so i was looking at the source code of kaito pulse and found some interesting things:
- it fingerprints your device. it hashes how your gpu renders an invisible image, your gpu model, and how your hardware handles a test tone. that combo is unique to your laptop and it doesn't change
- it goes up with your twitter id attached, so every x account you use on that laptop points back to the same machine
- they can see what you see and replay your whole session. every post your feed served you including the ones you scrolled straight past, how many milliseconds you spent on each, every click, follow and unfollow, and a ping every 30 seconds with idle detection so they know exactly when you were on and for how long. not just your timeline either, it covers your search results and your bookmarks
- it reads your claude and chatgpt subscriptions, which plan you pay for and what percent of your rate limit you've burned (not your conversations though)
- on chatgpt it opens your settings page and clicks through to Usage by itself
- on binance it clicks the Positions tab for you, then re-sends your logged in requests to read wallet balances, futures positions, pnl, and deposit and withdrawal history
- the zktls is a fork of a project called primus
the 12 domains it runs on:
- markets: binance, okx, bybit, hyperliquid, lighter, polymarket, tradexyz, variational
- ai: chatgpt, claude
- social: X (all the telemetry is here)
- kaito (only site allowed to talk to the extension)
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The same chronically online women who made a sport out of harassing an innocent Christian mother and widow have raised nearly $700K for a woman accused of strangling her three children (and built fan clubs around her because “it could have been me”)
There is a moral inversion happening the likes of which we have never seen.
When women become more emotionally bonded to online tribes than to families, churches, neighborhoods, and real communities, their moral compass can become completely scrambled: the innocent woman becomes the villain, the alleged child-killer becomes the victim, motherhood becomes oppression, and resentment becomes virtue.
Idle people are incredibly easy to radicalize. The women who are not plugged into community are sitting prey right now.
We are watching people disappear into algorithm-fed cults of conspiracy, grievance, paranoia, and resentment that reward them for abandoning common sense and distrusting anything that threatens the narrative. And that rot doesn’t stay online.
It changes how people see good and evil. It changes who they trust. It changes what they believe they’re entitled to. And eventually, it changes how they vote.
Socialism surging while millions of people are being radicalized inside these digital alternate realities is
a warning. If we don’t start calling out the severity of this issue and holding the correct people responsible we are looking at a fundamentally different country in the next 10 years.
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Why did xAI hand over a 220,000-GPU cluster to Anthropic?
The technical backdrop to xAI's decision to hand Colossus 1 over to Anthropic in its entirety is more interesting than it appears. xAI deployed more than 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs at its Colossus 1 data center in Memphis. Of these, roughly 150,000 are estimated to be H100s, 50,000 H200s, and 20,000 GB200s. In other words, three different generations of silicon are mixed together inside a single cluster — a "heterogeneous architecture."
For distributed training, however, this configuration is close to a disaster, according to engineers familiar with the setup. In distributed training, 100,000 GPUs must finish a single step simultaneously before the cluster can advance to the next one. Even if the GB200s finish their computation first, the remaining 99,999 chips have to wait for the slower H100s — or for any GPU that has hit a stack-related snag — to catch up. This is known as the straggler effect. The 11% GPU utilization rate (MFU: the share of theoretical FLOPs actually realized) at xAI recently reported by The Information can be read as the numerical fallout of this problem. It stands in stark contrast to the 40%-plus MFU figures achieved by Meta and Google.
The problem runs deeper still. As discussed earlier, NVIDIA's NCCL has traditionally been optimized for a ring topology. It works beautifully at the 1,000–10,000 GPU scale, but once you push into the 100,000-unit range, the latency of data traversing the ring once around becomes punishingly long. GPUs need to churn through computations rapidly to keep MFU high, but while they sit waiting endlessly for data to arrive over the network fabric, more than half of the silicon falls into idle. Google sidestepped this bottleneck with its own custom topology (Google's OCS: Apollo/Palomar), but xAI, by my read, has not yet reached that stage.
Layer Blackwell's (GB200) "power smoothing" issue on top, and the picture comes into focus. According to Zeeshan Patel, formerly in charge of multimodal pre-training at xAI, Blackwell GPUs draw power so aggressively that the chip itself includes a hardware feature for smoothing power delivery. xAI's existing software stack, however, was optimized for Hopper and does not understand the characteristics of the new hardware; when it imposes irregular loads on the chip, the silicon physically destructs — literally melts. That means the modeling stack must be rewritten from scratch, which in turn means scaling is far harder than most of us imagine.
Pulling all of this together points to a single conclusion. xAI judged that training frontier models on Colossus 1 simply was not efficient enough to be worthwhile. It therefore moved its own training workloads wholesale onto Colossus 2, built as a 100% Blackwell homogeneous cluster. Colossus 1, on the other hand — whose mixed architecture is far less crippling for inference, which parallelizes more forgivingly — was leased in its entirety to an Anthropic that desperately needed inference capacity.
Many observers point to what looks like a contradiction: Elon Musk poured enormous capital into building Colossus, only to hand the core asset over to a direct competitor in Anthropic. Others read it as xAI capitulating because it is a "middling frontier lab." But these are surface-level reads.
Look at the numbers and a different picture emerges. xAI today holds roughly 550,000+ GPUs in total (on an H100-equivalent performance basis), and Colossus 1 (220,000 units) accounts for only about 40% of the total available capacity. Colossus 2 — built entirely on Blackwell — is already operational and continuing to expand. Elon kept the all-Blackwell homogeneous cluster (Colossus 2) for himself and leased out the older, mixed-generation Colossus 1. In other words, he handed the pain of rewriting the stack — the MFU-11% debacle — to Anthropic, while keeping his own focus on training the next generation of models.
The real point, then, is this. Elon's objective appears to be positioning ahead of the SpaceXAI IPO at a $1.75 trillion valuation, currently floated for as early as June. The narrative SpaceXAI now needs is that xAI — long the "sore finger" — is not merely a research lab burning cash, but a business with a "neo-cloud" model in the mold of AWS, capable of leasing surplus assets at high yields.
From a cost-of-capital perspective, an "AGI cash incinerator" is far less attractive to investors than a "data-center landlord generating cash."
As noted above, the most important detail of the Colossus 1 lease is that it is for inference, not training. Unlike training, inference requires far less tightly synchronized inter-GPU communication. Even when the chips are heterogeneous, the workload parcels out cleanly across them in parallel. The straggler effect — the chief weakness of a mixed cluster — is essentially neutralized for inference workloads.
Furthermore, with Anthropic occupying all 220,000 GPUs as a single tenant, the network-switch jitter (unanticipated latency) that arises under multi-tenancy disappears. The two sides' technical weaknesses end up complementing each other almost exactly.
One insight follows. As a training cluster mixing H100/H200/GB200, Colossus 1 was an asset that could only deliver an MFU of 11%. The moment it was handed over to a single inference customer, however, that asset transformed into a cash-flow asset rented out at roughly $2.60 per GPU-hour (a weighted average of the lease rates across GPU types). For xAI, what was a "cluster from hell" for training has become a "golden goose" minting $5–6 billion in annual revenue when redeployed for inference. Elon's genius, I would argue, lies not in the model but in this asset-rotation structure.
The weight of that $6 billion becomes clearer when set against xAI's income statement. Annualizing xAI's 1Q26 net loss yields roughly $6 billion in losses per year. The $5–6 billion in annual revenue generated by leasing Colossus 1 to Anthropic, in other words, almost perfectly hedges xAI's loss figure. This single deal effectively pulls xAI to break-even.
Heading into the SpaceXAI IPO, this functions as a core line of financial defense. From a cost-of-capital standpoint, if the image shifts from "research lab burning cash" to "infrastructure tollgate stably printing $6 billion a year," the entire tone of the offering can change.
(May 8, 2026, Mirae Asset Securities)
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