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Eric Newcomer retweeted
Great to be on stage at @newcomermedia's Machine Earning AI Summit with @cityofthetown on how to ensure AI agents move money responsibly. Congrats @ericnewcomer!
"If a bank enables money to move in a way that's outside the context of programmed money, whose liability is that?" asks @Lead_Bank's @jackiereses at our Machine Earning AI Summit
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"If a bank enables money to move in a way that's outside the context of programmed money, whose liability is that?" asks @Lead_Bank's @jackiereses at our Machine Earning AI Summit
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We wrote about her remarks here newcomer.co/p/machine-earnin…
And here's @Lead_Bank's federal framework for agentic finance cdn.prod.website-files.com/6…
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love ai but we need to create laws that say AI's need to be identified in all cases
Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test.
48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video.
It’s the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).
Community note
The 48% figure and "video Turing test" claim are from Tavus's own study of 54 one-minute calls, not independently verified or using a standard protocol. Griffin-Lite leads NVIDIA's VideoFDB benchmark on their public leaderboard.
cellcog.ai/blog/tavus-gri…
research.nvidia.com/labs/amri/proj…
tech-ish.com/2026/10/02/tav…
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Eric Newcomer retweeted
New Speakers Join the Cerebral Valley AI Summit on November 12
In just a few weeks, we'll be back in San Francisco to to host our biggest and best Cerebral Valley AI Summit yet.
Thrilled to have @MaxJunestrand (@WeAreLegora), @ibab (@river_ai_inc), @ryanjdaniels (@crosbylegal), @lqiao (@FireworksAI_HQ), @robertwachen (@Etched), and @matanSF (@FactoryAI) join us on stage.
Apply today for a chance to grab a ticket at cerebralvalley.com/
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Eric Newcomer retweeted
Fun hanging w @EricNewcomer this week, topics:
- Lots of whitespace for vertical agents in areas like finance; this feels under competed today
- Computer use unlocks consumer fintech ambitions to improve the balance sheet of every American
- Opus 5.5 is as big of a deal for games and entertainment as Opus 4.5 was for code
Our download from the Machine Earning AI Summit newcomer.co/p/machine-earnin…
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Eric Newcomer retweeted
so much juice in this Larry Ellison heave from @cityofthetown vanityfair.com/story/larry-e…
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Eric Newcomer retweeted
SCOOP: Tendrils Compute, an obscure general-purpose chip startup based in Cambridge 🇬🇧, has been backed by @benchmark in a new round of funding, and is discussing a back-to-back raise at a valuation potentially over $1B.
Was fantastic to work on this with @maddierenbarger for @NewcomerMedia.
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Eric Newcomer retweeted
The mad dash for semiconductor deals continues! New chip startup Tendrils has raised fresh funding. Scoop with @Cain_Hillier
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MongoDB interim CEO @dittycheria on Meta poaching CJ Desai:
"CJ made a decision, and I'll let you pass judgment."
"What I will say is I got a note from a good friend who says, 'At the end of the day, no one's going to remember how much money you make. They're going to remember what kind of leader you were and what kind of person you were.'"
"I'll just leave it at that."
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Eric Newcomer retweeted
MACHINE EARNING DISPATCH: Early Optimism Reigns on Agentic Commerce + Personal Agents at the Machine Earning AI Summit @followthemani @cityofthetown
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Our download from the Machine Earning AI Summit newcomer.co/p/machine-earnin…
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Eric Newcomer retweeted
i guess the meme is that Dario is awkward, but it is kind of weird how eager the other CEOs are to participate in a public knee-bending ceremony like this. you'd hope more of them would be visibly uncomfortable!
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Eric Newcomer retweeted
if my series C lead tweeted this, I would flip out so hard
You are a struggling second tier competitor that is more unethical and lying just because you have no decency or sense of proper behavior and shows your desperation. Straight out lying about if Chris being fired I thought would be below even you.
Community note
Khosla is an investor in both Cognition and Factory. khoslaventures.com/category/enter…
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Eric Newcomer retweeted
From the Walmart checkout to ChatGPT, @oismailny and @onepay want to meet customers wherever they’re managing their money.
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