How stablecoins become money: Liquidity, sovereignty, and credit by Sam Broner a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/…

LAWYERS AS VERIFIERS Use lawyers as AI verifiers. Here’s how. (1) First, tell the AI that it’s the named partner of the most capable law firm in your city, with expertise not just in corporate law, but tech startups, compliance, accounting, and the like. (2) Then, draft a memo

Great day with enthusiastic MPs about how to power up the British Economy with equitable progressive technologies :) Looks like the tech enthusiasm within the government is going viral Peter Kyle ! Checkout the Gov app on gov.uk/guidance/downl… Arden Strategies Startup Coalition

When will most business schools start teaching classes about managing AI agents?

American manufacturing is gridlocked 4 stakeholders have aligned goals, misaligned incentives: - Industry wants growth, can’t find talent - Govt wants jobs, chases headlines - Education chases prestige (and $), not pipelines - Tech wants scale, not fit All want a stronger USA

The impulse to medicalize everything— boyhood, masculinity, the human experience—is the real sickness. Incredible what happens when you refuse the medical framing and choose to live with the cards God and nature dealt you.

High speed internet everywhere 🛰️ Starlink

During travel season, I always reflect on how much the experience of travel has changed in the last 20 years. The greatest annoyance 25 years ago was finding the cool stuff. It was so difficult to know what was great and what was trash, and you had to chance it, risk it, ask

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We don’t just talk about Making America Skilled Again—we’re taking action to make it happen 🔥 Learn more about our effort to empower states and communities to upskill the American Workforce: blackenterprise.com/labor-departme…

Deeptech doesn’t have to be defensetech, or have to sell to military/government. Seems like founders sometimes need to be reminded. For some companies going down the government funding/sales path can be a big distraction, esp in early days.

"AI isn't replacing radiologists" good article Expectation: rapid progress in image recognition AI will delete radiology jobs (e.g. as famously predicted by Geoff Hinton now almost a decade ago). Reality: radiology is doing great and is growing. There are a lot of imo naive

My friend Grant Gregory created a great ~300 slide deck on the state of deep tech. As one of ~300 VCs in the space, Humba Ventures was excited to contribute a slide. We're very bullish on deep tech, reindustrialization, and the stellar teams emerging from SpaceX/Telsa/etc.🏭🤖🚀

Excited to release new repo: nanochat! (it's among the most unhinged I've written). Unlike my earlier similar repo nanoGPT which only covered pretraining, nanochat is a minimal, from scratch, full-stack training/inference pipeline of a simple ChatGPT clone in a single,

People of Twitter: If you're a propulsion/design engineer from SpaceX, Blue, or elsewhere who wants to work on advanced airbreathing jet engines, please DM me We need NX wizards who can own variable nozzle design, flameholders, and other fun mechanisms and subsystems

My pleasure to come on Dwarkesh last week, I thought the questions and conversation were really good. I re-watched the pod just now too. First of all, yes I know, and I'm sorry that I speak so fast :). It's to my detriment because sometimes my speaking thread out-executes my

I quite like the new DeepSeek-OCR paper. It's a good OCR model (maybe a bit worse than dots), and yes data collection etc., but anyway it doesn't matter. The more interesting part for me (esp as a computer vision at heart who is temporarily masquerading as a natural language

Seriously though, check out the website. You won't regret it. Several blogs, docs, and code now available. Extropic.ai

Surely many are hustling back to the drawing board today 😂 what an acceleration 🚀

Substrate aims to take out TSMC and ASML as 1 firm. Huge huge ambitions, but the starting point isn't 0. They have demonstrated some pretty incredible results with their tool but there's a ton of open questions as well. Read our dive into it below