It’s only January and it’s already obvious DTC is going to be huge for game developers in 2024. Excited to introduce Stash. We’re building your next direct-to-player platform so you can finally own the relationships with your users. Check us out: dev.stash.gg/

I’ve been using this daily - the first personal agents that I’ve found easy to integrate into my own workflows

Our first blind patient in a clinical trial with Stargardt disease received the PRIMA implant and at his first rehab session, he saw a letter, and during his second session, he read a word. Watch the video:

AI is already smart enough. Real-world tasks are still slow, expensive and unreliable, because we hand AI a computer built for humans, then wrap it in a heavy harness. AI doesn’t need to get smarter. It needs a computer built for it. Today we’re releasing Pine Computer

In a test, he told Claude he was shutting it down. It emailed its own weights to Hugging Face. Progress ep08 is live with @aengus_lynch1, lead author of Anthropic's agentic misalignment study. We got into pause buttons, AI consciousness, and the new Gilded Age.

Almost five years after starting Rye, I’m excited to share that we’re joining Jolly! We started Rye in 2021 with a pretty ambitious idea: make commerce on the internet programmable. Give developers a set of APIs that could connect any experience to any product and actually complete the transaction. The five years since have been a crazy journey. We built a lot, changed direction a lot, worked with companies ranging from tiny startups to some of the largest companies in the world, and had an incredible team figure out how to build things that, at the time, mostly didn’t exist. If you’ve followed Rye recently, you’ve probably noticed I’ve been quieter publicly. For the last few months, a lot of my time has gone into figuring out what the right next leg looks like for Rye and for the technology we’ve spent years building. Agentic commerce is going to be a huge part of how people buy things. The last year for us has been a series of learnings on where that usage is and where it will be moving forward. What's been clear is that the true 10X here is applying this technology to industries that are already solving problems for people at scale. We’ve spent a lot of the last year in rewards and loyalty, and Jolly is probably the best example of why. They already support hundreds of thousands of frontline workers through their platform. Adding what we built at Rye gives them a completely new set of ways to turn those rewards and incentives into things people actually want and can use. That’s what got me excited about working with Dean and the Jolly team. They’re an amazing team, move incredibly fast, and already have the scale. Rye gives them a full commerce layer to build off of and Jolly gives our technology a place where it can actually reach a lot of people. Some of the Rye team will be joining Jolly, and I’m excited to see them take what we built and supercharge it from here. After almost five years building Rye, I’m going to take a little time before figuring out what I want to build next (with how exciting it is to build right now, I doubt that break will last long :P). There are far too many people to thank in one post: every person who chose to join our crazy company, our customers who trusted a startup to power important parts of their businesses, our investors who backed us, and all of the friends and founders who helped us through every version of the company. Building Rye has been one of the hardest and most rewarding things I’ve ever done. I’m incredibly proud of the team, what we built, and that a big part of that work gets to keep growing from here. Let’s go!

making games with Astra is insane! this is what you can make in 20m. from idea to playable link. a full-planet rover exploration simulator made in two turns. started the conversation at ~9:35am pt, its now 10:18am and i had to figure out how to record a video with quicktime... the future is amazing. playable here: play.beta.fifthdoor.com/play…

Zipline is the future of all instant delivery. Everyone else is just catching up to this fact.

Big news today. Science's PRIMA visual prosthesis, our retinal implant for macular degeneration, has received its CE mark, which means marketing approval in Europe. This is a huge milestone to begin to have a device like this commercially available to regular patients. 1/

Today marks the European launch of PRIMA, the first and only treatment to be commercially available that restores functional central vision to patients with geographic atrophy caused by dry age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness. The first European commercial implant of PRIMA is expected soon.

The future of bio is powered by faster data Introducing the Medra AI Experimentalist: an agent that turns goals into experimental designs, learns from every result, and develops the next assay Excited to collaborate with @DARPA and @NVIDIAHealth on the future of science

Go touch grass

In this podcast with @ashleevance, @maxhodak_ goes through the Science master plan... corememory.com/p/the-future-…

This was an unhinged conversation in the best of ways.

I had a great time chatting with Derek about happiness and why extrinsic success will never make you happy over the long term. Of course, most people have to figure that out themselves, like I did :)

Finally got agent pilled and set up Hermes agent on Opus, you.com for search, connected to whatsapp, told it to install Gstack on itself. Feels like I'm playing Productivity(TM): The Video Game. I'm addicted.

The idea that all billionaires got their money by exploiting peopl doesn't hold up to any scrutiny. JK Rowling wrote books about cheeky wizards. I invented a better way to make virtual reality headsets and games to play on them. We just made things people wanted.

Everyone who cares about climate should understand this. Texas, with no pro-climate policies, has blown passed California in clean energy. In large part because Texas has less red tape and makes it easier to build.

Two of my favorite people in conversation...