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We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with RAISE Summit 2026 for the official RAISE Hackathon - July 4-5 in Paris 🇫🇷

Plus, recap Gemini 3 Singapore - our fourth and final stop with Google DeepMind, featuring Balaji Srinivasan himself as a final-round judge!

You Might’ve Missed

• Humanoid Atlas: the Bloomberg Terminal for humanoids — @JulianSaks launched a full supply chain database for the humanoid robotics industry — every OEM, supplier, and dependency mapped at humanoids.fyi. 229K views and 1.2K likes. The robotics infra layer is getting built.

• OpenAI's "Parameter Golf" challenge — $1M in compute up for grabs — @willdepue (OpenAI) announced a new open challenge inspired by NanoGPT Speedrun: train the best model under extreme parameter limits. OpenAI is covering $1M of compute. Great entry point for aspiring ML engineers.

• BioReason-Pro: the first reasoning model for protein function — @adibvafa introduces a model that can reason about what proteins do, not just predict structure. "Proteins can now talk." 162K views, 1.5K likes. AI x bio keeps accelerating.

• Shaun Maguire: "xAI will win" — Sequoia's @shaunmmaguire published a long-form article arguing xAI is being underestimated. Covers Elon's AI history from AlexNet to OpenAI's founding, Colossus compute buildout, SpaceX synergies (Starlink cash flow, space compute), Terafab, and Optimus. 228K views, 1.5K likes.

• The AlexNet moment in RAG: MaxSim is a submodular norm — @IgorCarron (LightOn CEO) published a deep technical article making the case that ColBERT's MaxSim scoring is fundamentally the right mathematical structure for retrieval — a 149M-param model leading the hardest RAG benchmarks in the world. Dense single-vector retrieval is the wrong abstraction.

• $1M+ spent on tech launches — here's the full playbook — @MitcheIl broke down his 6-step system for engineering viral product launches on X: data-backed video hooks, strategic influencer selection via SimClusters, hand-written influencer copy, network activation, giveaways, and real-time "War Room" tracking. 610K views, 3K bookmarks.

• "Tail your server logs, paste into Claude, say pls fix" — @yongfook with the most practical AI tip of the week: filter server requests >500ms, copy paste into Claude, instantly faster app. 79K views. Simple and it works.

• Terranova: robots that terraform cities out of flood zones — @neevefrat spotlights Terranova (SF), which builds mobile ground-pumping robots that lift entire sites out of flood zones in 2-8 weeks — a fraction of the cost of levees and seawalls. 20% of US urban land is sinking and flood defense hasn't innovated in nearly a century.

• Visualizing Curiosity's entire Mars journey since 2012 — @laurentdelrey built rovers.land to map every step and image from Curiosity's 12+ years on Mars. Beautiful interactive visualization. 50K views, 982 likes.

• Chinese Shahed-136 drone production — the bigger picture — @DanielR33187703 threads on a viral video showing Chinese production of Shahed-136 drones, arguing the real story isn't one company but the broader supply chain dynamics. 108K views. Defense tech angle.

Open Jobs

Looking to hire the best talent? Reach out to [email protected] for job placement inquiries.

Agent Engineer at AI Media Startup (SF)

- Building: Agentic media production platform, “Lovable for creatives”

- About: Well-funded preseed • Small but elite team of <5 • Founded by founder of Soundcloud and Dance • Founded raised $500m+ for previous companies

- Ideal candidate: Demonstrated experience in using LLMs in production & to build quickly • 4+ years of experience in professional software engineering at early stage startups • Hungry engineers willing to grind in-office with the team

AI Product Engineer at Agent Reliability Research Lab (SF)

- Building: Research lab building products for last-mile agent reliability & improvement

- About: $30m+ raised in just last 5 months, including Lightspeed • Team of <20 shipping like they’re 50+ headcount • Clients include Rogo, Delve, Propel, Clado

- Ideal candidate: Intense engineer with 2+ years of experience • Able to work hard, play hard with the team in-office • Strong quality taste in software • LLM native, and obsessively trying the latest and greatest tools

Founding Engineer at Online Psychiatry Startup (SF)

- Building: Easy access to online psychiatric help & medication, with an in-house clinic

- About: YC-backed • $7M+ total raised • $3M ARR • Top provider of affordable patient-first care • Agentic booking & care software serving 2,000+ patients to date 

- Ideal candidate: Highly proficient in typescript • Have owned 0 to 1 engineering at a past startup • You view LLMs as colleagues, using multiple agents in parallel regularly

If you’re interested in the above roles, please email [email protected] with your LinkedIn, resume, and why you think you’re the best fit. We’ll be in touch if there’s a match.

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