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("as long as the owners agree to not join a lawsuit against the company")xAI and its subsidiary MZX are reportedly offering to buy hundreds of homes around Southaven, Mississippi. https://t.co/19arJN4Ywr
— The Verge (@verge) October 28, 2026
Breaking news: Alphabet shares tumbled 13% on Thursday after the Google owner revealed that 'AI mode' searches were threatening profits at its core advertising business. ft.trib.al/g8Q9IPx
— Financial Times (@financialtimes.com) October 29, 2026 at 6:39 AM
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Reddit stock down almost 30% today, AI search has just obliterated their search traffic. AI has destroyed the previously-indelible value of that one guy who had the answer to your tech problem in a thread from 8 years ago.
— joemag (@joemag.games) October 30, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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Rumors say Google is finally killing that terribly dumb AI Overview model at the top of search results. Yeah, that box hurt their ad click rates and burned through a massive amount of compute. Fixing their compute shortage is probably the biggest reason behind this move. https://t.co/w9MW6Am2Ld
— Jun Song (@jun_song) October 30, 2026
Not really a conspiracy, it's just random because Gemini is kind of stupid. https://t.co/DiKH4u3JCJ
— Aric Toler (@AricToler) October 28, 2026
You can uncensor it using this prompt engineering technique I invented
— Colin (@colin-fraser.net) October 28, 2026 at 8:02 AM
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I'm fascinated by a weird ad for Muse @milkkarten spotted on Instgram, claiming it could help you see who unfollowed you. Which, it can, but that's a feature Instagram has repeatedly said it doesn't want users to have. (Meta has taken down the ad). A curious tension here: AI agents and social media aren't necessarily playing nice. There's things Muse can do for users that is at the detriment to the health of the social platforms. So what balance does Meta strike to make sure the new shiny thing isn't cannibalizing the old profitable thing? https://t.co/mkBM9g5PEd
— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) October 29, 2026
NEW: We obtained conversational AI robocalls from a Musk-backed PAC targeting James Talarico in Texas. The AI calls attack him in part over… data centers. Talarico’s campaign tells us Paxton’s “only volunteers” willing to call voters are “AI robots.” https://t.co/EYpd8tMmqv
— Andrew Kaczynski (@KFILE) October 29, 2026
Zero History was a very good novelA CIA officer meets a secret source. Nobody notices. But AI could track both through thousands of cameras and expose the connection months later. Even Putin reportedly fears this technology. Is AI making undercover espionage nearly impossible? #CIA #HUMINT #NationalSecurity https://t.co/7nGZIiNuCe
— Robert Morton (@Robert4787) October 25, 2026
❗️ An anonymous X account outed Claude Code engineer Thariq Shihipar's exit from Anthropic over 4 hours before he announced it. Shihipar confirmed he had left, then asked Gmail to stop people scanning for deactivated email addresses. "I was hoping for a relaxing Friday night" https://t.co/SWB73q1A3C
— International Cyber Digest (@IntCyberDigest) October 25, 2026
("off-duty cops hired to escort the shipments were targeted in hit-and-runs")Cargo thieves are infiltrating email accounts to find lucrative shipments, misdirecting shipments, disrupting GPS tracking, and using AI to create fake driver’s licenses to get accomplices hired as delivery drivers. They are even taking out the hired muscle en route. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
— David Nowak (@davidnowak.me) October 27, 2026 at 7:10 AM
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A friend in SF was out walking his dog and saw someone else walking a robot dog. He sent me the video. The other guy was a paid robot dog walker. I had SO many questions so I investigated: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/t...
— Kashmir Hill (@kashhill.bsky.social) October 27, 2026 at 4:47 AM
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(The founder says the robots could carry groceries for people)The job ad was pretty amazing.
— Kashmir Hill (@kashhill.bsky.social) October 27, 2026 at 8:42 AM
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Purdue University's IDEAS Lab built an autonomous drone that tracks runners through dense forests completely without GPS or cloud networks. By running 3D LiDAR mapping and obstacle-avoidance AI entirely on-chip, it can weave under tree canopies and predict target movement through blind spots in real time. Massive implications for next-gen search & rescue and edge AI. https://t.co/HFsnKweHLY
— Praveen Kumar Verma (@Alacritic_Super) October 25, 2026
Surprise 1: Anthropic acquired a one-person biotech . . . Surprise 2: that person is me Surprise 3: I’m here to tell you all about it Yes, this is what you think it is; after 6 yrs of increasingly loose anonymity: the Professor Oak reveal post …and yes, it has gotten so boring around here that I’m literally doxxing myself to spice up the timeline ------- Ok, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cody Tranbarger. I mostly tweet, but occasionally find time to dabble in drug dev & starting/building biotechs. My past lives span the VC, crossover, startup continuum; Prof Oak has been my way of keeping a digital foot in those worlds, despite having my physical feet planted elsewhere. The past 18 mo, ‘elsewhere’ was Mithril Medicine, a co. I founded to develop bsAbs for LAMA2-CMD & other ECM-related genetic diseases. Mithril was born out of hands-on building with @MikeNGladstone, @JasonPaulRhodes, @LifeSciVC, & team @atlasventure. Somehow, I made enough half-decent calls along the way (even a broken clock is right twice a day, eh?) to convince them Mithril/I warranted a small seed. While I can hardly rationalize such an outrageously cavalier bet, I’m grateful for it, & I'd partner with Atlas again in a heartbeat. In typical AV fashion, Mithril’s primordial form was virtual, decentralized, & ultra-lean. This stage tends to be short-lived, but for Mithril, it worked surprisingly well, for surprisingly long, thanks in part to the rapid maturation of the AI tools I used liberally. Eventually, Mithril became a bit of an experiment itself - to find the upper bound of how far it could scale as a single operator + a bunch of Claude (+ a stellar bench of part-time consultants). In parallel, I started spending time with @nc_frey, @an1lam, & @CoefficientBio team; and promptly experienced, for the 1st time, AI at the frontier. Soon thereafter, Mithril stopped looking like an experiment, & started looking like a preview of an entirely new operating model. From that spark came “Pipeline-in-a-Person.” The idea immediately resonated when we shared it here back in April; and it was central to the shared vision that led to Anthropic’s acquisition of Mithril, & my joining the team. Why join Anthropic? Three reasons. (1) For Mithril, the programs continue, with more resources & infrastructure behind them, and as much Claude as I can put to work. (2) For me, the chance to start several more programs, & find out how many one person can actually run in parallel - an almost unprecedented luxury for a curious drug hunter. (3) For our mission, a path to institutionalize & scale this new way of working, then put it in the hands of all of biopharma, all over the world - which, candidly, I find the most energizing. Will AI x Bio cure diseases? Unequivocally yes, imo… but not by the route that gets the most airtime. Rather than timeline acceleration & compression, I see orchestration & parallelization as today's low-hanging fruit. Most drug hunters see a handful of go/no-go calls in a career, & spend entirely too much of the rest trading emails (my inbox can attest). Give them the bandwidth to run several programs at once, and the time to focus on scientific judgment, and I’m willing to bet they’ll make better calls. And at scale, better calls translate to more drugs, higher hit rates, broader patient impact, & likely, a disease or 10 or 100 cured. I couldn't be more excited to build toward that future @AnthropicAI. Finally, a heartfelt thank you to BioTwitter/X. The end of anonymity is bittersweet, but if anyone’s earned a proper introduction, you all have. It’s difficult to overstate how much this app has done for me: a decade of education, plenty of friends, many job opportunities, several mentors, a few investors, even a co-founder (fmr). It was the generosity of this community that inspired me to start posting 6 years ago, after just as many years lurking. I hope I’ve been able to pay it forward, in my own small way. But, to be clear, Prof Oak isn’t going anywhere. Same beat, same themes, and now, a front-row seat to drug development at the frontier. Stay tuned for dispatches from the trenches; and remember... Gotta Cure 'Em All
— Professor Oak (@Prof_Oak_) October 27, 2026
("Mayer has a startling staccato laugh. When she’s excited about something, which she often is, she speaks in a frenetic rush, as if her words are racing to keep up with her thoughts...Mayer was eager to show me what Dazzle, which she called “one of my babies,” could do.")cool, cool
— David Gura (@davidgura.bsky.social) October 25, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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Thank you to @nytimes for yesterday’s piece on Dazzle (@itsdazzleai) and for recognizing our team’s hard work. While it’s still early days, the user engagement and response so far have been terrific. I wanted to share more context behind one anecdote in the article—my daughter Marielle’s birthday slide. To be clear, I didn’t use Dazzle because I was overwhelmed by making a slide. I used it because summing up your child in a few bullets feels laughably limiting. And, since our team had just gotten an early prototype running, I wanted to see what deeper threads it might find. So, when Marielle and her twin sister Sylvana’s 4th-grade teachers emailed asking for a slide celebrating each girl for their December 10th birthday, I pasted the email into Dazzle to test its limits. I fully expected it to struggle, since most facial recognition can’t even tell my identical twins apart. Instead, Dazzle blew me away. Not only did it distinguish Marielle from Sylvana, it surfaced forgotten kindergarten projects (like the “snake denomizer” and the “sandcat playground”) and connected them to who Marielle is today. I combined Dazzle’s insights with a few of my own and showed the slide to @zackbogue. He was floored and asked how I remembered those details. I fessed up that the Dazzle prototype had found them, and we both marveled at what AI can unlock from our camera rolls. (Pictures attached of Dazzle’s response, plus the slide I made with its insights and my own.) The foundational paper on transformers is titled “Attention Is All You Need.” What makes photos + AI so powerful is that our camera rolls are a decades-long record of what we pay attention to. By analyzing that visual history, an AI agent can connect dots we didn’t even realize we were documenting. A birthday slide isn’t a common case, but here are a few that have stunned Dazzle users recently: - Personalized learning: Dazzle offered custom spelling lists and grammar concepts based on photos of a child’s schoolwork. - Home inventory: Given a book club reading list, Dazzle found a book the user already had and noted two others by the same authors, entirely from the backgrounds of their photos. - Design intuition: Dazzle noticed a new sofa in a user’s living room photo and recommended artwork to hang above it. - Wardrobe suggestions: For an esoteric costume party, Dazzle recommended what the user already had in their closet and could wear, based on the clothes in their past pictures. We take 5 billion photos a day, often wondering if we’ll ever look at them again. Now, AI can turn those snapshots into deep, personal context.
— marissamayer (@marissamayer) October 26, 2026
People are focusing on this, which IS funny, but I will also say that her product -- "AI for busy moms" is like a category I'm getting pitches about daily, there are SO many of these out there now, I don't think any of them will work
— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) October 26, 2026
Everyone made fun of the Softbank goose that lays golden eggs presentation but you can see why such ideas may be novel in some circles
— Matthewせいじ (@matthewseiji.com) July 6, 2026 at 9:13 AM
Miyamoto gave extended commentsAI is an unmatched fraud detector
— Morgan Park (@morganpark.bsky.social) October 27, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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@_YHARNAMITE_ Found a Reddit thread on it. People theorizing that they're AIs that have crossed the blackwall. https://t.co/CzWgoh6M4t
— Big Soy Sauce 🧄🍉 (@ReapedPsyche) October 27, 2026
A pretty bleak article about the lengths Big Five publishers will go to force AI on its authors and staff. I used to believe a contract with one of these companies was the great goal of writing novels. It’s freeing to realize they don’t actually care about literature. https://t.co/pmX2cLmibC
— Aatif Rashid (@Aatif_Rashid) October 28, 2026
ended up on an extremely weird site while trying to look up some basic information a couple of weeks ago and it sent me down a deep rabbit hole www.eurogamer.net/ai-fan-wikis...
— Jay Castello 🌻 (@jaymcastello.bsky.social) October 27, 2026 at 5:30 AM
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wow. this recruiter post on how Weil folks have distorted the market is crazy. just another perspective. https://t.co/zpjwZxiGhI
— Paul Kim (@writeclimbrun) October 27, 2026
Someone on Reddit built his wife a job search app. She is a junior software engineer, and her job search had dragged on for almost 10 months. Tailoring a resume for every posting took ages. So he built Dossier. It finds postings, then writes a tailored resume, cover letter and email for each job, using only facts from her profile. It tracks every application from draft to offer on a board, and it runs on your own server, with a local AI model option, so your data stays with you. She landed a job with it, so he open-sourced it for anyone in the same spot. It is free at https://t.co/0kx7EuwQii.
— Vaibhav Sisinty (@VaibhavSisinty) October 27, 2026
Hacker News discussion (I didn't see a good article)This is INSANE. Cisco’s president Jeetu Patel has given a 27-year-old engineer unlimited AI tokens to try to rewrite 98% of the company’s legacy code within 24 months, Fortune reports. Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy thinks he can do it with a two-person team. He has just four weeks to prove the approach.
— Choblin (@choblin29) October 30, 2026
It looks like Amazon AGI division is being shut down and their foundational models Nova are being sunset. Along the same lines they are shutting down Q IDE (autocomplete and chat in IDE), also abandoning efforts to train code-generation models. https://t.co/r7cUtPxpVT
— Leo Boytsov (@srchvrs) October 27, 2026
(So are all these out-of-work programmers irrelevant because they're not shape rotators or agentic or whatever, or are they a tremendous danger because some will turn to cybercrime?)MICROSOFT'S OWN AI TEAMS ARE ON THE BUYOUT LIST This chart shows which teams get the Voluntary Exit Offer. Fully participating: AI Experiences. Copilot, Agents & Platform. CoreAI. Office of the CTO. Windows + Devices. Xbox. Finance. Human Resources. Strategy & Transformation. Partly participating: Cloud + AI and Microsoft AI. Sitting it out: Marketing. Commercial Business. Security. Discovery & Quantum. The company selling Copilot is offering exits to the team that builds Copilot.
— LayoffHedge (@LayoffAI) October 27, 2026
(“If you were on a second, third date and you can choose if you’re gonna talk about politics, religion, or AI, I’d rather talk about politics or religion”)Holy shit. Men, including Anthropic employees, were charged $800 each by a San Francisco matchmaker for a dating dinner with 15 women and just seven men. Women attended free. One man was in his 70s, according to a new SF Standard report. She also offers $1,000 'diagnostic dates': 30 minutes of mock dating followed by blunt feedback. Her clients include men from OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia and Google. AI allegiance is also becoming a dating dealbreaker. One woman calls working at OpenAI 'kind of a red flag' and considers Anthropic more ethical. An AI startup founder would date an OpenAI employee but hesitates over Anthropic because of its association with AI doomerism. At another dating show, men's ChatGPT histories and Reddit activity are examined onstage. One AI worker was playfully booed. And one founder says he's 'single until Series B' and wants a partner interested in living forever, exploring Mars and connecting their minds to AI.
— Choblin (@choblin29) October 24, 2026
how are you supposed to explain that the Deptartment of Education is posting nods to alt-right pedophilic gender-swapping fanfic without sounding like an insane person
— Sam Alberti (@sam_alberti) October 27, 2026
In the last few weeks i've been bombarded with emails from people who have minor tech support problems. ChatGPT is telling them to email me, writing their emails, and compiling "evidence packets" after convincing them they have stumbled on a major story: www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...
— Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) October 26, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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Hey Chooms! I love that Capri made such an impact on you all that you want to make desktop companions like Capri or mods for the game and stuff, but *I DO NOT CONSENT* to my voice being cloned and used for such things and will not be doing requests to be used for such things. https://t.co/Tj0mQaXPwX
— Brittany Lauda✨Vongola Decimo (@BrittanyLaudaVO) October 25, 2026
Got a cheap embroidery machine off amazon for $300 where the biggest complaint is the mandatory $12/mo app that you’re forced to use. Had ChatGPT create its own app that communicates with the machine. Generative art patches incoming! https://t.co/g42bx2jqpl
— Kath Korevec (@simpsoka) October 24, 2026
A clip from Boris Acket's new 8-story installation in Amsterdam. Claude Opus 5.5 is choreographing the fabric via 400 fans and lights, synced to live weather and audio data. Truly mesmerizing. Open through Nov 1. https://t.co/ogre9NXglB
— Greg (@livelaughgreg) October 27, 2026
If it's using AI, they certainly don't emphasize it
Sick of AI ads, a roofer hand-drew his own and was accused of being AI — the post went viral, spawning dozens of copycats made with AI image models
— Waxy.org (@waxy.org) October 29, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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even censoring mbappe from the translation service youdao
— Bill Bishop (@niubi) October 27, 2026
PRC AI models won't answer when asked what Mbappe said...pathetic
— Bill Bishop (@niubi) October 27, 2026
Hilarious coded message on Chinese social media: -------------------------------------------------------- Q: What did Mbappe actually say? (His comment was censored in China so people unfamiliar with the incident would have no idea) A: He said Tang Guoqiang was an art student (Tang, the Chinese film star, was famous for his frequent portrayal of Mao on screen. Hitler was an aspiring artist) --------------------------------------------------------- The irony of the Mbappe cancelation is that a pretty good test of whether Mao was actually a dictator, or whether the Chinese people live in a dictatorship, is that whether in China you are allowed to say Mao was a dictator.
— 涵瞰世界/杨涵 Han Yang (@polijunkie_aus) October 27, 2026
YIDDEN I GOTCHU www.lifeisasacredtext.com/the-jewish-c...
— Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@theradr.bsky.social) October 30, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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