Boarding the flight now and racing my co-founder @AdamFlinter there! 🙌🇫🇷 if any other GCC or SEA friends are coming, DM us! :)
The entire AI ecosystem is coming to Paris this week, and this time, it's their words, not ours 🇫🇷
Over the past few days, the people building the frontier have been telling their own platform exactly where they'll be. A snapshot:
→ @ylecun (AMI - Advanced Machine Intelligence): "See you all at RAISE."
→ @Jason and the @theallinpod, live from Paris, interviewing founders and CEOs across the week
→ @ScottWu46, Co-Founder & CEO at @cognition, taking the Master Stage for his keynote: "The Golden Age of Software Engineering"
→ @nvidia, keynote with Paolo Guglielmini on powering Europe's industrial renaissance
→ @NYSE Wired, live on the ground covering the founders, investors and innovators building what's next, including @lqiao, @ChaseLochmiller, Andrew Sobko and more.
That's the attraction of RAISE Week: everyone in the industry convenes in Paris for a week of breakthroughs, dealmaking and the conversations that set the agenda for the year ahead.
Tomorrow we're live with @MACHINASUMMIT, Europe's leading summit for humanoid and robotics, at @joinstationf 🤖
Who are you most looking forward to hearing from this week?
Yes! The rumours are true!!
📢 Big Announcement 📢
Growth Ensemble is opening an office in the #UAE.
Our co-founder Meredith is heading to #Dubai while I remain in #Singapore, meaning we have senior leadership at both ends of the ASEAN-GCC corridor.
Find out more here: growthensemble.com/insights/…
Looking forward to seeing friendly faces in #AbuDhabi tomorrow & Tuesday at Machines Can Think, exploring frontier science, scalable AI adoption & real-world apps aligned with UAE’s 2031 AI Strategy.
Can't make it? There's a live broadcast here: teapaw.org/Machinescansee
Personality politics are everywhere, irrespective of sides. Keep an eye on it. From Trump as political saviour to the moral compass of Michelle Obama. From the gospel of Steven Bartlett to saint-pariah Jacinda Ardern.
We’re so drawn to personality-driven commentary that machines are getting in on the act. Think: Claude; the cool dude persona that’s baked into Grok; Alexa; Siri.
Here’s what I’m observing: when we make it about the person instead of the ideas, we’re less inclined to think critically, objectively. We defend “our” person or attack “that” person regardless of what they actually do, regardless of whether they might occasionally have a point.
What happened to thoughtful discourse and hearing all sides out? We’ve become a society that follows people instead of principles and I think the history books will define us for doing so.
The Cult of Personality isn’t just about historical dictators anymore. It’s the water we’re swimming in today.
Meredith Carson retweeted
I’m excited to introduce Clark, the first AI Agent to build internal enterprise apps.
We’ve raised $60M, including a fresh $23M from @sparkcapital @kleinerperkins, @MeritechCapital and Greenoaks.
Unlike consumer vibe coding tools like Lovable, Replit and Bolt that only generate prototypes, Clark builds production-ready internal apps — enforcing your enterprise standards:
🧩 UIs generated using your design system
🔌 Integrations with private APIs, databases and SaaS apps
🔐 Permissions mapped to @okta & @azuread groups
🛡️ Security with audit logging, secrets management, and vulnerability scans
Clark is designed to operate exactly like a human internal tools team. It's built on a state-of-the-art multi-agent architecture, emulating your Designer, IT admin, Engineer, Security Operations, and QA employees.
When Clark generates an application, you can modify it in 3 ways:
1. Natural language - talk to Clark
2. Visual – Edit it like in Figma
3. Code – Use your IDE like Cursor or VSCode
Global enterprises in regulated industries like @Instacart (CART), @carrier (CARR), and @cvent (Blackstone) already run their mission-critical apps on our platform.
Our customers save $5m on average. Book a demo and we'll save you $5m too. And we're so confident that if we can't, we'll donate $5,000 to a charity of your choice:
Book a Demo – superblocks.com/clark
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As part of this launch, we’re giving away the system prompts of leading AI products like Cursor, Manus, and Codex.
These 6,000 line system prompts have enabled them to become billion-dollar companies on top of foundation models.
Retweet this post and comment ‘Superblocks’ below, and we'll send you the link so you can engineer world class prompts yourself.
👇 See Clark in action in the thread below
Centering myself for the global meditation in a couple of minutes - thank you @DAVID_LYNCH for this gift of your legacy 🙏
PS: Got the time wrong it turns out (I’m in Singapore 🤭) but not the experience. 🤍 and ✨🌈 to all of you in David’s community, on this, his birthday. By the time the meditation starts I’ll be in my dreams. I’ll see you there, #DavidLynch.
Meredith Carson retweeted
Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.
In memory of David Lynch, we will continue to explore the otherworldly and the unknown. We will focus not on the loss, but on what we gained from the years we shared this planet with you. We will see you in our dreams.

ALT Using the Event Horizon Telescope, scientists obtained this image of the black hole at the center of galaxy M87, outlined by emission from hot gas swirling around it under the influence of strong gravity near its event horizon. The hot gas is shaped like a doughnut and is glowing a warm yellow color with reddish tint at its edges. The darkness of space is black in the background. Credit: Event Horizon Telescope collaboration et al.
“Where we’re from, the birds sing a pretty song and there’s always music in the air” Vale, #DavidLynch and Godspeed. ✨
What the heck is going on with you @squarespace? More than 5 contact attempts and I can't get any kind of customer support for an urgent payment issue request. No live chat. No email replies. It's been weeks. So not cool.
Meredith Carson retweeted
When YC first launched, they listed an anonymous "The Fourth Man" on the about page, and I always wondered who it was...
(it was @jesslivingston!)
A very difficult @theallinpod this week, with @sherylsandberg. On many levels. At times it was extremely hard to listen to. In fact the besties (hosts) had to leave and come back. That said, it was a profound and important episode and I’d encourage everyone to listen with thoughtfulness and with respect for perspectives.
youtu.be/OxbtNsenZJY?si=BvEO…
@Jason @friedberg @chamath also what you guys were all saying about friendship really, deeply resonated; grief is such an expression of love, and as enduring. 🤍🖤





















