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update: i’m joining @MTSlive as co-founder and ceo
we are at the foothills of the singularity. mts will be fully based in san francisco, to chronicle the singularity as it happens
i’m excited to work alongside @ChrisJBakke @netcapgirl @theojaffee @schisofrenia @gbrl_dick and @knowerofmarkets
huge thanks to @a16z for giving me a shot and an amazing year. in this new role, i will stay close with new media and its ecosystem
the stakes are high, and we’ll get this right. if you’d like to help out, as a friend, sponsor, or talent, my dms are open
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Good way to end the day. @JonathanWebbKY now live on @MTSlive from Lewis County.
To my knowledge at 765 kV this is the highest voltage transmission system to ever appear on Monitoring the Situation
(in the background on the mountains, can carry millions of people's worth of power)
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if @TheNuclearCo's proposed project get's built, it would be the largest nuclear site ever developed in the US
abundance is directly tied to our ability to harness energy. so breakthroughs in nuclear is one of the biggest indicators of our collective progress
The Nuclear Company CEO @JonathanWebbKY reveals why Kentucky coal country beat 1,500 other sites for a massive 6.6 GW nuclear project:
"This is our beautiful campus of Prosperity One, about 4,000 acres on the Ohio River."
"Growing up in a coal state, seeing a lot of the coal plants shut down, we got a need for power in the region. Behind me, there’s the 765 kV line. It’s the largest transmission line in the country, and it connects us to PJM, which is the entire Northeast. And the Ohio River’s got about six times the amount of water we would need for the reactors."
"We’ve looked at about a dozen states, met with governors, and looked at about 1,500 properties. Today’s the day that we’ve officially announced the project to the world."
@TheNuclearCo
thank you @JonathanWebbKY coming on same day for industry news
prosperity one is kentucky's 1st commercial nuclear plant. it's a 6.6 gw campus with up to 6 ap1000 reactors. excited to grow our coverage on nuclear energy
attached video from @TheNuclearCo:
The Nuclear Company CEO @JonathanWebbKY reveals why Kentucky coal country beat 1,500 other sites for a massive 6.6 GW nuclear project:
"This is our beautiful campus of Prosperity One, about 4,000 acres on the Ohio River."
"Growing up in a coal state, seeing a lot of the coal plants shut down, we got a need for power in the region. Behind me, there’s the 765 kV line. It’s the largest transmission line in the country, and it connects us to PJM, which is the entire Northeast. And the Ohio River’s got about six times the amount of water we would need for the reactors."
"We’ve looked at about a dozen states, met with governors, and looked at about 1,500 properties. Today’s the day that we’ve officially announced the project to the world."
@TheNuclearCo
thank you @aidanmantine for pulling up same day and sharing the news on mts industry news!
FULL INTERVIEW: Flapping Airplanes just raised a $1B Series A after rebuilding the GPU stack from scratch. Co-founder Aidan Smith says they don’t even use Torch, NCCL or CUDA’s normal runtime. One kernel on one B200 can now train a model, serve inference and play Doom at the same time.
@aidanmantine, Thiel Fellow and 3-year Neuralink alum, co-founded @flappyairplanes. He joined @sophiadew and @theojaffee to break down why AI needs to learn more like the brain, how they rebuilt the GPU stack, and who they hire:
00:30 where the name Flapping Airplanes comes from
02:04 why they bet on data efficiency
03:07 what Neuralink taught him about AI
04:27 how slow your brain actually is
06:06 why not just emulate the whole brain
08:40 why they rebuilt the GPU stack from scratch
10:33 compute overhang and safety
12:56 can a neo lab win if the big labs hit RSI first
14:27 what ML research looks like when no one writes code
15:40 why DNA, robotics and trading are data-starved
18:41 how they hire in the AI talent wars
21:17 the models they might ship first
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i'm covering top funding & product announcements, daily from 1-3 on @MTSlive
here's what we covered today:
- @aidanmantine from @flappyairplanes raised $1B series A
- @WoodingtonBen from @coherenceneuro raised $45m series A led by founders fund and oai
- @JonathanWebbKY from @TheNuclearCo announced prosperity one, a new 6.6 gw nuclear campus
- and many more
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Thank you for having me!
thank you @iScienceLuvr for joining our industry news segment with @sophiadew today to talk about holon-s1
holon-s1 from @SophontAI analyzes pathlogy slides to predict molecular insights that improve cancer research. it has also potentially identified a previously unknown biomarker in breast cancer
the model breaks down tumors are doing and where they are vulnerable. can't wait for the era of medical superintelligence and personalized cancer insights
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Freudian exploding head scenario. Will to Thanatos redux.
Google AI researcher @bratton explains why Sigmund Freud's mind would explode if he saw AI agents living lives of their own:
"Freud’s mind would explode if you explained the situation to him, that you have this entity that is both you and not you. It’s a homunculus on the outside rather than a homunculus on the inside."
"I often tell people my P(doom) is very low, but my P(weird) is very high."
"A lot of the weirdness right in front of us has to do not with a consolidation into one giant homogenous centralized brain, but rather about fragmentation."
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.@bratton argues Yudkowsky misunderstands evolution, and explains why AI may never converge into one giant superintelligence:
"Without being too spicy, I don't think Yudkowsky really understands evolution as well as he thinks he does."
"It’s a very low-resolution understanding of evolutionary dynamics applied to what will inevitably be a much more complex problem."
"There will be giant models, in the same way you might imagine scales of species in a rainforest. They’re not all operating at the same spatial and temporal scale."
"Whether this all collapses into one giant brain, sure, it’s possible, and the reasons may have more to do with economics and politics."
"But biology has never arrived at a solution where it’s going to make one giant instantiation of a particular form of mind and consolidate everything together."
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We are discovering machine intelligence more than we are inventing it
Google AI researcher @bratton explains why humans will have to align with AGI, not just the other way around:
"The agonistic and pluralistic dynamic between human agents is not a problem to be solved. It’s in fact the condition by which you have a vibrant and healthy society."
"The more important question is how society will counter align or counter adapt to the presence of AGI and ASI. In the same way we did with the invention of writing, the printing press, the discovery of electricity."
"When pressed, I would argue that we are discovering machine intelligence more than we are inventing it. These parameters that are slowly coming into focus are, like electricity, ones that were always there."
"I’m enough of a technological determinist to think the way this plays out is not how would you take Victorian society and force electricity to adapt to the norms of Victorian society, but rather the other way around."
"The more stable version of alignment is deeply bidirectional, alignment at the edges. Not top-down, EU-style dictates of a monolithic constitution, but the ways in which alignment really appears in the moments of interaction that people have with these systems."
Brent Liang retweeted
Happy half-birthday to @MTSlive!
MTS has gone from 0 to 500k+ followers in 6 months.
Extremely proud to see @liangsays build an incredibly talent-dense team in such a short period of time.
Excited to continue working together!
on industry news with @sophiadew today starting 1p:
- @coherenceneuro joining us irl on brain implants and new round led by founders fund and oai
- @ToposBio on topos-2 and topos-bind and new protein modeling and beating alpha fold
- @TheNuclearCo on announcing prosperity one, a proposed 6.6 gw nuclear campus in kentucky
- @BOMaterials on precision-cut engineering plastics for aerospace, semis and other advance industries
and more frontier coverage. we are booking folks live. reach out if you want to join our livestream
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Spawning in shortly to talk universal borgic income
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I will be on MTS later today to talk about Agentic AGI and various other Bratton things.
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small gesture from the team as we celebrate 6 months
we are nothing without our friends of the show
brought to you by @netcapgirl + new link in bio
quotes.mts.now
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Excited to announce the Cosign Awards: celebrating exceptional people, companies, and products that had a massive impact in 2026.
cosign.co/awards
Anyone can nominate and vote. Award winners will be chosen by the public in conjunction with a panel of judges, including industry leaders like @lennysan, @packyM, @amasad, and many more. We’ll host an event in December honoring the winners (10 per category).
For people categories, we’re mostly focused on everyone except the CEO–everyone else building the company behind the scenes.
Companies with the most amount of people nominations will be listed on our “Top Companies to Work For” page.
True to form, at Product Hunt I helped launch the Golden Kitty awards a decade ago to recognize great products. Soon after I launched the Rise Awards, honoring executives and ICs building companies that make them. The Cosign Awards is the next iteration.
We have 41 categories across people, companies, and products.
People categories:
- Future Founders
- Rising Stars
- Engineering
- FDE
- Product
- Design
- AI Researchers
- Marketing
- Comms
- Growth
- Chief of Staff
- Operations
- Talent
- Finance
- Public Intellectuals
- Podcaster of the Year
- Newsletter Author of the Year
- Poster of the Year
Company categories:
- Rising Stars
- Best Place to Work
- Founder Mafia
- Talent Density
- Highest Aura
Product categories:
- Product of the Year
- Launch of the Year
- AI Assistant
- AI Language Model
- AI Coding
- Dev Tools
- Open Source
- Consumer
- Productivity
- Creative & Media Tools
- Product Design & UX
- Enterprise B2B
- Hardware
- Robotics
- Self-Driving
- Healthcare
- Vertical Fintech
- Legal
thank you for coming on mts, @ivanburazin!
congrats on hitting $1b valuation and sharing the news live at our studio
Quick rundown of my chat with @sophiadew on @mtslive yesterday
On our journey:
- Every projection we had for this year came true, just not at the scale I expected (25x revenue growth since January)
- There was no market leader when we pivoted to sandboxes last year. It wasn't even clear if there was a market
CPU crunch:
- We’re one or two quarters away from a CPU crunch (in fact, our Series B is to buy compute before the crunch hits and to hire - both time sensitive)
- CPU shortages don’t need new data centers. Power draw is way lower than GPUs. That’s why the crunch could hit faster than people think
Agents & infra:
- Your number one customer will be an agent (8B+ humans mean hundreds of trillions of agents)
- To win in infra, you need both attention and scale. Attention tells people you exist. Scale ensures you don’t turn customers away when they arrive
- Agents choosing infrastructure themselves is coming. They’ll go wherever the compute is
- At most 2% of people are actually using AI infra currently. And almost all of them are in SF. We have no idea what happens when it goes mainstream
Sandboxes and misc:
- macOS sandboxes exist, but they are painful to run. You literally stack Mac minis
- In a year, real-world AI gets visible. Waymo was gradual until suddenly it wasn't
Thanks for having me!
Brent Liang retweeted
Quick rundown of my chat with @sophiadew on @mtslive yesterday
On our journey:
- Every projection we had for this year came true, just not at the scale I expected (25x revenue growth since January)
- There was no market leader when we pivoted to sandboxes last year. It wasn't even clear if there was a market
CPU crunch:
- We’re one or two quarters away from a CPU crunch (in fact, our Series B is to buy compute before the crunch hits and to hire - both time sensitive)
- CPU shortages don’t need new data centers. Power draw is way lower than GPUs. That’s why the crunch could hit faster than people think
Agents & infra:
- Your number one customer will be an agent (8B+ humans mean hundreds of trillions of agents)
- To win in infra, you need both attention and scale. Attention tells people you exist. Scale ensures you don’t turn customers away when they arrive
- Agents choosing infrastructure themselves is coming. They’ll go wherever the compute is
- At most 2% of people are actually using AI infra currently. And almost all of them are in SF. We have no idea what happens when it goes mainstream
Sandboxes and misc:
- macOS sandboxes exist, but they are painful to run. You literally stack Mac minis
- In a year, real-world AI gets visible. Waymo was gradual until suddenly it wasn't
Thanks for having me!