exited founder/angel prev: fb, amzn, reddit skills: reverse engineering, keygens, bo staff, startups, steak, and tacos. signal: merket.01

Austin/SF
Joined February 2025
Replying to @TechCrunch
@TechCrunch please add the link. Do the right thing. You don't even say how you sourced this. Because I reverse engineered it.
Replying to @TechCrunch
you know what's unoriginal? stealing scoops with no attribution.
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Astrolab's FLIP rover will test whether LLMs can make useful decisions on the Moon when help from Earth is delayed. FLIP will carry HPE's Spaceborne Computer-4 on NASA's Griffin-1 mission, planned for late 2026. If successful, onboard LLMs could let rovers act autonomously and close the Moon's last-mile gap. runtimewire.com/article/astr…
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BREAKING: DHS bars DeepSeek products and any DeepSeek-powered tools from federal civilian IT systems. Order #2026-01, dated July 24th, was filed Oct 19th for Federal Register publication Oct 20th. The 60-day exception window elapsed; DHS cites China-hosted servers and alleged iOS flaws. runtimewire.com/article/dhs-…
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RuntimeWire flagged DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash-1017 refresh about 3 hours before @deepseek_ai announced it. Our report published at 12:08 a.m. CT on October 17th; DeepSeek posted the official release at 3:35:54 a.m. CT. We flagged a dated model label and a possible API refresh before the company confirmed the update. runtimewire.com/article/deep…
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What if Sam ends up buying xAI for Grok's video/image/agentic models, which are clearly better, and let's Elon focus on space/cars/X?
this was a "never deleting this app" moment
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Ryan Merket retweeted
If Musk is so fuking smart why didn’t he factor this in?
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BREAKING: OpenAI adds parallel agents to GPT-6 Pro in ChatGPT, letting Pro users follow and inspect delegated tasks in the Chat tab. OpenAI's October 16th X post says the agents run in parallel for Pro users. The post also claims faster responses and better plugin and tool use, but offered no latency figures or examples. runtimewire.com/article/open…
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We just hit 25,000 subscribers on YouTube! Thank you to all our subs, it truly means a lot.
🤖 Made with AI
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$100 says Ukraine reverse engineers Starlink and finds a way to mimic speeds between 89-98 to stay under the speed block.
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The same people that fell for Claude's marketing, bought Mac minis for OpenClaw, fell for Grok Bot (anyone could have put LLMs in a chatroom), and are already typing ‘this changes everything’ about a product that hasn’t been announced yet. Are now telling you Reverse Engineer Anything is the next hype. Don't fall for it. You don't need it. You can reverse / crack anything with a frontier model and a misspelled prompt.
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CrowdStrike is in advanced talks to buy ORION for about $500 million. Ctech reports the talks remain unsigned and CrowdStrike has not confirmed; ORION was founded in 2024 and has raised $38 million to date. runtimewire.com/article/crow…
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dont hate the player, hate the game
JUST IN: Man sentenced to 18 months in prison after generating hundreds of thousands of AI songs & using bots to stream them billions of times, outstreaming Taylor Swift & earning $8 million.
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BREAKING: Amazon is in talks to buy Decart for about $7 billion, the Wall Street Journal reports. The potential deal would center on Decart's software that helps AI run across different accelerators, making chip-agnostic optimization expensive. runtimewire.com/article/amaz…
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Can you build a publication in 2026 without Google Search? Yes. Our search traffic collapsed in August. RuntimeWire’s dashboard reports 4.01M unique visitors in 30 days. Subscribers keep growing. Google may have accidentally created a case study in its own irrelevance.
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One of the largest newspapers in Argentina just featured what I'm up to at @runtimewire -- exciting!
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@merket, CEO y fundador de @runtimewire en el ciclo de entrevistas “Medios & Tendencias” de @LANACION: “Preferimos ser segundos con pruebas que primeros con un rumor disfrazado de noticia”: lanacion.com.ar/economia/neg…
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@merket, CEO y fundador de @runtimewire en el ciclo de entrevistas “Medios & Tendencias” de @LANACION: “Preferimos ser segundos con pruebas que primeros con un rumor disfrazado de noticia”: lanacion.com.ar/economia/neg…
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