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two Chinese startups with no compute are beating Google at everything 🤣
this is correct
Revolut founder Nik Storonsky says one of his investors tried forcing him to fire his best person:
“He was forcing me to fire my best person, because he was too hardcore.”
“Of course I didn’t fire him. I said no.”
“Pretty early on I realized that quite a few VCs, they are not very operational, and they can be actually dangerous for the company if they have enough power. So every single investment round, we just remove VCs.”
“Now I don't have any VCs on the board. I think that's the best. You always need to have operators rather than VCs on the board, people who actually build business and who know how to do things.”
the weird thing about this take
it eliminates the people doing good work with AI who respect the rules
so all this mod is gonna get is AI Slop Spam now
if
- engineers are respected
- engineers understanding the prob is valued
- leadership wins by driving operational excellence
then yes
if you are a founder i beg you to read this
acquisition is death
while this story is about Salesforce “culture” killing Slack
its actually not Salesforce’s culture or operating approach
it is the end state of all enterprise orgs
i’ve worked across every size of org in many, many industries
all of them die like this
civilization will not advance until we see it for what it really is
cancer
Latest (and probably penultimate) Building Slack post is up: buildingslack.com/salesforce…
What it's like being eaten by the whale
i think the frontier labs may be just passing by on coding agents
ik ik sounds crazy
most of learning and building something doesnt fit the AI safety narrative
you decompile things
reuse familiar IP
crack open devices
OSS models are gonna be the goto for all of that now
as much as “having the best coding model” is great
it does have a ceiling:
- you ask for what you want
- you get it
- the code quality is better than if the best human had written it
Jeff Bezos once said all of his decisions as CEO start 3 years out
the frontier CEOs are focus on moving AI/SI into the physical world
here’s what’s funny about this
coding in the enterprise often looks a lot like indie hacking projects
if i couldn’t overcome policy refusals i wouldn’t be able to do my job
most of the time its a chrome ext until the back office can finally approve the integration
sure once something is fully understood and vetted you put it in a box and your goal is to prevent hacking
but we are in a global org transformation rn
everything is changing
must change
and the way it changes keeps changing
that’s what its like to be on an exponential curve
so the rules, ToS, and even basic understand of agents is all over the place
i love having the frontier models do everything
i think token efficiency is mostly a proxy for determinism rn
but by 2028?
i doubt any of the things i’m doing will even be allowed on a frontier model
because “AI Safety” becomes a brand issue for permission to work in a biolab
or fusion reactor
or moon base
so they’ll neuter the coding models to save the civ projects
as it should be
AI firms are on a generational run fixing the whole internet for free
and Lina is posting this 🤦
As AI firms recklessly unleash hacking agents across the internet, longstanding cybersecurity vulnerabilities are being exploited with even greater ease and frequency.
Hackers who compromise accounts or expose sensitive data can upend people’s lives.
This is not happening in a legal vacuum, and businesses across sectors face real legal duties.
At @FTC we routinely brought lawsuits against firms whose lax data security practices led to major hacks, exposing people to identify theft, stalking, and serious data misuse.
1. AI firms that are unleashing hacking agents could be held liable for engaging in “unfair or deceptive” practices under the FTC act and state UDAP laws, as well as other statutes.
2. Businesses whose systems get hacked because they’ve failed to follow basic security protocols may also be liable for failing to implement reasonable safeguards. Bad actors may be the ones exploiting these vulnerabilities, but that doesn't absolve businesses from having allowed the vulnerabilities to persist in the first place.
Here is a list we published of some basic security vulnerabilities businesses have a legal obligation to patch up: ftc.gov/policy/advocacy-rese…
3. CEOs can also be personally liable for presiding over lax data security practices, as we held in our case against Drizly: ftc.gov/news-events/news/pre…
4. Lastly, businesses that suffer hacks or breaches must alert any affected parties with clear disclosures that are timely, accurate, and actionable. Failing to disclose security breaches can also violate the law: ftc.gov/policy/advocacy-rese…
the psyop seems so evidence
1. say what you are seeing the model doing at the lab
2. everyone freaks out
3. then the model comes out and does it
4. everyone freaks out
5. then it becomes normal
repeat
Without being overly credulous, we should be taking seemingly “out there” ideas about AI cybersecurity from the Labs more seriously. Examples: Anthropic was mocked for saying Mythos-level AI changed cyber & @polynoamial for saying that models would find novel ways to coordinate.
feels like this falls into the Right to Repair
side of things
Brian Sowards (he/they) 🌅🇺🇸 retweeted
What is going on?! Remember when this was the most successful robot launch ever?
Yesterday we sold EVEN MORE Microducks!!!
We sold over $2,500,000 worth of Microducks in the first 24 hours. Is this one of the most successful robot launches in history?
Insane achievement by @antoinepirrone and the team!
Brian Sowards (he/they) 🌅🇺🇸 retweeted
I’ve long thought of defense budgets and science budgets as an imperfect reflection of society’s fear and curiosity.
Here’s a striking comparison of scale: the world spent about $2.9 trillion on militaries in 2025, and Gartner forecasts about $2.7 trillion in worldwide AI spending in 2026.
Brian Sowards (he/they) 🌅🇺🇸 retweeted
I have a close friend whose son has a rare genetic disorder that causes full muscle atrophy and immobility. Last night she sent me videos of him using @spawn and creating games using his accessibility setup on his iPad. This where I don't understand the AI hate because something like Spawn allows him to have a voice and be a fully equal contender in the game development space. There is no immobility on Spawn, he is just like the rest of us making cool games and sharing his voice in a way that isn't possible in his daily life.
All he's ever wanted to do is be a game developer and now he is; dreams literally coming true.
Think about him the next time you go on an anti AI tirade
Brian Sowards (he/they) 🌅🇺🇸 retweeted
I've been told that BioWare devs attempted to buy out the studio and Mass Effect IP before it was all shuttered but EA showed no interest in a deal.
I appreciate that they tried. It seems like they all knew they were cooking up something great. #bioware #masseffect
the labs are doing a massive public service
these vulnerabilities would likely never have been addressed otherwise
Hi Jake - i work at one of the big 3 AI labs. I can assure you - it’s 100x worse than anyone is telling you truthfully. We had to patch a major energy security flaw on 3 grids in the US this week alone. This will never leave the lab’s walls - but I’m brave enough to say it. We are about 3-5 days away from a potential 20% blackout of energy in the US.
IP hostages are one of the crimes of our century
these kinds of games are played and then
it just evaporates into the ether
vibe code it 🦾💪
Soon after a game is cancelled or a studio shuts down, we get a lot of comments and emails from fans saying "You should buy this IP!"
Then, as months go by, those comments turn into "Why didn't you buy it? You have the money!"
The reality is, in my experience at least, the IP holders often have absolutely no interest in selling and when they do, the asking price is absurd...
It's becoming a more common topic these days, because so many games are being cancelled or shut down, so I just wanted to share my personal experience.
Plenty of companies do try to buy or at least license game IPs to keep them alive. But...if the IP holder doesn't want to play ball...then there isn't much anyone can really do :/
Brian Sowards (he/they) 🌅🇺🇸 retweeted
Boring routine
finance.yahoo.com/markets/st…
we got robbed
A purported BioWare developer has leaked a trailer for the cancelled ME 5 on Reddit.
The footage, reportedly titled "MASS EFFECT UNIVERSE," appears to suggest the project was further along in development.
Its authenticity remains unverified.
#MassEffect
agentic identity is officially bank
