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Co-Founder & CEO @SesterceGroup
Apr 4, 2025 16 tweets 5 min read
France just found the holy grail of clean energy hidden in abandoned mines.

Natural hydrogen—the fuel experts swore was impossible.

Zero emissions. Dirt cheap. Ready to use.

Here's why France will dethrone Saudi Arabia in the new energy era: Image Something remarkable is happening in France.

Researchers found massive hydrogen deposits in Lorraine's abandoned mines.

This isn't just another find—it's a global energy revolution.

This hydrogen forms naturally underground, with zero carbon footprint.
Mar 31, 2025 14 tweets 4 min read
Elon Musk's secret weapon shocked his investors.

He paid $45,000,000,000 for X to feed his AI system 600M users' real-time data.

This wasn't an acquisition—it was a strategic POWER GRAB.

His competitors never saw what's coming next... 🧵 Image This isn't just another tech acquisition.

Musk is combining his AI startup with 600M active X users.

Think about it: direct access to real-time human data at unprecedented scale.

The strategic implications are more profound than most realize:
Mar 22, 2025 14 tweets 4 min read
In 2023, Sweden became Europe's deadliest nation.

363 shootings. 53 dead. 14,000 gang members terrorizing streets.

Now they're launching an AI surveillance system that crosses every line.

Here's why Sweden's willing to sacrifice privacy for survival: Image Sweden leads EU in fatal gun violence per capita.

One shooting per day per 10M people.

When you compare it to their neighbors, something disturbing emerges:
Mar 15, 2025 18 tweets 5 min read
5 Chinese AI giants are AMBUSHING Silicon Valley.

• One processes 20x more text than ChatGPT
• Another has more US users than Claude
• A third powers Samsung's global AI features

DeepSeek was just the beginning.

Here's why tech CEOs are panicking: Image While the West watches OpenAI, China built an AI empire.

5 "AI Tigers" now challenge Western dominance, each worth $1B+.

They lead in LLMs, video, and multimodal AI.

Here's their edge:
Mar 14, 2025 17 tweets 5 min read
Leaked: The AI chip that's ending NVIDIA's $2 trillion monopoly

Three unknown startups created processors 7X faster than NVIDIA's H100

Google, Microsoft, and Meta are secretly stockpiling them before prices explode

The investment opportunity insiders are hiding from you: Image
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SambaNova leads with a new approach.

Their SN40L chip uses reconfigurable architecture that adapts to AI workloads.

Unlike static GPUs, it reconfigures processing elements on the fly.

And this is where things get interesting:
Mar 13, 2025 17 tweets 4 min read
China just LEAPFROGGED Western chip technology overnight.

• Their new system BREAKS a $200 billion monopoly on advanced chips
• U.S. officials said it was IMPOSSIBLE just 6 months ago
• Western tech giants are SCRAMBLING to respond

🧵 What this means for your smartphone, AI, and the coming TECH WAR:Image ASML dominated chip manufacturing for decades.

Their EUV machines were the only path to cutting-edge semiconductors.

Western countries banned these from China.

What happened next revolutionized the industry:
Mar 12, 2025 12 tweets 4 min read
I'm from France.

We're the world's biggest electricity exporter but can't compete in AI.

18,000 French AI experts fled to America while our startups drown in paperwork.

Here's how Europe is wasting its once-in-a-generation tech advantage 🧵: Image France produces 65% of electricity from nuclear - highest globally.

We run 57 nuclear reactors across 18 power plants.

We're the world's biggest electricity exporter, earning billions yearly.

But here's the paradox that keeps me up at night:
Mar 5, 2025 21 tweets 6 min read
China built an 'infinite energy' reactor while America argues about windmills.

Their $1.3B breakthrough generates power for 60,000 years—using materials we throw away.

What experts call 'the energy revolution that will reshape global power': 🧵 Image Let's break this down:

China discovered an estimated 1 million tonnes of thorium in Inner Mongolia's Bayan Obo mining complex.

This single deposit could power China for 60,000 years.

The implications go far beyond what most realize:
Mar 2, 2025 21 tweets 6 min read
This is how Europe beats Silicon Valley:

• Building 7 massive AI mega-factories
• Creating revolutionary cooling technology
• Letting citizens invest in tech's future

The blueprint for Europe's first trillion-dollar company: Image The stark reality:

Europe accounts for just 4-5% of global AI computing power.

The US controls 70%.

And China dominates robotics with dozens of humanoid robot companies.

But Europe has a €200 billion plan that changes everything:
Feb 26, 2025 19 tweets 7 min read
Tim Cook just bet more money than NASA's entire budget on one AI gamble:

• $500B for US manufacturing
• Texas factory 3x larger than White House
• 20,000 new jobs to fight China's tech dominance

The leaked memo reveals Apple's next device that will make iPhones obsolete: Image $500,000,000,000.

That's half a trillion dollars.

More than the GDP of Sweden and Portugal combined.

And Tim Cook just committed all of it to a single strategic bet that will reshape not just Apple, but America's entire technological future.

But here's what everyone is missing:
Feb 24, 2025 18 tweets 6 min read
How to stay ahead in AI development:

YouTube channels.

But with 60M+ channels out there, 99.9% won't help you grow.

Here's the 0.1% that will ACTUALLY transform your AI knowledge: Image The AI revolution is happening faster than anyone predicted.

New breakthroughs emerge weekly.

AI news becomes outdated within days.

But there's a solution that's completely free:
Feb 22, 2025 14 tweets 5 min read
The greatest ghost hunt in science is over:

Microsoft created particles that shouldn't exist.
In a chip colder than space itself.

Here's what it means for your future: Image For 86 years, physicists hunted for a mysterious particle.

One that breaks the most fundamental rule of nature:

It's its own anti-particle - a Majorana fermion that acts as its own antiparticle.

But something unexpected was about to happen:
Feb 18, 2025 18 tweets 6 min read
The world's most advanced AI launched yesterday.

Built on the Colossus supercomputer with 100,000 GPUs.

10x more powerful than its predecessor.

Here's what Grok 3 means for humanity: Image It happened at 8 PM Pacific Time, February 17, 2025.

Elon Musk's xAI unleashed what he claims will be "the smartest AI on Earth."

But this wasn't just another AI launch.

The technology behind it is absolutely mind-blowing...
Feb 17, 2025 16 tweets 5 min read
The $1 Billion war against Google has begun.

A startup founded by ex-OpenAI and Meta researchers is challenging the search giant.

Jeff Bezos and Nvidia are backing them with $165M.

Here's the technology Google doesn't want you to know about: Image Humanity's Last Exam:

• 3,000+ questions
• 100+ subjects
• Math to Literature
• Science to History

It's like a Math Olympiad for AI.

And Perplexity just made history...
Feb 13, 2025 18 tweets 5 min read
Europe just launched its most ambitious project since the Euro:

Not a new currency or trade agreement.

But something that could finally end America's tech dominance.

Here's how 12 EU states and €37.4 billion will reshape the digital world: Image For decades, Europe has been playing catch-up in tech.

While the US and China dominate AI, and semiconductors...

Europe has fallen behind, becoming increasingly dependent on foreign tech giants.

European companies account for less than 13% of the global cloud market.
Feb 12, 2025 19 tweets 6 min read
The greatest plot twist in tech history:

Elon Musk just bid $97.4B to buy OpenAI.

The same company he's suing for putting profit over public good.

But Sam Altman's response was unexpected: Image "No thank you, but we will buy Twitter for $9.74B if you want."

A response that sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley.

But to understand why this matters, we need to go back to the beginning.

Here's what most people don't know about this wild story:
Feb 10, 2025 17 tweets 5 min read
"Plug, baby, plug!"

That's what Macron declared at today's AI Summit in Paris.

While the US says "drill baby drill," France has a different plan:

Here are 5 HUGE announcements from his speech: Image France just positioned itself to become Europe's AI powerhouse.

With a staggering €109 billion in private AI investments announced today, Macron's not playing around.

This matches the scale of recent US initiatives like Stargate, considering France's market size.

But here's what makes France uniquely positioned:
Feb 8, 2025 18 tweets 5 min read
The biggest AI summit in history is about to begin:

1000+ stakeholders from the private sector and civil society.

5 dedicated working groups tackling AI's future.

But what they're planning will shock everyone... Image The Paris AI Action Summit isn't just another tech conference.

It's bringing together an unprecedented coalition of governments, companies, and experts from nearly 100 countries.

But there's something different about this summit that no one's talking about yet...
Feb 7, 2025 18 tweets 5 min read
This team just solved robot intelligence:

Their new AI controls robots with simple commands.

It works across 7 different platforms seamlessly.

Here's why this changes everything: Image Imagine telling a robot "Pick up that extinct animal" and watching it grab a dinosaur toy.

Or asking it to "find something that could work as a hammer" and seeing it choose a rock over paper.

This isn't science fiction. @GoogleDeepMind just made it real.

But there's more:
Feb 4, 2025 17 tweets 5 min read
OpenAI's new research tool is frightening:

Not because it can process thousands of documents instantly.

Not because it adapts its strategy in real-time.

But because of what happens when you let AI do your research: Image Imagine condensing months of research into minutes.

That's what OpenAI's latest innovation, Deep Research, promises.

It's not just another AI tool - it's a complete revolution in how we process information.

But here's what makes it truly revolutionary:
Jan 30, 2025 19 tweets 5 min read
The world is buzzing about DeepSeek.

But here's the devastating reality:

They just proved America's tech industry is built on a lie.

Why Wall Street is panicking: Image
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In a single day, over $1 trillion in market value vanished.

The S&P 500 plunged 1.5%.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq crashed 3%.

Here's what triggered this meltdown: