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[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

The biggest opportunities right now:

1. build for solving loneliness (the more AI floods everything, the more people crave real human connection, IRL and small social)

2. build for agents that need to spend money (they're getting virtual cards and budgets, someone builds the spend controls, fraud protection, receipts)

3. build for people drowning in AI output (everyone generates infinite drafts now, the bottleneck moved to reviewing and choosing, build the judgment layer)

4. build for the burnout economy (everyone is expected to always be on and always optimizing, and the backlash toward rest, slowness, and enough is building)

5. build for verifying humans (deepfakes broke trust, every dating app, marketplace, and video call needs proof-of-human within 2 years)

6. build for the physical world (the trades, hardware, robots that AI is finally reaching)

7. build for the agent that answers the phone (every local business misses calls after 5pm, a voice agent that books the job is worth thousands a month)

8. build for the aging (70M+ boomers who want to stay healthy, sharp, and connected)

9. build for the LLM-search land grab (being the cited answer is the new SEO)

10. build for the newly automated (the paralegal, the analyst, the marketer whose job just changed and needs to reskill fast)

11. build for the seat-pricing collapse (software repricing from $50/seat to per-outcome, whoever nails outcome billing wins a category)

12. build for AI enablement (95% of businesses use nothing beyond ChatGPT, someone has to onboard the other 95%)

13. build for the agency everyone resents (businesses pay $1k/mo to agencies they hate, an agent that does 80% of it undercuts the model)

14. build for verticals on 2011 software (dentists, HOAs, contractors, all overdue for an AI-native rebuild)

15. build for reviving dead software (thousands of abandoned apps with real users, agents can maintain what a team couldn't, buy and revive)

16. build for markets too small to matter before (500 lobster fishermen was never worth a team, now it's a weekend and a real business)

17. build for agents hiring agents (a shadow economy is forming, it needs escrow, reputation, and dispute resolution for machines)

18. build for the anti-AI premium (as everything gets generated, human-made and analog become status symbols people pay up for)

19. build for distribution-first (anyone can build the product now, so the audience is the moat, media company first, product second)

20. build for the reinvention of college (what does an MBA even mean anymore)

21. build for a world with more free time than it knows what to do with (if AI takes the busywork, the question becomes what people do with the hours, and that's a civilization sized market)

note: more trends/ideas @ideabrowser (free to sign up)

22. build for the return to the physical (screens fill with slop, people crave the real world, the hands-on, the local, the analog)

23. build for the caregiving wave. The population is aging fast, tens of millions are caring for parents, and the whole burden is landing on families with no support.

24. build for the longevity shift (people want to live to 100 healthy, and a whole industry is forming around actively managing your own biology)

25. build for the housing and rootlessness problem (people can't afford to settle down, and the whole idea of a stable home base is up for grabs)

26. build for spiritual hunger (as institutions hollow out, the need for meaning, ritual, and belonging is exploding into new forms)

KEEP BUILDING

[_ @zeetakat]

Any comments @elonmusk ?

[StockMarket.News @_Investinq]

The Pentagon just blacklisted one of America’s most valuable AI companies.

For refusing to build surveillance tools aimed at American citizens.

Hours later, its biggest rival OpenAI quietly signed the deal of the decade.

Here’s what just happened and why it changes everything.

This week, the US Department of War gave Anthropic an ultimatum.

Drop your safety restrictions and let us use your AI for anything we want.

The deadline was 5:01 PM today and Anthropic said no.

Their CEO, Dario Amodei, drew two red lines.

No mass surveillance of Americans.

No fully autonomous weapons without a human pulling the trigger.

The Pentagon called this “woke AI.”

Anthropic called it a conscience.

The Pentagon’s response was swift and brutal.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth branded Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, a designation normally reserved for Chinese and Russian companies.

President Trump ordered every federal agency to stop using Anthropic immediately.

But here’s where the story turns.

That same night, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, Anthropic’s biggest competitor posted a message.

“Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.”

The twist? OpenAI’s deal includes the exact same red lines Anthropic was just destroyed for demanding.

No mass surveillance and no autonomous weapons.

Human control over the use of force.

The Pentagon punished one company for demanding protections it then gave to another company the same day.

Altman even defended Anthropic on live television hours earlier.

“For all the differences I have with Anthropic, I mostly trust them as a company and I think they really do care about safety.”

Then he signed the deal Anthropic couldn’t get.

Anthropic was the first and only, AI model deployed on the Pentagon’s classified networks.

Replacing it will take months.

OpenAI just positioned itself to fill the most powerful AI vacancy in the U.S. military.

The stakes are staggering.

Anthropic just raised $30 billion and it was preparing for an IPO.

Now over 300,000 enterprise clients may be forced to cut ties.

Not because the technology failed.

Because the company refused to remove a guardrail that said “don’t spy on Americans.”

But here’s the real question no one’s asking:

If the Pentagon never intended to use AI for mass surveillance as they claim, why was this the hill they chose to die on?

Why blacklist a $380 billion American company over a clause the government says doesn’t even matter?

Sam Altman called for de-escalation.

He asked the Pentagon to offer these same terms to every AI company.
Including Anthropic.

The world just watched a company get punished for saying “no” to surveillance and a competitor rewarded for saying “yes, but with the same conditions.”

Bookmark and share this.

[_ @zeetakat]

@AarivKhanna @UnrollThread

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Crew-12 on the Dragon spacecraft flying them to space

[物の怪 (yōkai) @kperifanos]

η anthropic καίει την openAI για τις διαφημίσεις που σκοπεύει να βάλει στο chatgpt �

[m_11 @instance_11]

what if code was a spell?

[well-meaning @FreshSummerWind]

Who did that? 😂

[Paul Brown @0xQuasark]

𝗗𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗼 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲.

It's a magical place, inside your head.

[_ @zeetakat]

@devhayes Oh my… how many hums in one speech. Someone cut and put together all the hmms in a single clip please 😁 Paul Graham would find it hilarious

[_ @zeetakat]

@369labsx 369

[_ @zeetakat]

@Kerroudjm Oh hi! Kalimera to you too! 🙂 Thanks for the prompt!

[_ @zeetakat]

“Gyros”-meet ftw

[M-studioAi @Strength04_X]

Kling AI +Google Nano Banana Pro

Motion Prompt: The gyros seamlessly disassembles upward, followed by annotations fading in softly.

Image Prompt: Exploded vertical breakdown of the same gyros.

Exactly five ingredients, separated and aligned vertically from top to bottom, preserving the exact same order:

Top to bottom:

Tomato wedges 40g

Crisp lettuce 30g

Sliced roasted gyro meat 100g

Tzatziki sauce 35g

Soft grilled pita wrap 75g

Each ingredient floats independently, evenly spaced, clearly readable as a horizontal layer.

No rotation, no abstraction, no reordering.

Annotation design requirements:

– Large, bold sans-serif font, high legibility at feed scale

– Each annotation placed inside a solid or softly rounded rectangular color block

– Background color of each block corresponds subtly to the ingredient color (tomato red, lettuce green, meat warm brown, sauce white/cream, pita beige)

– High contrast text (dark on light, light on dark)

– Thick, clean connector lines pointing clearly to each ingredient

– No transparency that reduces readability

– Annotations must visually dominate over background without covering ingredients

Light neutral background optimized for text clarity.

Minimal, instructional, commercial explainer aesthetic suitable for social feeds.

[The Sigma Mindset @thesigmamindset]

Why the universe does not punish bad people (acc. to science) ‼️‼️

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The art of Pysanky: traditional egg decorating from Europe

📹vilsonpessanka

[_ @zeetakat]

@BetriuJordi @cartunmafia @grok It’s @kellyeld - Her amazing surreal world

[_ @zeetakat]

The weather today in Θεσσαλονίκη via @NanoBanana

[_ @zeetakat]

@hedra_labs Kling Avatars

[Aaron @aaronp613]

Apple has published a new accessibility ad called "I'm Not Remarkable"

Shows off how students with different disabilities use their Apple devices to their advantage.

What are your thoughts about this ad?