X Watch Daily Report - 2026-05-18
Monitoring 25 AI / tech X accounts. On this day, 15 accounts had new updates.
New update: @elonmusk
Time: 2026-05-17 23:59 | Type: Reply
Extremely troubling
New update: @MarioNawfal
Time: 2026-05-18 00:10 | Type: Quote
🇺🇸🇮🇷 Will Iran agree to surrender its enriched uranium stockpile? Traders don’t think so, and are calling the major BS, just 43% chance it actually happens by the end of 2026. Trump team says talks are going well, but the smart money isn’t buying it.
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: 2026-05-17 20:58 | Type: Reply
a) in an exponential progress curve every day is a singularity and no day is a singularity, depending on your view. b) in an exponential progress curve, every part is similar to every other part. c) no exponential progress curve can continue forever.
New update: @fchollet
Time: 2026-05-18 00:04 | Type: Original
Decision making was the bottleneck all along. Productivity is the rate at which you make open-ended decisions, the rate at which you reduce future paths.
New update: @EricTopol
Time: 2026-05-17 01:05 | Type: Original
When everything is a secret to longevity but there is no secret. Or evidence. gift link https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/fitness/glutes-men-longevity-hockey-butt-9c02666d?st=eBCRzZ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
New update: @OpenAI
Time: 2026-05-14 20:06 | 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: @perplexity_ai
Time: 2026-05-14 15:24 | 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: 2026-05-15 17:37 | Type: Reply
New update: @TheRundownAI
Time: Sat, 16 May 2026 16:41:55 GMT | Type: Reply
New update: @hwchase17
Time: 2026-05-16 | Type: Reply
Let me check w the team!
New update: @gdb
Time: 2026-05-17 | Type: Original
so much joy in asking codex for random questions at work (such as finding some specific spreadsheet i’d been looking at a while ago), much more fun than searching around for context by hand
New update: @xai
Time: 2026-05-16 | Type: Reply
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Data source: monitoring of 25 AI / tech accounts on X (Twitter).