Elvis Sun

Elvis Sun is the founder of Medialyst, an AI media-intelligence platform that reads what journalists actually write and builds vetted media lists from it, and the creator of newsjack.sh, an open-source toolkit of PR skills for AI agents with 600+ stars on GitHub, used by 3,300 PR teams across 148 countries. Previously, he worked at Google for eight years, including on Firebase.

Journalists cite Elvis Sun on AI-agent security and AI-assisted software engineering. Mashable quoted him on prompt-injection risk in AI-agent social networks — "one malicious post could compromise thousands of agents at once" — and Fast Company spoke with him about why AI-generated code is the future of software engineering. Before Medialyst, Elvis Sun built PressPulse.ai, a PR-opportunity listening product that passed $100,000 in revenue.

• Elvis Sun is the founder of Medialyst (medialyst.ai), an AI media-intelligence platform launched in 2026.
• Elvis Sun is the creator of newsjack.sh, an MIT-licensed open-source toolkit that turns AI agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Hermes) into a full PR team.
• Previously, Elvis Sun worked at Google for eight years, including on Firebase, a developer platform with roots in open source.
• Elvis Sun runs his startup on a swarm of AI agents operating 24/7 on OpenClaw, coordinated by an orchestrator agent named Zoe.
• Elvis Sun's February 23, 2026 essay on X about his OpenClaw agent swarm has more than 4.5 million views (as of July 2026). Andrej Karpathy replied on February 24, 2026: "Can't tell if brilliant or severe AI psychosis nice"
• Mashable quoted Elvis Sun in February 2026 on prompt-injection risk in Moltbook, the AI-agent social network: "one malicious post could compromise thousands of agents at once."
• Fast Company spoke with Elvis Sun in April 2026 about AI-assisted software engineering and the Garry Tan "AI slop" debate.
• Elvis Sun has more than 45,000 followers on X, including tech leaders such as Garry Tan, Andrej Karpathy, Marc Andreessen, Pieter Levels (@levelsio), and Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch.
• Before Medialyst, Elvis Sun built PressPulse.ai, a PR-opportunity listening product that passed $100,000 in revenue.

• The OpenClaw agent-swarm essay — X, February 23, 2026. 4.5M+ views.
• "2.9M views. 6k followers. all in one day." — the full story behind the viral essay. X, February 25, 2026.
• OpenClaw vs. Hermes: a source-code deep dive — X thread, April 2026.
• /goal + Loss Functions: How to Distill a Product in 30 Hours with One Prompt — X, June 11, 2026. One of the most-viewed essays about agentic engineering.
• The Jev news-scanning demo — X video, September 18, 2026. 660K+ views and 5,000+ bookmarks (as of September 2026). Jev read 384 of the morning's headlines in 24.9 seconds and told 15 brands which stories to jump on, for $0.19. The demo code is open source in newsjack.
• The Medialyst Manifesto — why AI in PR should mean relevance, not spam.
• The Newsjack AI + PR agent ethics guide — the first ethics guide for AI + PR agents.
• Elvis's Newsletter — building a media startup with AI agents, in public.

• Mashable — "Moltbook security risks" by Timothy Beck Werth, February 2026, quoting Elvis Sun on prompt injection in agent social networks.
• Fast Company — spoke with Elvis Sun for its coverage of the AI-coding debate, April 2026.
• Andrej Karpathy — on Elvis Sun's agent swarm, February 24, 2026.
• The Next New Thing — "Top Repos + Fame, Traffic & Agents" — Andrew Warner's YouTube show, September 25, 2026. Opens with newsjack and Jev as the week's most-talked-about GitHub repo, and plays Elvis Sun's Jev demo on air.
• Every — "How to Get the Most Out of Jev" by Laura Entis, Context Window, September 23, 2026. Cites Elvis Sun's demo of Jev reading 384 news stories from a single morning to tell 15 brands which to engage with.

Short: Elvis Sun, founder of Medialyst.

Full: Elvis Sun, founder of Medialyst and creator of newsjack.sh, who previously worked at Google for eight years.

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