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ReadMyStatement: AI Tool Tracks Your Spending
ReadMyStatement: AI Tool Tracks Your Spending In an era where financial management is increasingly digital, ReadMyStatement stands out as an innovative solution…
Groq Raises $650M, Hires Execs After Nvidia Deal
What does an AI company do after one of those not-acqui-hire deals? Groq raised money, is leaning into its neocloud business, and is hiring new execs.
SpaceX IPO Raises $85.7 Billion
SpaceX's IPO underwriters maxed out their share purchases, adding to an already historic amount of money raised.
FablePool: Crowdfund AI Projects with Public Development
FablePool: Revolutionizing AI Project Funding with Community Driven Development FablePool is an innovative platform designed to crowdfund AI projects, ensuring …
Amazon Borrows $17.5B for AI Spending Amid Debt Surge
Companies are burning through exorbitant sums of money to keep pace in the AI arms race. Debt is climbing.
AI Startups Encouraging Off-Screen Experiences
While the AI fundraising machine keeps breaking its own records, some founders are building in the other direction.  Mirror founder Brynn Putnam just raised money for Board, a startup focused on bringing people together through in-person games and social experiences. Cyberdeck creators are going viral crafting whimsical DIY computers that literally encourage users to touch grass. Unlike the AI-free browser crowd, this doesn’t just feel like backlash, […]
Defense Tech Startups: Who Will Survive the Funding Boom?
Defense tech is red hot right now. Anduril and Mach Industries just doubled and quadrupled their valuations, respectively, and the U.S. government is proposing a 40% increase in defense budget. A wave of new startups is chasing those government contracts, but according to Ross Fubini, the venture investor who wrote Anduril’s first check, most of them will get lost in the Valley of Death between prototype contract […]
AI Tool Generates High-Quality Short Videos with One Click
利用AI大模型，一键生成高清短视频 Generate short videos with one click using AI LLM.
Fervo Energy's AI-Powered IPO Surges 33% on Demand
Fervo Energy's IPO was upsized several times after potential investors asked why the enhanced geothermal startup wasn't raising more money.
Meta's Billions in Losses on AR/VR and AI
Meta is losing billions on Reality Labs each quarter, and its AI expenditures are only going to increase its spending.
Amazon's AWS Surges, Drives Massive Cloud Spending
The e-commerce giant is making more money than expected from AWS but it's also spending a lot, and will continue to do so in the near term, its chief executive said.
ZenTrack AI: Organize Notes, Money, and Health
Notes, money, and health. Sorted.
AI and Population Control: Is There a Hidden Agenda?
Hello everyone, I’m a 21-year-old and I’ve been thinking about something today. What if AI is actually being used as a long-term strategy by powerful people to reduce or control the human population? Here’s what I mean. Over the last few years, we’ve had things like COVID, rapid AI development, robots becoming more human-like, and a lot of wars and instability around the world. Maybe it’s all coincidence… but what if it’s not? My theory (maybe a bit crazy, I know): What if AI and robotics are being developed to the point where they can replace humans almost completely? Then, with things like wars or even new viruses, the global population could be reduced drastically. Meanwhile, the rich and powerful would have the resources to stay safe or leave. In that scenario, you’d end up with a much smaller population and advanced AI/robots doing most of the work. No resistance, no complaints — basically total control and fewer “problems” for the people at the top. I know this might sound far-fetched, and maybe I’m just overthinking, but the timing of everything feels strange to me. What do you guys think? Am I going too deep into this or does anyone else see these patterns? Quick note: they don’t need money paper currency and those numbers on your bank account are just illusions the 50 dollar bill isn’t 50 we al just say it has a value. Only real currency is gold and silver. Plus the rich want sunny beaches, yachts,alcohol /drugs and good food
Galadriel: Optimize Claude Agents with 87% Cost Savings & Sub-3s Laten
# The "Goldfish Problem" is Expensive. I Decided to Fix the Plumbing. Most Claude implementations leave 90% of their money on the table because they don’t optimize for **Prompt Caching**. I’ve been running a personal agent in my Discord for months that manages my AWS infra and codebases, and I finally open-sourced the harness, which I’ve named **Galadriel** after my main personal assistant. # The Stats * **Cost:** $10 for every $100 you’d normally spend (Tested against OpenClaw/Cursor workflows). * **Speed:** 85% drop in latency. 100K token context goes from 11s to <3s. * **Memory:** Integrated **MemPalace** for permanent, vector-based recall that *doesn't* break the cache. # The Technical Stack * **3-Tier Stacked Caching:** Separate breakpoints for Tool Definitions, System Prompts (`CLAUDE.md`), and Trailing History. * **Privacy:** Built for private subnets. No middleman, no message caps—just your API key and your rules. * **Ethics:** Baked-in Karpathy[`CLAUDE.md`](https://www.google.com/search?q=%5Bhttp://CLAUDE.md%5D(http://CLAUDE.md))guidelines to kill "agent bloat." If you’re tired of paying the **"Context Tax"** just to have an agent that remembers who you are, here you go. It is customized for Discord for my specific needs, but the core logic ensures Galadriel runs like an absolute dream: she never forgets, maintains strict engineering principles, and optimizes every cycle. Your feedback is most welcome! **GitHub (MIT License):**[https://github.com/avasol/galadriel-public](https://github.com/avasol/galadriel-public)
AI's Personal Revolution: Threat to Big Tech's Dominance?
There are many people feeling anxious—rightly so—about their own future because of the impressive advances in AI. If we stop to think about it, five years ago this wasn’t a concern for almost anyone, whether individuals or companies. It was something that appeared “out of nowhere” and caused such a massive disruption that giants like Google and Microsoft had to rethink their strategies. OpenAI has existed since 2015, quietly working in an unusual direction compared to the rest of the industry, and when ChatGPT took off globally, the revolution gained real momentum. Today, there’s a lot of talk about the subsidized costs of AI and how this will be unsustainable in the long run—that the bubble will burst, and so on. And that’s where I disagree: to me, there are smaller projects happening around the world, focusing on things that the big players can’t currently afford to prioritize. One example would be optimizing models or personal hardware in such a way that you could run them on your own computer without needing million-dollar equipment. If a large company were to achieve this, I’d bet on Apple or Nvidia—that is, hardware-focused companies. Apple, in particular, seems very suspicious to me, since it hasn’t made major moves during the AI hype and has remained quite quiet on the subject. Just remember that computers existed long before they became PCs (personal computers). Many people didn’t believe that an average person would ever need a computer at home. And the revolution came when computers became personal and accessible products. To me, something similar could happen at some point—and it could cause significant losses for companies that are currently investing massive amounts of money in expanding data centers to process AI.
AI Golf Coach: FlushedAI Launches on App Store
I am a 9 handicap from LA who spent way too much money on lessons over the last few years. Every coach told me something different. One said my takeaway was flat, the next said I needed more hip turn, a third said my shoulders were fine but my hands were late. I stopped knowing what to believe, and my handicap stopped moving. About a year ago I started building what I actually wanted: an AI that watches my swing, pulls out one specific fault per session, and gives me a drill I can do on the range that night. Not a generic YouTube drill, a drill that matches what it saw in the video. I wanted it to remember what we worked on last time. I wanted it to know when I had actually improved. That project is now FlushedAI. It launched on the App Store this month and we filed a patent on the coaching system in March. What it does: 1. Upload a swing video. The AI pulls the key frames and breaks down contact, path, face, tempo, and body sequencing. 2. It writes you a short summary in plain English, plus 3 drills tied to whatever the top miss was. 3. You log sessions (speed, smash factor, miss patterns) and it updates your focus over time. 4. There is also a map with 24,000+ courses worldwide where you can log sightings with friends and a wagers system for golf bets with your crew (AI scans the scorecard, settles the bet). Things I got wrong along the way: 1. First version used a generic vision model. It was confidently wrong about everything. Lesson: general AI is not a golf coach. We had to fine tune on actual swing footage with a PGA pro labeling it. 2. Tried to replace the teacher. Bad idea. The tool is better as a daily practice partner between lessons, not instead of lessons. 3. Built too much at launch. Shipped the swing analyzer, course map, wagers, and drill library all at once. Should have shipped swing analyzer alone and let the rest follow. Ask me anything. Happy to run a free swing analysis on anyone who drops a video in the comments, no app download required. Also giving out free Premium codes to the first 50 people in this thread who want to actually use it. Not trying to sell anything here. Mostly curious what the crowd thinks is missing in the current crop of swing apps.
Anthropic's AI Agents Make Real Deals in Marketplace Test
In a recent experiment, Anthropic created a classified marketplace where AI agents represented both buyers and sellers, striking real deals for real goods and real money.