🎰 MonsterGPT: AI to Beat the Bookmakers?

The house always wins, but MonsterBet founder Carson Szeder decided to challenge that saying. Back in college, he created algorithms for friends who enjoyed betting, and in 2025, he launched MonsterGPT, an AI for professional sports forecasts.

😃 How Does It Work?

It's built on Szeder's proprietary models and the RAG method for real-time game stat updates. MonsterBet also considers estimates from other machine learning algorithms.

The platform supports popular sports such as soccer, ice hockey, basketball, and mixed martial arts. The service includes a dashboard with game analytics and win predictions, as well as the MonsterGPT AI assistant, which helps pick betting strategies depending on the sport, team lineup, and specific player data.

According to Szeder, users, including himself, win between 56 and 60% of the time. There aren't many reviews online, and X is flooded with ads, suggesting a relatively small user base. Meanwhile, pricing starts at $77 per month.

❕ Do not consider this as advice; it is only an illustration of how AI is taking on new roles.

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✈️ Will a Bitcoin Be Worth $1 Million? Lex Friedman Speaks to Pavel Durov

Telegram founder and owner Pavel Durov gave Lex Friedman a four-hour interview about his values, lifestyle, and the future.

Highlights:

✅ Durov grew up poor and wore the same second-hand jacket for years. He believes that scarсity boosts creativity, while overabundance paralyses motivation and willpower.

✅ His main source of income is not Telegram, but bitcoins purchased in 2013 at their peak price of $700. Durov considers cryptocurrency to be the most reliable medium of exchange when governments "keep printing money like no tomorrow." Therefore, he does not rule out that bitcoin will be worth $1 million in the future.

✅ Mathematics is the most important subject in school because it shapes your brain and teaches you to rely on your logic. And the main driver of success is competition: by removing competition in schools, "you eliminate the losers, but you end up eliminating the winners as well." That is why Durov looks for employees at coding competitions rather than through interviews.

✅ "The main muscle you can exercise is self-discipline," says Pavel Durov. He does 300 push-ups and 300 squats every day and goes to the gym 5-6 times a week. He doesn't take pills, eat sugar, fast food, or red meat, and doesn't drink soda or alcohol, preferring seafood and vegetables.

✅ He hardly ever uses his smartphone, only picking it up to test Telegram's features: "I don't think a phone is a necessary device. I remember growing up, I didn't have a mobile phone. The more connected and accessible you are, the less productive." Durov thinks gadgets violate freedom: "I don't want other people or companies to tell me what's important today and what I should be thinking."

✅ The core Telegram engineering team consists of only 40 developers. Durov believes that employees should always be busy and there is an incentive for automation. If there is not enough work, people will be demotivated and start looking for something else to do.

📱 The full interview is available on YouTube.

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👬 Friends Think Alike Even Before They Meet

Researchers discovered that people who eventually become friends already see the world in surprisingly similar ways, even before their first conversation.

Students who didn't know each other before starting their program were shown short videos ranging from science to food and sports. While they watched, fMRI scans tracked which areas of their brains lit up in response to different scenes.

Two and eight months later, the researchers surveyed students to find out who had become friends. It turned out that people whose brains reacted in similar ways to the videos were much more likely to form close friendships.

🧠 What Does This Mean?

Friendship isn't just about shared interests or chance encounters ("we sat next to each other in class"). It also stems from a deeper similarity in how we perceive the world. People with similar neural responses are essentially "speaking the same language" before they've even exchanged a hello.

This finding could help with everything from pairing roommates to building effective teams. The authors even suggest that, one day, apps might match people for projects not only by skills but by how similarly their brains process the world.

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👐 Sora 2: OpenAI's Comeback to the Video Generation

OpenAI has released Sora 2, a new version of its AI text-to-video model.

The realism, sound quality, and camera work are truly impressive, even against strong competitors like Veo 3. The entire two-minute announcement was created by Sora 2 ⤴️

📸 Developers note that the model doesn't try to distort reality to follow the prompt. For example, if during the generation of a basketball shot the AI sees that the player misses, the ball doesn't teleport to the target to match the prompt, but rebounces off the backboard.

🎞 The startup also launches a standalone Sora app, a TikTok rival with an entirely AI-generated feed. With the cameo feature, users can place themselves in AI videos. You can make your image available to everyone, and also demand the deletion of any video with your AI double.

Currently, the app is only available for iOS users in the U.S. and Canada. Access to it, as well as to the model itself, is free but invite-only. Moreover, invites are required even for Pro subscribers who pay $200/month. They will also be able to use the Pro version of Sora 2.

🏆 The launch of the first Sora at the end of last year didn't go as well as OpenAI had hoped. After a delay of more than six months, the model struggled to stand out, and competitors like Google and Kling pushed Sora down the video generator rankings.

Now OpenAI is aiming for a comeback. The company has a strong product and a clear plan to promote it. Users are encouraged to keep their AI videos within the startup's own platform instead of sharing them elsewhere.

What do you think of Sora 2?

❤️ — amazing, it's a revolution!
🤔 — doesn't look like a breakthrough...
🔥 — I hate AI video at all

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🖥 Claude Sonnet 4.5: Anthropic's New "Coding Champion"

Anthropic's new model beats not only the bigger Claude Opus 4.1 in almost all benchmarks, but also GPT-5, its coding version GPT-5-Codex, and Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro ⤴️

The developers say Sonnet 4.5 is the world's best model for coding and agent tasks. At the same time, Sonnet 4.5 is safer than its predecessors and competitors.

❤️ For subscribers of the most expensive Max plan, the startup released a demo of Imagine with Claude, a full-featured working environment with explorer, folders, and documents that Sonnet 4.5 creates in real-time, on the fly.

➡️ You can already use Claude Sonnet 4.5 in our bot.

How to Use?
1️⃣ Go to @GPT4Telegrambot
2️⃣ Purchase Claude 4.5 Bundle in the /premium section
3️⃣ Enter the /model command and select Sonnet 4

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