Zack Anton

CEO of Anki, the undisputed pioneer of consumer Ai powered Robots designed and engineered by the greatest of the greatest of our time.

[Rahul @sairahul1]

Sam Altman:

"We're going to see 10-person billion-dollar companies pretty soon."

"If I were 22 right now, I'd feel like the luckiest kid in history."

Most people will read this, feel inspired for 3 minutes, and go back to what they were doing.

The ones who act will build a one-person company this weekend.

One tool. Claude Cowork. Full operation.

This is the exact playbook ↓

[Amy Deng @amydeng_]

I’m an AI researcher turned brain tumor patient, and recently I used the models to crack my mystery fatigue faster than my PCP could.
I believe everyone can do the same with their own symptoms. Here’s how:

[Anki @DDL_Robotics]

⚡ Limited quantities available! Own a Red-Hot Limited Edition Open Box OSKR and unlock a world of coding, AI, and robotics for just $199.99.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Mike Tyson dropped pure wisdom on JRE:

“You don’t have discipline? You ain’t nobody. Nothing.”

Then he hit the killer line Cus D’Amato taught him:
“Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but do it like you love it.”

Joe Rogan nailed the follow-up: master that and you can succeed at anything.

I’ve got plenty of things I know I should do that I straight-up dread. The days I force myself to attack them with energy instead of dragging my feet? Those are the days momentum actually shows up.

Talent and motivation are everywhere. Discipline is what separates the ones who actually make it from the ones who stay “almost there.” In a world full of distractions and easy dopamine, this mindset feels like a cheat code most people never unlock.

What’s one thing you hate doing but know you need to do and how do you trick yourself into loving the process?

[CNBC @CNBC]

Jeff Bezos: "If I do my job right, the value to society and civilization from my for-profit companies will be much, much larger than the good that I do with my charitable giving."

[Zack Anton @ZackAnton]

“A maniacal sense of urgency is our operating principle.”

[David Senra @davidsenra]

“A maniacal sense of urgency is our operating principle.” — @elonmusk

“Elon hired a machinist, negotiated his salary, and had him start—all in one conversation. On a Saturday at 6 PM.”

“Most companies take two weeks to do what he does in an hour.”

[Milk Road AI @MilkRoadAI]

This is WILD!

MIT just solved one of the hardest unsolved problems in robotics (Save this).

For decades, the fundamental problem with soft robots and wearable exoskeletons has not been compute or AI, it has been actuation.

The moment you try to give a soft robot meaningful strength, you run into the same wall every engineer has hit since the field began, fluid-driven systems require external pumps, hydraulic reservoirs, and heavy infrastructure that makes the entire thing impractical to wear or embed into fabric.

MIT's new Electrofluidic Fiber Muscles solve that problem by eliminating external infrastructure entirely.

The key insight is electrohydrodynamic pumping using electric fields to generate pressure directly from electricity, with no moving parts, no motors, and no external fluid reservoir.

The fibers are less than 2 millimeters thick, can be woven into fabric like ordinary textile, and operate in complete silence because nothing physically moves inside them, it is just ions propelling fluid through a closed circuit.

The performance numbers published in Science Robotics are not conceptual, they are empirical results from actual hardware.

These fibers achieve a power density of 50 watts per kilogram, matching skeletal muscle, with a contraction strain of 20% and a response time of 0.3 seconds.

A single bundled configuration lifted 4 kilograms, 200 times its own weight while a separate configuration drove a robotic arm through a 40-degree bend compliant enough to safely complete a human handshake.

Another configuration launched objects in under 100 milliseconds, which is faster than a human flinch reflex.

The design mirrors biological muscle architecture in a way that prior artificial muscle approaches never achieved.

The fibers are organized into antagonistic pairs, one contracts while the other extends, exactly like biceps and triceps and because the system runs in a closed loop, the relaxing fiber serves as the fluid reservoir for the contracting one, which is what allows the whole system to operate untethered with no external tank.

The applications are not hypothetical but rather are the exact use cases the industry has been waiting years for the hardware to catch up to.

Exoskeletons for physical labor, prosthetic limbs that move with the natural compliance of biological tissue, assistive garments for patients with motor disorders, and soft robots capable of safe physical contact with humans are all immediately unlocked by a muscle technology that is silent, lightweight, and weavable into clothing.

The deeper significance is what this technology does when it meets the AI robotics wave that is already underway.

Every major humanoid robot program, Figure, 1X, Boston Dynamics, Tesla Optimus is currently bottlenecked by the same hardware limitations these fibers address, actuators that are too rigid, too loud, too heavy, or too dependent on infrastructure to operate naturally alongside humans.

Electrofluidic fiber muscles do not just solve a materials science problem but rather they remove one of the last physical barriers between robots that live in labs and robots that live in the world.

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Jensen Huang: It's easier to fall in love with what you do than to find what you love

“A lot of people say, ‘Find something you love.’ I don’t know about that. I guess I’ve fallen in love with many things that I do. I loved it when I was a dishwasher. I loved it when I was a busboy. I loved it when I was delivering papers. I loved it when I was waiting tables.”

Jensen continues:

“I’ve loved every single job that I’ve ever had, and I’ve loved every single day at Nvidia that I’ve ever had. I just learned to love what I’m doing. It’s hard to find something that you love, but it’s easier to fall in love with what you’re doing. And once you fall in love with what you’re doing because you desperately want to do a good job at it, it’s easier to do it well and work hard.”

Source: @NorgesBank (Nov 2023)

[Eric Schmidt @ericschmidt]

This is a major advancement in robotic reasoning and control. See the video !

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok Imagine tutorial made with Grok Imagine.

These is all AI-generated!

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Jeff Bezos reveals the moment an early Amazon executive told him he had enough ideas to destroy Amazon:

"Early in Amazon's history, Jeff Wilke came to me one day and said, Jeff, you have enough ideas to destroy Amazon. You have enough ideas per minute, per day, per week to destroy Amazon."

"I was like, what do you mean?"

"He said, you have to release the work at the right rate that the organization can accept it."

"Every time I released an idea, I was creating a backlog, a queue, work in process. It was just stacking up, it was adding no value. In fact, it was creating distraction."

"So I started prioritizing the ideas better, keeping lists of them, keeping them to myself until the organization was ready for the ideas."

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇨🇳 This might be the most futuristic thing you’ll see today:

Artificial skylights that use LED panels + nanotechnology to create hyper-realistic blue skies and sunlight in completely windowless rooms.

You can even switch from bright midday sun to warm sunset glow with a remote.

We’re now simulating the sky indoors because real windows are apparently too much to ask for in dense cities.

This is either peak innovation…or lowkey dystopian. You decide.

[Avid @Av1dlive]

Jensen Huang (CEO of Nvidia) : “Every engineer is going to have and manage 100s of agents”

The future of work is managing and building multi-agent workflows

This builder gave out the entire playbook to make 100x agentic workflows in 2026 for free

Bookmark this for the weekend

[Daniel Jeffries @Dan_Jeffries1]

Jensen is one the smartest and most far seeing folks the world.

"If an AI scientist warns people that AI is going to permeate across radiology and radiologists are going to get wiped out, it might seem helpful but it's hurtful. If we convince everybody not to be radiologists and we now need radiologists, that actually is hurtful to society.

"It is hurtful to convince all the young college graduates not to study software engineering because we are going to need more software engineers than ever.

That's hurtful."

"Scaring people with nonsensical things, which are not going to happen, that this is an existential threat, there's a 20% chance that is is existential, that's ridiculous.

"That it's going to wipe out 50% of college level jobs.

"That is it going to completely destroy democracy.

"These kinds of comments are not helpful. They are made by...CEOS. And you become a CEO, maybe you adopt a God complex and somehow you know everything."

Brutal.

And right.

[Anki @DDL_Robotics]

Anki Is Back—And This Time, the Timing Might Actually Be Right

https://t.co/BfXGHMEJvZ