bernard bontemps

building @hyperscalenet

[bernard bontemps @hyperscaler_]

At Mojo (yc w18), we were spending up to $1M a month on ads.
More ads didn’t mean more winners.
So @clem_de_ligny and I built Hyperscale: a self-driving team of AI agents for mobile app video ads.
It studies the best subscription apps in real time and already knows your world when you connect. It predicts what to test next, makes the ad, launches the test, and learns from real spend.
Use it yourself, or let us run it for you.
Hyperscale is live today.
If your app is doing $500k+/month in revenue and creative is still the bottleneck, I want to work with you directly this week. We get paid on performance.

[sara @ggsarzi]

The artist Grimes has celebrated the latest counterstrike update by posting eggs on her Instagram

[bernard bontemps @hyperscaler_]

@clem_de_ligny https://t.co/8pfUaXeJdc
Reply or DM me. I’ll onboard you myself.

[bernard bontemps @hyperscaler_]

At Mojo (yc w18), we were spending up to $1M a month on ads.
More ads didn’t mean more winners.
So @clem_de_ligny and I built Hyperscale: a self-driving team of AI agents for mobile app video ads.
It studies the best subscription apps in real time and already knows your world when you connect. It predicts what to test next, makes the ad, launches the test, and learns from real spend.
Use it yourself, or let us run it for you.
Hyperscale is live today.
If your app is doing $500k+/month in revenue and creative is still the bottleneck, I want to work with you directly this week. We get paid on performance.

[Kalshi Finance @Kalshi_Finance]

JUST IN: OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly exaggerated AI security threats to push the government to protect their market position

[rami @ramiabih]

I build an add-on in World of Warcraft to talk to your agents in Claude code or codex while you play.

Can’t wait to grind levels and tokens

[Three.js @threejs]

🎯 https://t.co/MNnEysF6xD

[bernard bontemps @hyperscaler_]

@threejs hit maj before you hit to increase accuracy that's OP

[Brandon Luu, MD @BrandonLuuMD]

Frequent video gamers performed on cognitive tests like non-gamers that were ~13.7 years younger

[Dario Amodei @DarioAmodei]

We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.

Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.

You can read the full post here: https://t.co/OGyPb7yaYt

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

JUST IN: Sam Altman says AI models are becoming "superhuman" and we are sailing in "unknown waters"

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Humans writing code as seen by future AI

[Sam Altman @sama]

GPT-6 Astra is here.

We hope it will begin to enable a new generation of entrepreneurship, scientific discovery, and building.

We believe it is the best model in the world for computer use, professional work, science, coding, cybersecurity, and more.

It took us some extra time to ensure that we could meet the safety and alignment standards required for this capability level, but we think you’ll find it worth the wait.

It scores 98% on FrontierMath Tier 4, 99.9% on ARC-AGI 3, and 100% on ExploitBench.

[Bankless @Bankless]

NEW EPISODE - "We Want to Be Bigger Than the CME"

@Kalshi is moving far beyond prediction markets.

@j0hnwang joins @TrustlessState to unpack its regulated crypto perps push, why regulation could be its biggest competitive advantage, and how event contracts could evolve into serious institutional hedging infrastructure.

They also debate prediction markets’ insider trading problem, preview gold and silver perps, and address the rivalry with @Polymarket, including Kalshi’s claim that its crypto volume is now 10x larger.

CHAPTERS
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0:00 Is Kalshi a Crypto Company?
3:56 Global Expansion and the Regulated Edge
14:55 The Regulated Perps Bet
21:38 Combining Perps and Predictions
27:51 The Insider Trading Problem
38:50 Who Owns Market Information?
45:58 From Sportsbooks to the CME
55:24 Prediction Markets for Institutions
1:02:40 Kalshi Versus Polymarket

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

The "marketing engineer" is the NEW forward deployed engineer, and I think the BEST ones will make $1M a year!

A forward deployed engineer embeds with your team and uses AI to build the workflows

The marketing engineer does that BUT for growth, they build AI agents that find your customers, write your outbound, test your ads, and get smarter every week.

The most valuable marketer changes with EVERY major tech wave:

1. Traditional marketer: make people care with story (print, radio etc)
2. Digital marketer: the marketer who owned new digital channels (SEO, PPC)
3. Growth hacker: the growth marketer who lived in loops, PLG and retention
4. Marketing engineer: the marketer who builds AI agents that run the whole system.

The type of agents a marketing engineer would create:

1. The customer language agent. It pulls your Gong call transcripts, your Intercom tickets, and your G2 reviews every week, extracts the exact words customers use to describe the problem, and drops a memo ranked by how often each phrase shows up.

2. The buying trigger agent. It watches for signals that someone's ready, a company posting a job for the role you sell to, a funding announcement, a competitor getting torched in a review, then enriches the contact through Apollo and drafts the outbound tied to that exact trigger the second it fires.

3. The SEO gap agent. It pulls keyword gaps from Ahrefs, checks who's already ranking on page one, reads the top three results, then writes a better post with the founder's actual take baked in, plus the meta title and internal links, and drops it in for approval.

4. The creative testing agent. It takes one offer, generates 100 ad variations across three different angles with Nano Banana and your copy model, pushes them live through the Meta API, and kills anything under a 1% CTR on its own so only the winners keep spending.

AND MANY MORE.

If you're a marketer, this is how you stop being replaceable.

If you're a founder, this is how you grow your company efficiently.

AI agents are here and marketers are about to have a field day!!

I explain everything (tools, agents, 30d plan) on today's episode of @startupideaspod

Watch:

--> https://t.co/8XZz3eknP5

Marketing engineers are here. Whatever we end up calling them, the top 1% of them are going to make an absurd amount of money.

[CSGOBig.com @csgobig]

ZywOo’s warmup is insane 😮

[First-Person Data Explorer @FPDExplorer]

Prop explorer is live in FPDE on Steam!

Rows -> Objects
Columns -> Properties

- Drag & Drop Rows into the scene
- Random Projection Coloring
- Similarity Networks
- K-Means Clustering
- And they dance!

Explore your data in color, size and motion ~

[Tibo @tibo_maker]

as someone who spends more than $300,000 / month in AI models, I can tell you:

you're being scammed

Seedance 2.5 costs about $0.10 per second of video, bare minimum. that's the price WE pay. before upscaling, storage, retries, and all the generations you throw away.

one 30-second video = ~$3 in pure model cost
a normal creator iterates 3-10 times to get one

so one good video = $15-30

now do "unlimited" at $59/month.

two good videos and they're losing money.
the math never works.

so when you see "unlimited", it's always one of these:

1. a silent throttle (your 5-min renders become 60-min renders)
2. a quiet rename ("unlimited" becomes "enhanced fast" after you paid)
3. a moving start date (you were promised 7 days, you actually get 1)

and it's likely all 3.

I'd love to sell unlimited too. it would print signups. but I pay the model providers every month, and I'd rather show you a real price than rename your plan after checkout.

if the math can't work, you're not looking at a price, you're looking at a scam

[Olivia Moore @omooretweets]

AI video ads have crossed the chasm

I’ve followed this space since 2023, and for the first time am doubting my ability to spot it

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: One-person AI startup Polsia reaches 10,000 paying customers & is projected to generate $10 million in revenue this year. — WSJ

[Sam ☕ @samirande_]

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