NEW ODD LOTS - THE LASER BEAM EPISODE By popular request, @TheStalwart & I speak with Wayne Sanders, retired US Army Colonel and senior defense strategist for @BBGIntelligence on the new wave of directed energy weapon systems e.g. lasers and microwaves.

new wave of crypto gaming is coming larps mostly gone, existing crypto-native teams have a couple iterations w/ live games now under their belt, a few different game formats now showing potential, couple big launches that iterate on these go live in May. personally, i have notis on for @0xCitadel @pixels_online @TollanUniverse @The_Beacon_GG @onchainheroes @asph0d37 @playgigaverse @playcambria @SuperTrip64 @Moku_HQ @Jaileddotfun

A new wave of Chinese exports is rewriting what it means to be ‘Made in China.’ Autos are the most visible, and a high-profile source of tension between the world’s second-largest economy and its trading partners

A new wave of Chinese exports is rewriting what it means to be ‘Made in China.’ Textiles, furniture and cheap electronics are being joined by a new generation of high-tech, high-quality products once associated with Japan, Europe or the United States

This new wave of agents like Muse, Grok Bot, and dots is the only way (so far) these AI providers can build any kind of brand loyalty. Most people will not want to switch back and forth based on who has the best model or the best price. Not once the agent knows your projects, your people, your connectors/accounts, and how you like things done, etc. These companies realize this, which is why they're pushing so aggressively here. The models themselves keep getting closer. Whoever's best this month usually gets matched within a few weeks. So the fight is over who holds your memory, and I doubt any of them will make it easy to export. What comes to mind now is building a system where you own the data and workflows so you can plug and play with any one of these providers, making it easy to switch. Memory as plain files on your own machine, skills and cron jobs you wrote yourself, and the model as one setting you change whenever something better or cheaper comes along. This is why Hermes is so great. I own everything and swap out models as I need to.