8: Sam Altman, Elon Musk

When Ken Griffin and Citadel left Chicago:
Total 3-Year Impact: $846M in lost taxes + $2.65B in lost spending = $3.5B economic hit to Illinois/Chicago (not including philanthropy losses). https://t.co/QaVuAoPo39 pic.twitter.com/lG3KjkQZlv

— The Independent with Scott Atlas (@ScottAtlas_IT) May 7, 2026

The test I always apply: what’s the quickest, cheapest, easiest way to try this? Not the best way.

Not the right way. The fastest way to find out if the idea has legs.

— Marc Randolph (@marcrandolph) May 6, 2026

Cut the waste, fraud, & abuse in government handouts - and put that money back in the pockets of hardworking Ohioans. pic.twitter.com/d9JubBrszd

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) May 8, 2026

Imagine you check into a @Marriott hotel and one of these is walking down the hall.

The demos are getting better.

Way better.

I imagine @adcock_brett is gonna have these in at least one Marriott soon.

And if not Marriotts, I know of two "robot run" hotels coming to San… https://t.co/9FWXGbeVLP

— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) May 8, 2026

I already have the answer. Kalkiism. Look it up.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 8, 2026

🤝 Netizen: The Importance of In-Person Time and Human Connection https://t.co/ZO4jXCmcSO

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 8, 2026

about the have an interview published in Drug Discovery News on Monday!! W for @precigenetic !

this is always such a huge deal for a company, when the most serious, highly specialized and prestigious scientific news sources start taking note.

i am so happy because i know it's…

— Parmita Mishra (@parmita) May 8, 2026

sometimes i forget that when these llm's were first being trained they were outputting 100% gibberish

— Parmita Mishra (@parmita) May 8, 2026

Safe human-robot interaction with Eka's force-first approach to robotics: Vision-Force-Action Models (VFA). pic.twitter.com/GO1v1jkCYE

— Pulkit Agrawal (@pulkitology) May 8, 2026

Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston have been role models for me since I started reading PG:s blog 10 years ago.

Had a sunny walk in Stockholm, and it was great to hear them admire Stockholm as potentially becoming the #1 destination for builders in Europe.

We also spoke about… pic.twitter.com/7VA6qQmKjH

— Anton Osika (@antonosika) May 8, 2026

Hitler was a socialist, therefore all socialists are Hitler

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 8, 2026

The hardest customer in the world is the desi B2B buyer.

I said what I said.

You chase them for weeks just to get a meeting.

They test your samples again and again and go quiet again.

Then negotiations, factory audits can take months.

Finally they give you the order.

Next… pic.twitter.com/YgSzp6UyDI

— Prakash Dadlani (@prakdadlani) May 8, 2026

Your Desi customer is asking you to go global.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 8, 2026

For the record, I've been saying this for years... https://t.co/cSu8D1Jbx7

— Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 (@pmarca) May 8, 2026

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in india have the most objective selection process of any undergraduate engineering program worldwide. There are no essays or legacy priorities. One just has to do exceedingly well on two ultra tough tests. The IITs admit just 1.1% of… pic.twitter.com/Oath2DPn99

— Mohnish Pabrai (@MohnishPabrai) May 7, 2026

(a) directionally very bad
(b) directionally very good pic.twitter.com/h7AwFhwBRv

— Parmita Mishra (@parmita) May 8, 2026

You are doing zero marketing. And yet wonder why the market does not know you exist. Twitter gets you to only 1% of the reach you need. Dario did not know. Zuck does not know.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 8, 2026

The full thread answers your question.

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 8, 2026

🤝 Netizen: The Importance of In-Person Time and Human Connection https://t.co/ZO4jXCmcSO @pulkitology @tankots @parmita @gaurab

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 8, 2026

We’re not here to manage the system, we’re here to transform it.

On the first day of the #CollectorsConference, I reminded our officers that governance is measured not by files moved or reports submitted, but by results delivered and lives improved. Citizen satisfaction is our… pic.twitter.com/odD0BjciPb

— N Chandrababu Naidu (@ncbn) May 7, 2026

💻 Chandrababu Naidu: Technocrat King of Andhra's Future https://t.co/IzvxwcuMQw

— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 7, 2026

Nvidia just committed $3.2 billion to a glass company. Meta signed a $6 billion deal to the same supplier in January. Corning. At 200 gigabits per second, copper resistance generates too much heat in the high-bandwidth links between GPUs. Each wire's electromagnetic field leaks… https://t.co/sg0XlQnhKu

— Gaurab Chakrabarti (@Gaurab) May 7, 2026