peak bengaluru and bangerlore pic.twitter.com/1imEhjhCBX — prerna (@Prerrrrna_) June 7, 2026 [https://x.com/Prerrrrna_/status/2063545613632037129 ]

new york tech week highlights:1. went blind into an event hosted by @join_ef and successfully met a group of really cool people with 0 degrees of mutual connection2. met/made some really good friends from url ➡️ irl shoutout fonzi and corgi team3. ended off the week with a… pic.twitter.com/CA3h0mwmLe — sara kong (@saraknggg) June 8, 2026 [https://x.com/saraknggg/status/2064047927702782454 *]

Anthropic is paying up to $400,000 a year for an events role.They're looking for someone to own the execution of brand experiences that translate Anthropic's values into physical moments.This person will produce everything from intimate thought-leadership gatherings to… pic.twitter.com/SWvmSarclY — Andrew Yeung (@andruyeung) April 26, 2026 [https://x.com/andruyeung/status/2048545188608364593 ** (archived: https://www.are.na/block/47316282 )]

new york tech week highlights: 1. went blind into an event hosted by @join_ef and successfully met a group of really cool people with 0 degrees of mutual connection 2. met/made some really good friends from url ➡️ irl shoutout fonzi and corgi team 3. ended off the week with a bang at vega (shoutout ben & maddie) i think when it boils down to WHAT constitutes a good event, it varies based off what your specific persona is trying to get out of it. for me, events with well-catered hospitality that are more intimate (without just randomly throwing people together sloppily) call out more to me because you make more solidified relationships. likewise, it’s good to put an online face to a name because that alone can unlock so much trust and future opportunities. see you soon nyc!

Anthropic is paying up to $400,000 a year for an events role. They're looking for someone to own the execution of brand experiences that translate Anthropic's values into physical moments. This person will produce everything from intimate thought-leadership gatherings to large-scale industry activations. The top AI research lab in the world recognizes that to cross the chasm and reach everyday consumers, they need to lean into hospitality. They need to create visceral, unforgettable IRL experiences that make complex technology feel accessible and human. They understand that digital channels are getting increasingly saturated. Every feed is flooded with AI content... every inbox is overflowing. The massive opportunity now is offline, analog, in-person. The companies that win in the next decade won't just have the best product but the most emotional in-person presence and the most compelling storytelling. If you're in events, experiential marketing, or brand activations, this is your moment. The biggest tech companies in the world are betting on you. [two images of the job posting]

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on AI’s Next Breakthroughs, What Counts As AGI, And Google’s AI Glasses Bet: The leader of Google's AI program weighs in on the cutting edge of AI research, Google's plans to put the technology in its products, and the imperative of publishing AI-generated protein structures.

By explicitly training on specific tasks, we ended up covering a very large area (in absolute terms) of the space of all possible tasks humans can do, but this large area only amounts to 0.00...01% of the total space. And that's why we still need general intelligence. https://x.com/tengyanAI/status/2027220325101175201

what would be example of 'novel unfamiliar domains'? seems like we've touched most things

The maximalist form of my thesis is basically this: SaaS is not about code, it is about solving a problem customers have and selling them the solution. Services + sales. If the cost of code goes to zero, SaaS will not go away. It will benefit, since code is a cost center.

People are realizing that AIs are nowhere near human intelligence and learning abilities. Yet they have become very useful by compensating for their lack of common sense, lack of understanding of reality, and limited reasoning and planning abilities, by the accumulation of enormous amounts of declarative knowledge.

What is there even to say? He’s a genius operator. Offer people nothing for something. Get them locked into the OpenAI ecosystem. Collect equity. Collect information. Further the narrative that compute is the new water and control the flow. Dig your tendrils deeper into the world https://x.com/bosmeny/status/2056914385814401238

A mic drop moment @ycombinator tonight / @sama just offered $2M in OpenAI tokens to EVERY YC startup in the current batch in exchange for equity / Just like Yuri Milner offering to invest in every startup back when Sam was a YC partner / I can't wait to see what's unlocked when you let the most driven, creative and formidable founders tokenmaxx

Fair warning, YC founders: if you take these tokens, there’s a non-zero chance that OpenAI will study exactly what your startup is doing, copy your idea and put your app into their free offering. / This is the classic platform playbook — be careful, founders! https://x.com/bosmeny/status/2056914385814401238

A mic drop moment @ycombinator tonight / @sama just offered $2M in OpenAI tokens to EVERY YC startup in the current batch in exchange for equity / Just like Yuri Milner offering to invest in every startup back when Sam was a YC partner / I can't wait to see what's unlocked when you let the most driven, creative and formidable founders tokenmaxx

“agents running on the cloud 24/7” / bro I can’t leave my agent for 5 minutes before it starts writing crappy architecture or code

I talked about this on the standup podcast yesterday, but I'll reiterate here: if you're losing sleep because you need to keep feeding the agents STOP, I promise it's not worth it. You got caught in a [prompt -> reward] dopamine cycle and you're addicted to the feeling of the token slot machine. It's not your fault, but you need to escape before it grinds you into a pulp and you can't look at a computer for a month (this was me). If you can break out of it and spend some more time offline, or find other healthy sources of dopamine in hobbies/etc, you'll start to realize just how warped your perception was and that the thing you were chasing wasn't actually productive. https://x.com/TFTC21/status/2056815935705714945

Marc Andreessen on JRE: AI hasn't replaced coders. It turned them into vampires. / "The opportunity cost of going to sleep is too high because if you go to sleep, you won't be with your 20 AI coding agents."

Creator of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup: / AI-generated code isn't ready — it generates more bugs, more bloat, more security holes, and is nearly impossible to validate / "senior developers are already retiring rather than deal with it" / The problem is that even a small prompt change can shift the entire codebase in unpredictable ways"

The Bliss trade is reflected in the divergence between the prices of stocks and government bonds. While equity markets have held up surprisingly well, government bonds have suffered even as long-run inflation expectations have stayed mostly anchored. Since the start of the Iran conflict, long-term government bond yields have risen across major economies including the US, Europe and Japan. This divergence has become a pattern over the past several years. Term premia on 10-year US treasury yields are now close to 100 basis points higher than they were before the pandemic, driving up the interest rate bill. … The IMF predicts that in a severe scenario, the Iran conflict could cause global growth to fall to 2 per cent (instead of the reference forecast of 3.1 per cent) and global debt could rise past 120 per cent of GDP. … As compared to before the pandemic, the scope to deliver on fiscal largesse is limited. Even in advanced economies, the sensitivity of borrowing costs to debt issuance has increased, which then spills over into emerging and developing economy borrowing costs. Even as bond prices have declined, markets may be too sanguine about the consequences of rising debt on fiscal health.

Policymakers would do well to use this period in which stock markets seem disconnected from heightened risk to craft a new playbook for crisis support that is both fiscally sustainable and supportive of long-term growth. The experiences of the pandemic and Ukraine war provide a valuable lesson in what that should look like: support targeted to the vulnerable; bailouts only to companies that are liquidity constrained but otherwise viable — and whose failure poses systemic risks; and co-ordinated fiscal and monetary policy so they do not work at cross-purposes.

If a new course is not charted, governments constrained by fiscal space may rely on heterodox measures, including broad-based price controls, financial repression, nationalisations, and pressure on central banks to absorb fiscal risk.

None of this would be good for the economy with synchronised sell-offs across stocks and bonds as markets realise that the backstop they were counting on is no longer there.