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This story is insane. The founders of Fireflies AI (now worth $1B+) pretended to be an AI notetaker before the tech existed. The founders would: > Join meetings on mute as "Fred from Fireflies" > Take notes by hand while sitting silently > Send the "AI-generated" notes 10 minutes later They did this for 100+ meetings to pay rent, before actually building the product that went on to become a unicorn.
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This story is insane. The founders of Fireflies AI (now worth $1B+) pretended to be an AI notetaker before the tech existed. The founders would: > Join meetings on mute as "Fred from Fireflies" > Take notes by hand while sitting silently > Send the "AI-generated" notes 10 minutes later They did this for 100+ meetings to pay rent, before actually building the product that went on to become a unicorn.
NATO is testing live cockroaches as AI-powered spy drones. Incredible AI engineering, but also something I kinda wish I hadn't learned about: > Swarm Bio-tactics wired real cockroaches with electronic backpacks containing AI hardware, radios, cameras, and microphones. > Cockroaches are steered by sending electrical signals directly into the insect's nervous system > They can crawl through rubble, tunnels, and spaces where drones can't fly, and troops shouldn't go, transmitting data back the entire time. > Within one year, they went from concept to field-validated systems with paying NATO customers, including the German military. The qualities that make them useful for military recon (small, silent, nearly undetectable) are exactly what make them creepy. ...International laws weren't written with cyborg insects in mind.
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NATO is testing live cockroaches as AI-powered spy drones. Incredible AI engineering, but also something I kinda wish I hadn't learned about: > Swarm Bio-tactics wired real cockroaches with electronic backpacks containing AI hardware, radios, cameras, and microphones. > Cockroaches are steered by sending electrical signals directly into the insect's nervous system > They can crawl through rubble, tunnels, and spaces where drones can't fly, and troops shouldn't go, transmitting data back the entire time. > Within one year, they went from concept to field-validated systems with paying NATO customers, including the German military. The qualities that make them useful for military recon (small, silent, nearly undetectable) are exactly what make them creepy. ...International laws weren't written with cyborg insects in mind.
Reminder to go touch grass A scientist in Japan demonstrated that the air inside a forest strengthens your immune system for a full month The study is incredibly fascinating: Qing Li, an immunologist at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo, took 12 men on a 3-day forest trip. These were slow walks with no breathing exercises and no set route. Then he tested their blood and found a surge in natural killer cells -- the immune cells your body uses to fight cancer and virus-infected cells. Remarkably, the effect didn't fade when they went home, it was still measurable 30 days later. A control group that walked the same distance through a city showed no change at all. Pine, cedar, and cypress trees release compounds called phytoncides to defend themselves from insects and bacteria. You breathe them in, and Li believes they switch your immune cells into high gear. He estimates one forest walk a month may be enough to keep those cells elevated all year. The best medicine might not even need a prescription -- just a walk among the trees.
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Reminder to go touch grass A scientist in Japan demonstrated that the air inside a forest strengthens your immune system for a full month The study is incredibly fascinating: Qing Li, an immunologist at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo, took 12 men on a 3-day forest trip. These were slow walks with no breathing exercises and no set route. Then he tested their blood and found a surge in natural killer cells -- the immune cells your body uses to fight cancer and virus-infected cells. Remarkably, the effect didn't fade when they went home, it was still measurable 30 days later. A control group that walked the same distance through a city showed no change at all. Pine, cedar, and cypress trees release compounds called phytoncides to defend themselves from insects and bacteria. You breathe them in, and Li believes they switch your immune cells into high gear. He estimates one forest walk a month may be enough to keep those cells elevated all year. The best medicine might not even need a prescription -- just a walk among the trees.
Fun fact: The first transatlantic internet cable is being pulled off the ocean floor right now. Almost no one knows it's happening. TAT-8 went live in 1988. First fiber-optic cable to connect Europe and the US. Isaac Asimov called it a "maiden voyage across the sea on a beam of light." The engineers behind it genuinely believed it might be the last transatlantic cable the world would ever need. The tech was so far ahead of copper they thought global bandwidth was solved. But it filled to capacity within 18 months. That forced the industry to immediately start laying more cables, a race between demand and infrastructure that still hasn't stopped. After developing a fault too expensive to fix, the cable was retired in 2002. It's been sitting on the seabed ever since. Now a small crew aboard this ship is dragging it back up. Meanwhile, Meta announced Project Waterworth last year, a 50,000 kilometer cable stretching across 5 continents, partly to feed the data demands of AI. ...The entire global internet runs on cables like this, built and maintained by a few thousand people working in places most of us will never see.
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Fun fact: The first transatlantic internet cable is being pulled off the ocean floor right now. Almost no one knows it's happening. TAT-8 went live in 1988. First fiber-optic cable to connect Europe and the US. Isaac Asimov called it a "maiden voyage across the sea on a beam of light." The engineers behind it genuinely believed it might be the last transatlantic cable the world would ever need. The tech was so far ahead of copper they thought global bandwidth was solved. But it filled to capacity within 18 months. That forced the industry to immediately start laying more cables, a race between demand and infrastructure that still hasn't stopped. After developing a fault too expensive to fix, the cable was retired in 2002. It's been sitting on the seabed ever since. Now a small crew aboard this ship is dragging it back up. Meanwhile, Meta announced Project Waterworth last year, a 50,000 kilometer cable stretching across 5 continents, partly to feed the data demands of AI. ...The entire global internet runs on cables like this, built and maintained by a few thousand people working in places most of us will never see.

I'm HIRING 7 exceptional people and paying a $2,000 referral bonus for each We’ve bootstrapped The Rundown to $10M+ annual revenue and need to scale faster We’re tackling one of the biggest problems of the decade: helping 1B workers turn AI into a superpower Open roles: -Mobile Developer -GM, AI Univeristy -Head of Growth -Strategic Partnerships Lead -Product Marketing -Platform Designer -Thumbnail Designer We move faster than any company you've worked at. Competitive comp with performance-based scaling as we grow Every role requires deep taste and AI fluency. You'll be expected to command an army of AI agents working underneath you. Fully remote. Apply with the link below.

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I'm HIRING 7 exceptional people and paying a $2,000 referral bonus for each We’ve bootstrapped The Rundown to $10M+ annual revenue and need to scale faster We’re tackling one of the biggest problems of the decade: helping 1B workers turn AI into a superpower Open roles: -Mobile Developer -GM, AI Univeristy -Head of Growth -Strategic Partnerships Lead -Product Marketing -Platform Designer -Thumbnail Designer We move faster than any company you've worked at. Competitive comp with performance-based scaling as we grow Every role requires deep taste and AI fluency. You'll be expected to command an army of AI agents working underneath you. Fully remote. Apply with the link below.
Zero-person billion dollar companies. Early AGI-like breakthroughs. Viral Sora deepfakes. Sam Altman broke it all down in our exclusive DevDay conversation. Highlights: 0:00 Intro 0:43 DevDay's biggest launches 2:13 Agent Builder vs GPT Builder 3:43 The no-code revolution for AI agents 5:20 Betting pool on zero-person companies 6:50 What would 20-year-old Sam build? 10:22 GPT-5 vs Claude on GDPval 11:30 When have we achieved AGI? 12:44 Scientific breakthroughs AI will solve 13:59 AI 'work slop' costs $186/employee 16:12 Sam's viral Sora memes 20:11 Revenue sharing for cameos 22:33 1B jobs are changing 24:35 What work looks like after AGI 25:44 Global AI safety framework 27:46 Most exciting agents to build
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Zero-person billion dollar companies. Early AGI-like breakthroughs. Viral Sora deepfakes. Sam Altman broke it all down in our exclusive DevDay conversation. Highlights: 0:00 Intro 0:43 DevDay's biggest launches 2:13 Agent Builder vs GPT Builder 3:43 The no-code revolution for AI agents 5:20 Betting pool on zero-person companies 6:50 What would 20-year-old Sam build? 10:22 GPT-5 vs Claude on GDPval 11:30 When have we achieved AGI? 12:44 Scientific breakthroughs AI will solve 13:59 AI 'work slop' costs $186/employee 16:12 Sam's viral Sora memes 20:11 Revenue sharing for cameos 22:33 1B jobs are changing 24:35 What work looks like after AGI 25:44 Global AI safety framework 27:46 Most exciting agents to build
Many people were doubting Meta's position in the AI race. Yesterday, they dropped Muse Spark 1.1, now one of the strongest agentic models, and massively undercut OpenAI and Anthropic on price. When I interviewed Zuck last year, he told me his focus: "Have by far the highest compute per researcher, and that we do whatever it takes to go build out all that capacity." These are the first real signs that the bet -- spending tens of billions on compute -- is paying off. Meta's stock is now up over 10% since the release.
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Many people were doubting Meta's position in the AI race. Yesterday, they dropped Muse Spark 1.1, now one of the strongest agentic models, and massively undercut OpenAI and Anthropic on price. When I interviewed Zuck last year, he told me his focus: "Have by far the highest compute per researcher, and that we do whatever it takes to go build out all that capacity." These are the first real signs that the bet -- spending tens of billions on compute -- is paying off. Meta's stock is now up over 10% since the release.
This robotic hand can be 3D printed by anyone and assembled in under 8 hours. Researchers at ETH Zurich created the Orca hand, fully open-sourced with artificial bones and tendons. For context, advanced robotic hands cost over $100,000 and require constant maintenance... Orca costs under $2,000. 50x less (!) A self-calibration system maps every motor to every joint, eliminating the manual tuning that tendon-driven hands usually need. Each fingertip has built-in tactile sensors covered by silicone skin. The hand can actually feel when it touches something, giving it feedback to grip objects without crushing them or letting them slip. It can hold over 20 lbs, learn tasks by watching human demonstrations, and transfer skills trained in simulation directly to the real world. The team proved its durability by having it pick up and place a cube over 2,000 times across 7 hours with no human intervention. The full design files and source code are open source, so any robotics lab in the world can start building one today.
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This robotic hand can be 3D printed by anyone and assembled in under 8 hours. Researchers at ETH Zurich created the Orca hand, fully open-sourced with artificial bones and tendons. For context, advanced robotic hands cost over $100,000 and require constant maintenance... Orca costs under $2,000. 50x less (!) A self-calibration system maps every motor to every joint, eliminating the manual tuning that tendon-driven hands usually need. Each fingertip has built-in tactile sensors covered by silicone skin. The hand can actually feel when it touches something, giving it feedback to grip objects without crushing them or letting them slip. It can hold over 20 lbs, learn tasks by watching human demonstrations, and transfer skills trained in simulation directly to the real world. The team proved its durability by having it pick up and place a cube over 2,000 times across 7 hours with no human intervention. The full design files and source code are open source, so any robotics lab in the world can start building one today.
Being early to SEO helped Dharmesh Shah build HubSpot into a $30B company. Now he's obsessed with something new: AI ranking. It's how to show up when people ask ChatGPT for recommendations instead of Googling. I sat down with him to break down the entire playbook: 0:00 Intro 0:53 The AI ranking opportunity (AEO) 6:14 How to rank in AI chatbots 8:11 Using AI to adapt content for AEO 12:24 Training teams on "AI Intuition" 19:45 Content moats in the AI-slop era 21:57 Dharmesh's new AI agent startup 30:33 AI agent monetization strategy 39:38 The bottlenecks to autonomous agents 45:15 Building teams: humans vs agents 52:49 Why Dharmesh still codes as a billionaire
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Being early to SEO helped Dharmesh Shah build HubSpot into a $30B company. Now he's obsessed with something new: AI ranking. It's how to show up when people ask ChatGPT for recommendations instead of Googling. I sat down with him to break down the entire playbook: 0:00 Intro 0:53 The AI ranking opportunity (AEO) 6:14 How to rank in AI chatbots 8:11 Using AI to adapt content for AEO 12:24 Training teams on "AI Intuition" 19:45 Content moats in the AI-slop era 21:57 Dharmesh's new AI agent startup 30:33 AI agent monetization strategy 39:38 The bottlenecks to autonomous agents 45:15 Building teams: humans vs agents 52:49 Why Dharmesh still codes as a billionaire

We just launched the Reddit for AI use cases. A place for builders to learn from other builders on how they're using AI to get ahead in life, work, and business. The submissions have been INCREDIBLE so far. A few of my favorites:

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We just launched the Reddit for AI use cases. A place for builders to learn from other builders on how they're using AI to get ahead in life, work, and business. The submissions have been INCREDIBLE so far. A few of my favorites:

We're hiring someone to get paid to play with AI tools all day. (Not kidding!) The Rundown is growing fast (2M+ readers), and we're looking for another writer who's obsessed with AI to join us. Your job: > Test every new AI tool that drops > Write guides that actually help people use them > Explain why some AI is useful and some is garbage Basically, you'll be the friend everyone texts when they hear about a new AI thing. Here's what we're looking for: > Experience with copywriting, journalism, or content creation (around AI is a plus) > Exceptional research skills and you know what's happening in AI before Twitter does > Deep AI Intuition - knowing when (and when not) to use AI The role involves publishing 5 times per week. Your writing will reach millions of people a day. If this sounds fun rather than stressful, you're probably who we're looking for. Link below to apply!

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We're hiring someone to get paid to play with AI tools all day. (Not kidding!) The Rundown is growing fast (2M+ readers), and we're looking for another writer who's obsessed with AI to join us. Your job: > Test every new AI tool that drops > Write guides that actually help people use them > Explain why some AI is useful and some is garbage Basically, you'll be the friend everyone texts when they hear about a new AI thing. Here's what we're looking for: > Experience with copywriting, journalism, or content creation (around AI is a plus) > Exceptional research skills and you know what's happening in AI before Twitter does > Deep AI Intuition - knowing when (and when not) to use AI The role involves publishing 5 times per week. Your writing will reach millions of people a day. If this sounds fun rather than stressful, you're probably who we're looking for. Link below to apply!
Mark Zuckerberg is running Meta's superintelligence lab like a startup. When I interviewed him, he told me the principles on how he built the team: "You don't need many hundreds of people. You need 50 to 100 people. It's a group science project who can keep the whole thing in their head at once. Seats on the boat are precious." "If someone is not pulling their weight on that, it has this huge negative effect in the way that it doesn't have on other parts of the company" "I wanna know who the top AI researchers are, and I wanna personally have relationships with them, and build the strongest team we can." His rules for running it: - If someone isn't pulling their weight, it has an outsized negative effect, so he personally went out and recruited every top researcher himself - No top-down deadlines. "It's research. You don't know how long the thing is gonna take." - Keep the org flat. No non-technical management layers, because once someone stops doing the work, "the knowledge decays."
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Mark Zuckerberg is running Meta's superintelligence lab like a startup. When I interviewed him, he told me the principles on how he built the team: "You don't need many hundreds of people. You need 50 to 100 people. It's a group science project who can keep the whole thing in their head at once. Seats on the boat are precious." "If someone is not pulling their weight on that, it has this huge negative effect in the way that it doesn't have on other parts of the company" "I wanna know who the top AI researchers are, and I wanna personally have relationships with them, and build the strongest team we can." His rules for running it: - If someone isn't pulling their weight, it has an outsized negative effect, so he personally went out and recruited every top researcher himself - No top-down deadlines. "It's research. You don't know how long the thing is gonna take." - Keep the org flat. No non-technical management layers, because once someone stops doing the work, "the knowledge decays."
Google just released Gemini 3, its most intelligent AI model yet. I caught up with Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, to ask about: -Gemini 3 and Google’s AI strategy -Google's new Antigravity tool -Medical-grade AI Here's what he said:
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Google just released Gemini 3, its most intelligent AI model yet. I caught up with Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, to ask about: -Gemini 3 and Google’s AI strategy -Google's new Antigravity tool -Medical-grade AI Here's what he said:
There's a startup trying to build data centers in the ocean. And it's INCREDIBLY fascinating: Mass consumption of electricity and water is a growing bottleneck for data centers. So by moving offshore, it eliminates both problems -- the ocean provides unlimited cooling, and the waves provide unlimited power. There are also no engines, so the data centers drive themselves to their destination by using the shape of their hull to propel through waves. Called Panthalassa.
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There's a startup trying to build data centers in the ocean. And it's INCREDIBLY fascinating: Mass consumption of electricity and water is a growing bottleneck for data centers. So by moving offshore, it eliminates both problems -- the ocean provides unlimited cooling, and the waves provide unlimited power. There are also no engines, so the data centers drive themselves to their destination by using the shape of their hull to propel through waves. Called Panthalassa.
MIT researchers just replicated human muscles with AI-controlled fibers. Inside each fiber is a sealed tube of electrically charged liquid and a tiny electric pump. When the pump activates, one side contracts while the other relaxes, just as your biceps and triceps do when you bend your arm. How it works: > The pump injects electrical charge into the fluid > This creates ions that drag the liquid along with them > No motors, no external pumps, completely silent Because they're fibers, they bundle together just like real muscles, scaling up force by adding more strands. In demos, these fibers were strong enough to bend a robotic arm and curl a dumbbell... but gentle enough to shake someone's hand. From prosthetics to exoskeletons to industrial robots, this is what happens when engineers stop building around motors and start building around biology.
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MIT researchers just replicated human muscles with AI-controlled fibers. Inside each fiber is a sealed tube of electrically charged liquid and a tiny electric pump. When the pump activates, one side contracts while the other relaxes, just as your biceps and triceps do when you bend your arm. How it works: > The pump injects electrical charge into the fluid > This creates ions that drag the liquid along with them > No motors, no external pumps, completely silent Because they're fibers, they bundle together just like real muscles, scaling up force by adding more strands. In demos, these fibers were strong enough to bend a robotic arm and curl a dumbbell... but gentle enough to shake someone's hand. From prosthetics to exoskeletons to industrial robots, this is what happens when engineers stop building around motors and start building around biology.

I'm HIRING 5 more people to help me build the future of AI media. The Rundown is closing in on 3M active readers, and the demand is far outpacing what we can handle. $2,000 referral bonus if you help us find someone we hire full-time. Open roles: > Head of Content -- lead the editorial team that reaches millions every day > Head of Sales -- run a scrappy sales team and revenue strategy across our media properties > Community Lead -- turn our 3M+ readership into the "Reddit for AI use cases" > Ad Creative Strategist -- research and ship ad creatives that hook the next million AI-curious readers > Branded Content Editor -- turn brands into stories our readers actually want to read What we're looking for among all roles: > Deep AI curiosity (you've already replaced part of your workflow with agents) > Unreasonably biased toward action > Taste sharp enough to spot great work (and AI slop) All roles are fully remote. Link below to apply!

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I'm HIRING 5 more people to help me build the future of AI media. The Rundown is closing in on 3M active readers, and the demand is far outpacing what we can handle. $2,000 referral bonus if you help us find someone we hire full-time. Open roles: > Head of Content -- lead the editorial team that reaches millions every day > Head of Sales -- run a scrappy sales team and revenue strategy across our media properties > Community Lead -- turn our 3M+ readership into the "Reddit for AI use cases" > Ad Creative Strategist -- research and ship ad creatives that hook the next million AI-curious readers > Branded Content Editor -- turn brands into stories our readers actually want to read What we're looking for among all roles: > Deep AI curiosity (you've already replaced part of your workflow with agents) > Unreasonably biased toward action > Taste sharp enough to spot great work (and AI slop) All roles are fully remote. Link below to apply!
Google just revealed Omni, personalized cross-device intelligence, and Spark agents at I/O 2025. I sat down with CEO Sundar Pichai to figure out what comes next: 1:46 Omni: "Nano Banana for video" 4:59 The future of YouTube 7:04 Advice for AI skeptics 9:33 Why your mom should switch to Gemini 11:13 Google's vision for personalized intelligence 13:02 What AI looks like in 3 years 16:08 What tasks AI agents won't replace 17:58 Sundar's advice for an 18-year-old 19:33 Would Sundar still go to college today?
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Google just revealed Omni, personalized cross-device intelligence, and Spark agents at I/O 2025. I sat down with CEO Sundar Pichai to figure out what comes next: 1:46 Omni: "Nano Banana for video" 4:59 The future of YouTube 7:04 Advice for AI skeptics 9:33 Why your mom should switch to Gemini 11:13 Google's vision for personalized intelligence 13:02 What AI looks like in 3 years 16:08 What tasks AI agents won't replace 17:58 Sundar's advice for an 18-year-old 19:33 Would Sundar still go to college today?
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says we’re in the ‘foothills of the singularity’ I sat down with him to talk about what that means, curing every disease, and human meaning post-AGI: 0:00 Intro 0:45 What Demis is most excited about at I/O 1:46 Have AGI timelines shifted? 3:30 What's still missing before AGI 6:50 AI curing every disease 9:19 What diseases get cured first? 10:50 What Demis works on after AGI 11:48 Human meaning after AGI 13:50 The human skills that get more valuable 15:19 What's underhyped in AI right now
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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says we’re in the ‘foothills of the singularity’ I sat down with him to talk about what that means, curing every disease, and human meaning post-AGI: 0:00 Intro 0:45 What Demis is most excited about at I/O 1:46 Have AGI timelines shifted? 3:30 What's still missing before AGI 6:50 AI curing every disease 9:19 What diseases get cured first? 10:50 What Demis works on after AGI 11:48 Human meaning after AGI 13:50 The human skills that get more valuable 15:19 What's underhyped in AI right now

Fun fact: In the early days of building @therundownai, I was building an AI notetaker as a side project (Still own the domain http://noat.ai/) The only major competitors back then were Otter and Fireflies. Crazy to see where they ended up.

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Fun fact: In the early days of building @therundownai, I was building an AI notetaker as a side project (Still own the domain http://noat.ai/) The only major competitors back then were Otter and Fireflies. Crazy to see where they ended up.

I talked to Mark Zuckerberg and Meta's AI team about this. In my opinion, we have two paths forward: 1. All-in on AI slop - multiple accounts, massproduce content across different personalities 2. Double down on authentic content - community, streaming, personal stories, takes from lived experience Everything in the middle dies

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I talked to Mark Zuckerberg and Meta's AI team about this. In my opinion, we have two paths forward: 1. All-in on AI slop - multiple accounts, massproduce content across different personalities 2. Double down on authentic content - community, streaming, personal stories, takes from lived experience Everything in the middle dies

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Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) has 598K X followers with a 0.59% engagement rate over the past 12 months. Across 215 posts, Rowan Cheung received 72.9K total likes and 13.2M impressions, averaging 339 likes per post. This page tracks Rowan Cheung's performance metrics, top content, and engagement trends — updated daily.

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