My wife and I were at the Interior Ministry dealing with some paperwork when news broke that Ran Gvili's body had been covered from Gaza. An older Ethiopian employee shouted, "They found Rani!" as if she knew him. One after another the whole staff grew excited. Was quite moving

It's time to build. Now everyone can. @Wabi Build me an app that recommends films and novels with techno-optimist themes!

Big news: OpenHands has raised an $18.8M Series A led by @MadronaVentures to build the open standard for autonomous software development. Open source, model agnostic, and already used across thousands of repos. Read more: openhands.dev/blog/weve-just…

The Jewish community makes up just 2% of the U.S. population, yet it is the target of 70% of all religion-based hate crimes. According to the FBI, antisemitic hate crimes are at their highest level since 1991. The ADL reports that antisemitic incidents are at their highest level since it began tracking in 1979. Hate crimes against Jews are rising even as overall hate crimes decline. The evidence is painfully clear: antisemitism in America has metastasized into a crisis. To ignore it is not neutrality but complicity.

The Associated Press chose not to highlight the suffering of hostages like Evyatar David—who is deliberately being starved and forced to dig his own grave—but instead to focus on the “struggles” of Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization that has fired over 10,000 rockets at Israel since 10/7. The media narrative suggests that Hezbollah, which has murdered hundreds of Americans, deserves our empathy. Here’s a radical thought: empathy should be reserved for the victims of terror rather than the terrorists themselves.

Very excited to be partnering with @darrennix and the @SteadilyInsure team for their $30M Series C. Among many strengths, here are the top four reasons Steadily stands out: 1/6

Introducing Vector Feathering — a new way to create vector glow and shadow effects. Vector Feathering is a technique we invented at Rive that can soften the edge of vector paths without the typical performance impact of traditional blur effects. (Audio on 🔊)

I thought Zuck’s video about Meta replacing fact checking with X’s community moderation system and moving their trust and safety team to Texas might be a deep fake… but he posted it to his own Facebook account. Pretty significant swing of the pendulum. facebook.com/share/v/1B6G4E3…

Business banking needed an upgrade. Today it gets one thanks to @dakota_xyz . Businesses can now access modern banking that lets you send/receive USD & crypto globally, backed by US Treasuries, with automated yield generation built in. Now you can finally: - Send USD globally via ACH, Fedwire, SWIFT & SEPA - Make borderless payments 24/7 with stablecoins - Keep deposits 100% backed by US Treasuries - Earn automated treasury rewards - Access on-chain yield opportunities Incredible watching this team execute from pre-product investment to launch. Congratulations!

"With six people, we built, from scratch, the fastest laser melting platform on the planet... We did things people said you couldn't do." - Erik Palitsch, @freeform_future CEO / Co-Founder Since meeting the team, we've been blown away by their ability to execute - combining AI, supercomputing, and advanced sensing to completely reimagine metal 3D printing. Their momentum continues with today's exciting news –– a $14M raise from @nvidia and @Boeing! They're hiring across engineering and operations - check them out if you want to help shape the future of manufacturing! 👩🏻‍🏭 freeform.co/careers

Enterprise AI adoption is at an all-time high, but so are the risks. Distributional's $19M Series A, which we're excited to have led, brings much-needed automated testing to AI systems! Read about why we think @dbnlAI can bridge the AI confidence gap here: bit.ly/4eSbHTg

I hosted founders + operators from @DIMO_Network , @solana , & @OmniFDN to peer into the future. We debated UX, real-world apps, interoperability, & the greatest challenge crypto needs to overcome in the next 5 yrs. Key insights & surprising predictions in my latest blog post: bit.ly/3zTUMk9 —- & if you want to join future events where we look into the next 5 years of a specific industry, drop your email here: bit.ly/3YdV1kb

SDF, the evolution of data transformation, is officially in Public Beta 🎉. We raised $9M from RTP Global, Two Sigma, Founders Co-op. SDF is free to use and built on an open source core. Install our CLI (docs.sdf.com/introduction/in…) and join our slack! (join.slack.com/t/sdfcommunit…)

Announcing our investment in @Etched 's Series A! 🎯 Their mission: Solve AI's compute crunch. GPUs are hitting a wall; they’re getting bigger, but not necessarily better. 🗡 Their weapon: Sohu, a transformer-specific chip. 🚀 The potential: 20x faster AI at 1/20th the cost; That means real-time video gen, instant agents, & more. We're excited to be betting big on specialized AI hardware alongside Etched! Read more about their specialized chip (ASIC), Sohu, below.

This poll is a reminder that "Al-Aqsa Flood" is not a military operation. It is, first and foremost, a psyop - perhaps the most ambitious and successful psyop in the history of hybrid warfare. A thoroughly planned and coordinated campaign aimed at demonization of Israel, through creation of bogus narrative of "worst genocide in modern history". The atrocities of October 7 were intended to guarantee that Israel's military reaction will be as powerful as possible, so that the actual "Flood" could begin. Flooding the information space with every possible superlative, painting this war as "most destructive", "most cruel", "unprecedented" etc. And the Western media gladly cooperated with this "Flood". By parroting Hamas' claims about civilian casualties numbers and spreading the lies about "war on children". By using the results of untested experimental satellite imagery analysis algorithm to push the narrative of "total destruction" allegedly surpassing any other war of the last 100 years. By uncritically repeating baseless claims about "imminent famine" and "world's hungriest people", even when countless evidence showed that the situation on the ground is nowhere near those apocalyptic descriptions. And so a vicious circle was created. Creating the impression that the war in Gaza is unprecedented in terms of death toll or destruction - a really extraordinary singular event - allowed to draw to it an absolutely disproportionate attention, in comparison to any other recent conflict. And the very fact that it drew so much attention automatically insured that, unlike in any other war, every little detail will become "news", fueling the outrage and reinforcing the sense that something unprecedented is happening. A powerful "Flood", indeed. Flooding the minds of useful idiots all over the world with carefully crafted narrative of invented "genocide".