"A challenge companies, including banks, are now having, is they are getting a tsunami of bots coming to their platforms. It used to be hard to know what was a human vs. a bot. Now it's even harder." @tiagosada discusses why we need @world_id for agents on @MTSlive

I don't use Figma at all anymore.

88% of VC-backed founders who exited their companies got $0. Eduardo Azevedo and Kent Smetters analysed 157,669 startups and 248,454 founders from 1987 to 2025. Let that sink in...

Watch Episode 1 of our Odyssey series made with Grok Imagine. Let us know in the comments if you'd like a full breakdown of how it was done! Creative collaboration with @WonderStudiosX and director Dev Walker @glumlot_

It’s time for a change in New York. It’s time for a safer New York. Let’s go vote for one.

Anthropic 最近开始建议企业「少用点 Subagent」，甚至把一些专家 Agent 重新合并回主 Agent Loop。 他们在多个企业项目中发现，单 Agent + Skills 的效果经常比复杂的多 Agent 架构更好。有个客户改成单 Loop 后，运行速度甚至快了约 2 倍。 原因很容易理解。 多个 Agent 之间反复交接任务，每次都要传递和总结 Context，信息容易丢失，延迟和成本也跟着增加。 Anthropic 现在更推荐让一个主 Agent 负责规划和执行，需要时再动态加载 Skills 和 Tools，把业务流程和领域知识留在可复用的组件里。 不过文章里有个细节值得关注。 他们曾把客服系统里的 Subagent 合并，延迟确实降低了，却让一个原本能完成的任务失败了，因为主 Agent 漏掉了向物流专家确认送达时间这一步。 所以作者强调，每合并一个 Subagent，都要用端到端 Eval 验证，尤其要检查哪些原本通过的任务突然失败了。 当然，并行研究、独立验证、Context 隔离这些场景，Subagent 依然有价值。 这样看来以后设计 Multi-Agent，可能得先问问自己，每个 Subagent 真的需要独立的 Context 和执行循环吗？ Anthropic 还开源了一套迁移工具，可以帮你分析现有架构，逐步合并 Subagent，并比较改动前后的质量、成本和延迟。很推荐做 Agent 工程的朋友试试。 原文：claude.com/resources/article…

Rant that no one asked for: My general take about consumer AI is that 99% of the things we've seen so far are super far-removed from reality Most people feel like they don't have money to spend right now, so the use-cases around agents booking flights or trips or booking reservations or shopping just don't appeal to the average American consumer I would argue that things that consumers purchase or "do" frequently enough (like ordering on Amazon, or calling Ubers, etc.) were obvious/annoying enough/frequent enough use-cases where we built amazing software UI/UX over the last decade that's been optimized to near ultimate efficiency that adding AI or agents on top would actually be making it *less* efficient. Like really *worth-it* use cases are generally "one-clickable" by great consumer products/platforms already There's a lot of magical moments/wow factors/sci-fi things with agents that come from super annoying workflows (like booking flights or wrangling personal errand stuff in gmail or etc.) but are just not frequent enough for the average person. They're actually the long-tail. For example, 20% of the world's population has flown on an airplane at least once in their lifetime, meaning 80% of people globally have never set foot on a plane. Only 11%-15% of the global population flies in any given year! This is not me saying that consumer AI is dumb, I'm actually extremely excited and optimistic, but it kind of goes back to things we've always known about consumer, which is: 1. Save/make consumers money 2. Make consumers entertained or famous (And, of course, vices) Even like, regardless of your views on prediction markets/sports betting, I think you have to understand that comes from a place of the average person feeling like they 1) don't have enough so 2) they want to do what they can to jump the socioeconomic rungs Anyway, there's an extremely *wide* space of opportunity and I'm very excited to see the absolutely insane new AI/innovative stuff that builders come up with, but also I really want to see things that aren't just dressed up versions of 2010s prosumer/productivity software (and the problems that came with it) P.S. The 90/10/1 rule still applies to consumer: most consumers want to *consume* (and lurk) rather than create!

Wabi 2.0 is live! personal agents are one person, one chat. but the parts of life that matter run on more than one person Wabi is an agent you use together. you talk to it, it does stuff, builds the apps you need, and anyone can join the thread - your partner, your best friend, the preschool moms groupchat school changes pickup time → Wabi updates the family calendar, everyone sees it. a show you’d both love → Wabi finds a night that works, gets the tickets. the trip everyone keeps talking about → Wabi picks the dates, builds the itinerary, books it go start a thread with your people 👇

Databricks CEO saying the obvious - Elite talent wants to be in NYC. Thats the bottom line and one of top reasons NYC is the top city on the planet and that gap is growing between other top cities around the globe.

Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many.

In 2024, an employee at engineering firm Arup transferred $25.6 million after joining a video call where every other participant was a deepfake. Since then, AI has advanced significantly and is making impersonation increasingly convincing, causing challenges for financial institutions in particular. As autonomous agents begin handling more financial activity on behalf of people, establishing an added layer of trust and security behind a transaction or sensitive conversation is becoming an urgent need. Introducing @world_id for banking and finance, a suite of technologies that helps institutions establish trust through privacy-preserving cryptographic Proofs. World ID for Zoom lets meeting participants confirm they are the same Orb-verified human connected to their account, while World ID for agents allows AI agents to carry Proofs delegated by people. Bain Capital, OpenExchange, Outtake, Pantera Capital, and VanEck Funds are initial design partners, bringing World ID into some of finance's most consequential interactions. fortune.com/2026/10/18/zoom-…

Papertrade (@papertrade_xyz)'s revenue has far surpassed Hyperliquid's, and it now ranks third with $6.01M in 24H revenue. Interestingly, #papertrade's daily trading volume reached a staggering $910B, with $28.4B in liquidation volume. defillama.com/revenue

part 2 of "software is taking off" many people argued - now that everyone will just have their agent build whatever they need, software businesses will no longer be able to make money, hence "software is dead" i'm here to show you why that's wrong, by exploring what happened to major technological transformations in the past fig 1. microwave vs restaurants in the 1980s, the adoption of microwave in households started to explode. it allowed pretty much anyone to cook a simple meal for themselves in a matter of minutes many predicted that the restaurant businesses will collapse because why pay for expensive restaurant dining when it's so easy to make food at home now with the benefit of hindsight, we can see the adoption of microwave did not slow down restaurant business growth AT ALL - not by a single bit fig 2. espresso machines vs coffee shops similarly to the above, espresso machines gained significant adoption since 2000 intuitively, every cup of coffee people make at home is a few dollars the coffee shops would lose, so the growth of espresso machines and coffee shops should go in opposite direction but they did not. they both grew at the same time fig 3. iphone camera vs photographers when everyone has a camera in their pocket all the time, it would surely put photographers out of their jobs, right? ...right? counter to many people's intuition, employment of professional photographers remained stable after iphone adoption exploded in the 2010s there was a little dip due to COVID, but it's recovered since, and overall it even grew slightly since 2000 fig 4. tiktok vs streaming short form videos absolutely exploded in growth since its introduction. tiktok allowed pretty much everyone to easily create entertaining videos others can watch as the incumbent entertainment video format, TVs and movies would totally take a massive hit, right? but no it didn't how?? all these industries got democratized by technology and became accessible to a much larger number of people, why won't they just die, like the hype trains said they would? you see - people go to coffee shops and restaurants to be lazy, to be serviced, to socialize, to celebrate. you can't do any of that with a microwave and espresso machine at home people hire photographers for their wedding because it's a special day and they want the beautifully captured memory to stand out in their album. using a phone is the opposite of special people watch tv shows and movies to enjoy a well crafted story, feel moved, touched, and sometimes to share some emotion and bond with others. tiktok scrolling does not give them that at all when technology is democratized and made accessible to the general public, they tend to be used to create a different set of things, not a replacement to the existing professional business go to your phone settings and take a look at the apps where you spent the most time. for me, that's X, discord, wechat, whatsapp, youtube, youtube music, tiktok your agent can't create a replacement for any single one of them. look at yours and ask yourself which one would you bother to vibe code? what regular people will create with AI is going to be an exciting set of new things. things that never existed before, that would open up new markets and be net new to the economy. things that are way more interesting than "you built your kanban board, and i did one too"

Sometimes a demo is simply to remind the world that your competition has no desire to dream -- and no ability to evolve.