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4/ The docs also say purchases need your approval, and the Bot should hand you control for payment confirmations. If you try it, the Stripe Link route is the one SpaceXAI documents. 🧵

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1/ Elon Musk says Grok Bot can do your shopping. Ask for something, and it finds the best deal and places the order. He says he used it to order Lego Star Wars sets for young kids.

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3/ SpaceXAI's own docs describe a different setup. Purchases go through Stripe Link: the Bot proposes a charge, you approve it, and Link gives it a one-time card number so your real card isn't handed over.

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4/ The FT says a deal could land within weeks, but the talks could still fall apart. The thing to watch: Beam's weights are promised under an open license later this month. Does that hold under a new owner? 🧵

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1/ Nvidia may be about to go deeper into making AI models itself. The Financial Times reports Nvidia is in early talks to buy Reflection AI or invest more in it. Neither company has confirmed.

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3/ Nvidia has already put $800 million into Reflection, per the FT. Options reportedly on the table: a full purchase, more cash, a chip deal, or hiring the team and licensing the tech.

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4/ A poll isn't a promise. But it's a strong hint OpenAI is rethinking how Codex limits work on its top plan. The poll closes around noon Central today. 🧵

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1/ Codex users got a fresh start this weekend. OpenAI reset everyone's Codex usage limits Friday night. It was Day 6 of its 28-day run where each day brings an improvement, a reset, or both.

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3/ Then he asked Pro users to pick: keep the 5-hour limit and get double the weekly usage, or drop the 5-hour limit and keep weekly usage the same. Overnight, no 5-hour limit was ahead, about 68,000 votes to 57,000.

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6/ Why it matters: AI agents make dozens of small choices per task. Handing those to a tiny, fast scorer instead of a big chat model could make agents quicker and cheaper. Microsoft joins OpenAI, Cloudflare, and others in this new lane. 🧵

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1/ Microsoft just shipped an AI model that doesn't write anything. Microsoft-Decision-1 only picks from a list of answers you give it and says how confident it is in each one. It went live Thursday.

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5/ Microsoft's numbers: best accuracy across 36 benchmarks, and about 35 times faster than GPT-6 Sol on a typical request. Those are Microsoft's own tests. Independent results are still coming in.

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4/ What SpaceXAI hasn't said yet: which plans include it, how much a Bot can send, and whether outgoing mail needs your OK first. The official changelog doesn't list it yet either. 🧵

[Reconnoiter @KyleRonen5amw]

1/ Grok Bot can now get its own email address. SpaceXAI started rolling out inboxes on Friday, and you claim one just by asking your Bot.

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3/ On team workspaces, an admin has to turn it on first. Screenshots users shared show the Bot asking before it claims an address, and warning that each address is unique and never handed out again.