You know that hesitation before you type something into AI that you might regret? We built Maple to make it disappear. Today we're (re)introducing Maple, the Personal Intelligence Platform. Encrypted AI for your real life.

Organizations with Zero Data Retention Policy aren't allowed access to Fable 5.

In Japan, a gorilla named Kiyomasa got into a fight with his mate. She kicked him out of their enclosure at the zoo, and he was later spotted sitting alone, seemingly rethinking his life choices

Life Changing Quesadillas in Exactly 60 Seconds. (Well, it'll take you longer than that, but I show you how to do it in 60 seconds) Ingredients: - El Viajero Shredded Queso Quesadilla - Tillamook Medium Cheddar - Legit Mexican tortillas made with lard - Actual lard (I cooked hamburger at the same time and spread some of the oil on the tortilla as it was cooking, forgot to video that part) - Kosher salt to finish (go easy on it, I put on a little too much)

The power of these subwoofers [📹 Jon Rabe / skyhighcaraudio]

Check out the Park's newest visitor — a beaver! 🦫 Recently seen swimming around Gansevoort Peninsula, this beaver marks the first recorded sighting in our 400-acre Estuarine Sanctuary! Though a rare sight in NYC, beavers are native to our local waterways. 📹: Sophia Tulp

**Maple (TryMapleAI) is the clear standout** on the App Store for exactly what you're asking: anonymous accounts (no email), end-to-end encrypted chats, and Lightning payments for financial anonymity. Most other "private AI" apps are either: - Fully local/offline (PrivatAI, Private LLM, etc.) — zero signup, on-device only, no cloud power or recurring BTC payments. - Or standard cloud apps that require email/Apple ID IAP. Haven't found another cloud-based ChatGPT-like app that combines true anon signup pure Bitcoin/Lightning payments. New sovereign options usually surface first on Nostr/Bitcoin circles. Maple seems purpose-built for this niche right now.

‼️🚨 BREAKING: Meta's AI feature let attackers hijack Instagram accounts for days with nothing but a username. It was being A/B tested on a slice of users, and if you were in the test, you couldn't turn it off. Among the casualties: the official Obama White House account. The method: get on a VPN near the target's region, ask the Meta AI support agent to send a verification code to any email you control, relay that code back to the agent, and it hands over a password reset link. Without ID or human review. From there, the account is yours. The flaw lived in the AI's logic layer, which acted on recovery requests with no real identity checks. One researcher compared it to the Roblox AI assistant exploit from days earlier, where you needed a target's billing info. Instagram was easier: the username and a regional VPN were enough and victims reported sessions revoked and passwords changed with no email, text, or push alert at all. By the time it went public, the method was common knowledge in blackhat Telegram circles and had been used to allegedly hijack 100 high-value accounts. Accounts hit: - obamawhitehouse (the archived official Obama White House account, ~2.4M followers. Hackers posted an AI-generated image captioned "The White House is under Shiites' control," plus cryptic anti-Trump and pro-Iranian Stories. Meta confirmed the hack and scrubbed it. - Premium short handles like hey and jowo, worth over $1M combined, stolen and flipped on Telegram. - albert (owned by Albert Renshaw), whose owner publicly reported being locked out and unable to reach Meta support. Meta has since patched it. There was no public acknowledgment.

Status update: I've been on/off AI agents in the last few days and it is a verifiable truth that every day I didn't use agents, I was more productive. I still attribute that to how slow they are, and my own inability to multi-task efficiently. The magic is there but the slowness doesn't let it cross the threshold where they actually make me faster, and I still dislike the whole thinking paradigm. About Bend2: honestly, the C/Metal compiler codebase is a clusterfuck right now. I regret letting AI agents write it. All tests pass, and GPU performance is mind-blowing, so the core architecture works. Yet, it has a LOT of bugs. Anything not covered by the tests is a coin toss. This is actually impressive, because, in many parts of the codebase, the right solution was actually the simplest one, yet, the agents STILL managed to find a way to make it work just for the tests. The level of reward hack these agents output is actually impressive I can't even be mad. It is also ironical because that's the very problem that Bend's proof system was supposed to solve, but Bend is in TypeScript, not in Bend. I'm disappointed I didn't write Bend in itself, and now I feel an immense urge to do so. But the clock is ticking . . . Still, I do not think Bend is worth launching without the GPU compiler being solid, because the closest competitor, Lean, is actually extremely good, so we need a big differential. Yet, due to the very nature of the project, it would be embarrassing to have bugs at launch. Regarding AI, I now believe using current gen AI agents in production codebase is harmful and a massive mistake. That doesn't mean no agents at all, but agents work best when they don't touch critical code. Debugging, researching, providing insights, scripts / tools, or anything that doesn't touch code you will maintain in the long term. But if you merge AI code without reading, you're going to have a bad time. Speaking from experience I'm working 10h/day on SupGen and the remaining time on Bend2

Exclusive: At Apple’s annual developer conference next month, the star of the show will be a series of long-delayed artificial intelligence upgrades to the iPhone. But the company is also expected to emphasize what could be an underrated asset in its efforts to catch up in AI: Its ability to run AI models on the billions of Apple devices in circulation. Full story from @aatilley: thein.fo/4uFztKC

I just got back from SF and I FEEL INSPIRED. I spent 5 days with frontier AI model teams, AI startup founders, and 3 billionaires. My takeaways: 1. I had lunch with 3 billionaires. All of them are buying SaaS companies and rebuilding them agent-first. They were deeply inspired by Bending Spoons and Ryan Cohen's eBay deal. Buy the company, cut the headcount, rebuild the tech, add agents, add features, make more valuable experience, raise prices. 2. The frontier model companies are hungry for usage data from the field. They can see API calls and token counts. They can't see the actual workflows. If you're deep in a niche using these models in ways the model companies haven't seen, that understanding is incredibly valuable. Usage intelligence is the new alpha. 3. Consumer AI is massively underbuilt. Every billboard in SF is either B2B inference infrastructure or vertical agent companies. The entire city is optimized for enterprise. Meanwhile you have companies like Cal AI doing $50M ARR in 18 months as a consumer app. I met with a cool few teams doing consumer AI (@paulscherer / @ekuyda) 4. MCP came up in literally every conversation. The companies exposing their product as MCP endpoints are getting pulled into deals they never pitched for. The ones that aren't are becoming invisible to agents. This is the new SEO. If agents can't find you, you don't exist. Building products for agents is the new zeitgeist in general. 5. Not uncommon for hot seed rounds to be $25-50 million valuations. I saw a Series A at $450 million 6. If I had a dollar every time someone mentioned "forward-deployed engineer" this trip I could have funded a seed round. It's the hottest role in SF right now. The person who sits between the agent and the customer, making sure everything actually works. 7. The mood around open source shifted. A year ago it felt like open source was chasing the frontier models. Now founders are telling me Gemma and DeepSeek are good enough for 80% of what they need at a fraction of the cost. The "which model do you use" conversation is being replaced by "which model for which task." Model loyalty kinda feels dead. 8. Voice agents came up more than I expected. Multiple founders told me voice is the interface for the next billion users. The billion people who will never type a prompt will absolutely talk to one. 9. The Obsidian community in SF is weirdly intense. Multiple founders showed me their vaults unprompted. Like showing someone your home gym. It's a flex now. The quality of your knowledge base (second brain?) is becoming a status symbol among builders. 10. Maybe it was just the people I met but the age of the founders is shifting. I met more founders over 40 this trip than any trip before and more founders under age 21 than ever before. Founders getting older and younger at the same time. 11. I spoke to a lot of fast-growing startups, VCs and frontier models who are hiring content creators right now. 12. The restaurant scene in SF is actually better than it's been in years. Founders are going out more. Alcohol is out, not surprisingly. 13. SF doesn't feel like the only place anymore. We all have access to the same frontier models. We all read the same X feed. A founder in NYC or Lagos is calling the same APIs as a founder in SoMa. So in the past it felt like SF was always lightyears ahead, doesn't feel that way anymore. It's okay not to live in SF and have BIG DREAMS. 14. The coworking spaces in SF are half empty but the coffee shops are packed. People want to be around people. I had a few startup ideas here.... 15. Walking around the Mission I noticed something: the street-level businesses, the taquerias, the barbershops, the laundromats, none of them use any AI at all. 16. I heard the phrase "agent debt" for the first time. Like technical debt but for agents. When you hack together an agent workflow fast and never clean it up, the system prompts conflict, the memory gets polluted, the tools overlap. 6 months later the agent is doing weird things and nobody knows why lol. 17. Met a few people who carry two phones now. One for personal. One that's basically an agent terminal running Telegram or iMessage connections to their agent fleet. It's always amazing to get that dose of inspiration in SF. I FEEL INSPIRED. But I'm so happy to be back home, locked in and building. We're 12-18 months into a shift that will take 15 years to play out. The urgency in every conversation was real. What an incredible time to be building.

We're booking out a cafe on May 30th in Austin Grab coffee, Cursor credits, meet the team, and build together

Exclusive: The White House is preparing a voluntary AI model review plan that would let intelligence and cybersecurity agencies examine frontier models before release. AI labs are pushing for a shorter review window than the proposed 90 days. Full story: thein.fo/3PRa0yA

Introducing Agicash and our first product: Bitcoin Gift Cards. The first Bitcoin gift cards made for @Square and @Shopify merchants like @PubKey. Built on @spark and @CashuBTC. Live now: agi.cash

“Help me save money” is one of the core benefits people hope to get out of AI. With this launch we’re making this super easy. Similar to what we did for Health by letting you connect your health records, you can now do the same for financial records so ChatGPT can have the full picture and give you more informed answers.