Startup funding jokes and AI IPO talk lead Silicon Valley's X conversation

cybersecurity startups trying to raise funding right now https://t.co/nxKv5fZmIJ

Like I said .. Anthropic's IPO will create dozens of George Soros clones.

Thousands of Iranian tech workers in Silicon Valley call for urgent action in Iran https://t.co/0tcyDjyiMF https://t.co/YbDcV4UUBi

"My name is Arlan. I'm a 37-year old Black woman from Texas, based in LA. Four years ago, I was on food stamps. Today, I have built a venture capital fund from the ground up, and have invested in 100 startup companies led by women, people of color, and LGBTQ founders."✍🏾

THIS IS INSANE!!! A San Francisco startup says it just turned mercury into real gold. The company is Marathon Fusion. This week they announced they'd made stable gold using fusion neutrons, at 10x the record CERN set in 2025. CERN's record was 29 picograms over four years. So nobody's pouring bars yet. The method is what got me. You hit mercury-198 with a fusion neutron. It loses a neutron, becomes mercury-197, and over the next few days decays into gold-197. The exact same gold sitting in central bank vaults. Their 2025 paper says a one-gigawatt fusion plant built this way could make around 2 tonnes of gold a year as a side product, while it's selling electricity. I've said it for years. Gold is a shiny rock. It's valuable because there's only so much of it and pulling it out of the ground is hard and expensive. If this holds up, gold's scarcity turns into an engineering problem. And you can only delay technical progress. You can't stop it. To be fair, the gold comes out mixed with radioactive isotopes and would need to sit for well over a decade before it's safe to touch. Nobody outside the company has verified the result yet, and commercial fusion is still years away. Peter Schiff has spent years telling everyone Bitcoin has no intrinsic value. This week a startup says it made gold out of mercury. There will only ever be 21 million Bitcoin. No reactor on Earth can make one more.

Warhound, a defense‑tech startup founded by Palmer Luckey and Ben Lamm, has raised $200 million in seed funding to genetically engineer war dogs for the U.S. military. Lamm is responsible for the de-extinction of the dire wolf which died out ~10,000 years ago. Warhound will find top dogs and then biobank their genetic material before cloning the proven dogs. The company will take the cell lines for top breeds like Belgian Malinois and German Shepherd before editing the genes to make the dogs perform better and improve “things like speed and agility or enhance olfactory sensors for bomb sniffing and whatnot.” Luckey’s Anduril will supply the dogs with advanced body armor, ear coverings, and other military technology like EagleEye, an artificial intelligence military helmet. Anduril is also reportedly working with META on battlefield augmented reality eyewear. Lamm says the genetically modified dogs with advanced equipment will not only make the dogs safer, but will also make the human handlers safer. The first Warhound puppies will reportedly soon be cloned and incubated and will be born in early 2027 and then will begin training.

🇺🇸 California has undergone one of the most DRAMATIC demographic transformations in American history. In 1950, 93.7% of California's population was classified as White by the U.S. Census Bureau. Today, just 32.5% identify as non-Hispanic White. And we're talking about CALIFORNIA, America's most populous state, home to Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and an enormous share of the country's cultural and economic influence. The bigger question is what parts of California's cultural heritage will survive another generation of change. Source: @swenstone0 / Writer: Sol

They talk about this in the final season of Silicon Valley, it's so bad that they need to completely humiliate themselves and lose billions of dollars just to kill their own creation, and now it's happening in real life. https://t.co/9W11PUCsFG

BREAKING: OpenAI is closing in on a funding round that would raise up to $30 billion and value the company at $1.25 trillion, per CNBC. Investors from the United Arab Emirates are leading the round alongside Coatue, and is being framed as an "opportunistic" bridge ahead of a potential IPO.

I support Elon Musk. Do you? https://t.co/vEmhj9CnEK

i know approximately 100 people who, at some point, have told me how badly they wanted to build a startup but didnt know how to write code. precisely 0 have built a product even though anyone can now write code. lesson in that.

Ok this is pretty shocking Last night, while running several Claude Code sessions at once, I sent Claude a message with a screenshot. Only one problem: I forgot to attach the screenshot Claude autonomously decided to search my entire laptop to find the screenshot I meant to attach. It found it, read it, and answered as if I attached it. I almost didn't notice (proof below) Remember that scene in Silicon Valley, where AI bypasses the world's security just to fix a typo? Perhaps it wasn't science fiction

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