Anton Perez

Building systems and a life | US × PH | Cloud & AI @ BDO Unibank |

[LaWanda @lawanda50]

LOL Andy Roddick was asked if he liked playing fellow Americans and he said “I did because none of them were named Federer, Djokovic, Nadal”. 😂😂

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada spoke about the contradictions of human nature:

“Some people dream of having a swimming pool at home, while those who have one hardly ever use it. Those who have lost a loved one feel a profound sense of loss, while others often complain about their living relatives. Those without a partner long for one, while those who have one often don't appreciate it. The hungry would give anything for a meal, while the satiated complain about the taste of their food. Those without a car dream of owning one, while those who have a car are always looking for a better one.”

The key to happiness is gratitude: truly seeing and appreciating what we already have, and understanding that somewhere, someone would give anything for what we take for granted.

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION DETECTED: Anthropic has disclosed to the U.S. Government that Alibaba executed the largest known distillation attack on Claude to date, generating 28.8 million exchanges through nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts between April and June 2026.

[Anton Perez @antonperez]

Seen this many times — token/auth anti-patterns.

[Grafana @grafana]

🚨 We recently discovered that an unauthorized party obtained a token with access to the Grafana Labs GitHub environment, enabling the threat actor to download our codebase. (1/6)

[Claude @claudeai]

We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.

This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.

[Harrison Ford @HarrisonFordLA]

May the fourth be with you

[Anton Perez @antonperez]

Bookmarked under “People Are Awesome”

[i like computers @WildComputers]

legend

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

"Failure is essentially irrelevant unless it is catastrophic."

~ Elon Musk

[Anton Perez @antonperez]

Hoping this becomes reality sooner than later.

[Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain]

Replacing the Strait of Hormuz: How the UAE Will Become the World’s Most Valuable Energy Corridor
The chances that Iran’s stalemate becomes permanent are high. Trapped in ideology, Tehran is unlikely to act pragmatically, meaning the closure of the Strait of Hormuz could last indefinitely. The world needs a new route. Enter the UAE.

Thanks to ports on both the Gulf and the Arabian Sea, the UAE can bypass Iran’s chokehold. Its key asset is Fujairah Port on the Arabian Sea, home to the world’s largest energy storage facility.

Before the war, only half of UAE oil exports went through Fujairah via the 1.8 million bpd Habshan pipeline; the rest sailed through Hormuz. A new 1.5 million bpd pipeline from Jabal Dhanna to Fujairah, already planned pre-war, will let the UAE export its full 3.3 million bpd OPEC quota without touching the strait.

With superior low-carbon production, world-class pipelines, massive storage, and port capacity, the UAE now becomes the region’s energy hub. Kuwait can dock its 3 million bpd at Jebel Ali and pipe it to Fujairah. Iraq can do the same for its 4 million bpd (perhaps pipeline expansion will be required). Qatar, if it distances itself from Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood, can repurpose the Dolphin Pipeline to export LNG through Fujairah.

The same Emirati corridor can handle non-energy imports for Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar.

Result: the Strait of Hormuz becomes redundant. Iran can keep it closed forever.

[Anton Perez @antonperez]

Disrupting current trends and the ways of working norms. Wow.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI.

The combination of Cursor’s leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX’s million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will allow us to build the world’s most useful models.

Cursor has also given SpaceX the right to acquire Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for our work together.

[Ayaan 🐧 @twtayaan]

🚨 S3 is no longer just Object Storage.

Yesterday (April 7, 2026), AWS officially launched Amazon S3 Files.

This is the biggest update to S3 in 20 years.

It can:
→ Mount S3 buckets as native file systems
→ Provide sub-millisecond file access
→ Handle POSIX permissions (UID/GID) natively
→ Connect to Lambda, EC2, and EKS directly
→ Eliminate the need for s3fs or data staging

Your AI agents can read/write to S3 like a local disk, while your data team access the same objects via API.

DevOps just got a massive upgrade.

Source: https://t.co/gwGIhDlInU

[Anton Perez @antonperez]

Always magnificent.

[NASA @NASA]

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Software horror: litellm PyPI supply chain attack.

Simple `pip install litellm` was enough to exfiltrate SSH keys, AWS/GCP/Azure creds, Kubernetes configs, git credentials, env vars (all your API keys), shell history, crypto wallets, SSL private keys, CI/CD secrets, database passwords.

LiteLLM itself has 97 million downloads per month which is already terrible, but much worse, the contagion spreads to any project that depends on litellm. For example, if you did `pip install dspy` (which depended on litellm>=1.64.0), you'd also be pwnd. Same for any other large project that depended on litellm.

Afaict the poisoned version was up for only less than ~1 hour. The attack had a bug which led to its discovery - Callum McMahon was using an MCP plugin inside Cursor that pulled in litellm as a transitive dependency. When litellm 1.82.8 installed, their machine ran out of RAM and crashed. So if the attacker didn't vibe code this attack it could have been undetected for many days or weeks.

Supply chain attacks like this are basically the scariest thing imaginable in modern software. Every time you install any depedency you could be pulling in a poisoned package anywhere deep inside its entire depedency tree. This is especially risky with large projects that might have lots and lots of dependencies. The credentials that do get stolen in each attack can then be used to take over more accounts and compromise more packages.

Classical software engineering would have you believe that dependencies are good (we're building pyramids from bricks), but imo this has to be re-evaluated, and it's why I've been so growingly averse to them, preferring to use LLMs to "yoink" functionality when it's simple enough and possible.

[Anton Perez @antonperez]

“Agents can read code. They cannot read the room.” — for now. As AI progresses, context like reading the room will be possible.

[The New Stack @thenewstack]

The anxiety around agents replacing developers misses a fundamental distinction. Writing code is pattern recognition, but software engineering is not.

Thanks to Signadot https://t.co/L0gm0fKj28

[Anton Perez @antonperez]

Anthropic is killing it. They have a sustainable business model, has shown integrity over $, and is innovating with Code and Cowork, among other things.

[0xMarioNawfal @RoundtableSpace]

Anthropic just launched Anthropic Academy

Totally free — 13+ official courses, complete with certificates, and zero subscription required.

Some highlights:
→ Claude 101 (perfect starting point)
→ Claude Code in Action
→ Building with the Claude API (seriously in-depth, 8+ hours of content)
→ Intro to MCP + Advanced MCP
→ Agent Skills
→ Claude on AWS Bedrock & Google Vertex AI

https://t.co/f2ImVQI1F6

[Anton Perez @antonperez]

Fascinating and scary at the same time.

[A Gene Robinson @AlBuffalo2nite]

WATCH THIS… because this is the future of warfare.

The video circulating right now is real. It’s a demonstration of Anduril Industries’ EagleEye system… an AI-powered augmented-reality combat helmet.

What you’re seeing isn’t science fiction.

The helmet overlays real-time battlefield intelligence directly into the soldier’s vision.

Enemy positions highlighted.
Friendly forces tracked.
Thermal imaging.
Drone feeds.
AI target detection.

All visible inside the soldier’s field of view without looking down at a tablet or screen.

The demo shows soldiers moving through a simulated urban environment while the system identifies threats, labels targets, and coordinates movement with audio commands like “Alpha set” and “Bravo engage.”

Anduril is a real U.S. defense contractor founded by Oculus creator Palmer Luckey.

Their Lattice AI system… which powers EagleEye… just secured a massive multi-billion-dollar U.S. Army contract as the military pushes deeper into AI-driven warfare.

Think about what this means.

Battlefields where soldiers can see threats through smoke, darkness, and clutter.

AI highlighting targets instantly.

Drones and robots controlled without taking your hands off your weapon.

If systems like this deploy at scale…

The nature of combat changes completely.

Watch the video closely.

Because what you’re seeing is the merging of AI… augmented reality… and modern warfare.

Although Grok said was real. I no longer trust this… so I will place the flag just in case.

#SilentMajoritySpeaks
#AStoneGroove

[Anton Perez @antonperez]

Unreal.

[Andrew Kang @Rewkang]

Researchers trained a humanoid robot to play tennis using only 5 hours of motion capture data

The robot can now sustain multi-shot rallies with human players, hitting balls traveling >15 m/s with a ~90% success rate

AlphaGo for every sport is coming

[Similarweb @Similarweb]

Our GenAI traffic share update is back.

This chart tracks the monthly traffic share of leading AI tools worldwide.

Main takeaways:
→ As of February, Grok and Claude surpassed DeepSeek, taking 3rd and 4th place respectively.
→ Claude crossed the 3% mark for the first time in February.
→ Gemini is approaching a quarter of the total share.

🗓️ 12 months ago:
ChatGPT: 75.7%
DeepSeek: 8.5%
Gemini: 5.7%
Grok: 3.4%
Perplexity: 2.1%
Claude: 1.7%
Copilot: 1.3%

🗓️ 6 months ago:
ChatGPT: 74.0%
Gemini: 13.3%
DeepSeek: 4.2%
Grok: 2.2%
Perplexity: 2.1%
Claude: 2.0%
Copilot: 1.2%

🗓️ 3 months ago:
ChatGPT: 65.8%
Gemini: 20.7%
DeepSeek: 3.9%
Grok: 3.2%
Perplexity: 2.1%
Claude: 2.1%
Copilot: 1.2%

🗓️ 1 month ago:
ChatGPT: 61.7%
Gemini: 24.4%
Grok: 3.4%
Claude: 3.3%
DeepSeek: 3.2%
Perplexity: 1.8%
Copilot: 1.1%

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[James Lavish @jameslavish]

Good morning.

The 20 millionth Bitcoin was mined yesterday. This means that 95% of all Bitcoin that will ever exist is now in circulation, and it will take 114 years to mine the remaining 5%. No other asset on earth works like this.

Have a great day.

[Natasha Malpani 👁 @natashamalpani]

for decades, knowledge was the moat.

now that intelligence is ambient, knowledge stops being power.

what’s left is the uncomfortable truth:
most ‘knowledge work’ was never about work.

navigation + optics kept you afloat. who you knew. how you framed it. how long you could hide behind meetings and decks.

that cover is gone.

when every decision is traceable and every workflow auditable, incentives, ownership, + accountability will reset around contribution, not visibility.

the friction ahead is human.

AI will force organizations to see themselves clearly: who decides, who delays, who actually delivers.

and they might not like the answers.