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Twilio published this step-by-step guide on how to connect a Twilio phone number to the Realtime API, including getting a new number and pointing it at our SIP servers. https://x.com/juberti/status/1968384883568632125
Announcing Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) | Google Cloud Blog https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-agents-to-payments-ap2-protocol
Meta just made training AI agents 25x faster. This is a breakthrough for robotics and complex planning. Meta’s FAIR open sourced a new method called Scalable Option Learning. It trains a specialized agent at the scale previously seen only with LLMs. Here’s how it works: The https://x.com/JacksonAtkinsX/status/1967284333678350342
Hey Claude: “”Please create the PowerPoint shared by the high powered management consultants hired by Hamlet after seeing his fathers ghost”” That was the only prompt. Loved that Claude made this from the McKinsey Elsinore office (with the right colors!), also that SWOT analysis! https://x.com/emollick/status/1966652829340229822
SoftBank to buy $2 billion in Intel shares at $23 each — firm still owns majority share of Arm | Tom’s Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/softbank-to-buy-usd2-billion-in-intel-shares-at-usd23-each-firm-still-owns-majority-share-of-arm
So India has this app called blinkit where you can get literally anything delivered in 10 mins. My mind is blown.”” / X https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1966489244395811258
The focus on near-term mass replacement of white collar work with AI has two big gaps: 1) The nature of organizations limits the speed of change, even with AGI 2) But if AI is good enough to do all work, the societal changes would be so huge that job loss would be just the start”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1965950820354322739
Today we’re announcing a first-of-its-kind partnership with Brookfield Brookfield is one of the world’s largest asset managers with over $1 trillion of assets and 100,000 residential units This deal provides access to real-world environments and compute needed to scale Helix https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1968299339278848127
Big news: Figure has exceeded $1B in funding at a $39B post-money valuation https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1967937116220080178
Figure has secured over $1B in Series C funding at a $39B valuation, led by Parkway Venture Capital, with significant investments from Brookfield Asset Management, NVIDIA Corporation, Macquarie Capital, Intel Capital, Align Ventures, Tamarack Global, LG Technology Ventures, https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1967958051480277085
Figure is aiming to develop the world’s largest and most diverse real-world humanoid pretraining dataset. For this purpose, they’re partnering with Brookfield, a global asset manager overseeing $1 trillion in assets, including 100,000 residential units, 500M square feet of https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1968374209710800961
Figure is now valued at $39B. The previous round was at $2.6B in February 2024. That’s a 15x jump in a year and a half. There are 255 companies in the S&P 500 valued lower than Figure. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1967969998410014939
Our new Waltham Cross data center is part of our two-year, £5 billion investment to help power the UK’s AI economy. https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/united-kingdom/waltham-cross-data-centre/
We’re committed to creating new opportunity for people and businesses on both sides of the Atlantic, and ensuring America remains a trusted and reliable tech partner for the United Kingdom. That’s why today we announced a $30 billion investment in the UK over four years, https://x.com/satyanadella/status/1968034916832338396
Nvidia and Intel announce jointly developed ‘Intel x86 RTX SOCs’ for PCs with Nvidia graphics, also custom Nvidia data center x86 processors — Nvidia buys $5 billion in Intel stock in seismic deal | Tom’s Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/nvidia-and-intel-announce-jointly-developed-intel-x86-rtx-socs-for-pcs-with-nvidia-graphics-also-custom-nvidia-data-center-x86-processors-nvidia-buys-usd5-billion-in-intel-stock-in-seismic-deal
NVIDIA and Intel to Develop AI Infrastructure and Personal Computing Products | NVIDIA Newsroom https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-and-intel-to-develop-ai-infrastructure-and-personal-computing-products?ncid=so-twit-672238
Teams at Nvidia and Intel have been working in secret on jointly developed processors for a year — ‘The Trump administration has no involvement in this partnership at all’ | Tom’s Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/teams-at-nvidia-and-intel-have-been-working-in-secret-on-jointly-developed-processors-for-a-year-the-trump-administration-has-no-involvement-in-this-partnership-at-all
OpenAI to Gain $50 Billion From Cutting Revenue Share with Microsoft, Partners — The Information https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-gain-50-billion-cutting-revenue-share-microsoft-partners
Another major milestone! Scale AI has been awarded a $100 million agreement from the Pentagon. We’re honored by the trust and committed to advancing national security with secure, cutting-edge AI. https://x.com/scale_AI/status/1968351086768799959
🤖🌐 ParserGPT: Smart Web Scraping Transform messy websites into clean CSV data using LLMs and deterministic rules. Powered by LangChain and LangGraph, ParserGPT learns website structures once to enable efficient, repeated data extraction. Learn more about ParserGPT: https://x.com/LangChainAI/status/1967257030756028505
🖇️ IBM just released a tiny document VLM, Granite-Docling-258M. – converts PDFs into structured text formats like HTML or Markdown while preserving layout – accurately recognizes and format equations including inline math, handle tables, code blocks, and charts, support https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1968561354987442246
How money works: 1. OpenAI signs $300B GPU deal with Oracle 2. Larry gains $100B (no GPUs shipped) 3. Larry invests in OpenAI’s $1T round 4. Sam uses $300B to pay Oracle 5. Oracle stock pumps again 6. Larry makes another $100B 7. Larry invests in OpenAI Flywheel go brrr.”” / X https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1966553671866687689
Musk’s XAI Just Laid Off Hundreds of Workers Tasked With Training Grok – Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-xai-layoffs-data-annotators-2025-9
MCP is coming to enterprise. Here are winners from the enterprise MCP hackathon in SF you need to see! 🧵 hosted by @zmzlois @TobinSouth @WorkOS @GoogleLabs @Vapi_AI @convex_dev @SmitheryDotAI https://x.com/dariusemrani/status/1967492478132715824
Notion 3.0 with Agents is out today! It’s the first Knowledge Work Agent in the world. It works with Notion databases. It can do multi-step actions and autonomous work up to 20+ mins, and a brand-new memory system (using Notion pages and databases! 👌) With 3.0, Notion isn’t https://x.com/ivanhzhao/status/1968761820241609063
Fiverr is going back to startup mode”” / X https://x.com/michakaufman/status/1967624550020985069
Introducing Notion 3.0 https://www.notion.com/blog/introducing-notion-3-0
Amazon unveils new agentic AI-powered Seller Assistant to help independent sellers grow https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/innovation-at-amazon/seller-assistant-agentic-ai
Apple AI and Search Executive Robby Walker to Leave Company – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-12/apple-ai-and-search-executive-robby-walker-to-leave-iphone-maker
Paper argues that diminishing returns to AI scale are an illusion Economic value comes from completing long projects, not single questions. And accuracy drives how long a project AI does: small gains compound exponentially! Reasoners are much more accurate, with big impacts. https://x.com/emollick/status/1967688420639359061
Reachy-Mini update🚨 Good: quality up++, sound/elec better than alpha. First tiny batches ship late Sep. Less good: scaling to thousands units (vs. 100s planned) taking longer Still on track to ship first 3000 pre-orders before Xmas🎄(Lite & Wireless), most shipping early Dec. https://x.com/Thom_Wolf/status/1968252534159724883
Workday Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Sana – Sep 16, 2025 https://investor.workday.com/2025-09-16-Workday-Signs-Definitive-Agreement-to-Acquire-Sana
A sign of a company being advanced in AI adoption was that they built their own internal chatbot using APIs. As the major lab’s chatbots become agentic, bringing together many tools in a single interface & as they add memory & projects, the custom API chatbots are falling behind”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1967621099853946926
Sierra CEO Bret Taylor on why the AI bubble feels like the dotcom boom | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/773904/sierra-ceo-bret-taylor-ai-agents-openai-bubble-interview
Having invested in over 1,200 startups over 20+ years at @FJLabs , we use a simple investment heuristic that has served us well: if a founder makes us money and starts another company, we invest even if it is not a marketplace. FJ Labs first seeded founder @adcock_brett when he”” / X https://x.com/Jeffreyw5000/status/1968039725823844596
Anthropic’s very quiet release strategy for big leaps in the actual utility of its products (now it does well with Excel & PowerPoint, can act as a personal assistant) seems out-of-step with the capabilities that they bring. Maybe too much emphasis on models over applications?”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1966181837329543631
me and @TodePond spent the last couple months building a really good whiteboard agent, out now in 4.0 ! check it out with npm create tldraw it has a really good readme that we spent a lot of time on !”” / X https://x.com/max__drake/status/1968764136419975599
Optimize work and maximize outcomes with the next generation of AI Companion for Zoom Workplace | Zoom – Zoom https://news.zoom.com/ai-companion-3-0-and-zoom-workplace/
I have a badass crew of investors who’ve backed me every step of the way in building my companies FJ Labs – known for their focus on marketplace investing – backed me at my last software company and again at both Archer and Figure Good 101 from Jeff:”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1968111824206962690
Looks like the logistics are sorted for ‘3 big announcements’ from Figure.”” / X https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1967820652653781418
Introducing VaultGemma 🧠Gemma pre-trained with differential privacy (largest open model trained from scratch like this) 🔒Strong, mathematically-backed privacy guarantees 🤏Just 1B parameters 📈Novel research on scaling laws”” / X https://x.com/osanseviero/status/1966534013511672148
VaultGemma: The world’s most capable differentially private LLM https://research.google/blog/vaultgemma-the-worlds-most-capable-differentially-private-llm/
transformers @huggingface comes with Kosmos2.5 model by @MicrosoftAI 🤩 to celebrate this, we built a notebook for fine-tuning with OCR with detection 🔥 you can also try the model out of the box with the demo 🫡 https://x.com/mervenoyann/status/1966487632659005667
In 5 months, Higgsfield hit a $50M run rate. 11M users. 650 years of creation time. 100+ product releases, from Higgsfield Soul, the most aesthetic image model, to KION, the first ever viral AI K-pop idol. World-level product. Incredible Stats. Still underdogs. https://x.com/higgsfield_ai/status/1966588786080706842
tldraw canvas agent starter kit is dropping today https://x.com/tldraw/status/1968655029247648229
IBM just released small swiss army knife for the document models: granite-docling-258M 🔥 not only a document converter but also can do document question answering, understand multiple languages 🤯 with Apache 2.0 license 👏 https://x.com/mervenoyann/status/1968316714577502712
We are learning from OpenAI and Anthropic about how people use AI for work. It is primarily for high-level tasks – critical thinking, the interpretation of information, getting/giving advice & being creative (both companies categorize a little differently, but similar patterns) https://x.com/emollick/status/1967800804301283452
Tencent Hires OpenAI Researcher as China Steps Up Talent Search | Mint https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/tencent-hires-openai-researcher-as-china-steps-up-talent-search-11757689035858.html
gpt-5 and gpt-5-mini API rate limits are now more than doubled for these tiers: gpt-5 Tier 1: 30K → 500K TPM (1.5M batch) Tier 2: 450K → 1M (3M batch) Tier 3: 800K → 2M Tier 4: 2M → 4M gpt-5-mini Tier 1: 200K → 500K (5M batch)”” / X https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1966610846559134140
🔋 Naveen Rao is leaving Databricks (a $100Bn startup) to build a next generation computer to shrink AI compute costs, and Databricks plans to invest. Databricks sits around $100B and just raised $1B. A core problem for the AI industry is that large models are limited by memory https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1966378718009635087
