Well, the Russians have fired a missile at the Yuzhmash plant in Dnipro. This is a symbolic gesture and then some.

Am reasonably confident that I'm the only reporter to have ever strolled around Yuzhmash unfettered with a camera. So here goes 🧵 The plant looked like this a few years ago. It made rockets and, well, buses and other bits and bobs

mini 🧵

Am not allowed to say who said this, but someone with a very, very deep knowledge of AI and modern factories says Tesla has massive edge on bridge between AI and physical world. This person thinks the others building humanoid robots don't have a great first customer. Tesla can test on its own factories first before it sends the robots out to customers. The AI builders, meanwhile, don't have factories

Have been on deadline, so didn't have a chance to write on this. But, if you're into cell reprogramming (and who isn't?), you need to watch this preso from @newlimit and @brian_armstrong - because they seem to have made some major transcription factor discoveries youtube.com/live/5OMEfYeNy… I explain the excitement around cell reprogramming in this piece - bloomberg.com/news/features/…

In honor of what is likely @RafaelNadal's last French Open, I present my best Rafa story.

A few years ago, I went to hit with Mark Hurd at Larry Ellison's house/resort in Palm Springs. (Ellison literally bought a resort with an 18-hole golf course, tennis courts, etc. and made it a home) Hurd, RIP, used to always give me grief because I only played D3 in college and he played D1 at Baylor. So, I was often asking him to play. We hit for about 45 minutes, as I recall.

Think I've been to as many European start-ups as just about anyone on the planet. There's a weird psychological limiter on start-up ambitions that is not helped by universities or governments

https://twitter.com/maxhodak_/status/1733541360073163224

For reasons that I will never understand, the universities still tend to be very greedy during IP transfers. Stanford figured out the playbook about 80 years ago. Just do that. Risk taking. Fondness for the weird and eccentric. Also low

A couple of weeks ago, I went to a weapons test site in the Nevada desert to see a test flight of Anduril's latest creation called Roadrunner. Contrary to the name . . .

bloomberg.com/news/articles/… It does not run fast along the road. Instead, it's like part missile, part fighter jet, part reusable rocket. It appears to be the first reusable weapon of its kind ever made

Had a 20-minute walk down Market Street with a friend who remarked, "I've never seen anything like this," as his head was on a swivel the entire time. I love SF. What the city has become is unconscionable. Several pockets of 20 to 30 people all off their heads. A number of them with pants barely on. Zombies. The walking dead. Cops observing the proceedings from 100 feet away.

Smarter people than I and/or sci-fi has no doubt already explored this. But these new AIs seem good enough to read a whole company's e-mail+documents and assess workers. Humans intuivetly know the underperformers and whiners. Seems a button click away now We all know the people at work who everyone complains about. The AIs would seem to be able to pick up on this very quick

Just found this old beauty in a box in the closest This box is like a time capsule

"What's the runway?," George Hotz asks @elonmusk on Twitter Spaces. Silence. . . . some doofus jumps in to fill silence with garbage question. Come on, dude. Twitter was tracking to spend $5bn next year, says Elon. Also, because of debt on transaction, $1.5bn debt servicing required. With revenue tracking to $3bn. "So that's like a negative cash flow situation of -$3bn next year. Not good."

And now @elonmusk has joined engineering Twitter Space with @realGeorgeHotz

https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1605424686946430977

twitter.com/i/web/status/1… "You're a jackass," says @elonmusk to guy calling him "buddy" while asking him to describe the Twitter tech stack 😂

After leaving Twitter, @realGeorgeHotz says he sticks by everything he said before and that the company's technology can be built by 20 people "The more engineers you hire the more code you're going to get."

I obviously get that some people are upset about @elonmusk's recent comments regarding Ukraine. But the DoD complaining about paying for Starlink strikes me as nuts. The DoD has been salivating over the idea of "responsive space" for decades

https://twitter.com/ashleevance/status/1581318334942887939

The DoD helped fund the Falcon 1 on the hopes that a company would come along that could chuck a rocket and then satellite into orbit on a moment's notice during a war.

Now this is how you LinkedIn This reminds me of the greatest Amazon reviewer in history. amazon.com/gp/profile/amz… a. .