Grocery is a $1.5T domestic market — bigger than restaurants, bigger than hotels. But it's running on technology from the Reagan administration.
We just raised a $22M Series B for @VoriHQ to make every supermarket in America autonomous.
Grocery is a $1.5T domestic market — bigger than restaurants, bigger than hotels. But it's running on technology from the Reagan administration.
We just raised a $22M Series B for @VoriHQ to make every supermarket in America autonomous.
Filmmaking brothers Arie and Chuko Esiri have landed a distribution deal with acclaimed company NEON for their upcoming film, Clarissa.
Shot on 35mm from Nov-Dec 2025, the sophomore project moves between Lagos and Abraka, Delta.
Read the full story. https://t.co/8hfPKWGsqk
Stablecoins are emerging as the clearest view of what a dollar actually costs in frontier markets.
Over the past year, I’ve been looking closely at how stablecoins trade across 20+ frontier markets. Here's what I found:
2025 wrapped: We crossed $355M in payments volume at @VoriHQ 🚀
Grocery is the most important consumer spend category on the planet—and Vori is building its AI-powered infrastructure.
• +$22M in incremental sales for grocers
• 1.26M lbs of bananas sold 🍌
• 577k+ cost changes detected by Vori AI
• 50+ teammates building this every day
• Live nationwide — Seattle → Staten Island
2026: escape velocity. $2B+ in payments.
Buckle up.
Thanks for the recs, y’all! Just to clarify - this is for a physical product, not digital/CGI. Looking for someone who can do CAD-style modeling for fabrication, not visual/CG art. Thank you!
Holding a private repo (memory, metrics, IP data) offline may be one of the last real edges.
Handing it to LLMs is replaying media’s fatal mistake: trading content for reach… until the platforms no longer needed them.
You can, simultaneously:
- Dollar cost average, remain long-term optimistic.
- Not panic.
- Enjoy the outdoors, kids, good food, etc.
- Realize how unbelievably destructive and unnecessary this is.
Some news years in the making: My book EMPIRE OF AI, out May 20, is ready for pre-order at https://t.co/i5rNJ45fNo. It tells the inside story of OpenAI as a lens for understanding the moment we’re in: the tech elite's extraordinary seizure of power and its threat to democracy. 1/
I’m happy to share that @elycecole and I have founded a not-for-profit called Hard Problems to help tech people to find meaningful work on the hardest problems facing the world — challenges like public health, climate change, and good government.