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MTS

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MTS

@MTSlive

Chronicling the singularity

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Joined March 2026

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Jul 10
Dr. Mike Israetel on the economic fallacy he says explains why AI won't cause mass unemployment: "Once we have 4 billion robots doing labor in the world, which we're like orders of magnitude off of that currently, then we've just only doubled the human workforce." "From 1700 to
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SITUATION DETECTED: An ownership group led by Vinod Khosla has agreed to buy the Seattle Seahawks for $9.6B, a record price for an NFL franchise, per ESPN.
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SITUATION DETECTED: SpaceX is targeting Thursday, July 16 for Starship Flight 13, with a 90 minute launch window opening at 5:45 p.m. CT. The flight will carry next-generation Starlink V3 satellites for the first time.
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MINI DAILY SITUATION RECAP (@theojaffee): China lands a reusable rocket for the first time. The Long March 10B was launched into orbit from the Wenchang spaceport in Hainan Province. The rocket booster successfully detached, descended, and was caught by a giant net. It remains
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Dr. Mike Israetel on why frontier AI models are expensive and why yesterday's frontier gets nearly free: "There are people that are like, I can't believe these models cost so much. Oh, cool, a machine that gives you wildly, insanely deep correct answers to sh*t, but of course it
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Dr. Mike Israetel on the specific reason he thinks AI won't automate his engineering team as fast as people think: "I'm damn near as optimistic as people get, like psychotically so about AI capability." "But if you told me your ChatGPT instance is now exactly as capable as your
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SITUATION ANALYSIS: SK Hynix Century (@theojaffee) After a record $26.5 billion offering, the largest in US history, the South Korean memory manufacturer’s American depositary receipts climbed 13% on their first day of trading. The company’s stock has more than tripled since the
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Jul 10
SITUATION DETECTED: SK Hynix raised $26.5B in a US listing, the largest ever by a foreign company. Its ADRs surged to $170, 14% above the $149 offering price on debut.
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here at MTS we have been very lucky to have an excellent Iran correspondent, @TheRealDanSaedi, by day the cofounder of the OpenAI-backed marketing startup Minerva. by night, Dan explains internal Iranian factionalism to me from gotham city. we have done Dan a great disservice
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Jul 10
.@creatine_cycle on the reason he thinks Bay Area AI researchers are missing something obvious about the economy: "I do properly think that researchers here in the Bay Area fundamentally misunderstand economics and the idea that humans transact with other humans." "We can have
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Jul 10
Dr. Mike Israetel on the three futures of money after AGI and the one he's betting his health on: "I'm working fairly hard now to try to accumulate as much wealth as humanly possible at the expense of every other facet of my life." "I just don't know if the future is going to
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Jul 10
SITUATION EXPLAINED: Thinking Machines just published their mission statement. • Mission: build AI that extends human will and judgment, not replaces it • The tacit knowledge argument: central planning fails not because of insufficient intelligence but because productive
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Thinking Machines
@thinkymachines
Jul 10
We're building AI that people and organizations can shape and make their own. AI should extend our will and judgment instead of neglecting it; enabling that is the technical challenge we are working to solve. thinkingmachines.ai/blog/the-futur…
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Jul 10
Aalo Atomics CEO @MattLoszak on going from founding to fission in under three years and why he now considers nuclear regulation one of his lowest risks: "15 years ago, there were anti-nuclear people in charge of the NRC. That's not regulation, that is active prevention. But
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Jul 10
Aalo Atomics CEO @MattLoszak on the best day of his life — splitting his first atom on America's 250th birthday. "We're mass manufacturing nuclear power plants purpose-built for powering AI data centers. We got started less than three years ago. We've raised $300 million and
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Matt Loszak
@MattLoszak
Jul 6
Very excited to announce that at 12:20am on the 4th of July, Aalo achieved criticality on our first full-scale reactor. We cut it close, but we pulled it off!! Working towards this goal with such an incredible group of humans has been the most fulfilling period of my life. This
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Jul 10
Epoch AI researcher @js_denain on the sci-fi technologies that will define the post-AGI world: "There's maybe 10 of these sci-fi technologies that really come up very often." "A good example is interstellar probes. There's this really interesting paper called Eternity in Six
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