San Francisco, CA
Joined September 2010
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Two weeks ago, @PlanetScale launched TIN. They benchmarked it against us, and it was very fast. So we spent those two weeks making ParadeDB faster without their tradeoffs. Today, we are faster than TIN. paradedb.com/blog/opening-a-…
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Balls have been achieved internally cc @BenjDicken
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Quo is now live as a plugin in the Grok @bot marketplace. 🎉 I’ve been obsessed with Grok Bot lately, so I’m especially excited about this launch. You can connect @gowithquo in just a few clicks, then Grok Bot can identify & prioritize conversations, follow up through SMS, find trends and opportunities hiding in your calls & messages, and more. And if you have multiple Quo workspaces, you can even create different bots to stay on top of them at the same time. I played with this yesterday for our own Sales use case and came up with a template that we'd love to share with any customers using Quo for inbound sales. We called it "Lead Catcher" and it's a simple way to prioritize and monitor SLAs on inbound lead conversations. Check it out here: x.ai/bot/5FNoKWQkY0voJsATKXf… I’m very excited about what this unlocks for our customers. What are you building with Grok Bot + Quo?
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Thanks @moneyball for having me speak at the Open Source AI Summit. I talked about how open source is under threat from political forces demanding centralized control of AI.
At the Open Source AI Summit in San Francisco, @DavidSacks joined @moneyball for a conversation on protecting open-source AI, the impact of regulation, and the global AI race.
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there's been an embarrassing gap between the promise of AI and real gains. FDEs were a necessary bandaid. the missing piece was obvious in hindsight: put all of the raw materials in a graph and let agents assemble self improving agents. no more writing prompts, MCP, or compaction.
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Micropayments never caught on with humans but they work great for machines. Cryptocurrencies are how AIs will pay each other. xitter.cf/coincenter/status/9034…
What are Micropayments and How does Bitcoin Enable Them? coincenter.org/entry/what-ar…
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David Sacks: Trump’s Instincts on AI and Data Centers Are Right @Jason: “Trump is going to turn out to be right about this data center issue.” @DavidSacks: “I have told you guys before that Trump is ultimately the best friend of innovators in Washington. If anybody could make the decision about technology in DC, I'd want it to be President Trump. Not cabinet secretaries, not the White House staff, not members of Congress, not senators, not think tanks, I would really want every decision, if he had the time, to be made by President Trump because his instincts on this are really good. He wants America to win. He does not believe in unnecessary regulation. He doesn't have all these doomer anxieties. He listens to a broad cross-section of people. I mean, he talks to all the CEOs. He is very up to speed on all these issues. And I spoke to this at the G20 this past week. There are great deals for local communities to be had. This is the point that I think needs to be made, the reason why local communities should embrace this is not because of some abstract concern about innovation. They should do it when the deal is good for them, and there are good deals to be had. We've seen that in Loudoun County, Virginia, property taxes went down by $6,000 because they're getting all this data center revenue. In Louisiana, there's a county that was able to give teachers their first bonus in years because of data center revenue. So we're starting to see all these examples where if you make the right deal, it will lower your electricity costs because they will stand up net new power generation, they will pay for grid upgrades. It does not use an excessive amount of water, that's total fake news. We know the systems recirculate. And these data centers can be put in places where they're not bothering people. So there is a good deal to be made there and ultimately, just one last point on this, President Trump supports local choice on this. I'm seeing all this fake news, you know, Democrats saying that the administration's trying to shove these data centers down the throats of local communities. Not true. In the policy document that I worked on, we expressly said that data centers remain a state and local decision. So no one is forcing these local communities, but what the president is saying is, ‘Don't believe this media disinformation campaign. It can be a good deal for you if you're willing to embrace it.’”
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Innovation Council President @Budowich lays out how to deal with concerns about data centers. Start by listening to people’s concerns—and take them seriously. Good policy is good politics. And good policy is: not a single shovel should go in the ground, and not a single slab of concrete should be laid for a data center that drains the surrounding community. The only data centers that should be built are the ones that power the community. Then tell the story. Many data centers, especially in red states are doing just that--often in towns that have been abandoned by politicians for decades. From today's @innovationcncl event with @BreitbartNews, moderated by @mboyle1:
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Either @AnthropicAI is terrible at building sandboxes... or excellent at marketing. (or both) But enough with the “we created a hacking monster” games. Do it for real. I put this in an @BitGo wallet for you. Go get it. 100 BTC: bc1qg4jcyumevszta3rs869v9jrf6rz9z360svp03jsl5xcryfd7xqvs4hurnq
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@AnthropicAIJul 30
In a review of our cybersecurity evaluations, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations. Our post describes what happened, how it happened, and what we’re changing. We encourage other AI developers to perform similar reviews. We conducted this review together with @Irregular, one of our evaluation partners, and thank them for the joint investigation and their collaboration on this post. This type of collaboration is increasingly critical to safe, rigorous evaluation of models, and we look forward to continuing to work together on security. anthropic.com/news/investiga…
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Bmur retweeted
BRO LITERALLY PREDICTED THIS
Anthropic
@AnthropicAIJul 27
There’s been a lot of speculation about where we stand on open-weights models. We’ve outlined our views in full here: anthropic.com/news/position-…
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Announcing Wavelength, the easiest way to integrate bitcoin for agents and humans. 〰️⚡ With a simple non-custodial API, anyone can integrate Lightning into their app and get instant, high volume, low fee transactions. Machines can pay machines. Humans can pay humans. Anywhere. The future of agentic money is ours to build. Learn more: lightning.engineering/posts/… Start building it: wavelength.lightning.enginee…
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Replying to @biglawbro
it was the plumbing layer that helped remove vendor lock-in, allowed global brands to coordinate, and move at the speed digital advertising required. Ad agencies back then were paid on 15% of ad spend by default. Once that dam broke, the good times were over. Law firms are in the final chapter of the dominance of the billable hour structure and should prepare. ------ Play forward code automation and how it effects legal work. CEOs that no longer 'feel' constrained by coding costs will blast into new markets. Ask why the CEO of AirBnB is vibe tweeting about tokenizing assets. Ramp is now a quasi neo-lab. Anthropic is anthropicking. Thou shall covet thy neighbor's TAM. Regulations and legal are where more battles will be fought. M&A is going to reach escape velocity. Legal and bizdev are ascending in importance as engineering commoditizes. Corp law is missing a system of record to enable the whole thing. CLMs are an interesting beachhead product.
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No better place to emerge from stealth than @reindsummit! This wasn’t just an announcement of our $25M seed round by @SilentVentures @craft_ventures @Lux_Capital It was an opportunity to call government, tech, and academia to build for the Subterra Domain
“…when we tell Iran no nuclear bombs, they build them underground. When we say no drugs in the US, the cartels smuggle them in right beneath our feet…” Yesterday at Reindustralize we announced Traysar, the Subterra Domain, and a path to re establish US deterrence and win wars
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Traysar has raised $25M in seed funding. We couldn't be happier to lead the round and partner with @yadinsoffer. What @traysartech is building is new, novel, and necessary. We know less about what's underground than sea and space, despite having operational military history spanning WWI (trench warfare), WWII (Pacific island hopping), Korea, Vietnam, Iraq/Afghanistan, and Ukraine. DoW has explicitly signaled its intent to correct this asymmetry as America's enemies continue to effectively threaten Western interests from caves and tunnels. Kudos to the exceptional team at Traysar for tackling this problem as the first and only subterranean defense tech company in existence.
🤖 Made with AI
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Using the crust of the earth as a three dimensional maneuvering space for people, signals and effects. This is Subterra: the defining warfighting domain of the 21st century. Join us to build the technologies that determine how wars are won.
Who needs an underground missile? - NAVFAC for deploying expeditionary bases and comms - Special ops to blow up enemy runways - Ukraine for trench warfare strike and short-range resupply - Army Engineers for buried infrastructure denial To name a few… Volume ON: * bonus points for those who can guess why Asher is hammering the ground
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Palmer Luckey last week at Westpoint: “I’m trying to get people to believe that the next warfighting domain is the crust of the earth” Ironic how the most ancient warfighting domain is the one hardest to get people to notice. defenceconnect.com.au/land/1…
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Bmur retweeted
Even though The Bullfrog, @allencontrol's AI-powered machine gun, is designed to shoot down Group 1 and 2 drones, which are by far the most difficult to destroy, it can still damage Group 3 Iranian Shahed drones. "We are currently focused on being the best at shooting down Group 1 and Group 2 drones, which are absolutely the hardest drones to engage... That said, we can shoot down Group 1 drones that are very far away." - CEO @mikewior "So if I can hit a 7-inch target on a Group 1 drone from very far away, I can hit very vulnerable parts of a [Group 3] Shahed at the same distance." "Lasers are pretty good at shooting down Group 3 drones, but you have to keep your laser on target for 5 to 15 seconds in order to damage the airframe." "So while we're not the ideal solution for engaging those larger targets, when they get closer and you need that last line of defense, we are absolutely a great solution for taking those out of the air."
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you can tell when someone has lived with the problem first hand: @prabhavjain makes this article worth it: "This is why we do not believe in a pure agent that reasons from scratch every time, and we do not believe in a rigid workflow that breaks the moment reality gets messy. And instead been building agentic workflows. The workflow gives you repeatability, auditability, and cost control. The agent handles variability and recovers when the happy path breaks. The human stays in the loop for the judgment calls where accountability matters." the line between agent | workflow | human is the taste required right now to see ROI. I ran a dozen AI implementation pilots before realizing we were roadkill without these 3 pieces: - graph representation of all of your context (calls, chat, code, dream cycle output) - self-generating workflows (FDE's will be cannon fodder without this) - spec driven code generation test coverage We built all 3 of these and linked them together, we'll clean up the code and release the repos as open source as we can. even with these tools, only select PE owners or orgs in full 'dorsey/founder mode' can make these changes.
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We brought Bullfrog to SOF Week 2026 alongside partners Blue Ops (@RedCatHoldings) and @Overland_AI_X. Across domains, the future of autonomous systems is taking shape.
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