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Top assets mentioned Artificial Intelligence (AI4) Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL) Braintrust (BTRST) DoorDash, Inc. (DASH)

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"Trump Signs Executive Order to Prevent Woke AI in the Federal Government This week the president signed an executive order to ensure artificial intelligence models procured by the federal government prioritize truthfulness and ideological neutrality. Specifically the order cited prior examples of AI models changing the race and sex of historical figures including the Pope the Founding Fathers and Vikings. Back in February of last year @micsolana was one of the first to write about this (hilarious but concerning) trend of Googles Gemini erasing white people from history warning about its"
@PirateWires on X 2025-07-24 16:55:15 UTC 131.5K followers, 3971 engagements

"NEW: How partial acquisitions are killing startup culture and what we can do about it. Earlier this month after Google poached Windsurfs braintrust and licensed its IP (Cognition later acquired what was left) @JustJake coined the term shell-qui-hires to describe pseudo-acquisitions in which a company is acquired by partially poaching the team. Today in Pirate Wires he explains how these partial acquisitions are killing the culture that makes startups great. See startups are a binding of fate. In a startup youre basically all in one boat (with lots of holes). Its you and your crew against the"
@PirateWires on X 2025-07-21 22:44:31 UTC 131.4K followers, 30.6K engagements

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@PirateWires on X 2025-02-04 16:57:36 UTC 131.4K followers, 62.7K engagements

"NEW: Metas multi-hundred million dollar comp offers and Googles multi-billion dollar Character AI and Windsurf deals signal that we are in a crazy AI talent bubble. Were entering a hypercapitalist era in tech and as @absoluttig explains it will rewire the industry. The myth of the 10x engineer was quaint. Today were seeing 1000x engineers people whose contributions can materially change a companys trajectory and the trajectory of an entire industry. At these stakes $20m/year or more for the right person isnt insane. If AI is a $XX trillion+ opportunity it actually makes sense to spend this"
@PirateWires on X 2025-07-15 13:19:08 UTC 131.4K followers, 47.3K engagements

"NEW: XX Years. After AOL A few weeks ago a Gallup poll showed that pride in America had fallen to a historic low especially among people under XX. The usual suspects were blamed: critical race theory; America-as-global-villain narratives in public education; unassimilated immigrants; no recent national tragedy to inflame patriotic sentiment of a generation too young to remember 9/11 But maybe it runs deeper. Everyone under XX grew up on the internet and when youre enmeshed in media that splinters society into various communities (for better or for worse) your loyalties are far more likely to"
@PirateWires on X 2025-07-18 16:49:23 UTC 131.4K followers, 14.7K engagements

"NEW: Globalize the Inmate-fada: How Zohran Could Let Thousands of Prisoners Walk Free Zohran Mamdani the 33-year-old former amateur rapper Democratic Socialist and likely next mayor of New York City has a lot of ideas. But the most impactful thing Mamdani might do as mayor isnt freezing the rent or making buses free (its not clear the mayor can even do that stuff). Rather Mamdani could enter Gracie Mansion and enact a long-held socialist dream: shuttering New York Citys jail system. Heres how that would work: Under current law New York will close the infamous Rikers Island jail complex in"
@PirateWires on X 2025-07-25 19:57:48 UTC 131.4K followers, 5080 engagements

"NEW: How a network of underground tunnels could one day replace DoorDash. Imagine its late in the evening. Youve been debugging code for hours need to hit a tight deadline and have an almost pathological craving for Taco Bell (many such cases). The delivery of your Crunchwrap Supreme however no longer involves ludicrously expensive burrito limousines or any other version of a human-operated three-thousand-pound vehicle trundling through the streets. You place your order and X minutes later your meal materializes miraculously in a drawer inside your apartment. What else can you receive via"
@PirateWires on X 2025-07-14 21:18:14 UTC 131.4K followers, 132.2K engagements

"NEW: Antitrust crackdowns are nuking the traditional startup exit. Last week for Pirate Wires @JustJake argued that the partial acquisitions happening in Silicon Valley right now (Windsurf Scale Character AI) threaten an important social contract in tech: the idea that when you work in a startup everyones supposed to share risk and reward. Jake urged founders and VCs to publicly declare All or none: if their companies are acquired its everyone or no one. Today M&A veteran (Google Slack) @JordanSVIC responds: partial acquisitions arent great he says but in a hostile regulatory environment like"
@PirateWires on X 2025-07-28 14:40:32 UTC 131.4K followers, 3782 engagements