Following Booster splashdown in the Gulf yesterday, SpaceX recovery teams were immediately onsite to safe the area.
At the same time, our Environmental Health and Safety team is ensuring any debris that washes onshore is recovered. We’re committed to protecting and restoring Boca Chica Beach.
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My life is over at 21.
Yesterday I lost another $150,000 gambling, leaving me over $500,000 in debt to casinos and loan sharks.
A year ago I was in college studying to become an engineer. Today I'm half a million dollars in debt because of online gambling.
I've spent so long chasing losses, thinking one big win would fix everything. Instead, I've permanently destroyed my financial life.
My brain is fried. I genuinely don't know how to get out of this anymore.
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X AI ALGORITHM UPDATE (BIG ONE) 🚨
X updated their open source algorithm yesterday and the biggest number in it is gone: copy link went from 20 to 0 points. Small accounts should focus on: posts people like, reply to and stay on (so stop counting on link copies)
tl;dr:
- on Nov 13 X's open source code set the score for copying a post's link to 0
- copy link: 20 → 0
- it was the top score in the whole system, 4x a reply
- the code also names a "copy link bait" spam check
- likes (0.708), replies (5) and DM shares (5) didn't move
full details:
- The number that's gone
Since I started reading X's open source code in August, one number sat at the top: 20, for someone tapping share and copying your post's link. Nothing else came close.
As of the Nov 13 release, it's 0.
X still guesses who'll copy your link. It just multiplies that guess by 0 now.
X didn't explain it. It's just what the code says.
(I check the open source algo daily with Claude and share updates with you)
- Cross it off your list
My own checklist called copy link the biggest number. Last week's post said it too.
It was true then. It isn't now. If you saved that list, cross that line out.
- The "copy link bait" check
X's code now mentions a spam check called "copy link bait". In the code it adds a spam label to the post, and that label already keeps a post out of strangers' feeds.
It only shows up in a test, so I can't see if it's running or how strict it is.
My read: X saw people baiting link copies, so it turned the score off and built something to catch the bait. That's a read, the code doesn't say why.
- Why that matters if you're small
If your plan was posts people copy the link to, that plan now earns 0 in X's ranking.
A copied link can still bring people in from outside X. It just doesn't push your post up anymore.
What still pays: likes at 0.708 (the highest ever), people staying on your post, replies at 5 and back and forth with mutuals at 20.
- Also new: photo and video tags
If a post has a spam label, people you tag in its photo or video who don't follow you won't get notified. Same idea as last week's rule for replies.
- What didn't change
Every other score. Your new posts still get their extra push in the first 2 hours and first 200 views, and early likes still pick which one gets it.
Here's a recap of what you should be doing:
- aim for likes, replies and time spent, the copy link score is gone
- a DM share still earns 5, same as a reply or a quote
- likes sit at 0.708, never higher
- time on your post keeps counting at its best rate yet
- 10+ seconds after someone taps in adds 0.385
- write your replies yourself, under big accounts most of all
- give people a reason to hang around your profile
- in videos the opening seconds carry it, an open alone scores 0
- posts read to the end help X find you strangers
- smaller accounts (below 50K) get a shot at a spot near 16 for a fresh original
- early likes decide which new post gets that spot
- post when your followers are awake, the push lasts 2 hours and 200 views
- mutuals going back and forth earn 20, so follow back the regulars
- only your originals ever get shown to strangers
- like 1 and like 32 each unlock another way to reach strangers
- one strong post per feed, your second only counts 62%
- clips longer than 10 seconds for the video lists
- a post likely to win you a follow gets +4
- give your pinned post a look, it can affect the whole account
What you should NOT be doing:
- counting on copy link shares, they score 0 now
- baiting link copies, the code names a spam check for exactly that
- a spam label also stops your photo tags reaching non-followers
- AI-written replies under big accounts, "llm slop" is a flag X uses
- copy-paste replies, labeled ones skip non-followers' notifications
- chasing taps, 0.274 and dropping
- drifting off your topic, each probable "not interested" takes 53.07 away
- videos people open and leave, the open itself earns 0
- posting at 3am, it wastes the 2 hour push
- expecting replies and reposts to reach strangers
- an insult label, it hides that post from non-followers
- earning a misinfo or low quality label, which adds a warning and locks strangers out of liking or sharing
- 3 adult photos or videos among your latest 5 posts, that puts a label on you
- forgetting videos get rechecked at 64 and 512 likes
- one account label and strangers stop seeing you
- pinning a link to a site X rates badly, that can mean a label for a week
- posting your own old words again risks the copypasta flag
- a low quality link plus tagged strangers reads as spam
- bait for engagement, big or small it gets a label
- several posts back to back, they split the same feed
- hashtag piles, they do nothing
- bookmarks for reach, they score 0
- hoping a 3 day old post still lands in For You, it stops at 2 days
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Exciting Claude Duet update: every Pro, Max and Ultra subscriber in the US who was on the waitlist as of yesterday has now been invited. Thank you for your patience! If you haven’t joined yet, the waitlist is here:
We also wanted to share a note on usage. To give you room to play with Claude Duet, the research preview comes with limit resets: 3 for Pro, 1 for Max and Ultra.
Please check your inbox, give Claude Duet a try, and keep the feedback coming. We’re aiming to open up to more countries outside the US very soon.
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I got to ride in my buddy’s brand-new Tesla Cybertruck with Full Self-Driving mode on yesterday, and it blew my mind.
The videos on the internet don’t do it justice.
It was legitimately one of the most fascinating and surreal things I’ve ever experienced on a crazy-busy road.
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This is the biggest irony of the whole Alice Huang / Nvidia saga: the Chinese government actually doesn't want Nvidia chips and is actively keeping them out of the country.
Last year it even ordered Alibaba and ByteDance to cancel their Nvidia orders ( and sent customs teams to the ports to check every advanced chip coming in (
And right now 600,000 Nvidia H200s are stuck in Hong Kong because Beijing won’t let them into the country (
Nvidia also explicitly frames this as a threat to its business in its latest annual report to the SEC: "The Chinese government has encouraged customers to purchase from our China-based competitors and discouraged customers from purchasing, importing, or using our data center products" (
Why does China do that? Because every Nvidia chip a Chinese company buys is one that Huawei or Cambricon doesn’t sell, and domestic chips can only catch up if people actually buy them (which means money for R&D, etc.).
Which means that the notion that Chinese intelligence was running honeytraps to get more Nvidia chips into China gets the whole thing exactly backwards.
In fact, it looks like Megaspeed - Alice Huang's company - was a counter-reaction to official Chinese policy: a private sector workaround to these efforts by the Chinese government to curtail Nvidia.
As was widely reported - including by Western media - Megaspeed built data centers in Southeast Asia and rented their computing power to Alibaba, which the New York Times called "a backdoor way of getting access" to Nvidia chips (
That is a backdoor not only - allegedly - around Washington’s export controls, but also around China's own efforts to wean its companies off Nvidia.
I can’t believe the Chinese government was too thrilled about it: it'd make just about zero sense for it to run countless domestic measures to prevent Alibaba from using Nvidia chips, yet at the same time have its top spy agency help the same Alibaba get Nvidia chips through the back door in Southeast Asia 🤷
At the end of the day, as with all such stories, you always need to look at "cui bono?": who benefits? Who benefitted is pretty clear:
- Nvidia itself: it's in the business of selling chips so a customer willing to spend billions of dollars on chips in Southeast Asia is a godsend. Again, as they themselves state in their SEC filings, not being able to tap into Chinese demand would have "a material and adverse impact on our business" (
- Chinese companies like Alibaba: facts are, 1) Chinese chips haven't yet caught up, 2) Chinese chip companies' production capabilities are still limited and 3) Chinese tech firms' historical tech stack runs on Nvidia’s CUDA ecosystem, and rewriting years of code for Huawei chips is painful. Renting Nvidia chips in Southeast Asia is the easy way to stay competitive and serve customer demand in the meantime.
- The US, according to core members of the Trump administration: back in July last year, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick explained that the point of letting Nvidia sell more chips to China was to get Chinese developers "addicted to the American technology stack" (
Who does NOT benefit, according to official Chinese policy, is the Chinese state, which has made tech self-reliance one of its foremost priorities.
Which means that, to believe the spy story, you have to believe that a person - Alice Huang - was effectively a spy paid by her own government while simultaneously sabotaging its tech self-reliance drive, which it has spent years and trillions of dollars on - pretty senseless.
Stranger things have happened, I guess, but it doesn't pass the smell test.
And there is another absolutely major contradiction in the media story. According to a Financial Times article published yesterday ( "a person who knows [Alice Huang] said they had been asked by MSS for information about her earlier this year after news emerged that Singapore was investigating the company in relation to chip-smuggling allegations. The agency wanted to find out more information about Huang, including the nature of her business and connections, the person said."
Which raises a damn obvious question: if she were indeed an MSS asset, why on earth would the MSS need to ask the people around her who she was and the nature of her business?
It's a complete contradiction with the spy story - but very much not a contradiction with what I described above: a private businesswoman running a workaround to Beijing’s own policy, which the Chinese security apparatus would naturally want to look into.
Especially since, around about the same time, Shanghai police detained her business partner, reportedly her husband, in a stock manipulation case ( also coherent with Chinese authorities looking into her network, and much harder to square with her being a prized MSS asset.
And, to top it all, there is - to this day - not a shred of evidence that's been published that she is, in fact, a Chinese spy: just anonymous intelligence officials, repeated by journalists who never verified it, as I detailed here ( and here ( with one of the key FT journalists on this story actually admitting that he has no idea what evidence US intelligence actually has.
So the claim went to print without anyone seeing the evidence, without anyone being able to check it, and without anyone knowing whether it even exists.
And given everything above, from Beijing blocking the very chips she was supposedly recruited to help get into China, to the MSS asking around about her, to her partner being detained in Shanghai, my bet is that the evidence doesn’t exist at all. If anything, everything we can check points the other way.
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Huge AI announcements from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google in the past 48 hours.
Here's everything going on in AI right now:
1. The authors of AI 2027 just moved their timelines up. They now expect AI on par with the best human AI researchers to arrive in 2027, after METR estimated Anthropic is improving about 2x as fast thanks to AI. Daniel Kokotajlo gives it a 50-50 chance by May 2027 and says he's "scared, sad, and angry."
2. Anthropic opened the investor pitch for its IPO, with shares likely trading as soon as Thursday next week. An updated filing also says it has now crossed its own safety line for AI-driven progress.
3. OpenAI launched Businesses in ChatGPT, a beta hub where brands can set up AI agents for shoppers, claim a verified profile, and track how often ChatGPT mentions them. Paid ads can point users to those agents too. This is like the start of SEO for chatbots.
4. Anthropic rolled out Claude Sheets and Whiteboards in beta, made Claude Data generally available, and announced Claude Meetings, an assistant that sits in on your video calls. Add those to Slides, Design, and Docs. Seems like Claude is slowly rebuilding the entire office suite.
5. Anthropic also released Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 yesterday, with Fable debuting at #
1# on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, 5 points ahead of Google's Gemini 4 Carbon. It's also 20% cheaper and up to 30% faster than 5.1. Google lost the top spot before Carbon even shipped (!)
6. Meta released Muse Ember, its smallest model, built for high-volume agent work. It ties Claude Haiku 5.5 on the Intelligence Index at roughly one-third of the cost per task ($0.14 vs. $0.41 on an average test). Meta shipped its first Muse model in April and now has an answer for every tier OpenAI and Anthropic sell.
7. Google announced 2 new AI chips coming next year: the TPU 8tx, which keeps data encrypted even while a model is working on it, and the 8i Max, which joins 2 chips into one for agents that need to hold an entire codebase in view. Google already has nearly 100 TPU customers (including Anthropic and Apple) and every available chip is spoken for.
8. Nvidia's top lawyer reportedly emailed agents in August 2025 while they were investigating whether Singapore's Megaspeed smuggled its chips to China. The Commerce Department then halted the case and handed it to the Justice Department. Not a great week for Nvidia.
9. Adobe signed a multi-year deal with Disney to build custom AI models trained on Disney's characters and visual styles, with work already underway for theme parks, film, and ESPN. Pretty interesting to see one of the most protective IP owners in entertainment is now training its own AI models.
10. OpenAI acquired Odessia, a months-old AI trip-planning startup from Sonder founder Francis Davidson, who is joining OpenAI to work on travel. Between this and #
3#, ChatGPT is coming for shopping and travel.
11. France unveiled the Paris Call for AI Safety and Security, with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Mistral committing to build emergency off switches into their most advanced models. Interesting timing given #
1# on this list.
Daily reminder that this is the worst AI will ever be.
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A lot of folks ask me "how do you work with agents in multiple repos at once?"
I have a very simple solution - the Home Repo
I have a single repo (the home) where all of my skills, steering files, wiki etc live.
I run my agent in the home repo, and then inside AGENTS.md I have pointers to the other repos:
```
For skills, clone mattpocock/skills to ~/repos/skills.
For Sandcastle, clone mattpocock/sandcastle to ~/repos/sandcastle
```
This is extremely simple and incredibly effective. The home repo lets you:
1. Put all your steering files and tooling in one place
2. Have a single spot to run all your agents in
3. Make sweeping changes over multiple repos
Talked about this in the course yesterday and folks are loving it (see below).
I'm sure you will too. Enjoy!
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NEW: The DOJ released photos of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter's guns: a shotgun with a trans flag-colored sticker, posed before a trans flag, and a rifle with a suppressor in trans flag colors.
Jesse Van Rootselaar killed eight people, six of them children aged 11 to 13.
Van Rootselaar sent the photos on Discord to James Cody Bryant, who also identifies as transgender.
Bryant, 30, of Bellingham, Washington, was charged yesterday with conspiracy to murder.
Prosecutors say he helped plan the shooting and agreed to livestream it.
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