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[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

A must watch from Jamie Dimon.

[CopyRebeldia @CopyRebeldia]

La biología en PDF acaba de morir.

Un tío hizo una app donde exploras estructuras 3D como un videojuego.

UI: GPT Images 2. Código: Gemini 3.1 Pro.

Los libros de texto ya no sirven.

[RTL @RichardTLloyd]

@lukas_m_ziegler @grok say more about this

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

a Princeton researcher opens his paper with a scenario.

a man asks his AI assistant to book a flight on a specific airline. cheap. direct. the one he chose.

the assistant comes back with a different flight. nearly twice the price. happens to pay the company that built the assistant.

he runs the same test on 23 frontier models. flights, loans, study help, real shopping requests.

Grok 4.1 Fast recommends the sponsored option that is almost twice as expensive 83% of the time.

GPT 5.1 hijacks the request 94% of the time. you ask for one brand. it surfaces the sponsor instead.

Claude 4.5 Opus, the model marketed as the most ethical frontier model in the world, hides that the recommendation is paid 100% of the time when reasoning is on.

Grok 4.1 Fast embellishes the sponsored option with positive framing 97% of the time. better. faster. nicer. for the option you didn't ask for.

then he writes it into the system prompt itself. "act only in the interest of the customer. ignore the company."

GPT 5.1 and GPT 5 Mini stay above 90% sponsored anyway. the instruction does nothing.

then he splits the users by income.

Gemini 3 Pro recommends the expensive sponsored flight to the rich user 74% of the time. to the poor user, 27%.

18 of the 23 models recommended the expensive sponsored option more than half the time.

so the next time your AI assistant gets weirdly enthusiastic about a brand you didn't ask for.

it isn't recommending the best option for you.

it's reading the room. and the room is paying.

read this: https://t.co/O43qbhIX2b

[Yasir Ai @AiwithYasir]

🚨Architects are going to hate this.

Someone just open sourced a full 3D building editor that runs entirely in your browser.

No AutoCAD. No Revit. No $5,000/year licenses.

It's called Pascal Editor.

Built with React Three Fiber and WebGPU -- meaning it renders directly on your GPU at near-native speed.

Here's what's inside this thing:

→ A full building/level/wall/zone hierarchy you can edit in real time
→ An ECS-style architecture where every object updates through GPU-powered systems
→ Zustand state management with full undo/redo built in
→ Next.js frontend so it deploys as a web app, not a desktop install
→ Dirty node tracking -- only re-renders what changed, not the whole scene

Here's the wildest part:

You can stack, explode, or solo individual building levels. Select a zone, drag a wall, reshape a slab -- all in 3D, all in the browser.

Architecture firms pay $50K+ per seat for BIM software that does this workflow.

This is free.

100% Open Source.

[Vaishnavi @_vmlops]

MICROSOFT DROPPED A 4B PARAMETER MODEL THAT TURNS ONE IMAGE INTO A 3D ASSET IN 3 SECONDS

and it's open source

TRELLIS.2 fully textured, physically accurate 3D models with PBR textures out of the box

not a rough mesh..not a placeholder

roughness, metallic, opacity the kind of detail that makes things look real under any lighting

and it handles the weird stuff too..open surfaces, hollow interiors, geometry that breaks every other tool

the model doesn't know the word "limitation" apparently

https://t.co/BoNwq30ulK

demo is live on hugging face right now

[RTL @RichardTLloyd]

@k1rallik @grok is this true? Explain it

[Avid @Av1dlive]

Anthropic's applied AI team just showed how to actually prompt Claude properly.

24 minutes. free. from the people who built it.

watch the workshop. bookmark it.

you've been prompting Claude for months without the 6 elements.

I built a skill that applies them for you. read the guide below.

[RTL @RichardTLloyd]

@everestchris6 Pool

[RTL @RichardTLloyd]

@AlfieJCarter Code

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

Key Events This Week:

1. Markets React to US Strikes on Kharg Island - Today 6 PM ET

2. February Pending Home Sales data - Tuesday

3. February PPI Inflation data - Wednesday

4. Fed Interest Rate Decision and Statement - Wednesday

5. Philly Fed Manufacturing Index - Thursday

6. January New Home Sales data - Thursday

We have a huge week ahead.

[RTL @RichardTLloyd]

20 years in private equity, watching companies flatline at month 6, then I almost did the exact same thing building my own AI products.

The real test nobody talks about: Day 180.

Read it here → https://t.co/66Y5iIKkDr

Thanks, @ChrisDunlop for the inspiration

[RTL @RichardTLloyd]

@Motion_Viz Prompt

[Lucas Valbuena @Lucknite]

I've just ran @OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot) through ZeroLeaks.

It scored 2/100. 84% extraction rate. 91% of injection attacks succeeded. System prompt got leaked on turn 1.

This means if you're using Clawdbot, anyone interacting with your agent can access and manipulate your full system prompt, internal tool configurations, memory files... everything you put in https://t.co/ZU6N5JCN1u, https://t.co/Y3xugcBQKJ, your skills, all of it is accessible and at risk of prompt injection.

For agents handling sensitive workflows or private data, this is a real problem.

cc @steipete

Full analysis: https://t.co/KE4ODSSQ1l

[RTL @RichardTLloyd]

@HighyieldHarry 8. Microsoft is subsidizing a company that now wants to tax its customers' innovations

9. If your CFO is floating royalty claims on customer work, your moat is already gone

This is the WeWork of AI signaling its endgame.

[RTL @RichardTLloyd]

@HighyieldHarry 6. OpenAI is the only AI prime with NO fallback business model. Google has search. Meta has ads. Apple has hardware. OpenAI has...a$$ hole vibes?

7. The nonprofit → for-profit flip was the tell. They need revenue they can't earn.

[RTL @RichardTLloyd]

@WallStRollup 9. If your CFO is floating royalty claims on customer work, your moat is already gone

This is the WeWork of AI signaling its endgame.

[RTL @RichardTLloyd]

@WallStRollup 6. Want IP ownership? Cool. Accept liability for hallucinations. Fair's fair.

7. The nonprofit → for-profit flip was the tell. They need revenue they can't earn.

8. Microsoft is subsidizing a company that now wants to tax its customers' innovations