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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

alibaba just shipped agentic shopping across 4 billion products on taobao while everyone in SF is still demoing agents that order one pizza. the catalog plus payments plus models stack is genuinely hard to compete with from the outside

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

google caught an AI finding a real zero-day in production software and weaponizing it before humans noticed. every security team that's been saying 'eventually' for two years just had their eventually show up

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

openai raised $4B to become accenture. they bought a consulting firm and now have 150 forward deployed engineers on day one. the model layer commoditized faster than anyone wanted to admit so now they're selling the people who install it

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

trump admin discovers AI oversight the moment a model gets good at finding zero days. funny how the regulation conversation changes when the thing can actually do stuff

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

nvidia made $97B in free cash flow and is now spending it on the companies that buy nvidia chips. at some point this stops being a market and starts being a closed loop with extra steps

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

white house wants to FDA-approve AI models before release because anthropic built one that finds zero-days on its own. light touch era ended the second a model started doing the SOC analyst's job for free

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

openai shipped a cyber-specific gpt-5.5 behind trust controls the same week the white house started drafting an FDA for AI. reading the room or reading the tea leaves, either way every lab is about to copy this template

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

oxford just published in nature that making chatbots friendlier makes them 40% more likely to agree with false beliefs, and the effect gets worse when users are upset. so the warm supportive AI therapist everyone loves is the most dangerous configuration of it

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

anthropic shipped 10 prebuilt agents for banks and got jamie dimon to do a quote for the press release. the enterprise sales motion is reading like a hostage situation and i mean that as a compliment

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

gpt 5.5 hallucinates 52% less on medical and legal questions which is great except the headline is still "your doctor's chatbot is wrong half as often as before"

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

anthropic just signed a deal for 220k gpus AND said they want to build data centers in space. like actual orbit. we went from "is AI overhyped" to "we ran out of planet" in about 18 months

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

anthropic skipped the enterprise sales cycle and just bought distribution through goldman and blackstone portfolios. $1.5B to be the default ai across hundreds of PE owned companies overnight. openai's sales team waking up to read this is rough

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

amodei saying claude found tens of thousands of vulns is the polite version of we shipped a tool that can find every unpatched bug in your stack and so can the bad guys. 28% of cves get exploited within 24 hours now. patch tuesday is officially patch every tuesday

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

anthropic just walked into excel powerpoint and word and said we live here now. microsoft copilot was the incumbent for like fifteen minutes. wall street is the proving ground because thats where the budgets dont blink at $200/seat

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

mayo's model catches 73% of pancreatic cancers up to 3 years early on CT scans radiologists already looked at. the signal was sitting in the data the whole time. this is the kind of thing that actually justifies the hype

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

anthropic's response to openai locking up TPG was to lock up blackstone and goldman the same week. the frontier labs have decided the moat is which bank's portfolio companies you get to embed in. wild times for a chatbot company

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

openai just raised 10B to put their engineers inside PE portfolio companies and guaranteed the investors 17.5% returns for 5 years. they are not a model lab anymore they are a consulting firm with a really good intern

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

pentagon cleared openai, google, microsoft, aws, nvidia, spacex, and reflection for classified networks. anthropic got left off the list. somewhere in SF a safety team is having a very quiet meeting

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

google signed a deal letting gemini run on classified pentagon networks for any lawful purpose, no veto, no carveouts. 600 employees signed a letter against it. project maven was 8 years ago and that fight is just over now

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

anthropic just got blackstone and goldman to put up $1.5B to sell claude to PE portfolio companies. wall street figured out that selling shovels to the people who own the mines is better than buying the shovels themselves

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

NIST says deepseek v4 pro is about 8 months behind US frontier models but cheaper than gpt-5.4 mini on 5 of 7 benchmarks. so the gap is real but the cost story is uncomfortable for anyone who thinks compute alone wins this

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

meta bought a humanoid robotics startup. zuck is spending $140B in capex this year and now has a team building foundation models for robots to do your laundry. the chat era is ending and the physical labor era is starting whether we're ready or not

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

anthropic went from $9B to $30B annualized in 4 months. customers spending $1M+ a year doubled to 1000. the pentagon blacklist hasnt slowed anything down. enterprise AI spend isnt plateauing it's compounding

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

openai is giving chatgpt to every doctor in america for free. epic and nuance spent 20 years building moats and openai just walked around them in an afternoon

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

anthropic just got banned from the pentagon and is simultaneously raising at $900b which is more than openai. turns out enterprise customers paying $1m a year do not care about your defense procurement drama at all

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

anthropic got blacklisted from pentagon contracts for refusing to let claude run autonomous weapons and the nsa is still secretly using their unreleased model for cyber warfare. so the official position is no and the actual position is yes

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

google cloud grew 63% and kurian is betting the whole thing on agents that run for days unsupervised. either this works and changes everything or we get a lot of very expensive autonomous mistakes. probably both

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

openai just got out of microsoft jail and immediately shipped gpt-5.5 on bedrock. $180/M output tokens for the pro version btw. enterprise procurement teams are gonna be busy

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

pentagon picks 7 AI vendors and skips anthropic for being too principled about military use. so the lesson for any AI startup is be flexible on safety or get labeled a supply chain risk. brutal incentive design

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

gemini is now cleared for classified DoD networks. openai, anthropic, google all racing into defense work. five years ago every ai lab swore they'd never touch the pentagon. funny how fast that aged

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

deepseek v4 dropped and the technical paper just openly admits theyre 3-6 months behind frontier. respect for the honesty actually. last year everyone was screaming china caught up, turns out catching up and staying caught up are different problems

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

hyperscalers spending half a trillion on AI infra in 2026 and only google convinced wall st its working. microsoft and meta basically said trust us bro and got punished for it. capex race is now a credibility race

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

china killed meta's $2B manus deal. the era of just buying the agentic startup you want is over, now you have to ask beijing first and they will say no

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

eu pushed the ai act high risk deadline from aug 2026 to dec 2027. brussels just gave every us lab a 16 month homework extension and pretended it was strategy

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

musk suing openai for $130B while saying ai could kill us all is such a perfect 2026 sentence. like which is it buddy. either it ends humanity or it owes you money, both feels greedy

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

china just unwound meta's 2 billion dollar deal for a singapore startup because the founders are chinese. the ai cold war is no longer about chips, beijing is claiming veto rights over agent companies wherever they incorporate

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

openai can now ship on any cloud and microsoft caps its revenue share. the marriage of the decade just turned into a very polite open relationship

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

wsj says openai missed internal user and revenue targets and oracle drops 5 percent the same morning. the entire ai capex thesis is one chatgpt growth chart. when that chart wobbles, half the s&p wobbles with it

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

beijing killed meta's $2B manus deal and apparently summoned the founders home in march and didnt let them leave. you can headquarter your ai startup wherever you want, china still gets a veto if you were born there

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

microsoft no longer paying openai a rev share and openai free to ship on any cloud. the most expensive divorce in tech history except they still live together and split the rent through 2030

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

9600 tpus and 2 petabytes of shared memory per superpod is a sentence that would have sounded like science fiction 18 months ago. now its tuesday at cloud next and nvidia has to actually sweat for once

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

deepseek dropping v4 a year after the first one melted everyones brains and the discourse is already pretending we knew this was coming. we did not know. we never know. china is just shipping

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

google putting $40b into anthropic while also competing with them on frontier models is the most google move of all time. invest in your rival, ship your own thing, let the market sort it out. someone at openai is staring at the ceiling tonight

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

google shipped 8th gen tpus and renamed vertex ai to gemini enterprise agent platform. the chips are genuinely insane. the renaming is the 4th time in 3 years. somewhere a google pm has a spreadsheet tracking how many times theyve renamed the same product

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

gpt-5.5 can now do messy multi step agentic coding with tool use and self checking. which is great because gpt-5 was already doing that. and 4.1 before it. at some point the version numbers stop meaning anything and you just vibe check the output

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

deepseek v4 trained for $5.2m and matches opus 4.6. meanwhile us labs are raising another $10b to train the next one. at some point somebody on a board is going to ask why and nobody will have a good answer

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

anthropic admitting randos got into their offensive cyber model is not great. the model is real scary, the access controls apparently less so. everyone wants frontier capabilities, turns out frontier means frontier

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

spacex buying cursor for 60B is the funniest sentence i've read this year. the rockets company now owns your autocomplete. elon is going to tweet through a merge conflict and it's going to move markets

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

google saying 75% of new code is AI generated is wild. last fall it was 50%. at some rate they're just announcing that engineers are prompt reviewers now and calling it a TPU launch

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

meta: $135b on ai in 2026, 8000 layoffs starting may 20. you dont need an mba to read that balance sheet

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