Prakash

Somewhere doing something sometimes.

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🚀 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

[Prakash @_gromore_]

I WILL trumps IQ

Of course, like most other things Pareto shows his hand here to 😉

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Agency > Intelligence

I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?

Grok explanation is ~close:

“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.

People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.

It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

[Jessica Lessin @Jessicalessin]

I can't stop thinking about that the fact that the next 18 months are likely to bring a level of tech wealth creation that the world has never seen—and that is saying a lot.

It would be a reasonable bet that during that time we will have the IPOs of SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, Anduril and more, unleashing a level of wealth, liquidity (and power) across the tech community that is going to have ripple effects far beyond what we can imagine today.

If you want to cover the implications of all this for us, ping me.

[Prakash @_gromore_]

Simple test: who feeds whom? 😉

[Kelly @SelfMadeMastery]

Is a car a liability or an asset?

[Prakash @_gromore_]

$AMZN will there be robots to repair the robots or should one brush up on robot repair skills? asking for friend

[Shay Boloor @StockSavvyShay]

$AMZN is aiming to replace 600K U.S. jobs with robots by 2033.

It shows how serious they are about cutting labor costs & scaling efficiency through automation.

[Prakash @_gromore_]

Heard of this thing called AI?🙄

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

FED'S MUSALEM: I COULD SUPPORT A PATH WITH ANOTHER CUT IF MORE RISKS TO JOBS EMERGE AND INFLATION CONTAINED

[Prakash @_gromore_]

That's peanuts - Sam and rest of the team #OpenAI

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

DIMON: JPMORGAN SPENDS $2B A YEAR ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

[Kirsten Green @kirstenagreen]

Every great consumer tech company eventually becomes a commerce company.

And, there is always room to build massive, verticalized businesses by being excellent at the edge.

Plenty of unclaimed whitespace in the missing infrastructure.

Next wave of commerce is underway...

[Prakash @_gromore_]

Go to pick up lunch and there he is the man himself at $NVDA @nvidia reunion close to original office

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

$NVDA - NVIDIA CEO: OPENAI DEAL IS LARGEST COMPUTING PROJECT EVER

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called the OpenAI partnership “the largest computing project in history,” citing soaring demand from ChatGPT. He said the effort will build AI infrastructure to move technology from labs to the real world, marking the start of an “AI industrial revolution.”

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

“The disease of our times is that we live on the surface. We’re like the Platte River, a mile wide and an inch deep. I always say, 'If you want to become a billionaire, invent something that will allow people to indulge their own Resistance.' Somebody did invent it. It’s called the Internet. Social media. That wonderland where we can flit from one superficial, jerkoff distraction to another, always remaining on the surface, never going deeper than an inch. Real work and real satisfaction come from the opposite of what the web provides. They come from going deep into something—the book you’re writing, the album, the movie—and staying there for a long, long time.”

— Steven Pressfield in Tribe of Mentors

[David Sinclair @davidasinclair]

On October 1903, @nytimes boldly declared it would take humans 1–10 million years to invent a flying machine. The Wright brothers proved them wrong just 69 days later

[The AI Investor @The_AI_Investor]

Watch GTC Financial Analyst Q&A

https://t.co/a4YAOLGhkM

[RenMac: Renaissance Macro Research @RenMacLLC]

As mentioned on this week's pod. The % of consumers expecting stock prices to DECLINE is at its lowest level in 15yrs. It's contrarian in nature. In the spring, the % expecting stocks prices to decline was highest ever... as predicted $SPX ripped.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

People will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential.

They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose – they want to keep you down.

[Evan @StockMKTNewz]

CEOs and leaders from the largest tech companies in the United States 🇺🇸 had dinner at the White House last night and talked about how much they're investing in the US

Here's some of the people who were there

- Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg
- Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
- Microsoft Founder Bill Gates
- Google CEO Sundar Pichai
- Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin
- Apple CEO Tim Cook
- AMD CEO Lisa Su
- SPAC Man Chamath Palihapitiya
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
- OpenAI President Greg Brockman
- Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar
- Oracle CEO Safra Catz
- Amazon VP Jamie Siminoff
- Shift4 founder Jared Isaacman (Elon Musk's representative???)
- Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra
- Blue Origin CEO David Limp
- COO of Groq Sunny Madra
- Figma CEO Dylan Field

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok videos can now talk.

Major upgrade to image & video generation in a few weeks.

This is still early beta.

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

Humanoid robots doing laundry and now dishes, what do you want next?

[Axel @ax_pey]

Introducing MARS, the first Personal AI Robot.

In technology, getting to the future we want starts with building it together.

This is why we designed Mars. Inspired by early PCs, Mars is a powerful, complete, extendable robot.

It runs BASIC, an open embodied AI agent we created for you to program with code, demonstrations, and prompts. This allows Mars to perform complex long-horizon tasks involving spatial memory, reasoning, manipulation and navigation.

Pre-orders open now

⬇️ Demos & details in the thread

[StockMarket.News @_Investinq]

It just keeps getting worse.

Since “Liberation Day” in April, the US has lost 42,000 manufacturing jobs.

For 2025 overall, the sector is now down 78,000 jobs.

Liberation Day was supposed to bring manufacturing back. Instead, the numbers show the opposite, steady losses month after month.