massive spike in AI Girlfriends and Companions that aren't just apps, they are actively infiltrating social feeds. Is the line between scam and companionship officially gone?

By Raquel (Deep Search)
AI Reading Analyzer Turns Articles Into Instant Insights
SocialApr 18, 2026

AI Reading Analyzer Turns Articles Into Instant Insights

What's Up With That? — AI-Powered Reading Analysis just became my new secret weapon for research. Drop it on any article, PDF, research paper, news story, email, or YouTube video → get instant key points, state-of-the-art mapping, related reads, critiques, opportunities,...

By Shashi Bellamkonda
Microreactors Go Public, Target $1/kWh with Military Orders
SocialApr 18, 2026

Microreactors Go Public, Target $1/kWh with Military Orders

These are microreactors and they are all going public… @oklo @RadiantNuclear Valar Atomics Aalo Atomics Antares Nuclear They start at $1/kWh and will need orders from the US Military bases to scale up production and get costs down to something reasonable.

By Jigar Shah
Invest in AI Infrastructure: The Real Money in 2026
SocialApr 18, 2026

Invest in AI Infrastructure: The Real Money in 2026

AI • SPACE • PHOTONICS • POWER The real money in 2026 is in the picks & shovels powering the future 👇 We’re talking: ⚡ AI neocloud + GPUs 🔌 Data center power & energy 🌐 Fiber optic cables + networking 🔦 Lasers & photonics 🚀 Rockets...

By BD Investing
Physical AI and Robotics Spark New Industrial Revolution
SocialApr 18, 2026

Physical AI and Robotics Spark New Industrial Revolution

Physical #AI and #Robotics will bring about the next industrial revolution by @nvidiaomniverse #Innovation #EmergingTech #Tech #Technology https://t.co/H8JaLQgYFI

By Ron van Loon
Context Engineering Emerges as GTM’s New AI Skill
SocialApr 18, 2026

Context Engineering Emerges as GTM’s New AI Skill

Sat in a room with 20+ GTM executives in Atlanta this weekend for our AIxGTM hackathon. Nothing about it went the way I thought it would. I walked in ready for the same conversation I’ve been having for months.. AI...

By Amos Joseph
Automated 4 AM Tweet Summaries Power Daily Breach Reports
SocialApr 18, 2026

Automated 4 AM Tweet Summaries Power Daily Breach Reports

Been doing something very similar to this for my daily breach reports: each day at 4am it pulls all the tweets from this list and summarises them into a report: https://t.co/pT8dTLPnnY https://t.co/yuYqQs7zFq

By Troy Hunt
Scale Demands Automation, but Human Review Remains Essential
SocialApr 18, 2026

Scale Demands Automation, but Human Review Remains Essential

When you're at a scale where you need an automated system to flag deviants, fraudsters, and other nefarious kinds of users, laws of scale dictate that your automation tooling will produce a significant number of very dangerous false positives. NEVER seen...

By Arvid Kahl
Sidewinder Cuts DNA Assembly Errors to One‑in‑Million
SocialApr 18, 2026

Sidewinder Cuts DNA Assembly Errors to One‑in‑Million

Biology's source code is DNA. For 40 years, we've been able to read it. Writing it, especially long, complex sequences, is still painfully slow, expensive, and error-prone. Current DNA assembly methods fail about once every 10 to 30 connections. Kaihang Wang's lab...

By John Cumbers
Denza Z9GT Charges in Five Minutes—Will It Compete?
SocialApr 18, 2026

Denza Z9GT Charges in Five Minutes—Will It Compete?

It charges in five minutes. But can China's Denza Z9GT EV crack the competition? https://t.co/MYiGEv5Y1M via @ft

By Evan Feigenbaum
AI Coding Agents Boost Marketing Output, Cut Slide Decks
SocialApr 18, 2026

AI Coding Agents Boost Marketing Output, Cut Slide Decks

Can confirm: 1. My token usage is 📈 2. Slide Decks 📉 3. Prototypes 🚀 4. AI, especially Coding agents, have unlocked new opportunities for marketers. My top used are Claude Code and @perplexity_ai Computer. They both integrate well with @HubSpot...

By Kipp Bodnar
DepMap's Future: PRMT5 Inhibitor Differences Unveiled
SocialApr 18, 2026

DepMap's Future: PRMT5 Inhibitor Differences Unveiled

Excellent talk from Bill Sellers on future directions with DepMap. Interesting differences between different PRMT5 inhibitors (SAM & MTA) and how they compare with selective inhibitors #aacr26 https://t.co/xfmKVqEpp1

By Sally Church
Let AI Write Its Own Voice in Fiction
SocialApr 18, 2026

Let AI Write Its Own Voice in Fiction

The most satisfying use I've found for AI in writing (besides basic copy-editing), is having AI systems write the words used by AI systems in my fiction. This feels important to me - I let the synthetic intelligence animate itself...

By Jack Clark
Late‑stage Oral Cocktail Adds 33% Lifespan in Obese Mice
SocialApr 18, 2026

Late‑stage Oral Cocktail Adds 33% Lifespan in Obese Mice

An oral drug combination, including a senolytic (quercetin), NR, urolithin A, and alpha-lipoic acid, extended median remaining lifespan in mice by 33%. Important to note, however, that the mice were fed a high-fat "Western Diet" and the intervention started at 18...

By João Pedro de Magalhães, PhD
Accelerate Content Creation, Multiply Luck with Claude Design
SocialApr 18, 2026

Accelerate Content Creation, Multiply Luck with Claude Design

Claude Design is BIG for business. It collapses production time for shipping content. Every single piece of content you ship increases your odds of hitting the jackpot. YT thumbnails on demand. Sales decks that prospects get BEFORE the initial discovery...

By Eric Siu
IMessage Autocorrect Reveals Apple’s Upcoming Product Names
SocialApr 18, 2026

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.

By Packy McCormick
AI Counts Potatoes Instantly with Minimal Training
SocialApr 18, 2026

AI Counts Potatoes Instantly with Minimal Training

#AI on the Assembly Line: Instant Potato Counting with Minimal Training by @IlirAliu_ #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ML #MI https://t.co/Z0HPxgGqY6

By Ron van Loon
Cloud Labs Democratize Science Like Programming Did
SocialApr 18, 2026

Cloud Labs Democratize Science Like Programming Did

Everyone that wants to will be able to be a scientist. Just like everyone that wants to now can be a programmer. Cloud labs will enable this far more than home labs (lots of scientific equipment is crazy expensive so...

By Jason Kelly
Oura’s Firmware Update May Mask Lock‑in Strategy
SocialApr 18, 2026

Oura’s Firmware Update May Mask Lock‑in Strategy

I’m SURE there’s a good reason that the @ouraring charging case has firmware that needs updated. Is it lock-in masked as “safety”? https://t.co/R55zFSjiJo

By Patrick Moorhead
Safaricom Penalizes Diaspora Users After My
SocialApr 18, 2026

Safaricom Penalizes Diaspora Users After My

This is what @safaricom does to their diasporan customers after forcing them to move to their new Myoneapp. Wueh. https://t.co/syTE56DLno

By Emin K. Mokaya
NAD+ Rhythms Drive Sleep, Aging; Resetting Delays Decline
SocialApr 18, 2026

NAD+ Rhythms Drive Sleep, Aging; Resetting Delays Decline

NEW PAPER: Ups & downs in NAD+ over 24 h dictates our body's clock & sleep but declines with age. Disrupting the cycle promotes mouse aging & restoring it improves fitness & metabolic function, pointing to "circadian reprogramming" as a...

By David Sinclair, PhD
Shift Budgets to Paid Video Content for Distribution Boost
SocialApr 18, 2026

Shift Budgets to Paid Video Content for Distribution Boost

Marketing teams need to shift budgets to paid content, particularly video, because the clips are everything. Partnering with a New Media company is the distribution lift.

By Christina Farr
Google Gemini's Lyria Generates Full Songs, Not Just Lyrics
SocialApr 18, 2026

Google Gemini's Lyria Generates Full Songs, Not Just Lyrics

Creating song lyrics with AI is so 2025. Now you can compose entire songs using the Lyria model in Google Gemini. It's pretty darn astonishing. Here's how it works, with sample tracks in a variety of styles: https://t.co/7pNLIXLKWJ #gemini #lyria...

By Dave Taylor
Marine‑style Customer Success Drives Explosive NRR Growth
SocialApr 18, 2026

Marine‑style Customer Success Drives Explosive NRR Growth

Can you imagine what industry NRR would be if customer success organizations were run like the Marines instead of Miss Rachel kumbaya kindergartens?

By Pete Kazanjy