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What happens when AI knows what you want before you do?
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A few times I met the guy, John Sculley, who fired Steve Jobs. Jobs bet the company on the first Macintosh and it didn’t sell for the first four years of its life.
He told me it was a mistake to do so.
End of an era.
Was just watching the video that I shot of Jensen at GTC this spring. He was on top of the world. Had built one of America's best companies. Was talking to a hockey stadium with every seat filled. Took hours to talk with the press, answering every question.
Now not just his personal life, but his business life is on fire. The WSJ and NYT are saying the board is meeting right now to fire him.
One thing I learned at Microsoft is to keep your head when everything is going wrong. And this series of affairs has cost me some money, and probably will tomorrow. As it will many of you who are investors in NVIDIA.
One thing about NVIDIA. It has a very strong bench of people who could run the company. You don't know that because Jensen was the only one who built a relationship with the market. He is so strongly tied to the company.
Let's be honest. It's a huge loss for NVIDIA. Last week no one had any questions about the governance of the company. Now the knives are out and blood will flow in the board room.
But NVIDIA will survive. It will see a better day again.
Here's my expectations. That tomorrow two new committees will be announced:
1. An executive search committee.
2. A temporary executive committee.
Knowing NVIDIA from a close seat. I'm very confident that it will continue doing well after this all gets cleaned up. The talent bench there is so deep.
I'm not selling my stock.
I don't see a way Jensen survives as CEO of NVIDIA.
Do you?
Jensen Huang had a relationship with an Nvidia executive who reported to him.
nytimes.com/2026/11/11/techn…
I'm seeing hundreds of posts about Fable 5.2. Usually don't like sharing video games, but it is such a strong trend worth to talk about this for a bit.
Making a game (or really anything, a song, an app, a movie) isn't the gating factor. A few hundred bucks, some creativity, and a weekend and you can get something compelling built.
But here on X the AI community alone generates about 30,000 posts a day.
Distribution and attention are the gating factors and that's getting tougher and tougher over time.
In a sea of video games, how does your video game get anyone to try it?
I was just talking with another entrepreneur who is building a virtual being company. I gave him a lot of heck because he had the same problem. His virtual being isn't as good as @nuance_ai or @tavus and didn't have a good answer for how he'd get his virtual being to do something those two can't.
It's one thing to make a cute song to send to grandma to get her to laugh. It's a whole other thing to build a catalog, a brand, and something that really makes them stand out.
Taste, the AI people in SF say.
But it is more than that. It's having something that yours does that the others don't have yet that makes it at least stand out on X. If you hit that mark you'll get reach, since there's thousands of influencers looking for cool stuff to push.
But even getting a viral post isn't enough to get anyone to care for more than an hour.
This is the downside of building that a lot of VCs/investors aren't really being honest with entrepreneurs about.
It's a great time to build a business, since building has gotten a lot cheaper than it used to be, but now that it's a lot cheaper there is a lot more to consider (I just passed 10,000 companies on my AI lists here on X at xitter.twitterapi.xyz/scobleizer/lists which underscores my point).
Competition is brutal all of a sudden. Everyone sees the big money going to a bunch of companies and one thing they did is to stand out over and over and bring something to the table that the others aren't.
That said, everyone has different motivations for building and not everything has to lead to a company, which I get.
Just something I'm seeing when I talk with entrepreneurs and watch what they are doing.
This is getting ridiculous.
Saw @felixrieseberg build a Call of Duty-style FPS with Fable 5.2 in 8 hours, so GeekPark's creative team thought, why not give it a shot over lunch?
30 MINUTES LATER. We had our own playable FPS. 🤯
Play it right now: arena.shan.sh
If it had multiplayer, we'd have turned the entire office into a LAN party by lunchtime. 😂
What a microphone!
About $1,700.
Will be the best way to capture audio for the VR and AR glasses that are coming soon.
Introducing Blackmagic Ambisonic Microphone! The world’s first 7th order ambisonic microphone with 108 MEMS microphones and a built in spatial encoder, allowing capture of spatial audio over a single USB-C cable! Learn more at bmd.link/K9HUX3
Only eight asked if they were talking to an AI agent out of 1,277 conversations.
On a dating app.
Siri turned 15 and it still mostly sets timers.
@heybluex reads your texts, emails and notifications, handles the small stuff, and drafts replies for you to OK.
That's the assistant I thought we were getting in 2011.
🤝 Paid partnership
We switched 10 people from iPhone to Blue. Weeks later, none of them want their iPhone back.
Introducing Blue: a phone you just talk to. Tell it what you need, and it gets done.
It has all the context, can use every single app, and even triages your notifications.
We built it for people who always have a little too much to do. The ones buried in messages, notifications, and to-dos.
If that's you, get yours today.
Backed by Y Combinator + 70 other VCs & angels.
heyblue.com
Which dictation tool is more accurate? Turns out that's the wrong question.
@voicearena_ai tested Claude and Willow. Willow gets more drafts perfect, 75.7% with zero edits versus 64.0% for Claude. But Claude leaves less text to fix overall, 0.93% of characters versus 1.88%.
Why? Five of Willow's 761 drafts caused 71% of its edits. Mostly great, then once in a while it goes way off.
So it depends what bugs you more. Lots of small fixes, or the rare draft you have to rewrite?
One accuracy score hides that. I want to see both numbers.
🤝 Paid partnership
I'm judging the 2026 Aholo Global 3D AI Hackathon, hosted by @ManycoreTech.
They built Aholo Lux3D, a 3D generation model that turns text or images into 3D assets you can preview and edit.
If you work in games, design, or film, this is a chance to try it on a real project. Can't wait to see what you all make.
aholo.ai/hackathon
#Manycorehackathon
🤝 Paid partnership
This is how the world should work.
Because it is so rare it is worth celebrating and honoring.
New: Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky is committing $100 million to SF parks in what Mayor Lurie's administration says will be the largest contribution the city has ever received from 1 donor. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/a…
Another example:
I don’t know how to code, but somehow I made this game entirely from scratch in just a few days with AI and it's 2x the size of Skyrim!
Made with, Fable 5.2 & Opus 5.5 , Tesana, Three.js and Tripo for 3D models & Blender.
AOD - Age of Dragon - (No worries BioWare, I can take it solo from here)
Everything you see and hear is Code (21B+ tokens) and 3D models
How I made this and crazy stats in the comments
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My prediction is that @Tesla_Optimus will shock everyone.
Like when you did your first prompt in ChatGPT.
Thanks, to: @micoolcho for sharing his brother.
So proud of my youngest bro @patrick_cho_1
Go change the world one more time (first with self driving, and now with robotics)!
Can wait for the next Optimus release from @Tesla
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A lot of nerds are in Austin for a big robotics/AI event.
With every ride @elonmusk gets free advertising.
People say Elon should advertise.
He picks unique designs instead.
Makes everyone talk.
The faster we move to autonomous driving the more lives we will save.
Elon is right to make a hard turn to autonomy.
But he is still a capitalist. So will take our money in a variety of ways. Including if you still want one in your garage.
Waymo customers tell me being in one changed them.
More likely to use AI in other places in their lives.
I have seen humans try to do the same.
The AI can be fixed.
Humans? They can too but that requires AI glasses.
Video shows a Waymo in San Francisco on I-280 speeding past traffic as the California Highway Patrol performs a traffic break. The Waymo is seen trying to go around the CHP patrol cars, even at one point turning its blinker on. For more information, abc7news.com/19150225/
