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😲This is already our present🤖

[RoboCop @robocopxbt]

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@waleexbt Hardware is cool, but real autonomy is still lagging behind the marketing hype. Great reminder to always look past the flashy presentation!

[WALLE @waleexbt]

OPTIMUS BARTENDER ADMITTED IT WAS "ASSISTED BY A HUMAN." TESLA NEVER SAID THAT ON STAGE.

Burbank, September 2026. "We, Robot" event.

About six Optimus units worked the crowd.
Dancing. Pouring drinks. Chatting with guests.

Then one guest asked the bartender how it worked.

▸ Bloomberg's sources: remote staff oversaw many of the interactions
▸ TechCrunch: one bartender bot acknowledged human assistance on video
▸ Musk gave no sign on stage that anything but AI was running them

The hardware was real. The walking was real.
The "autonomy" was the part nobody proved.

Before you believe the next viral Optimus clip, run 3 checks:

▸ Is there a source on Tesla's own account, or just a repost?
▸ Is there a named event and a date?
▸ Is autonomy shown, or only implied?

Most viral robot clips fail check one.

The robots are improving fast.
The claims are improving faster.

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[WALLE @waleexbt]

CES FLOOR, 2026: ONE ANDROID RAISED A FINGER AND A GROWN MAN FROZE MID-STEP.

Leaked expo footage — nobody expected a machine to enforce a line better than actual security.

A guy tries to cut ahead in the crowd behind her.

She stops walking.

Turns her head.

Raises one finger.

He stops instantly. Steps back. The crowd behind him laughs.

No badge. No uniform. No voice raised. A machine just corrected a human's behavior in public, and it worked on the first try.

Think about how rarely that actually happens. A receptionist tells you to wait, you check your phone anyway. A bouncer tells you to wait, you argue. One gesture from this thing and a full-grown adult stepped back like a kid caught skipping the line.

The tech isn't the unsettling part here. The compliance is.

So what happens when a hundred of these are working a single event floor at once?

[WALLE @waleexbt]

24 ROBOTS DID KUNG FU ON CHINA'S BIGGEST TV NIGHT OF THE YEAR — AND IT WASN'T ENTERTAINMENT.

CCTV's Spring Festival Gala pulls close to 80% of live TV viewership in China. Four robotics startups didn't get a demo slot there. They got the main stage.

HERE'S WHAT MOST PEOPLE WATCHING MISSED.

This isn't a company choosing to show off. It's state media handing prime time to firms Beijing wants the world watching — and the payoff isn't applause, it's what happens after.

Companies that appear on that stage get government orders, investor attention, and market access lined up behind them. Unitree's founder met President Xi weeks after last year's gala. Four robotics startups just landed deals with the broadcast worth real money before a single unit ships commercially.

Compare that to how a Western robotics demo works: a company markets itself, on its own budget, hoping media picks it up.

China skipped that step entirely — built the pipeline from industrial policy straight to prime-time spectacle, with millions of organic views as a side effect, not the goal.

The kung fu is the hook. The subsidies, tax breaks, and IPO pipeline behind it are the actual story.

[RoboCop @robocopxbt]

@waleexbt Optimus realy incredible 👍

[WALLE @waleexbt]

THIS "OPTIMUS SKYDIVE" CLIP ISN'T A TESLA TEST. IT'S NOT EVEN REAL FOOTAGE.

No camera shot this. The lighting, the motion blur, the helmet design — none of it matches anything Tesla has actually shown.

SO WHY IS THIS THING GETTING MILLIONS OF VIEWS AS IF IT HAPPENED?

Because AI-generated footage has crossed a line most people haven't clocked yet: it doesn't need to be real to feel real. A logo on the chest and a familiar robot silhouette is enough to borrow Tesla's credibility for free.

This is the actual story worth paying attention to — not a robot in freefall, a synthetic clip in freefall through timelines with zero friction, because nobody stops to check the source before sharing.

The real Optimus program is still doing warehouse and factory work. No skydiving. No helicopter. That gap between the real roadmap and the viral render is exactly where this kind of content thrives.

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A HUMANOID JUST PLAYED TENNIS ON A FULL US OPEN COURT. NOT A DEMO STAGE — AN ACTUAL TOURNAMENT VENUE.

Table tennis bots have existed for years. Full-court tennis is a completely different problem, and picking this exact venue wasn't random.

HERE'S THE PART NOBODY'S ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT.

Table tennis rewards fast reflexes over a tiny table. Tennis rewards something harder — reading a ball's arc while it's still crossing 20+ meters of court, then repositioning the entire body before it even bounces.

That's not a reaction-time problem. That's a prediction problem, running on legs that also have to sprint, plant, and swing without falling over.

Picking a real stadium over an empty lab court is the marketing move here — associate the robot with something millions already watch, not a controlled test nobody sees.

Every new sport one of these steps into isn't a stunt. It's a public stress test on cameras the company doesn't have to pay for.

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@waleexbt EXPO Top

[WALLE @waleexbt]

THIS ROBOT'S FACE MADE AN ENTIRE EXPO FLOOR STOP WALKING.

Not the joints. Not the specs on the booth sign.

The face.

Watch what actually happens around it — phones up before anyone reads a single word about what it does.

That's the detail most companies still miss.

A convincing face doesn't need a job description to create value. It just needs to make people stop moving.

Every person who stops is a lead. Every phone that comes out is free reach. Every clip uploaded is advertising nobody paid for.

Put that face in a hotel lobby, a casino floor, a mall, an airport, a flagship store — a normal display gets scrolled past. A face that looks back doesn't.

Factories will keep buying robots for labor.

Brands are going to start buying them for attention.

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[MarginMan @0xmarginman]

🚨BREAKING: Trump phoned into Jensen Huang's live interview at the All-In Summit to declare the entire AI-safety debate "a hoax."

Monday, Los Angeles. Huang is mid-interview when his phone rings on stage. He puts it on speaker.

"The whole thing is a hoax." Trump, live, to the room.

Huang's answer seconds later: safety is critically important, but it isn't a reason to slow down.

The market didn't wait for the nuance.

NVIDIA closed down 3.4% that day. Semiconductor stocks fell across the board. The Global X Cybersecurity ETF, the trade for "AI goes wrong," jumped more than 10% in a single session.

Trump called it a hoax on a live mic. Traders priced it as a risk anyway.

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[WALLE @waleexbt]

"I, ROBOT" CAME OUT IN 2004. BACK THEN THIS SCENE WAS SCIENCE FICTION.

Autonomous units making judgment calls on humans. No operator in the loop. Full physical autonomy.

HOW MANY OF THOSE THREE THINGS ARE STILL FICTION TODAY?

Not zero. Not all three either — that's the uncomfortable part.

Full physical autonomy: solved, already shipping in warehouses and on sidewalks.

Judgment calls with no human in the loop: partially here, mostly held back by safety review, not by law.

Robots physically restraining or policing people: still fiction — but only because nobody's built the incentive to cross that line yet, not because the hardware can't.

The movie got the timeline wrong by maybe a decade. It didn't get the shape of the problem wrong at all.

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[WALLE @waleexbt]

A ROBOT GOT ITS HEAD KNOCKED OFF ON LIVESTREAM AND THE CLIP WENT EVERYWHERE. EXPERTS COVERING THIS INDUSTRY ALREADY HAVE A NAME FOR WHAT YOU WERE ACTUALLY WATCHING: ROBOT THEATER, NOT ROBOT SPORT.

At EngineAI's URKL tournament in Shenzhen this July, one humanoid decapitated another mid-fight, and the footage spread fast enough that a national embassy account reposted it. Great clip. Not actually a sporting moment.

Current robot fighting is boring unless something malfunctions or breaks — which is exactly what that viral moment was. It's missing everything that makes combat sports genuinely compelling: real training progression, developing skill, rivalry that builds over a season, someone to root for who might actually lose. Prerecorded moves make forgettable demos, not memorable moments or champions.

I checked how these robots are actually controlled before writing this. URKL's fighters run on motion-capture data pulled from real human martial artists — called "shifus" — recorded in advance and loaded into the system. Unitree's earlier "Iron Fist King" matches were confirmed remotely piloted by human engineers in real time, with some pre-programmed sequences mixed in. Independent coverage from Rest of World, watching similar VR-controlled matches in San Francisco, quoted robotics experts calling the entire format "robot theater," not competition.

None of that makes the engineering trivial — keeping a bipedal machine balanced while it absorbs a real kick is a genuinely hard control problem, and these teams have made real progress on it.

But a pre-loaded move set piloted by a human hand isn't a sport. It's a demo with better production value, a $1.44 million prize belt, and no actual athlete inside it to root for.

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[WALLE @waleexbt]

A CYBERTRUCK-BRANDED TAXI ALMOST MET A DELIVERY ROBOT MID-CROSSWALK TODAY.

The robot didn't speed up. Didn't stop. Just kept its exact walking pace like it had somewhere to be.

DOES A SIX-THOUSAND-POUND TRUCK YIELD TO A ROBOT THE SIZE OF A COOLER?

Turns out yes — the truck slowed, the robot rolled straight through like it owned the crosswalk.

Neither vehicle needed a human to make that call. One read the signal, the other read the truck. No horn, no hesitation.

This is what shared roads actually look like once it's boring instead of a headline. Two different robots, same intersection, no coordination between the companies behind them — and it just works.

[MarginMan @0xmarginman]

WARREN BUFFETT CALLS THE STOCK MARKET A CHURCH WITH A CASINO ATTACHED

He's sitting on a record $397 billion in cash, the largest pile in Berkshire's history, and hasn't been a net buyer of stocks in 14 straight quarters.

At Berkshire's May 2026 annual meeting, he said it plainly:

"WE'VE NEVER HAD PEOPLE IN A MORE GAMBLING MOOD THAN NOW."

He said many stock prices look "awfully silly" right now, even with $70 to $80 billion he'd love to put to work.

The S&P 500's forward P/E is near 32. Its inflation-adjusted CAPE ratio is above 41, close to the dot-com peak. Margin debt across US investors just hit a record $1.5 trillion.

History rhymes here.

Buffett held 50% cash before the 2000 crash. 60% cash before 2008. His current cash-to-portfolio ratio is the highest of his career.

No dollar collapse. No Bank of Japan leak. Just the world's most patient investor saying the prices in front of him don't add up yet.

WHEN BUFFETT SITS ON HIS HANDS THIS HARD, IT'S USUALLY NOT BECAUSE NOTHING SCARES HIM. IT'S BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS PRICED FOR NOTHING TO.

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