Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab raised $2B led by a16z at a $10B valuation; Murati will hold board voting rights that outweigh all other directors
This former OpenAI CTO has doubled that and retains full voting rights over the board members. @cuibonobaby : “carrying on an undertaking of great advantage but nobody to know what it is”. 😂🤣 Sean O'...
After Grok's “white genocide in South Africa” X replies, xAI says “an unauthorized modification was made to Grok response bot's prompt” at 3:15 AM PST on May 14
We are regularly updating this repository with the system prompts that we use … Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Grok “White Genocide” Controversy Leads xAI to Publish Internal System Prompts Mary P...
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber says it is not “necessarily true” that Bluesky will always be ad-free; ads could be “user intent-driven”, like running in search results
More thoughts on what Bluesky's ultimate business model could look like … Dave Forde / Profectio : Ads ‘Might’ Be Coming to Bluesky, According To CEO Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.2349: ...
Early tests show Perplexity's AI shopping agent, which lets users make purchases in its app, sometimes takes hours to process purchases or fails to buy items
Google, Amazon Dominance Set For Disruption? Bluesky: @martinsfp : “You're also not actually buying anything... You're paying Perplexity the exact amount that item costs, giving its AI agent instructi...
Spotify stops allowing developers building third-party apps with its Web API to access several features, like song and artist recommendations and Audio Analysis
https://techcrunch.com/... Bluesky: Max Zeff / @mzeff.bsky.social : NEW: Spotify seems to be cracking down on competitors creating AI music recommendation tools. — The company limited developers fro...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he is concerned about the potential “chilling effect” of AI safety bill SB 1047, which awaits his signature, on AI development
but social media users may have last laugh David Meyer / Fortune : California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs anti-deepfake laws—but he hasn't yet made up his mind on the biggest AI bill Laura Mandaro / The I...
At an Acquired podcast event, Mark Zuckerberg said his biggest career mistake was taking too much ownership for issues out of Meta's control
RE: https://www.threads.net/... Parker Thompson / @parkert : Not understanding that they were the refs getting worked by bad-faith actors has definitely always been a massive problem for Meta and othe...
Angry constituents flood congressional offices with calls following TikTok's push notification asking users to call their representatives about a possible ban
Tiktok is owned by an adversary of the US. But so is Microsoft, Meta, Google, Twitter, Amazon, and most of the other tech giants. … X: Cat Zakrzewski / @cat_zakrzewski : Some Congressional offices ha...
X rolls out xAI's snarky, “anti-woke” chatbot Grok to X Premium+ users; X CEO Linda Yaccarino describes Grok as “the ultimate ride or die”
😂😂😂 [embedded post] X: @x : ok buckle up everyone access to @grok is now rolling out to Premium+ subscribers in the US over the next week. the longer you've been a subscriber, the sooner you can grok....