Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
OK, look. Obviously, racism is bad. But if we give any nonwhite American a free pass to commit any crime for fear that punishing them would ignite a racist backlash, this country will fall apart.
Garry Tan: A California mayor just pled guilty to being a literal foreign agent of the Chinese government. She ran a CCP propaganda website disguised as local news.
NBC's angle? The real problem is that reporting on it "reignited fears of anti-Asian discrimination."
As an Asian American:
We 🫶 our Labsters 🦞
“Explain what your product does in 5 words or less.”
Xavier Bresson
How do we design materials with AI?
Excited to introduce Crys-JEPA, a new generative technique in collaboration w/ @liun_online, Kostya Novoselov, @ylecun & team. We achieved 47.9% VSUN on MP20 by building a high-quality energy-aware latent space with JEPA
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.14759
Many such cases
Raju Datla: @garrytan So far in 7 Hermes setups, GBrain working. 6 of them are for actual companies, not just personal projects, only one of mine is personal project. Oh, I Forget 9 actually (so 3 personal projects 1 of mine and other 2 for two friends I setup hermes for). Great work @garrytan Loving
All Firewall mitigations are now fully free on @vercel. Not just DDoS and system-level mitigations, but also any rule you configure.
Vercel now absorbs the computational and network costs of any size of attack or traffic mitigation for your peace of mind. (And more to come!)
Vercel Developers: All firewall-mitigated traffic is now free on Vercel.
Starting today, you aren't charged for requests that are denied, challenged, or rate-limited by Vercel Firewall. This extends free DDoS mitigation to rules you configure.
https://vercel.com/changelog/web-application-firewall-mitigated-traffic-is-free-on-vercel
Raveesh 折図
Re @mathurahravi This by @swyx is some of the best writing on the internet https://www.swyx.io/create-luck
Last year I asked Connie Chan to resign for her role in making San Francisco unsafe for Asian Americans
This year she somehow got the endorsement from Pelosi
Make it make sense. You can’t.
Sara Libby: BREAKING: Nancy Pelosi is endorsing Connie Chan in the race to replace her in Congress. https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/nancy-pelosi-connie-chan-endorsement-22265327.php
Ben Springwater
Highly, highly recommend @erikphoel’s 4-pt series about teaching toddlers to read - both as a mindset shift and for practical guidance. I subscribed to his Substack to read them and it was one of the most consequential decisions I’ve made in the past year. https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/how-i-taught-my-3-year-old-to-read
Lenny Rachitsky: Our 3yo got really into reading, in large part thanks to @once_reading. They have a really thoughtfully designed reading program, including these super cute physical books that our son is hooked on.
OK I guess we're going pretty fast improving GBrain day to day right now
Joseph Kahn
The problem with LA is the "Everything's Fine" people. These are people that came to LA after its heyday and during its decline after the financial crash of 2008. The more recent the transplant, the less they are aware of what Los Angeles used to be. They have no idea all the areas that used to be lively, or that there was a world class music and night life scene. If you mention there weren't homeless people shitting on the streets everywhere, they call you a MAGA fascist because unhoused people have rights too and Everything's Fine. If you mention entire neighborhoods like the Pacific Palisades did not burn down, they say you should not be blaming the mayor for the weather (which is controlled by global warming Republicans) and Everything's Fine. You can say it's really not normal for so many shops to be closed all over Los Angeles with empty storefronts, and they'll say something about equity and that Everything's Fine. The street vendors on sidewalks in front of KoreaTown restaurants that are shutting down? That's totally fine because that's LA culture (no it fucking isn't newbie). Crime? Everything's Fine. These theater kid transplants from Michigan say why are you complaining, move somewhere else. They don't know what they don't know.
Then they drink a $20 Erewhon smoothie thinking that's the height of LA culture. Everything's Fine.
taking bets for vercel and supabase rn
altra: Bun goes to Anthropic
Stainless goes to Anthropic
Astral goes to OpenAI
Mintlify goes to OpenAI (???)
Jessica Livingston
"Paying attention is in fact one of the most challenging and meaningful things you can do. Because what you pay attention to shapes what you care about. And what you care about shapes who you become."
The students were lucky to hear this speech; it's excellent advice.
Jonathan Haidt: Thanks to my friend and co-author @glukianoff for laying out what we actually wrote in The Coddling of the American Mind, and applying it in response to seven arguments made by those who objected to my selection as a commencement speaker:
https://eternallyradicalidea.com/p/what-jonathan-haidt-actually-said
Matthew Yglesias
The union and the incumbent hotel owners teamed up to quasi-ban new hotels and competition from Airbnb, so it’s now possible for the hotel owners to share rents generously with the workers — good for them but bad for everyone else in the city.
The New York Times: The average pay of housekeepers in New York City hotels will increase to more than $100,000 a year as part of a contract settlement between an industry trade group and a powerful union. https://nyti.ms/4dPdsTw
Ludo
Announcing @LeadbayAI $4.3M to kill everything you're doing with sales.
Corgi, Deel, L'Oréal recently told us: "We found in 10 min on Leadbay what we couldn't in 6 months with Clay and a GTM agency."
Leadbay qualifies the millions of data-signal-scarce companies nobody could find before.
This is how it works:
Dr. Julie Gurner
Most people are willing to trade the life they (truly) want, for the comfort of today.
Don't be most people.
Do something hard, embarrass yourself, take risks, and try.
Temporary discomfort is always the price, and there is no other door.
Our community needs to care more about the policies that affect Asians and less about the color of people’s skin
SF has produced an unusual kind of grifty Asian American politician that virtue signals by hurting our community like Connie Chan
This must stop
rodamn: @garrytan And yet she will get Asian vote just because Asians are so desperate to vote for an Asian
gm
Fryd Wiatrowski
Today, we’re announcing Viktor’s $75M Series A, led by @Accel .
@viktor__com was supposed to be a small experiment.
It became the AI coworker 10x'ing real businesses.
$15M in annualized revenue run rate. In 10 weeks.
– Small companies saving millions of dollars
– Sourcing hundreds of thousands in new revenue in their first 30 days
– Whole teams getting half their week back
– Companies running 40% leaner without cutting output
Viktor is not another AI tool.
It’s the first true AI employee.
The vision that has been with us since 2023 when we started the company has finally been shipped.
Back then, it was just the two of us, with a very small but dedicated team, iterating for years. Failing multiple times.
Showing products that users didn't even want to test!
But we never gave up.
Our decisions were often wrong. Certainly more often than not! We kept trying.
Now we’ve shipped something people love.
Worth every sleepless night. Every sacrifice.
The best employees don’t need to be told what to do.
Neither does Viktor.
Grateful to @Accel, our team, our earliest users, and everyone who believed this category could be bigger than chat.
This is so cool: rerun.io
Stack: @sveltejs / @threejs / @vercel
Claude Managed Agents 🤝 Vercel Sandbox
https://vercel.com/kb/guide/run-claude-managed-agent-tools-with-vercel-sandbox
Claude: Live from Code with Claude London: we're launching self-hosted sandboxes (public beta) and MCP tunnels (research preview) in Claude Managed Agents.
Run agents inside your own perimeter, with your security controls applied by default.
Chayanka_42
Peter asks really good Questions
Peter Yang: Here's my new episode with @alexalbert__, who shared an inside look at how Anthropic is building the next Claude.
We talked about how the research team:
→ Plans for the model and harness together
→ Uses Claude to turn user feedback into evals
→ Trains Claude's character &
Molly O’Shea
BREAKING: Commure Hits a $7 Billion Valuation
Announcing $70M in new funding led by General Catalyst, with Sequoia & Morgan Stanley
Total funding to date: $750M
Interview with CEO Tanay Tandon
@CommureOS is becoming one of the largest AI infrastructure platforms in healthcare:
→ 500+ healthcare organizations
→ 3,000+ sites of care
→ 200M+ patient encounters annually
→ Tens of billions (!!) in annual claims processed
→ 85%+ of revenue cycle work completed autonomously
→ ARR doubled 3 years in a row
→ 1,200 employees globally
Commure says its AI agents are automating documentation, coding, billing, denials, appeals, scheduling, & revenue cycle workflows across hospitals & physician groups.
P.S. Tanay (@tanay_tandon) started the company at 18.
“Point solutions are going to d*e.”
@sequoia @Alfred_Lin @generalcatalyst @htaneja
𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒
(00:00) Tanay Tandon, Co-Founder & CEO, Commure
(01:03) The $70M R&D Sprint
(03:45) Rockefeller's funding playbook beats dilutive VC
(05:42) Tokens killing SaaS margins
(07:14) Going public is the plan
(07:40) Automating healthcare’s back office
(11:02) Scaling Commure’s engine
(11:49) Partnering with Epic
(13:06) Why healthcare point solutions will be d*ad in 3 years?
(16:42) Learnings from the AWS-CIA deal
(19:13) Going to zero rollouts overnight
(22:23) Nuking malpractice premiums with AI
(23:52) Winning HCA’s trust
(26:27) Saving burned out doctors
(28:24) Buying a bankrupt hospital
(32:30) Ending healthcare interop
(35:41) The viral hiring email ft. Alfred Lin
(38:23) Acquiring for distribution
(45:13) Free blood samples?
(47:19) The Stanford hacker who became an enterprise sales rep
(48:21) The cargo shorts fiasco
(53:57) American healthcare isn't broken
(55:28) The agentic healthcare takeover
Tanay Tandon: Announcing $70mm on $7B for @CommureOS with our earliest partners @generalcatalyst and support from @sequoia, @MorganStanley, @Kirkland_Ellis. We’re transforming healthcare operations with AI.
eve
this is an insanely fun map
Interesting breakdown about episodic alpha using AI and Freeport Markets to trade better
Interestingly this is precisely the kind of stuff we built for Palantir Finance in 2006 when I was working for @JTLonsdale
Freeport Markets: http://x.com/i/article/2056385150561193984
Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.
Insane hire 🔥🔥🔥
Andrej Karpathy: Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.
Smirkley
A 5-gallon water cooler jug of water produces about $132 in economic output from data centers, but only about 2 cents from almonds.
Alex Finn
Scariest video I've watched this week
America's next generation actively booing the most transformative technology our species has ever seen
In China grandmas line up to get OpenClaw installed
In America, supposedly our most educated people BOO even the mention of AI
The west simply does not stand a chance if this continues
We have a massive AI marketing problem in this country and nobody is doing anything to fix it
Tomorrow Meta will announce 8,000 layoffs. They will blame it completely on AI
They won't blame it on their irresponsible hiring in 2021 or extended elevated rates or horrible market conditions or bad inflation
No, in order to not tank their stock, they'll blame it on AI
College students will read that and learn to HATE the technology
They'll protest outside datacenters holding ridiculous signs that say "SAVE OUR WATER NO MORE DATACENTERS"
Politicians will see this and run on blocking data centers just to get a few votes
All of it will be a cycle that leads to America losing to China
This should be a warning sign to all frontier labs and CEOs: messaging matters. And if your messaging doesn't change the West is cooked
This Week in AI: 3 commencement speakers were booed at the mention of Artificial Intelligence (Video)
1. Eric Schmidt, Google CEO
2. Scott Borchetta, Big Machine Records CEO
3. Gloria Caulfield, Tavistock Development VP
Shreyas Doshi
This recent @bchesky podcast with @patrick_oshag belongs to the hall of fame of tech podcast episodes. Very likely the deepest founder conversation after the Steve Jobs lost interview in the 90s.
Currently it has 90k views; it deserves 100X more views.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eURcW5_uS60
TBPN: BREAKING: @karpathy has joined Anthropic
Go work with Karri folks :)
Karri Saarinen: What excites me most is how agents and AI are making @linear vision more true: the product building system for modern companies.
We’ve spent years building the foundation around context & goals, (customer feedback, docs, projects, issues, initiatives), coordination, and
Come on Google what kind of swag is this lol
It is a shame that the simple act of transferring a large block of data as fast as possible over the internet is not handled effectively by the primitive operating system calls. You either multiplex over parallel persistent TCP connections to combat head-of-line blocking and slow starts, or reinvent reliable delivery and flow control over UDP.
QUIC has a lot going for it, but it is a large library (six figure LoC!) and conflates security and performance in a way I don’t love. There is also fundamental information about competition with other processes and link layer congestion that should be useful, but is unavailable to user libraries.
You should be able to just write(really_big_buffer) and it is all taken care of for you.
Gavin Newsom
Donald Trump is running the greatest grift in American history. It’s corruption at a scale we've never seen in our lifetime.
Google taking the multimodal AI crown with Gemini Omni.
From Demis: “Our goal is to let you generate any output from any input.”
All agentic coding apps are starting to look the same. This is the latest Antigravity app from IO, which looks pretty slick.
But I think this UI is only optimized for a single person to work to agents.
The UI for teams and orgs to work well with agents still needs to be figured out.
Brett Winton
on AI and water use.
You could ask a frontier model 4 questions per day every day for a year.
Or you could eat a single solitary almond.
I feel like Google is going to win consumer AI.
It’s the only US lab that’s building video models and consumers love video (e.g., TikTok / YouTube is far more popular than text based platforms).
The only real competition is Seedance and other video models that don’t care about copyright?
We’re shipping a CDN pricing model that “smooths over” traffic spikes and viral events.
This allows us to remove stress and surprises, with uncompromising quality and network performance.
Predictability without slow routes, degraded PoPs, or priority bandwidth tiers.
Vercel Developers: Flat Rate CDN is in Limited Beta for Pro teams.
You pay a fixed monthly fee for Vercel CDN usage, with no overages for viral spikes, unfiltered bots, or misconfigured routes.
Join the waitlist ↓https://vercel.com/changelog/flat-rate-cdn-in-limited-beta
Bilawal Sidhu
Woot! You can now simulate real world places by grounding Genie 3 experiences with Street View imagery.
Google sitting on the mother lode of real world data, and is starting to put it to work!
Let's dive into some prompts & locations I tested...
if this tweet gets 1 like, tibo will reset codex rate limits
Joe Rogan Recaps
New: Joe Rogan reacts to the mass shootings in Austin, Texas with billionaire Marc Andreessen:
ANDREESSEN: “Flock Safety and ShotSpotter are automated policing technologies used by law enforcement to detect gunfire in real time. They couldn’t track the shooters in Austin because they turned off Flock for political reasons.”
ROGAN: “What political reasons?”
ANDREESSEN: “Some cities think they’re racist technologies that will target people of color and disadvantaged groups.”
ROGAN: “Oh boy woke politics are really fun. The other problem with this is people are going to think this mass shooting was organized by Flock so they could get reinstated in Austin to bring in the surveillance state.
I guarantee people are going to say we’re shills for Flock and are promoting a surveillance state. That’s the problem now that whenever there’s a mass shooting we just assume it’s a false flag. That’s where we’re at as a society.”
Happy anniversary, @FlowbyGoogle! From text-to-video to Omni, agent, and Tools - what a ride it has been. 🚀
Keep pushing the boundaries! On to year two. ⚡
Google Flow: Introducing your agent and the all-new Gemini Omni model in Google Flow. #GoogleIO
✨ Think of your agent as a creative partner. It reasons through complex tasks and helps you brainstorm, create, and edit, all while under your direction.
⚡ Gemini Omni is where Gemini’s
SynthID for checking if an image was generated by OpenAI:
OpenAI: We’re adding new ways for people to identify AI-generated images and understand where they came from.
In addition to C2PA Content Credentials, images now also contain a SynthID watermark, and can be identified using a public verification tool to check whether an image was made
a16z
A tale of two cities with and without Flock over the weekend in Texas:
"Austin had Flock and then turned it off. And as a consequence, they were not able to find these guys."
"These guys drove into some adjacent town up against Austin. And Flock was live in that town, and so Flock tagged them the minute they drove into that town, and then they caught the guys."
"It's crazy to have the ability to solve crimes and stop crimes and not be able to use it."
@pmarca with @joerogan
Garrett Langley: This is the debate we should have everywhere in America. In the richest communities. In the poorest. No community should live with this kind of senseless violence if we have solutions that stop it. "The certainty of being caught is the #1 deterrent of violent crime." -National
Maine
Trump’s “Great” Economy:
-7% mortgage rates
-6% inflation
-$5 gas
-More unemployed than job openings for 1st time since pandemic
-Lowest Consumer Sentiment in 74 years
-CC Delinquencies highest since ‘10
-Student Debt delinquencies highest since ‘20
-Car Loan delinquencies highest EVER
we are offering discounted tokens and certainty on capacity availability in exchange for 1-3 year commits.
we expect that the world will feel increasingly capacity constrained for the next while, as models continue to get much more useful.
OpenAI: Introducing OpenAI Guaranteed Capacity: a new offering that enables customers to guarantee long-term access to OpenAI compute.
We’ve made long-term investments in infrastructure, partnerships, and capacity planning to help customers scale reliably.
Now, Guaranteed Capacity
Adam Thierer
here's your universal "Data Center Opposition Excuse Generator." Just pick any lie, repeat it endlessly even though it has already been debunked many times over, and then move on to the next lie.
Rinse, wash, and repeat.
Have you explored Project Genie yet? 🌎 We just launched a huge set of updates! You can now simulate worlds grounded in @GoogleMaps Street View, manage your creations in a new library, and share them externally. Let's dive in:
1️⃣ Street View Grounding: You can now generate worlds starting from real places! Just tap the Maps pin to choose a location in the US and you can pick a style like "Desert Sands" or "Ocean World." Describe your character, and Genie ties your starting location to real-world imagery.
2️⃣ Library: You can now store and organize your generated worlds. Easily explore past creations or remix your favorites to iterate on your ideas.
3️⃣ External sharing: You can now share your generated worlds. Anyone can watch a video preview of your world, and Ultra subscribers can explore or remix them. Check out a shared world here: https://goo.gle/42j85pj
✨ And now, Project Genie is gradually rolling out to all eligible Google AI Ultra subscribers globally (18+). Jump in and start creating today!
the team is doing great work on agentic security
Fotis Chantzis: Proud to see our work on agent security @openai highlighted in Forbes. Securing AI agents means bringing identity, credential, and access controls directly into the developer workflow, and Codex is a major step in that direction.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timkeary/2026/05/19/openai-and-1password-bring-password-security-to-codex/
Anthropic
Over the past few months, we've been holding dialogues with scholars, philosophers, clergy, and ethicists on the questions AI raises—starting with how good character forms.
Read more about how we’re widening the conversation on frontier AI: https://www.anthropic.com/news/widening-conversation-ai
Republicans against Trump
This is INSANE: Trump’s DOJ says the government is now “FOREVER BARRED” from pursuing tax claims against Trump or his family as part of the “settlement.”
The one-page document, signed by Deputy AG Todd Blanche, also blocks claims tied to pending tax returns.
The most corrupt president in American history by far.
codex app is very good
Theo - t3.gg: Honestly I'm still really impressed with the Codex app.
It works reliably. It adds useful features consistently. It has taste. The mobile integration is awesome. The git integration is solid.
If you haven't used it yet, I highly recommend it.
Melissa Chen
I’ve been lurking in anti-AI, anti-data center activist facebook groups just to understand what their arguments are
Guys it’s really not a good sign that they are borrowing the same tactic of framing non-violent things as violence. During the woke cultural revolution, innocuous things such as free speech and simply asserting the biological reality of two sexes were considered violence.
You know where this leads, right? Labeling things as “violence” or “harm” lowers the bar for outrage and justifies…. anything. There are no limiting principles. It moves the issue from pragmatic cost-benefit analysis into moral theater.
It might be the new mind virus
