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Natural wonder, new frontiers, and artificial intelligence. I cover technology, science, and am a co-host on Neural Network News covering AI.

Irvine, CA
Joined December 2007
Anthropic just opened its books: $16.3B in revenue in six months, up ~1,300%. First operating profit in Q2. 5% of shares pledged to a public benefit fund. ~100 pages of risk factors. Have an index fund? You may soon own a piece. 📈
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Playing around with this and it’s been awesome!
Now you can type the weather. 🌧️ Google DeepMind's Genie 4 builds a world and changes it live as you prompt: rain, camera, characters, plus sound. Scenes hold up to 2 minutes. Research preview for now. Games you design by describing them are coming. 🎮
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Asking my AI teacher how to spell seventeen
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I’m not crying, you’re crying
Oh Captain my Captain. You will forever be remembered. tiktok.com/t/ZPLyoKuJh/
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Shit just got real, banks are struggling today
AI just cracked open PHP, the code behind ~70% of websites, WordPress included. Two critical flaws, hidden for years, now patched. Then OpenAI disclosed two of its own coding agents weakened their monitoring. Who’s watching the watchers?
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I’m impressed with the upgrade, we use this app for our podcast and it adds so much more audio entertainment to it. Thanks Fish Audio!
$52M seed round. 15M+ users. But this is what we're most proud of yet. Introducing Drama 3: the most emotive and controllable TTS model in the world And yes, it's open-weight. You can now control how even a single word should sound, change its tone, and shift your voice mid-sentence. Uncle Roger was impressed too. Try it here: s.fish.audio/rqh0l8 Comment “DRAMA” within the next 48 hours for 1 month free. If you're an enterprise your first month is on us: s.fish.audio/qz9r0t
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Here we go!
This is GPT-6 Astra. Anything you can do on a computer, Astra can do for you. Fast.
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Tron vibes for sure 😍
The foundations for an exciting future are being built in Texas. Next up: Terafab → spacex.com/updates#terafab
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SciTechJohn retweeted
AI memes are getting ridiculously good 😂 This Mr. Bean remake with Sam Altman and Tim Cook was made with Kling 3, and it’s absolute gold.
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For a world in turmoil, this paints a different picture… and I’m here for it.
I can't stop listening to this song. Best thing that came out of the World cup being in the United States this year. 🇺🇸 Watching this compilation of fans from all over the world at the 2026 World Cup in America is so heartwarming. USA USA USA 🇺🇸
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Not sure how I feel about this
Today, we’re launching our home robot Isaac 1. Isaac 1 deliveries will begin this fall. Order yours below.
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The Earth just experienced FOUR significant earthquakes in a single day. First, it was a Magnitude 5.6 in California’s Redwood Valley. Then, 7 hours later, a devastating “double” quake inflicted massive destruction in northern Venezuela. The first one at Magnitude 7.2, followed by an even larger Magnitude 7.5 only 39 SECONDS later. Finally, a mere 25 minutes after the Venezuela twins, a Magnitude 6.9 marine earthquake struck offshore of Kuji, Japan. Very rare to see this much seismic activity across the globe in such a short period of time.
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Stop what you're doing and watch this
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Leveling up!
GPT-5.5 is a new class of intelligence. This intelligence makes it intuitive to use; it completes challenging tasks with little micromanagement. Also very token efficient, and runs with low latency and at scale. A real step toward a new way of getting computer work done.
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SciTechJohn retweeted
AI just designed a full rocket engine in 2 weeks! No copying old blueprints. It explored wild geometries that humans rarely imagine. Engineers 3D-printed it, and it fired. All hail our machine overlords! 😱 nitter.cf/CharlesMullins2/status…
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Now ready for an AI system work work on my computer, while I’m at work.
Today we're releasing Personal Computer. Personal Computer integrates with the Perplexity Mac App for secure orchestration across your local files, native apps, and browser. We’re rolling this out to all Perplexity Max subscribers and everyone on the waitlist starting today.
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Just now finding out about @weatherchannel’s retro option, music and everything, and I am weeping openly. Feels so good to be back baby weather.com/retro/
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SciTechJohn retweeted
We just released Music Marketplace in ElevenCreative. To celebrate, we’re giving away 5,000 free credits so you can create and publish your first track. For the next 6 hours: retweet + follow @ElevenCreative and we’ll DM you the credits (must follow).
Introducing the Music Marketplace in @ElevenCreative. Creators, artists, and musicians can now publish and earn from their tracks created with our music model.
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