David is trying to silence us.
They sent us a cease and desist for sharing what's actually in their products.
David's founder previously built RXBAR a brand famous for clean, simple ingredients.
Now he's built David, a protein brand whose bars have over 15+ ingredients, including a chemically modified fat your body can't digest and artificial sweeteners.
Their new frozen dessert claims to have:
- 30g protein
- 260 calories
- under 2g sugar
Here's how they get away with it
Instead of real milk fat, David uses EPG a plant-derived oil chemically restructured with propylene oxide so digestive enzymes can't break it down. It passes through your gut mostly intact and that's why the calorie count looks so low.
For sweetness they chose sucralose
- same in Quest bars
- reduced insulin sensitivity in healthy adults
- sucralose-6-acetate, a compound present in commercial sucralose, damaged DNA in human cells in vitro
- linked to gut microbiome disruption
We shared publicly available ingredients and published research
David's response was to send a legal letter telling us to stop talking.
That's exactly why Oasis exists
To break down what's actually inside these products, the ones with great marketing AND the ones that are actually clean
This is why they haven't shipped Mythos.
Every AI lab is incentivized to keep its frontier model internal until its lead is too big to close.
The one that claims safety comes first is doing exactly the same thing
Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor.
It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. https://t.co/OVVPJO7VQx
We've raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation, led by @AltimeterCap, Dragoneer, @Greenoaks, and @sequoia.
This investment will help us advance our research and expand our capacity to meet growing demand for Claude.
Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.
The battle of narratives is going strong.
Our countries are a recurring target.
It is time to act to tell the stories that make us strong. Let’s live our own story!
Protect what matters - our democracy.
new business applications are at record highs
hiring intent is falling & AI spend is going vertical
everyone's calling this an anomaly but it's a pattern
1440: Gutenberg's press. one operator outproduces a monastery of scribes. the solo pamphleteer becomes a real economic unit for the first time
1850s: the sewing machine. factories had killed the cottage weaver. the sewing machine brought them back. solo tailors re-emerged as viable businesses almost overnight
1985: desktop publishing. before PageMaker, you needed a typesetter, a layout artist, a print shop. after, 1 person and a Mac could produce a magazine
2000s: blogging and AdSense. first time in history one person could build an audience and monetize it
every single time, a new tool collapsed the minimum viable team size from 5 to 1
a wave of new business formation followed, hiring intent flatlined
then an entirely new economy emerged, bigger than the one before it
AI is the sewing machine moment for knowledge work