unaligned.io/p/the-new-ai-in… AI is becoming an investment race as governments seek more influence over the companies and infrastructure shaping the future economy. The U.S. is debating whether the public should have a stake in major AI companies, while the U.K. and South Korea are ...

The pizza dinner test. We get together as a family for pizza on Sunday nights. Lately, those dinners have also become a place where I test new AI systems. This week’s test: @airtap_ai, airtap.ai. Airtap is different from a normal AI assistant. It can operate mobile apps on a phone: tap, scroll, type, wait for the right moment, and move through real app workflows. The example that made it click for me was timed mobile tasks. Think restaurant reservations that open at midnight. Gym classes that fill up in seconds. Flight check-ins where seat choice matters. Limited product drops where speed and timing matter. Instead of sitting there with your phone open, you can set up the workflow from your computer and let Airtap run the phone steps for you. That is not a normal chatbot task. It is a phone task. Airtap’s pitch is simple: Stop running errands for your phone. More tomorrow on the workflows I’d actually trust it with.

gofundme.com/f/support-sam-l… Dear friends, Early February I was diagnosed with Esophageal cancer. I'm aggressively seeking treatment at MD Anderson mid June with Proton Radiation, chemo, and immunotherapy. I understand many will ask why I have not reached out. It's simple; because...

San Francisco AI marketing wars. From @polsia posters at street level to @MonacoGTM flying a plane. When I spoke at Google’s first advertisers’ conference I had dinner with Kraft foods’ executives. “Why do you spend so much money on advertising?” “Because it works.” @samdblond’s post about the story behind the plane makes the same claim. Good morning! Maybe I need to do a better job of selling ads on my lists and alignednews.com/ai I have been talking photos of every ad I saw this week on three trips to SF. Quite a week! Posting them in thread. And I don’t have them all. There are so many. Last time I was in Las Vegas all the billboards were from injury attorneys. The ads are part of what makes San Francisco the city of the future in the Western World.

unaligned.io/p/the-ai-ipo-ra… The AI IPO race shows that AI companies are moving into a new stage. Instead of only competing over better models and products, companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX now need huge amounts of money to build data centers, buy compute, and support...

unaligned.io/p/ai-regulation… AI regulation is becoming a moral issue because AI now affects work, privacy, safety, and personal freedom. It is no longer enough to ask whether AI is powerful or profitable. The bigger question is whether it protects people and respects human dignity.

How are your favorite LLMs or other AIs built? Data. Books, magazine articles, videos, social media posts, and much more. Today I talk with @partymesis who runs one of the companies that collects that data and sells it to the AI companies. It's insightful, because he runs the largest network of people who produce new data to train future AIs. troveo.ai/

unaligned.io/p/ai-agents-and… AI agents are becoming a new enterprise workforce layer because they can move beyond simple chatbot tasks and operate inside real business workflows. They can connect with company systems, complete multi-step processess..

"We help our users think through the idea." @rocketdotnew's CEO/founder @Vishalvirani91 talks me through its service that I called "autonomous prompting" but that he shows goes way further than just making better prompts. It helps you figure out what to do. See replies for what you will learn by watching this video.

unaligned.io/p/the-rise-of-a… AI native companies are businesses designed around AI from the beginning rather than adding AI to old workflows. They use smaller teams, automated processes, and AI agents to move faster, reduce manual work, and scale output without growing headcount…

None. I collected 50,000 of the smartest people in the world into lists: x.com/scobleizer/lists Then made an AI to read 40,000 posts a day. And it finds the best: alignednews.com/ai I am here to learn about the future. The first AI consumer app, Siri launched in my house. So did the @insta360 camera company which was the first to use AI. And the @maticrobots company. The first to use computer vision in a home robot. And I could go on for many hours about what I did first, both good and bad. Grok can tell you everything about me. Have it simulate a conversation between me and you on your favorite topic. Followers aren’t as big a deal as you might think. I have 550,000 of them and had a post this morning that had 20 million views. What matters? Getting invited to @theresidency The future is being invented there. I was one of only, if not a very small number of people who weren’t either investors or founders. I now know things about the future you don’t. Unless you get an invite too.

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Why did Scoble sell out? I'm starting to get a lot more sponsors who are willing to pay me to introduce their companies to you. You'll see more later today. I just wanted to say a few words about this. First: thank you. Last year my wife was laid off, so budgets are a lot tighter than previously. She has a new contracting job, but not making as much as she was. Second, I'm investing in new projects: alignednews.com/ai is a big one. It costs hundreds per day to run and I can't afford to do that without sponsors. It reads 40,000 posts a day (runs three times a day) and builds a new kind of way to read the AI community here on X (I developed it because I can't keep up with 40,000 posts a day). Third, I have three employees now. @IrenaCronin helps me with our newsletter, which is thematic on AI issues and technologies coming: unaligned.io and @samlevin is managing the business side of my life. He's working with a hyper smart 22 year old who is automating the business side of my life (I can't keep up anymore with all the DMs and emails while traveling around the San Francisco Bay Area to develop new content. Fourth, I continue to pour hours every day into developing my lists here on X, which are the most complete of Tech Industry. Now that AI is coming to let you build personalized news services they are getting more and more important: x.com/scobleizer/lists I've never been paid for the thousands of hours it took to develop them, but many are using them on their @OpenClaw or @NousResearch Hermes agentic systems to build personalized news services out of them. I try every sponsor's product and turn down those that I don't like, which happens frequently. But taking sponsorship has changed me and what I'm doing here. I try not to, but it does. First of all, just having someone paying you money to consider them forces me to put a lot more effort into trying their product than I might otherwise give. That alone changes me. How that changes my relationship with you? I'm taking this all a lot more seriously, truth be told, as I try to continue building media businesses that cover innovation and, especially, the AI world. Please let me know if I get it wrong. And Typeless is a great example of this. It's a great product. Way better than Apple's own keyboard in many ways. I use it every day to talk with you and with my agents. Funny enough, I manually typed this whole post since I find sometimes it changes my writing to be a little too clean and have a little bit of an AI voice rather than my own. That said, if you try it out please use this link so they can track how many people come from my posts here: typeless.com/?via=robert-sco… Greatly appreciate all of you, and will try to get the mix right. And on posts that are paid I'll always use the "paid partnership" marker that I used on both of these posts so you can know which ones are things I'm compensated for writing. Thanks for helping put food on three people's tables too. In today's world that is getting tougher and tougher, I know.

How do you learn to trust AI? When it works even in a noisy environment. This is @typelessdotcom. Faster than typing. And you don’t need to turn down the music to use it.

unaligned.io/p/the-rise-of-a… As companies deploy more specialized AI agents, they will need AI middle managers to coordinate tasks, monitor performance, enforce rules, and escalate issues to humans. ther safely, efficiently, and at scale.

Why did Elon do a deal with Intel? The secret is GaN. Gallium Nitride. "GaN-based electronics are inherently more radiation-tolerant (or "radiation-hard") than traditional silicon devices, making them better suited for use in space environments where radiation exposure is high." My dad built the chips for use in our military's satellites and he told me decades ago about Gallium Nitride, so this caught my eye. I think most people would miss this. Thanks dad!

unaligned.io/p/the-new-ai-di… The AI industry is moving toward a hybrid strategy in which companies share enough of their models and tools to build adoption, developer loyalty, and ecosystem influence, while keeping their most advanced systems closed to protect competitive advantage…

As a former strategist at Microsoft I like this trend where AI helps you prompt better. Just met with a new AI science company and believe it or not even smart people often don’t write great prompts. Strategic thinking is tough because you are dealing with unknowns from the start. Often we don’t know what to build and with newer AI (like the one I use) often need to be trained before they are highly useful. I talked with mine for almost three months before I released alignednews.com/ai I need a new business agent to help me get sponsors and hit up my connections on LinkedIn so will try this tonight.

I’ll be there!