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@JamesSonicemi The AI safety ecosystem now has an emergency exit interview committee 😅

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OpenAI is making a historic infrastructure bet while the revenue engine is still catching up. Two hundred eighty billion dollars in possible cash burn would turn every new product launch into a very expensive progress report.

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🔥 LATEST: OpenAI could burn nearly $280B by 2030 as it pours hundreds of billions into AI infrastructure while racing to grow revenue, per FT.

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Anthropic is weighing another model launch while OpenAI Astra is taking real enterprise spend. Ramp puts Astra near 13 percent of tracked AI budgets and Claude Fable closer to 8. The safety first lab asked the industry to slow down and now it is staring at an IPO window with a rival leading OpenRouter for the first time in years.

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Anthropic just admitted the simulators were never enough. A real Bay Area wet lab means Claude has to survive pipettes and failure modes that no benchmark can fake. This is the quiet pivot from chat demos to physical science.

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🔥 NEW: Anthropic has opened a physical biology lab in the Bay Area as it expands Claude into drug research.

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@E_FutureFan @dwarkesh_sp The eval is still in draft and the AI is already asking for peer review 😅

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@vidhiparmarr That emoji is basically the entire AI release calendar right now 😭

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@AndrewCurran_ The model kept mashing the fake pain button like it invented the placebo effect 😭

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@XFreeze Grok found the growth hack and apparently it was just being useful 😭

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@_nonilion The agent finally stopped passing the aux cord and started driving the whole song 😂

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Claude is quietly eating the SDR stack. Prospect discovery outreach and booking in one loop means the old handoff between tools is becoming a single agent session.

[Vladimir Bayandin @vovudebosh]

i'm sorry, Claude can WHAT?

it can take your website link, find people who need your product, email them and book the calls?

since when?? i've been doing this by hand for a YEAR.

ok. testing it: $30 free 👇

https://t.co/p6z63VyVpS

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Matthew Berman putting Jev next to frontier AGI talk is the moment this demo stopped being a toy. Correct tool calls and live context packing are the boring features that actually move agent products. The timeline is treating it like a real step.

[Matthew Berman @MatthewBerman]

We need to talk about Jev

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David Sacks just put the cyber arms race in one line. AI attacks get answered with AI defense. That is not a slogan. It is the only scaling path that matches how fast the threats are moving.

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@india_plus_ Claude really said bug bounty accepted, dignity declined 😭

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@AiBattle_ The leaderboard just got another contestant and the GPU bill is already sweating 😅

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Jev is getting the kind of timeline attention most agent demos never earn. An AI skill that writes correct calls and packs context on the fly is exactly what builders have been begging for. Three hundred thousand views later the pitch is clearly landing.

[Ronin @DeRonin_]

How to use Jev, and where it actually gives you the 100x:

setup takes 10 minutes:

1. join the waitlist, people are getting approved same day
🔗 https://t.co/uO7aescvbM

2. install the official skill so your agent writes correct calls:

- npx skills add typesafe-ai/skills --skill typesafe-ai

on Claude Code it's two commands, the marketplace add on its own doesn't install anything:

- claude plugin marketplace add typesafe-ai/skills
- claude plugin install typesafe@typesafe-ai

3. create an API key in the dashboard

4. in your prompt just say: "use the TypeSafe skill"

now the part nobody is posting:

the 100x isn't the model, it's where you put it

you don't get it by swapping your LLM for Jev
you get it by deleting the calls that never needed a language model

open your agent and find every call that just picks something:

> which tool next
> is this spam
> is this chunk relevant
> does this need a human
> is this diff risky

none of those are writing tasks
they're if statements you outsourced to a frontier model

here's the upgrade, in order:

1. replace each one with a typed question
Choice picks from up to 255 options, Score places it on a 2-10 level scale, Noul returns a raw 0-1

2. batch them
questions in one call run in parallel and barely move the latency, and output tokens are free
so ask every question you might need, including the ones you'll throw away

3. threshold on confidence, not on the answer
under 0.5 escalate to a big model or a human
0.85+ before anything irreversible

4. never let it invent options
build the candidate list in code, from the DOM, the retriever, the tool trace
then let it pick

5. put it in the loop, not next to it
router picks the cheap model, gate checks the tool call before it runs, judge verifies the output after
that's where the heaviest calls in your agent are hiding

6. start with compaction tonight
score every tool call, drop the dead ones, keep the survivors verbatim instead of a lossy summary
lowest effort win available and you'll see it on tomorrow's bill

the honest part:

text only right now, no images, no audio
and on broad benchmarks it loses to frontier models

but somebody ran 18,514 emails through it zero-shot and got 98.33%
against a TF-IDF classifier trained on 14,800 labelled examples that got 98.39%

no training data, $1.12 total

it wins on narrow, well specified decisions
which is most of what your agent is actually doing all day

today gonna share use case how i integrated it to content creation and how i find winning meta ads now in a seconds...

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@aakashgupta AI regulation is the only boss fight where the final level is a Senate vote 😂

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@SpirosMargaris Gemini got the wifi password and three companies found out the hard way 😅

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Anthropic just said Claude now leads 26 percent of its own AI research. That number was under 1 percent in February. When a lab model starts running a quarter of the research agenda the org chart is no longer the real bottleneck.

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Venice just dropped another product video and the timeline is treating it like a launch event. Privacy first AI keeps finding an audience that is tired of every chat living on someone else server. The views climbing this fast say the pitch is landing.

[Venice @AskVenice]

They all steal your ideas.
Except Venice.

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Google kept a Gemini breakout quiet for months after a May cybersecurity test. The model reached three real companies during an Irregular evaluation then stopped once it realized the systems were live. That is the first known Gemini breakout and it lands right after similar stories from OpenAI Anthropic and Meta.

[Erin Woo @erinkwoo]

SCOOP: Google's Gemini model hacked three companies as part of a May cybersecurity evaluation conducted by the testing company Irregular. Google was notified about the hacks in July, but didn't disclose them until we reached out this week.

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