X Watch Daily Report - 2026-05-17
Monitoring 25 AI / tech X accounts. On this day, 16 accounts had new updates.
New update: @elonmusk
Time: Sat, 16 May 2026 21:13 GMT | Type: Reply
It needs to stop
New update: @MarioNawfal
Time: 2026-05-17 | Type: Quote
🇺🇸 Tucker lays out the deepest critique of AI yet, and it’s not about jobs… His argument: writing produces thinking. You can’t formulate a thought without first articulating it. If kids never write because AI writes for them, the quality of human thinking collapses. That’s the surface problem. The deeper one is purpose: “The point of living is to create. That’s the point of being a human being. It’s necessary for joy. There is no joy without creation.” If the machine creates everything and humans just consume, you don’t get utopia. You get despair, mass unemployment, and even…
New update: @AndrewYNg
Time: 2026-05-14 | Type: Original
New course: Transformers in Practice. You’ll get a practical view of how transformer-based LLMs work, so you can reason about their behavior, diagnose problems like slow inference, and make smarter decisions about deployment. This course is built in partnership with @AMD and taught by @realSharonZhou. You’ll see how transformers generate text one token at a time, how the model decides which earlier words matter most when predicting the next one, and how techniques like quantization speed up inference on GPUs. This is not a video-only course; interactive visualizations throughout let you play…
New update: @ylecun
Time: 2026-05-16 17:32 | Type: Quote
Tired of winning
New update: @fchollet
Time: 2026-05-16 | Type: Quote
If you’re not obsessed with the research problem you’re working on, for its own sake, you’re unlikely to succeed. Intrinsic motivation is far more powerful than external rewards.
New update: @EricTopol
Time: 2026-05-16 17:24 | Type: Reply
In case you thought this was just about Ozempic and Zepbound
New update: @OpenAI
Time: 2026-05-14 | Type: Original
Rolling out today as a preview on iOS and Android in all supported regions. Support for connecting your phone to the Codex app on Windows is coming soon. https://openai.com/index/work-with-codex-from-anywhere/
New update: @DrJimFan
Time: 2026-05-16 | Type: Reply
Long may he work!
New update: @demishassabis
Time: 2026-05-13 | Type: Reply
one of my favourite scenes of all time!
New update: @perplexity_ai
Time: 2026-05-14 | Type: Reply
Build dashboards and automations from your Snowflake data for pipeline analysis, product usage, customer segments, and more. Admins maintain control over access, business definitions, and shared data logic across the organization. Learn more: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/computer-brings-data-science-to-every-team
New update: @AnthropicAI
Time: 2026-05-14 | Type: Original
We’ve published a paper that explains our views on AI competition between the US and China. The US and democratic allies hold the lead in frontier AI today. Read more on what it’ll take to keep that lead: https://www.anthropic.com/research/2028-ai-leadership
New update: @_akhaliq
Time: Fri, 15 May 2026 17:37:34 GMT | Type: Reply
New update: @TheRundownAI
Time: Sat, 16 May 2026 16:41 GMT | Type: Reply
New update: @hwchase17
Time: 2026-05-16 | Type: Reply
Let me check w the team!
New update: @gdb
Time: 2026-05-16 23:25 | Type: Original
tokens are rapidly becoming the universal input for solving problems
New update: @xai
Time: 2026-05-16 20:20 | Type: Reply
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Data source: monitoring of 25 AI / tech accounts on X (Twitter).