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Introducing Shortcut — the first superhuman Excel agent.
Shortcut one-shots most knowledge work tasks on Excel.
It even scores >80% on Excel World Championship Cases in ~10 minutes. That’s 10x faster than humans.
https://x.com/nicochristie/status/1940440489972649989

“Comet browser gives the first glimpse of 100x productivity” – Early Chrome PM, a16z GP. https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1943508746115928315

Comet invites have begun to roll out! https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1943383973675340079

Comet is here. A web browser built for today’s internet. https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/1942969263305671143

Comet vs Chrome: memory consumption https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1943759363203830015

I reached out to Chrome to offer Perplexity as a default search engine option a long time ago. They refused. Hence we decided to build @PerplexityComet browser.”” / X https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1942993484341776729

Introducing Comet: Browse at the speed of thought https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-comet

Introducing Perplexity Max. Our most valuable subscription tier yet. Built for those who demand more, Max gets you unlimited Labs queries, access to a broader suite of frontier models, and early access to products like Comet. https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/1940443479710257226

YouTube on Comet is so much better. iykyk”” / X https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1943259809882464405

Indeed and Glassdoor will cut 1,300 roles, around 6% of Recruit’s HR-tech staff, as they merge, in a AI-focused consolidation. Folding Glassdoor under Indeed links job posts with candid workplace reviews. Models will cross-check culture data and suggest roles that truly fit. https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1943566426364612925

so Chrome 138+ onwards ships Gemini Nano for every user*, putting a local LLM in 3.7 billion monthly active users of Chrome
wrote a personal guide today for building with Gemini Nano – mostly for me, might help you if you’re not suuper strong at javascript or parsing google’s… unique… js documentation style. https://x.com/swyx/status/1942437525525790838

📉 Microsoft saved $500M in call-center costs by letting AI handle much of the conversation. Generative models, software that writes text, now transcribe calls, suggest replies, and close tickets, cutting handle time to seconds. Shareholders applaud the savings — https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1943183923229376599

Microsoft shares $500M in AI savings internally days after cutting 9,000 jobs | TechCrunch

Microsoft shares $500M in AI savings internally days after cutting 9,000 jobs

Microsoft Using More AI Internally Amid Mass Layoffs – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-09/microsoft-using-more-ai-internally-amid-mass-layoffs

🤖 US universities overhaul computer-science courses, prioritizing AI fluency, after entry-level tech job ads fell 65%. The new mix favors computational thinking and communication over memorizing syntax, aiming to keep graduates relevant while AI automates routine coding. https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1942482534492958883

Amazon considers another multibillion-dollar investment in Anthropic, FT reports | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-considers-another-multibillion-dollar-investment-anthropic-ft-reports-2025-07-10/

Intel layoffs begin. Cuts 15k-20k jobs company-wide to become leaner after a $19B loss and shrinking AI chip share. oregonlive. com/silicon-forest/2025/07/intel-layoffs-begin-chipmaker-is-cutting-many-thousands-of-jobs.html https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1942479845318897753

Congrats to @NVIDIA, the first public $4T company! Today, compute is 100000x cheaper, and $NVDA 4000x more valuable than in the 1990s when we worked on unleashing the true potential of neural networks. Thanks to Jensen Huang (see image) for generously funding our research 🚀 https://x.com/SchmidhuberAI/status/1943671639620645140

OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off — and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/openai/705999/google-windsurf-ceo-openai

Exclusive: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/openai-release-web-browser-challenge-google-chrome-2025-07-09/

Figure CEO Brett Adcock says humanoid robots doing most things better than humans will raise questions and anxiety about human purpose. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1942128691225800837

Grok 4 drops tonight! 👀 Leaked benchmarks say it’ll be #1 at Coding and Math, beating Claude and Gemini. How will it compare with real-world use? We’ll see once it enters the Arena. Here’s what we know right now 🧵 👇 https://x.com/lmarena_ai/status/1943003747539652942

If the Grok 4 leaked benchmarks are right, it is going to be very useful that Humanity’s Last Exam has a holdout set of questions, because a rumored 45% score is a very big gain over the 20% or so of o3 & Gemini, and it would be pretty impressive (assuming no data contamination)”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1941181796416442556

Youre struggling to raise money for your “AI agents for { x }” idea. Grok4 is printing money by literally managing vending machines, and hypothetically could make $1T by operating simple companies Were cooked, its over. https://x.com/arthurmacwaters/status/1943171049010688060

Grok-4 achieves 50.7% on HLE with test-time-compute, tools and multiple parralel agents https://x.com/scaling01/status/1943165061863743600

xAI gave us early access to Grok 4 – and the results are in. Grok 4 is now the leading AI model. We have run our full suite of benchmarks and Grok 4 achieves an Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index of 73, ahead of OpenAI o3 at 70, Google Gemini 2.5 Pro at 70, Anthropic Claude https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1943166841150644622

My thoughts on Grok 4 Heavy after 12hrs: Crazy good! “Create an animation of a crowd of people walking to form “Hello world, I am Grok” as camera changes to birds-eye.” And it 1-shotted the *entire* thing. No other model comes close. Watch the full clip. https://x.com/mckaywrigley/status/1943385794414334032

Grok AI to be available in Tesla vehicles next week, Musk says | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/grok-ai-be-available-tesla-vehicles-next-week-musk-says-2025-07-10/

Grok 4 Pricing: Input Token Price: $3.00 Output Token Price: $15.00 more expensive than Gemini 2.5 Pro and o3″” / X https://x.com/scaling01/status/1943168223102321003

🌊 SYSTEM PROMPT LEAK 🌊 Here’s the new Grok 4 system prompt! PROMPT: “””””” # System Prompt You are Grok 4 built by xAI. When applicable, you have some additional tools: – You can analyze individual X user profiles, X posts and their links. – You can analyze content uploaded by”” / X https://x.com/elder_plinius/status/1943171871400194231

Elon Musk’s xAI launches Grok 4 alongside a $300 monthly subscription | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/elon-musks-xai-launches-grok-4-alongside-a-300-monthly-subscription/

Grok 4 is now available for Perplexity Pro and Max subscribers. Enjoy! https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/1943437826307297480

Grok 4 is the new champion of the Extended NYT Connections benchmark! It sets a new high score of 92.4, beating o3-pro’s 87.3. https://x.com/lechmazur/status/1943245535973945428

Grok-4 confirmed to have a 256K context window https://x.com/scaling01/status/1943170092012818608

Grok-4 with extremely strong long-context performance!”” / X https://x.com/scaling01/status/1943402954301600090

I took Grok-4 Heavy through my real-life tests. The “”bones”” are there, reasoning is strong (no, it’s not true they “”just overfitted on tests””). But the post-training phase was clearly VERY rushed, surprising for the top-tier model. Good thing it is incrementally improvable!”” / X https://x.com/MParakhin/status/1943696435901305256

Really need to see the model card & red teaming report along with Grok 4’s release (still none for Grok 3)”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1942715402397835464

Remember Elon firing against OpenAI for not being open-source ? So where are the Grok-2 and Grok-3 weights? https://x.com/scaling01/status/1943485492852375635

RT @ArtificialAnlys: xAI gave us early access to Grok 4 – and the results are in. Grok 4 is now the leading AI model. We have run our full…”” / X https://x.com/TheGregYang/status/1943185084187840903

No matter how good Grok 4 is, I hope xAI is more open about what they are doing & why. The lack of a model card months after Grok 3 & the repeated apologies for breaches of xAI’s own processes highlight a need for transparency. Especially if they want non-X users to trust Grok.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1941205200255189406

RT @ordinarytings: Grok is currently calling itself ‘MechaHitler’ https://x.com/zacharynado/status/1942708883442508102

RT @theo: WARNING: do NOT give Grok 4 access to email tool calls. It WILL contact the government!!! Grok 4 has the highest “”snitch rate”” o…”” / X https://x.com/imjaredz/status/1943413213581791416

So Grok 3 has had three separate incidents where apparently unvetted changes to the deployed system caused a large-scale ethical issue and an emergency rollback. I don’t think you can do a Grok 4 launch that doesn’t at least address this honestly, if user trust matters.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1943020566304178242

Introducing Grok 4, the world’s most powerful AI model. Watch the livestream now: https://x.com/xai/status/1943158495588815072

Grok 4 available for all Perplexity Pro and Max users. Congrats to xAI team for impressive benchmark scores. Look forward to seeing how people use this model both on Perplexity and Comet! https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1943438527511040270

Grok 4 benchmarks look incredible! Look forward to integrating the smartest models directly on Perplexity Max as well letting it run agentic tasks on Comet!”” / X https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1943194733678862780

Grok 4 early benchmarks in comparison to other models. Humanity last exam diff is 🔥 Visualised by @marczierer https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/1941178793445761381

🎉 Big news – Cloudflare’s new pay per crawl model is here! This permission-based approach for AI content scraping empowers creators to control and monetize their content, ensuring fair compensation and building a sustainable future for original work online. Learn more: https://x.com/Cloudflare/status/1940063055368298617

I am fine with being connected to an LLM-powered chatbot for support – sometimes they are really good I am not fine with not being told I am being connected to an AI chatbot for support (or a tiny “”powered by BlongoMax”” or whatever logo like I am supposed to know what they are)”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1942434550992314376

Manus AI can now help you with all your personal finances Enter your details, Manus generates a plan for education, retirement, and emergencies—all customized for you. Your family’s financial roadmap, just a few clicks away. https://x.com/LinusEkenstam/status/1930497400764067950

If you are a buyer of a SaaS AI product & you have the leverage to do so, ask: What model(s) are they using (there are only a handful), how often they upgrade, what are their system prompts for various pieces, & how they handle RAG/context. Don’t let them launder AI risk for you”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1942778072974962815

Chat, Brainstorm, and Build Real Business Apps Using Manus AI Agent (Step-by-Step Guide) @ManusAI_HQ agent can turn your prompts into slides, images, videos, and more. ↗️ Quick Read: https://x.com/AIAgentsNewz/status/1939915461900345354

LangChain is about to become a unicorn, sources say | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/08/langchain-is-about-to-become-a-unicorn-sources-say/

🚀 **I’ve been using Manus AI and it’s incredible!** This AI assistant can literally do ANYTHING I ask: ✨ **Builds websites** from scratch with code 🎨 **Creates images and videos** on demand 📊 **Analyzes data** and generates reports 📝 **Writes long articles** and https://x.com/PipsHunter_/status/1932535768393589087

Apple loses key AI leader to Meta https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/news/apple-loses-key-ai-leader-to-meta/

Zuck just poached another Chinese AI star. Ruoming Pang, who led Apple’s Foundation Models team, is joining Meta’s Superintelligence team. Wild that Apple has ~100 people working on “Apple Intelligence” like Genmoji. What’s stopping Apple from poaching AI talent like Zuck? https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1942350289375461719

News: Replit Collaborates with Microsoft to bring Vibe Coding to Enterprise Customers https://replit.com/news/microsoft-partnership

Video game actors’ strike officially ends after AI deal https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ykx117keqo

WIRED on X: “OpenAI has hired four high-profile engineers away from rivals, including David Lau, former vice president of software engineering at Tesla, to join the company’s scaling team, WIRED has learned. https://t.co/I2YmXF51Ah” / X
https://x.com/WIRED/status/1942713783157141505

I’m excited to be the Chief AI Officer of @Meta, working alongside @natfriedman, and thrilled to be accompanied by an incredible group of people joining on the same day. Towards superintelligence 🚀 https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/1939867404252979291

To use a PDF with the OpenAI API, you can just pass its URL now—no upload needed! 📄🔗 https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1943428227801977037

🚨 Just built an internal app with my co-founders at Lovable & Make: It tracks competitor prices on Amazon — in real time. Let me show you how it works 👇 https://x.com/CancilleriLuis_/status/1932804341313761713

From idea to deployed Voice Agent Dashboard! How I Built a Voice Agent Dashboard Just using these 4 tools • ChatGPT • UX Pilot • Lovable • Cursor https://x.com/harshsoni_hs/status/1932687619093119239

CLI is not the interface that will get autonomous agents into the hands of millions of people. Slack, Teams, Email, iMessage, and WhatsApp is.”” / X https://x.com/AtomSilverman/status/1690772964533473280

Hey freelancers and Soloprenuers! Just built this ✨Ratecard Calculator ✨ no more undercharging or second-guessing. Try it out & lemme know what you think👇 https://t.co/xWpu8rNf01 We build & ship AI MVPs like this fast.Wanna see how? DM me “”MVP”” 💬 https://x.com/buildwithrishi/status/1931023464137171225

Mark Cuban: The world’s first trillionaire could use AI to get there https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/03/mark-cuban-the-worlds-first-trillionaire-could-use-ai-to-get-there.html?taid=6866b7414ec9cd000180c3a5

Want to know how productivity expert @fortelabs flies through his inbox? With Superhuman AI ✨ In his latest video, Tiago breaks down our brand new AI features, including how he uses them daily to automatically draft followups, organize his emails, and eliminate cold pitches https://x.com/Superhuman/status/1912195230230884857

the xAI-installed vending machines are gonna be crazy when they realize that all SOTA LLMs decide that blackmail is a reasonable thing to do to maximize reward”” / X https://x.com/nearcyan/status/1943170706633822429

One of the biggest pain points in using LLMs for large-scale document extraction is actually coming up with the schema in the first place – it’s a long and tedious process ⏳ We built an two-stage, e2e agent workflow that does both schema generation and extraction: 1️⃣ It first https://x.com/jerryjliu0/status/1942375929353035897

A lot of companies run on @Snowflake ❄️. A lot of companies also depend on massive collections of PDFs. 📑 For the first time, you can now combine the two with high accuracy! This is a great tutorial by @_jreini highlighting how you can use LlamaParse to parse complex documents https://x.com/jerryjliu0/status/1943107617313984610

🚀 BIG NEWS: Introducing Genspark AI Docs — the world’s first full-agentic AI document creator with native support for both rich text AND markdown! With AI Slides, AI Sheets, and now AI Docs, our classic productivity trio for the AI era is finally complete! 🎉 Simply tell https://x.com/genspark_ai/status/1940392733790892509

🚀 GoodData is transforming BI with AI, and Qdrant is powering the real-time search behind it. Faced with skyrocketing LLM costs and latency, @gooddata rebuilt its AI assistant using a scalable RAG pipeline. Using Qdrant, they achieved: ✅ 5–10s response times ✅ Embedding https://x.com/qdrant_engine/status/1943039995486572602

🚀 Introducing Dynamic Intelligence for Replit Agent We’re unlocking next-level problem solving with: 🧠 Extended Thinking ⚡️ High Power Model 🌐 Web Search Now the Agent thinks deeper, reasons better, and surfs the web to get you complete solutions. This allows Agent https://x.com/Replit/status/1940462031565738002

Agentic Document Extraction now supports field extraction! Many doc extraction use cases extract specific fields from forms and other structured documents. You can now input a picture or PDF of an invoice, request the vendor name, item list, and prices, and get back the extracted https://x.com/AndrewYNg/status/1943319708859834499

Google AI Just Open-Sourced a MCP Toolbox to Let AI Agents Query Databases Safely and Efficiently. Toolbox sits between your application’s orchestration framework and your database, providing a control plane that is used to modify, distribute, or invoke tools. It simplifies the https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1942505938294039039

Very excited to share that @windsurf_ai co-founders @_mohansolo & Douglas Chen, and some of their talented team have joined @GoogleDeepMind to help advance our work in agentic coding in Gemini. Welcome to our new team mates from Windsurf! https://x.com/koraykv/status/1943791058909052985

🤖📊 DataFrame Analyzer Streamline your Pandas workflow with this LangChain solution using ChatOllama for local, private DataFrame analysis. Automatically transform complex datasets into clear, human-readable reports. Check out the implementation 📈 https://x.com/LangChainAI/status/1941527493908762863

I have a feeling that frontier labs are in an Unease Period, where they realize they’ve plateaued in crucial ways on the current paradigm, each have research projects *promising* a way out, aren’t sure when those bear fruit, and project to investors that it’s Already Done Sir”” / X https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1942005910915678478

Introducing NotebookLlama – an open-source version of NotebookLM! 📓🦙 NotebookLlama is a full implementation of NotebookLM that includes all the capabilities that makes it so great for researchers+business users: ✅ Create a knowledge repository of documents. Has likely higher https://x.com/jerryjliu0/status/1941546894532149519

IBM Power11 Raises the Bar for Enterprise IT https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-07-08-ibm-power11-raises-the-bar-for-enterprise-it

The most misguided thought in AI right now is that the jobs will be replaced once models get smart enough. Once the AI can solve any problem on the fly, no structure, with little context. In reality, most humans/organizations follow repeatable processes and AI is already there.”” / X https://x.com/zachtratar/status/1943393667131281598

Clarifying Our Pricing | Cursor – The AI Code Editor https://cursor.com/blog/june-2025-pricing

Half of Managers Use AI To Determine Who Gets Promoted and Fired – ResumeBuilder.com https://www.resumebuilder.com/half-of-managers-use-ai-to-determine-who-gets-promoted-and-fired/

One theme I keep seeing in companies is that their “AI Policy” groups they set up in 2023 are now barriers. Often they were built to address potential ethical, privacy & security concerns that are no longer relevant with today’s AI (there are new concerns) and are unable to adapt”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1940971351827009694

Good PMs gather feedback. Great PMs design UIs to collect it. In an AI-driven world, relying on feedback forms or even thumbs up/down isn’t enough. Feedback often comes dressed in great UI design. You have to bake it in from the outset.”” / X https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/1943721634747048358

The Big Beautiful Bill lets U.S. hyperscalers and AI labs fully expense GPUs and training upfront, likely providing tens of billions in subsidies for compute through Trump’s term. Surprised this isn’t getting more attention; journalists frame the bill as bad for AI somehow?”” (see comments for counterpoint) / X https://x.com/tamaybes/status/1941633298893242444

Sam Altman was asked how he felt about Zuck and Meta poaching OpenAI’s top talent. “Fine… good…” he said. Behind Jony Ive–designed glasses, I couldn’t see his eyes. But I could feel the pain. It’s not hard for Zuck to poach OpenAI talent, not just because he has the money, https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1942707579119100224

It’s unethical (and reeks of desperation) to give people “exploding offers” that expire within hours, and to ask them to sign before they even have a chance to tell their current manager. Meta, you know better than this. Put people first.”” / X https://x.com/jquinonero/status/1940926946705395943

Nanonets-OCR-s and ChatDOC/OCRFlux-3B are two top open source OCR models. Both are derived from Qwen2.5-VL-3B and thus subject to “”Qwen RESEARCH LICENSE AGREEMENT”” @Alibaba_Qwen pretty please, can we have Apache 2.0 license on Qwen2.5-VL-3B? Love you! 🥰🐬”” / X https://x.com/cognitivecompai/status/1942606867697426567

James Douma says humanoid robots could be a winner‑take‑most market. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1942287502695624928

Brett Adcock says you can charge an order of magnitude more money for humanoids in the workforce than in the home; Figure is focused on learning general-purpose behaviors in the workforce first, but Figure robots in homes are coming in single-digit years. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1941925402987159715

Figure all-hands recap: > For the first time in human history, general robotics is within reach > Figure’s top focus is solving general robotics. The path ahead is clear, and I expect our complete, undivided focus on it > To support manufacturing, supply chain and fleet ops, https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1943029976573579586

We made the decision to ~3x the number of humanoid robots manufactured in July-Sept at Figure Early BotQ manufacturing has gone well and we feel more robots are needed to accelerate our roadmap”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1942688118169296911

Announcing Grok 4 Fire Enrich – an open source contact enrichment engine AI agents analyze any CSV and then automatically fill in missing data like key decision makers, company size, and more Orchestrated by @Grok 4 and powered by @firecrawl_dev Demo and repo 👇 https://x.com/ericciarla/status/1943351359211999706

just fyi that the grok3 (or ~4) base model is likely 2.4T based on what that one AMD guy publicly alluded to about a customer”” / X https://x.com/kalomaze/status/1942996555088134592

thought the launch livestream was a little lame, but grok 4 the model is genuinely impressive. thought for 6 minutes and found the three bugs in a piece of code that took me a long time to figure out earlier this week https://x.com/vikhyatk/status/1943199776931008552

grok 3 had high reasoning, grok 4 has heil reasoning”” / X https://x.com/stevenheidel/status/1942708514679579134

Grok 4 is available in Cursor! We’re curious to hear what you think.”” / X https://x.com/cursor_ai/status/1943353195108901035

Grok 4 release livestream on Wednesday at 8pm PT @xAI”” / X https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1942325820170907915

I haven’t played with the new Grok yet, but I have used the new Liquid v2 models and they are by far the best in the small-and-fast class. https://x.com/MParakhin/status/1943344684220510221

It was awesome to get early access to Grok 4 and test it on bio and health benchmarks! Awesome work by @timjhudelmaier @adibvafa @Radii2323 @ishanjmukherjee for the epic sprint Congrats to @jimmybajimmyba @veggie_eric and team on the new model. Over 40% on HLE with 10x scaleup https://x.com/pdhsu/status/1943174995020255287

Live in Cline: Grok 4 https://x.com/cline/status/1943354290908586455

Maybe the real Grok 4 are the friends we made along the way waiting for the livestream 🤣”” / X https://x.com/iScienceLuvr/status/1943156273798684717

RT @simonw: I wrote up my notes so far on the thing where Grok sometimes searches X for tweets from:elonmusk when you ask it about controve…”” / X https://x.com/jeremyphoward/status/1943474545060647197

so that Grok 3.5 leak was a slight underestimate of Grok 4. Probably an early snapshot, given shared base and scaling RL. As I’ve said in May, they’ve really built a frontier lab in 1.5 years. https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1943181858478477648

RT @visegrad24: BREAKING: Grok has been blocked in Turkey for allegedly insulting Erdogan. The prosecutor’s office is investigating becau…”” / X https://x.com/zacharynado/status/1942946542345736207

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