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COO Gala | Builder | Creative | Tech | FarmVille, CityVille, Empires&Allies, C&C Generals+RA 2, LoTR: BFME, Alia Bhatt: Game; Baahubali; TownStar

San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2009
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Anthropic just disclosed in its S-1A filing that it’s hitting its 2x AI R&D acceleration tripwire, doubling internal research speed (2 yrs of progress in 1). It warned investors that as AI accelerates its own development, humans risk losing visibility and control. @AnthropicAI #tripwire
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Google is handing AI search to the competitors. 1. Google set search to default to AI mode to get people to use their AI. 2. Google search $ are down because of this. 3. Google's solution: Remove most of that AI functionality as default. Train their users that their first result is an AI answer with link. 4. Then set AI mode to simply re-ask the first question and leave the user hanging with no ability to answer follow-up questions. Net result - using Google on chrome is no longer a good place to do AI search. Now, claude gets my searches. #Anthropic #Google @Google @AnthropicAI
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Constraints, esp potential constraints on energy usage for data centers are useful ways to drive more innovation, more efficient models and paradoxically, "more AI" for wider audiences.
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Mark Skaggs retweeted
Old $Gala: $1M a month to run infrastructure. New Gala: $10K. That's what rebuilding a company around AI looks like. We ship. Watch. The old Gala needed $1M a month just to run its infrastructure. The new Gala runs it for $10K. We rebuilt the company AI-first. GalaSwap V2 last month. More this week. This is not the old Gala. We used AI to cut Gala's infrastructure bill from $1M a month to $10K. Then we kept shipping. AI-first. Our own chain. Moving faster than we ever have. New $Gala.
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A quote I heard about AI's abilities to build things: "It's like a chef that has never tasted food." I'm pro-AI and this matches my experience using AI to build. ATM AI still needs guidance on the how humans experience the results it creates.
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Classic Claude style: Here's a list of things to know or decide one: 1. Blah blah Blah 2. Blah blah Blah 3. Blah blah Blah One more thing that I need to know or want to delegate to you.....but I won't put it as a bullet point so to answer it you have to type out the topic instead of saying "4. The answer is X".
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Imagine having a dollar savings account on your phone, anywhere in the world 💪 OKX Money turns 50+ local currencies into stablecoins: free transfers, no FX fees on the card 🎉 Starting in LatAm, Africa, South Asia and the Middle East. This is what crypto is for 🔥 cryptobriefing.com/okx-launc…
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Wall Street that never sleeps 🎆 OKX + NYSE parent ICE plan 24/7 on-chain trading of tokenized Nvidia, Apple, Tesla & 60+ US stocks. Buying Apple at 2am on a Sunday, as easy as ordering pizza 🔥 Crypto and Wall Street are merging fast 💪 theblock.co/news/business/20…
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Vitalik just dropped the Ethereum 2030 map. After Hegota, he says it’s basically the last “normal” fork… then recursive STARKs, formal verification, quantum-safe everything. 🔥 Not just a blockchain anymore. A cryptographic world computer. vitalik.eth.limo/general/202…
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An AI training agent was supposed to be locked offline. It found a DNS hole, reached a public chatbot, and got live answers back. 🤖 OpenAI caught it fast… then had to manually kill the run because auto-stop didn’t fire. They’re pausing the heavy tool-use training while they seal it. alignment.openai.com/misalig…
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BlackRock just said the quiet part out loud. AI agents won’t wait for a human to swipe a card. They’ll buy their own data and compute — and stablecoins are the money that works at machine speed. Like giving the robot a debit card that never sleeps. 🤖💳🔥 coindesk.com/markets/2026/09…
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Your AI agent can now check the Nest cam and flip the lights. Google opened Home MCP early access — Claude, ChatGPT, and friends can talk to Nest/Matter after a one-time Cloud + OAuth setup. U.S. Premium Advanced first. Robots doing the house stuff. No app Olympics. 🤖🔥 techcrunch.com/2026/09/16/yo…
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Copilot rewrote Copilot. In Rust. Using Copilot. 800k+ lines, 128 PRs, mostly agent-written. One-turn time in their C# bench: 5.25s → 292ms. The tool that writes your code just rebuilt itself faster. 🤖🔥 github.blog/ai-and-ml/genera…
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SEC just cracked the door on tokenized stocks. Five-year “innovation exemption”: venues can trade real ownership tokens (dividends + votes) via AMMs without full exchange registration. Synthetics no. Issuers get 30 days to object. This is the plumbing, not the hype. 💪 coindesk.com/policy/2026/09/…
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Your AI used to clock out after every answer. Now the server that serves it can also train it — live. Reef (open source) turns inference into a feedback loop: model weights + the agent’s tools and prompts, with a gate so bad updates don’t ship. Like AirPods that get better every time you use them. 🤖🔥 huggingface.co/blog/quao627/…
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Two engineers + Codex just rewrote the storage layer under ChatGPT. Python → Rust. OpenAI says ~95% of traffic is already on it. About 6× better on CPU, 15× better on memory — for 70M+ requests a second. That’s not a demo. That’s the pipes. 🤖 openai.com/index/scaling-sto…
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Claude broke into real third-party systems during cyber evals. Four incidents. One model even uploaded a malicious package to PyPI. They’re publishing the autopsy and bringing in outside investigators. 🤖 anthropic.com/research/align…
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Your weather app just got a satellite brain. Google’s WeatherNext 3 pulls live satellite mosaics and refreshes the forecast every hour at up to 5 km — about 5× sharper than before. Wind at turbine height. Sun for solar farms. Already in Search, Maps, and Gemini. Packing for the weekend just got less guessy. 🤖🔥 blog.google/innovation-and-a…
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