mcuban · TEXXR

My Sora cameos are going so well they gave me a code to share. Download Sora 2 and use MCUBAN as your invite code ! Have fun !

2025-10-10 View on X

CNBC

Bill Peebles, head of Sora at OpenAI, says the app hit 1M downloads less than five days after its launch on September 30, which is even faster than ChatGPT did

and ringing alarm bells Jason Aten / Inc : Mark Cuban Just Invited Everyone to Deepfake Him on Sora and It's Really Quite Brilliant Chris McKay / Maginative : OpenAI's New Video Ap...

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This is exactly why we can't have a brain drain and need to continue investing in research of all kinds as a country. The IP we create domestically is what the frontier models can buy or invest in to define their differentiation and advance forward. It's exactly why we can't beat China at AI. The more IP we as a country encourage and invest in, even if we sell it to the frontier models, ... the greater the competitive advantage we have... Let your boss do what he does, open back up all of our research funding , and sell it off to the highest AI bidder to use in their training. ...

2025-08-11 View on X

@davidsacks

Doomer narratives of a rapid take-off to a monopolistic AGI were wrong, as new AI model releases offer a Goldilocks scenario of competitive, specialized models

David Sacks / @davidsacks :

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This is exactly why we can't have a brain drain and need to continue investing in research of all kinds as a country. The IP we create domestically is what the frontier models can buy or invest in to define their differentiation and advance forward. It's exactly why we can't beat China at AI. The more IP we as a country encourage and invest in, even if we sell it to the frontier models, ... the greater the competitive advantage we have... Let your boss do what he does, open back up all of our research funding , and sell it off to the highest AI bidder to use in their training. ...

2025-08-11 View on X

Gizmodo

Sam Altman says OpenAI will bring back GPT-4o to ChatGPT and raising reasoning model rate limits for free and Plus users, as usage of reasoning models increases

The move is a stunning reversal, proving that even the most powerful AI company can't ignore a mutiny from its loyal user base.

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If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company. — It's just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create. — They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms. — I'm happy to invest and/or help

2025-03-02 View on X

Nextgov/FCW

The US GSA eliminates 18F, a government tech consultancy that helps other agencies with their tech, including the IRS' Direct File, impacting about 90 employees

The General Services Administration deleted 18F, a government tech consultancy that helps other agencies with their technology, early Saturday morning.

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Let's think this through. 1. You have to borrow the money. 50b+ a year ? Plus interest. 2. If its truly VC, then we can expect the same hit ratio of 10 to 20% 3. But those hits don't cash out for 10 yrs + ? Def .more than 4 years 4. If you are paying funds for deals the

2025-02-04 View on X

Bloomberg

Donald Trump signs an executive action to direct officials to create a US sovereign wealth fund and says that it could be used to facilitate a sale of TikTok US

- Fund could be used as US facilitates TikTok sale, Lutnick says — Bessent says fund will be created in the next 12 months

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If meme coins are the way, maybe I'll issue one. With a twist. Same terms as $TRUMP . 20% float. Same release schedule. One difference. All the revenue from the sale of the coins go to the US Treasury. The wallet address will be published so everyone can track it. If

2025-01-21 View on X

Politico

CoinGecko: Trump's memecoin, with a ~$7.5B market cap, is around the 28th most valuable cryptocurrency; some in crypto call Official Trump a “horrible look”

Survey Bloomberg : What Are Memecoins and Why Did Trump Launch One? Callum Jones / The Guardian : Experts alarmed by Trumps' crypto meme coins: ‘America voted for corruption’ Micha...

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Just have to say that the $Trump meme coin is a gift to all of us who are not fans of his. — It's just a matter of time until a lot of people lose money from this. — I'm a crypto fan. This is not crypto any more than Madoff was just buying and selling shares of stock

2025-01-21 View on X

Politico

CoinGecko: Trump's memecoin, with a ~$7.5B market cap, is around the 28th most valuable cryptocurrency; some in crypto call Official Trump a “horrible look”

Survey Bloomberg : What Are Memecoins and Why Did Trump Launch One? Callum Jones / The Guardian : Experts alarmed by Trumps' crypto meme coins: ‘America voted for corruption’ Micha...

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Just have to say that the $Trump meme coin is a gift to all of us who are not fans of his. — It's just a matter of time until a lot of people lose money from this. — I'm a crypto fan. This is not crypto any more than Madoff was just buying and selling shares of stock

2025-01-21 View on X

Noahpinion

How purchasing Trump's memecoin, of which he reportedly holds $50B+ at January 19 prices, could be used to buy favors without actually transferring him funds

Crypto is, in fact, about sending people money. — Financial disclosure: I hold a modest amount of BTC and ETH.

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If meme coins are the way, maybe I'll issue one. With a twist. Same terms as $TRUMP . 20% float. Same release schedule. One difference. All the revenue from the sale of the coins go to the US Treasury. The wallet address will be published so everyone can track it. If

2025-01-21 View on X

Noahpinion

How purchasing Trump's memecoin, of which he reportedly holds $50B+ at January 19 prices, could be used to buy favors without actually transferring him funds

Crypto is, in fact, about sending people money. — Financial disclosure: I hold a modest amount of BTC and ETH.

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What's the difference between a gov controlling an algorithm, silently eliminating reach for things it doesn't like? Vs the same gov using its power, to demand that the platform remove the things it doesn't like.? In China they say what apps can't do. With TikTok in the US, they influence, silence and control users algorithmically. They never see it coming.

2025-01-20 View on X

Axios

Donald Trump says he will sign an executive order on January 20 to delay enforcing the TikTok US ban and argues for a TikTok joint venture with 50% US ownership

Yes, Trump said he's “most likely” to give #TikTok 90-day extension. — No, that's not a legally available option. — The 270 days lapsed. An extension is no longer available (e...

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What's the difference between a gov controlling an algorithm, silently eliminating reach for things it doesn't like? Vs the same gov using its power, to demand that the platform remove the things it doesn't like.? In China they say what apps can't do. With TikTok in the US, they influence, silence and control users algorithmically. They never see it coming.

2025-01-20 View on X

The Verge

TikTok restores its service in the US, thanking Donald Trump for “the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties”

The company said this afternoon that it is “in the process of restoring service” and thanked President-elect Trump for …

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If you think only billionaires can control social media, You are absolutely wrong. Social media is completely dependent on its users. Think about why you do or did use FB, ThreadsTik tok or Twitter. It's because they have enough users. Take away all the “normies” and they all are worthless

2025-01-07 View on X

TechCrunch

Similarweb: US DAUs of Bluesky's mobile app grew 12% MoM in December vs. 284% MoM in November; Bluesky now has 26.44M+ total users after passing 20M in November

X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. — Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could b...

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x — X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. — Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app? — If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.

2025-01-07 View on X

TechCrunch

Similarweb: US DAUs of Bluesky's mobile app grew 12% MoM in December vs. 284% MoM in November; Bluesky now has 26.44M+ total users after passing 20M in November

X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. — Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could b...

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IF YOU BELIEVE THE MANY SHOULD HAVE CONTROL OVER THE FEW, this is your time. — As a decentralized platform, @bsky.app is probably the last, best chance for this to happen — This has nothing to do with me. I'm just stating the obvious. — It has everything to do with what the 1.2m @bsky.app users do.

2025-01-07 View on X

TechCrunch

Similarweb: US DAUs of Bluesky's mobile app grew 12% MoM in December vs. 284% MoM in November; Bluesky now has 26.44M+ total users after passing 20M in November

X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. — Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could b...

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In an AI world, where free online sources of information have already been used as training data, and new sources are being siloed, as owned IP, don't we need more people with varied expertise, including Liberal Arts, to contribute to models, to correct hallucinations, and to

2024-12-27 View on X

Politico

Tech lobbyists see new opportunities to expand access to high-skilled H-1B visas and green cards by leveraging the sway of Elon Musk over the GOP

A holiday blowup over immigration between Trump's tech advisers and the GOP base suggests the road may be littered with obstacles.

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How do you feel about people who say “college is over rated ?” In order to have more homegrown engineers, don't we need more kids going to college ?

2024-12-27 View on X

Politico

Tech lobbyists see new opportunities to expand access to high-skilled H-1B visas and green cards by leveraging the sway of Elon Musk over the GOP

A holiday blowup over immigration between Trump's tech advisers and the GOP base suggests the road may be littered with obstacles.

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How do you feel about people who say “college is over rated ?” In order to have more homegrown engineers, don't we need more kids going to college ?

2024-12-27 View on X

Noahpinion

How H-1B workers from India and other countries help the US remain dominant in tech, as some on the new “Tech Right” discover MAGA's racial-nationalist bigotry

Can't say I did not see this coming, tbh. — x.com/LauraLoomer/... @thetnholler : In-fighting : “The new MAGA coalition has officially had its first internal debate - over H-1b vi...

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In an AI world, where free online sources of information have already been used as training data, and new sources are being siloed, as owned IP, don't we need more people with varied expertise, including Liberal Arts, to contribute to models, to correct hallucinations, and to

2024-12-27 View on X

Noahpinion

How H-1B workers from India and other countries help the US remain dominant in tech, as some on the new “Tech Right” discover MAGA's racial-nationalist bigotry

Can't say I did not see this coming, tbh. — x.com/LauraLoomer/... @thetnholler : In-fighting : “The new MAGA coalition has officially had its first internal debate - over H-1b vi...

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Check out the new Trending Topics ! Let @bsky.app know what you think ! [image]

2024-12-26 View on X

TechCrunch

Bluesky launches a Trending Topics feature in beta on its desktop and mobile apps in English, and says users' muted words will transfer to Trending

Social network Bluesky said on Christmas that it is testing a trending topics view. The trending topics are visible both on the desktop …

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Congrats @realDonaldTrump. You won fair and square. Congrats to @elonmusk as well. #Godspeed

2024-11-07 View on X

New York Times

Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, and more quietly courted Trump before the election, laying the groundwork for improved Silicon Valley and DC relations

The executives of tech's biggest companies largely ignored Donald Trump before the 2016 election. This time around, they're far more friendly.

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