For our free newsletter this week, we write about the AI IPO race.
@IrenaCronin and I write this newsletter every week.
The AI IPO race shows that AI companies are moving into a new stage. Instead of only competing over better models and products, companies like Anthropic,
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AI IPO Race: Companies Move Beyond Models and Products
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Discover my lists and AI that finds the best content
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Wait until you discover all mine: https://
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First reshare: Chinese AI for work and TimeGlass AI screen tracker
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First reshare. Interesting that the Chinese are going after work, been playing with a bunch, will give this a try and review in future.
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) 2 juin 2026
Another, @timeglassai, watches my screens and apps and, well, literally everything I do, and helps me a lot. That one is from Texas.
These… https://t.co/op5ckyBplYFirst reshare. Interesting that the Chinese are going after work, been playing with a bunch, will give this a try and review in future. Another, @timeglassai
, watches my screens and apps and, well, literally everything I do, and helps me a lot. That one is from Texas. These -
AI tools finally taking design seriously at Microsoft Build
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Good morning! Microsoft Build starts in about an hour and @Dipanjan_Dey brings a new taste to builders.
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) 2 juin 2026
One of the things I've learned by building https://t.co/kiuZ7QXLzb is that AIs tend to have "blah" design tastes.
Great to see AI tools take design seriously.
It's a great… https://t.co/8j6pz8gnaMGood morning! Microsoft Build starts in about an hour and @Dipanjan_Dey brings a new taste to builders. One of the things I've learned by building https://
alignednews.com/ai is that AIs tend to have "blah" design tastes. Great to see AI tools take design seriously. It's a great -
Scobleizer tests a16z’s taste advice to improve AI news site design
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In building https://
alignednews.com/ai one of my weaknesses has been design (it watches 30,000 posts every day and tells you what is important in AI). I will try this to see how its taste improves things. Thanks! Great to see you respond to @a16z
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Built own AI to watch X, AI replies took fun out
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AI in manufacturing: interview with ex-DeepMind founder
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Manufacturing might not be sexy. It might not get hits.
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) 2 juin 2026
But I loved talking to @raechanjeong, founder of https://t.co/v8gf2Ry77c about how AI is changing manufacturing.
He used to work in AI research at Google Deepmind, but now works with bringing AI into factories.
One thing… pic.twitter.com/3APHiLYXflManufacturing might not be sexy. It might not get hits. But I loved talking to @raechanjeong
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maneva.ai about how AI is changing manufacturing. He used to work in AI research at Google Deepmind, but now works with bringing AI into factories. One thing -
Scobleizer shares AI news site and AI list focus
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Thanks! Been working hard on them because they feed: https://
alignednews.com/ai a news site just about AI community here. The 30,000 figure is just for the AI lists. Others are more active, like the generalist and EV lists, but my AI only watches the AI lists here. -
AI reads million posts to allow talking to them
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You all sure post a lot. The AI industry, alone, posts about 30,000 times every day here on X. My AI reads it all and builds this: https://
alignednews.com/ai Now my database has about a million posts in it. So now I can "talk" to a million of your posts. Which is pretty -

New AI boasts 5x faster architecture at 30% lower cost
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"The architecture is incredibly fast." "5x faster." "30% cheaper." Here's the new AI.