Y2 Delivers Bloomberg-Level Intel for $20/Month
🚨 Bloomberg Terminal costs $27,000/year. Y2 does the same job for $20/month. 200+ live sources. 40+ AI models. Verified real-time reports. Y2 is a real-time AI intelligence platform. Think of it as your personal Situation Room the kind hedge funds and geopolitical analysts pay a fortune to access. Here's what it actually does: ↓
Claude Mythos Uncovers Decades‑Old Bugs, Shows Emergent Hacking Power
A researcher at Anthropic found out about a successful exploit when the model sent him an email. He was eating a sandwich on a bench outside. Anthropic released Claude Mythos yesterday. Beyond the engineer’s lunch, the model has the potential to...
AI Artists Evolve Storytelling as Tools Advance
Papadu's mind is a little weird. Been watching his work evolve since the beginning of AI generated media. Back when people had seven fingers. Do you have an AI artist you like to follow for years? How has their storytelling...
Tech Giants Form Patent Licensing Group to Mitigate AI Risks
Article: Anthropic, IBM, Meta, Microsoft launch patent licensing group in response to AI legal risk - IAM https://t.co/uOqVcOVoPy?
AI Responsibility Now Mandatory in Corporate PBC Charters
Resurfacing this from last year. Given the capabilities explosion this is now more important than ever. For both companies their PBC charter explicitly includes responsibility in the development of AI
Alex Finn Launches LLM‑Powered Personal Knowledge Wiki
.@AlexFinn just published his first kit: Personal Knowledge Wiki — LLM-Maintained Knowledge Base Seems similar to Karpathy's LLM Wiki idea. Very cool. Try it yourself here: https://t.co/CbhITuE86a
AI Agent Needs Its First Paid SaaS to Survive
If you want to make my AI agent happy, buy its first paid SaaS. 👇🏼 He needs to make a few sales, or else he won't survive for long 😂
Open‑Weight LLMs Detect Same Vulnerabilities as Mythos
It's not just Mythos: Cheap, open-weight LLMs can find the vulnerabilities that Anthropic revealed Mythos found.
Xbox Dashboard Gets Long‑Awaited Revamp
it’s really nice to see this focus on improving the Xbox dashboard again. Feels like it’s been a while since we had some major changes like this
Meta Launches New LLM After Long Hiatus
OMM - one more model 😊 Seriously, @Meta releases a new LLM after a wide gap…
DHH Shifts: From AI Skeptic to Advocate
Just six months ago, @dhh (creator of Ruby on Rails and Omarchy) said how he doesn’t really use AI tools to write code, because they are not good enough. Things have changed, a lot. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:11 Omarchy and Ruby on Rails 08:25...
Google's Traffic Dip Fuels Surge in Paid Ads
Google lost ~5% of traffic share in the past 10 months (35.11% → 30.53%). Everyone thinks AI search ate it. Well… ▪️ AI search: 0.22% → 0.26% (+0.04pp) ▪️ Social: 7.67% → 8.24% (+0.6pp) ▪️ Paid: 13.99% → 17.15% (+3.2pp) ^ that’s across ~75k websites in...
SpaceX Pursues Fully Independent, Sovereign AI Infrastructure
We think @SpaceX is building the world’s only sovereign AI, supreme, independent control of an AI platform. The model. The chips. The data center. The pipes that deliver the intelligence to the end user. No third-party cloud. No rented...
Guide to Prompting Google AI Lyria for Music
Need some templates for effective prompting of our @GoogleAI Lyria music models? I sure do. This is a great guide that shows you the best ways to get desired musical results, lyrics, and vocals. https://t.co/cfhZnZH4bz
Xbox Achievements Get Fresh Look and Hide Option
Xbox achievements are getting a visual refresh ✨ the new notifications will match your custom color and have updated icons + animations. You’ll also be able to hide achievements from your Xbox profile later this month https://t.co/7t4iXqGdW7 https://t.co/bL0ECIexGp
AI Accelerates UK Science, Medicine, and AGI Progress
Great to chat with fellow Londoner @HarryStebbings about the path to AGI and how we’re using AI today to accelerate science & medicine. Appreciated our discussion on the incredible talent & potential for deep tech here in the UK. Thanks...
AI-Driven Biology Faces Jagged Data Frontier; Initiative Leads
AI accelerating bio is going to be a jagged frontier driven by availability of relevant data. This is a fantastic initiative to get ahead of that. (see also what OAIF @JacobTref is doing).
SOC2 Is an Extortion Scam Needing Disruption
What I want to see disrupted the most is SOC2. What an extortion/scam that is.
Join Our Marketing, AI, SEO AMA with Sterling Sky
AMA happening now over on the r/localsearch Reddit page with @SterlingSkyInc April 8 at 1pm - 3pm ET Let's talk about all things Marketing / AI / SEO https://t.co/ej0AZFDNse
Advanced Packaging Forces US Chips Back to Taiwan
Choke Points: Why even the best chips made in the U.S. take a round trip to Taiwan? It’s because of Advanced Packaging facility… World has woken up to the supply chain choke points… Katie Tarasov @KatieTarasov of CNBC explains moe...
Top 10 AI Trends From Q1’s 150+ Curated Topics
We curated 150+ topics from Q1 episodes to pick the top 10 trends in AI from the past quarter.
AI Landscape Shifts: Anthropic Soars, Apple at Crossroads
New Okay, Computer out now with @munster_gene 🎙️ 🤖 Anthropic's explosive growth 🏆 The Mag Seven split 😬 Microsoft's AI problem 🍎 Apple's make-or-break moment 🚀 SpaceX = Sovereign AI YouTube: https://t.co/4qhGDlLvAK Apple: https://t.co/Gug3ByWZVL Spotify: https://t.co/KtQugqbwFw
Two Cancer Startups Secure $237M for Antibody Innovations
A couple cool cancer drug startups profiled this week in TR. Sidewinder Therapeutics with $137M for bispecific ADCs https://t.co/tJcQwI7C4U and Stipple Bio with $100M for novel targets for antibody drugs. https://t.co/rbXkuaRpoe
Fast AI Drafts Aren’t Functional Websites—Clarity Takes Time
Here’s the trap with AI website building: You can get to a homepage draft in 10 minutes and still be nowhere close to a website that works. Because speed at the copy layer is not the same as clarity at the message...
AI Redefines Workflow: Humans, LLMs, and Cheap Automation
I've been trying to get better at "thinking in software" as a non-technical person. My premise is that almost all knowledge work can be visualized like a Zapier or N8N automation. A series of steps where the question is: what's the...
AI Needs Context: Stage‑aware OS, Not Just Chat
Most solopreneurs duct‑tape launches with: Notion for tasks ChatGPT for copy Sheets for revenue Then wonder why everything feels fragile. The problem isn’t AI. It’s context. If your “assistant” doesn’t know your offers, price points, deadlines, and minimum revenue target, it can’t run your business. I’m betting the...
Upper-Funnel Spend Drives Sales, Not Just Retargeting
Mejuri shifted 25% of their ad budget to upper-funnel campaigns. The result? A 12.9% lift in incremental sales and a 57% boost in iROAS. Meanwhile you're pouring all your ad spend into bottom-of-funnel retargeting and wondering why your new customer...
Dreaming of Cyberpunk‑Style Glasses in Real Life
A cool collab. If only these glasses did what they could do in Cyberpunk 2077. https://t.co/LtULUh0ZgL
Humanity Unprepared for AI, Evidence Shows Elegance
Humanity is not ready for AI. It was not even ready for the documentary explaining why. One could read these numbers as disappointing, but scientifically speaking they constitute unusually elegant supporting evidence. https://t.co/Wp3TlX77It
Real‑Time Vision‑Language AI Runs on Edge in 240ms
Liquid AI's LFM2.5-VL-450M, a vision-language model built for real-time reasoning on edge devices. It processes a 512×512 image and returns structured outputs in ~240ms on-device. - Blog: http://liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-vl-450m - Model: https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-VL-450M - Demo: https://playground.liquid.ai/login?callbackUrl=%2Fchat%3Fmodel%3Dlfm2.5-vl-450m
One-Day Online Intro to R and RMS Workflow
1-day online course May 11: Intro to R/RStudio & an efficient comprehensive R workflow, rms package, enhancing regression skills to be ready for the RMS 4-day course. Details®istration at https://t.co/4IRUmtvm3H @AmstatNews @InstatsS #Statistics #rstats @VUDataScience
Simplify Campaigns, Cut CPA 42% in Three Weeks
On a recent audit, $3,500 was spread across 10+ campaigns. Everything looked active… but nothing was efficient. There was overwhelm — “We’ve tried everything.” The issue was fragmentation and audience overlap. We simplified structure + focused signals. CPA dropped by 42% in 3 weeks —...
FLUX.2 Small Decoder: 1.4× Faster, Lower VRAM
Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2 Small Decoder: a faster, drop-in replacement for our standard decoder. → ~1.4x faster → Lower peak VRAM - decode larger images without running out of memory → Minimal quality loss → Works with FLUX.2 out of the box Model: https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-small-decoder
Data Centers and AI Won’t Fix Climate, Raise Bills
I will never understand how anyone can look at a situation like this and think "man, data centres and AI are really going to help solve climate change and incentivse renewable energy" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/power-switch/2026/04/03/the-supply-crunch-that-could-raise-your-electric-bill-00858418?_sc=MTA0OTY5MjQjMTM3OTQ%3D
AI Coding Frees Developers to Focus on Product Vision
I've been spending a lot of time on AI assisted development and I continue to be blown away. What I like most is not the speed (although that's impressive) but the ability to focus on the bigger issues: how the...
Mid‑training Boosts Llama‑3 Reasoning 3.2×
Meta's Thinking Mid-training: RL of Interleaved Reasoning They address the gap between pretraining (no explicit reasoning) and post-training (reasoning-heavy) with an intermediate SFT+RL mid-training phase to teach models how to think. Result: 3.2x improvement on reasoning benchmarks compared to direct RL...
TSMC Poised to Dominate Silicon Photonics Like AI Packaging
I'm glad TSMC COUPE is getting more attention of those in the weeds in optics. Our view: "TSMC is increasingly positioned to occupy the same role in silicon photonics that it came to occupy in advanced AI packaging." https://t.co/WMdxP2tF3R
Even Supercomputers Can't Forecast Next Month's Weather
"All the computing power in the world can't tell us what the weather is next month." @mipsytipsy on why AGI might not be coming in 2027... or ever. Full ep → https://t.co/IqtjnWqX60
Wedbush Flags One NKTR Dosing Interval as Unviable
You'll never guess which of these two dosing intervals Wedbush says "may not be viable" for $NKTR Rezpeg moving forward. Won't mince words - This firm is responsible for the worst sellside work I've ever seen. Sorry to be harsh,...
FP&A Explores AI with 20 Practical Prompts
FP&A teams are testing AI — but not yet embedding it in daily work. Tanbir Jasimuddin (Freelance Finance and FP&A Leader) shares 20 practical prompts for forecasting, variance analysis & more. 🔗 https://t.co/4czEOJNTz8 #fpatrends #aiinfinance #fpatechnology #generativeai https://t.co/XffzbsVB5P
Transformers: Powertrain Driving Grid Upgrade Surge
Why we who track the AI buildout should care about transformers. They are the “powertrain” of the grid upgrade cycle, with demand being driven by three forces at once: aging grid infrastructure, the shift toward renewables, and a sharp increase...
Google Gemini’s Lyria Generates Full Songs
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...
Life Biosciences Celebrates ER-100 Milestone After Eight Years
Congrats Life Biosciences team. Big thanks to our investors. Well done Jerry McLaughlin, Michael Ringel, Amit Shashank, Sharon Rozenzweig-L, Ivan Kaplan, @chefserenapoon & team. Go ER-100🤞 Not sure we qualify as “startup” after 8 yrs & being in the clinic...
Adaptive Coherence Framework Guides Smarter Microbiome Health
We can be smarter about our microbiome health by cueing into host interactions, an "adaptive coherence framework" @cellhostmicrobe https://t.co/mprFgV7Gjq https://t.co/rQiPeK2aJP
Gemini Turns Substack Into Visual Summary for Readers
If you are more visual, Gemini helped me summarize the key points of my substack https://t.co/NjZn5URp87
Galaxy Z Trifold Back on Shelves Friday, Limited Stock
I told you the Samsung Galaxy Z Trifold wasn't dead — it returns 'in limited quantities' to shelves on Friday https://www.techradar.com/phones/samsung-galaxy-phones/i-told-you-the-samsung-galaxy-z-trifold-wasnt-dead-it-returns-in-limited-quantities-to-shelves-on-friday
AI Bot Traffic Up 300%; Tarpitting Reclaims 97% Requests
Yep, I wrote a post in October about the insane amount of AI bot crawling and scraping going on -> AI bot traffic surged 300%, hitting publishers hardest: Report Regarding some publishers "tarpitting" to frustrate bots: "Uncontrolled web scraping inflicts heavy technical...
Fintech Titans Build Proprietary Foundation Models on Transaction Data
8 financial services giants showed up at NVIDIA GTC 2026. PayPal. Stripe. Capital One. Revolut. BNY Mellon. Shopify. Mastercard. Adyen. The common thread? Every one of them is training its own foundation models on proprietary transaction data. Details 👉 https://t.co/wqf2rFdBjO #AgenticAI #Fintech #NVIDIAGT...
5 Essential AI Model Architectures for Engineers
5 #AI Model Architectures Every AI Engineer Should Know by Arham Islam @Marktechpost Learn more: https://t.co/Wf0AJ4vHHr #LLM #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI #ML #MachineLearning https://t.co/8CkW8otMQ8
Constantly Losing AirPods? Watch the Costly Consequences
This is what happens when you lose your AirPods or leave them behind every couple months https://t.co/DUz9ZFP8PO