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Introducing Sherpa: the most advanced fiction writing AI We accelerated from $250M in ARR to $500M because Sherpa helped increase content production by 1200% in 1 year Sherpa was trained on 5.5B hours of playtime with minute by minute dynamic retention data. 550K+ creators have produced 2.6M hours of content annualised using it Pocket FM is like Netflix for audio-only dramas, with our own pool of one-person studios. 10% of eligible writers on Pocket FM make >$200K One blockbuster produced >$100M in revenue 3 writers have become millionaires in <2 yrs We built Sherpa to enable anyone to make >$1M by writing world-class fiction stories: 1. The Idea: Drop a 1-2 sentence concept. Sherpa interrogates it like a veteran editor on tension, stakes, and psychology 2. World & Characters: It builds out the complete lore, tone, and character psychologies 3. Sub-Plot planning: Breaks the premise into arcs, arcs into episodes, and episodes into scenes 4. Scene-by-Scene Generation: Outlines and drafts entire episodes, with you able to steer, rewrite, or override anytime 5. Editorial Review: Stress-tests every draft for pacing, engagement drop-offs, prose, and coherence before it locks 6. One-Tap Production: Pick a voice, convert to audio drama, and publish directly to Pocket FM’s millions of listeners 7. Global Scale & Monetization: Revenue-share on performance, with automatic localization so you earn across international markets Test Sherpa for free here: pocketfm.com/sherpa _____________________________________________ Generic LLMs fail at serialized fiction because they lack a long-horizon narrative reward function. Sherpa solves this through three core technical leaps: 1. Narrative World Model (State Tracking & Retrieval): Context windows degrade over long runs. Sherpa constructs an evolving semantic knowledge graph tracking character states, secrets, and plot dependencies. High-speed retrieval surfaces exact context on demand, maintaining zero continuity decay across hundreds of episodes 2. Hierarchical Story Planner: When writing a 500-episode story like Naruto, you need to plan 100s of sub plots. Rather than generating linearly, Sherpa decomposes narrative across discrete levels: season -> arc -> sequence -> episode -> scene. Rather than generating everything upfront, like a generic LLM, Sherpa uses progressive planning and dynamic replanning. As the story evolves, it identifies what changed, traces the downstream impact, and replans only the affected parts. 3. Prose Engine (Trained on series' retention data): LLMs write robotically, but serial fiction needs emotion, tension, pacing, and dialogue that sounds like real people. Sherpa's Prose Engine was designed specifically for storytelling. It was built on 1B+ tokens of Pocket's own stories, trained by learning from what listeners engage with, where they drop off, and what keeps them hooked. Feedback is taken from specialized evaluator models that measure every scene against a 40-item checklist. (Evaluator models were benchmarked against human reviewers and matched them 80–90% of the time.) _______________________________________________ Owning distribution and creation puts us in a very unique spot. More shows -> More data -> Sherpa becomes better -> more creator success -> more creators -> more shows Pocket FM has already seen one $100M IP. I believe Sherpa will soon lead to dozens of single-person studios creating billion-dollar shows. Most people are scared of AI but I think it'll unlock more human creativity, help creators earn more, and bring the next great IPs to life. This will create millions of jobs and new income streams.

@patrick2604 @ianmiles You must live a very sad life

Eg Stalter turned the 2026 Emmys red carpet into a spectacle, arriving as a gilded statuette complete with wings and a giant golden atom.

Furry mobile spotted in Moscow

A moose named Emil wandered onto Warsaw’s railway tracks, bringing train traffic to a standstill before reaching Warsaw Central Station.

This rat has had enough

Fashion executive tussles with PETA protesters at a fashion show

In NYC, a young man and woman were sitting on subway tracks before being fatally struck

The USA goat hurling team was eliminated early from 6th World Nomad Games; Kyrgyzstan's dominant 12-0 victory over Kazakhstan determined the kok boru champion. Did even know the US has a goat hurling team?

More than 100 illegal migrants were trapped inside buses in Portsmouth by angry protesters surrounding them.

A fireworks detonation at the patron saint celebration in Santa María Canchesdá, Temascalcingo, claimed 9 lives and left 24 injured.

ICYMI: At Miami International Airport, surveillance footage captured an Amazon Prime Air Boeing 767 freighter running past the runway's end.

Three Port Orange officers fired more than a dozen rounds at 71-year-old Linda Jean Croteau after she entered into the station with a handgun and discharged a single bullet toward the evidence area.

@maticrobots Incredible. This could be a game changer for housekeeping

Introducing Cues: Voice & Gesture control for Matic We raised $115M and spent 9 years to make the world’s first intuitive home robot Say you spilled coffee: Point to the spill and say, "Hey Matic, clean this" and it will hear, see, locate in 3D, and go clean on its own. Matic comes with a lot of features: 1. Say "Hey Matic" - it locates your voice, turns, and looks at you 2. Say "Hey Matic, follow me" and start walking. Matic will follow behind 3. Say "Hey Matic, go clean the living room". Since it knows your house map, it navigates and just does it It's so easy, a 5 year old and an 80 year old can use it and it understands 75 different languages. Matic has 8x the airflow, specialised cleaning algorithms for rugs, corners, toekicks, mopping, etc and cleans better than any other robot vacuum. Also keeps improving with software updates. 13,000 families use and love Matic. WIRED magazine gave it a 10/10 (the only hardware to receive this rating in a decade) Buy yours at maticrobots.com and if you don't love it after 6 months, we'll give you a full refund. To celebrate our launch, we're cleaning 300 homes with Matic in San Francisco and New York City. Comment "Matic" below, we'll send you the link to sign up and come to your doorstep to clean your home with Matic.

Will there be justice for Alisa Hackett? Newly-released video shows an Arkansas State trooper punching 18-year-old Alisa Hackett in the face during a traffic stop earlier this month, after forcing her to the ground on the side of a highway. Trooper Moisses Arellano said she was resisting arrest, after he pulled her over for allegedly driving 11 miles above the posted speed limit with her hazards on. The trooper also said he found a sealed bottle of alcohol in her car. Hackett is facing multiple charges, including refusing to submit to arrest. Arkansas State Police have not said whether Arellano will face any discipline. Watch the video. It's insane.

Today we’ve raised $52M Seed and we are announcing the public launch of S2.1 Pro. >It can clone a voice from 5 seconds of audio >2x faster than Cartesia & 1/6th the cost of Eleven Labs >most expressive model with word level control over emotion, intonation, pacing etc We support frontier AI companies including HeyGen, LiveKit, Retell, Sanas, and OpenArt all run our model in production. If you're a business and we can't cut your voice AI costs by 50%, we'll give you 1 year of Fish Audio for free. Book a demo: s.fish.audio/tmapke To celebrate our first birthday, we'll give you 1 month of S2.1 Pro for free. Like, retweet, and comment “Fish” to get it.

@disclosetv But it’s fine when he offers material support to their enemies? Lmao

Many people are saying JD Vance’s interaction with his wife is AI generated.

@TruthTellingX @ianmiles Oh boo hoo cry about it. Can joke about anything except for the one thing because God's Chosen People don't like it when goyim joke about their sacred cow. Oy vey.