alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦

Journalist. @twistartups, @CaOptNews. Dad x3. He/Him. Black Lives Matter. I podcast and write. Hey!

[alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 @alex]

Written words: https://t.co/Ciz1wLTlJy
Spoken words: @twistartups
Favorite person: you!

[Ankit Gupta @agupta]

another Cambridge, MA-based near decacorn 👀

[alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 @alex]

iran war going that badly?

[Axios @axios]

Trump allies renew Greenland, Canada takeover talk https://t.co/PjFgBJRZry

[Ara Kharazian @arakharazian]

NEW: DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company, is one of the fastest growing vendors on Ramp.

In probably the biggest sign that companies are looking for cheaper alternatives to OpenAI and Anthropic, some are willing to use cheaper, Chinese models, sending U.S. data back and forth from China-hosted servers.

[Hayden Field @haydenfield]

i stand by this!!!

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

We are in constant contact with the American side. We are waiting for the negotiating team to arrive, but it is taking a very long time. Iran is currently the number one issue for the United States. Unfortunately, we in this queue of wars.

I truly believe that the United States is the strongest actor that can push Putin toward ending the war, and that is why I have always said the best option for us is for the United States to be involved in the negotiations, alongside Europe. Because without Europe at the negotiating table, we cannot be sure that Europe will be heard. Ukraine is a future member of the EU. It is important for us that Europe is there. And this is absolutely fair: the war is here, on the European continent.

For us, the number one priority is to end the war – there is no alternative to that. We support any format. I am ready for direct negotiations with Putin to end this war. Thanks to our Armed Forces, we can feel our strength on the battlefield. We have made very serious progress in deep strikes. Today, 1,100 kilometers is a concrete target and a concrete result. We have such security guarantees that allow us, on equal terms with the Russians, to bring this war to an end in any diplomatic format.

From a joint press conference with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte after the meeting of the Ukraine–NATO Council in Kyiv. (2/3)

[alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 @alex]

mrak https://t.co/CkOs9enSog

[alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 @alex]

wrote about it here: https://t.co/exzAimT0So

[alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 @alex]

actually p impressed by the MSFT AI updates

[alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 @alex]

This shall be my morning thesis

[alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 @alex]

@alexrkonrad @steijnpelle @UpstartsMediaCo @LassieAI @fredericrenken @arampell what did it cost

[Alex Konrad @alexrkonrad]

EXCLUSIVE: Lassie's AI agent helps dentists save hours of busywork. Now it's raised $35M from a16z.

It started when CEO @steijnpelle heard his own dentist complain about a sea of paperwork -- then embedded in his practice to learn first-hand.

My @UpstartsMediaCo exclusive 👀

[alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 @alex]

be brave $SPOT do it with small metal artists next

[alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 @alex]

the olivia rodrigo concert on spotify is good

[Techmeme @Techmeme]

Uber says it has limited all employees to $1,500 in monthly token spending per AI coding tool "to responsibly encourage agentic AI adoption" (@natlungfy / Bloomberg)

(Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

[Erin Price-Wright @espricewright]

We can finally talk about the worst kept secret in hardware. Proud to partner with @boxcardavid, @jordansanders0, and the @westmagco team as they scale motor and actuator production in America. Why here? Because it's home.

[Tara Copp @TaraCopp]

EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon hires convicted Jan. 6 rioter for sensitive counterterrorism job w/ Sal Rizzo https://t.co/azLVtaFhs2

[alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 @alex]

If government getting in the way of the free market

[Senator Ted Cruz @SenTedCruz]

If Congress fails to act, college sports could become a mini-NFL: 30 to 50 schools with real programs and everyone else left behind.

That would be tragic for fans, schools, and the more than 500,000 student-athletes competing across America.

College sports bring us together, but more importantly, they give young men and women a path to education and a brighter future.

[David Hendrickson @TeksEdge]

🌞This is big Local AI news! A new open-source Computer-Use LLM has just launched.

Holo 3.1 is H Company’s (🇫🇷) new local computer-use agent model that beats Qwen3.5-397B, Kimi-K2.5, and Sonnet 4.6!

Since it is built for local deployment →
⬩ Runs fully on your machine (MacBook, Windows PC, DGX Spark, RTX Spark)
⬩ Based on Qwen architecture, specialized for GUI understanding & computer control
⬩ Optimized checkpoints: NVFP4, FP8 & Q4 GGUF (0.8B to 35B sizes)
⬩ Strong gains: 79.3% on AndroidWorld benchmark (35B model)

💻 Comparison to Qwen3.5:
Holo 3.1 is fine-tuned specifically for computer-use agents (screen understanding, planning, clicking, navigation). Better at real GUI tasks than general-purpose Qwen3.5, especially when running locally.⚡

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

You cannot make this up: Meta nuked teams like Integrity so bad that services are without oncall coverage 💀

Let me spell it out: it’s more important for Zuck to reassign devs from security/integrity teams to do data labelling than for these teams to have functioning oncalls…

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

Holy crap. On the eve of the IPO, SpaceX employees are organizing! ✊✊✊https://t.co/fghxmDQEeu