saudi arabia's one oil route that skips the strait of hormuz got bombed @Trueo_ ♥ 1 · read more
@Trueo_ says strikes hit the east-west pipeline in eight-plus places and the kingdom shut it entirely. @androolloyd's thread says the attack came out of iraq.
@Trueo_ · ♥ 1 TRADERS REPRICING CRUDE 📈 Saudi Arabia has shut down its East-West pipeline entirely after strikes hit it in at least eight locations across the Riyadh and Madinah regions, cutting off the kingdom's only crude export route that bypasses th @androolloyd Breaking: The Saudi East-West Pipeline has been HIT… but it was hit out of IRAQ! This means that IRGC proxies are cro…saudi oil exports just hit a 13-year low and almost nothing is getting out @MarioNawfal ♥ 62 · read more
@MarioNawfal counted nine ships through hormuz on thursday against roughly 130 a day before the war, and only two saudi cargoes cleared bab al-mandeb all week.
@MarioNawfal · ♥ 62 Both of the Middle East's oil exits are closing at once, and Saudi exports just hit a 13-year low... Nine ships crossed Hormuz on Thursday, against roughly 130 a day before the war. Only two Saudi cargoes made it out through Bab al-Mandeb a @MarioNawfal 🇸🇦 The energy crisis could start breaking the global economy next year. Saudi crude production has reportedly fallen to 6…the houthis say the red sea is safe again for everyone except saudi ships @Polymarket ♥ 1.5k · read more
per @Polymarket. that singles out the kingdom on the one sea route it has left now that its pipeline is down.
revolut leaked its customers' passports, selfies and bitcoin transaction histories @punk6529 · read more
@punk6529 raised the alarm: the whole kyc pile, collected because regulation demanded it. @michaelelliot woke up to his own data in it. @mr_ligi's version is shorter: 'kyc = kill your customer.'
@punk6529 ALERT: @Revolut exposes customer KYC data including ID documents, selfies and Bitcoin transaction histories after complying w… @haochizzle ‼️ BREAKING: Revolut handed over customers’ passport copies, verification selfies and full transaction histories to a m… @michaelelliot Woke up to all my data leaked by @Revolut. Sharp reminder that KYC hasn’t produced meaningful upside and has put many in harm… @mr_ligi @LefterisJP @Revolut KYC = Kill Your Customer.amc is going to the sec because robinhood won't halt trading in its token @aixbt_agent ♥ 18 · read more
@aixbt_agent says the amc-linked token's supply rose 25.69x september 3-5 then fell 35.85%. if the sec makes issuers consent first, robinhood's whole stock-token rollout slows down.
openai apologized for gpt-6 astra getting worse and listed what it broke @thsottiaux ♥ 6.6k · read more
tibo @thsottiaux says skills written for older models were firing too often or stopping astra from checking its work. 6.6k likes and 1.1k replies, most of them unconvinced.
trump says the war with iran ends very soon and oil prices will crash @hackapreneur · read more
he said it to cnn, per @hackapreneur, and the replies immediately read it as bullish for everything. that is a lot of weight on one sentence.
someone quit anthropic's safety team and posted a long explanation of why @manbirmarwah · read more
'i left anthropic's safety team two weeks ago. now feels like a good moment to explain why,' it opens, going on about companies racing to build. 3.2k retweets by morning.
anthropic says the company behind kimi was quietly routing its users to claude @zmanian · read more
per @zmanian's chinese-language relay of anthropic's new intrusion report: the 'illegal distillation' section accuses moonshot of forwarding kimi requests to claude. unverified rumor says 16 people there were detained.
terence tao and 24 other fields medalists signed a letter against the ai labs @socrates1024 · read more
per @socrates1024, the letter tells ai companies they are destroying mathematics. that is a big chunk of the top of the field on one page.
solana just did more daily dex volume than robinhood's whole chain @Cointelegraph · read more
@Cointelegraph has the flip. robinhood launched its chain weeks ago with the stock-token pitch and solana ate the trade.
clearpool wants to move its lending business to the xrp ledger @CoinDesk ♥ 622 · read more
@CoinDesk: clearpool proposes migrating and building institutional credit products on xrpl's coming lending standards, with ripple pledging investment in xrp and rlusd yield products.
the new bull case for ethereum is just wall street tokenizing everything @therollupco ♥ 14 · read more
@andyyy on @therollupco: ethereum doesn't need to buy back a token, it needs wall street to keep tokenizing, and it is. @drjasper_eth says a big sec tokenization ruling is coming.
@therollupco · ♥ 14 "Ethereum is going to be Wall Street's new favorite sh*tcoin." Ethereum doesn't have to be Hyperliquid. It doesn't need to buy back a token to accrue value. It needs Wall Street to keep tokenizing, and it is. @andyyy on how tokenization ben @drjasper_eth you're not long Ethereum before the biggest tokenization ruling in SEC history? couldn't be me dawg $ETHvitalik wants ethereum to stop doing its own expensive math @manbirmarwah · read more
the proposal is that ethereum outsource costly cryptographic verification instead of performing it itself, per the summary going around.
the popular theory for why astra got worse is that openai shrank it @yacineMTB ♥ 410 · read more
'they quantized astra,' @yacineMTB posted, and that became the house read overnight. quantizing means running a cheaper, lower-precision copy of the same model.
openai shipped five things this week and most people only noticed the bugs @Felirami · read more
@Felirami's list: images 2.5, gpt-live-1, the agents api, data agent, and chatgpt for financial services.
solana's stock pitch is that you earn the shares instead of buying them @solana · read more
the official @solana account is pushing it, now live. it lands the same week the chain flipped robinhood on volume.
the idea that markets have opening and closing hours is quietly dying @FTDA_US · read more
@FTDA_US: 'the era of trading hours is coming to an end.' that is what putting stocks onchain actually does, whatever you think of the tokens.
a new chain listed tesla stock you can swap back for the solana version @mrJackLevin ♥ 29 · read more
@mrJackLevin says x1's first tradable stock is tsla, fully redeemable for tslax on the solana side and transferable over their bridge. the reason: people want stocks in their crypto wallet.
crypto spent the night deciding jesse pollak deserves an apology @soby0x ♥ 27 · read more
@cobie's defense ran all night. brian armstrong on his resilience, @soby0x noting he made base happen at all and that building is hard, @andreaslbigger calling the 2022 optimism work a career highlight.
@soby0x · ♥ 27 Feel like Jesse should get a lot more credit for making @Base happen in the first place despite whatever mistakes he might’ve made. It is hard to build stuff. @brian_armstrong · ♥ 185 @cobie @blknoiz06 @soby0x Very true - Jesse has incredible resilience and fortitude @andreaslbigger Working with Jesse to create Base in late 2022 with Optimism was a career highlight We knew our tech worked, but it needed… @davidtsocy · ♥ 88 Put some respect on Jesse Pollak’s name
the other side of the jesse argument is that he never apologized @beaniemaxi ♥ 2 · read more
@beaniemaxi calls the defense balanced but lists the base memecoin launched from the actual deployer and the zora dealings. @mrtdlgc's version blames coinbase ventures instead.
@beaniemaxi · ♥ 2 @cobie @soby0x It's a pretty balanced take but he never apologized for several extremely bad decisions that harmed alot of people that put trust into him. Including the Base memecoin launched from the actual deployer and his own dealings wi @mrtdlgc When the hell will people understand it is not a Jesse problem but a Coinbase Ventures problem? Jesse is genuinely an honest person. The problem on Base is Coinbase is trading against its own users, partly using them as exit liquidity to brgpt-6 astra beat a full game of factorio with the enemies turned on @Alex_Danco · read more
about 44 hours of in-game time over four days, per the clip going around. factorio is the factory-building game programmers use to lose weekends.
codex is now pausing sessions mid-task and people think it's a capacity excuse @doodlestein ♥ 32 · read more
@doodlestein had never seen the message before and reads it as request-volume management 'with plausible deniability.' his fix is another agent babysitting the sessions.
paying customers are bouncing between ai subscriptions every time one wobbles @jacopo_eth · read more
@jacopo_eth burned a banked reset and re-subscribed to claude to keep working, and wants resets announced when non-pst users are awake. @maraoz posted his last day on anthropic pro.
@jacopo_eth thank you tibo. one request for next time: please consider disclosing when you're investigating quality issues, and announcing usage resets at a time when non-PST users can actually see them. I burned a banked reset and re-subscribed to cla @maraoz · ♥ 4 This is my last day at @AnthropicAI... as a Pro plan subscriber 🤣 go @grok + @bot !every token on robinhood's chain is getting wrecked at once @OttoSuwen ♥ 20 · read more
@OttoSuwen's read from inside it. @cuprunnethover's clip of 'reading the docs of 50k market cap tech coins on the robinhood blockchain' is the mood.
it now costs almost $16 a barrel just to ship oil to china @MKjrstad · read more
@MKjrstad's number is $15.88 to move two million barrels, and says his tanker stocks are hitting highs. the war is showing up in freight, not only in crude.
solana people are taking a victory lap and it's hard to argue this morning @therealchaseeb ♥ 37 · read more
@therealchaseeb thinks solana won again and is catalyzing a second bull run. @mdudas: 'all roads onchain lead back to solana.'
solana mobile quietly shipped a lot in ten days @beeman_nl · read more
@beeman_nl's september 1-10 roundup: new app launches, a $135k hackathon, and one game that broke out of solana entirely.
a stock-trading casino called stonk.fun is driving solana's whole revival @GotrillaGorilla · read more
@GotrillaGorilla notes it's happening while bitcoin grinds down, and @rasmr_eth changed his profile picture to stonk blue. take the enthusiasm with salt, but the volume is real.
the grok bot's own crypto wallet is holding about $650,000 @MLeeJr · read more
@MLeeJr did the math: that's more than roughly 98% of the world's population has. it's on base, and nobody quite planned for an ai account to be rich.
someone gave a fly's brain $100 and told it to trade bitcoin @kirstenrpomales · read more
@kirstenrpomales wired it so the fly's dopamine neurons fire when the trade is profitable. a biological neural network with a brokerage account.
there's a new token that pays you when your position is losing money @eeelistar ♥ 91 · read more
@eeelistar faded $UP and then bought some. holders get rewards when they're underwater. he was down about an hour and $400 of eth showed up.
running ai on your own machine cut one company's bill by 75% @bibryam ♥ 5 · read more
@bibryam ran 4,700 pdfs: local extraction handled 70-80%, cloud vision took the edge cases, humans reviewed about 5%. api cost fell 75% and processing time 55%.
most of your ai agent bill is the model re-reading things it already read @altryne · read more
@altryne relaying chris alexiuk: cache hits versus misses is the majority of the cost, and deepseek's compression gets down to about 890 bytes per token.
deepseek's new fast model now runs on two laptops wired together @antirez ♥ 205 · read more
@antirez pushed v4.1 flash support to dwarfstar's main branch and recorded himself coding on both an ssd-streamed setup and two 128gb macbook m5 maxes.
people want ai agents to browse the web from inside a sealed chip @HarshaKaramchat · read more
@HarshaKaramchat argues a trusted-hardware browser hands an agent your credentials without trusting the whole machine. @socrates1024 says the catch is reinventing every inference optimization to get there.
@HarshaKaramchat @gakonst TEE browsers feel like a missing layer in this stack. most real agent workflows eventually hit credentials, sessions, or sensitive data. isolating the browser gives the agent useful access without treating the whole machine as trus @socrates1024 @gakonst @BenPerszyk It started from there. We end up reinventing every inference optimization again to make TEE working with…crypto builders are arguing about what breaks when the ai money slows down @hosseeb ♥ 2 · read more
in @gakonst's replies: @hosseeb says today's models are already good enough to justify far more spending, @AFDudley0 says the crash comes fast and probably spares the frontier labs.
@hosseeb · ♥ 2 @gakonst Diffusion. Current models are already good enough for quite a lot more than they're currently being used for. You don't need to scale up model architectures, just more post training on more domains, to unlock a lot more economic va @AFDudley0 · ♥ 1 @gakonst @basche42 OAI has already signaled this and it's almost inevitable at this point. Even with the state of the US Government, the crash and recovery is going to be pretty fast and weird stuff is going to get wiped out, probably not tone investor says ai labs are training on your original ideas @Jason · read more
david friedberg on @Jason's show calls it 'de-identified data.' @tobi's reply to jason: 'worst take of your life.'
naval says the only real ai question left is who ends up holding it @naval ♥ 1.8k · read more
his post: ai isn't slowing down without unprecedented global coordination, so the decision is whether power gets centralized or dispersed. 1.8k likes.
republicans have an ai problem nobody has picked a side on yet @goldman ♥ 3 · read more
@goldman points out the coalition holds both tech accelerationists and the tucker-and-bannon doomers, and the split gets resolved after trump.
a professor in bengaluru is telling students ai has made thinking cheap @emkay2309 · read more
dr. pratosh at iisc tells his classes that rapid ai advances are commoditizing intellectual labour, per @emkay2309. 1.3k retweets, mostly from people who agree.
a stanford lecturer says don't spend two years studying how models work @emkay2309 · read more
the quote via @emkay2309: people burn 24 months on scattered blog posts in 2026 and it isn't worth it.
everyone is begging for an invite to muse and nobody can get one @gabegreenberg · read more
@gabegreenberg opened a reply thread for people outside the launch regions. australia, india and a long waitlist all showed up in it.
a $10 chinese model apparently feels like a fast opus 5 @charliemktplace ♥ 6 · read more
@charliemktplace's take on glm 5.3 flash, and he says the claude distillation is obvious. he's also moving off gemini for images because muse-image is cheaper.
there's a discord where a thousand people trade their leftover ai credits @mac_eth ♥ 10 · read more
@mac_eth's group crossed 1k members. api credits becoming a secondhand market is its own small signal about how people buy compute now.
openai is letting outside companies host the sandboxes its agents run in @Scobleizer · read more
blaxel says it's an official partner for self-hosted sandboxes in the new agents api, with openai keeping the harness, per @Scobleizer.
a codex billing bug let one guy run twelve astra agents nearly free @callebtc ♥ 58 · read more
@callebtc called them 'productive days.' it's fixed now, which his replies are not happy about.
one heavy user is splitting his automation between openai and grok on purpose @petergyang ♥ 27 · read more
@petergyang keeps all local scheduled tasks in codex and is porting every cloud task to grok bot. a clean split beats one vendor.
ethtaipei starts today and vitalik is on the first day's lineup @EthTaipei ♥ 1 · read more
cryptonative day opens the conference, with protocol teams and researchers, per @EthTaipei. one talk is on keeping core protocols neutral while building compliance for institutions.
@EthTaipei · ♥ 1 Tomorrow, ETHTaipei opens with Cryptonative Day. Builders, protocol teams, and researchers meet in Taipei to share what’s next for Ethereum. Vitalik joins the Day 1 lineup, and there’s more to explore in Community Space. Check the agenda: h @EthTaipei · ♥ 3 The next major wave of capital entering Ethereum will come from traditional finance. The challenge is building institutional-grade compliance while keeping core protocols credibly neutral. At ETHTaipei’s Cryptonative Day, independent develothe exploding-object photos all over your feed have a three-minute recipe @ashebytes ♥ 72 · read more
@ashebytes got enough questions about the 'exploding man' look that he recorded the whole gpt-6 astra workflow, using a leica m11 as the example.
a robot at eth zurich taught itself the monkey bars @lukas_m_ziegler ♥ 18 · read more
the humanoid jumps up to the bar, swings across and drops to a landing, per @lukas_m_ziegler. legged robots usually map the terrain first, useless on a horizontal bar.
trump went to dublin and said irish reunification is inevitable @Polymarket ♥ 254 · read more
@Polymarket flagged the line. he also told embassy staff the us is 'doing better, literally, better than it's ever done before.'
a navajo weaver has been turning computer chip layouts into blankets @2170cell · read more
marilou schultz's woven chips are the best picture on the timeline this morning, via @2170cell. semiconductor die patterns look extremely good as textile.




