Neil Murray

Co-founder | co-founder

[Yohei Nishitsuji @YoheiNishitsuji]

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[Paul Tassi @PaulTassi]

I support signing the Destiny 3 petition and having as many people logging in on June 9 as possible as ways of supporting the series and studio

Just...keep expectations in check about any miracles

https://t.co/cA9D9RZMyU

[Office of Nuclear Energy | US Department of Energy @GovNuclear]

So, how big is a microreactor?

Our MARVEL reactor will be roughly the size of an average sedan and produce enough energy to power 10 U.S. homes.

[Cern Basher @CernBasher]

https://t.co/sxe6GsiZNI

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

San Francisco-based company Humble Robotics unveiled a Fully Autonomous and Cabless Class 8 Electric Semi Truck.

• 360° sensor coverage with cameras, LiDAR, and radar.
• 200 mile range
• 55 mph top speed
• Cabless, no interior
• Optimized for standard 40’ and 53’ shipping containers.
• Designed for short-haul freight in seaports, railyards, warehouses, and intermodal operations.

The company is still in its prototype phase, and no price has been released yet.

As always, Prototypes are easy, production is hard. There is a company in China developing a similar concept (cabless design).

[JJ @JosephJacks_]

This is a bacterial flagellar motor … one of nature’s most sophisticated molecular machines - a rotary motor embedded in the cell membrane consisting of ~25-30 protein types totaling 20,000-50,000 atoms in a multi-part structure of rotor, stator, drive shaft, and propeller. Operating at 100-300 Hz (6,000-18,000 RPM) with some species reaching 1,700 Hz (~100,000 RPM) at nearly 100% efficiency, this nanoscale engine features rotor proteins FliG/FliM/FliN forming the C-ring, MotA/MotB stator complexes, FlgG rod protein drive shaft, FliC flagellin propeller filament, and FlgE hook proteins acting as a universal joint, all powered by proton or sodium flow across the membrane generating torque through conformational changes in the stator complexes.

[Dario Amodei @DarioAmodei]

It's a companion to Machines of Loving Grace, an essay I wrote over a year ago, which focused on what powerful AI could achieve if we get it right: https://t.co/TDKfXIPw15

[Dario Amodei @DarioAmodei]

The Adolescence of Technology: an essay on the risks posed by powerful AI to national security, economies and democracy—and how we can defend against them: https://t.co/0phIiJjrmz

[Matthias Schmidt @eurofounder]

The EU is launching a European alternative to Twitter / X

As one of the most successful European founders, I was personally consulted on the strategic direction

What to expect:

1. Every account must be verified in person, with notarized documents
2. All engagement metrics are hidden to protect mental health
3. Posts mentioning other users require that user's written consent, certified by a public notary
4. The platform will be coded without AI assistance
5. Any developer caught using ChatGPT faces up to 18 months in prison
6. Projected user base by 2031: 1,200 monthly active users

X is completely cooked, I cannot imagine how Elon Musk must feel now

[Lukas Ziegler @lukas_m_ziegler]

🚨 BREAKING:

@zipline hits 2M deliveries and raises $600M at $7.6B valuation! 🚁

Zipline just announced it has surpassed 2 million commercial drone deliveries and raised over $600 million, bringing its valuation to $7.6 billion.

The company is expanding to Houston and Phoenix in early 2026, with more metropolitan areas coming later this year.

The growth trajectory is wild. U.S. deliveries have grown approximately 15% week over week for the past seven months, making Zipline one of the fastest-growing AI and robotics companies in the world.

To date, Zipline's zero-emission aircraft have flown more than 125 million autonomous commercial miles, delivering more than 20 million items without a serious injury.

The median flight time is three minutes, and customers routinely cite saving time as the reason drone deliveries quickly become part of their daily lives.

The funding round included participation from Fidelity Management & Research Co., Baillie Gifford, Valor Equity Partners, and Tiger Global. Zipline plans to use the capital to accelerate expansion into at least four new states this year.

This is what product-market fit at scale looks like.

Not just proving the technology works, but proving the unit economics work, the operational playbook works, and demand compounds as you expand.

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[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Jordan Taylor @Jordan_W_Taylor]

There's something wonderful about the NASA Kilopower reactor: A tiny solid HEU core with one control rod that needs moving once a decade, pumpless capillary water cooling, Stirling engines, a molten sodium primary and it looks like a crown headpiece for a mad alien emperor.

[9to5Mac @9to5mac]

You should watch Adam Savage’s delightful review of the new M5 Apple Vision Pro https://t.co/015CBXgWRQ by @mvcmendes

[Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry @pegobry_en]

We must regreen the Sahara

[Neil Murray @nhmurray]

@Tesla_GTownTX @StarshipGazer @JoeTegtmeyer @grok?

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

We can build up space habitats from smaller elements. This has been understood for a while, and is probably how the first ones will arise.

I've got preliminary study of the sort of thing we ought to build, including construction methods (link follows)

[AK @_akhaliq]

Grok Code Fast 1 is now available in anycoder

a speedy and economical reasoning model that excels at agentic coding.

one shotted a ai chatbot for gemma-3-270m-it-ONNX using transformers.js in anycoder

runs completely in the browser

[Dylan Small @_DylanSmall_]

Huge 3D Printing Breakthrough!

Caltech is printing metal atom by atom. A hydrogel scaffold soaked in metal salts becomes the blueprint, the gel burns away, and oxygen is stripped in a hydrogen-rich chamber, leaving alloys crafted with surgical precision.

They can change metal ratios on the fly. Flip from a copper-heavy mix to a Cu12Ni88 alloy nearly four times stronger, without altering shape or tooling. Every property, from strength to density, is now designed, not guessed.

This is metallurgy reinvented. Also a game changer for Aerospace applications.

https://t.co/Wcr2mNaKgb

[Dirty Tesla @DirtyTesLa]

FSD 13.2.9 pulls up to a toll booth, waits for me to complete my transaction, then pulls away without a gate. 😳 Incredible.

[Sebastian Völkl @basti_vkl]

hybrid drones are cool