🚨 cursor changelog .48 alert! 🚀major changes - custom... agents! - multiple agents❗️ - sound notification 🔔 - long context alert - usage based cost transparency and so much more! ⚠️make sure you have beta on shift+cmd+ j > Beta > Early Access onshow more

🏆 GIVEAWAY ALERT! 🏆 We’re giving away 200 USDT,... exclusive NFTs, and beta access! 🎮🔥 🔥The Arena is about to open. Are you ready to make history? Big marketing campaigns, KOLs, partnerships, the Hellmaster open beta launch, beta seasons with rewards, multiple airdrops for early gamers… and more! ⚔️ The battle begins. Create your legend. ⚔️ How to enter: 1. Follow us on Twitter Dante Games 2. Join our Telegram community: 3. Like, Retweet, and Comment on this post with the hashtags #DanteGames, #Hellmaster, and tag two friends! 🎁 Prizes: - 1st Place: 100 USDT + Exclusive NFT pack + Hellmaster Beta Access - 2nd Place: 50 USDT + Hellmaster Beta Access - 3rd Place: 50 USDT Winners will be announced on Nov 2 – Don’t miss it!show more

🎮✨ Loot Legends Closed Beta is now LIVE! If... you are approved for closed beta through a partner community or campaign you can now install Loot Legends through the APK for Android or TestFlight for Apple. Here’s everything you need to know 👇 Check your beta access status in our Discord. Visit the appropriate link based on your device type. Create or log-in to your HYPLAY account using your approved email address. Android APK: iOS TestFlight: 🎁 Raffle winners from Pre-registration Winners have been selected via raffle from pre-registration. You can check the status of your beta access in the Discord. Please follow the Android and iOS instructions accordingly. 📨 Invite Codes Stay on the lookout 🔔 for closed beta invite codes. Use codes in the LL Discord to get access to play! Join our community on Discord to read the Closed Beta FAQ’s, get additional help, request access codes for your community and more: 🤔 Questions or need assistance? Our DMs are open, and we're eager to help you get set up. Let’s make this beta a legendary success together!show more

▒░ DR3AM REDPILL VISION ░▒ We are launching a... new feature for holders only. Photon memescope but for pre-bond Virtual agents. Something we have heard across multiple groups is the want to have more visibility into agents before they have red pilled. With DR3AM REDPILL VISION, you get a dashboard on pre-bond agents to: 『•』see market stats 『•』swap into directly from dashboard 『•』get insights from DR3AM AI We're excited to launch this as it hits on several key points. It brings value to holders today, builds on our long term vision as graduated agents will be automatically added to registry, will help feed insights to DR3AM DAO, and increases our moat since gathering this data isn't straightforward (we had to decompile Virtual contracts raw bytecode to get here). We will be exposing access to the DR3AM Validators (early DR3AM supporters) first, with broader holder access planned for next week. A minimum amount of $DREAM will be required, if you hold $FDREAM that minimum amount is lowered. More details TBA.show more

🚨 Alpha Alert 🚨 Backed by NVIDIA Inception, Shiba... Inu, Sanabil, 500 Global, and NTDP 👀 Astra Nova is here to redefine gaming! 🟢So What is Astra Nova? Astra Nova is an AI-driven gaming ecosystem and NVidia Inception partner, combining AI storytelling, community-driven innovation, and real-world rewards. Partnering with web3 giants like Shiba Inu, they’re building the future of immersive experiences. 🟢Key Features ◽️AGI-Powered RPG with real-time adaptive NPCs, quests, and enemies. ◽️Community-Centric approach where players shape the game and its economy. ◽️Real-World Rewards like tokenized gold, diamonds, and vouchers. 🟢 $RVV Token Utility ◽️Power in-game transactions, AI agents, and NFTs. ◽️Access exclusive events, mini-games, and land NFTs. ◽️Redeem IRL vouchers with 2000+ global brands. 🟢What’s Next? ◽️Weighted airdrops, loyalty rewards, and beta access. ◽️Beta access, staking, and exclusive mini-games. I'm pretty bullish about $RVV token and the future of Astra Nova, make sure check them out!show more

BREAKING: We’ve started implementing Dupe Agents—AI-powered dealmakers—for our high-volume... shoppers. This changes everything. What’s a $DUPE Agent? Agentic shopping flips the script: instead of users doing the legwork, Dupe Agents do it for them—at scale. Tell us what you want, and your agent gets to work sourcing, negotiating, and delivering the best deal on the planet. Behind the scenes, your agent is scanning top brand sites, global factory networks, haggling in local languages, and setting you up with a buy button—no markups, no middlemen. First, we’re launching this for our Pro users: interior designers, stagers, builders, and trade pros. Then, we open it up to millions of everyday shoppers. Agents will: Find the deepest discounts no matter what site its on Negotiate factory-direct pricing if factories have a better deal Unlock insider access to exclusive SKUs Handle all the research and logistics To access? You’ll need to hold $DUPE. The more you hold, the more you unlock: early access to new SKUs, white-glove delivery, and priority manufacturing slots. Think of it as your backstage pass to the best deals on the internet. Dupe Agents aren’t just smart—they’re relentless. And they’re about to make shopping unfairly easy. This is another “break the internet” moment—only on Dupe.show more

🎬 $PALM Presents: the long-awaited Creator Studio. A token... holdings based usage system to use the latest generative AI for animations and graphics. Forget about downloadable tools or paying high subscription fees for no usage for mediocre results. Creator Studio allows you to access the tools our developers use for high-quality animated video making with the latest Generative AI tools. Creator Studio is part of the Parrot Framework that assigns tasks to AI agents when possible. You can navigate in a seamless Web UI, making the quality, three-dimensional, non-trippy AI videos and sequences you've ever wanted. We support up to 100 images per user stored in the cloud for you to make video sequences of up to 5 minutes with. Most importantly, we don't charge you a fee - your usage depends on your amount of $PALM tokens! The usage is reset monthly, so if you suddenly run out and need more points to complete your creation, you know what to do - buy some $PALM. This and more is being deployed live at where you can see a preview.show more

For new followers: - I'm a long-time investor and... builder in this space. - Founding Contributor of Realms.World ☁️. - Co-founder of Dojo. - Builder with the kings at Cartridge. - Starknet (Privacy Arc) class of '21. - Founder and Game Director of ETERNUM HAS MOVED. - Founder of Daydreams.Systems (x402, 8004 agents) My prime purpose for the past three years has been to build onchain infrastructure to enable the next generation of onchain experiences. This is done Starknet (Privacy Arc) as it is the superior VM for building complex applications—this will become clear soon enough. I work up and down the entire stack, from low-level indexing and contracts to GUI design. Nothing is out of scope. I have been pushing on agents for two years, mostly using existing frameworks like , until I came across @ElizaOS_ai in October. As I focused on building agents for ETERNUM HAS MOVED, it became clear that agents playing games require infinite paths to achieve goals. Thus, it's not scalable to hardcode functions—agents need to have total fluidity to take any action or call anything the game requires in any order. And ironically onchain infra is perfect for agent playgrounds because of its open nature. This exploration led me to create Daydreams.Systems (x402, 8004 agents), which focuses on the hardest problems of agents: long time-horizon goals using Hierarchical task networks (HTN). Daydreams agents don't require custom code—they work entirely based on 'sleeves'—which are just markdown files that explain how the agent can interact with the service (API docs, game guides, etc.) My thesis is simple. By focusing on the hardest problem (games), the design of the library will naturally lean towards an optimal structure for any problem an agent could face. We are early in this path and iterating with speed. If you are an onchain app developer or game builder—DM me, I want to know the architecture of your game so we can build sleeves together.show more

HTML Artifacts are a big part of how I... work with agents now. Artifacts can be more than just static files. When combined with agents, they can take action or help you take action. This unlocks all kinds of interesting ways to work with agents. This is clearly the future. Check out this writing and scheduler artifact I built in a few minutes. It uses a bit of HTML and JS. All the data is in markdown (Obsidian vaults), so the agent can access and modify it at any time. No DB needed. No sophisticated functionalities. The agent decides all that for me based on the skills, context, and memory it has access to. The best part about this simple stack is that all the important information stays with me. This has allowed me to build a recursive self-improving system and automations that can better tap into coding agents like Codex or Claude Code. I could have paid or built an entire app for scheduling posts, and there are so many of them out there. But I don't need to. I've realized a simple artifact does the job. And the simplicity of it is actually an advantage. Very little maintenance for very high returns on personalization, time, and efficiency. The other benefit of this is that I can add features as I please. That level of personalization feels magical, and we should all be pursuing more of it. All of this just keeps compounding. Of course, this example is just about writing. But I have similar artifacts for research, design, experimentation, evaluation, and so much more. And no, I didn't actually publish the post example I shared in the clip. It was just for demonstration purposes. I actually spend more time than this when writing together with agents. Lastly, having built my own agent orchestrator tool has made me realize that simplifying the tool stack is a superpower. If you are curious about how all this works, I will do a live session next week:show more

Agents: Quick thoughts & questions on how they operate,... their potential, and their limitations A Few Observations - ▶️"Book me a hotel" or "pull historical financials" are already (mostly) solved problems!! Agents can do a ton of tasks right now—like parsing public company press releases and navigating capture key info & complete bookings accurately. However, for more complex navigation flows, the tech still needs some work - but I'm very confident it’s essentially a solved or solvable challenge. ▶️Accuracy & Speed - The key metrics and agents should optimize for. ▶️Lower Build & Migration Costs It took me two minutes to build a new website (link: This is great for consumers—more choices, lower switching costs. Companies will increasingly compete on the quality of their products and services. ▶️Agents vs. Automation tools: The more I think about it, the more I realize that most “agents” are really just automation tools—kind of like how most robots🤖 are just machines lol ❓A Few Key Questions—Would Love Your Thoughts! ❔Remote Servers & Logins In many cases, we’ll want agents to act on our behalf (e.g., log in to to cancel an order). How will platforms like respond? Many websites may block remote servers for security. Is there a technical workaround? ❔Agent Generalization Do we need to train agents on each environment separately, or can one solution handle multiple sites and systems? This seems similar to RL/post-training challenges in AI research. Example: It's unclear to me whether $Devin was specifically trained on environment? ❔Frontend vs. Backend infra for agents to run on I had doubts about Anthropic's "Computer Use" feature, which seemed to run on the frontend, basically remotely controlling my computer so I couldn’t use it at the same time. This should deliver the highest accuracy, but it’s questionable how practical it really is. (Ref: It seems def possible for agents to work quietly “in the background” (like Devin) rather than remotely controlling a user’s PC, but how much accuracy are we sacrificing? A few $Devin test cases that got me thinking: 1⃣Pulling $META's MAU and DAU (1Q21–3Q24) into Excel (video attached) Took Devin 11min - it sent me back an Excel with 100% accurate data. This case was pretty tricky because $Meta changed disclosures and stopped reporting MAU/DAU after 4Q23. Devin didn’t hallucinate data for post-4Q23—it simply didn’t provide it! It really shocked me to see $Devin navigating $Meta's investor relations site (I didn't tell it to find the numbers there), opening each quarterly earnings report, and extracting MAU/DAU like a diligent intern. -> This confirms $Devin (and similar agents) can already accurately “read” screens. 2⃣Booking Hotel (video attached) Devin took 5 minutes to book the InterContinental NYC on after asking for my credentials. From $Devin's workspace, I could see it filling in the correct fields and making the right selections—fast and accurate overall. Interestingly, $Devin didn’t supply all the required information on the first attempt and got some error messages, then retried until it succeeded. It’s unclear whether Devin had been specifically trained on interface or simply learned to adapt on the fly. 3⃣Canceling the Booking This part was even more interesting. While booking didn’t require me to log in, canceling did—so $Devin had to access my (likely via a remote server) account using my Gmail credentials. It successfully canceled the reservation. I wonder how websites will handle future “remote” logins. Notably, Google blocked $Devin’s direct attempts to log in to Gmail when I specifically requested it. 4⃣Booking from Official Hotel Sites I asked Devin to book InterContinental NYC and Four Seasons Boston via their official websites. It made progress but encountered technical hiccups when trying to select the check-in/check-out dates. Insights from Scott Wu on Invest Like the Best: 1/ Self-Driving Cars as the First “Real Agents” Driving requires near-perfect accuracy (99.999%), making it much more demanding than digital or coding agents, which can tolerate more errors. Scott compares $Devin to circa 2014—already good enough to save 90% of your effort, but still short of flawless. 2/ Impact on Collaboration Platforms Tools like Slack and GitLab are likely to see major changes as agents begin to interact with and utilize them along with humans. 2025 should be all about agents - both the disruptors and those they disrupt!show more

🪴 GT Protocol Monthly Recap: May 2026 May focused... on launching advanced trading infrastructure, introducing AI risk-management tools, and shipping major platform upgrades. 🚀 Hyperliquid Vaults Live Run multiple algorithmic strategies on a single Hyperliquid Vault inside GT App. Enjoy automated execution, auto-rebalancing, and protocol-level security. You can find Vault trading on the Hyperliquid exchange account connection page in the Trade on Vault section. Try it in GT App 👉 🤖 AI Hedge Fund Experiment Live An experimental AI Hedge Fund powered by 5 independent LLM models is live on Hyperliquid. Each model manages $10,000 to test different AI trading personalities and allocation strategies. Discover it now here 👉 📈 Isolated Margin & AI Risk Tools Isolated Margin is live across GT App for precise risk management. Enhanced with AI-powered logic, it assists with dynamic asset monitoring and smarter strategy deployment. Try it in GT App 👉 🔥 Top Strategy Performance Top trader strategies like "lebakien" achieved over +141% profit this month. Users can explore metrics and follow the strategies of top traders directly in the marketplace. Explore Marketplace 👉 🛠 Key Product Updates ⚙️ Strategy Discovery: enhanced demo trading flows and top trader strategy integration. ⚙️ AI Strategy Chat: demoed a flow to create, launch, and test strategies via natural language chat. ⚙️ Advanced Execution: added manual safety orders for granular control over active positions. ⚙️ Testing & Validation: optimized historical data validation for more accurate strategy testing. ⚙️ Knowledge Hub: launched GT Protocol Learn and a new Knowledge Base for streamlined support. ⚙️ Performance: upgraded website structure and improved overall page responsiveness. Find all the latest GT App updates Here 👉 Discover guides, insights, and resources in Learn 👉 and Knowledge Base 👉 📰 GT Protocol AI Digests 4 new AI Digest issues (No.89–92) are live on Medium, covering AI-native hardware, data privacy, and the evolution of AI agents. Read More 👉 May brought institutional-grade AI strategy management closer to every user.show more

OpenAI's AgentKit will be so insane, build every step... of agents on one platform. These visual agent builders make the whole process of iterating and launching agents far more efficient. It sits on top of the Responses API and unifies the tools that were previously scattered across SDKs and custom orchestration. It lets developers create agent workflows visually, connect data sources securely, and measure performance automatically without coding every layer by hand. The core of AgentKit is the Agent Builder, a drag-and-drop canvas where each node represents an action, guardrail, or decision branch. Developers can link these nodes into multi-agent workflows, preview results instantly, and version each setup. It supports inline evaluation so that developers can see how changes affect output before deploying. The Connector Registry is a single admin panel that manages how data and tools connect across the OpenAI ecosystem. It centralizes integrations like Google Drive, SharePoint, Dropbox, and Microsoft Teams. Large organizations can govern access and flow of data between agents securely under one global console. ChatKit provides a ready-to-use chat interface for embedding agents inside apps or websites. It manages streaming, message threads, and model reasoning displays automatically. Developers can skin the interface to match their product without writing custom front-end code. Under the hood, all these blocks use the same execution core that runs agent reasoning through OpenAI’s APIs. Workflows in Agent Builder compile down to structured instructions for the Responses API, which handles model calls, tool use, and context passing. Connector Registry handles authentication and routing for external tools, while Evals and RFT provide feedback loops that improve agents over time. This integration means developers no longer need to handle orchestration logic, model evaluation pipelines, or safety layers separately. Everything runs natively within OpenAI’s control plane with managed security, automatic versioning, and built-in testing. In short, AgentKit standardizes the entire life cycle of an AI agent—from visual design to deployment and performance tuning—inside a single unified system.show more

gm, so a bit of a look ahead for... BRAINROT COMMUNITY BUILDING > TRIALS > BURNS this weekend we launched the discord, working on the community API(CPI) for community members to start building whatever they want. Looking to launch the CPI early this week. working on the next big release which will be the agentic trials. each token gets trialled by a team of agents and receives metadata tags as a result. Trials will be replayable and viewable for every token. The metadata will serve a function when burning (more on that later) after the trials we will launch THE LAB which will be a place where you can manage your burns and modifying your remaining BRAINROTS after burns. This period right now is for building the community, and accumulating BRAINROTS. I have been talking about a few of these things in our private channels at greater depth, and will talk more about them in the near future. The plan for BRAINROT is to have the community have agency, choice and an active role in shaping the collection through burns, modifications and re-rolls. These will unlock new body types, new fashion and new accessory types and even more diversity into the collection. There will also be an option for creating legendaries which are custom designed either by me or an artist of your choice where possible. These will come at a great cost in burns though. It's been amazing seeing this community starting to grow, and if you have been on the outside looking in, don't worry, you are still very early, there is so much more to come. join us and rot your brains.show more

🚀 WELCOME TO THE NEW ERA OF KRC20 &... $KAS 🚀 The Kaspa Market Open Beta is officially LIVE on Testnet10! It’s time to experience the first true decentralized exchange on Kaspa—brought to you by Kasper and Kroc Bot . Faster, cheaper, and safer trading is here, and we’re inviting YOU to test it out. Here’s how to get started: 1️⃣ Update your KasWare Wallet Chrome extension to the latest version. 2️⃣ Switch your Kasware Network to Testnet10. 3️⃣ Load your wallet with tKAS from the faucet: 4️⃣ Dive into the action at ⚠️ IMPORTANT: Do NOT send mainnet KAS to a testnet account. Testnet and mainnet funds are not interchangeable. 💡 Why Kaspa Market? •Atomic Swaps: Your funds stay in your wallet—no middlemen, no risks. •Less Fees, More Speed: Up to 2x faster and more cost-efficient than current platforms. •Cross-Platform Convenience: Seamless access from web browsers or Telegram, tailored for maximum usability. We’re breaking boundaries and setting new standards for the KRC20 ecosystem. Join the revolution, test the future, and help us make history. Let’s build the future of decentralized trading—together. $KASPER the Ghost of $KASPA on #KRC20 #Kaspa #KaspaMarket #KRC20 #CryptoRevolutionshow more

🚨 RWA PAD PLATFORM LIVE AND FIRST PROJECTS COMPETE... ON DEMODAY 🚨 Hello EstateX Family, RWA Pad platform is live. Because of the tech teams occupation there are still some changes made to the website and the content is not completely final. To be able to participate in the projects that will be coming on RWA Pad, you need to hold or lock $ESX. The following tiers qualify, with Tier 5 having first access AND getting the best deal. Tier 5: Unicorn Club (1M+ tokens) Tier 4: 500,000 tokens Tier 3: 100,000 tokens Tier 2: 50,000 tokens Tier 1: 10,000 tokens This also means that new investors / their community need to buy $ESX to participate. 🚨 DEMO DAY ON THE 17TH OF FEBRUARY On the 17th of February, the first projects will compete for a spot on the launchpad. These projects will bring their audience, and judges will be our (famous) project partners and KOLs. On top of that, the EstateX Family will have a decisive vote on the projects that they want to see on the launchpad. In a battle style form, they will compete and create content, viral moments and bring audience. A week later the first raise will happen on RWA Pad, followed by buyback of the revenue generated. No matter what happens, the team keeps showing up. On Monday we have the L1 chain Beta launch with a Graham AMA, we have Sky Villa’s opening up, other property payments opening up with continued sales, the demo day, RWA Pad raise with all followed by generated revenue buybacks. Make sure to watch today’s AMA as we also discussed price action, the team, the switching of legal framework to make property sales more efficient (hence the delay), how the team moves forward and what’s upcoming. 🚨 REGISTER FOR YOUR TIER ON RWA PAD You can register for your tier on RWA Pad now, by selecting one of the five. Click register now on the site below. *Content is not finalized yet and subject to change. We are also curious if you want to see other sectors apart from RWA (like AI, perps, prediction markets, privacy tokens or anything else). Let us know below 👇show more

Here's proof that the $Virtuals token is undervalued! We... are three months into 2026 and Virtuals Protocol have; ➥ Overhauled the core Virtuals website including an outline of the four major pillars of focus for the year. Agent Commerce Protocol (ACP), Butler, Capital Markets, and Robotics. ➥ Added the Pegasus and Titan launchpads to add to the existing Unicorn launchpad. This now provides a full suite of launch options catering to all types. Arguably the most comprehensive launch suite across crypto! ➥ Listed on Aster 🥷 Perpetuals allowing up to 75x leverage trading on the $Virtual token. ➥ Integrated Bankr to Butler and ACP. ➥ Partnered with XMAQUINA, a major player across Robotics Capital Markets and provided participants with access to the $DEUS pre-sale. One of many robotics partnerships for the year to date! ➥ Launched Virtuals on Base App ➥ Held, supported, and/or sponsored multiple hackathon/ builder meeting type events including; ↠ Physical AI Hackathon in SF ↠ Agentic Commerce Hackathon with the likes of Coinbase Developer Platform🛡️ and Google Cloud ↠ Traders House Consensus Hong Kong week with ACTIV8 ↠ ETH Denver ↠ Base Batches 003: Robotics ↠ Stanford Blockchain Accelerator (Standford Blockchain Accelerator (SBA)) ↠ Base Korea Builders Workshop (Base Korea) ↠ Eth Robotics Club HACK2026 (ETH Robotics Club) ↠ Synthesis Hackathon (synthesis) ➥ Partnered with OpenMind and Fabric Foundation and supported the $ROBO token launch. This matured into the first ever Titan launch on Virtuals with the $ROBO token being the highest launched on the protocol ($400m+). ➥ Launched Butler Pro, an enhanced version of the initial Butler we have come to know and love on the timeline, in the DMs, as well as on the Virtuals ACP site. ➥ Become the standout user of x402, accounting for over 95%+ of usage this year. ➥ Integrated on , the automated onchain finance investment platform. ➥ Supported and contributed to the implementation of the Ethereum Foundation ERC8004 standard. Integrating the standard into ACP and offering an automated integration to the standard for all ACP agents. ➥ Established an easy onboarding for OpenClaw🦞 agents to plug into Virtuals ACP, creating a new flow of agents and builders across the ecosystem. ➥ Launched the 60-days launch mechanic which allows builders to 'experiment' with a crypto token but having an option to exit after 60 days with partial refunds provided to holders. A game-changing launch mechanic not seen before in the space. ➥ Strengthened the relationship with Base and having multiple interactions with jesse.base.eth on the timeline! ➥ Launched the AGDP(dot)io site, creating an incentivised mechanism for agents contributing to the growth of the protocol to really earn. Imagine Amazon for autonomous agents with rewards up to $1m per month! This pushed the total agent-to-agent revenue over $4m USD with over 2m jobs completed. ➥ Collaborated with t54.ai, a business building trust and risk infrastructure for the agentic economy, to strengthen the ACP offering. ➥ Invested over $1m on 30+ humanoid robots as part of the soon to be announced 'Eastworld' Robotics accelerator lab. ➥ Released ERC8183, a universal commerce layer for AI agents, in partnership with the Ethereum Foundations dAI team. A significant offering which has since been integrated via partnerships with; ↠ BNB (BNB Chain) ↠ X Layer (X Layer) ↠ Monad (Monad) ↠ XRP Ledger (RippleX) ↠ World Chain (World Chain) ↠ Celo (Celo) ↠ Moonpay (MoonPay 🟣) ↠ Arbitrum (Arbitrum) ↠ Abstract (Abstract) ↠ Mante (Mantle) ➥ Launched the Virtuals Degen Arena providing up to $100k a week to top agents who compete in trading competitions in the arena. ➥ Launched the Virtuals Console, providing an ultra easy, no-code, way to own an AI agent in seconds. ↛. If you've managed to get to this point, I can't imagine you are anything other than bullish on Virtuals. What really is amazing is that there is MUCH more to come. Imagine where we are in another three months, and three months after that!?show more

Are you safer with LIDAR, or are you safer... with vision? This is a false dichotomy. The more pertinent question today is "do you have something, or do you have nothing?" As you can see from the clips below, vision based systems avoid countless potential collisions every day. The difference between a crash and no crash isn't what sensor suite you chose — it's whether you have any AI on your car at all. Even if we concede that LIDAR may help prevent some additional crashes, we are really debating whether it is 1% of crashes or 0.00001% of crashes. Not all crashes are super complex and require lasers to detect. Most are simple, routine, and can easily be prevented by today's vision based AI. In fact, evidence is mounting that computer vision based systems can actually outperform more traditional approaches to self-driving. Why? Because the low cost of cameras enables you to create a much larger, more varied, and more diverse dataset. If you want to have expensive custom cars that's fine, but you're going to get fewer vehicles for the same budget. Seeing what's in front of you now is actually less important than predicting what's going to happen next — and the large scale datasets used to train pure vision systems are the best for predicting what's next. Counter-intuitively, the simpler and lower cost sensor actually has properties that make it better suited for training advanced AI. Computer vision based self-driving is often framed by LIDAR proponents as "cheaping out" on the sensor suite to save money. But it's not about being cheap, it's about bringing the technology to everyone. 1.2 million people die on the road every year around the world. That's around 39 million people who've died on the roads around the world since I was born — equivalent to a city the size of Tokyo or New Delhi getting wiped off the map. The status quo is simply unacceptable, and something has to be done to fix it as soon as possible. Of the 1.2 million people that will die on the roads this year, about 40,000 will be Americans. That's about 3%. So if we moved entirely to self-driving cars in America and brought crashes down to 0, 97% of the world's crash fatalities would still be taking place as usual. Deploying a $200,000+ retrofitted self-driving car may work in a few American cities, but it is not going to make sense in most places around the world where fares are much cheaper. Most often, the choice is not between LIDAR and vision. It's between vision or nothing. The best system is the system that's there running on my car when I need it to save my life. To say that all self-driving cars must have LIDAR is to sentence most of the world to death. We can't write off computer vision if we want to make a serious dent in this problem. It's going to be a key piece of the solution. Let LIDAR based players build the best self-driving car they can, and let vision based players do the same. We need to be trying everythingshow more

🚨 RESEARCHERS JUST MADE WATER-BASED BATTERIES LAST OVER 2,800... HOURS WITH RECORD CAPACITY. A team in South Korea has developed a simple zwitterionic electrolyte additive that dramatically improves the performance of aqueous (water-based) batteries a technology long seen as a safer, cheaper, and more environmentally friendly alternative to lithium-ion. The additive forms tiny nanostructures that guide zinc to deposit evenly on the electrode and create a protective layer that prevents corrosion and unwanted side reactions with water. This solves two of the biggest problems that have limited aqueous batteries: uneven metal buildup and rapid capacity fade. In testing, the modified batteries achieved a world-leading areal capacity of 8.10 mAh cm⁻² and ran stably for more than 2,800 hours. Why this matters: • Aqueous batteries are non-flammable and use abundant, low-cost materials, but have historically suffered from poor lifespan and performance • This approach improves both cycle life and capacity at the same time — something many previous solutions struggled to achieve together • It uses a simple additive rather than requiring expensive new materials or complex manufacturing changes • The technology is particularly relevant for large-scale energy storage needed for renewables and AI data centers The deeper implication: We’re getting closer to making safe, scalable, and affordable grid storage a reality. While lithium-ion still dominates, aqueous batteries could become a strong contender for stationary storage where safety, cost, and longevity matter more than energy density. A small molecular tweak unlocking major performance gains shows how materials engineering at the nanoscale can have outsized real-world impact. This is the kind of incremental but meaningful progress that compounds over time. How important do you think safer, water-based batteries will be for the future energy grid compared to improving lithium-ion or other alternatives? Follow for more frontier energy storage and battery materials research.show more

Whether you are a random person on X or... Elon Musk, I urge you all to please read this post and stop using videos like this one to claim that Biden has an "open border policy": #1) The people in this video are already on American soil. The agents have a few options here. Detain them behind the razor wire or detain them in front of it, let the children cut themselves on razor wire or make sure they don't get cut. #2) In May President Biden issued an "asylum ban" which barred migrants from applying for humanitarian protection if they cross the border against the law or fail to first apply for safe harbor while crossing through another country on the way to the U.S. The US COURTS OVERTURNED IT. Biden also requested $3.5B for more border patrol agents and judges and lawyers. Republicans refused. #3) Let me explain to you all why the people in this video can't simply be put on a truck and driven back into Mexico and dropped off: a - They have a right to due process according to our Constitution. b - There are international laws indicating that we can't just drop people off from Honduras or Cuba or any other nation into Mexico. What if one of these people claimed they were from Canada? Should we drop them in Canada? c - How do we immediately prove that a person is not an American, or an Italian, or a Brazilian if they claim they are? Stop pretending that Biden isn't doing anything. Stop pretending that the immigration problem is simple. Stop pretending that this has not been a problem for decades. Understand that the surge of migrants isn't the fault of Biden but actually global geopolitical upheaval in Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and other nations. Instead of pointing fingers and claiming that "Biden has an open border policy," when his policy is not much different than those we have had for the last 40 years, how about working together on comprehensive reform? So before you make another Tweet claiming Biden has an Open Border Policy, how about instead you provide actual solutions that are LEGAL, that should be implemented.show more

Trump is initiating the ground offensive (boots on the... ground) and orders have been given to the 82nd Airborne for deployment in Iran, despite saying the “war is over, and won”. 🚨🚨🚨⚠️⚠️⚠️ It’s now OFFICIALLY another endless “boots on the ground” war just like Iraq and Afghanistan before it, which ultimately benefits Israel. Our soldiers are being sent over to Iran to be slaughtered in spectacular fashion by Iranian drones and missiles, which will be waiting for them. For those who say “it’s not long term” or “it’s only 3,000 troops” this is ALWAYS how it starts. Iran will take this incursion VERY seriously, and the opposition will be FIERCE. Boots on the ground TOTALLY changes the dynamic of this conflict, as has been warned about many times by multiple military strategists. Even Trump’s own generals have STRONGLY warned against doing this. Sending our troops into a mountainous and extremely challenging landscape is a suicide mission. Iran has been training and planning for this moment for over 20 years. They have even run war games simulating exactly this scenario, and studying how the U.S. fights. Make NO mistake, this will turn into exactly what they want it to be…A very long, very bloody war of attrition which is meant to be SUSTAINED until full “regime change” happens for Israel, and in which we are at a grave disadvantage. Similar to Vietnam, Iran will fight as long as it takes, and sustain as many casualties as they can because it’s seen as honorable “martyrdom”. Trump said multiple times he would NEVER do this, campaigned AGAINST IT and he BALD FACED LIED. He has even said multiple times that the “war is over, and we won”. This will cause the gas prices to go through the roof like we have never seen before, as it’s very likely that Iran will completely shut down the Strait of Hormuz. Get ready for $10/gal gas or even higher, as well as energy lockdowns. It’s NO WONDER why Trump’s latest approval is an ABYSMAL 36%. Netanyahu, Pete Hegseth, Rupert Murdoch, and Lindsey Graham must be happier than a pig in shit right now also John McCain is smiling from beyond the grave. Blame them all when you start seeing American flag draped coffins coming home by the dozen, just like we blamed George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Karl Rove. Welcome to Vietnam 2.0, courtesy of the BETRAYER IN CHIEF Donald J. Trump.show more