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Tony Yates

@t0nyyates
13 posts
2026-01-01
My first prediction of 2026, against which I will write a lengthy and fascinating audit, is that this won't happen.  [embedded post]
2026-01-01 View on X
Reuters

Elon Musk says Neuralink plans to start “high-volume production” of brain-computer interface devices and move to an almost automated surgical procedure in 2026

Elon Musk's brain implant company Neuralink will start “high-volume production” of brain-computer interface devices …

2025-08-24
This is a very weird story.  Peter Kyle has said some crazy stuff.  But this reads like someone trying to make mischief out of not much, and the Guardian absolutely desperate for some inches. www.theguardian.com/politics/ 202...
2025-08-24 View on X
The Guardian

Sources: in a meeting with UK Technology Secretary Peter Kyle, Sam Altman proposed giving ChatGPT Plus to everyone in the UK, a deal that would have cost £2B

“we'll give your entire country chatgpt plus for £2bn.  please???”  —  also, fuck you peter kyle for even taking this meeting. Mateusz Fafinski / @calthalas : Two billion for count...

2025-07-10
OpenAI have paid Ives $6.5bn for something but I am not sure what.  It doesn't seem to be for the sound ‘eye-oh’ as that's the subject of an intellectual property dispute. www.theverge.com/news/703114/ ...
2025-07-10 View on X
Reuters

Sources: OpenAI plans to release an AI web browser that keeps some user interactions in a ChatGPT-like native interface instead of clicking through to websites

OpenAI is close to releasing an AI-powered web browser that will challenge Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) market-dominating Google Chrome …

2025-01-10
This story condenses to ‘we have sources that tell us in private that he is trying to do what he said he was trying to do in tweets to 200m people, entirely openly.’ www.ft.com/content/dd4b...
2025-01-10 View on X
Politico

In a weird X Spaces chat, Elon Musk and Alice Weidel, a co-chair of the German far-right party AfD, pushed disinformation about Hitler, migrants, war, and more

God!  Martians!  A “communist” Hitler!  It was heavy on oddness and light on policy as the X owner and the AfD co-leader hit it off.

This story condenses to ‘we have sources that tell us in private that he is trying to do what he said he was trying to do in tweets to 200m people, entirely openly.’ www.ft.com/content/dd4b...
2025-01-10 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: Elon Musk and his right-wing allies discussed how to destabilize the UK Labour government and remove PM Keir Starmer, beyond Musk's aggressive X posts

Votes of millions of people don't count.  —  Fiction threatens to become reality as the equivalents of Dr. Strangelove and James Bond villain Elliot Carver plan world domination.  ...

2024-12-17
This is a really good one, on how Musk already somewhat - and may soon be completely - above the law.. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
2024-12-17 View on X
Bloomberg

After probing an open-and-shut SEC violation for two years, it's nearly too late for the SEC to do anything over how Musk acquired Twitter before Trump moves in

www.wsj.com/tech/musk-sp... Forums: r/MarchAgainstNazis : Elon Musk will not receive highest-level government security clearance due to drug use and ‘foreign contacts’ r/Law_and_Po...

2023-10-24
This is a great post by widely followed tech writer Benedict Evans on why he has left Twitter: https://www.ben-evans.com/...
2023-10-24 View on X
Benedict Evans

A Twitter user since 2007 reflects on leaving due to Elon Musk swapping stasis at the company for chaos, his constant bullshitting, and spreading toxic content

Twitter always used to look a lot like Craigslist.  It stumbled into something that a lot of people found very useful …

2023-05-06
AI is not going to be regulated by focusing on a few large companies. This is already clear from descriptions of how the large language models have ‘leaked out’ of Meta and elsewhere. https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-06 View on X
Bloomberg

Source: a leaked April 2023 internal document by Luke Sernau, a senior software engineer at Google, argues that open-source AI will outcompete Google and OpenAI

warning the company doesn't have one in A.I. John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog : Google and Commoditization: Anyone Need a BackRub? Agne Cimermanaite / Metaverse Post : L...

2023-05-05
AI is not going to be regulated by focusing on a few large companies. This is already clear from descriptions of how the large language models have ‘leaked out’ of Meta and elsewhere. https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-05 View on X
Bloomberg

Source: a leaked April 2023 internal document by Luke Sernau, a senior software engineer at Google, argues that open source AI will outcompete Google and OpenAI

A senior software engineer at Google wrote a critique asserting that the internet search leader is losing its edge … Source: SemiAnalysis .

2023-04-30
This seems like a good feature to me. Mainstream newspapers or similar may not want to do payment per article but a bit of encouragement/coercion from Musk is ok. Presumably they take a cut. idk sole bloggers qualify as a ‘media org’. https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-30 View on X
@elonmusk

Elon Musk claims that Twitter plans to let media publishers charge users on a per-article basis, with one click, starting in May 2023

Rolling out next month, this platform will allow media publishers to charge users on a per article basis with one click. This enables users who would not sign up for a monthly subs...

2023-03-16
Not sure if I originated this or not but the actual singularity is of course the slow grinding to a halt of all human activity as everyone writes and reads takes on AI. https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-16 View on X
Ars Technica

OpenAI allowed the Alignment Research Center, a nonprofit founded by its ex-employee, to assess the potential risks of GPT-4 including power-seeking behavior

bound by a nondisclosure agreement with OpenAI but gossiped...—told me that testing GPT-4 had caused them to have an “existential crisis,” because it revealed how powerful and crea...

2023-02-09
This is great, about the demise of FTX: https://www.ft.com/...
2023-02-09 View on X
Financial Times

Inside FTX's final hours, described by employees, chat logs, and Sam Bankman-Fried: panic selling assets, trying to raise funds, SBF's silence, and bankruptcy

In January, I walked up the front steps of a single-storey, grey-shingled house in a neighbourhood on the fringe of Stanford University.

2023-01-11
Is there a gap in the market for far-right social media now Musk has control of Twitter? https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-11 View on X
The Verge

Sources: Parler's parent company laid off ~75% of its staff and most of its chief executives over the past few weeks, leaving the social app with ~20 employees

Parlement Technologies, the parent company of “censorship-free” social media platform Parler, has laid off a majority of its staff …