After Elon Musk said on X that Sam Altman “stole a nonprofit”, Altman replied he turned what Musk “left for dead into what should be the largest nonprofit ever”
this time over a tesla refund 😬 r/ChatGPT : Sam and Elon beefing again. Elon started it. r/EnoughMuskSpam : Sam Altman digs up some old email. r/OpenAI : the billionaires' feud con...
Court docs: in a deposition, Ilya Sutskever discussed conflicts at OpenAI that he sent to board members before Sam Altman's firing, his OpenAI exit, and more
Anthropic initially expressed “excitement” about a possible merger with OpenAI two years ago, after OpenAI's board fired CEO Sam Altman …
OpenAI VP of Media Partnerships Varun Shetty says OpenAI didn't put too many guardrails in Sora because it doesn't “want it to be at a competitive disadvantage”
Plus, Ex-Sequoia partner Matt Miller launches a London-based fund & Mira Murati's AI lab releases its first product
Sam Altman says OpenAI is planning two Sora changes for rightsholders: granular controls over generation of their characters and a revenue sharing system
We have been learning quickly from how people are using Sora and taking feedback from users, rightsholders, and other interested groups.
Leaked a16z decks: $25B in net returns since its 2009 founding, including $11.2B in 2021, and 56 unicorn investments in the past 10 years, the most of any firm
The firm has held its $900 million 2012 Fund III at 9.4x net TVPI. — ∙ Paid — Andreessen Horowitz is perhaps … X: @iamhenrymascot , @doodcapital , @iamjakestream , @ctjlewis , ...
Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana says Waymo has reached 10M paid trips, doubling in the past five months, and that the company is not yet profitable
Waymo and Toyota announce a preliminary partnership aiming to develop a new autonomous vehicle platform and enhance next-generation personally owned vehicles
Alphabet-owned Waymo and Toyota on Tuesday announced a preliminary partnership to explore bringing robotaxi tech to personally-owned vehicles.
Apple plans to begin on-device, privacy-centric analysis of user data, comparing it to synthetic data, to improve AI, in the iOS 18.5 and macOS 15.5 betas
without reading them Emma Roth / The Verge : Apple's complicated plan to improve its AI while protecting privacy Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Apple details how it plans to improve its...
Sources: OpenAI is in early talks to raise up to $40B at a $340B valuation; the startup was last valued at $157B in October, when it raised $6.6B
I'm old enough to remember when $6.6B was an unheard of amount of money for a startup to be raising. Bluesky: Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : I LOVE Masayoshi Son. The entire generati...
SoftBank, which sources say is in talks to invest $15B-$25B in OpenAI and $18B in Stargate, could borrow against its $140B+ Arm stake to fund the investments
Japanese conglomerate is in talks to spend up to $43 billion to boost the ChatGPT developer — In his newly built palace near Tokyo …
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 …
Elon Musk fanboy Adrian Dittmann's X activity and alleged 4chan posts suggest he might be Musk's fake online persona; source: the viral 4chan screenshot is fake
www.theverge.com/2025/1/3/243... [embedded post] Justin Baragona / @justinbaragona : According to The Verge, that screenshot that seems to tie the Adrian Dittmann account directly...
Sources: Apple is working on a foldable device the size of two iPad Pros for 2028, a Magic Mouse revamp, and an AirTag with triple the range of the current one
Apple's new vision for the future of computing is a giant, iPad-like foldable device. Also: The company rethinks the mouse …
How Tim Cook may navigate Trump's presidency, a closer look at Apple's upcoming smart home command center, sources detail a new AirTag coming in 2025, and more
code-named B589 — for release around the middle of next year. That accessory has now progressed in manufacturing tests, and Apple is getting ready to bring it to market. I'm told...
Donald Trump's win flips the idea that Elon Musk overpaid for X on its head, after Musk turned his feed into a Trump-inspired billboard for his 200M+ followers
The day before Donald Trump's decisive election victory, Joe Rogan published a podcast interview during which he suggested …
Elon Musk's gamble on Donald Trump pays off, as Trump wins the race; Trump gave Musk a lengthy shout out in his victory speech, calling him “a super-genius”
“A star is born: Elon,” said Donald Trump in a lengthy shout out to his biggest donor while claiming victory in the US presidential race on Wednesday morning.
NHTSA opens a probe into Tesla's Full Self-Driving, covering 2.4M vehicles, after four reported crashes in low-visibility situations, including one fatal crash
Feds open new safety investigation Matt Binder / Mashable : Tesla's Full Self-Driving software is under federal investigation Felix Reeves / GB News : Tesla faces investigation ove...
The EU declines to designate X as a DMA gatekeeper after an investigation found that “X is not an important gateway for business users to reach end users”
Elon Musk's X won't be regulated under the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) the Commission decided Wednesday …
Apple debuts Apple Watch Series 10, with a thinner design, a bigger screen, smaller bezels, a Jet Black finish, faster charging, more, coming Sept. 20 for $399+
similar to the Series 9 — but they are in other regions. Apple, however, is not advertising the O2 sensor on any page in any region. … Victoria Song / @vicmsong : Fast charging de...
Apple debuts Apple Watch Series 10, with a thinner design, a bigger screen, smaller bezels, a Jet Black finish, faster charging, more, coming Sept. 20 for $399+
similar to the Series 9 — but they are in other regions. Apple, however, is not advertising the O2 sensor on any page in any region. … Victoria Song / @vicmsong : Fast charging de...