John Koetsier
@johnkoetsier.bsky.social
🎙️TechFirst (AI, robotics, new tech)
🎙️Growth Masterminds (growth, adtech)
🔮VP insight @ Singular
✍🏼 @ Forbes
📙No Other Gods
🎙️Growth Masterminds (growth, adtech)
🔮VP insight @ Singular
✍🏼 @ Forbes
📙No Other Gods
Robots are getting smarter.
Not sci-fi.
Real deployments, in the real world.
Here are 8 that @amazon, @nvidia, and @MassRobotics are backing in the new Physical AI Fellowship.
youtu.be/kVbVbVhzNZM
Not sci-fi.
Real deployments, in the real world.
Here are 8 that @amazon, @nvidia, and @MassRobotics are backing in the new Physical AI Fellowship.
youtu.be/kVbVbVhzNZM
November 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Robots are getting smarter.
Not sci-fi.
Real deployments, in the real world.
Here are 8 that @amazon, @nvidia, and @MassRobotics are backing in the new Physical AI Fellowship.
youtu.be/kVbVbVhzNZM
Not sci-fi.
Real deployments, in the real world.
Here are 8 that @amazon, @nvidia, and @MassRobotics are backing in the new Physical AI Fellowship.
youtu.be/kVbVbVhzNZM
Am I an idiot?
This is Apple's new iOS 26 liquid glass: tinted vs clear.
They look identical ... at least to me.
You?
This is Apple's new iOS 26 liquid glass: tinted vs clear.
They look identical ... at least to me.
You?
November 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Am I an idiot?
This is Apple's new iOS 26 liquid glass: tinted vs clear.
They look identical ... at least to me.
You?
This is Apple's new iOS 26 liquid glass: tinted vs clear.
They look identical ... at least to me.
You?
Imagine a business where you sell someone an electronic token for $1.
You do that about 130 billion times.
You invest that $130 billion USD in US government debt.
You collect interest.
You make billions in profit.
What a crazy, odd, interesting world.
You do that about 130 billion times.
You invest that $130 billion USD in US government debt.
You collect interest.
You make billions in profit.
What a crazy, odd, interesting world.
October 31, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Imagine a business where you sell someone an electronic token for $1.
You do that about 130 billion times.
You invest that $130 billion USD in US government debt.
You collect interest.
You make billions in profit.
What a crazy, odd, interesting world.
You do that about 130 billion times.
You invest that $130 billion USD in US government debt.
You collect interest.
You make billions in profit.
What a crazy, odd, interesting world.
Ouch ...
>> Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human
"It is a fully robotic regurgitation machine designed to protect the ego of the world’s wealthiest man."
www.404media.co/grokipedia-i...
>> Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human
"It is a fully robotic regurgitation machine designed to protect the ego of the world’s wealthiest man."
www.404media.co/grokipedia-i...
October 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Ouch ...
>> Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human
"It is a fully robotic regurgitation machine designed to protect the ego of the world’s wealthiest man."
www.404media.co/grokipedia-i...
>> Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human
"It is a fully robotic regurgitation machine designed to protect the ego of the world’s wealthiest man."
www.404media.co/grokipedia-i...
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) could be humanity’s greatest invention ... or our biggest risk.
Is it inevitable?
I chatted with Dr. Ben Goertzel, who's building AGI at SingularityNet.
Get the full convo here:
youtu.be/1e0jhdavt6k
Is it inevitable?
I chatted with Dr. Ben Goertzel, who's building AGI at SingularityNet.
Get the full convo here:
youtu.be/1e0jhdavt6k
October 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) could be humanity’s greatest invention ... or our biggest risk.
Is it inevitable?
I chatted with Dr. Ben Goertzel, who's building AGI at SingularityNet.
Get the full convo here:
youtu.be/1e0jhdavt6k
Is it inevitable?
I chatted with Dr. Ben Goertzel, who's building AGI at SingularityNet.
Get the full convo here:
youtu.be/1e0jhdavt6k
We're going to need more power.
A lot more power.
I just hope it is green power.
This is OpenAI's Sam Altman:
"Our vision is simple: we want to create a factory that can produce a gigawatt of new AI infrastructure every week."
A lot more power.
I just hope it is green power.
This is OpenAI's Sam Altman:
"Our vision is simple: we want to create a factory that can produce a gigawatt of new AI infrastructure every week."
September 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're going to need more power.
A lot more power.
I just hope it is green power.
This is OpenAI's Sam Altman:
"Our vision is simple: we want to create a factory that can produce a gigawatt of new AI infrastructure every week."
A lot more power.
I just hope it is green power.
This is OpenAI's Sam Altman:
"Our vision is simple: we want to create a factory that can produce a gigawatt of new AI infrastructure every week."
Oh joy
Because we all needed more reasons to love airlines
>> Delta plans for 20% of its fares to be individually determined using AI by the end of 2025, up from ~3% now, and has a goal to eliminate static pricing entirely
Because we all needed more reasons to love airlines
>> Delta plans for 20% of its fares to be individually determined using AI by the end of 2025, up from ~3% now, and has a goal to eliminate static pricing entirely
July 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Oh joy
Because we all needed more reasons to love airlines
>> Delta plans for 20% of its fares to be individually determined using AI by the end of 2025, up from ~3% now, and has a goal to eliminate static pricing entirely
Because we all needed more reasons to love airlines
>> Delta plans for 20% of its fares to be individually determined using AI by the end of 2025, up from ~3% now, and has a goal to eliminate static pricing entirely
I always have to kinda laugh when I see headlines like this.
Unknown startups need to reinvent the wheel or conclusively demonstrate working cold fusion to get in the press.
Massive corps can release a been-there done-that me-too feature that is literally a nothingburger ... and get tons of press.
Unknown startups need to reinvent the wheel or conclusively demonstrate working cold fusion to get in the press.
Massive corps can release a been-there done-that me-too feature that is literally a nothingburger ... and get tons of press.
July 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I always have to kinda laugh when I see headlines like this.
Unknown startups need to reinvent the wheel or conclusively demonstrate working cold fusion to get in the press.
Massive corps can release a been-there done-that me-too feature that is literally a nothingburger ... and get tons of press.
Unknown startups need to reinvent the wheel or conclusively demonstrate working cold fusion to get in the press.
Massive corps can release a been-there done-that me-too feature that is literally a nothingburger ... and get tons of press.
This week Neura Robotics launched 4NE-1 gen 3.
It's a humanoid robot that:
- can lift 220 pounds
- has 7 cameras
- has LIDAR
- has a mic for sound pickup
- has a hot-swappable battery
- can do a backflip
Neura says it's ready for mass production.
It's a humanoid robot that:
- can lift 220 pounds
- has 7 cameras
- has LIDAR
- has a mic for sound pickup
- has a hot-swappable battery
- can do a backflip
Neura says it's ready for mass production.
June 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This week Neura Robotics launched 4NE-1 gen 3.
It's a humanoid robot that:
- can lift 220 pounds
- has 7 cameras
- has LIDAR
- has a mic for sound pickup
- has a hot-swappable battery
- can do a backflip
Neura says it's ready for mass production.
It's a humanoid robot that:
- can lift 220 pounds
- has 7 cameras
- has LIDAR
- has a mic for sound pickup
- has a hot-swappable battery
- can do a backflip
Neura says it's ready for mass production.
Here's the world's most powerful humanoid robot, able to live 100kg or 202 pounds from the legs.
It's 4NE-1 from Neura Robotics.
Here's my chat with the CEO, David Reger ...
youtu.be/xeUMb86woDA
It's 4NE-1 from Neura Robotics.
Here's my chat with the CEO, David Reger ...
youtu.be/xeUMb86woDA
June 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Here's the world's most powerful humanoid robot, able to live 100kg or 202 pounds from the legs.
It's 4NE-1 from Neura Robotics.
Here's my chat with the CEO, David Reger ...
youtu.be/xeUMb86woDA
It's 4NE-1 from Neura Robotics.
Here's my chat with the CEO, David Reger ...
youtu.be/xeUMb86woDA
June 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Read this slowly:
Computer chip ...
... ith human neurons ...
... n a life-support solution.
www.forbes.com/sites/johnko...
Computer chip ...
... ith human neurons ...
... n a life-support solution.
www.forbes.com/sites/johnko...
June 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Read this slowly:
Computer chip ...
... ith human neurons ...
... n a life-support solution.
www.forbes.com/sites/johnko...
Computer chip ...
... ith human neurons ...
... n a life-support solution.
www.forbes.com/sites/johnko...
AI, automation, and robotics will cost jobs.
Are we doing enough to retrain, reskill, and help those displaced find other roles in our society and workforce?
That would be a big fat NO.
Are we doing enough to retrain, reskill, and help those displaced find other roles in our society and workforce?
That would be a big fat NO.
June 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
AI, automation, and robotics will cost jobs.
Are we doing enough to retrain, reskill, and help those displaced find other roles in our society and workforce?
That would be a big fat NO.
Are we doing enough to retrain, reskill, and help those displaced find other roles in our society and workforce?
That would be a big fat NO.
Whoa.
Stop.
No.
Too much.
The innovation is staggering.
I just can't handle it.
Stop.
No.
Too much.
The innovation is staggering.
I just can't handle it.
May 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Whoa.
Stop.
No.
Too much.
The innovation is staggering.
I just can't handle it.
Stop.
No.
Too much.
The innovation is staggering.
I just can't handle it.
Rototaxis are a solved problem.
The challenge now is just scaling.
Google's Waymo is doing exactly that right now
www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...
The challenge now is just scaling.
Google's Waymo is doing exactly that right now
www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...
May 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Rototaxis are a solved problem.
The challenge now is just scaling.
Google's Waymo is doing exactly that right now
www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...
The challenge now is just scaling.
Google's Waymo is doing exactly that right now
www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...
Google + Toyota = self-driving cars
That sound you hear in the background is Apple gnashing its teeth because
a) it lacked the patience to keep working on Apple Car
b) it demanded vertical integration, which car makers wouldn't allow
That sound you hear in the background is Apple gnashing its teeth because
a) it lacked the patience to keep working on Apple Car
b) it demanded vertical integration, which car makers wouldn't allow
April 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Google + Toyota = self-driving cars
That sound you hear in the background is Apple gnashing its teeth because
a) it lacked the patience to keep working on Apple Car
b) it demanded vertical integration, which car makers wouldn't allow
That sound you hear in the background is Apple gnashing its teeth because
a) it lacked the patience to keep working on Apple Car
b) it demanded vertical integration, which car makers wouldn't allow
TIRED:
Duolingo replacing workers with AI
WIRED:
Learning foreign languages is obsolete b/c AI-driven real-time translation
Duolingo replacing workers with AI
WIRED:
Learning foreign languages is obsolete b/c AI-driven real-time translation
April 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
TIRED:
Duolingo replacing workers with AI
WIRED:
Learning foreign languages is obsolete b/c AI-driven real-time translation
Duolingo replacing workers with AI
WIRED:
Learning foreign languages is obsolete b/c AI-driven real-time translation
The truth must never be told.
Amazon planned to show the cost of Trump's tariffs with product prices.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, AKA Bagdad Barbie, said
“This is a hostile and political act by Amazon."
Amazon planned to show the cost of Trump's tariffs with product prices.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, AKA Bagdad Barbie, said
“This is a hostile and political act by Amazon."
April 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The truth must never be told.
Amazon planned to show the cost of Trump's tariffs with product prices.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, AKA Bagdad Barbie, said
“This is a hostile and political act by Amazon."
Amazon planned to show the cost of Trump's tariffs with product prices.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, AKA Bagdad Barbie, said
“This is a hostile and political act by Amazon."
everything is normal here, nothing to see ...
April 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
everything is normal here, nothing to see ...
Open source humanoid robots that you can 3D print yourself?
That's the vision behind Hugging Face's acquisition of Pollen Robotics, which makes the Reachy 2 humanoid robot ...
www.forbes.com/sites/johnko...
That's the vision behind Hugging Face's acquisition of Pollen Robotics, which makes the Reachy 2 humanoid robot ...
www.forbes.com/sites/johnko...
April 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Open source humanoid robots that you can 3D print yourself?
That's the vision behind Hugging Face's acquisition of Pollen Robotics, which makes the Reachy 2 humanoid robot ...
www.forbes.com/sites/johnko...
That's the vision behind Hugging Face's acquisition of Pollen Robotics, which makes the Reachy 2 humanoid robot ...
www.forbes.com/sites/johnko...
And just like that, the "free speech absolutist" became the KGB
April 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
And just like that, the "free speech absolutist" became the KGB
ummm ... yeah
so much for that "private" browsing you wanted
so much for that "private" browsing you wanted
April 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
ummm ... yeah
so much for that "private" browsing you wanted
so much for that "private" browsing you wanted
My latest at Forbes is about ... Facebook. They've released a new Friends tab in the app.
April 1, 2025 at 12:10 AM
My latest at Forbes is about ... Facebook. They've released a new Friends tab in the app.
1. Be a criminal
2. Get sentenced
3. Donate $1.8 million to Trump
4. Get a pardon
So this is how it works. This is "draining the swamp."
2. Get sentenced
3. Donate $1.8 million to Trump
4. Get a pardon
So this is how it works. This is "draining the swamp."
March 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
1. Be a criminal
2. Get sentenced
3. Donate $1.8 million to Trump
4. Get a pardon
So this is how it works. This is "draining the swamp."
2. Get sentenced
3. Donate $1.8 million to Trump
4. Get a pardon
So this is how it works. This is "draining the swamp."