Sometimes founders don't go to jail for fraud because investors don't want to loose their money from company dying from bad PR. The thing is you will never really know what happened behind closed doors and the truth around it unless a reporter really makes it their agenda like Theranos.

Rant that no one asked for: My general take about consumer AI is that 99% of the things we've seen so far are super far-removed from reality Most people feel like they don't have money to spend right now, so the use-cases around agents booking flights or trips or booking reservations or shopping just don't appeal to the average American consumer I would argue that things that consumers purchase or "do" frequently enough (like ordering on Amazon, or calling Ubers, etc.) were obvious/annoying enough/frequent enough use-cases where we built amazing software UI/UX over the last decade that's been optimized to near ultimate efficiency that adding AI or agents on top would actually be making it *less* efficient. Like really *worth-it* use cases are generally "one-clickable" by great consumer products/platforms already There's a lot of magical moments/wow factors/sci-fi things with agents that come from super annoying workflows (like booking flights or wrangling personal errand stuff in gmail or etc.) but are just not frequent enough for the average person. They're actually the long-tail. For example, 20% of the world's population has flown on an airplane at least once in their lifetime, meaning 80% of people globally have never set foot on a plane. Only 11%-15% of the global population flies in any given year! This is not me saying that consumer AI is dumb, I'm actually extremely excited and optimistic, but it kind of goes back to things we've always known about consumer, which is: 1. Save/make consumers money 2. Make consumers entertained or famous (And, of course, vices) Even like, regardless of your views on prediction markets/sports betting, I think you have to understand that comes from a place of the average person feeling like they 1) don't have enough so 2) they want to do what they can to jump the socioeconomic rungs Anyway, there's an extremely *wide* space of opportunity and I'm very excited to see the absolutely insane new AI/innovative stuff that builders come up with, but also I really want to see things that aren't just dressed up versions of 2010s prosumer/productivity software (and the problems that came with it) P.S. The 90/10/1 rule still applies to consumer: most consumers want to *consume* (and lurk) rather than create!

Watching this 1960s dating show has completely fried my brain, what an era..😍😍

will look back at single player text only AI as the terminal era of AI interfaces

It is the responsibility of a political party to earn the support of its coalition, not the responsibility of voters to endlessly court a party that increasingly treats them with contempt. That is one of the most elementary principles of representative democracy. I spent years involved in Republican politics. I stuck my neck out for this party, bent over backwards defending it, worked on campaigns, and stood by people even when doing so wasn’t particularly easy. I genuinely believed in what I was doing. I wasn’t pretending to be a conservative, and I certainly wasn’t involved in Republican politics because I had nothing better to do with my time. I gave that movement a great deal of my energy because I believed there was a place for me in it. And after all of that, I have to sit here and watch people like Bo French insinuate that I’m not an American because of where my family comes from? If voting according to my conscience makes me a “libtard,” then so be it

re: major enterprises blocking AI agents from buying stuff wrong take, they are refusing to underwrite it. once there is a standard for agent identity and liability, they'll open the doors. but rn, no one wants to be the one holding the bag.

A really strong case for limited legal immigration. Born in America, won’t shed loyalty to ethnicity.

It was an obvious choice to double down on @TownAI's series B. It’s becoming clear that agency will define nearly every digital experience. Software will increasingly understand us, anticipate our needs, and act on our behalf. There’s so much possibility here, and we’re only just discovering what these experiences can become. What interests me most is what will make some agents indispensable. Technical capability matters enormously, but how it serves the person using it may matter even more. How well does an agent understand the person? How naturally does it communicate and earn trust? And as we give software more agency, how do we make sure people gain more of their own? That’s a big part of why we believe so much in Town. In witnessing the team execute, their respect for the people they’re building for comes through in both the big ambitions and the small decisions. They’re building an agent that gets to know you, deeply understands your work, collaborates with you to become more capable, and earns the trust to take on more over time. They want to do more than complete tasks. They want the person using Town to be more effective, informed, and in control. The technical execution is exceptional. This team moves quickly, bringing in new capabilities, choosing the best models and tools for different needs, and improving quality, reliability, and cost. Your Townie can do all the things.  Making all of that feel intuitive and useful takes real judgment, especially when the technology keeps changing underneath you. I admire how closely the two connect. Town becomes more useful as it understands you better. As it demonstrates good judgment and delivers value, you trust it with more. The technology and the relationship improve together. I expect many extraordinary companies to emerge here, with different ideas about what agents can do and how we’ll interact with them. We’re all still getting our sea legs. I love being on this journey with a team that pushes it forward while thinking so carefully about the people it serves. Congratulations to the entire Town team on the Series B. We're thrilled to continue building alongside you.

Lucy Guo on why AI isn't shrinking her workweek: "AI is making people work harder actually, because you have to be awake for your agents to be running." She pulled a 26-hour day last week because Claude was shipping code and she refused to miss the loop.