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2026-08-20

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X.com08/20, 23:17Business

SENDING HUMANOIDS TO SPACE IS EASY.

SENDING HUMANOIDS TO SPACE IS EASY. MAKING SURE THEY DON’T BECOME DEAD SHELLS IS THE HARD PART. The idea of using humanoids in space isn’t new. The real challenge is testing them for what actually waits there: radiation, extreme temperatures, low gravity, dust

X.com08/20, 23:17Safety

Many people miss the bigger picture.

Many people miss the bigger picture. Policy cannot be applied to only one company/project. What's good for one is good for the rest of the industry.

X.com08/20, 23:17Business

We need 5 companies to break our product.

We need 5 companies to break our product. We’re giving 5 companies Lilidi Twin FREE for 30 days. $179 value 500 video-call minutes Your own AI employee Sales, meetings, support & follow-ups You use it with real customers. We get brutally honest feedback. $0. N

X.com08/20, 23:17Business

I turned this outfit into a Spider-Hero campaign in minutes.

I turned this outfit into a Spider-Hero campaign in minutes. The template lets you upload an avatar and the clothing you want featured, making it perfect for personal transformations or fashion-brand promotion. Best part: it is 100% free. Try it for free on th

X.com08/20, 23:17Business

You can dream up any trading idea, describe it in one sentence, and in 60 seconds see how muc...

You can dream up any trading idea, describe it in one sentence, and in 60 seconds see how much it would have made over the last 5 years No code. No Python. No formulas You write it in plain words: "buy when price breaks the monthly high, sell at -5%." The AI t

X.com08/20, 23:17Infrastructure

GamerHash AI lets you generate videos, images, and chat responses on your own GPU.

GamerHash AI lets you generate videos, images, and chat responses on your own GPU. Everything runs locally, so there's nothing to pay and no one watching over your shoulder. But your GPU has a second trick. Flip on the Earn Module when you're done creating. De

X.com08/20, 23:17Business

this is absolutely insane!

this is absolutely insane! This guy claims he can make $20,000 in 30 days using nothing but his phone and he breaks down the entire process in under 60 seconds. The setup is surprisingly simple: YouTube Swagga Sora AI No video editor He shows how the whole wor

X.com08/20, 23:17Business

Fei-Fei Li pushes back on Silicon Valley's "god complex" and explains why tech CEOs shouldn't...

Fei-Fei Li pushes back on Silicon Valley's "god complex" and explains why tech CEOs shouldn't decide the future of AI alone, with @emilychangtv on The Circuit https:// bloom.bg/4xXjs3X

X.com08/20, 23:17Business

Speaking on Odd Lots with @TheStalwart and @TracyAlloway , philosopher Nick Bostrom breaks do...

Speaking on Odd Lots with @TheStalwart and @TracyAlloway , philosopher Nick Bostrom breaks down why the most likely AI future isn't a simple binary, but a world where what we value today transforms into something entirely unfamiliar. Listen wherever you get yo

X.com08/20, 23:17Business

you told it to double check its work that is the line making it worse current models verify w...

you told it to double check its work that is the line making it worse current models verify without being asked, so your instruction lands on top of behaviour that already happened, and what you get is the same task run twice, billed twice, reported at twice t

X.com08/20, 23:17Research

Can a specialized AI replace a traditional analytical terminal?

Can a specialized AI replace a traditional analytical terminal? Generic LLMs fail at market research because they guess from stale training data. I tried @BasedOneX 's Infinity again with a harder prompt: "Break down NVDA: how close is it to its ATH, what’s dr

X.com08/20, 23:17Business

this feels illegal everyone is still arguing about whether Grok Bot is worth $300, and i alre...

this feels illegal everyone is still arguing about whether Grok Bot is worth $300, and i already handed my Shopify store to six bots 5 days ago and have not touched it since it's called Grok Bot. one watches stock and reprices, one writes the listings and push

X.com08/20, 23:17Agent

36.2% turns into roughly 72% if you forgive a single criterion.

36.2% turns into roughly 72% if you forgive a single criterion. same runs, same models, one rubric line relaxed. which tells you exactly what those failures are made of. THE AGENT DOES ALMOST THE WHOLE JOB. IT MISSES THE ONE THING THE POLICY EXISTED FOR. the p

X.com08/20, 23:17Business

A 2-day task shouldn't take 3 weeks to ship.

A 2-day task shouldn't take 3 weeks to ship. Most of the delay isn't the work. It's the handoffs. Brief → design → approval → dev → QA → revisions. We built Faltive to remove that waiting. Design + development. One prioritized queue. Most standard work shipped

X.com08/20, 23:17Business

Tec-Do has completed a new financing round Led by Huatai-General Atlantic, the round includes...

Tec-Do has completed a new financing round Led by Huatai-General Atlantic, the round includes participation from Forebright Capital, GAC Capital, GSR United Capital, and other investors. The financing reflects leading investors' growing confidence in Tec-Do’s

X.com08/20, 22:33Business

Could they tell the difference?

Could they tell the difference? We invited Southeast Asian media to test NGP on our L03 – then put them in a Turing test to guess who's driving. Smooth. Natural. Human-like. Was it AI or a human driver? Watch to find out. $XPEV

X.com08/20, 22:33Research

Most AI benchmarks test retrieval — can a model find the known answer?

Most AI benchmarks test retrieval — can a model find the known answer? However, the hardest problems in science require discovery, can a system earn an answer nobody has yet? Meet TRACES — the world's first benchmark for measuring discoverative AI: AI that can

X.com08/20, 22:33Agent

So much great work is coming on the memory layer of AI.

So much great work is coming on the memory layer of AI. And this looks like super close to fixing the part of gmail i hate most. @getlindy 's new Chrome extension moves the AI agent assistant right into my Gmail itself. Removs the need to switch to a separate

X.com08/20, 22:33Business

It's very easy to detect when a GTA 6 leak is real or not The camera movements AI videos keep...

It's very easy to detect when a GTA 6 leak is real or not The camera movements AI videos keep messing up the camera movements and make them too random

X.com08/20, 22:33Business

Most Mac users are still fighting their tools instead of using them.

Most Mac users are still fighting their tools instead of using them. Here are the six apps that quietly separate people who get work done from everyone else. Obsidian Your notes are plain text. Future-proof. Actually connected. It’s not a notes app. It’s a sys

X.com08/20, 22:33Business

Congrats to the @CallosumAI team on their $100M Seed round!

Congrats to the @CallosumAI team on their $100M Seed round! They're building the orchestration layer for heterogeneous compute — routing AI workloads across diverse silicon, including AWS Trainium, to unlock better performance and efficiency than any single ch

X.com08/20, 22:33Business

THEY MADE AN AI DEVICE FOR $99 NOW IT MAKES $100 MILLION A YEAR.

THEY MADE AN AI DEVICE FOR $99 NOW IT MAKES $100 MILLION A YEAR. Pocket is a small AI recorder that attaches to your smartphone. You press one button and it: records the conversation recognizes who said what makes a transcript creates a short summary finds you

X.com08/20, 22:33Business

In scientific discovery, the answer is often not hidden, it simply does not exist yet.

In scientific discovery, the answer is often not hidden, it simply does not exist yet. So 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗦 doesn't grade against an answer key. It scores the investigation. Today, the first three letters, each with one experiment behind it: T — one harness's entir

X.com08/20, 22:33Business

Spanish filmmaker explores how AI is changing filmmaking in China When Spanish filmmaker Larr...

Spanish filmmaker explores how AI is changing filmmaking in China When Spanish filmmaker Larry Levene arrived at Versatile Media's virtual production studios, about an hour by train from Shanghai, he was not simply stepping onto a film set. He was entering a p

X.com08/20, 22:33Agent

ETH Zurich put LLM agent groups in consensus games.

ETH Zurich put LLM agent groups in consensus games. With no adversaries at all, only 41.6% of runs ended in valid consensus. Add one saboteur and it gets worse. Agreement between agents is probabilistic. Settlement has to be deterministic: https:// agent-dashb

X.com08/20, 22:33Business

The autumn breeze lifts the red leaves; they dance in the air and turn the whole season into ...

The autumn breeze lifts the red leaves; they dance in the air and turn the whole season into a poem. - generated on Everlyn in 13.4 seconds

X.com08/20, 22:33Business

A Graphic Novel that's unlike anything you've ever read!

A Graphic Novel that's unlike anything you've ever read! Read Chapter 1-5 for FREE today! No ADs, no AI, no BS. Pure Indie Passion!

X.com08/20, 22:33Business

Tesla Optimus, a mountain of candy.

Tesla Optimus, a mountain of candy. How does a prototype enter a human ritual? This kind of scene matters because it puts technology inside a familiar ritual. People know how to approach, what to expect and why the robot is there. The machine earns attention b

OpenAI08/20, 08:00Infrastructure

Replit expands access to software creation with GPT-5.6 Luna

Replit introduces Free Mode, powered by GPT-5.6 Luna, so anyone can turn ideas into working software without worrying about token costs.

OpenAI08/20, 08:00Business

ChatGPT Ads expands across Europe

ChatGPT Ads is expanding to 31 European markets. Learn how advertisers can reach people as they explore, compare options, and make decisions.

OpenAI08/20, 08:00Safety

Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models

OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers and previews Private Safety Processing for advanced AI safety without compromising data privacy.