Patrick Collison (@patrickc) / X

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Tyler and I just published a list of the recipients of the New Aesthetics grants: newaesthetics.art/grants. Thank you very much to all who applied. There were far more applications than we expected. We funded 28 grantees and are excited to see what they create. My reflections on

A Call for New Aesthetics — newaesthetics.art

New Aesthetics Grants

From newaesthetics.art

Overall, I’m very surprised at how little media coverage there’s been around the OpenAI / Hugging Face attack. It’s clearly one of the most important things to happen this year.

Between wallets for agents with @link (and @privy), MPP, Tempo, MCP, Stripe CLI, Agentic Commerce Suite, sandboxes, OpenRouter, Metronome/metered billing, Radar and distillation/token fraud, it turns out that "the economic infrastructure for AI" implicates a lot. Pretty much

Met a German founder this week and asked him if all the stories one reads about the challenges of startups in Germany are exaggerated. "No, they're understated." Proceeded to describe spending a full day having a 90-page investment contract read to him (mandatory under German

Grok Bot can now purchase anywhere with @link. (If you haven't tried Grok Bot, you should. It's very good.)

Grok Bot

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Aug 28

Grok Bot can now buy things on the internet. To get started, connect @link, send your Bot shopping, and it can complete purchases on your behalf.

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