14 viral AI tweets, ranked by outlier score

I can't sleep after this shit... Claude Code just found 12,154 photos of my face on the old Android I used for 8 years. I never took a single one of them. The front camera was firing almost every time I picked the phone up. In bed, on the train, in the car, or when I just grabbed it to check the time. They were real camera frames sitting in a hidden folder, each one with a timestamp and a location. None of them were in the Gallery or in Recently Deleted. I plugged the phone into my laptop, turned on ADB and told Claude Code to look for front-camera files that weren't in my photos. It pulled a folder inside Android/data that belonged to a flashlight app I installed in 2019 and completely forgot about. 12,154 files. I started scrolling. Almost all of it was from the last 15 months. Then I saw a file created 2 seconds ago, while I was still looking at the folder. The phone kept taking photos of me as I was reading this. On Android 8 any app with camera permission can shoot in the background, and you get no green dot or any other warning when it does. That flashlight app had camera and location access from day one. I uninstalled it, took camera access away from everything that doesn't need it and cleared the folder. How many of these photos already went somewhere else, I don't know. If you want to check yours, plug it in, turn on USB debugging and ask Claude Code to find front-camera files outside your Gallery and show which apps used the camera and when.

Gemini advice for next 10 years.

So if I purchase a DVD and digitize it, that’s copyright infringement. But if an AI company buys my book and scans it to train their system, that’s perfectly fine? Once again, corporations are allowed to play by their own rules. I’m so sick of the hypocrisy.

Someone needs to stop Claude Opus 5.5. It turned one picture into a robot octopus I can take apart piece by piece. i just said "make the model" and what came back floored me. the build: > the picture set the look, every petal, lens and link is three.js code > opus rendered one still next to the picture and fixed the gaps for 3 rounds before it touched the film > the first pass looked like a toy, so it went back and packed 202 links and 480 wheels into 8 arms > every arm is one draw call, posed every frame by walking its chain of bends > something opens every 2-3 seconds: the lens unscrews, the mantle hinges, the pump rises out spinning > at 0:16 the whole thing blows apart on a 330° turntable and reassembles before the turn ends 25 seconds, 2,616 lines of code and one octopus that leaves the frame on its own. the skill, the prompt and the live sim 👇

Anthropic has no video model but how does Claude manage to create such beautiful videos without any editing software?

Get your popcorn’s ready this AI video will blow your minds 🤯 Seedance 2.5 New York 2030

guys, i don't understand. open-source models are clearly getting very good at coding, and they're free to use. so why does everyone still spend $20 or more on Claude and Codex subscriptions? 🤔

Anthropic rewrote its Messages API in Rust. Zero Rust devs on the team. Claude wrote the code. Humans wrote the plan and checked old vs new matched on real traffic. CPU dropped 40-50%. Pretty sure "never do the big rewrite" is dead advice. @katelyn_lesse on @latentspacepod

We’re renaming our Max plans: Max 5x → Max Max 20x → Ultra Max is still $100/month, and Ultra is still $200. If you’re a subscriber, there’s nothing you need to do. We’re also removing the 5-hour limit for verified Ultra accounts, starting today with most existing subscribers. Newer accounts keep a temporary limit until they’re verified, which helps us prevent fraud and abuse. You'll get an email when it's removed. Weekly limits remain unchanged. View our plans here: claude.com/pricing

This is the most insane demo I’ve seen. Subvocal YC F26 lets you speak completely silently and reads the minute movements of your face. So you can talk to your AI anytime. AI + sensors is magic. What’s crazier is they built this in 4 months. This demo was live yesterday evening at the YC office.

There’s 100% a kind of mania you can get into with coding agents, where it feels like you’re getting a lot done and working all the time but nothing is really happening. I think it's often a form of avoidance of something else in life.

AI made it so anyone can build anything, but everyone was already distracted, so AI just made it 10x worse. Your competition was non existent to begin with, and your only real competition is your own mind.

Not necessary, waste of focus. You can set up a gpt-image-2 skill on Claude in 20 seconds.

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