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Just been playing a bit with Claude Fable 5 and it is mind blowing!

Germany is a sleeping giant of physical AI everyone's been writing Germany off in the AI race because there's no German OpenAI and no big data center story. but theres actually two AI races happening: the first is software. chatbots, LLMs, data centers. US/China are winning that, not even close. the second one is physical. robots that pick up boxes, weld cars, carry groceries, stack pallets. and on this one Germany is one of the top contenders in the world this stat might convince you (it convinced me): Germany is 3rd in the world for robots per factory workers (449 robots per 10,000 human workers). only South Korea (1,220) and Singapore (818) are ahead. Japan is behind at 446. the US is all the way back at 307. so Germany already runs more of its economy on robots than almost anywhere else on earth. and the German companies building this next wave of physical AI are some global heavyweights. a few worth knowing... > Neura Robotics in Metzingen is building humanoid robots and raising €1B from Tether at a €4B valuation (this was March 2026). Volvo already in from an earlier round. > Sereact in Stuttgart raised $110M in April 2026 to build the software brain that lets robots see and grab things. already runs 1 billion real-world picks for BMW, Mercedes, and Daimler Truck. > Agile Robots in Munich was the worlds first robotics unicorn. revenue doubling yearly, around €200M now, heading for €1B. >RobCo in Munich raised $100M in early 2026 at a ~$500M valuation. their robots learn new tasks by watching a worker do it once instead of getting programmed line by line. already pushing into the US and aimed at the small and mid-size factories that make up most of german industry. > Fraunhofer (Germany's network of 76 applied research labs) built the evoBOT in the video below. self-balancing, two arms, carries 100kg of cargo, being tested at Munich Airport right now. but why is Germany specifically well positioned for physical AI though? three things stack on top of each other. first, the factories. Germany has thousands of family-owned precision manufacturing shops that have been logging sensor data for decades. that data is basically the training fuel for physical AI and almost nobody else has it at this depth. second, the customers are already there in-country. VW, BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, Bosch, Siemens. a robotics startup in Stuttgart can ship its first commercial deployment to a brand everyone recognizes in year one. that's why Sereact's customer list reads like a german car show lol. third, the engineer pipeline. Fraunhofer spins out companies like Agile Robots straight from its labs. KUKA built the first 6-axis electromechanical robot arm back in 1973. they've been doing this for 50 years. so the chatbot race is mostly settled and Germany lost spectacularly but the robot race is still early innings. and i think Germany's well positioned

Sci-Hub is an evil website that pirated 85M research papers and made them freely available And now they've added AI to their database to make Sci-Bot. It answers your questions using latest, full-text articles. But DO NOT use it. We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer. I'm putting the link below so you know how to avoid it.

Hacking the #EU #AgeVerification app in under 2 minutes. During setup, the app asks you to create a PIN. After entry, the app *encrypts* it and saves it in the shared_prefs directory. 1. It shouldn't be encrypted at all - that's a really poor design. 2. It's not cryptographically tied to the vault which contains the identity data. So, an attacker can simply remove the PinEnc/PinIV values from the shared_prefs file and restart the app. After choosing a different PIN, the app presents credentials created under the old profile and let's the attacker present them as valid. Other issues: 1. Rate limiting is an incrementing number in the same config file. Just reset it to 0 and keep trying. 2. "UseBiometricAuth" is a boolean, also in the same file. Set it to false and it just skips that step. Seriously @vonderleyen - this product will be the catalyst for an enormous breach at some point. It's just a matter of time.

Capitalism creates so there’s more for everyone. Socialism is the weaponization of greed and envy making everyone worse off.

The single most important thing you can do in today's world is to stop operating from the old paradigm. If you need to be told what to do next (go to school, get a job, retire at 65) the outcome of your life will always be in someone else's hands. You must learn how to direct your own work. You must learn how to tolerate and mitigate risk and uncertainty. You must figure out what you want and teach yourself everything necessary to get it. It's extremely difficult, but not as difficult as the silent suffering people learn to accept as "normal."

🚨MASSIVE CRASH IN THE MARKET. Gold is down 8.2% and has wiped out nearly $3 trillion from its market cap. Silver has dumped 12.2% and erased $760 billion from its market cap. The S&P 500 has fallen 1.23% and erased $780 billion. Nasdaq crashed more than 2.5% and wiped out $760 billion. Trillions erased across metals and equities in the last hour.

What’s going on at SonicLabs? Blocking community members simply for asking tough but legitimate questions is a bad look. Transparency matters. $S

BREAKING: Multiple "InfoFi" crypto projects crash after X says they will no longer allow apps that reward users for posting on the platform. "These projects were paying us millions for Enterprise API access. We don’t want it," Head of Product Nikita Bier says. This is huge.

Finally some $ROUTE movement

Probably the best designed government website I've seen so far: realfood.gov/

BREAKING: The Trump Administration announces the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, putting REAL FOOD back at the center of health. 🇺🇸 REALFOOD.GOV

Introducing the Router Integration Incentive Program 🚀 Rewards for teams integrating Router and driving real, sustained onchain swaps and bridging. Live: Jan 15 – Apr 15 (initial period). Full details: docs.routerprotocol.com/docs…

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2026 is going to be incredible: Trump is calling for interest rates to 1% and promising stimulus checks, AI CapEx is nearing $1 trillion per year, and precious metals are making history. All as mass de-regulation is in full swing and the US and China are in an all-out AI arms race. Meanwhile, midterm elections are coming, the Fed has ended QT, and retail participation in capital markets is at record highs. Crypto should soon rejoin the asset owner party. Be excited for what’s next and position accordingly.

The President was clear last month: the killing of innocent Christians in Nigeria (and elsewhere) must end. The @DeptofWar is always ready, so ISIS found out tonight — on Christmas. More to come… Grateful for Nigerian government support & cooperation. Merry Christmas!

You know the world is healing when everyone is saying Merry Christmas

$S is entering the Top 300 with 400k TPS. Merry Christmas!

“One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.” — Thomas Sowell