Andreas Dripke

[Ryan Tanaka @RyanTanaka]

MACROHARD/ Digital Optimus, paired with Grok is like FSD, but for your computer screen. (Hence why Ashok Elluswamy, VP of AI Software at Tesla) is leading the project.

Financially, this is Elon's most underrated initiative at the moment.

Right now, the inputs for all digital files are primarily clicks on a mouse and keystrokes on a keyboard. The outputs are emails, CAD files, meeting video recordings, etc.

In the future, the input will be user intention, likely voiced in English language + drawn/ shown with touches on a screen. The output will be whatever you want that's digital.

All the crap in between will be abstracted away. This is the exact same model as FSD uses- train on billions of miles of genuine driver data and recreate and *artificial driver* (FSD) that gets shipped out to the fleet.

At that time, all the stuff in between gets abstracted away. You just state your intention of going to Costco and FSD does all the work thereafter.

In the same way, Grok will just know what to do and Digital Optimus (and physical Optimus) will execute it for you. They will learn this by implementing the FSD model and just correlating the trillions of mouse clicks/ keystrokes with the desired outputs.

With enough data and training, Grok can understand exactly what the user wants and Digital Optimus can deliver it to them in ~1/1,000,000th the time.

MACROHARD/ Digital Optimus alone is the biggest reason I will continue to own SpaceX over the next 5 years or so. I will continue holding after that because of that and other gigantic reasons.

[Madni Aghadi @hey_madni]

Cursor just held their first ever conference.

And they dropped:

- 1.5T model trained from scratch
- Github direct replacement Origin
- iOS app

nobody saw this coming...

full breakdown (thread):

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

BREAKING: Ukraine becomes the first country in Europe to launch Starlink Direct-to-Cell technology.

• Kyivstar is rolling out Starlink-powered mobile satellite services across Ukraine.

• Nearly 5 million users have already connected to the Kyivstar-SpaceX network.

• More than 7 million messages have been sent via Starlink Mobile.

• Works with ordinary 4G smartphones when terrestrial networks are unavailable.

• Mobile internet and voice services are planned next.

[a16z @a16z]

Cursor CEO Michael Truell on the future of writing code: "Our goal with Cursor is to invent a new type of programming."

"It looks like a world where you have a representation of the logic of your software that does look more like English."

"You can imagine kind of an evolution of programming language towards pseudocode. You have written down the logic of the software, and you can edit that at a high level."

"It won't be the impenetrable millions of lines of code, it'll instead be something that's much terser and easier to understand and easier to navigate."

@mntruell with @lennysan on Lenny's Podcast

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

Google wrote the paper that made ChatGPT possible. Then decided not to build ChatGPT. Sergey Brin just explained why on stage at Stanford and the reason is more embarrassing than anyone expected.

In 2017, Google published the transformer paper. The architecture that powers every major AI model today. It came from their own researchers. Their own labs. Their own compute.

Then they sat on it.

Sergey was blunt about why. They underinvested in scaling the compute. They did not take it seriously enough. And when they finally had something worth shipping, they got scared. Chatbots say dumb things. Google had a reputation to protect. So they protected it instead of shipping.

OpenAI was not scared.

Ilya Sutskever, trained at Google, left and went there. Other Google researchers followed. They took the transformer architecture, scaled it, shipped it anyway, and captured the entire generative AI wave while Google watched.

Sergey called it a mistake at Stanford in front of hundreds of students.

The company that invented the technology did not build the product. The company that built the product did not invent the technology.

That is the most expensive case of corporate hesitation in the history of the industry.

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Watch the full interview YT.

Search: "Big ideas begin here: Sergey Brin at Stanford"

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Nashville getting drilled

[Mark Kretschmann @mark_k]

SpaceX and Cursor are taking on GitHub:

Meet "Origin" 🔥🔥

[Steinhoefel @Steinhoefel]

Meine Antwort auf eine Presseanfrage (folgt unten) des Deutschlandfunk: „Die journalistischen Mängel und die Voreingenommenheit in ihrer Anfrage gestatten mir eine Antwort in der Sache nicht.“. - Anfrage:

Sehr geehrter Herr Steinhöfel,

ich berichte heute im Deutschlandfunk-Medienmagazin kurz über den Fall. Könnten Sie mir dazu freundlicherweise eine Stellungnahme schicken, was Musk kritisiert und was Sie vom ZDF verlangen? Vielleicht mögen Sie mir das Schreiben auch im Wortlaut schicken. Bei X schreiben Sie auch, das ZDF lüge über Elon Musk. Eine Lüge setzt ja Intention voraus und schließt einen Fehler aus. Können Sie belegen, warum es sich um eine Lüge handeln soll? Zumal im folgenden Bericht korrekt formuliert wurde.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

AI will achieve Stockfish-level coding and generalized computer use

[Cursor @cursor_ai]

We're excited to join forces with @SpaceX to advance the frontier of useful AI. Expect significant improvements to Cursor soon.

[Prof. Arne Schönbohm - privat - @ArneSchoenbohm]

Das OLG München hat heute bestätigt: Vier zentrale Behauptungen über mich sind unwahr.
Die Wahrheit hat sich durchgesetzt. Offen bleibt, warum das ZDF bis heute keine Verantwortung für die Folgen seiner Berichterstattung übernimmt.
Die Feststellung der Unwahrheit ist das eine. Die Frage nach der Verantwortung für den entstandenen Schaden das andere. Diese Frage ist noch nicht beantwortet. Wir werden weitere Schritte prüfen.

[Prof. Arne Schönbohm - privat - @ArneSchoenbohm]

Morgen um 13:30 Uhr verkündet das OLG München sein Urteil. Der Weg dorthin begann 2022 mit der Sendung von Jan Böhmermann und der anschließenden Verbreitung der Vorwürfe durch das ZDF. Es waren fast vier Jahre voller Belastungen, Zweifel, aber auch vieler ermutigender Begegnungen. Entsprechend groß ist meine Anspannung. Dennoch bin ich zuversichtlich. Denn am Ende sollte in einem Rechtsstaat nicht die Reichweite entscheiden, sondern die Wahrheit. #OLGMünchen #Rechtsstaat #Pressefreiheit

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

BREAKING: SpaceX is acquiring Cursor in a $60 billion all-stock deal.

• Cursor is being valued at $60 billion
• Cursor will become a wholly owned SpaceX subsidiary
• Cursor shareholders will receive SpaceX Class A shares
• The exchange ratio will be based on SpaceX’s 7-day average share price before closing
• Subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions
• Expected to close in Q3 2026

Cursor is one of the world’s leading AI coding platforms and one of the fastest-growing software companies. This marks one of the largest AI acquisitions ever and significantly expands SpaceX’s footprint in AI.

[NL FSD Inside @TSLA_inside_]

🚨 BREAKING: Dutch Minister Karremans pushes back hard against the NOS/Reuters narrative on Tesla in Parliament.

“The RDW does NOT rely on Tesla marketing claims.

We conduct our own independent research more than 1.6 million kilometers of real-world testing on Dutch roads.

Safety comes first. Period.”

The Netherlands continues to lead Europe in evidence-based regulation. While critics speculate, the RDW makes decisions based on data, testing, and facts.

This is what taking innovation seriously looks like.
@vincentkar

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

BREAKING: Starlink has now partnered with 41 airlines worldwide, covering more than 7,000 aircraft under installation or contract.

[John Ee @heyJohnEe]

Wow China is coming up with so many techniques to beat the FSD driver monitoring system. This one is new

[bbshare @shadouyoua]

硅谷PayPal帮主彼得·蒂尔认为，AI正终结过去200年，以数学能力为核心的精英体系。工程、量化等“数学型人才”的逻辑优势，正在被AI迅速替代，其职业护城河也正在消失。未来真正的竞争力，在于叙事、社交语境理解，以及把AI嵌入社会系统的语言型人才，这才是人类独特优势。

工业革命让肌肉贬值，AI革命正在让“纯计算的大脑”贬值。未来的胜出者，是那些能用语言驾驭算法、用叙事锚定价值的社会系统操盘手。

作为程序员： 别只埋头代码，而是要多练自然语言描述问题；学产品思维和用户研究，理解非技术需求；开发时优先考虑伦理、社会影响；选领域深耕；把代码变成“能讲故事”的系统。未来你的优势是“代码+叙事”。所以，年轻人别慌着放弃STEM，也别觉得学文科就躺赢了。真正该练的，是用AI思考更深的问、讲出更动人的故事、构建更复杂的社会系统。蒂尔指出了方向，但真正的游戏，才刚刚开始。

说白了，需要文理兼修，才能走得更远。

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

When you start seeing positive articles on Tesla FSD from mainstream media (especially Forbes), you know things are going really well.

There is no convincing otherwise. Tesla FSD is the best use of real-world AI on the planet. It’s safer than a human and smoother than a human.

The crazy part? It’s only going to get way better from here. It’s just the beginning.

[Sebastian Eberle @EberleSebastian]

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen in Mainz,

bei allem Respekt. Das geht so nicht. So können und so dürfen wir nicht arbeiten. Das ist völlig inakzeptabel.

[Florian Warweg @FWarweg]

Das Video das Kontext zum Foto liefert, das derzeit die Republik bewegt: „Ich habe Herrn Siegmund das Mikro aus der Hand genommen. Dabei ist diese unglückliche Aufnahme entstanden. Das war allerdings keine Kumpelei, sondern politische Konfrontation." �