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1/ History is the record of TOP players completing GOOD quests. This is a moral imperative.
Check out the latest @PirateWires post by @markiewagner and I and ask yourself what the world would look like if our best players all took on good quests.
piratewires.com/p/choose-good-…
Check out the latest @PirateWires post by @markiewagner and I and ask yourself what the world would look like if our best players all took on good quests.
piratewires.com/p/choose-good-…
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Trae Stephens retweeted
Excited to share what I’ve been building for the past 18 months.
Today I can officially announce my role as cofounder and CEO of Watchtower Labs, and our $35M raised led by Raj Shah @ShieldCapVC and @saranormous at @conviction, with @foundersfund and IQT.
Today I can officially announce my role as cofounder and CEO of Watchtower Labs, and our $35M raised led by Raj Shah @ShieldCapVC and @saranormous at @conviction, with @foundersfund and IQT.
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Master of comms @lulumeservey is going to blow all of our minds on October 27th in SF in a talk about persuasion, conviction, and how that intersects with a life of faith. Join us!
@ACTS17org
luma.com/goingdirect
@ACTS17org
luma.com/goingdirect
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Wired just published a story about a legit tech company coming out of stealth that was optimistically framed about the positive impact it could have on the world. Yes, I said @WIRED.
Credit where credit is due! Good work, @LaurenGoode!
And congrats to @keplercompute.
Credit where credit is due! Good work, @LaurenGoode!
And congrats to @keplercompute.
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This is incredibly cool
BREAKING: The Department of War is deploying approximately 50 mobile SCIFs across the U.S., secure facilities critical for classified defense work.
The program gives startups and smaller defense suppliers access to SCIFs without requiring them to build out their own secure infrastructure.
Long term, the Department plans to scale production of these mobile facilities into a nationwide, surge-capable network of secure workspaces.
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🚀 It's not just great billboards and banners being pulled behind airplanes. 🚀
Monaco is officially in GA.
Monaco is officially in GA.
Today, we're launching Monaco into General Availability.
We onboarded several hundred hypergrowth startups during our beta. The results are staggering:
The average customer added 16 percentage points to their month-over-month revenue growth rate.
The average customer tripled olume.
With today's release, Monaco is now the most advanced AI sales platform in the world.
Monaco customers have an unfair competitive advantage.
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That’s weird…it’s almost like not banning TikTok has had real world consequences as the US population continues being poisoned by CCP propaganda. Who woulda guessed?!
“If I were the mayor of a town or governor of a state and I had a chance to get a big plant in, an AI plant or a data center, I would absolutely want it," President Donald Trump told reporters on Wednesday. bit.ly/3TXuQy9
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Pretty slick new product from @tryramp!
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Every week, the price-intelligence-latency frontier shifts, and we expect this trend to continue. Tradeoffs between latency, reasoning, cost, service tier, open e models are shifting constantly.
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Trae Stephens retweeted
Exclusive: Inside Fortell (@fortellresearch)
The $740M startup that had to waitlist billionaires and celebrities for its AI hearing aid.
Their custom chip helps you "hear where you look", distinguishing voices in noisy environments - which solved a problem no hearing aid had w they're expanding across America to start reaching the 1.5 billion people globally who need it.
Founded by four wildly impressive co-founders. Plus, backed from top VC's led by @JoshuaKushner @AntonioGracias @traestephens @wolfejosh @GavinSBaker @patrick_oshag @RobertIger @jaltma @aplusk @hbarra + more.
We flew to New York, toured their factory, and tried it ourselves. To date, this is our proudest episode, truly technology at it's best. Enjoy :)
0:00 Today's Most Intelligent Hearing Aid
2:09 70 years unsolved - until now
3:34 "I'd mortgage my house for this"
4:37 Igor: A Pianist Turned Physicist
7:18 Andy + Factory Tour: "Injecting The AI"
9:00 Why they built a custom chip
10:39 Live demo: AI vs conventional
14:48 Matt: Building For His Grandparents
15:22 Cole: Can $6,800 Reach Everyone?
The $740M startup that had to waitlist billionaires and celebrities for its AI hearing aid.
Their custom chip helps you "hear where you look", distinguishing voices in noisy environments - which solved a problem no hearing aid had w they're expanding across America to start reaching the 1.5 billion people globally who need it.
Founded by four wildly impressive co-founders. Plus, backed from top VC's led by @JoshuaKushner @AntonioGracias @traestephens @wolfejosh @GavinSBaker @patrick_oshag @RobertIger @jaltma @aplusk @hbarra + more.
We flew to New York, toured their factory, and tried it ourselves. To date, this is our proudest episode, truly technology at it's best. Enjoy :)
0:00 Today's Most Intelligent Hearing Aid
2:09 70 years unsolved - until now
3:34 "I'd mortgage my house for this"
4:37 Igor: A Pianist Turned Physicist
7:18 Andy + Factory Tour: "Injecting The AI"
9:00 Why they built a custom chip
10:39 Live demo: AI vs conventional
14:48 Matt: Building For His Grandparents
15:22 Cole: Can $6,800 Reach Everyone?
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Yesterday Anduril suffered yet another major setback at our Mississippi factory when curious local wildlife interrupted the power supply to the whole region.
Sources report that @mttgrmm expressed his displeasure with the local barbecue and left after lunch.
@peard33 @WIRED I'm nytime.
(this really happened and is a real pic, btw)
Sources report that @mttgrmm expressed his displeasure with the local barbecue and left after lunch.
@peard33 @WIRED I'm nytime.
(this really happened and is a real pic, btw)
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Trae Stephens retweeted
Hey @peard33 @WIRED - free tip for you
Yesterday the Anduril team in Mississippi achieved a successful test of our Denali rocket motor, the same rocket that exploded *on that exact test stand* 38 days ago.
In the ~5 weeks since the rapid unscheduled disassembly, the Anduril ure, rebuilt and re-instrumented the test stand (including some backlogged improvements), meticulously studied and inspected the new motor, and prepped for this test. A true all-hands-on-deck effort culminating in success.
This is the same exact test stand that Wired, quoting anonymous sources, said “could take up to a couple of months” to rebuild the “knocked out” test stand and “could disrupt a key part of the defense company’s rocket motor business.” Not so much. I look forward to your detailed reporting on the successful test.
As I discussed 35-ish days ago, doing hard things is actually hard, and rocket science is definitely hard. It’s easy to cite anonymous sources, usually former disgruntled employees, to throw shade and write critical headlines when tests go wrong. Well, yesterday it went right.
The credit belongs to the [team] who is actually in the arena, and for all the Andurilians who sprinted: thanks, and great work. I hope you enjoy some celebratory chicken wings this week down in McHenry. Onward.
Yesterday the Anduril team in Mississippi achieved a successful test of our Denali rocket motor, the same rocket that exploded *on that exact test stand* 38 days ago.
In the ~5 weeks since the rapid unscheduled disassembly, the Anduril ure, rebuilt and re-instrumented the test stand (including some backlogged improvements), meticulously studied and inspected the new motor, and prepped for this test. A true all-hands-on-deck effort culminating in success.
This is the same exact test stand that Wired, quoting anonymous sources, said “could take up to a couple of months” to rebuild the “knocked out” test stand and “could disrupt a key part of the defense company’s rocket motor business.” Not so much. I look forward to your detailed reporting on the successful test.
As I discussed 35-ish days ago, doing hard things is actually hard, and rocket science is definitely hard. It’s easy to cite anonymous sources, usually former disgruntled employees, to throw shade and write critical headlines when tests go wrong. Well, yesterday it went right.
The credit belongs to the [team] who is actually in the arena, and for all the Andurilians who sprinted: thanks, and great work. I hope you enjoy some celebratory chicken wings this week down in McHenry. Onward.
Rebuilt. Refired.
Successful live fire of Anduril's Denali Solid Rocket Motor.
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Thank you for your support, Governor! It's an honor to be building the next generation of flight in the Birthplace of Aviation.
And thanks for tolerating @mttgrmm's hospitality today.
And thanks for tolerating @mttgrmm's hospitality today.
It was remarkable to watch @anduriltech's first Ohio-made, unmanned combat aircraft roll off the production line at Arsenal-1 in Pickaway County this morning. Congratulations to everyone involved in this significant milestone for national defense!
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The Factory is the Weapon.
Great to speak to @MariaBartiromo on @FoxBusiness live from Arsenal-1.
Full segment here: foxbusiness.com/video/64020052…
Great to speak to @MariaBartiromo on @FoxBusiness live from Arsenal-1.
Full segment here: foxbusiness.com/video/64020052…
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Reuters ran one sentence of the statement we provided them.
Here it is in full: 'The reporting runs well ahead of the facts. Any details about terms, structure, pricing, or timing of a future financing round are purely speculative. As a private company, we regularly evaluate opportunities to fund the growth of the business. Beyond that, we don't comment on rumors.'
Our IR team talks to investors every day. Routine dialogue is not a fundraising process.
Here it is in full: 'The reporting runs well ahead of the facts. Any details about terms, structure, pricing, or timing of a future financing round are purely speculative. As a private company, we regularly evaluate opportunities to fund the growth of the business. Beyond that, we don't comment on rumors.'
Our IR team talks to investors every day. Routine dialogue is not a fundraising process.
EXCLUSIVE: Defense tech company Anduril in talks to raise funding at about $100 billion valuation reut.rs/4wlvfZg reut.rs/4wlvfZg
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The next time a journalist starts calling around with completely false information asking for comment, I'm going to respond with, "Ya know, "sources" are saying that you keep a photo of Adolf Hitler on your bedside table that you kiss every morning - would you like to comment?"
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