@auren
CEO, NQB8. GP, @FlexCapital. fmr CEO, @LiveRamp. loves: crazy ideas, weirdos, and email. host: Summation podcast. reading: @AurenReads
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A user asks whether blocking such messages is technically difficult or if Gmail's team simply isn't interested.
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A former interviewer says the candidate later ran a massive AI data company and wishes he'd recorded conversations back then.
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A user jokes that “synthetic data has been 18 months away for six years.”
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The post says Protege licenses real-world data to AI labs and raised $65 million from a16z, CRV and Flex Capital.
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A user wants a service to create audio versions of books that aren't allowed to be sold to them.
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A user says Claude has the option and jokes about wanting to know who has clicked it.
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A post jokes that AI turns a request for a one-line email into four paragraphs, which the recipient’s AI then summarizes.
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A user says they’re now Zapier-free after once running their “entire life” on the service.
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A user says Codex code got “remarkably worse” for them over the weekend and asks if others noticed quality issues.
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A writer who says they worked at Google argues that promotion pressure can hurt top-priority projects while lower-priority ones thrive.
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An Imbue Studio builder says its agents can read, label and draft emails without being able to send them.
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One post argues that the real AI competition is about who gets megawatts online first, rather than the debate over models.
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A user predicts all self-driving cars will seat six, like London cabs, tying the shift to what they call an “AI baby boom.”
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The post calls for a “true grass-roots pro-AI movement,” framing public organizing around AI as a national priority.
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A user recounts meeting a 16-year-old who said she taught herself guitar through YouTube, without prompting from parents or teachers, while her parents worried about her college prospects.
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A user jokes that the AI declaration is the new “we have totally obliterated Iran’s military capabilities.”
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Entrepreneur highlights Apple's hardware, trust, and data without its own models.
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Entrepreneur and investor shares thoughts on AI increasing customer power over tech providers.
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Serial entrepreneur Auren Hoffman shares observation linking UK billionaire wealth to AI founders.