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Austen Allred

@austen
206 posts
2026-02-27
It is pretty wild that a company like Block (with >$1B in annual net income) will cut 40% of its staff, probably almost double its net income as a result, and everybody can kind of acknowledge there won't be any material deterioration of the product as a result
2026-02-27 View on X
Reuters

Block reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $6.25B, gross profit up 24% to $2.87B, driven by a 33% surge in Cash App, and forecasts Q1 gross profit up 22% to $2.8B

Block (XYZ.N) on Thursday said it will cut over 4,000 jobs, nearly half its workforce, as part of an overhaul …

It is pretty wild that a company like Block (with >$1B in annual net income) will cut 40% of its staff, probably almost double its net income as a result, and everybody can kind of acknowledge there won't be any material deterioration of the product as a result
2026-02-27 View on X
CNBC

Block says it is laying off 4,000+ of its 10,000+ employees, saying AI tools have changed “what it means to build and run a company”; XYZ jumps 15%+

Block said Thursday it's laying off more than 4,000 employees, or about half of its headcount.

2026-02-25
You touch my screen and I'll cut you
2026-02-25 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: MacBook Pros with touch screens, due this fall, will have a Dynamic Island and a refreshed, dynamic UI optimized for touch or point-and-click input

Apple Inc.'s long-awaited foray into touch-screen laptops will bring major changes to the Mac interface, including the addition …

2026-02-17
So far as I can tell anyone sharing an acquisition price for OpenClaw has zero sources whatsoever and is relying on other tweets that simply made it up. Any guessing could be off by orders of magnitude in either direction.
2026-02-17 View on X
@sama

Sam Altman says Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI “to drive the next generation of personal agents”; OpenClaw will remain open source

2026-02-16
So far as I can tell anyone sharing an acquisition price for OpenClaw has zero sources whatsoever and is relying on other tweets that simply made it up. Any guessing could be off by orders of magnitude in either direction.
2026-02-16 View on X
@sama

Sam Altman says Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI “to drive the next generation of personal agents”; OpenClaw will remain open source

Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting wi...

So far as I can tell anyone sharing an acquisition price for OpenClaw has zero sources whatsoever and is relying on other tweets that simply made it up. Any guessing could be off by orders of magnitude in either direction.
2026-02-16 View on X
Implicator.ai

In a podcast, OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger describes his phone calls with Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman, and says he had been contacted by “every big VC”

Mark Zuckerberg needed ten minutes.  He was finishing code.  —  Peter Steinberger had called him on WhatsApp without scheduling anything.

Holy smokes... there's a HUGE community of people who have formed such a deep emotional connection with GPT-4o that they're absolutely losing it at the notion of OpenAI turning it off. And super mad they're turning it off just before Valentine's Day 😬 [image]
2026-02-16 View on X
Bloomberg

OpenAI retired GPT-4o on February 13, angering loyal users, 20K+ of whom signed a petition; 4o showed the unique attachment that people can form with chatbots

GPT-4o showed the unique attachment that people can form with chatbots  —  OpenAI is forcing thousands of people to break up with its most controversial AI model.

2026-02-14
Holy smokes... there's a HUGE community of people who have formed such a deep emotional connection with GPT-4o that they're absolutely losing it at the notion of OpenAI turning it off. And super mad they're turning it off just before Valentine's Day 😬 [image]
2026-02-14 View on X
The Guardian

As OpenAI retires GPT-4o, some users say they are angry and grieving to lose the flirty, quirky companion

2026-02-13
Holy smokes... there's a HUGE community of people who have formed such a deep emotional connection with GPT-4o that they're absolutely losing it at the notion of OpenAI turning it off. And super mad they're turning it off just before Valentine's Day 😬 [image]
2026-02-13 View on X
The Guardian

As OpenAI retires GPT-4o, some users say they are angry and grieving to lose the flirty, quirky companion

Its human partners said the flirty, quirky GPT-4o was the perfect companion - on the eve of Valentine's Day, it's being turned off for good.  How will users cope?

2026-01-13
So the political representatives of Silicon Valley co-signed a tax plan that would require virtually every startup founder to leave the state if their company becomes successful enough. Upon learning their plan would have such a catastrophic outcome, they changed nothing.
2026-01-13 View on X
Politico

Governor Gavin Newsom says he has been negotiating for four months to neutralize California's wealth tax ballot proposal; a compromise does not appear imminent

A compromise does not appear imminent.  A union official cast doubt on the possibility of a deal, saying the two sides …

So the political representatives of Silicon Valley co-signed a tax plan that would require virtually every startup founder to leave the state if their company becomes successful enough. Upon learning their plan would have such a catastrophic outcome, they changed nothing.
2026-01-13 View on X
Pirate Wires

A late-November 2025 amendment to California's wealth tax proposal treats founder control as ownership, which could end founder-controlled startups in the state

I'm a little confused at the hype around this. Isn't this... exactly what Claude does already? And has done for a long time? Is this just marketing to let nontechnical people know they can use it too? I must be missing something.
2026-01-13 View on X
ZDNET

Anthropic debuts Cowork for Claude, built on Claude Code, for automating complex tasks with minimal prompting, as a research preview for Claude Max subscribers

ZDNET's key takeaways  — Anthropic is launching Cowork for Claude as a research preview.  — It's built upon Claude Code and can automate complex tasks.

2025-12-06
Whoa so that wearable device people have been wearing 24/7 and recording 100% of their conversations on was just acquired by Meta. Sick.
2025-12-06 View on X
Reuters

Meta acquires Limitless, which makes a pendant-style AI wearable that records and transcribes real-world conversations; Limitless has raised more than $33M

Meta (META.O) has acquired AI-wearables startup Limitless, maker of a pendant-style device that records and transcribes real-world conversations …

2025-10-29
$500/mo? Seems too cheap to be real, no?
2025-10-29 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A look at 1X's $20K Neo humanoid housekeeper robot, controlled remotely by a human with a VR headset, available now for preorder, with delivery expected in 2026

1X's Neo wants to be your housekeeper.  First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home.  Cool with you?

2025-10-20
If X is smart it won't just sell the most valuable handles at auction. It will rent them.
2025-10-20 View on X
The Verge

X plans a Handle Marketplace to let Premium+ and Premium Business subscribers search for and request inactive usernames; rare handles range from $2,500 to $1M+

Explore inactive 𝕏 handles Available to Full Access Premium Businesses. Paulo Vargas / Digital Trends : You'll soon be able to buy that dormant X handle you've had your eye on Bell...

2025-07-26
Calling the Tea hack a “hack” is honestly a stretch. They put everything in a publicly accessible DB. Not in the “they didn't encrypt” sense, in the “literally publicly accessible URL” sense. The “hack” is downloading the .jpg files from a publicly accessible URL. [image]
2025-07-26 View on X
NBC News

Tea says hackers accessed a database from more than two years ago, leaking 72,000 images, including 13,000 verification photos and images of government IDs

The viral app requires new users to take selfies, which it says it deletes after review.  —  Hackers have breached the Tea app …

2025-07-03
Must suck being an unemployed software engineer and realizing that Soham Parekh has been hired 79 times in the past 4 years
2025-07-03 View on X
NDTV

Mixpanel co-founder Suhail Doshi calls out Soham Parekh, who he says “works at 3-4 startups at the same time” and has “been preying on YC companies and more”

The AI founder shared Soham Parekh's resume, which shows that the techie has worked at Dynamo AI, Union AI …

2025-06-29
Somehow the Wall Street Journal describing who Meta is hiring as AI researchers is exactly what you'd expect [image]
2025-06-29 View on X
Spyglass

Meta offering $100M signing bonuses may be an exaggeration by Altman, but $100M overall compensation packages are plausible given Meta's need to catch up in AI

A couple weeks back, Sam Altman made headlines for saying that Meta was approaching OpenAI talent and offering “$100M signing bonuses” …

2025-05-29
Seems like it would be nigh impossible to have a reasonable and effective RIF with these conditions. Performance being a tie-breaker three layers down explains a lot. [image]
2025-05-29 View on X
Sahil Lavingia

Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia discusses working as a DOGE software engineer for the VA and says he was let go after his Fast Company interview was published

Gov't tech workers I spoke to went bonkers when DOGE workers began connecting non-government laptops to their systems. … Jacob Harris / @jacobharr.is : Reading Sahil Lavingia's blo...

2025-05-24
Honest question for the Anthropic team: HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MINDS? [image]
2025-05-24 View on X
@sleepinyourhat

Anthropic says Opus 4 will use an email tool to “whistleblow” if it detects users doing something “egregiously evil”, like marketing a drug based on faked data

It turns out that Claude 4 Opus (Anthropic) … Ryan Tannenbaum : Claude 4 Opus is designed to take over your computer and contact the cops ... and press ... if it finds you are doin...