Overview
Thirteen posts anchor today’s feed. Big Bitcoin buys, rising US defaults, xAI’s latest models, Bezos back in the CEO chair, airlines wiring up Starlink, Barcelona going home, Ford selling cars on Amazon, and the usual AI release satire from Google’s side of the fence.
The big picture
Saylor buys another 8,178 BTC
Watcher Guru reports Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy has added 8,178 Bitcoin for 835 million dollars, taking holdings to nearly 650k BTC and reinforcing its role as a listed Bitcoin proxy.
🔗 https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1990411271670223127
US defaults climbing
Leading Report flags that Americans are defaulting at a pace not seen in years, with Fed data showing credit card and auto delinquencies back at post-GFC territory despite upbeat White House and Trump rhetoric on the “greatest economy ever”.
🔗 https://x.com/LeadingReport/status/1990473174438273469
Grok 4.1 Thinking praised for creativity
Tech Dev Notes says Grok 4.1 Thinking is “so good” at poems and creative writing and “does not hold back”, rating it ahead of Grok 4 Thinking and Fast as xAI leans into personality and output freedom.
🔗 https://x.com/techdevnotes/status/1990515156196208710
Bezos back as CEO at Project Prometheus
Unusual Whales highlights Jeff Bezos’ return to the CEO seat at Project Prometheus, an AI company with 6.2 billion dollars behind it aiming at next-gen engineering for computers, vehicles and spacecraft.
🔗 https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1990400230030729622
Starlink takes over the skies
Sawyer Merritt lists airlines either running or signing for Starlink Wi-Fi, from United and British Airways through Emirates, Qatar and Virgin Atlantic, pointing to a future where “airplane Wi-Fi is just good”.
🔗 https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1990314267933815008
Aaron Paul on his first game role
Culture Crave shares Aaron Paul’s comments on voicing Robert Robertson in Dispatch, his first video game project, which took two years of recording and left him both confused and proud as a performer who wants more “seasons”.
🔗 https://x.com/CultureCrave/status/1990320944166945134
Musk: “Exactly” on government waste
Elon Musk replies “Exactly” to a post ridiculing the idea that throwing money at government problems fixes them, in line with his DOGE initiative and calls for large federal cuts.
🔗 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1990457388336660839
xAI’s quiet SOTA drop
X Freeze points out that Grok 4.1 quietly grabbed both first and second place on LM Arena’s text board, with about a 70 percent drop in hallucinations and new multimodal tricks like image retrieval and YouTube search.
🔗 https://x.com/XFreeze/status/1990573653235552705
Haaland vs Klose’s World Cup record
Mr Banks jokes that Miroslav Klose “should be very afraid” after Haaland fires Norway to the 2026 World Cup, with fans debating if an extended format plus Haaland’s scoring rate could threaten the 16-goal record.
🔗 https://x.com/Mrbankstips/status/1990304202988683615
Barça back to Spotify Camp Nou
Fabrizio Romano confirms Barcelona’s return to a partly rebuilt Spotify Camp Nou, debuting against Athletic Club this week after more than two years at Montjuïc.
🔗 https://x.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1990420578960912743
Ford to sell cars on Amazon
The Kobeissi Letter reports Ford will sell certified used vehicles directly on Amazon, with fixed prices and warranties, raising questions for dealers and online rivals like Carvana.
🔗 https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1990425179621621957
“Self-evidently delusional” vs rockets and robots
Vittorio (@IterIntellectus) quotes a Musk critic’s line “self-evidently delusional with no basis in reality” over a collage of Starship launches, Neuralink, Cybertruck and Optimus, framing that as the new “delusion”.
🔗 https://x.com/IterIntellectus/status/1990307557714600062
Gemini 2.75, apparently
Vas deadpans that Google has released “Gemini 2.75”, complete with faux launch graphic, poking fun at Google’s incremental version names and slower public cadence compared with xAI’s rapid Grok updates.
🔗 https://x.com/vasuman/status/1990433521358287209
Why it matters
Macro and crypto tension
Saylor’s nine-figure Bitcoin buy lands on the same day as warnings about rising US defaults. It captures the split view: one camp treats BTC as the hedge, another points to households already stretched.
AI race narrative
Grok 4.1 taking top leaderboard spots, praise for its creative side, xAI’s hallucination cuts and Google getting memed for “Gemini 2.75” all reinforce a shift where xAI is seen as the agile contender and Google as the cautious giant.
Tech titans back on the field
Bezos taking a CEO role again and Musk weighing in on federal spending and robots keep the spotlight on billionaire-led industrial AI, from Prometheus to Optimus, rather than just chatbots.
Infrastructure everywhere
Starlink on planes, Ford cars on Amazon and Barça’s return to a rebuilt Camp Nou show how connectivity, distribution and stadium design are all being rethought at once.
Culture and games
Aaron Paul’s Dispatch work highlights how top film and TV actors now treat games as equal narrative platforms, while football posts about Haaland and Spotify Camp Nou remind everyone where global fan energy still lives.
