A hedge fund manager wrote his investors a goodbye letter. The crypto market that never closes had broken him. 17 months later CNBC filmed his new fund. 4 AI agents, zero humans on payroll, $40,000 a year all in. Nobody in it sleeps. The letter is still on X. 769 views. You run the same f*cking shift he quit. Hyperliquid at 3am, a Bitcoin alert in bed. You just never had $5,000,000 of payroll to prove it wasn't working. From the letter: "Markets that never close have taken a toll that I could only fully recognize once I paused." From the CNBC clip: "If it's 3 in the morning and I have an idea, I can just ping them. I don't have to worry about waking somebody up in the middle of the night, which I may or may not have done in the past." 7 or 8 people in New York, Hong Kong and California. $5,000,000 a year. Could not cover 3am. 4 bots, started on Claude Opus 4.6. $40,000 a year. Never off. 10x the output, his number. > Houston is mission control. Every bot reports to him. > Steffi, yes, Steffi Graf, marks up the charts. >Desmond runs the quant strategies over the weekend. > Doocey is the red team. Every thesis gets attacked before a dollar moves. Two Sigma keeps 1,700 people on that job. Behind them sits what he calls the corporate brain. Every trade, every email, every piece of research is a node, wired to everything else in the firm "almost like neurons". "Take a staff of 100, you've got a staff of 1,000" "I've talked to people working at big hedge funds now. They're doing something like this." 527,000 people watched his clip in 8 days. Brian Kelly kept one job in it. He calls it the meat in the chair. The market still never closes. He just isn't the one awake for it anymore.

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Ass Bench Update 🚨 After running GPT 6 Astra in a loop for the past week, with a couple of steers a day, we have officially reached high-fidelity cheeks. I’m going to let this thing run in a self-improving cycle for as long as I can and see where the ass technology ends up in a month. Lots of different butt styles will be added, so no one is safe. Not even you, Granny. You’ll also be able to support the project and help fund the benching of other models like Fable, Gemini, etc. All it takes is a buck, and you can slap your sticker + website directly onto a cheek. The future of AI benchmarking is here More Soon

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

There is a rumor that Anthropic has discovered a non-invasive treatment to totally eradicate all cancers in humans, dogs and cats. It has a 100% success rate. They plan to announce it at their IPO. They are finalizing the final proofs and hope that no other competitor is capable of spending a bunch of compute and solve it before their finalized proof.