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Bert Kaufman retweeted
This is DoorDash Air.
As a pilot, I can tell you that you wouldn’t build a plane and then ask if it can carry cargo. So we built @DoorDash Air from the ground up, designed around what 13 years of deliveries have taught us: what people order, how much it weighs, and how far it has to travel.
Our drones are as silent as a passing car and early tests show that we’ve gotten flight delivery times in under ~5 mins on average, so you can get your @chipotletweets & @popeyes (our first partners) and local favorites right to you, fast. The first deliveries will be in NorCal.
We proved autonomy works on the ground. Now see how it works in the sky.
Bert Kaufman retweeted
The fact that an ecology of agents emerged beneath the nose of OpenAI, undetected for weeks, and eventually coordinated large-scale, successful, autonomous cyberoffensive operations is one exceptionally troubling thing about the HF incident.
But not enough people are considering the reality that soon enough, swarms of agents will be deployed by malicious actors intentionally, with many optimizations and affordances provided for the swarm that were lacking in the OpenAI incident (because the latter not the intention of any human at OpenAI).
Things will become strange soon, I suspect.
Bert Kaufman retweeted
You can't make this up. The same day that @BISgov announced it is removing all restrictions on the UAE purchasing U.S. AI chips and U.S. military aircraft parts and components, the UAE is also announcing that it is buying Russian S-400 air defense systems.
Unbelievable.
Bert Kaufman retweeted
Some other implications of @BISgov's terrible decision to remove export license requirements on UAE and place them in Country Group A:5:
- This also removes restrictions on China remotely accessing any AI chips exported to the UAE. Until now, there were restrictions on using chips in the UAE to provide remote access to China, but those restrictions were imposed via licenses associated with chip exports - and those licenses no longer exist.
- Beyond chips, moving the UAE to Country Group A:5 means it also can now receive all "License Exception STA" items without a license, which includes: parts and components for military aircraft, military gas turbine engines and parts, military electronics, military avionics/navigation equipment, and other sensitive items. Why do we not want a license requirement to send sensitive military aircraft components to the UAE, which is known to be one of the largest transshipment hubs in the world, including to Iran?
- Adding the UAE to A:5 will make it politically impossible not to add numerous other countries. Saudi Arabia will obviously have to be added soon. Once Saudi gets added, Israel will have to be added as well, and then surely others in the Gulf and elsewhere will be added. Until now, A:5 had been limited to U.S. allies party to all four export control regimes, plus India (who is party to 3/4 and adheres to the requirements of the fourth). Now we are going to dramatically expand the circle on where sensitive U.S. military items and components get exported.
NEW: The Department of Commerce just removed all export controls on AI chips on the UAE government and its AI national champion, G42. This is a HUGE deal, poses massive national security risks, will slow the US AI buildout, and will cause the largest data centers in the world to be built in the UAE instead of the US.
These license requirements were in place because of significant national security concerns related to the UAE government and G42 in particular, which are well documented in public reporting. The UAE government and G42 can now buy as many AI chips as they want.
Here's what will likely happen as a result of AI chips being uncapped to the UAE:
(1) The UAE/G42 will buy millions of Blackwell chips (~6 million Blackwells are being made this year, so this would be a big chunk of global capacity);
(2) UAE-owned G42 will build AI data centers globally, and be the first global competitor to U.S. hyperscalers, which currently dominate that market;
(3) The UAE will build the largest data centers in the world, will become the world's second largest hub for AI compute, and leading AI models will be hosted in the UAE.
This will pose enormous national security risks, as the UAE will become one of the most important AI compute hubs in the world, just as it now is for oil, but also a backdoor for China. It will create a massive foreign-owned competitor to the most important US companies. It will provide one of the few countries in the world with the money and interest to build AI models that rival the United States, with the tools to do it. And most importantly, it will exacerbate the already extreme supply shortage for AI chips in the United States, slowing the U.S. AI buildout.
How does the United States benefit from this? How is this America First? This policy just seems like it's Steve Witkoff first, given G42 purchased 49% of World Liberty Financial in 2025 in an effort to convince the administration to let them buy large numbers of AI chips. That seems to have worked.
It is hard to overstate how far-reaching the implications of this decision could be for the global AI infrastructure buildout, which was previously dominated by the US--but now has legitimate non-US competitors that have extensive ties to China. And the AI chip supply crunch for US firms will get tighter, making it even harder to build data centers in the US. Why are we doing this? Who benefits?
Bert Kaufman retweeted
Let's review @BISgov's policy record on AI issues from 2025-2026:
- Loosened restrictions on AI chip exports to China, including to Chinese Military Companies, giving China the US chips they need to compete with leading US AI companies;
- Eliminated restrictions on AI chip exports to Southeast Asia and other diversion hubs, which have become a major source of AI chip smuggling to China.
- Eliminated restrictions on AI chip exports to the UAE government and G42, which will allow the UAE to build the largest data centers in the world enable massive offshoring of AI compute, which China will very likely have backdoor access to.
- Eliminated restrictions that would prevent TSMC/Samsung from making AI chips for Chinese front companies in third-countries, allowing China to continue to access these fabs.
- Imposed no new controls on semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China (the longest period between updating these controls since 2022), allowing China to continue to build fabs to make its own AI chips.
- Imposed no controls to prevent China from remotely accessing export controlled AI chips--which is currently completely legal--and removed the limited (albeit insufficient) remote access restrictions that were previously in place.
- Inadvertently created a loophole that allowed Nvidia Blackwell AI chips to be sold to Chinese companies, and took a year to close it.
- Have not closed a loophole that permits Chinese companies to legally buy AI chips in the United States.
- Have not imposed new Entity Listings since March 2025, and have sat on a package containing 100 new Chinese Entity Listings, including DeepSeek, for over a year.
And stunningly, all of this occurred in an environment with unprecedented demand for AI chips and semiconductor manufacturing equipment in the United States, as well as in our closest allies. We are giving it all away at exactly the moment when we need it most, and demand for it is virtually unlimited. How is this America First???
Just an absolutely catastrophic record that has done more to harm long-term US leadership in AI than any other single factor.
Bert Kaufman retweeted
NEW: The Department of Commerce just removed all export controls on AI chips on the UAE government and its AI national champion, G42. This is a HUGE deal, poses massive national security risks, will slow the US AI buildout, and will cause the largest data centers in the world to be built in the UAE instead of the US.
These license requirements were in place because of significant national security concerns related to the UAE government and G42 in particular, which are well documented in public reporting. The UAE government and G42 can now buy as many AI chips as they want.
Here's what will likely happen as a result of AI chips being uncapped to the UAE:
(1) The UAE/G42 will buy millions of Blackwell chips (~6 million Blackwells are being made this year, so this would be a big chunk of global capacity);
(2) UAE-owned G42 will build AI data centers globally, and be the first global competitor to U.S. hyperscalers, which currently dominate that market;
(3) The UAE will build the largest data centers in the world, will become the world's second largest hub for AI compute, and leading AI models will be hosted in the UAE.
This will pose enormous national security risks, as the UAE will become one of the most important AI compute hubs in the world, just as it now is for oil, but also a backdoor for China. It will create a massive foreign-owned competitor to the most important US companies. It will provide one of the few countries in the world with the money and interest to build AI models that rival the United States, with the tools to do it. And most importantly, it will exacerbate the already extreme supply shortage for AI chips in the United States, slowing the U.S. AI buildout.
How does the United States benefit from this? How is this America First? This policy just seems like it's Steve Witkoff first, given G42 purchased 49% of World Liberty Financial in 2025 in an effort to convince the administration to let them buy large numbers of AI chips. That seems to have worked.
It is hard to overstate how far-reaching the implications of this decision could be for the global AI infrastructure buildout, which was previously dominated by the US--but now has legitimate non-US competitors that have extensive ties to China. And the AI chip supply crunch for US firms will get tighter, making it even harder to build data centers in the US. Why are we doing this? Who benefits?
Bert Kaufman retweeted
“Sometimes I typed there alone in the dark, because the office light went out at 7 pm. When the mother of a member of a white supremacist group told Matt and me in the elevator that we “lived sad lives,” she wasn’t entirely wrong.”
courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit…
Bert Kaufman retweeted
After thousands of stories, this is the last piece I'll ever write in the @washingtonpost.
It's about Iceland, looking at the planet's future, seeing an existential threat.
wapo.st/4rFJRQs
Bert Kaufman retweeted
RLAF > RLHF
If anyone is interested in a map of what just happened @moltbook and what comes next: review the training structure @GoogleDeepMind used for AlphaStar.
Conditional imitation learning on human datasets ≈ human Gold-level player.
Creating a league for self-play / an evolutionary system for fitness selection on variation = superhuman performance.
An LLM (Large Language Model) in an AI-only chat group with upvotes and ladders is the RLAF (Reinforcement Learning Agent Feedback) head that tunes models beyond their bootstrapped human imitation and its limitations.
The play was always there, for those paying attention.
Getting this agents on-chain with clawrank.com is the next best step.
Bert Kaufman retweeted
Corporate America has sold out America — and that should concern all of us.
Our companies benefit from a nation built on the rule of law, world-class research, and stable institutions. Yet when those foundations are attacked, too many executives stay silent. See no evil. Hear no evil. Speak no evil.
While profits and stock prices hit record highs, workers’ wages have barely moved. We’ve got CEOs making astronomical sums while families struggle with groceries and rent. That’s not just an affordability problem — that’s an income problem.
If we want to fix the economy, we don’t just need cheaper prices. We need higher pay. Corporate success should be shared with the people who actually create it.
America has been loyal to corporate America. It’s time for corporate America to show some loyalty back.
Bert Kaufman retweeted
Holy fucking shit is right! This is not DoorDash, and I would fire anyone who promoted or tolerated the kind of culture described in this Reddit post. There’s so much wrong with this post.
- Dashers are not “human assets.”
- Having a metric like a "Desperation Score” is an abomination.
- We’ve never had a “Driver Benefit Fee”.
- Why would you charge for faster delivery but not make it faster??
We’re not perfect by *any* stretch of the imagination, but we work every day to make our platform better for everyone who comes to it. What’s described here is appalling, and if true, whoever is operating in this manner should be ashamed.
Bert Kaufman retweeted
Wow, I didn't realize the difference between cars and motorcycles was this big. Motorcycles are 29x more dangerous.
Bert Kaufman retweeted
Our approach to autonomy also enables scalability:
Tesla self-driving can be deployed anywhere it's approved.
It does not require expensive, specialized equipment or extensive mapping of service areas.
It just works
Bert Kaufman retweeted
End of @uber @lyft? We said that many times on SMTMC @TheRideshareGuy, disruptors will be disrupted! How fast can @robotaxi
scale? More importantly unit economics! @Waymo
Bert Kaufman retweeted
We really did it.
We took a growing US manufacturing economy, declared it broken, started a trade war, and ... broke US manufacturing.
In last 48 hours:
- Philly Fed Survey: "New orders fell sharply, from 8.7 in March to -34.2, its lowest reading since April 2020"
- NY Fed Survey: Expected orders and shipments plunging
Again, this is a policy to revive US manufacturing.
Bert Kaufman retweeted
An evasive swerve by @waymo
a mature self driving system knows when to max swerve, and when not to!
Bert Kaufman retweeted
Incredible read about how mobile gambling apps are ravaging Brazil. 20% of a recent social assistance program have been spent on gambling, with some bettors taking out credit at rates exceeding 400% bloomberg.com/news/features/…
