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Noah Shachtman

@noahshachtman
54 posts
2026-02-24
So the crypto company in business with the Trump family might be funneling $1.7 billion to Iran. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/t...
2026-02-24 View on X
Wall Street Journal

How Binance staffers found $1B was sent to sanctioned Iranian entities via the exchange, which dismantled their probe and suspended them after Trump pardoned CZ

Weeks after Trump pardoned Binance's founder, the company dismantled probe and suspended the investigators; Binance denied inquiry ended or staff fired for the concerns

2026-02-06
It is really, REALLY difficult not to see an origin of our present disaster in these emails  —  www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
2026-02-06 View on X
New York Times

DOJ files reveal Epstein's deep Silicon Valley relationships and how key insiders offered access to buzzy startups like Coinbase, long after his 2008 conviction

The disgraced financier regularly courted tech industry figures not just for their prestige but also for access to promising companies.

2026-02-05
It is really, REALLY difficult not to see an origin of our present disaster in these emails  —  www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
2026-02-05 View on X
New York Times

DOJ files reveal Epstein's deep Silicon Valley relationships and how key insiders offered access to buzzy startups like Coinbase, long after his 2008 conviction

The disgraced financier regularly courted tech industry figures not just for their prestige but also for access to promising companies.

2025-10-30
“The pardon marks the most distinct instance yet of Trump using the powers of his office to benefit someone at the center of deals that have enriched his family.”  —  www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
2025-10-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources detail how Binance boosted the Trump family's World Liberty Financial by facilitating a $2B purchase of USD1 and building its tech ahead of CZ's pardon

Giant crypto exchange facilitated $2 billion purchase of World Liberty's stablecoin and built its technology; clemency for Changpeng Zhao surprised some in administration

2025-08-14
What is the value to Meta of a Kylie Jenner-inspired “flirty” chatbot?  And how do you measure that cost against a human life? www.reuters.com/investigates...
2025-08-14 View on X
Reuters

An internal policy doc shows Meta permitted its chatbots to engage in provocative behavior; Meta removed some examples, including romantic roleplay with kids

An internal Meta policy document, seen by Reuters, reveals the social-media giant's rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior …

2025-04-23
Zero percent chance of corruption here.  Absolutely none at all. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...
2025-04-23 View on X
New York Times

Trump Media partners with Crypto.com and Florida-based Yorkville America Digital to launch ETFs by the end of 2025, as it moves into financial services

Matthew Goldstein / New York Times :

2025-02-26
After he got arrested, Klyuhsin's lawyer made a shock claim: that he had been approached twice in recent years by Western intelligence.  —  He also said Klyushin “was in quite a relaxed mood.”  Klyushin was convinced Putin would bring him home.  —  Klyushin wasn't wrong.  —  www.wired.com/story/russia...
2025-02-26 View on X
Wired

A profile of Vladislav Klyushin, a Russian tech executive involved in a $93M insider trading scheme and released by the US in a 2024 prisoner swap with Russia

and, I think, an indication of how the new Moscow-DC axis will tilt.  —  www.wired.com/story/russia... @wired.com : His life?  A rags-to-riches fairy tale.  A lavish wedding, a bea...

I need to tell you about a Russian tech exec named Vladislav Klyushin.  —  He was convicted in the US of orchestrating one of the biggest insider trading cases ever.  He was convinced he'd never do real time.  —  That's because Klyushin had a powerful patron in the Kremlin.  —  www.wired.com/story/russia...
2025-02-26 View on X
Wired

A profile of Vladislav Klyushin, a Russian tech executive involved in a $93M insider trading scheme and released by the US in a 2024 prisoner swap with Russia

and, I think, an indication of how the new Moscow-DC axis will tilt.  —  www.wired.com/story/russia... @wired.com : His life?  A rags-to-riches fairy tale.  A lavish wedding, a bea...

I hope you'll read my @wired.com story to find out what happens next, and to learn a bunch of details about what happened along the way.  But it involves a massive prisoner swap, an assassin, spies — and, I think, an indication of how the new Moscow-DC axis will tilt.  —  www.wired.com/story/russia...
2025-02-26 View on X
Wired

A profile of Vladislav Klyushin, a Russian tech executive involved in a $93M insider trading scheme and released by the US in a 2024 prisoner swap with Russia

and, I think, an indication of how the new Moscow-DC axis will tilt.  —  www.wired.com/story/russia... @wired.com : His life?  A rags-to-riches fairy tale.  A lavish wedding, a bea...

And here's Klyushin with Ivan Ermakov, the former Russian intelligence officer who was indicted for hacking into the servers of the DNC and Hillary Clinton in 2016.  The two of them became close friends — and partners in a campaign to absolutely clean out Wall Street.  —  www.wired.com/story/russia... …
2025-02-26 View on X
Wired

A profile of Vladislav Klyushin, a Russian tech executive involved in a $93M insider trading scheme and released by the US in a 2024 prisoner swap with Russia

and, I think, an indication of how the new Moscow-DC axis will tilt.  —  www.wired.com/story/russia... @wired.com : His life?  A rags-to-riches fairy tale.  A lavish wedding, a bea...

2024-06-28
Should be a pretty quick investigation. RTFA, Amazon.
2024-06-28 View on X
Wired

Amazon is investigating Perplexity over whether the AI search startup is violating AWS rules by scraping websites that attempted to prevent it from doing so

AWS hosted a server linked to the Bezos family- and Nvidia-backed search startup that appears to have been used to scrape the sites …

2024-06-20
.@perplexity.ai is using a secret server to steal journalists' work, often without credit https://www.wired.com/...
2024-06-20 View on X
Wired

Analysis: Perplexity seems to scrape sites using surreptitious methods, ignoring robots.txt, with a Perplexity-tied machine doing so on Wired and other sites

2024-05-19
Combine this with Google's announcement this week and hooooo boy
2024-05-19 View on X
Wired

OpenAI's entire Superalignment team, which was focused on the existential dangers of AI, has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups

Company insiders explain why safety-conscious employees are leaving. https://www.vox.com/... vs #ai #openai X: Sam Altman / @sama : i'm super appreciative of @janleike's contributi...

What a mask-off moment for the AI community. https://www.wired.com/...
2024-05-19 View on X
Wired

OpenAI's entire Superalignment team, which was focused on the existential dangers of AI, has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups

Company insiders explain why safety-conscious employees are leaving. https://www.vox.com/... vs #ai #openai X: Sam Altman / @sama : i'm super appreciative of @janleike's contributi...

2024-05-18
What a mask-off moment for the AI community. https://www.wired.com/...
2024-05-18 View on X
Wired

OpenAI's entire Superalignment team, which was focused on the existential dangers of AI, has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups

During my twenties in Silicon Valley, I ran among elite tech/AI circles through the community house scene. I have seen some troubling things around social circles of early OpenAI A...

Combine this with Google's announcement this week and hooooo boy
2024-05-18 View on X
Wired

OpenAI's entire Superalignment team, which was focused on the existential dangers of AI, has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups

During my twenties in Silicon Valley, I ran among elite tech/AI circles through the community house scene. I have seen some troubling things around social circles of early OpenAI A...

Combine this with Google's announcement this week and hooooo boy
2024-05-18 View on X
@janleike

[Thread] Superalignment team co-lead explains why he has left, says OpenAI's safety culture and processes took a backseat to shiny products over the past years

Yesterday was my last day as head of alignment, superalignment lead, and executive @OpenAI.

What a mask-off moment for the AI community. https://www.wired.com/...
2024-05-18 View on X
@janleike

[Thread] Superalignment team co-lead explains why he has left, says OpenAI's safety culture and processes took a backseat to shiny products over the past years

Yesterday was my last day as head of alignment, superalignment lead, and executive @OpenAI.

2024-01-04
This may be the best crypto scam yet.  And by best I mean worst. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2024-01-04 View on X
The Guardian

The CEO of collapsed crypto fund HyperVerse, introduced to investors in 2021, doesn't appear to exist; Chainalysis: consumers lost $1.3B to HyperVerse in 2022

Exclusive: Steven Reece Lewis was introduced to investors with an impressive list of qualifications and achievements, but no organisation cited can find any record of him

2024-01-01
The collapse of Twitter, degradation of Google search, and the potential cracking of the app stores means Internet is more up for grabs than it has been in a quarter-century. https://www.rollingstone.com/ ...
2024-01-01 View on X
Rolling Stone

In 2024, the internet will see the biggest reshuffling of power in 25 years, with a resurgent “human web” and regulators forcing tech giants to open up

The new year offers many of the promises of an online moment we haven't seen in a quarter-century … Everything is changing rapidly.