Roy E. Bahat

Like today I realized in a group chat, I am a Rawlsian accelerationist. r/acc ftw

TBPN is the Hamilton of new technology media entrants. I got to ask them why they think that is. Hamilton was maybe the biggest media surprise of the last 50 years. Who knew that was even possible for a musical. Musicals aren’t novel, but greatness is making the familiiar fresh.…

Excited to team up with Microsoft to bring Vibe Coding to the enterprise. Now every team member—not just engineers—can turn ideas into software with Replit Agent, no code required. We’re aligned with Microsoft on a shared mission: empowering every person and organization to…

In a world with more AI, what will it take for people to thrive in their jobs? The only way to find out is to try. Today, an important step: unveiling the National Academy for AI Instruction, a teacher training center led by the American Federation of Teachers @AFTunion, with…

Startups raised $91B in Q2. But one-third of it went to just 16 mega rounds of $500M or more, per Crunchbase data, mostly in AI. Our latest @UpstartsMediaCo piece takes you inside the “tale of two cities” in startup funding, and what @ethankurz calls a “flight to consensus.”

Now you know how Soham Parekh did 1,337 jobs.

People are calling it "Soham mode"

Four months ago we launched Tolan, our first AI companion. Today, Wired's @willknight wrote about our progress since launch: 3 million downloads, a $12M run rate, and a $20M Series A led by @rabois / Khosla Ventures.

An argument for AI as a normal technology

"We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started." @sama's essay put into words what I'd been feeling for weeks. But before we talk takeoff, some news: @RocketableInc has raised a $6.5M seed round to acquire and automate SaaS businesses 🚀

New York City is just another name for what we all do together 🥹