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Sep 12 13 tweets 4 min read
Scale AI just sued an ex-employee and rival Mercor for stealing confidential documents.

The wild part? Meta invested $14.3B for 49% of Scale.

Yet Meta's AI unit still uses Mercor.

This reveals something huge about the AI race:⬇️ Image
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This isn't about who has the best AI models.

It's about who controls the invisible infrastructure that makes AI possible.

Companies like Scale and Mercor prepare data to train AI models.

Without them, ChatGPT wouldn't exist:
Sep 1 14 tweets 5 min read
Jensen Huang couldn't pay Nvidia's electricity bills.

249,000 of 250,000 chips came back - a 99.6% failure rate.

With 30 days of cash left, he made ONE insane bet.

It turned his dying startup into the $4.2 trillion AI empire:⬇️ Image In 1993, everyone was chasing business software and spreadsheets.

Games were seen as toys for kids.

VCs wouldn't touch gaming companies.

Engineers thought it was career suicide.

But Jensen saw something nobody else did:
Aug 25 13 tweets 4 min read
The former Twitter CEO's latest interview is going viral.

And he's NOT just talking about social media.

He just revealed a $30 million AI project and how the web will discriminate against humans.

Here's what you should know:⬇️ Image After leaving Twitter, Parag started building AI agents.

Not chatbots or assistants.

Agents that could crawl the web and collect information autonomously.

That's when he noticed something everyone else missed:
Aug 19 14 tweets 5 min read
Jeremy Clarkson went from household name to canceled in a single week.

After the BBC cut him from Top Gear, fans thought it was the end of an era.

But buried in that chaos was the opportunity of a lifetime.

The twist that followed shocked the entire TV industry: ⬇️ Image By 2015, Top Gear wasn't just a TV show.

It was a global empire broadcasting to over 100 countries.

Clarkson's company Bedder 6 pulled in £149 million in revenue in 2012 alone.

But all that value was tied to one platform...
Aug 18 15 tweets 5 min read
Elon just revealed his trillion-dollar secret.

At the X Takeover, he finally connected the dots between Tesla, Neuralink, and Optimus.

Turns out they share ONE core technology.

Here's why this will change how we use technology: ⬇️ Image He's building Starship, Optimus, Neuralink, and pursuing AI simultaneously.

Most see this as spreading too thin. As unfocused ambition.

But Elon just exposed the hidden connection between them all.
Aug 12 16 tweets 5 min read
Bill Gates didn't write DOS.

He bought it for $75,000 from a young engineer who spent just 4 months coding it.

That rushed project became Microsoft's empire.

The untold story of the most valuable "quick and dirty" solution in tech history:⬇️ Image Meet Tim Paterson.

A University of Washington computer science graduate working as the only engineer at a 10-person Seattle startup.

His part-time project would soon power computers for the next two decades.

Here's the scene:
Aug 11 14 tweets 5 min read
Tesla and Samsung just signed a $16.5B AI pact.

It’s not about chips or cash.

It’s about the ONE move that will decide which AI companies survive the next decade, and which disappear.

Here’s what the next 10 years of AI will really look like: ⬇️ Image See, while everyone's obsessed with AI models and chatbots, the real battle is happening in silicon.

The dirty secret is that AI companies are hitting a massive bottleneck that could kill innovation.

Musk just showed everyone the only way through it:
Aug 7 15 tweets 5 min read
The most dangerous startup founder isn’t human.

It’s an AI agent that never sleeps, never fails, and launches companies faster than you can pitch.

In a viral interview, Emad Mostaque just confirmed what’s coming.

Here’s why you can’t compete, and what might save you: ⬇️ Image Emad Mostaque, founder of Stability AI, just revealed the timeline:

"Anything that's a keyboard-video-mouse job can be replaced in a few years."

Not decades. Years.

The decoupling of labor from capital has already started:
Aug 5 17 tweets 6 min read
Everyone's freaking out about AGI taking over the world.

Meanwhile, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson just dropped a reality check.

"We're focused on the wrong thing entirely."

What he revealed next will change how you think about AI:⬇️ Image
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Tyson has 232 IMDb credits as a science communicator.

He's spent his life making complex science accessible to millions.

When he speaks about technology's future, smart people listen.

But his take on AI shocked everyone:
Aug 1 16 tweets 5 min read
650 million people watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon.

The world saw a hero in a spacesuit.

But inside was a man haunted by grief.

He carried a secret that shaped the mission and his silence.

Here’s the story NASA never told: ⬇️ Image Long before Apollo, Armstrong cheated death repeatedly.

At 21, flying 500 feet above North Korea, his jet hit a cable trap.

6 feet of his right wing sheared off instantly. Most pilots would have panicked.

But Armstrong did something remarkable:
Jul 31 16 tweets 6 min read
Elon Musk just asked for $12B.

Not for rockets. Not for cars.

For AI chips, to build the largest AI infrastructure on Earth.

While OpenAI debates safety, xAI is moving at breakneck speed.

Here's the playbook everyone in AI needs to see: Image xAI already raised $10 billion just weeks ago.

Now they want $12 billion more.

That's $22 billion in a matter of weeks.

But here's what most people miss about this story...
Jul 29 13 tweets 5 min read
430,000 doctors were drowning in 30-second research updates.

Burnout was rising. No one could keep up.

One founder built AI that fixed the problem, then gave it away FREE.

That “bad business model”? It’s now a $2.3B revolution in medicine: ⬇️ Image Daniel Nadler saw what others missed.

Medical research publishes a new paper every 30 seconds. Literature doubles every 5 years.

Doctors seeing 20 patients daily can't possibly keep up.

But that overwhelming problem was actually the opportunity...
Jul 24 16 tweets 5 min read
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang just made the boldest prediction of his career:

“AI will create more millionaires in 5 years than the internet did in 20.”

But he didn’t stop there.

He revealed exactly HOW it’ll happen

Here’s his framework for capitalizing before it’s too late: ⬇️ Image Jensen runs NVIDIA, the trillion-dollar company powering the entire AI revolution.

He's seen every major AI player's roadmap.

He knows what Zuck, Elon, and Sam Altman are building before we do.

His perspective isn't speculation - it's insider intelligence:
Jul 22 16 tweets 5 min read
Nikola Tesla discovered something so dangerous,

He begged ONE man to hide it for 1,000 years.

That man quietly changed how we understand reality.

Now his suppressed work is resurfacing and it’s terrifying: ⬇️ Image In 1921, Russell experienced something extraordinary.

For 39 days, he entered what he called "cosmic illumination."

When he emerged, he claimed to understand the true nature of matter, light, and the universe itself.

His insights would challenge science for decades:
Jul 15 15 tweets 5 min read
A 25-year-old just built military tech in 6 months.

Boeing says it takes 10 years.

Now, he’s taking contracts from the biggest defense firms in the world.

Here’s the execution playbook they never saw coming: Image Defense contractors move at glacial pace.

A simple software update can take years.

New capabilities take even longer.

This creates a massive vulnerability that fast-moving startups can exploit:
Jun 26 15 tweets 5 min read
OpenAI pays 20% of every dollar to Microsoft.

Last year alone, that was $700 million.

Microsoft profits while OpenAI loses billions.

Here's why this lopsided deal is imploding: Image The partnership started in 2019 when Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI.

It seemed like the perfect win-win deal.

Microsoft got early access to breakthrough AI technology.

OpenAI got the computing power and cash to build the future.

But something went terribly wrong...
Jun 24 16 tweets 6 min read
1 waterway controls $2 trillion in oil trade annually.

Iran just threatened to shut it down completely.

6 nations would lose access to global markets overnight.

Here's how the Strait of Hormuz became humanity's economic kill switch: Image Picture a narrow waterway just 21 miles wide at its narrowest point.

It sits between Iran and Oman at the entrance to the Persian Gulf.

This tiny chokepoint handles 20% of the world's oil supply every single day.

But here's what makes it truly dangerous:
Jun 20 18 tweets 6 min read
Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft all made the same bet on nuclear AI.

But there's a massive problem they didn't see coming.

America doesn't control the uranium needed to power it.

Here's why Big Tech just handed our enemies total leverage: Image First, let's talk about the energy problem.

AI data centers need massive, reliable power 24/7.

Solar and wind can't deliver that consistency.

Nuclear energy can.

That's why Big Tech is going nuclear:
Jun 19 22 tweets 7 min read
Apple paid less than 1% tax in Europe in 2014.

Microsoft, Pfizer, and 948 other US giants copied this exact strategy.

It's completely legal but costs America hundreds of billions annually.

Here's the loophole that's bleeding the US Treasury dry: Image In 1996, only 3% of US businesses with global operations had Irish affiliates.

By 2022, that number exploded to 25%.

Over 950 US corporations now run subsidiaries from Ireland.

The transformation started when Ireland was desperate to change its fate...
Jun 17 15 tweets 5 min read
In 1945, Norway emerged from 5 years of brutal Nazi occupation.

War-torn. Bankrupt. Dependent on foreign aid.

Today: A $1+ trillion sovereign fund making every citizen wealthy.

How they built the world's ultimate money machine: Image The strategy wasn't built overnight.

It started with a crisis in 1814 when Norway was drowning in debt.

Their solution: build institutions that could survive anything.

Starting with their first central bank...
Jun 13 14 tweets 5 min read
The US government's most powerful surveillance tool isn't the NSA.

It's a company most people can't explain.

Their stock price skyrocketed 340% in 2024, building AI weapons that can think, learn and kill.

Here's what Palantir actually does: Image Palantir was born from 9/11 and the war on terror.

In 2003, US soldiers were dying from roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The military had tons of data but couldn't connect the dots fast enough.

That's when Peter Thiel saw an opportunity: