@alex

Journalist. @CaOptNews. Dad x3. He/Him. Black Lives Matter. I podcast and write. Hey!

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Written words: Cautiousoptimism.news Spoken words: @twistartups Favorite person: you!
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Every European country facing a pension crisis looks like that now
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AoE II Starcraft Factorio Exanima Timberborn LoL SimCity 2000 Anno 1800 Timberborn?
Matt Slotnick
@matt_slotnick
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I guess since everyone is doing it
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reverse of what cursor users were saying this weekend, notably
Peter Yang
@petergyang
Sep 27
Not sure what happened to Claude limits they went from barely usable to basically unlimited 😂
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Solution: 100x the supply
Peter Walker
@PeterJ_Walker
Sep 28
You can make many arguments around driverless cars (the wait times and prices in SF are often both high). But the safety argument is effectively over. They are much, much safer.
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Andrew Curran
@AndrewCurran_
Sep 27
President Trump has personally invited Dario to a private dinner tonight at the White House. This will be the first time they've actually met one-on-one. Big chance to patch things up. Or crash the plane into the mountain.
Marc Caputo
@MarcACaputo
Sep 27
Scoop: Anthropic's Dario Amodei to have White House dinner with Trump @m_ccuri & I axios.com/2026/09/27/anthrop…

Scoop: Anthropic's Dario Amodei to have White House dinner with Trump

The dinner is an indication of thawing relations between Anthropic and the administration,

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Tree fell down; missed the house.
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Peer Richelsen
@peer_rich
Sep 26
this wouldve made #1 on hackernews a year ago and raise 50M during covid
WebDevCody@webdevcody
Sep 26
one Opus 5.5 prompt, and now I run around a virtual office managing agents to work on github issues and merge conflicts
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Let’s see
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verdict: fine, but not an upgrade
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this is just an artifact of the compute crunch right?
Theo - t3.gg
@theo
Sep 25
I'm getting increasingly tired of thinking about reasoning effort levels. In the near future, models will reason as much or as little as needed, and we'll feel silly for exposing 5+ options in a dropdown.
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Cognition
@cognition
Sep 25
Cognition has crossed $1B in annualized revenue run rate. This milestone belongs to our customers. Here's how a few of them are building with Devin.
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It’s only self-interest if it comes from the EA region of Silicon Valley. Otherwise, it’s just sparkling optimism.
Matthew Yglesias
@mattyglesias
Sep 25
It’s absurd that we have folks literally on the payroll of Meta and A16Z talking about how well-funded the AI safety community is while touting the obviously self-interested takes of NVIDIA’s CEO.
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Jane Manchun Wong
@wongmjane
Sep 25
Corgi lays off Trevor Owens and Jason Saltzman as the instance startup downsizes its cafe expansion team h/t @calexbearera
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I wonder if muse et al will tank newsletter open rates -- if the bots prioritize emails that are more to-do-ish?
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he has the juice
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@NYCMayor
Sep 24
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @MetOpera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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Alex Konrad
@alexrkonrad
Sep 24
the New Media hack no one's talking about: try having a name that isn't Alex 😂 cool to see our work at Upstarts resonating with founders and PR folks, and appearing alongside so many great new publications and media friends 🫡 inc.com/lisa-bonos/inc-s-new…?
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The reason I haven’t downloaded muse is that I don’t have a need for it idk
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Ali Ghodsi
@alighodsi
Sep 24
At the beginning of this year, big portions of @databricks started running on Genie. When finance started doing all their work with Genie, we noticed that they were combining Genie with a Live Cloud Spreadsheet called Row Zero. This combination is really powerful. We met the Row Zero team and were blown away. Today, we're excited to announce that we've agreed to acquire Row Zero. Stay tuned for an awesome experience of Genie + Row Zero: databricks.com/company/newsr…

Databricks Acquires Row Zero, Bringing Live, Governed Spreadsheets to Genie - Databricks

Row Zero joins Databricks to combine the simplicity and flexibility of spreadsheets with built-in auditability, security, and governance controls at scaleGenie will gain a native, fully-governed...

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who could have guessed
Tom Malinowski@Malinowski
Sep 24
This is a huge NYT investigation into how Russia uses shell companies and Tether, a crypto coin, to evade sanctions and buy arms. What it doesn't mention is that the main U.S. backer of Tether is Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Howard Lutnick's sons. nytimes.com/2026/09/24/busin…

The ‘Monster’ Behind Russia’s Global Effort to Evade Western Sanctions

A Moscow firm uses shell companies and cryptocurrency to launder money, and a custom app to forge trade records, to help Russia bypass sweeping financial restrictions.

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Dan Primack
@danprimack
Sep 24
Scoop from @ShenLucinda: Accel in talks to lead Modal raise at $15B valuation axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026…

Scoop: Accel in talks to lead Modal raise at $15B valuation

This is the latest in a flurry of mega-raises in the space.

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