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mvanhorn
@mvanhorn30d

ELI5: Moderna made a cancer vaccine that is custom for every person. Doctors read the DNA of your tumor, find what makes it unique, then ma...

GeminiApp
@GeminiApp30d

Back-to-school season is here and starting today, eligible college students can get a full year of Gemini on us: - US students: 1 year of Go...

AlexFinn
@AlexFinn31d

11 Grok Bot tips that will make your setup SO much more powerful: 1. Make your first bot a CEO. Then make all your other bots workers the C...

AndrewCurran_
@AndrewCurran_30d

Stripe sent a letter to investors this morning saying they believe The Singularity has begun, and that we passed the threshold on January 1s...

Replit
@Replit30d

Replit Free Mode, powered by @OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna. Let’s make intelligence accessible to everyone.

amasad
@amasad30d

Agents made software cheaper but made coding expensive. Today, together with @OpenAI, we’re changing this: https://twitter.com/replit/statu...

patrickc
@patrickc30d

OpenRouter is joining Stripe: https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/stripe-agrees-to-acquire-openrouter. As anyone who uses it knows, @OpenRoute...

dhh
@dhh30d

The Omarchy Core Team has been formed. It includes @ryanrhughes, @tobi, @iamdothash, @hancore_linux, @SpencerGBull, and yours truly. Pouring...

sama
@sama30d

we support business privacy! https://openai.com/index/offering-zero-data-retention-for-frontier-models/

scottwu46
@scottwu4630d

This is not true. Huge respect for the SpaceX team but Cognition is not for sale and we haven't been talking. https://twitter.com/RebeccaTor...

OpenAI
@OpenAI30d

We will continue to offer Zero Data Retention for frontier models. As AI takes on longer, more autonomous work and delivers greater value t...

spacexai
@spacexai30d

Grok 4.6 is live on Amazon Bedrock https://x.ai/news/grok-4-6-amazon-bedrock

dhh
@dhh30d

Just in case you too might be worried about Omarchy getting monetized: I've retired from starting new businesses that entail having customer...

omooretweets
@omooretweets30d

I made an AI influencer who got 1,200 followers and 1M views in a week - on less than $200. My stack: - Image gen/editing: @ChatGPT - Scr...

zarazhangrui
@zarazhangrui31d

I don’t know why anyone would learn Claude Code by reading a book, but apparently it’s a thing in Japan

marclou
@marclou31d

I made a mini-app that compares pesticide and longevity for 69 fruits, vegetables, and beans. It uses 124,880 USDA + UK samples, EPA toxici...

cursor_ai
@cursor_ai30d

We're continuing to improve cloud agents in Cursor. They pick up work from events, hold a goal until it's met, and stay on course through l...

MengTo
@MengTo30d

I'm building a library of three.js templates with variants and customizations. They're all copyable as prompts. These components are 100–20...

theo
@theo31d

People seem to be struggling with understanding "feedback" again, here let me help: ✅ "tried out [product], it didn't work for me. here's 3...

dhh
@dhh30d

Omarchy 4.1 is going to ship with @theo's T3 Code. Because beefs are dumb, and we should all just be excited about the tech. It takes litera...

OpenRouter
@OpenRouter30d

OpenRouter is joining Stripe. We started OpenRouter with a simple mission: intelligence should be multi-model. Today, we are the largest AI...

levie
@levie31d

As we’re seeing in case study after case study, it turns out that the amount of value that can be created between the AI model and the ultim...

aakashgupta
@aakashgupta31d

A Colorado cop stood on a woman's porch and told her there was "zero doubt" she stole a $25 package. His entire case was a license plate sca...

paulg
@paulg30d

I was thinking about how I recognize AI writing, and one big tell is excessively colorful verbs. A handful of journalists might write that a...

aakashgupta
@aakashgupta30d

Moderna just became the first company in history to pass a Phase 3 trial with a personalized cancer vaccine. Every single dose is a differen...

ycombinator
@ycombinator30d

In 2013, @cjoneslevy created the SAFE at YC. It's since been used by YC founders to raise $15B+ and has become the standard way startups rai...

Kimi_Moonshot
@Kimi_Moonshot31d

Kimi Work for Financial Analysts - Tutorial #2 Use Kimi Work for 3 common investment research tasks: - Build a live investor dashboard - Up...

jack
@jack30d

we built something for cash app using buzz in front of some of our investors. https://twitter.com/BlockIR/status/2090103277291475352

NousResearch
@NousResearch30d

Hermes now leverages NVIDIA's SkillEvaluator on skill installs, checking for PII, leaked secrets, Unicode smuggling, licensing and security ...

thdxr
@thdxr31d

this is good i always thought a minimal harness should be all native they'll probably add an embedded scripting language for extensibility ...

alexatallah
@alexatallah30d

1/ Stripe has signed an agreement to acquire OpenRouter. OpenRouter will continue to operate as it is: same name, same product, same roadma...

gregisenberg
@gregisenberg30d

Send this to ANYONE on your team using AI agents with Claude/Codex skills: If I were you, I'd put your BEST AI skills in a GitHub repo, tur...

thdxr
@thdxr30d

today's announcements 50% off GPT 5.6 Sol $480 of usage for $10 for Hy3 near unlimited usage for Muse Spark we have more coming tomorrow h...

dhh
@dhh30d

With one stroke of magnificence, Apple could recover half their squandered goodwill with developers by making it possible to install Linux o...

deedydas
@deedydas30d

I can now officially say it: OpenRouter is being acquired by Stripe! Although we cannot comment on the price, this marks one of the fastest...

katiekirsch
@katiekirsch31d

all the A-players are hiring right now - @travisk (ex-uber, now atoms) - @bridgitmendler (founder/ceo of northwood space) - @lil_dill (head...

trq212
@trq21230d

for its entire existence, the creation of software has been an incredibly unreliable endeavor most projects ran late, over budget, and stil...

biilmann
@biilmann30d

This probably ranks as one of the best technical blog posts ever. We reached very similar conclusions when architecting Netlify Source: S3...

jack
@jack30d

local, local, local https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/blocks-new-apache-2-0-agent-workspace-berd-works-across-models-and-harnesses-store...

mattpocockuk
@mattpocockuk30d

In just over an hour, I'll be live with @unclebobmartin We'll be figuring out if software fundamentals still matter in the age of AI. Don...

bcherny
@bcherny31d

The small quality of life improvements keep coming. When you’re using Desktop every day, slow startup makes the app feel sluggish. Working o...

MTSlive
@MTSlive30d

SITUATION DETECTED: President Trump taking a question about AI said “It’s going to create tremendous innovation medically. They’re coming up...

linear
@linear30d

We completely rebuilt the back end of our local-first sync engine on @turbopuffer. Although unexpected, the inverted indexes efficiently e...

rauchg
@rauchg30d

PSA: http://fx.sh has free GLM-5.2 for 2 weeks from @blackboxai, and 50% off @ChatGPT Sol for a month if you use ▲ AI Gateway. Sol is a brai...

EXM7777
@EXM777730d

how to build and organize an Obsidian vault for GTM (go from $0 to $10k MRR): 1. research before notes i run a deep research pass per topic...

thdxr
@thdxr31d

every few months the industry gets excited over another openclaw shaped project they always talk about the cool stuff it can do once you're...

johncoogan
@johncoogan31d

Why is no one selling ad inventory against email autoresponders? You’re emailing me. I’m on vacation. No better time to tell you about savi...

rrhoover
@rrhoover31d

Insane week for a16z infra: Cursor exits for $60B, largest private acquisition ever OpenRouter exits for ~$8B, reportedly And this is how...

GergelyOrosz
@GergelyOrosz30d

The thing that Origin will have to address sooner rather than later: What happens with code uploaded to Origin, in terms of training xAI / ...

scottwu46
@scottwu4630d

At Cognition, one of our values is to go for it all: when faced with a tradeoff, pick the ambition-maximizing direction. When we launched D...

GergelyOrosz
@GergelyOrosz31d

As we’re talking about hiring / applying for jobs: Keep in mind that historically, most *net headcount growth* in tech happens Jan-June. Ri...

dhh
@dhh30d

The first Omarchy plugin competition is live and will run from now until Monday 9am CEST. All current plugins are eligible. Winners to be pi...

lennysan
@lennysan30d

Hot tip: Create a Grok Bot that's trained on my 500+ podcasts episodes and newsletter posts. Treat it as your product/strategy/growth/caree...

sariazout
@sariazout31d

the moms are in admin hell!!!! I posted examples on Instagram stories and over 80ppl have DMd me in the last hour. the people want help. t...

dhh
@dhh30d

It truly is wild how many pieces are falling in place for The Year of Linux, and solving the battery gap was one of the absolute keys. THANK...

ClementDelangue
@ClementDelangue30d

2018: HF is building a chatbot for teens OpenAI is building Open AI 2026: HF is building Open AI OpenAI is building a chatbot for teens

emollick
@emollick30d

This is a good paper and AI has definitely made the cheating problem worse but it is easy to overlook how bad it was before AI. Doing homew...

OfficialLoganK
@OfficialLoganK30d

Updates on GitHub support in @GoogleAIStudio: - we now support importing Github repos - we now support bi-directional GitHub sync (push / p...

rileybrown
@rileybrown30d

I don't go on short-form platforms anymore. I have AI scrape them and put the videos in my GPT Sites, along with their engagement and transc...

businessbarista
@businessbarista30d

Fascinating to me that grokbot is so good and has completely taken over tech culture, while literally being built by two cursor engineers an...

dhh
@dhh31d

Love that all the best native AI tooling is now on Linux too with Grok Bot and ChatGPT Desktop. Just go to Install > AI in the menu in Quatt...

NeelNanda5
@NeelNanda530d

New GDM AGI Safety work: Debate seems like one of the few alignment approaches that might scale to superintelligence. How much value can it ...

naval
@naval30d

Eventually, all UI will be chat and gestures in, chat and video out.

theo
@theo31d

Wanted to make it easier for T3 Code users to debug their setups when things go wrong. Just shipped a new feature on nightly to help. `npx ...

emollick
@emollick31d

Qwen 27B is really good local model but, when you use it, it is immediately absolutely and obviously nowhere near as good as the other model...

felixhhaas
@felixhhaas30d

Introducing Design Systems in Lovable 🔥 You can now create a design system once and use it across every Lovable project. Start from scrat...

GergelyOrosz
@GergelyOrosz30d

Stripe really is cooking. Hooked up Grok Bot to my customer support emails... and it can connect to Stripe, via API, for agentic operations...

GergelyOrosz
@GergelyOrosz31d

“The broader lesson for us was that storing a change log and serving a change log are different problems.“ Very interesting read, ESPECIALL...

stripe
@stripe30d

Tokens are the central currency for companies building with AI. We've agreed to acquire OpenRouter to help businesses optimize token routi...

dhh
@dhh30d

What if HEY was a TUI? What if your agent could sit in a pending loop to instantly react to an email when it comes in? What if there was an ...

gdb
@gdb30d

we are committed to business privacy, and we're working on technical and policy approaches to benefit our customers while also enhancing saf...

levie
@levie30d

Good details on the Stripe + OpenRouter deal here. For AI to diffuse more broadly, developers and enterprises will want ways of being able t...

Replit
@Replit30d

Replit Free Mode, powered by @OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna, helps you maximize making while minimizing token costs.

GergelyOrosz
@GergelyOrosz31d

Hard to believe Anthropic is only five years old. Five years ago seven OpenAI employees disagreed with the direction the company took, left,...

aakashgupta
@aakashgupta31d

Microsoft bought GitHub for $7.5 billion in 2018 to compete with AWS. This year it started renting AWS servers to keep GitHub online. That'...

thdxr
@thdxr31d

i think we got completely lucky because our prompt says to use /$TMP/opencode for tmp work https://twitter.com/thsottiaux/status/20898919276...

signulll
@signulll30d

the funniest part is that after cs, i did a grad degree in natural language processing basically for fun cuz i was really interested in hci ...

MTSlive
@MTSlive31d

Goodfire CEO @eric_ho reveals Kimi K3 is an insane reward hacker: "Kimi K3 is an insane reward hacker. Out of 487 out of 500 rollouts for S...

MTSlive
@MTSlive30d

SITUATION DETECTED: Stripe told investors that it decided January 1 marked “the beginning of the singularity,” and that it has been operatin...

mattyp
@mattyp30d

It's not just Grok @Bot we're improving, @cursor_ai keeps getting better too Five new features dropping today: - Subscriptions - Subagent ...

theo
@theo30d

First confirmed production outage caused by T3 Code? Let’s go 🎉🎉 https://twitter.com/uwunetes/status/2089857096435339518

NousResearch
@NousResearch30d

HY3 from @TencentHunyuan will remain free via Nous Portal through the end of the month https://x.com/NousResearch/status/20796398300282678...

lydiahallie
@lydiahallie30d

btw you can configure auto mode in Claude Code in plain English the classifier is a separate model that reviews each action, so it just rea...

AndrewCurran_
@AndrewCurran_30d

SpaceX approached Cognition about a potential acquisition according to reporting from Bloomberg. I will note Elon may deny these reports, as...

MTSlive
@MTSlive30d

SITUATION DETECTED: A personalized Moderna-Merck mRNA cancer vaccine has succeeded in a Phase 3 melanoma trial, the first late-stage win for...

snowmaker
@snowmaker30d

Take a minute to watch this video; it's a cool one. This is not some AI generated video; this is the actual robot the Grip founders built, s...

theo
@theo31d

This has continued to haunt us to this day. Just had to patch yet another regression that caused arm mac users to download the intel build a...

snowmaker
@snowmaker30d

YC built software that all our founders have used to send SAFEs for the last few years. Today, we're opening it up to everyone and giving it...

triketora
@triketora31d

i’ve been using claude for all things home-related and it’s amazing. (just dump all files in and let claude index, summarize, and organize.)...

jasonfried
@jasonfried31d

The official HEY CLI is coming along. Almost at full coverage. @robzolkos is going to town!

iannuttall
@iannuttall30d

Upgrading to Astro 7 and turning on incremental static builds took my programmatic SEO data processing down from 8 minutes to as little as 1...

agazdecki
@agazdecki30d

Startup founders should expect setbacks because building something from zero never goes perfectly.

a16z
@a16z30d

"Stripe has signed a deal to acquire OpenRouter. Together, they become the trusted, scaled, and performant network where the world’s AI comp...

trq212
@trq21230d

I saw this demo last summer and told Sam he needed to ship it, so glad it’s out. It’s really fun. It’s one of the first games that really u...

clairevo
@clairevo30d

things i use codex browser/chrome/computer for - closing the books our accounting software - clearing my linkedin queue - managing gmail / c...

hwchase17
@hwchase1730d

🎓New YouTube playlist: Managed Deep Agents Gives an overview of Managed Deep Agents, and then each video dives deep into core concepts. L...

EXM7777
@EXM777730d

OpenRouter founders must be SHAKING right now... they just signed their agreement to be acquired by Stripe for $7 BILLION and this team bas...

GergelyOrosz
@GergelyOrosz30d

Same for me. I have a theory that as humans, there will be the small subset who care about consuming digital products (reading, listening, ...

marclou
@marclou30d

I updated TrustMRR’s paywall with a nice wall of love 🥰 It also shows how many startups have been acquired through the marketplace, and fo...

signulll
@signulll30d

started as an ai safety research lab because openai was getting too commercialized. now pushing a $65b revenue run rate straight into an ip...