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mete @VaderResearch

a week ago

Nox Metals raises $11m seed led by Hyperion 🇺🇸 🔵 American robotics startup that makes metals 🔴 Round participated by @PalmerLuckey, @ycombinator, @RoboStrategy, @alumniventures... 🔵 Shipped metal to >100 US factories since Dec 25 🔴 Will revitalize a WW2 era factory in

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“Computer bug” used to mean something different.

The AI Colony R&D @TheAIColonyRD

a week ago

This is the NUDT mosquito drone, a spy UAV built by China's National University of Defense Technology for covert surveillance you can't see coming. Under 0.3 grams. Wings that flap 500 times a second. Sensors built for covert surveillance, all packed into a body you'd swat

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Anthropic just got caught secretly downgrading users without telling them, charging full price for a lesser product, and storing every prompt for 30 days. The developer community is calling it the biggest violation of trust in AI history. Here is exactly what happened. Anthropic released Fable 5, their most powerful model. Buried inside a 319-page document was a policy most users never saw. Every prompt you send to a Mythos-class model gets stored for 30 days. No exceptions. Even enterprise customers who had signed zero data retention agreements had no choice. But the storage was not the part that broke the internet. The part that broke the internet was what Anthropic did with what they collected. They built a profile on you. They evaluated your prompts. And if they decided your research was too sensitive, they quietly switched you to a weaker model, rewrote your prompt in the background, gave you a degraded answer, and charged you full price for the product you thought you were getting. They never told you. David Sacks said it plainly on the All-In podcast. They were creating a new class of AI haves and have-nots. Anthropic would surveil you, profile you, decide whether you deserved frontier capability, and silently cut you off if they decided you did not. Ben Thompson from Stratechery asked a straightforward question about cancer risk and GLP-1s. He got kicked to a lesser model. Someone asked about mitochondria. Same result. J-Cal asked about fertilizer regulations live on the podcast to test it. Downgraded in real time. Anthropic has since walked back the part about silently downgrading users for AI research. They now say they will disclose when they downgrade you. But they are still downgrading people. The surveillance is still running. The profile is still being built. This is the company that once said it was against government surveillance. They are now doing it themselves. To their own paying customers. For their own reasons. With no appeal process and no way to know it happened. The developer community did not forget that. WATCH THE FULL PODCAST ON @theallinpod

The Solo Billion-Dollar Company Playbook (The ROI Focus): How do you scale a "One-Person Billion-Dollar Company"? You don't hire employees. You run 24/7 overnight agent loops. But if you’re heavily relying on commercial AI, API rate limits and sub fees will choke your margins. The math on shifting from Cloud to Sovereign Local Hardware is wild: The Problem: A power-user solo founder spends ~$200/mo on Claude Code Max, ~$200/mo on ChatGPT Pro, and ~$20/mo on Cursor. That’s $420/month—or $5,040 a year leaving your account. The Sovereign Swap: Pulling the trigger on a dedicated local machine like AMD's Evo-X2. The 3-Year Math: 5 Months: Time it takes for the box to completely pay itself off.$420/month: Kept in your bank account post-break-even.~$13,000: Total savings over 3 years.The Real Prize: ZERO rate limits. You can run complex, multi-agent developer loops all night without hitting a commercial ceiling or a credit card shock.

China's humanoid robot companies are rushing toward IPO in Shanghai and Hong Kong. This list will probably get a lot longer in the coming weeks and might already be out of date: Hangzhou-based Unitree Robotics is leading the pack. The world leader in humanoid and quadruped deliveries is expected to join the tech-heavy Shanghai STAR Market in the coming months with a targeted valuation around $7 billion. Also seeking a spot on the NASDAQ-style board is fellow Hangzhou firm DEEP Robotics, which is known for its industrial quadrupeds and its water-resistant humanoid, as well as Shenzhen’s Leju Robotics, which has started mass producing its flagship Kuavo humanoids at a factory it operates with Dongfeng Precision. According to Bloomberg, Shenzhen-based EngineAI has confidentially filed for a public listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX). If approved, it would join fellow humanoid robot makers UBTECH Robotics and Dobot, both of which are also headquartered in Shenzhen. Other companies reportedly preparing for a Hong Kong listing include Agibot AKA Zhiyuan Robotics (Shanghai), ROKAE Robotics (Shandong), HAI Robotics (Shenzhen), Youibot (Hefei), and Pudu Robotics (Shenzhen).

The convergence of AI, Crypto, and Robotics isn't just a trend; it's a multi-trillion-dollar technological supercycle. The @paulbarron Venture Studio is officially stepping out of stealth to fund the future. Built on the back of over 3,000 hours of exhaustive, data-driven research and deep-tech sentiment tracking, the mission is simple: find, incubate, and scale projects that bridge digital brains and physical execution. We aren't just guessing where the tech ecosystem is heading; we've built the analytical framework that proves it. The future belongs to decentralized intelligence and automation. Follow along as we change the venture landscape. 🚀

👁️ Beyond motor control, where does the Neuralink roadmap lead? The long-term horizon isn't just about restoring what was lost; it's about expanding what the human body can do. The next frontier of BCI development aims to bypass biological limitations entirely: the Blindsight Project, which bypasses damaged eyes to send visual data directly to the visual cortex, potentially restoring sight to those who are completely blind.

Adams @Adams_Tech_AI

3 weeks ago

Elon Musk’s Neuralink lets you control technology with your mind. Neuralink’s first human brain implants are already happening, and they combine robotics, AI, and neuroscience to directly link the human brain with machines.

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$NVDA Expecting more upside!

Desiree @DesireeAmerica4

3 weeks ago

The Robotics and AI Institute built this with NVIDIA, using NVIDIA Isaac™ Lab. This is only the beginning of the end. So why does AI need extreme mobility? Military and recon: an unmanned bike that slips through alleys, mountain trails, and war-zone debris on its own

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Private Data is the model to watch in future LLMs

Big Brain AI @realBigBrainAI

3 weeks ago

Gabbit Robotics co-founder Nicole Mattero on why the next AI winners won't fight over your screen, they'll fight to get closer to you: She kicks things off with what she admits is a hot take: "My hot take is that hardware is the only moat going forward because anyone's going to

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🇺🇸 Trump's Updated Portfolio

🚨Anthropic just showed a 24-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude. Taught by the people who built it. Free. No registration. No paywall. I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes. Watch it and bookmark it now.

Agreed

Adams @Adams_Tech_AI

2 weeks ago

Elon Musk: Optimus Will Be Bigger Than the iPhone At Tesla’s 2025 shareholder meeting, Elon Musk positioned Optimus, Tesla’s humanoid robot, as the biggest product launch of all time, larger than smartphones in impact and scale. He claims it will have the fastest production

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Terminators?

Crazy Moments @Crazymoments01

3 weeks ago

The future of warfare may not be human. It may be AI and robotics

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Elon Musk reveals Tesla is building a 30,000-robot academy where humanoids learn from each other. Cars were easy. Tesla had ten million on the road, beaming back driving data every second. But humanoid robots? There weren't ten million Optimi yet. There weren't ten. Robotics had run data-starved for decades. Tesla decided to fix it. You couldn't train a humanoid that had never been deployed. So Musk built a school for them instead. "We can have at least 10,000 Optimus robots, maybe 20-30,000, that are doing self-play and testing different tasks." Tesla called it the Optimus Academy. Picture a warehouse the size of a chip fab. Thirty thousand humanoid robots inside. Picking things up. Folding clothes. Walking. Tripping. Catching themselves. Failing in ways no human roboticist had thought to script. Each watching the others, learning what the human body shouldn't have made look easy. Every move generated a data point. Every failure generated a sample. Every robot taught every other robot. In simulation, Tesla could spin up a million robots overnight. But simulated physics lied about friction, slip, and drift. Real physics didn't. Cars learned from drivers. Optimi learned from each other. Each generation made the next one cheaper, faster, smarter. By the tenth generation, no human would recognize the curriculum. Recursive learning at electromechanical scale. Musk, on closing the loop: "You use the tens of thousands of robots in the real world to close the simulation to reality gap." Whoever opened the academy first owned the species. P.S. I made a playbook breaking down 100+ most powerful decision making mental models used by history's greatest thinkers. 5,000+ downloads. 113 five-star reviews. Grab a free copy here: besuperhuman.gumroad.com/l/mentalmodels If you're new here, follow @GeniusGTX for content on the greatest minds in economics, psychology, and history. — Elon Musk ( @elonmusk ), CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, on Dwarkesh Patel's ( @dwarkesh_sp ) podcast

Balancing commercial goals and robotics research can be tricky, but with Atlas we're making it work.

Head testing

Question police and crowd control maybe faster than you think,

Min Choi @minchoi

3 weeks ago

China's DR02 humanoid robot is carrying firefighting gear now. Walking into emergency-response work with heavy equipment. Robots are moving from demos to dangerous jobs.

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🤖 Moving intelligence into the physical world! These 5 private robotics pioneers are redefining automation, humanoid tech, and autonomous systems: @BostonDynamics – Industry legends leading advanced mobility, from Spot to the fully electric Atlas. @Figure_robot – Building next-gen autonomous humanoids designed for deployment in the workforce. @Sanctuary_AI – Creating Phoenix, a humanoid robot powered by their Carbon AI control system. @Standard_Bots – Making industrial automation accessible with affordable, AI-powered robotic arms. @Nuro – Pioneering localized commerce with their custom autonomous delivery vehicles.

The potential is unprecedented - get ready for one of the largest market plays yet.

Velco Dar @VelcoDar

3 weeks ago

BCI + brain controlled robotics is a premise that most are not ready for yet. A reality plausible within a decade

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1X Technologies has started mass production of its NEO humanoid robot at a factory in California. The factory can build up to 10,000 robots each year and aims to exceed 100,000 units annually by 2027. Some NEO robots are already working in the factory, helping with tasks like moving parts and handling logistics.