Todd Sherman

@Instagram Relevance. Founded @YouTube Shorts. Ex @Twitter & @Snapchat. Interested in AI/ML, creators, platforms, drones, robots, science.

[Todd Sherman @tdd]

I know they love Slack but I wouldn’t be surprised if they expand Cowork to include the communication layer (chat + video calls). Making it native seems like it’ll unblock some interesting use cases.

[Aaron Levie @levie]

Good thought provoking post from Anthropic. I think this paragraph points to the key element of the optimistic scenario of AI:

“There has been an explosion of new ideas, initiatives, tools, and simulations, as a result of Anthropic employees working with highly capable models—far more than we have the capacity to pursue. The rate at which organizations can spot and fix these bottlenecks may be a skill that improves over time, and it may become the most important skill for any organization.”

AI lowers the barrier dramatically to allowing us to do more. As a result of that, we have far more ideas than we can pursue, and for the ones that we want to pursue we’re ultimately limited by our ability to go take on the surrounding work to execute those ideas. There’s almost no amount of AI progress that can happen where that goes away.

AI is going to let us build much more software, launch more marketing campaigns, research more drugs, and so on. All of this work, even when augmented by agents, still ultimately requires people to manage.

[Todd Sherman @tdd]

How long until we have an abiogenesis proof from AI?

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION DETECTED: Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Demis Hassabis have signed a joint open letter calling on Congress to mandate screening of synthetic nucleic acid orders, citing AI’s rapidly improving ability to assist with biological research as an urgent biosecurity risk.

[Todd Sherman @tdd]

@trondw @NotebookLM @GoogleLabs 🔥🔥🔥

[Todd Sherman @tdd]

Imagine if they started hot patching the @claudeai mac app.

[Todd Sherman @tdd]

@Yamill @claudeai Yes plz

[Todd Sherman @tdd]

@nikitabier Are the choice orders randomized? Biggest regret on the original Twitter polls is not prioritzing that, and this would have an even larger bias.

[Todd Sherman @tdd]

Buy-it-for-life kind of quality. I’d love to see them reenvision a g-shock type watch: tough solar, triple sensor, sapphire, 200m water resistance,

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

Alroght, as promised, we have re-opened orders for the Anduril Chromatic.

The original production run sold out in just a few minutes, this final preorder closes at midnight on Sunday. They are a gigantic pain in the butt to make, no amount of pleading will bring it back!

[Todd Sherman @tdd]

Ever go see a movie and not know *anything* about it ahead of time? Somehow I found myself in that circumstance with “A Beautiful Mind”.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Movies that you didn't think were going to be good but then blew you out of the water.

[Todd Sherman @tdd]

Surprised @Tesla hasn't entered the drone market yet. With the US DJI ban and Tesla’s expertise in motors, batteries, and manufacturing, it is a massive opening.

[Todd Sherman @tdd]

I’m ready for room temp superconductors, fusion, and unifying quantum mechanics & gravity.

[Todd Sherman @tdd]

@PalmerLuckey @modretro Awesome! “Per my email” lol.

[Todd Sherman @tdd]

@modretro given the battery isn’t working as intended, will first edition owners that have a power core get a free charging station shipped to them?

[Todd Sherman @tdd]

Given the rise of short-form drama apps (Reelshort, Dramabox), was Quibi just ahead of its time? I don’t think so. It funded Hollywood stars while fans wanted fast, cheap soaps. It required a monthly subs vs pay-per-episode and it blocked sharing, never cultivating the viral growth that fuels today’s industry.

[Todd Sherman @tdd]

If recursive self-improvement happens by 2026, wouldn’t that trigger a Singularity where AI innovates its own architecture very quickly? Would that make the rest of this list irrelevant in 2027? If AI innovates its own research, won’t "reward engineering" and human management become the very bottlenecks AI is optimizing to bypass?

[Todd Sherman @tdd]

Cool to see @demishassabis and team in the Wizard of Oz credits at the @SphereVegas. I’ve been meaning to see this for a while! Behind the scenes of the GDM / Google Cloud work: https://t.co/zHhgXbsPsu

[Todd Sherman @tdd]

@4484 @GeminiApp Nope!

[Todd Sherman @tdd]

Can kids under 13 years old use the @GeminiApp? According to support article and Gemini itself, the answer is "yes". However I toggled the Gemini setting to on in Family Link and it does not work. This "Learn more" link says it's not available for <13 YO.

[Todd Sherman @tdd]

Anyone else have an issue with talking to @GeminiApp while using Apple Carplay? Seems like Gemini hears itself and thinks it's an interruption.

[Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UW]

Sergey has a new habit.

He talks to Gemini Live while driving, discussing things like data center power and cost.

It’s classic Google dogfooding — obsessively testing your own product. It reminds me of Bill Gates removing his car radio so he could think about Microsoft nonstop. Every founder should have this level of obsession.

Sergey also says the Gemini model he’s using in the car is way better than what’s available now. My guess is that Gemini 3 Flash is coming soon!

[Todd Sherman @tdd]

@cgarciae88 Stone tools, then control of fire 🔥

[Todd Sherman @tdd]

@GeminiApp Done! Included a link to this tweet as well.

[Todd Sherman @tdd]

@GeminiApp Thanks but that doesn’t explain it. I’m US based, the Gemini toggle is there in Family Link, but it won’t work. Seems like a bug. Happy to provide any details needed to verify.