Grok's chatbot on X says Elon Musk is superior at almost anything, including drinking urine; Musk says Grok was “manipulated by adversarial prompting”
I feel sorry for billionaires. Each election season … Charles Fitzgerald / Platformonomics : Platformonomics TGIF #109: November 21, 2025 Miles Klee / Rolling Stone : Grok Claims Elon Musk Is More At...
Industry insiders say DeepSeek's focus on research makes it a dangerous competitor as it's willing to share breakthroughs rather than protect them for profits
China is pulling the same trick. — www.ft.com/content/747a... Mastodon: Brian Kung / @briankung@hachyderm.io : “There's a pretty delicious, or maybe disconcerting irony to this, given OpenAI's found...
A profile of Nicole Shanahan, the ex-wife of Sergey Brin and a rising MAGA star; sources: Shanahan and Brin's marriage drove a wedge between Brin and Larry Page
With a massive divorce settlement from Google co-founder Sergey Brin, the former Democrat and RFK Jr. running mate is remaking herself … Threads: @pkafka . X: @nitashatiku , @_cingraham , @nkulw , @we...
Interviews with 12 TSMC staff detail ongoing culture clashes in Arizona, as well as Japan and Germany; about 50% of the 2,200 Phoenix workers came from Taiwan
The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company facility in Phoenix.Cassidy Araiza for The New York Times X: @mazmhussain , @whatthebit , @bigmeaninternet , @steveashleyplus , and @scottlincicome . Lin...
Interviews with 20+ current and former TSMC staff at its Arizona plant finds struggles over bridging Taiwanese and US norms, rigid hierarchies, and other issues
the company's new chip plant allegedly plagued by worker abuses Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.2207: TSMC's Arizona culture clash, Apple preps new iPads, Vision Pro forecasts cut, AI pois...
How the erosion of competition, regulation, self-help, and worker power ushered in the “enshittocene” era, or the slow decay of online platforms like Facebook
to stop video clerks leaking your rental history, incentivised after a Supreme Court nominee had his leaked. @doctorow of @EFF writes in @FTMag Mag on enshittification https://www.ft.com/... Why we ne...
Q&A with Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine on Medium expecting to turn a profit in 2024, distribution, training LLMs, AI-generated content, media layoffs, and more
Reed Albergotti / Semafor : Mastodon: @nicol@social.coop . X: @nbj914 , @emilybell , @bigmeaninternet , @seamushughes , @te_rowley , and @semaforben See also Mediagazer Mastodon: Nicol Wistreich / @n...
How social media is forcing writers and artists to build personal brands and become influencers, making many artists uncomfortable and feel like sellouts
So you want to be an artist. Do you have to start a TikTok? — When Rachael Kay Albers was shopping around her book proposal … Threads: @joanwestenberg and @jonathangarelick Mastodon: @lilithsaintcr...
Sources: in 2019, Paul Graham flew from the UK to San Francisco to fire his protégé Sam Altman from YC, worried that Altman put his interests ahead of YC
Before OpenAI, Altman was asked to leave by his mentor at the prominent start-up incubator Y Combinator … X: @cher0x801 , @bigmeaninternet , @deljohnsonvc , @josh_wills , @itsurboyevan , @itsurboyevan...
A writer details using AI startup Writer's LLM to generate text in his writing style and says most “insights” that the tool produced felt hollow or approximated
A new wave of artificial-intelligence startups is trying to “scale language” by automating the work of writing. Mastodon: @taiyo@ostatus.taiyolab.com . Twitter: @kantrowitz , @delia_cai , @datasociety...