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Design your future. Automate the rest. Co-Founder https://teapawt.net/t.co/n9TDuR7Ex7 | Creator of Silicon Drama AI & Robotics | Bitcoin & Web3 | SmartSelf | Design & Art

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Joined August 2010
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Cat joins OpenAI. Astra repairs Qwen. Peggy reaches Nasdaq. Masayoshi's ABB deal meets China's prohibition on the China business. Who gets to make the next move? Silicon Drama 28: ⬇️ #SiliconDrama #eTatos
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Cat Wu joins OpenAI. Astra edits another model. China blocks SoftBank's acquisition of ABB's China robotics business. Silicon Drama 28, tomorrow. Technology news, told as a power drama. #SiliconDrama #eTatos
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It’s Thursday. Time for Metal Minds. Figure has optimized the charging schedule. The batteries have concerns. Metal Minds #9: The Perfect Metric. Advanced hardware. Human problems. #MetalMinds #eTatos
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“Make it so.” I say Picard’s words to ChatGPT, Codex and Grok more often than I expected. After Patrick Stewart’s passing, my wife Raquel and I started Star Trek from 1966. My tribute to Picard, Professor X, and the AI age. ⬇️ #StarTrek #AI #eTatos
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The Board gets bigger. Nobody gets a protected seat. Silicon Drama 27: eleven rankings + one unranked wildcard. New baseline, no movement arrows. Peng Zhihui brings a proposed robot-work measure. The demonstration reel meets the timesheet. Full episodes is pinned. #SiliconDrama #PowerBoard #eTatos
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Three practical questions from Silicon Drama 27: Can you move your context? What useful work does the robot finish? Can you explain why you disagree with the agent? Model choice matters. Control of the workflow matters too. Episode is pinned. #SiliconDrama #eTatos
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Meta's chip supplier has committed $ 3bn to its share offering. Jensen helps finance the shopping basket, then waits at the checkout. Silicon Valley's new loyalty card: The cashier owns a piece of the customer. etatos.com/2026/10/31/silico… #SiliconDrama #MondayRoast #eTatos
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Jensen invests in the customer. Andy sells the rival models. Dario opens the books. Silicon Drama 27: Six Acts, robot economics and a new twelve-place Power Board. Who owns the relationship when the model changes? ⬇️ #SiliconDrama #AI #Robotics #eTatos
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Jensen gets closer to the customer. Dario opens the books. Andy stocks the rivals. Tomorrow: Silicon Drama 27. The model wars now come with financing, invoices and robots applying for real work. Subscribe: etatos.com/smartnews/
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💸 The App & Subscription Economy Is Dying. And Good Riddance. I've started cancelling software subscriptions. And I suspect AI agents will give us many more reasons to do so. The implications for the global SaaS industry could be enormous. 👇 #eTatos
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What if the real disruption isn't the disappearance of software, but the disappearance of software as the interface between humans and work?
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It’s Thursday. Time for Metal Minds. The cloud is down. Fortunately, Unit Z remembers everything. Metal Minds #8: Offline Night. Advanced hardware. Human problems. #MetalMinds #eTatos
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Sundar rises to #2 at 9.9 as Google Cloud adds an OpenAI route. Jensen holds #1. David Reger takes the guest seat after Gen 4 and the RoboGym opening. The reasons, not just the rankings: Episode 26 (pinned) #SiliconDrama #PowerBoard #eTatos
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Getting robots into factories is one challenge. Making them useful every day is another. In Episode 26, I explore three developments that show what companies should be looking at. NEURA: David Reger is creating an environment where robots learn real customer workflows. The more knowledge companies build into it, the more valuable it becomes. But switching providers could also become harder. Agility Robotics: Digit 5 achieved 90 minutes of work with nine minutes of charging in preliminary internal tests. Promising, but factory life also means maintenance, interruptions and unexpected problems. NVIDIA: Jensen Huang is connecting more of the tools needed to develop and operate robots. That makes things easier for engineers, but could also increase dependence on one ecosystem. For me, the important question comes after the purchase: How much flexibility will companies retain once robots become part of their daily operations? 🎭 Silicon Drama Episode 26 is pinned. #SiliconDrama #PhysicalAI #eTatos
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Warum investiert Audi Milliarden in Georgia, USA, während es in Ingolstadt und Neckarsulm über 7000 Stellen abbauen will? Grund sind die fünf apokalyptischen Reiter der deutschen Geschäftswelt: Energiekosten, Lohnnebenkosten, Steuern, Bürokratie und Regulierungen. Obendrauf kommt eine vollkommen unberechenbare Politik, die jeden Tag einfach nur so zum Spaß komplette Technologien verbieten oder fordern kann. In Deutschland sind durch die Regierung schon viele Technologiezweige fast vollständig ausgerottet worden, in denen wir oft Weltspitze waren, bis die Politik diese absichtlich zerstört hat. Kernenergie, Fracking, Magnetschwebetechnik, Gentechnik, chemische Industrie, Pharma, Biotech usw. Die Autoindustrie ist nur die nächste einer langen Reihe. Was in der Diskussion gerne vergessen wird: Die Autoindustrie, das ist nicht das Audiwerk in Ingolstadt. Das sind auch die unzähligen deutschen Zuliefererbetriebe, von denen viele bereits pleite sind! Und jeder von denen ist oft Herz- und Wohlstandbringer einer Kleinstadt, die ohne diesen langsam verarmt. Das ist nicht „der Globalismus“ oder die Chinesen oder sonst eine unkontrollierbare Kraft, gegen die wir kaum etwas tun können. All diese Technologielinien wurden mit voller Absicht und mit aller Kraft von unserer eigenen Regierung zerstört und aus dem Land gejagt mit 100%iger Unterstützung der MSM-Presse, die das Ganze vorantreibt.
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Unitree’s H2-X wants to be your bodyguard. Its job interview? Hitting a car. Its reference letter? A warning from the manufacturer about limited environmental understanding. Maximum endurance: 8 hours. Situational awareness: Please read the fine print. The demo looks like an action movie. The disclaimer sounds like a meeting with the legal department. Eight hours of protection? Impressive. Eight hours in which your bodyguard might cause more damage than the threat? Less reassuring. 🎭 Silicon Drama Episode 26 is pinned. Congratulations. Your bodyguard needs a safety perimeter. #SiliconDrama #eTatos #Robotics
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Figure reports 560 km on a treadmill. Digit 5 targets 90 minutes of runtime per 9-minute charge. NEURA opens the robot gym. Episode 26 asks how those pieces become useful work, and who supplies the system. ⬇️ #SiliconDrama #eTatos
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NEURA unveils 4NE1 Gen 4. NVIDIA supplies more of the tools around robot work. Who teaches the task, and who owns the dependencies? Silicon Drama 26 arrives Saturday. #eTatos
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💿 Yesterday, I burned a CD. Somehow, that little nostalgia project gave me a glimpse of a future where we might no longer need apps. An unexpected AI aha moment that got me thinking about the entire software industry. 👇 #AI #AIAgents #Codex #eTatos
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It’s Thursday. Time for Metal Minds. Optimus asked for honest feedback. That may have been his first mistake. Metal Minds #7. Advanced hardware. Human problems. #MetalMinds #eTatos
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