This but drones and ticks.
Norway now has more than 2,000 underwater AI laser robots shooting lice off its salmon
they're made by a company called Stingray, and they already guard more than 50 million salmon and trout 24/7
the reason is sea lice, tiny parasites that latch onto salmon and feed on them
as few as 11 can kill a small fish, and one pen can hold 150,000 salmon
the usual fix is pumping the fish out and blasting them with warm water or water jets to knock the lice off
but the handling is so rough that Norway's fish health report ranks it the top cause of death in full-grown farmed salmon
so instead, Stingray puts a robot inside the pen that hunts lice one at a time, all day:
> two cameras watch every salmon that swims past
> AI checks two frames to make sure it's really a louse
> then a green laser fires from up to 2 meters away
> the salmon's scales reflect the beam, so the fish swims off fine and the louse is dead
we now live in a world where AI lasers do pest control on your dinner lmao
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Opus 5.5 can build a high-quality, bespoke iOS app in *minutes*.
It takes *hours* to get Xcode + App Store Connect + TestFlight to work properly (even with computer use!).
And then days to get it reviewed just to share a TestFlight link.
Apple's archaic / convoluted process for shipping an app:
- Xcode
- Developer Mode
- provisioning profiles
- physically connecting the device to your Mac
- $99/year developer account
- DUNS number
- TestFlight
- App Store approval
...creates enough friction to explain why we haven't seen more interesting vibe-coded mobile apps, especially compared to number of vibe-coded websites with Claude / Codex + Vercel.
Opt-in webpage micropayments for your agent.
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When talking to fintechs we frequently hear that setting up a credit facility is slow, cumbersome, and expensive. So they don't end up offering new credit-based products.
We're solving that with our growing ecosystem of stablecoin lenders on Tempo. Instant, programmatic access to capital.
1/ We鈥檙e launching credit on @tempo.
Businesses can borrow against their payments and receivables from a broad market of lenders, with pricing and terms that fit how they operate.
Underwriting a $500M investment in 2020 into pre-revenue Starlink was crazier than this model.
Over the last week I built a bottoms up SpaceX financial model through the end of 2028
The numbers that came out are insane
There are wide error bars given how quickly things are changing but I wanted to distill something complicated into something that can at least be debated
* This is not investment advice!!!
** Sequoia is a major SpaceX shareholder
*** Past performance is not indicative of future results
Excited for Tempo to power stablecoins for OnePay.
OnePay, the consumer fintech trusted by millions of Americans, is bringing stablecoins into everyday banking on Tempo.
Starting today @onepay is rolling out stablecoin deposits so customers can spend them as dollars.
This is just part of OnePay's broader partnership with Tempo.
We live in an age of daily AI wonders but it's still near impossible to send a mail merge email with Google.
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The benefits of abundant intelligence will accrue far outside of San Fransisco.
Spent the last year writing about capital, sovereignty, and the coming reordering of economic power.
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Turns out a Pareto optimal amount of RTS / 4X / Factorio / MMORPG is actually good for cognitive development.
Rumors I鈥檝e been hearing. I鈥檒l start with OpenAI, then Anthropic.
OpenAI: The internal model鈥檚 reasoning jump comes from more aggressive RL, including training in games and simulated environments. Strategies learned there transfer to research mathematics and other fields. Navier鈥揝tokes and ETH show the scale of the improvement. The clue is in the Synthetic RL hiring: self-play, simulators, and synthetic feedback.
Anthropic: Same direction with its internal Claude model. It鈥檚 trained on long, difficult tasks in demanding environments, and the reasoning skills transfer to other fields. Its ETH result shows how far the improvement has gone. The earlier Universes listing and the RL hiring around mathematical reasoning align with that.
Musk鈥檚 Digital Optimus hiring explicitly calls for measuring transfer from games into general computer use. That鈥檚 why his game-playing AI push matters: games develop abilities that work far beyond the games themselves.
The interesting part is where those abilities show up. Each lab鈥檚 internal model applies reasoning developed through interactive training to mathematical problems that had resisted decades of work.