The United States Mission to Belgium condemns, in the strongest terms, Ghent University’s retaliation against an American scholar following his accurate whistleblower reporting on academic fraud. The United States government regularly funds and supports research, academic exchanges, and other engagements with overseas universities. Dishonest, corrupt institutions that engage in, or reward, scapegoating mob behavior are not desirable partners for us. This is particularly true where the purpose and effect of the scapegoating is to punish accurate journalism unearthing academic dishonesty. We are therefore reviewing any relationships we have with Ghent University. Bad-faith idealogues will try to make this a referendum on the content of Cofnas’s scholarship – or polemical distortions of it. That’s wrong. Free speech means that controversial views are protected. And Cofnas’s views were known to Ghent University when he was hired. The ultimate purpose of freedom of speech is to overturn lies, fraud, and false ideologies. This is precisely what Cofnas was doing, and precisely the reason his home institution wants to silence him. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Grok Bot might be the first tool that lets one non-technical person run an entire business with a team of AI agents. My friend Billy runs his whole newsletter business on Grok Bot agents, and I think we're about to see 100,000+ businesses like his. BEST PRACTICES: 1. The agents run on a shared cloud computer, so running your newsletter, your X, and your receipts all in one place creates context bloat and burns tokens fast. One mission per setup. 2. Start with a Chief of Staff. Give it access to your existing docs (Notion, Slack, Gmail), have it audit the business, then tell you the top three agents to build first to drive revenue. 3. Perfect a task with the Chief of Staff before spinning up a new agent. Have it do the outbound sales once, review it, and only then say "now build a bot that does exactly that." You earn each new hire by proving the task works first. 4. Constraints are the feature. You get a limited number of agents, one thread per bot, like DMs with a teammate. It forces you to stay mission-oriented instead of spinning up a bot for every random idea. 5. You make the decisions, not the agent. Billy's team spent three weeks unable to pick where content should live. At some point you say "we're doing Notion, no more tinkering" and move on. 6. Run week one with no new agents. Build the team, learn to fly the plane, just execute. Week three is when you find the real gaps and expand, someone to man the inbox, someone for the Shopify shop. 7. Then add routines so it works while you sleep. Ask your Chief of Staff what recurring jobs would move the business forward overnight, and it builds the automations that run without you. Thanks to @billyjhowell for sharing the sauce on @startupideaspod (follow for more). Grokbot is really cool. Watch below: piped.video/qQluNEfSVHk?si=3L2c…

One of the best things I gave my Grok Bot... Was its own email address. Now it can: → Send emails → Receive replies → Verify accounts → Sign up for websites → Use email inside its own workflows Takes 2 minutes... Now it can do a LOT more without me.

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Grok 4.6 just took the #1 spot on CursorBench 3.2.....and the efficiency is insane Here's the cost comparison: • Grok 4.6 Extra High — 70.8% | $2.81/task • Fable 5 Max — 70.5% | $17.32/task • Opus 5 Max — 70.0% | $8.23/task • GPT-5.6 Sol Max — 67.2% | $5.69/task Grok achieved the highest score while costing roughly 6X less than Fable 5 Max and nearly 3X less than Opus 5 Max per task That’s what makes Grok so powerful for agents Top-tier intelligence is great.....but top-tier intelligence that can keep working across long coding tasks without burning ridiculous amounts of compute is even better Grok’s agentic coding efficiency is insane