₿ January 3, 2009. Satoshi Nakamoto mines the first Bitcoin block on a standard CPU. Block reward: 50 BTC. The entire network is one person running software on a desktop.
That's where it started 🧵👇
Four frontier AI models released in seven days last week. A SpaceX booster reflown for the 36th time. A humanoid robot performed surgery, and Elon casually claiming SpaceX will be worth more than the entirety of planet Earth. We are truly in the in the singularity.
-- July 2: Fable 5 re-released. July 8: Grok 4.5. July 9: GPT 5.6 (Sol, Terra, Luna). July 9: Meta's Muse Spark. Four labs, one week.
-- OpenAI openly confirmed recursive self-improvement: Sol is being used to post-train Luna. AI training AI is now official product strategy.
-- 1X unveiled its Neo hand: 25 degrees of freedom, waterproof, tendon material 100x stronger than steel per unit weight. 10,000 units shipping this year.
-- Hynix says memory chips will be in short supply for at least five years.
Incredible result in the @midjourney v8.2 test 🤯
Creative Statement:
I stopped showing my best creations on X because of the daily thefts, but now Nikita is demonetizing those profiles and the platform has finally become a comfortable network for creators.
In 2022, after the arrival of Midjourney, I decided to dedicate myself full-time to diving deep into this emerging culture.
With my background in audiovisual production, I knew this new culture would be my future.
That very risky decision brought difficulties at the beginning. Then, after 12-hour workdays, I started landing collaborations.
Now it’s time to develop series and projects and start reaping the rewards.Everything has changed a lot.
All platforms are flooded with AI creations, which has slowed down my strategy. Every day there are purges of AI channels on Instagram and YouTube.
To avoid that problem, I’ve had to present myself as a traditional painter so I don’t fall into the pure AI niche.
I will present my series drawn by hand, showing a human side.
You might think you can create an AI-generated video that simulates painting by hand, but in reality, it will be flooded with comments calling it AI, and you’ll create distrust among your followers.
It’s not a real solution.
I believe that if you decide to take this path of producing professionally and making a living from it, you should do a market study beforehand.
(This isn't an MJ promo AD; it's just a test of its latest update.)
Midjourney just shocked the world:
They’re building the Midjourney Scanner…a full-body Ultrasonic CT that delivers MRI-quality (or better) 3D scans of your organs, tissues, muscles, fat, bones & more in ~60 seconds!
No radiation, no magnets, no claustrophobia…just sound waves + water.
Why it’s revolutionary 👇
• Safe enough for daily scans
• Tracks changes over time: early detection, body comp, recovery
• Reconstructed with Midjourney’s image AI magic for stunning detail
• Coming to relaxing “Midjourney Spa” centers (hot tubs, saunas, etc.)
First flagship in SF late 2027.
Long-term goal: 50k scanners worldwide doing a billion scans/month.
Whataya think?
autonomous robot driving through the field at night. no chemicals. no pesticides. just UV light killing pathogens and pests while everyone sleeps. this is @tricrobotics.
this is what chemical-free pest control looks like at scale.
This weekend, @AnthropicAI admitted that 80% of the code being merged into their codebases is written by @claudeai. The AI is now recursively self-improving. This is the most important moment in human history.
Argentina is seizing the moment to become the safe haven for AI, offering minimal regulation, legal personhood for machines, and declaring themselves open for business. In the mid-1800s, Argentina was the wealthiest country in the entire world. This is their shot to vault right back to the top of the world stage.
The US Federal Gvt collects $5.2 trillion in taxes per year but can't deliver working healthcare, functional infrastructure, or effective regulation. Meanwhile, a 22-year-old with Claude just built a working prototype of a government service in an afternoon.
The human body became a software engineering problem the minute CRISPR arrived. Now, AI writes better code than humans, with every disease becoming a potential coding challenge.
I’m proud that so many of the world’s leading companies have joined us for Project Glasswing to confront the cyber threat posed by increasingly capable AI systems head-on.
https://t.co/pn3HSVsThP
“You can see the surface of the Moon…we just went sci-fi.”
On flight day seven, images from our @NASAArtemis II crew amazed, turning science fiction to reality. From the lunar far side to a solar eclipse from the Moon, the views are EVERYTHING. No pressure to pick a favorite.
This is big... Anthropic just announced a model so powerful they won't release it to the public out of fear over the damage it will cause 😨
Claude Mythos Preview found thousands of zero-day exploits in every major operating system and web browser...
The numbers are hard to believe:
> $50 to find a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD, one of the most security-hardened operating systems ever built
> Under $1,000 to find AND build a fully working remote code execution exploit on FreeBSD that grants unauthenticated root access from anywhere on the internet
> Under $2,000 to chain together multiple Linux kernel vulnerabilities into a complete privilege escalation exploit
For context: these are the kinds of findings that previously required elite security researchers working for weeks.
Anthropic engineers with no formal security training asked Mythos to find exploits overnight. They woke up to working code the next morning.
The results were so impressive Anthropic assembled Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, NVIDIA, and seven other organizations into Project Glasswing:
A $100M defensive coalition. They're not releasing this model publicly. Instead, they're racing to patch the world's infrastructure before models like this proliferate.
Somebody used Seedance 2 to make a short film called "Escape from Berlin". 🤯
Female John Wick!
Looks like a higher production quality than 1/2 of Netflix's action output.