Yeah, I think another note to Elon is coming. 🙂 My costs are still too high. But I see why they aren't lowering the costs into the floor. I bet Grok does it here natively someday soon. And these apps don't pull along any advertising, so he loses viewers to a site like
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AI Service Costs Remain High Despite Price Cuts
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Build Finance Apps with Replit and Plaid Integration
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Build your own finance app with Replit using @plaid
— Replit ⠕ (@Replit) 22 avril 2026
Plaid is now natively integrated into Replit, giving you secure, real-time access to your financial data.
Connect your accounts → prompt what you want → get a working app.
Spending dashboards, AI financial assistants,… pic.twitter.com/DVYgwn8jaJBuild your own finance app with Replit using @plaid Plaid is now natively integrated into Replit, giving you secure, real-time access to your financial data. Connect your accounts → prompt what you want → get a working app.
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AI metrics reshape corporate performance reviews and hiring decisions
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Been hearing wild stuff from folks inside big companies lately. Promotions, firings, and perf reviews are getting decided by tokens consumed and skills/MCPs connected. That’s the metric. That’s how they’re deciding who’s “good at AI.” It gets worse. People are literally running
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IT Spending Decouples from Oil Crisis Economic Shock
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Oil crisis? What oil crisis? IT spending de-coupled from wider war shock https://
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Human Effort-Based Systems Will Break Due to Technological Disruption
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Every system that was regulated, either explicitly or implicitly, by the fact that they were effortful for humans (letters of recommendation, lawsuits, government filings, essays) will break.
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AI Trade Dominance: Weekly Podcast on Market Trends
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Each week I do a podcast to put together various things in a way that makes sense to me, and, I hope, to investors. And although I recommend stocks for a living, I also think one has to reflect honestly on markets and economies. The fact that so much is tied to the AI trade is a
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U.S. Must Re-industrialize to Lead in AI and Future Industries
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Re-industrialise.
— Nina Schick (@NinaDSchick) 22 avril 2026
The U.S. (or West) cannot lead in AI, and the industries of the future (space, energy, advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, biotechnology, robotics) without an industrial base.
Re-industrialise! https://t.co/JzrHqcegSMRe-industrialise. The U.S. (or West) cannot lead in AI, and the industries of the future (space, energy, advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, biotechnology, robotics) without an industrial base. Re-industrialise!
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Hyperconnectivity transforms work communication and life experience
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Venimos de una era donde todo era más lento, sí… pero también más limitado. Hoy vivimos en un mundo hiperconectado, eficiente, inmediato… y eso ha cambiado por completo la forma en la que trabajamos, nos comunicamos y experimentamos la vida. pic.twitter.com/5PySox9A0R
— Juan Merodio (@juanmerodio) 22 avril 2026We come from an era where everything was slower, yes… but also more limited. Today we live in a hyperconnected world, efficient, immediate… and that has completely changed the way we work, communicate, and experience life.
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100TW Compute Annually Could Transform Global Economy Fundamentally
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100TW of compute per year would be 200 times the US economy EVERY YEAR. Dollars won’t even be used if we get to that point.