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2026-08-24

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X.com08/24, 22:17Business

Not AI: Around 80 Booster T2 humanoid robots marched and ran in synchronized formation at the...

Not AI: Around 80 Booster T2 humanoid robots marched and ran in synchronized formation at the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games opening ceremony in Beijing.

X.com08/24, 22:17Agent

My 8-agent Grok Bot floor went fully hands-off this week.

My 8-agent Grok Bot floor went fully hands-off this week. It hasn't asked for me since. The whole desk trades itself while I sleep. Not clickbait I stopped babysitting isolated prompts. I wired the entire floor into one org-chart and taught it once with a sing

X.com08/24, 22:17Business

Even great iOS developers ship apps that freeze.

Even great iOS developers ship apps that freeze. Most don’t realize the issue lives deep inside Swift Concurrency. Learn how to fix the root cause in my free 5-day email course

X.com08/24, 22:17Business

A robot just out-jumped the human high jump world record that has stood untouched since 1993 ...

A robot just out-jumped the human high jump world record that has stood untouched since 1993 From a standing position it cleared 288 centimeters, almost 2.9 meters The human record is 2.45, set by Javier Sotomayor 33 years ago A machine just beat the highest l

X.com08/24, 22:17Business

You can’t trade energy properly if you’re not watching the weather.

You can’t trade energy properly if you’re not watching the weather. This free tool combines WTI, Brent, NatGas, refined products, EIA storage vs 5-yr avg, degree days & weather anomalies + AI summary. Built for finance students and individual investors who hat

X.com08/24, 22:17Business

Create your own magical bathroom We asked AI to design a dreamy shower room for every zodiac ...

Create your own magical bathroom We asked AI to design a dreamy shower room for every zodiac sign Which one is yours? Drop your sign in comment #Framia #Framiapro #Convergeai #aiasmr #aigenerated

X.com08/24, 22:17Business

A judge got an unexpected close-up at the robot long-jump contest!

A judge got an unexpected close-up at the robot long-jump contest! He was minding his own business when a robot suddenly barreled toward his spot. Watch how quickly he jumped out of the danger zone. #RobotContest #ChinaTech

X.com08/24, 21:47Business

Japan just demonstrated how @Starlink can save lives during disasters Maizuru City simulated ...

Japan just demonstrated how @Starlink can save lives during disasters Maizuru City simulated a landslide that blocked access to local homes. Firefighters flew a drone into an unsafe area, then used Starlink to stream live HD video and audio from an area with p

X.com08/24, 21:47Business

Optimus just loaded a washing machine.

Optimus just loaded a washing machine. Picking up clothes, handling them carefully, and putting them inside — all on its own. No teleoperation. No cheat cuts. Just a humanoid robot learning how to do one of the most boring chores for us. The future isn’t comin

X.com08/24, 21:47Business

What does it take for an AI to stay useful when a task lasts for hours—or weeks—and the world...

What does it take for an AI to stay useful when a task lasts for hours—or weeks—and the world keeps changing? Goals evolve. New constraints appear. Plans fail. Meet dots3-note Preview, an open-weight multimodal model developed by rednote’s dots studio @dotsstu

X.com08/24, 21:47Business

THE AI ROBOT WAS SUPPOSED TO FILL THE CAR - INSTEAD, IT KEPT PUMPING GAS UNTIL FUEL STARTED P...

THE AI ROBOT WAS SUPPOSED TO FILL THE CAR - INSTEAD, IT KEPT PUMPING GAS UNTIL FUEL STARTED POURING ONTO THE GROUND. AND THE CRAZIEST PART? IT JUST STOOD THERE LIKE NOTHING WAS WRONG. This was supposed to be a glimpse into the future of fully autonomous gas st

X.com08/24, 21:47Business

i gave Grok bot one instruction: build a fully playable 3D cel-shaded water racing game from ...

i gave Grok bot one instruction: build a fully playable 3D cel-shaded water racing game from scratch directly in WebGL, with zero human intervention most AI coding demos generate static landing pages or broken canvas scripts that crash on the first interaction

X.com08/24, 21:47Agent

Replit President Michele Catasta on coding agents: "I think the shortest possible summary is ...

Replit President Michele Catasta on coding agents: "I think the shortest possible summary is autonomy" 24 minutes of Replit's President explaining how a coding agent does useful work for 10–15 minutes at a time Users can stop or redirect the agent in chat duri

X.com08/24, 21:47Business

Humanoid robots are learning the hard way that obstacle courses are unforgiving.

Humanoid robots are learning the hard way that obstacle courses are unforgiving. At the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, this robot has to navigate ramps, barriers and tight sections while staying balanced and recovering when things go wrong. That is wha

X.com08/24, 21:47Business

𝗔 𝗯𝗼𝗺𝗯 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗲.

𝗔 𝗯𝗼𝗺𝗯 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗲. 𝗧𝘄𝗼 𝗽𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝗽𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿. The link is two words: 𝗛𝘆𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝗿. This month, an explosive drone was found a

X.com08/24, 21:47Business

Tired of the same old #AI-generated images?

Tired of the same old #AI-generated images? Come and truly breathe in the real beauty of #Sichuan! #IndulgeinSichuan #VisitSichuan #sichuan

X.com08/24, 19:47Research

A night research desk at a hedge fund runs $294K a year.

A night research desk at a hedge fund runs $294K a year. I rebuilt one on 6 Grok Bots for $2.4K a year. 122× cheaper, literally At 23:30 I fire the swarm: 5 collectors + 1 chief. While I sleep, they sweep 100 tickers, parse 913 filings, read 87 transcripts, co

X.com08/24, 19:47Business

DIY your own childhood game demo!

DIY your own childhood game demo! If you could make a game for your younger self, what would it be? With HappyOyster, turn your childhood imagination into your own interactive game demo!

X.com08/24, 19:47Business

ANTHROPIC LEAKED A 6-LOOP SETUP THAT TAKES 90% OF YOUR WORK OFF YOU IN 10 MINUTES the blank p...

ANTHROPIC LEAKED A 6-LOOP SETUP THAT TAKES 90% OF YOUR WORK OFF YOU IN 10 MINUTES the blank page is the most expensive way to work - and it's where you start every single time. 6 loops take the search, the filtering, the drafting and the remembering - what's l

X.com08/24, 19:47Agent

Andrej Karpathy and his 1 hour masterclass at Stanford "Delete everything Keep Graph" He expl...

Andrej Karpathy and his 1 hour masterclass at Stanford "Delete everything Keep Graph" He explains that LLM itself is only 10% of the stack and agents barely get you to half, but full 100% comes down to message passing across directed graphs While most people f

X.com08/24, 19:47Agent

Anthropic engineer: "Don’t trust your agent to never fail.

Anthropic engineer: "Don’t trust your agent to never fail. Make the first mistake recoverable and make 95% of the potential damage unreachable. We learned this after an agent confidently did the wrong thing ~200 times in 90 seconds." In this talk, he reveals h

X.com08/24, 19:47Agent

most people testing K3 Agent Swarm ask it for a landing page and call it a demo...

most people testing K3 Agent Swarm ask it for a landing page and call it a demo... this one asked for a working database, real filters, and launch docs, and that's where it actually gets interesting| here's what 300 agents building a real product looked like,

X.com08/24, 19:47Business

$2.9 MILLION AMERICAN HANDS JUST ASKED FOR ANOTHER CLAMP.

$2.9 MILLION AMERICAN HANDS JUST ASKED FOR ANOTHER CLAMP. The incision stayed stable. Vital signs within normal parameters. No tremor. No fatigue. No second thoughts. Human surgeons in blue scrubs stood back and watched the machine finish the cut. • Laser guid

X.com08/24, 19:47Business

Super interesting test by @atomic_chat_hq Shows that more quantization precision does not aut...

Super interesting test by @atomic_chat_hq Shows that more quantization precision does not automatically produce the better result. Here, Qwen 3.8 27B Q8 (8-bit quantized version of the model) sometimes matched or beat Q4 (4-bit quantized) on the same voxel tas

X.com08/24, 19:47Business

Install AnySearch into DeepSeek Harness using just two commands.

Install AnySearch into DeepSeek Harness using just two commands. Before you begin, make sure you have Node.js 22.19+ or Node.js 24+ and pnpm 11.7 installed. Ensure that node, npx, and pnpm are available directly from your terminal. The same installation comman

X.com08/24, 19:34Business

HE COULD NOT FEEL HIS LEGS.

HE COULD NOT FEEL HIS LEGS. THEN THEY STRAPPED A ROBOT TO HIS BODY AND MADE WALKING POSSIBLE AGAIN. This is not a humanoid replacing a worker. It is a machine wrapped around a person, giving movement back to a body that could not do it alone. The first steps l

X.com08/24, 19:34Business

THIS IS F**KING GOLD A YouTube channel with fewer than 5,000 subscribers generated $10,891 in...

THIS IS F**KING GOLD A YouTube channel with fewer than 5,000 subscribers generated $10,891 in its first 90 days after Claude Code found the niche. The opportunity was visible before the channel even launched. Claude Code analyzed YouTube data and uncovered Red

X.com08/24, 19:34Business

Our latest work investigates conditions under which large language models attempt to mislead ...

Our latest work investigates conditions under which large language models attempt to mislead users or evaluators — and what that means for safe deployment at scale.

X.com08/24, 19:34Business

ANTHROPIC LEAKED A $3.4M FILE THAT BUILDS AN AI BUSINESS AIMED AT $120K A MONTH IN 60 MINUTES...

ANTHROPIC LEAKED A $3.4M FILE THAT BUILDS AN AI BUSINESS AIMED AT $120K A MONTH IN 60 MINUTES AND COSTS $1.55 A DAY team of 5 costs $12,000 a month - this file costs $1.55 a day and never asks for a standup. the whole thing runs on one rule: the cheap model tr

X.com08/24, 19:34Business

Created this vlogging shot in @eachlabs with ByteDance Seedance 2.5.

Created this vlogging shot in @eachlabs with ByteDance Seedance 2.5. The realism, camera movement, and transitions came out surprisingly smooth. AI video is getting seriously good. Prompt: Create a 30-second ultra-realistic cinematic travel vlog featuring a yo

X.com08/24, 19:34Agent

Grok Bot is running an IT studio for me.

Grok Bot is running an IT studio for me. $200 a month, six AI agents, one router, and a mailbox that never stops that's the whole business. it's been a people business for thirty years > LEAD reads the ticket, decides who takes it, never writes code > FRONTEND

X.com08/24, 19:34Business

MAGICMARKETS IS SOLVING A PROBLEM SPORTS TRADERS KNOW TOO WELL You find a market ->then you c...

MAGICMARKETS IS SOLVING A PROBLEM SPORTS TRADERS KNOW TOO WELL You find a market ->then you check another platform ->then another one different prices, different liquidity, different balances @magicmarkets takes a different approach by bringing liquidity from

X.com08/24, 19:34Business

One Robot.

One Robot. Fifty Tiny Problems. Gone. That is the real promise of a home humanoid. Not one dramatic task. A thousand small ones. Vacuuming the car. Carrying things upstairs. Watering plants. Sorting laundry. Cleaning up the kitchen. Running the errands nobody

X.com08/24, 19:34Business

This Is What Your Future Gardener Will Look Like A humanoid grabs a hedge trimmer and starts ...

This Is What Your Future Gardener Will Look Like A humanoid grabs a hedge trimmer and starts doing one of those jobs homeowners pay for again and again. Trim the bushes. Clear the leaves. Water the plants. Repeat a few weeks later. Professional yard care can e

X.com08/24, 19:34Business

Europe's AI rules and China's agility offer mutual lessons in AI development, says professor ...

Europe's AI rules and China's agility offer mutual lessons in AI development, says professor China and Europe each have something to learn from the other in artificial intelligence, according to Lampros Stergioulas, UNESCO chair in artificial intelligence and

X.com08/24, 19:34Business

Can an AI trained on pop songs and podcasts hear the tree of life in whale calls?

Can an AI trained on pop songs and podcasts hear the tree of life in whale calls? - https:// voxel51.com/blog/whale-son g-embeddings-fiftyone … Turns out… pretty much, yes. General-purpose audio models like CLAP and AST — never trained on a single animal sound

X.com08/24, 19:34Business

Back in 1999, while teaching English in central #China's Henan Province, #Sakolsky was deeply...

Back in 1999, while teaching English in central #China's Henan Province, #Sakolsky was deeply moved by Yin's tireless work and raised $5,000 to help Yin and her husband combat desertification in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Today, the saplin

X.com08/24, 19:34Business

Bookmark this.

Bookmark this. Google's Willow quantum chip just solved a problem in 5 minutes that would take the world's fastest classical supercomputer 10 septillion years. That is more time than the universe has existed, times a quadrillion. Sundar Pichai confirmed on rec

X.com08/24, 19:34Agent

What does it take to move AI agents from pilot to production?

What does it take to move AI agents from pilot to production? Alex Salazar joins Microsoft for Startups Director Heena Purohit for #FounderFriday to share how @TryArcade is helping enterprises securely connect AI agents to the tools they need to take action. T

X.com08/24, 19:34Business

How do two separate encoders end up speaking the same language?

How do two separate encoders end up speaking the same language? Want to learn more and go deeper? Visit - http:// courses.vizuara.ai

X.com08/24, 19:34Infrastructure

Jane Street can pay a 22-year-old $500K+ a year for a skill you can start learning for free.

Jane Street can pay a 22-year-old $500K+ a year for a skill you can start learning for free. It’s knowing how to put a number on uncertainty. Mrityunjoy Chakraborty, a professor at IIT Kharagpur, has a free lecture series on probability that starts from the ax