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Max Kennerly

@maxkennerly
105 posts
2026-01-31
Nonsense.  It's not possible to steal AI technology.  I know this because Google's own LLMs are built using a complete copy of my legal blog, and that's somehow not stealing because, as Google says, a complete copy of my legal blog is both trivial and utterly essential for their tech to work.
2026-01-31 View on X
Bloomberg Law

A San Francisco jury finds former Google engineer Linwei Ding guilty of stealing trade secrets related to AI chip technology to build a startup in China

2026-01-30
Nonsense.  It's not possible to steal AI technology.  I know this because Google's own LLMs are built using a complete copy of my legal blog, and that's somehow not stealing because, as Google says, a complete copy of my legal blog is both trivial and utterly essential for their tech to work.
2026-01-30 View on X
Bloomberg Law

A San Francisco jury finds former Google engineer Linwei Ding guilty of stealing trade secrets related to AI chip technology to build a startup in China

A former Google engineer was convicted Thursday of economic espionage and trade secrets theft for taking hundreds of the company's confidential documents …

2026-01-03
“Superintelligence” 🙄 claims aside, I think he's right.  LLM boosters always start dissembling when you point out that the tech has two critical problems—it scales poorly and routinely generates errors—and nobody has a clue how to fix either.  Both problems appear inherent to the tech itself. …
2026-01-03 View on X
Financial Times

Yann LeCun admits that Llama 4's “results were fudged a little bit”, and that the team used different models for different benchmarks to give better results

The interview took place in a great restaurant in Paris: Yannick Alléno's Pavyllon. … Bluesky: Rob Delaney / @robdelaney : 💩💩💩 [embedded post] SE Gyges / @segyges : this puts a bun...

2025-12-13
Trump's AI executive order is out, purporting to preempt state law.  Legally, only Congress can do that, or at least that's the law until Calvinball federal judges and justices say Trump is the Most Special Boy who can.  🤷‍♂️  —  www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... …
2025-12-13 View on X
Reuters

President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval”

Transformer Weekly: Trump signs EO, Hochul guts the RAISE Act, and GPT-5.2 launches Michael Kan / PCMag : Trump Signs Executive Order to Go After ‘Burdensome’ State AI Laws Poligir...

Trump's AI executive order is out, purporting to preempt state law.  Legally, only Congress can do that, or at least that's the law until Calvinball federal judges and justices say Trump is the Most Special Boy who can.  🤷‍♂️  —  www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... …
2025-12-13 View on X
Axios

Policymakers behind key state AI bills scoff at Trump's EO; some GOP governors are pushing ahead with their own AI bills; Steve Bannon says Sacks misled Trump

States are forging ahead with AI laws despite President Trump's new executive order aimed at reining them in.

2025-12-12
Trump's AI executive order is out, purporting to preempt state law.  Legally, only Congress can do that, or at least that's the law until Calvinball federal judges and justices say Trump is the Most Special Boy who can.  🤷‍♂️  —  www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... …
2025-12-12 View on X
Reuters

President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval”

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order on artificial intelligence that will attempt to preempt …

2025-08-23
“The United States paid nothing for these Shares” is an interesting way of describing “the U.S. released $8.9B in CHIPS funding intended for Intel in exchange for $8.9B in stock.”  —  Perhaps Congress could've demanded shares for CHIPS money, but POTUS adding this ad hoc is simply unconstitutional. …
2025-08-23 View on X
Intel

Intel says the US will make an $8.9B investment by purchasing 433.3M primary shares of Intel common stock for $20.47/share; INTC closed on August 22 at $24.80

U.S. Government to make $8.9 billion investment in Intel common stock as company builds upon its more than $100 billion expansion of resilient semiconductor supply chain

2025-07-07
Hot take: Musk's logic is both absurd and shared by many influential pundits and Dem consultants.  —  They really believe tens of millions of potential Dem voters (a) will automatically vote for whoever hates woke more; (b) care about deficits and want them fixed via benefit cuts not taxes on the rich. …
2025-07-07 View on X
The Guardian

After Elon Musk unveiled the America Party, a new US political party, President Trump called Musk a “TRAIN WRECK” fueled by discontent over EV subsidies ending

US president railed against his former adviser online after tech billionaire said he will start and bankroll America party

2025-02-25
Even accepting LLMs are capable of this task (lol, no), this is set up to fail, to create excuses for arbitrarily firing people.  —  Nobody was told that was the query; you can't tell “mission-critical” from five bullet points; a snapshot of one week won't tell you that either; the list goes on and on. …
2025-02-25 View on X
NBC News

Sources: the Elon Musk-directed OPM email asking federal staff about recent work requested no links or attachments as part of a plan to feed responses into AI

www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog... Matthew Facciani / @matthewfacciani : Potentially firing thousands of people based on AI's analysis of a single brief email is reckless and cruel.  ...

2025-01-25
Even if we put aside all of the negative associations Musk has created with X, ranging from neo-Nazis to CSAM, it's just a bad product now.  The algorithm's promotion of content is profoundly inorganic, making both creators and readers miserable.  It's a website designed for Elon Musk alone. …
2025-01-25 View on X
Wall Street Journal

In email to X staff, Musk says “user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive, and we're barely breaking even”; sources: banks plan to sell their debt in X

Banks are hoping to sell the X debt at around 90 to 95 cents on the dollar  —  Wall Street banks are getting ready …

What's truly remarkable is the lack of any significant pushback internally or externally at Morgan Stanley for losing money because they wanted to make Elon Musk happy.  —  At least the next round of buyers can honestly say, “yes, this is a loss which we incurred to get Elon brownie points.”
2025-01-25 View on X
Wall Street Journal

In email to X staff, Musk says “user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive, and we're barely breaking even”; sources: banks plan to sell their debt in X

Banks are hoping to sell the X debt at around 90 to 95 cents on the dollar  —  Wall Street banks are getting ready …

2024-12-28
“OpenAI expects about $5 billion in losses on $3.7 billion in revenue this year, CNBC confirmed in September.  Those numbers are increasing rapidly.”  —  What sets OpenAI apart from other Silicon Valley startups is: it has no way to profit from scale.  It'll always lose money on a per customer basis. …
2024-12-28 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI says its board of directors is evaluating its corporate structure, including a plan to turn its for-profit arm into a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation

A stronger non-profit supported by the for-profit's success.  —  OpenAI's Board of Directors is evaluating our corporate structure …

“OpenAI expects about $5 billion in losses on $3.7 billion in revenue this year, CNBC confirmed in September.  Those numbers are increasing rapidly.”  —  What sets OpenAI apart from other Silicon Valley startups is: it has no way to profit from scale.  It'll always lose money on a per customer basis. …
2024-12-28 View on X
CNBC

OpenAI says the PBC will oversee commercial operations, and the nonprofit will hire staff to pursue charitable activities in health care, education, and science

Reality: It's going to take all of Earth's resources, but can build this search engine that kinda works and is trained on stuff we didn't have rights for. Paul J. Dauenhauer / @pau...

2023-07-23
The business model really is “make the site worse and hope people will pay for that.”
2023-07-23 View on X
PCMag

Twitter sets “daily limits” on the number of direct messages that accounts without Twitter Blue can send, as part of changes to reduce spam in DMs

Michael Kan / PCMag :

2023-07-22
The business model really is “make the site worse and hope people will pay for that.”
2023-07-22 View on X
PCMag

Twitter says unverified accounts will have daily limits on the number of direct messages they can send, as part of changes to reduce spam in DMs

It looks like Elon Musk really wants users to pay for Twitter Blue. … In another controversial change, Twitter will restrict the number …

2023-04-20
I don't recall giving Google, Facebook, or anybody else permission to scrape 180k tokens—roughly the length of Orwell's 1984—from my blog for commercial purposes. And putting my copyrighted work in a blender with bigots doesn't make it better. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-20 View on X
Washington Post

Analysis: Google's C4 dataset, used to train LLMs like Meta's LLaMA, has troubling content from 4chan, Kiwi Farms, white supremacist site Stormfront, and more

AI chatbots have exploded in popularity over the past four months, stunning the public with their awesome abilities …

2023-04-19
Howling at this sentence, in which two inveterate liars use the term “maximum truth-seeking.” Even better, they said it on a TV station that just got caught lying to the court in the middle of a lawsuit that documented how everyone there knew they were lying to the public. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-19 View on X
Fox News

In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk says he's working on “TruthGPT or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe”

a ‘maximum truth-seeking AI’ Sebastian Moss / datacenterdynamics.com : Elon Musk claims he is funding ‘TruthGPT’ AI project, to challenge ChatGPT and Bard Katyanna Quach / The Regi...

2023-04-06
For quite some time Silicon Valley has lived by the motto “move fast and break things” and it has generally served them well given the anemic state of our regulatory and liability frameworks. But that can change quickly and these companies are wholly unprepared for it. https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-06 View on X
Washington Post

Study: ChatGPT cited nonexistent Washington Post, Miami Herald, and Los Angeles Times articles and fabricated a sexual harassment story about a law professor

The AI chatbot can misrepresent key facts with great flourish, even citing a fake Washington Post article as evidence

2023-03-13
.@nytimes, if you're quoting a VC saying Silicon Valley Bank was a “systemically important financial institution,” you should note that SVB lobbied to make sure it was not considered one, and nobody in the VC world said otherwise. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://theintercept.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-13 View on X
U.S. Department of the Treasury

The US Treasury, Federal Reserve, and the FDIC say all Silicon Valley Bank depositors will be “fully” protected, and their money will be available on March 13

WASHINGTON, DC — The following statement was released by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen …

.@nytimes, if you're quoting a VC saying Silicon Valley Bank was a “systemically important financial institution,” you should note that SVB lobbied to make sure it was not considered one, and nobody in the VC world said otherwise. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://theintercept.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-13 View on X
Financial Times

Having perfected the art of using hype to move markets, VCs managed to hype their own rumors to collapse SVB, accidentally slaying a much loved accomplice

After more than a decade of venture capitalists insisting they provide more than just cash to their portfolio companies, the moment to prove that finally arrived.