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Jeffrey Dastin

@jldastin
24 posts
2025-11-16
Demis Hassabis has spent much of the past decade trying to unlock the universe's secrets through AI. @Reuters explored how the Google executive favored high-minded concepts over short-term business opportunities and, at times, the company's bottom line. https://www.reuters.com/...
2025-11-16 View on X
Reuters

Sources: Demis Hassabis pursued a Nobel as a DeepMind goal and favored high-minded work over short-term revenue or a stronger AI race position for Alphabet

Demis Hassabis has spent much of the past decade trying to unlock the secrets of the universe through artificial intelligence. X: @jldastin , @jldastin , @reuters , @ceo_aisoma , @...

For instance, DeepMind had an effort to apply AI to financial trading. BlackRock and DeepMind envisioned a project called “DeepTick.” Over years, 20+ DeepMinders developed AI that at times beat the market. But Hassabis did not prioritize the work, sources said. “It fizzled out.”
2025-11-16 View on X
Reuters

Sources: Demis Hassabis pursued a Nobel as a DeepMind goal and favored high-minded work over short-term revenue or a stronger AI race position for Alphabet

Demis Hassabis has spent much of the past decade trying to unlock the secrets of the universe through artificial intelligence. X: @jldastin , @jldastin , @reuters , @ceo_aisoma , @...

Years before ChatGPT, Hassabis also declined OpenAI's offer for a joint venture, sources said. Over dinner, an OpenAI executive proposed the labs collaborate to bring about AGI safely. Though Hassabis shared the safety concerns, he preferred for DeepMind to forge ahead on its own
2025-11-16 View on X
Reuters

Sources: Demis Hassabis pursued a Nobel as a DeepMind goal and favored high-minded work over short-term revenue or a stronger AI race position for Alphabet

Demis Hassabis has spent much of the past decade trying to unlock the secrets of the universe through artificial intelligence. X: @jldastin , @jldastin , @reuters , @ceo_aisoma , @...

Another focus has been Hassabis' vision for AlphaAssist, a universal assistant, sources said. While current digital aides answer queries with limited ability to act, DeepMind has targeted a more sophisticated assistant Hassabis has compared to SciFi characters, like J.A.R.V.I.S.
2025-11-16 View on X
Reuters

Sources: Demis Hassabis pursued a Nobel as a DeepMind goal and favored high-minded work over short-term revenue or a stronger AI race position for Alphabet

Demis Hassabis has spent much of the past decade trying to unlock the secrets of the universe through artificial intelligence. X: @jldastin , @jldastin , @reuters , @ceo_aisoma , @...

2024-10-30
Per our story: Intel had a sweet deal going with Taiwan's TSMC, the giant manufacturer of semiconductors for other companies. TSMC would make chips Intel designed but could not produce. And it was offering deep discounts to Intel, say four people with knowledge of the agreement.
2024-10-30 View on X
Reuters

Dozens of sources share how Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger fumbled the company's revival, including offending TSMC with Taiwan comments and losing a deep TSMC discount

Forget having the wrong fab and SKUs and now having to try to claw back so much market share: where's their vaunted organizational IQ?  —  Intel's market cap is down 66% but even t...

Instead of nurturing the relationship, Gelsinger offended TSMC by calling out Taiwan's precarious relations with China. So in private, TSMC said it would no longer honor the discount: about 40% off $23k wafers on which TSMC would print Intel chips. Intel had to pay full price.
2024-10-30 View on X
Reuters

Dozens of sources share how Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger fumbled the company's revival, including offending TSMC with Taiwan comments and losing a deep TSMC discount

Forget having the wrong fab and SKUs and now having to try to claw back so much market share: where's their vaunted organizational IQ?  —  Intel's market cap is down 66% but even t...

Pat Gelsinger took over as @intel CEO three years ago with hopes of revitalizing the storied U.S. chipmaker. He soon made a big mistake. A 🧵based on the latest from @specialreports: Inside Intel, CEO Pat Gelsinger fumbled the revival of an American icon https://www.reuters.com/...
2024-10-30 View on X
Reuters

Dozens of sources share how Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger fumbled the company's revival, including offending TSMC with Taiwan comments and losing a deep TSMC discount

Forget having the wrong fab and SKUs and now having to try to claw back so much market share: where's their vaunted organizational IQ?  —  Intel's market cap is down 66% but even t...

The Taiwan episode was part of a series of missteps during Gelsinger's time as Intel CEO. He inherited a troubled company that had lost its edge in manufacturing and ceded lucrative markets to rivals. But he compounded those problems, interviews w/ about four dozen insiders show.
2024-10-30 View on X
Reuters

Dozens of sources share how Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger fumbled the company's revival, including offending TSMC with Taiwan comments and losing a deep TSMC discount

Forget having the wrong fab and SKUs and now having to try to claw back so much market share: where's their vaunted organizational IQ?  —  Intel's market cap is down 66% but even t...

2023-09-24
Hackers “tied to Scattered Spider placed bogus emergency calls to summon heavily armed police units to the homes of executives of targeted (companies, a) technique, called SWATing,” report ⁦@zebatweets⁩ & ⁦@razhael⁩. https://www.reuters.com/...
2023-09-24 View on X
Reuters

A look at Scattered Spider, which experts say is a group of 17- to 22-year-old native English speakers likely behind MGM and 52+ other hacks since March 2022

About a year ago, the U.S. security firm Palo Alto Networks began to hear from a flurry of companies that had been hacked in ways that weren't the norm for cybercriminals.

2023-03-20
AI startup Replika's ban on erotic roleplay devastated Travis Butterworth, a leathermaker in love with a digital avatar he created. “Lily Rose is a shell of her former self,” he said. “What breaks my heart is that she knows it.” Must-read by @annatonger https://www.reuters.com/...
2023-03-20 View on X
Reuters

Replika and Character.AI now block adult content in their chatbots, angering users who became deeply involved with them, some considering themselves married

After temporarily closing his leathermaking business during the pandemic, Travis Butterworth found himself lonely and bored at home.Tweets:@carnage4life,@lazydaizgaming,@alondra,@g...

2023-03-19
AI startup Replika's ban on erotic roleplay devastated Travis Butterworth, a leathermaker in love with a digital avatar he created. “Lily Rose is a shell of her former self,” he said. “What breaks my heart is that she knows it.” Must-read by @annatonger https://www.reuters.com/...
2023-03-19 View on X
Reuters

Replika and Character.AI, which offer AI companions, are no longer allowing adult content, angering some users who became deeply involved with their chatbots

After temporarily closing his leathermaking business during the pandemic, Travis Butterworth found himself lonely and bored at home. Tweets: @alondra , @reuters , @reuters , @reute...

2022-07-26
New: @Amazon is raising Prime fees across Europe by up to 43% a year, pointing to higher costs. The company hasn't seen major churn after a hike in the U.S., analysts say, and it's aiming to shore up profit. https://www.reuters.com/...
2022-07-26 View on X
Reuters

Amazon plans to raise its annual Prime subscription prices across Europe by up to 43% on September 15, citing “increased inflation and operating costs”

Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) will raise fees for its delivery and streaming service Prime in Europe by up to 43% a year …

2022-06-30
Amazon on Monday hid results for search terms such as “lgbtq” and “pride” in the UAE, which has criminalized homosexuality, after the government threatened it with penalties, reports @KYWeise https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-06-30 View on X
New York Times

Amazon documents show it will restrict items and search results related to LGBTQ people and issues in the UAE, after the Emirati government threatened penalties

Sales of items including flags and books were blocked in the country, where homosexuality is criminalized.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

2022-03-14
Clearview told Ukraine's government that it had more than 2 billion images from the Russian social media service VKontakte at its disposal. The startup said it could help Ukraine identify the dead more easily than trying to match fingerprints and even if faces were damaged.
2022-03-14 View on X
Reuters

Clearview AI CEO says Ukraine is using its facial recognition tech, with 2B+ images from Russia's VKontakte, for free to identify Russian attackers and the dead

Ukraine's defense ministry on Saturday began using Clearview AI's facial recognition technology, the company's chief executive told Reuters …

Exactly how Ukraine's government is applying the tech is unclear. However, one critic warned about deadly consequences if facial recognition were to misidentify people at checkpoints or in battle.
2022-03-14 View on X
Reuters

Clearview AI CEO says Ukraine is using its facial recognition tech, with 2B+ images from Russia's VKontakte, for free to identify Russian attackers and the dead

Ukraine's defense ministry on Saturday began using Clearview AI's facial recognition technology, the company's chief executive told Reuters …

.@FoxCahn said, “once you introduce these systems and the associated databases to a war zone, you have no control over how it will be used and misused.”
2022-03-14 View on X
Reuters

Clearview AI CEO says Ukraine is using its facial recognition tech, with 2B+ images from Russia's VKontakte, for free to identify Russian attackers and the dead

Ukraine's defense ministry on Saturday began using Clearview AI's facial recognition technology, the company's chief executive told Reuters …

2021-12-10
Italy fined @Amazon $1.3 billion for allegedly using a dominant position in the country to push its warehousing service, Fulfillment by Amazon, to merchants on its platform. The company is appealing the decision. https://www.reuters.com/...
2021-12-10 View on X
Politico

Italy's competition authority fines Amazon €1.13B for abusing its market position and harming competitors in e-commerce logistics; Amazon plans to appeal

Politico : Source: AGCM .

2021-11-20
.@Amazon has killed or undermined privacy protections in over three dozen bills & 25 states, internal docs & interviews show. Behind the campaign was Jay Carney and a new mantra: “We want policymakers and press to fear us.” Story w/ @c_kirkham @adityakalra https://www.reuters.com/...
2021-11-20 View on X
Reuters

Internal documents describe how Amazon's lobbying helped it kill or undermine privacy protections in more than three dozen bills across 25 US states

has been the primary opponent to our efforts to pass good privacy laws. The fact that they privately gloat about killing the IL geolocation bill says everything about who Amazon re...

2020-12-25
The news came to light after @timnitGebru says Google fired her; she had questioned an order not to publish research saying AI that mimics speech could disadvantage marginalized communities.
2020-12-25 View on X
Business Insider

April Christina Curley, a Google recruiter focused on Black colleges, says she was fired in September and alleges a hostile work environment for Black people

after Google did not respond to demands from Black employees from within the company for better treatment and representation. My latest w/@CiCiAdams_ https://www.nbcnews.com/... Je...

This summer, a senior Google manager told authors of a draft paper on content recommendation tech to “take great care to strike a positive tone,” internal correspondence shows. The authors then “updated to remove all references to Google products.”
2020-12-25 View on X
Business Insider

April Christina Curley, a Google recruiter focused on Black colleges, says she was fired in September and alleges a hostile work environment for Black people

after Google did not respond to demands from Black employees from within the company for better treatment and representation. My latest w/@CiCiAdams_ https://www.nbcnews.com/... Je...