Overview
Eleven posts. Markets twitch, satellites get cheaper, bridges fail, and founders confess their scrappy origins. Here is the crisp cut.
SoftBank exits Nvidia
Full $5.8B stake sold, booking a hefty gain and stoking chatter about froth in AI chips as cash is rotated toward apps and robotics.
https://x.com/spectatorindex/status/1988179514208493617China’s Hongqi Bridge collapses
A months-old span in Sichuan gives way after landslide activity; no casualties reported, questions now turn to risk studies in mountain builds.
https://x.com/BRICSinfo/status/1988246874084573521Starlink adds a $40 home plan
Capped at 100 Mbps with unlimited data and zero upfront kit, pitched squarely at households that just need streaming and schoolwork.
https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1988402010287219151SoftBank sale, take two
Another feed confirms the exit and pegs the original 2017 cost near $2B, implying a tidy profit on the way out.
https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1988177548291760310xAI’s Colossus lore
Meme-style timeline claims 100k H100s live in Memphis within four months of the boast, with rivals playing catch-up on build speed.
https://x.com/ns123abc/status/1988333012896157947HTTPS myth-busting
DNS spoofing does not let attackers read your traffic if the certificate fails validation; the weak link is usually users installing rogue CAs.
https://x.com/levelsio/status/1988191901531423099Fireflies’ hand-cranked start
Founders sat in meetings as “Fred” taking notes by hand to prove demand before the AI was ready; ethics debated, product is now a unicorn.
https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1988218743952916537Kevin Sorbo heads to knee surgery
Years of stunts and long runs catch up; knee replacements have strong outcomes if rehab is done well.
https://x.com/ksorbs/status/1988215675911803111MrBeast on YouTube time
Claim that 2 percent of human hours now flow into YouTube sparks maths checks and audience scale awe.
https://x.com/MrBeast/status/1988244153239577015Paris as a cultural mirror
A traveller’s take that much of Western taste traces to France triggers a lively history thread in the replies.
https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1988259436863836198Grok as study buddy
Scoble points to a robotics paper and nudges people to ask Grok for a nine-year-old-level explainer; neat demo of model-assisted reading.
https://x.com/Scobleizer/status/1988182107215327259
Why it matters
Money is rotating within AI, not leaving it. Cheap satellite internet pressures incumbents. Security 101 still begins with certificates and user habits. And the best founders often start scrappy before the code catches up.
