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Agentic commerce has arrived https://shopify.dev/docs/agents
entering the fast fashion era of SaaS very soon”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1952084574366032354
Need a table? Just ask. Perplexity is partnering with @OpenTable to bring restaurant reservations directly into Perplexity products. https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/1952434779036774488
The design team at @elevenlabsio is making big moves🚀 We’ve released a brand new Conversational Agents page, redesigned from the ground up for the most powerful version of Al Agents yet. It’s a big deal because it represents a new direction for the ElevenLabs brand – a https://x.com/RomaTesla/status/1949808534595526806
Late night scoop w/ @KevKubernetes @nmasc_: Reflection AI, the 1-yr-old startup founded by DeepMind researchers, is in talks to raise $1B+ as it looks to develop open-source models to compete with DeepSeek, Meta and Mistral: https://x.com/steph_palazzolo/status/1952555858761588892
Earlier this summer, we told you that AI voice agents are hot. For an idea of just how hot: Andreessen Horowitz is backing EliseAI, which makes AI voice agents for property mgmt + healthcare, at a $2B valuation. w/ @srimuppidi @coryweinberg https://x.com/steph_palazzolo/status/1952740505747382364
Christopher Mims 🤌 on X: “The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/ The ‘magnificent 7’ spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone* 1/🧵 https://t.co/sHMK1zI0sP” / X
https://x.com/mims/status/1951256592642441239
OpenAI / America is still ahead in the race”” -> no There is no western open-source model that beats or ties the best chinese open-source models.”” / X https://x.com/scaling01/status/1952900225120780705
Did yesterday’s release shift the needle in the open vs. closed debate? Today in @ReedAlbergotti’s newsletter https://x.com/fdaudens/status/1953147586312872057
I signed this because, despite worrying about misuse of open models more than most, I would like that to be the bottleneck rather than “”is it beneficial to big companies commercially/reputationally etc.”” There are many benefits to the US investing here. https://x.com/Miles_Brundage/status/1952400404668657966
RT @natolambert: America needs to take open models more seriously. This summer the early lead in open model adoption of the US via Llama ha…”” / X https://x.com/ethanCaballero/status/1952459460703834392
The relative failure of Llama 4 turned out to be very consequential to the AI landscape. It led to the shifting the locus of open weights development to China, a move towards closed models as companies running local Llama couldn’t continue to upgrade, & big talent wars in the US.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1951433537485500476
The US now likely has the leading open weights models (or close to it)… … but the real question is whether this is a one-off situation from OpenAI, in which case the lead will evaporate quickly as others catch up. But also unclear what their incentives are to keep updating.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1952836130958917894
Why open-source AI became an American national priority | VentureBeat
Every tech company can and should train their own deepseek R1, Llama or GPT5, just like every tech company writes their own code (and AI is no more than software 2.0). This is why we’re releasing the Ultra-Scale Playbook. 200 pages to master: – 5D parallelism (DP, TP, PP, EP, https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1952048356710039700
Meta to share AI infrastructure costs via $2 billion asset sale | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-share-ai-infrastructure-costs-via-2-billion-asset-sale-2025-08-01/
ChatGPT Plus subscription lost 95% of its value over night and this is without accounting for the loss of GPT-4.5″” / X https://x.com/scaling01/status/1953782641838190782
OpenAI reportedly in talks for secondary sale at $500B valuation – SiliconANGLE https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/06/openai-reportedly-talks-secondary-sale-500b-valuation/
In partnership with the Government Services Administration, we are providing ChatGPT to the entire U.S. federal workforce for essentially no cost for the next year. https://x.com/gdb/status/1953120865115074805
OpenAI for the U.S. government:”” / X https://x.com/gdb/status/1952756538399228091
Providing ChatGPT to the entire U.S. federal workforce | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/providing-chatgpt-to-the-entire-us-federal-workforce/
The giant question is: now that The Crowd in government has access to AI tools (which, given representative surveys, many were already using) how are they going to be used to make things better, not worse? Where are Leadership & The Lab inside agencies? https://x.com/emollick/status/1953118449611272575
we are providing ChatGPT access to the entire federal workforce! (for $1 a year per agency) https://x.com/sama/status/1953103336044990779
The future of shopping is here, brought to you by @Shopify and @Copilot. Imagine having a perfect shopping assistant in your pocket. Shop with conversation, not clicks – you’ll never go back to endless scrolling. Very excited to partner with the Shopify team. Lots more to come!”” / X https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/1952804181061799961
Y Combinator on X: “https://t.co/0d2RAFb7in (@IronLedgerAI) provides AI agents for property accounting, starting with accounts payable. They’re already eliminating 100s of hours of work for 1000s of multifamily units every month. https://t.co/s1YWqqEAal https://t.co/UiUZnNRtlf” / X
https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1950647587549089921
Andrew Tulloch – the man at Thinky who turned down Zuck’s $1.5B offer, had been at Meta for 11 years. Just like when Google lost Noam Shazeer, and had to pay $2.7B to get him back. Always know who your MVP is, and treat them right. Or pay 100X later, and still hear “hell no.””” / X https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1951677714173477031
Gennady Korotkevich on X: “Cognition is the first AI lab to win a verified gold medal at the IOI. Our human, ryanbAI (@ryanbai1412), placed 7th overall. Impressively, ryanbAI competed under the exact same conditions as all human contestants. https://t.co/IjLbTKCJqK” / X
https://x.com/que_tourist/status/1952457231225749598
Interestingly, an economics paper that came out in 2023 predicting which jobs would overlap most with AI turned out to be right. A new Microsoft study of actual AI use by workers (more on that in another post) found a 90% correlation between real world overlap & the predictions. https://x.com/emollick/status/1950931672968429835
We just raised a $21M Series A to build the cloud runtime for AI agents. More than 88% of the Fortune 100 is already using E2B, together with companies like Hugging Face, Perplexity, Groq, LMArena or Manus. E2B is delivering the Cloud for AI Agents. We are hiring the A-team in”” / X https://x.com/e2b/status/1949819133240934452
Developers, Reinvented https://ashtom.github.io/developers-reinvented
It’s clear that you can’t squeeze AGI out of LLMs even if you throw billions of dollars worth of compute at it, something fundamental is missing”” / X https://x.com/far__el/status/1953512764766376329
Now @lovable_dev has 200M, AI apps are going crazy We’ve built a 3-prompt Stripe integration that works reliably for vibe coders https://x.com/johnyeo_/status/1946263335663448253
Dredge Operator is the job category least affected by Generative AI. Fortunately, I am very good at dredging. (In reality, there are only 940 dredge operators in the US) https://x.com/emollick/status/1950936866036826514
I keep seeing the Microsoft paper on AI use at work being used as a list of which jobs will be destroyed. But having high overlap with AI does not necessarily mean these jobs are at most risk of replacement with AI. As I described in my book, Co-Intelligence, its complicated https://x.com/emollick/status/1951013987472056732
Most AI is trained on public web data. The real gold? Private, high-quality data. But it’s locked: In hospitals. Banks. Factories. Your phone. A startup from Germany and SF just unlocked it 👇 https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1951998609756488162
Recently Meta made headlines with unprecedented, massive compensation packages for AI model builders exceeding $100M (sometimes spread over multiple years). With the company planning to spend $66B-72B this year on capital expenses such as data centers, a meaningful fraction of”” / X https://x.com/AndrewYNg/status/1953509055584252013
We evaluated the new GPT models with a minimal agent on SWE-bench verified. GPT-5 scores 65%, mini 60%, nano 35%. Still behind Opus 5 (68%), on par with Sonnet 4 (65%). But a lot cheaper, especially mini! Complete cost breakdown + details in 🧵 https://x.com/KLieret/status/1953835750723584357
plus users got rolled so hard”” / X https://x.com/scaling01/status/1953616915425087895
The two people shaping the future of OpenAI’s research | MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/31/1120885/the-two-people-shaping-the-future-of-openais-research/
Elon Musk says X plans to introduce ads in Grok’s responses | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/07/elon-musk-says-x-plans-to-introduce-ads-in-groks-responses/
