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I remember sitting around a campfire shortly after the Ukraine war had just started with some Ukrainian friends.
They shared that after they learned that Russian forces were jamming all communications they called Elon begging for Starlink support.
Elon and the Starlink team instantly dropped everything they were working on, loaded a private jet with as many Starlink terminals as they could (terminals were in short supply at the time), and started flying the jet eastward while writing code to make terminals work over Ukraine.
There was no contract or promise of payment for doing so, and no time to solve for that.
My Ukrainian friends believed this saved the nation of Ukraine, and that without this effort Ukraine would have lost the war nearly instantly.
A company I invested in really needs Unreal Engine 5 / Three.js game projects for AI training.
Game devs / studio founders: still own the code + assets from an old game? Can even be shelved.
They want to pay to license it.
DM me or tag someone I should meet.
Passkey UX is broken.
A bunch of apps ask me to create a passkey while I'm using my laptop. Sure, create a passkey, here's my fingerprint.
Then when it wants you to use a passkey, it opens a QR code and says to scan with your phone.
But the passkey is on my laptop.
EVERYONE is asking me how to connect Grokbot to iMessage/texts.
I can’t imagine using an assistant without that.
Set up BlueBubbles on a Mac + a heartbeat check; it can read and send texts, images, even reactions.
This template will do it for you.
x.ai/bot/sleuFUT9GdxW2e4eyRA…
My new favorite Grok @bot template:
It sweeps my email, texts, meeting notes, and Slack looking for commitments I’ve made and missed or other asks that are waiting on me.
It ranks them according to how much damage is happening and offers to help fix.
x.ai/bot/E-uo4CQ__9GjtWYhWLP…
How much do you charge for a cleaning fee?
its just bonkers the new policy @airbnb is trying to put in place. Putting the dishes in the dishwasher, taking out the trash, pulling the sheets off the bed....they are just standard things any normal person would do when staying at a house. Why wouldn't a host be allowed to say that?
My new favorite Grok @bot template:
It sweeps my email, texts, meeting notes, and Slack looking for commitments I’ve made and missed or other asks that are waiting on me.
It ranks them according to how much damage is happening and offers to help fix.
x.ai/bot/E-uo4CQ__9GjtWYhWLP…
See, I _did_ need to buy the $10,000 MacBook
Holy shit: Kimi k3.1 pro is on par or even outperforms Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 astra on key benchmarks!!
They just announced K3.1 Pro, a 2.8T-parameter multimodal model with a 1M-token context window that it claims rivals leading proprietary models in coding and agent tasks, with open weights promised by November 4.
China is back!!
Well if you had never built or shipped anything or tried to do anything consequential ever at all we wouldn’t be having these security problems, now would we?
For the number of times I’ve seen the claim on X about, “Then these companies sign a bunch of bogus deals with their batchmates so they can all rotate money around and show fake revenue” I’ve literally never seen it happen
so i have been in the sf tech scene for a couple of months now, and i learned the games that ppl play
1. land a $3M lab order in 2 weeks, *26 = ~$80m as the annual revenue
2. schedule all orders to be signed in the same month, and multiply the best month by 12
3. sign $5M LOIs with friend's companies and batchmates. they sign one back (also happens at scale with large labs/compute)
4. buy github stars at 6 cents each
the last company that swapped invoices with a partner reported $220M - and it's bankrupt now
sad that it's a whole gresham's law game right now and if you dont play you just get downvoted
Austen Allred retweeted
Today we're introducing the smartest, most capable version of our enterprise-ready decision model: SubQ Snap 1.1.
Snap is tied for #1 on the Artificial Analysis Decision Index and has made big gains on agentic tasks, outperforming Jev by +7.2 points across 16 leading enterprise benchmarks.
All while maintaining 384k tokens of context, in a single pass, as the only model with constant compute per token.
- Powered by Subquadratic Sparse Attention.
- Tied for #1 on the @ArtificialAnlys Decision Index.
- 96.2 on When2Call, up from 75.2, and up 6 points on @huggingface 5 Tools & Automation benchmarks. It knows when to call a tool, when to ask, and when to decline.
- 81% fewer confident errors on questions it can't answer.
- $0.04 per 1M input tokens. No charge for output.
Go to subq.ai for access, and 100M free tokens.
Austen Allred retweeted
We built a $150M ARR business twice.
The first time took 8 years. The second took 2.5.
Today, Podium crossed $150M in AI annual recurring revenue.
Three years ago, we already had a great software business. Well over $100M in revenue, tens of thousands of customers, and a product we'd spent nearly a decade building.
And we decided to start over.
The business was performing well. But we believed AI was going to fundamentally change the software industry and make much of traditional software obsolete.
As a founder, you pour your life into what you're building. An insane amount of time, sacrifice, and effort. The hard part is not getting too attached to it.
When we started building our first AI agents, we had to confront the possibility that much of what we'd built might not be that valuable in the future. That's a tough pill to swallow.
But we also realized those same 10 years had put us in a unique position to take advantage of what AI could do for our customers.
Instead of protecting what we'd spent a decade building, we decided to bet the future of the company on AI employees that actually do the work for our customers.
We massively underestimated what we'd signed up for.
We ended up building entirely new operating systems for the industries we serve, from the AI agents all the way down to the systems of record. Now customers run their entire businesses on Podium.
Reinventing our product wasn't even the hardest part. We had to reinvent how the entire company operated.
When you've been running a company for over a decade, the operational inertia is incredibly powerful. We had to rethink how we build products, how we sell, how we serve customers, and how we run the business.
We effectively started a second startup inside an already successful company. And we're still at the very beginning.
Today, we have 20,000 AI agents working for our customers. They've helped generate more than $13 billion in revenue for those businesses. And we're barely scratching the surface of what AI will be able to do for them.
And we've done all of this while becoming profitable and generating free cash flow. We're building Podium to be around for decades.
Huge credit to our team for having the guts to make this bet and the ability to actually pull it off. We still have a long way to go and tons of problems to solve, but it's so damn fun to be winning when the opportunity ahead is this big.
In the age of AI, you can either disrupt your own company or wait for somebody else to do it.
I'd rather do it ourselves.
Guys come on bro it’s just one US customer ecosystem who cares
Global TLS Intermediate CA incident: We’ve updated our incident page with how it happened, who is affected (one US customer ecosystem), what’s not affected, and what we’re putting in place. We will publish the root cause once our investigation is complete.
👉emudhra.com/en/post/certific…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
eMudhra minimizes the scope by claiming only "one US customer ecosystem" is affected. In reality, 8 of its CA certificates had catastrophically weak private keys (one being simply the number 4), allowing anyone to forge trusted HTTPS certificates for any website on the internet.blog.google/security/prote…
Oh my goodness this has to be right.
Instead of generating a random 256-bit number they generated a random number between 0 and 256.
That’s how they got 4, 66, 155, 156, 230 and 237.
What changed in the last 24 hours of AI for builders:
• Patch PHP now: AI found decade-old pre-auth RCEs
• LiteLLM 1.107.0 = malware. Rotate your keys
• Open tools to catch agent-patch regressions
• Claude Duet: proactive agent preview
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