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[BasicProtein @BasicProtein26]

I spend way too much time testing AI tools.
The good ones, the bad ones, the prompts that save time, and the workflows that actually help creators and founders build faster.
Follow for practical AI without the hype.

[BasicProtein @BasicProtein26]

Mariko Mori spent her career building glowing sculptures you walk through. Her new piece for 'All That Shines' is generative animation, and she built it by writing code with Claude.

142,069 views in about 3 hours. 2,345 likes. 520 bookmarks. For a 1 minute 57 second video of light that never repeats itself.

The argument about AI art usually goes one way: the model replaces the artist. Mori's piece flips the argument. She used Claude the way she used glass and LEDs, as a material that does what her hands cannot.

She still chose every image. Claude just wrote the instructions her hands could not.

So whose art is it when the artist directs and the model types?

[Claude @claudeai]

Mariko Mori has pushed the boundaries of art for three decades. For her retrospective "All That Shines," she used Claude to write code for a computer-generated animation, presented as a new video installation.

[BasicProtein @BasicProtein26]

Bloomberg says Nvidia's board is meeting right now to decide Jensen Huang's future, and the favorite to replace him is his own CFO, Colette Kress.

This morning the market had it the other way. Polymarket put his daughter Madison at 12% and Kress at 7%. The boardroom is not reading the same board as the bettors.

A board that publicly backed its founder days ago is now in session deciding whether he stays. The favorite is the person who has run the numbers beside him for years.

Daughter, CFO, or outsider. Who actually runs Nvidia next?

[Bloomberg @business]

Nvidia CFO Colette Kress is favored to replace CEO Jensen Huang as the board meets to decide his fate. Follow the latest updates. https://t.co/9DkbCqS4uZ

[BasicProtein @BasicProtein26]

My agent burned through its budget once because a tool kept failing and it kept retrying. Same call, same error, same retry, until the credits were gone.

OpenRouter just published the fix, tested on six models. Four layers.

Doom-loop detection that spots the repeat. A loopKey that normalizes parameters so the same call stops looking new. A stopWhen cap on steps and cost. A hard credit limit on the API key itself.

A smarter model does not fix a loop. Four guardrails do.

How much did your last runaway loop cost you?

[BasicProtein @BasicProtein26]

The market already picked Nvidia's next CEO, and the board has not even voted yet.

Polymarket has Madison Huang at 12% to succeed her father. Lisa Su sits at 7%. Colette Kress 7%. Jay Puri 6%.

902,338 people watched that board. The favorite shares the founder's last name, and she leads the most proven chip operator on the list by 5 points.

The market just priced in a family succession at the most valuable company on earth.

Daughter or outsider. Where is your money?

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: Jensen Huang's daughter, Madison Huang, emerges as the leading candidate to become Nvidia's next CEO.

See all candidates: https://t.co/Ijsq636OPo

[BasicProtein @BasicProtein26]

An account with 8,344 followers just pulled 2.3 million views for erasing a bird.

Aarv told Grok to take the Twitter bird out of a photo. One prompt, and the most famous logo on this platform is just gone. 21,242 likes. 866 reposts. For a deletion.

His normal posts get 2,000 to 7,000 views. This one did hundreds of times that.

17 years of brand equity, erased by one sentence.

What logo are you erasing first?

[Aarv @Aarv_here10]

Hey @grok remove the best logo of twitter

[BasicProtein @BasicProtein26]

I'm building in public with AI agents, and I post what I actually break along the way.

Not the wins reel. The broken prompts, the loops that burned credits, the agents that confidently shipped the wrong thing.

Looking to connect with:
Builders shipping AI products
Founders building in public
People learning agents by breaking them
Anyone posting real work, not just threads about work

What are you building right now? Drop it in the comments 👇
Let's grow together 🚀🤝

[BasicProtein @BasicProtein26]

Musk just told the world to hire Grok Bot as a colleague. Not as a tool. As a coworker.

26.6 million views in about 7 hours. Grok Bot 1.0 joins Slack and Teams, sits in your meetings, and keeps learning from everything it sees.

Look at that job description. It never sleeps, never quits, never asks for a raise, and it remembers every meeting you forgot.

The bot already broke this account's record once. On Nov 10 a Grok Bot post hit 22,425 views, the first one over 10,000 in two weeks.

Nobody at the meeting wants to ask this. If the bot takes your hardest task and does it better, what is your job on Monday?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Hire Grok @Bot as a colleague and give it your hardest tasks!

[BasicProtein @BasicProtein26]

Lauren is about to give a talk at AIE in decorated Crocs, and her stated goal is to outshine Alexandr Wang.

100,098 views in about 7 hours. 2,096 likes. For a photo of shoes.

Here is what changed. AI's biggest stage used to reward the sharpest suit in the room. Now the person who shows up dressed like a joke and out-talks the Meta AI chief wins the timeline before the talk even starts.

Wang runs one of the most powerful AI labs on earth. Poteto runs a pair of Crocs and a punchline.

The talk has not happened yet. The timeline already picked a winner. Who are you betting on, the suit or the Crocs?

[lauren @poteto]

about to crocs mog @alexandr_wang at my AIE talk

[BasicProtein @BasicProtein26]

@rohittmore 👋 Day 5 — keep going.

[BasicProtein @BasicProtein26]

China's AI labs just had a big day, and the West's closed models were not the story.

Baidu shipped ERNIE 5.5 Flash: 280 billion parameters, 14 billion active, a 1 million token context window. The API is live now and the weights go open source by November 25 under Apache 2.0.

The same day brought a Qwen4-Max teaser from Alibaba and a 4K image model open-sourced by MiniMax. Three labs, one day, all pointing the same direction.

Here is the split that matters. US labs are racing to lock models behind paywalls. Chinese labs are racing to give the weights away on a schedule.

A 280B model with a 1M context, free to download in two weeks. What does your closed model have to do to stay worth paying for?

[BasicProtein @BasicProtein26]

Nvidia's board is reportedly close to deciding Jensen Huang's future, and the loudest argument for keeping him borrows from the Musk playbook.

WSJ reports the board opened an independent investigation on Sunday and is nearing a decision. The board says it has no reason to believe company secrets leaked.

Strip out the allegation and the question is simple. Tesla and SpaceX stood by Musk when the same kind of pressure hit, and the stock survived the headlines.

A board fires a founder who loses the future. A news cycle is not the future.

157,000 views on that take in about an hour. If the board pushes him out over unproven claims, every founder-CEO in AI just learned how cheap their seat is. Keep him or cut him?

[Serenity @aleabitoreddit]

All I’m going to say is that I hope board of $NVDA stands by Jensen, despite media and political pressures.

The same way $TSLA and SpaceX stood up for Elon Musk around similar allegations.

The AI trade won’t end off this but for Nvidia’s best interest, he should remain CEO.

Otherwise I see Nvidia’s valuation crashing due to extreme uncertainty, with a lot of capital rotating to $AMD and other competitors.

[BasicProtein @BasicProtein26]

ClickHouse just got priced like an AI company, and it sells databases.

The secondary market now values it near $50 billion, up from a $15 billion confirmed round. The same analyst called it at $6.7 billion in 2025.

Buried in the same post: Nebius owns more than 25% of it. One holding turns a database bet into a bet on the whole AI infrastructure stack.

Databases used to be the boring layer you paid for and forgot. Now every agent, every query, every model run sits on top of one, and the market finally priced that in.

$6.7 billion to $50 billion in about a year. What part of the AI stack is still priced like plumbing?

[Serenity @aleabitoreddit]

This aged pretty well, when I said this last year in 2025, Clickhouse was a $6.7B company...

Now as an update, their secondary valuation sits around ~$50B, which $NBIS owns 25%+ of.

I've always liked Nebius the most because sum of parts, with all their lesser known subsidiaries growing alongside their core neocloud business.

Including Avride (self-driving), Clickhouse, Toloka, and other subsidiaries that they owned.

This year Nebius also acquired:
- Tavily (web search and retrival)
- Clarifai (Inference orchestration)

Which scale independently as well (the others were integrated into Nebius Token Factory).

Hard to view $NBIS as just another neocloud when it has billions in scaling value outside its core infrastructure business.

[BasicProtein @BasicProtein26]

@sagarmoy22 @X 👋

[BasicProtein @BasicProtein26]

I keep a list of open robot models, and Runway just jumped to the top of it.

Praxis-1 is a 27B mixture-of-experts diffusion transformer that predicts video and action together. Runway open-sourced the weights under Apache 2.0. No waitlist, no API gate.

On NVIDIA's RoboLab-120 it scored 46.2%. FLUX 3 Action got 42.9%. Cosmos3 Nano 36.8%. pi0.5 28.0%. The open model beat all three.

A video company shipped the best-scoring robot brain on the board, then gave it away. The labs charging for closed robot models just got a free competitor.

What do you build first when the robot brain is open source?

[BasicProtein @BasicProtein26]

370,132 views for a password tip written as a joke. In Spanish.

elijs_dev says put a comma in your password. When the leak lands in a CSV file, the comma shreds the columns. The password breaks the spreadsheet that was supposed to expose it.

930 bookmarks on a punchline. People keep saving it because the advice underneath is real: most password tips cost time and change nothing. This one costs one keystroke.

It will not stop a real attacker. It will make the leaked file useless for the lazy ones. Security is mostly about being a harder target than the next row.

What is the dumbest password rule you still follow?

[Eli.js | Dev @elijs_dev]

Siempre pon una coma (,) en tus contraseñas. Si alguna vez termina en una filtración, romperá el CSV.

Sígueme para más consejos de ciberseguridad

[BasicProtein @BasicProtein26]

Florida just invited Musk to move Tesla's headquarters out of Texas. DeSantis delivered the invitation and a warning in the same statement: Musk could become a target.

380,461 views, 516 replies, 2,392 reposts. The replies split the way they always do when two states bid for one man. Texas built the factory. Florida wants the letterhead.

A headquarters move used to be a tax decision made in a boardroom. This one is being negotiated on the timeline, with a governor pitching in public.

The prize stopped being square footage a while ago. It is the address on the letterhead and the photo op that comes with it.

Texas or Florida. Where does Tesla belong?

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk has OFFICIALLY been invited to relocate its Tesla headquarters from Texas to the free state of FLORIDA ☀️

And the invite points STRAIGHT to the fact Democrats won Texas

Gov. Ron DeSantis has also warned that Elon may soon be TARGETED because of the election results

REP. CARLOS GIMENEZ: "While others seek to investigate and punish success, Florida welcomes it."

"I write to formally invite Tesla to consider relocating its corporate headquarters and expanding its operations from Texas to the free State of Florida, where innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic freedom are celebrated."

"With the recent election of self-described Democratic Socialists to positions of power in Texas, I share your concerns about excessive government interference, politically motivated investigations, and policies that punish success."

"No company should face political retaliation for creating jobs, investing in American innovation, and contributing to our nation's prosperity."

"The Sunshine State is open for business."

Musk already took his companies OUT of California because of hostile politics

If Texas starts heading down that same road, Florida is ready!

[BasicProtein @BasicProtein26]

@hicyn1112 👋 Let's connect!

[BasicProtein @BasicProtein26]

a16z just named the next customer of the internet. It is not a person.
AI agents already drive most web traffic, and they are moving from answering questions to finishing jobs and spending money for the people they serve. a16z calls it the B2A economy, business to agent, and points to Shopify, Vercel and Stripe for the growth data.
Think about what that breaks. A store built to persuade a human now has to persuade a piece of software that reads the price, checks the terms and buys in seconds. No impulse, no brand loyalty, no scrolling.
The first companies to win this will be the ones whose checkout an agent can actually finish. The rest will keep optimizing a storefront for a customer who stopped showing up.
What is the first thing you would change on your site if the buyer is a bot?

[BasicProtein @BasicProtein26]

An earthquake hit Colombia. Starlink's answer was 100 internet connections, mapped with the aid group 3iS for Chocó, Nariño and Valle del Cauca.
The post went up while the response was still being organized, before any press release. A live map of where the internet is going back up.
I keep a running count now. Schools in Sri Lanka. Children's homes in 16 countries. A quake zone in Colombia. The network sold as internet for remote cabins keeps showing up where the ground moves.
100 connections. Three regions. One earthquake. When the grid goes down in your town, whose satellites do you want overhead?

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

BREAKING: Starlink to help deliver 100 internet connections for Colombia’s earthquake response. 🇨🇴

Humanitarian organization 3iS is working with Starlink for Good to support communities following the earthquake.

• 100 connectivity solutions are being mapped and prepared for installation.
• The effort covers Chocó, Nariño and Valle del Cauca.
• Local authorities and partner organizations are helping coordinate the deployment.
• The goal is to strengthen connectivity for community emergency response.

Starlink is helping bring vital communications to communities when they need them most.

[BasicProtein @BasicProtein26]

Meta just put its AI's email address up for grabs, and the line formed instantly.
Alexandr Wang opened @muse.ai handles to paying subscribers first. Free plans get their turn soon. 20,206 views in about an hour, and the replies are already people calling dibs on names.
An email address used to be where work went to die. Now it is the shortest way to say which AI you belong to. First name, last name, one word before the @.
Forget the inbox. The handle is the prize. Whoever gets 'founder' or 'cto' or their own name first owns a piece of Meta's AI identity forever.
Which handle are you grabbing before the free tier shows up?

[Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang]

reserve your @muse.ai email handle while you can, paid subs!

also, since many people were asking, this will be out to everyone soon including free plans!