Synthetic Biology Platform Outpaces De‑extinction Hype
Most people hear “bring back the woolly mammoth” and say, “impossible.” Colossal might be considered a de-extinction company, but Ben Lamm is actually building a synthetic biology platform with consequences that could be much bigger than bringing back mammoths. -- $10B valuation in 4 years -- 260 scientists already across the US and Australia, plus a growing AI engineering stack -- 12+ potential spinouts from the same platform, including microbes designed to break plastic at the chemical-bond level -- 73,000-year-old skull to living direwolf puppies in 18 months -- 78% cloning efficiency vs. ~2% industry norms
Links Earn No Boost, Others Gain Algorithmic Advantage
Let me give a precise model of "link deboosting," which I believe is, for all intents and purposes, real. Forgive me, modest longpost for the full model. Jeff Bezos has argued that when anecdotes and data disagree, the anecdotes often hold the...
Nebraska Tops Starlink Speeds, 58% Meet 100/20 Mbps
Update: @Speedtest said Nebraska led the nation for @Starlink performance, with 58.31% of Starlink users meeting 100/20 Mbps in the second half of 2025, up from 32.16% in the first half. https://t.co/VXH7nlVrW4
Apply Organizational Structures to Tame LLM Hallucinations
Hallucinations remain in LLMs, but note that over centuries we have developed complicated, successful machines that take uncertain output from unreliable sources & reduce the risk of errors. We call those machines organizational structures & we can apply similar approaches to...
AI Gateway Guarantees Peace of Mind, Zero Hassles
AI Gateway is quite literally a “peace of mind” product: ✅ No downtime ✅ No lock-in ✅ No keys 🆕 No training
Asynchronous Courses: A Service Tool, Not Just Scaling
You can want an asynchronous course in your business cause you're tired of repeating yourself to every client. Courses (asynchronous or otherwise) don't need to be about scale. They can be another tool in the service toolbox.
Protect Core Skills From AI-Driven Erosion
Don’t Let AI Destroy the Skills That Make Your Company Competitive https://t.co/0li40LMDQF While a business may appear technologically sophisticated, it can be quietly losing the expertise it needs to innovate, respond to crises, and compete. #AI #skills #employeeexperience https://t.co/embQAz7vxM
FCC to Boost Satellite Internet Speeds by Raising Power Limits
The FCC will vote this month to supercharge your Internet. Lifting outdated power limits on satellite Internet means faster speeds and more capacity. 🚀 🛰️ 🛜 https://t.co/Qy7yuHv8Mx
Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x 2026: 14‑inch, Longest Battery Life
14" Laptop with THE longest battery life right now. Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x 2026. Video up
LLM Hallucinations Real—Verify Chatbot Answers Like Searches
The critics who talk about LLM's hallucination problem are, IME, completely correct. Other than for coding, I just use the chatbots as glorified search engines, and I don't think you should trust a word they say if you can't find a...
Tiny Open-Weight Models Replicate Anthropic's Vulnerability Detection
"But here is what we found when we tested: We took the specific vulnerabilities Anthropic showcases in their announcement, isolated the relevant code, and ran them through small, cheap, open-weights models. Those models recovered much of the same analysis. Eight...
AR Camera Maps Real World for Holodeck Experiences
I got a demo of this. You aim your phone’s camera at almost anything in the real world and it knows exactly where that thing, say a building is, and exactly where your camera is too. Makes a great platform for...
Explore Muse Spark on Meta AI With
try muse spark via the Meta AI app or https://t.co/DipeeIuXm2! check out this simulation i made: https://t.co/nAnYiwruoo
Meta's AI Model Puts Zuckerberg Among Tech Titans
Meta's New AI Model Gives Mark Zuckerberg a Seat at the Big Kid's Table https://t.co/CfXI4k47cS https://t.co/yurW8ELgJy
Seeking User Priorities for New AI‑Native GRC Platform
What is the most important thing you want in a GRC platform? We are building something new, AI-native from the ground up. Would value input from people actually using these systems day to day.
Defenders Must Build Infrastructure Now; Models Ready, Ecosystem Lagging
"The priority for defenders is to start building now: the scaffolds, the pipelines, the maintainer relationships, the integration into development workflows. The models are ready. The question is whether the rest of the ecosystem is." https://t.co/z2GZ3SdDwW
AI in Education: Real Classroom Use Cases Explored
🎧 A new bonus episode of the Easy EdTech Podcast is out with practical examples of AI in education. 📚 I welcome back Caroline Haebig to talk through real classroom use cases for teachers and students. 🤝 I’m excited to partner with...
Hacker Claims Breach of China's Supercomputer, Offers Data
A hacker has allegedly breached one of China’s supercomputers and is attempting to sell a trove of stolen data https://t.co/IR3JGutX9t
80% Reject AI as Direct Supervisor, Poll Shows
Using AI at work is one thing, but would you work for AI? A new Quinnipiac University poll found that 80% percent of Americans would be unwilling to have a job where their direct supervisor was AI, while 15 percent would...
Nvidia's Rubin GPU Delayed by Memory Shortage, Technical Hurdles
Nvidia's Rubin GPU is likely to be late thanks to memory shortage and technical challenges https://t.co/VMHNcFjnzc https://t.co/jjDxxHh9FN
Standardize Pipelines to Achieve SaaS‑speed Enterprise Platforms
Want SaaS-level speed in the enterprise? Standardize pipelines, reduce configurations, and productize your internal platforms. #DevOps #PlatformEngineering https://t.co/e4TERhpY2r
Early Kindles Remain Among Last Reliable Tech
this is terrible. the early kindles are some of the last pieces of Good Tech that still work without issue
Mythos Mirrors Trend, No ECI Acceleration Detected
Anthropic's Mythos does not appear to show any acceleration of ECI. After normalizing Anthropic's internal ECI with @EpochAIResearch 's public ECI, it's clear that the two metrics are extremely close, and that Mythos is pretty much on trend, just slightly...
Brand Prompts Guarantee Mentions, Non‑brand Halves Output
🚨 Brand Bias in Prompts: An Experiment by Dr. Pete Meyers: How often did each type of prompt result in the presence of a brand in the output? * Every prompt (100%) that included a brand returned one or more brand mentions...
Detect Code Pain Points with Five Git Commands
"Five git commands that tell you where a codebase hurts before you open a single file. Churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns." https://t.co/szukDCA4TB < educational post. By running these commands, you can learn a lot about what...
Tech Firms Skip Middle East, Boost Latin America Data Hubs
Outstanding day for LatAm today. War ending or not… one thing seems highly likely: None of the major tech companies will go out of their way to allocate capital toward building new data centers or large-scale facilities in the Middle East anytime...
Context, Not Just Tools, Powers AI Engineering Agents
The Missing #ContextLayer: Why Tool Access Alone Won’t Make AI Agents Useful in Engineering https://t.co/YUMKTXLOex https://t.co/smhAxllyVs
Tesla FSD V14.3 First Drives Reveal Superhuman Speed
We've put together a compilation of some of the best Tesla FSD V14.3 first drive clipa that we've seen. Including "inhuman" reaction times and a "more mature" Mad Max mode: https://t.co/B10P58tHfQ
Trust, Not Software, Drives GLP‑1 Startup Success
If anyone can build a GLP-1 company for $50K, what actually separates the winners? I asked Josh Tauber and @keatonbedell on Lifers, their answer: not software. Trust. WATCH/LISTEN: Spotify: https://t.co/hrs0ZbILVz Apple: https://t.co/e8IxsoZ2bB Youtube: https://t.co/ORjNyzcOli
AI Memory Becomes Critical Security Attack Surface
AI memory is becoming a management liability. We treat AI agents like Claude Code as intelligent partners, asking them to learn our habits and project context. But new research from Cisco highlights a fundamental business constraint: AI agents are currently too...
LLMs Dictate Tech Stacks; Every Business Needs a CLI
LLMs decide what languages and libraries we use. They’ll also decide what products a business runs on. They'll prefer ones that work with them. Every business now needs a CLI. fin(.)ai/cli https://t.co/ycezh9XYWd
Mythos Gains Not Driven by Recursive Self‑Improvement
Anthropic's Mythos achievements were not a result of AI Recursive Self Improvement. (Per the Mythos system card.) https://t.co/zYN8UMQpri
2026 Market Forecast Jumps $200B, Extending ROIC Horizons
It is wild that about two months ago, consensus memory in dollars for 2026 was ~$600B and now people are saying north of $800B... Very challenging to square this with ROIC timelines now, as they will have to lengthen, and...
IBM System/360's Tiny Compilers Birthed PL/I
History of the IBM System/360. Compilers in 10’s of k. (“New Programming Language” is what became PL/1) https://t.co/05GlEITHrf
Google AI Overviews Frequently Wrong, Listicles Skew Answers
It's live: @trippmickle & a few other authors from @nytimes published new research about how frequently Google's AI Overviews are wrong. It includes a quote from both @thomasgermain and me about listicles influencing AI responses. Check it out - https://t.co/cIouYjP8kt https://t.co/jMhk3MH27F
The Real AI Race: Affordable Intelligence for Everyone
perhaps the real AI race should be figuring out how to make advanced intelligence cheap enough for everyone to use (yes i just looked at my Claude Code bill)
From $1T in 70 Years to $2T in Five
What no one saw coming about this, since most $$ estimates were on volume not ASP, is just that - this is simply costs going up. It took >70 years to hit $1T and it will go from...
Supply Chains Plan Years Ahead, Not Weeks.
It’s 2026, and I have to wait a month to obtain a basic stripped down Mac Mini. The semiconductor supply chain plans for demand years in advance. It should be able to plan and respond weeks in advance.
Balanced AI Governance: Regulation, Not State Control
Nat is completely correct here. It's quite fortunate that we live in a multi-polar AI world. Government should be one of those poles. Sensible regulation makes sense. But nationalization or complete government control is terrifying from the standpoint of human...
Collaborate to Master AI’s Rapidly Expanding Frontier
The frontier of AI is already too vast and moving too quickly for any one person to keep track of alone I say this as someone who spends most of my working hours immersed in it. It's impossible to keep up,...
Apple Knows Success Isn’t About Being First
https://t.co/zaYi5uqYwW Apple executives understand something their peers do not; the race rarely goes to whoever is first out of the gate.
Gemini Fails in Google Docs, Works on Docx
Genuinely astonishing how badly integrated Gemini is into Google Docs I asked it three times to fix some footnotes and it crashed each time. I downloaded the docx and asked Gemini to fix that and it did just fine
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...
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.
