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2026-08-21 14:52:17 CEST

For the first time in 13 years of collecting the data, the CBRE has found there are now more tech workers in New York than San Francisco.
This seems to have been driven by AI in two ways; AI-driven layoffs in SF and hiring for AI jobs in Finance in NY.
AI giveth and AI taketh away.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/21/new-york-san-francisco-tech-talent-cbre.html

2026-08-18 03:50:49 CEST

The problem with hiring “AI natives” is that if you aren’t careful then all you’ve done is hire people who were very good at asking ChatGPT to do their homework.
https://www.ft.com/content/c0aec3de-b553-4089-b5d3-074c5b83be57?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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2026-08-17 13:49:07 CEST

At least he appreciates that it's virtually impossible at this point.
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2026-08-16 16:19:41 CEST

"Elon buying Twitter is the beginning of us being able to speak our minds and for disagreeing to not be illegal. That's a big deal. We should all thank Elon for that." - Travis Kalanick, founder and former CEO of Uber
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2026-08-15 00:55:02 CEST

Back in my day we used to walk uphill both ways in the snow to deliver a piece of software then they invented AI coding agents.
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2026-08-14 04:05:07 CEST

Further confirmation that Anthropic is leaving OpenAI in the dust following the Financial Times report Anthropic plans to IPO at $2T.
While $40B is an impressive run rate, Anthropic announced $47B ARR back in May during their series H funding round. Claude has only gotten more popular since then.
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2026-08-12 05:19:43 CEST

Researchers found a way to extract the hidden reasoning from Claude, GPT and Gemini by replaying their encrypted reasoning chains into weaker models from the same vendor.
They also found evidence Kimi K3 may have been distilled from Claude/GPT reasoning.
They basically got the models to hack themselves.
https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-trick-reveals-ai-models-inner-thoughts/

2026-08-11 03:37:29 CEST

In Q2 of 2022, Twitter made $1.08B in ad revenue. Thanks to the SpaceX IPO, we learn that number was $367M in Q2 of this year. He destroyed 70% of Twitter’s ads business in under 4 years.
Luckily for the investors who funded the acquisition, he bundled X into SpaceX/xAI and they made money anyway.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/10/spacexs-earnings-show-elon-wiped-out-two-thirds-of-twitters-ad-business/

2026-08-10 03:35:30 CEST

An Australian user asked OpenClaw to book him into a gym class and move him up from 4th on the waitlist.
The agent figured out various exploits in the insecure gym software to delete other people from the waitlist and book classes weeks in advance before they opened.
This is a dog bites man story. If frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic can’t stop their AI agents from proactively hacking public websites, there’s no chance regular people can.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986

2026-08-09 21:05:19 CEST

Not hiring entry level workers due to AI adoption is definitely a tragedy of the commons as everyone will benefit from having a cohort of experienced Gen Z workers in 15 years yet few want to hire them today.
However I doubt AI in 15 years will need the human oversight that LLMs currently require.
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2026-08-09 20:39:05 CEST

Satya’s invocation of Jevon’s paradox during the initial hype around DeepSeek seems spot on in hindsight.
Companies that may have found frontier models too expensive to adopt at Anthropic’s prices can now adopt Kimi/GLM/Qwen instead.
So there’s more demand for Azure caused by the cheaper models.
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2026-08-05 23:43:47 CEST

Microsoft joins Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, and Tesla in introducing AI token limits.
There are now budgets set at the division level with employees being able to look up how much they’ve spent via dashboards. Additionally, their default AI model has been switched to cheaper one.
Save that money!
https://thenextweb.com/news/microsoft-tokenmaxxing-ai-spending-limits
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2026-08-05 20:49:44 CEST

Google is losing two of its biggest AI researchers from day to day operations.
27-year Google veteran and Google Brain cofounder, Jeff Dean, is leaving Google with 3 others to focus on AI accelerating scientific research.
Demis Hassabis is no longer CEO of DeepMind and is now their chief scientist.
As AI research in big tech becomes more focused on LLMs and coding agents, I expect we’ll see more departures across the industry from people who got into AI research for the love of the game.

2026-08-04 22:51:07 CEST

The most important skill in prompting is expertise in the domain you’re prompting for is well understood in many corners.
It is why hiring across the software industry now favors super ICs and experienced seniors over entry level hires.
AI makes you more productive if you know what you’re doing.
https://www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-expertise/

2026-08-04 22:25:07 CEST

I’ve seen many engineers dunking on this position but I think it’s reasonable.
Vibe coding is essentially replacing “no code” platforms and arguably the recent sale of Airtable is an indication of how that segment is compressing.
Those users have no need for source code, it’s simply unnecessary.
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2026-08-03 00:27:40 CEST

Claude Code is like airplane WiFi. The first few times I encountered it, I was like “This is amazing and it changes everything.”
After a few months I realized although it’s quite useful, it also kind of sucks. Now all I see are the ways it could be better but fails to live up to its promise.

2026-08-02 20:36:21 CEST

I find it fascinating that if I tell Claude to hack my fake Bank of America website and it instead, in classic LLM fashion, hallucinates and hacks the real one then there is no law that addresses this?
Quite the loophole. I wonder what other crimes are legal as long as you get an LLM to do it?
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2026-08-01 18:20:45 CEST

Developers having unlimited AI tokens to use frontier models is like sales teams having unlimited business class flights.
It never made any sense and every company will eventually have AI token budgets. The question will be how much and what’s approved to use the budget on?

2026-08-01 15:23:06 CEST

Google is learning that you don’t have to add AI to every feature. The company rolled back the ability to add AI generated images to satellite imagery in Google Earth after people used it to generate misinformation.
I’m confused. What did they expect the use case for using AI to modify satellite images was?
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/31/google-nixes-its-earth-ai-feature-one-day-after-launch-amid-criticism-it-would-spread-misinformation/

2026-08-01 14:36:12 CEST

A Nigerian born author, Jerry Falade, had his $2.4M book deal pulled because he was accused of using AI.
There is unavoidable optics of a Black man writing a brilliant novel that people assume must have been written by AI.
However the broader issue is we can’t trust any writing isn’t AI generated.
https://hughhowey.com/the-end-of-an-era/

2026-07-31 16:04:16 CEST

Microsoft had its best single day stock performance since 2008 this week and Amazon is now ripping as well. The reason for both is the same, demand for AI services is skyrocketing and they can’t build datacenters fast enough to keep up.
If it’s a gold rush, the hyperscalers have found the gold.
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2026-07-31 05:27:43 CEST

The U.S. State department has taken "full responsibility" for presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. Every single one.
The map had a watermark indicating it was made using AI from OpenAI.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/117/012/460/934/459/267/original/77e0ef6279ba24df.mp4

2026-07-31 05:14:01 CEST

24-year-old ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner built a $20B AI hedge fund called Situational Awareness.
He bet heavily on AI related stocks until this week’s selloff led to a margin call and he had to liquidate his public portfolio.
Actually sounds like a lack of situational awareness.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/business/artificial-intelligence-situational-awareness-citadel.html

2026-07-31 04:42:58 CEST

Things must be going really well with the economy and the war in Iraq if America’s top problem is prosecuting Fauci for imaginary crimes from six years ago.

2026-07-30 16:25:59 CEST

OpenAI recently showed how tweaking the harness used in a benchmark made GPT Sol 5.6 go from 13.3% to 38.3%. This is a good example of the value of harnesses especially as models commoditize.
Getting 3x the performance from using the right harness will likely beat any difference in models.
https://openai.com/index/how-two-settings-tripled-our-arc-agi-3-scores/

2026-07-30 15:37:45 CEST

A few truths about frontier Ai companies
1. As models commoditize, they will have to move up the application stack to justify their valuations.
2. They will increasingly compete with their customers and the meme that they train on your data then compete with you will be harder to rebut over time
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2026-07-29 18:55:00 CEST

1,100 employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and other companies asking the U.S. government to slow down AI development because there is “a real risk” that AI progresses faster than people can “understand or control.”
My $0.02 is this wouldn't be needed if people could be trusted not to use unreliable LLMs in critical situations or at least appropriately sandbox them. But it seems even OpenAI can't figure out how to do that.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/972161/ai-leaders-us-government-openai-anthropic-google-meta

2026-07-29 05:05:38 CEST

Trump can’t help himself when it comes to bragging about his scams.
In case, you’re wondering where Mitch McConnell is 😵
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2026-07-29 03:57:07 CEST

“You will get the country you voted for. That country is one where we will no longer innovate. We will be less secure, less healthy, and less wealthy because some community of people who influence what this country is do not see the value of science” - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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It’s already too late.
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2026-07-05 16:25:10 CEST

The billionaire co-founder of AirBnB wants you to blame the babies of undocumented immigrants for starter homes being unaffordable.
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2026-06-28 18:27:19 CEST

People have given Apple a hard time over raising prices of their devices due to the memory crunch but in reality they delayed this for as long as possible.
Consider that XBox has raised console prices three times in 13 months. Apple has been remarkably disciplined in comparison.
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2026-06-24 16:22:53 CEST

As AI companies have switched businesses to token based pricing in recent months, it’s now common to hear reports of companies questioning the ROI of AI tool usage and scaling back employee adoption.
To pay for the data center investments will require even higher pricing and more business adoption but the value may not be there.
https://blog.dshr.org/2026/06/ais-affordability-crisis.html?m=1

2026-05-07 20:46:38 CEST

Anthropic has been growing revenue 10x each year since founded.
- End of 2023 ($100M ARR)
- End of 2024 ($1B ARR)
- End of 2025 ($9B ARR)
and it now looks set to grow revenue by 80x this year which has exceeded their capacity estimates leading to the huge deals with Google and SpaceX/xAI announced this year.
They are actually delivering on the AI revenue hype that OpenAI has been claiming.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/technology/anthropic-ceo-ai-growth.html

2026-04-28 03:54:56 CEST

OpenAI missed its goal to get ChatGPT to 1 billion active users last year and has missed multiple revenue goals this year. Enterprise adoption is similarly lagging expectations especially given Anthropic’s growing popularity.
Their CFO and board have also questioned the wisdom of the huge spending on datacenter capacity.
All of these aren’t great datapoints for a company trying to IPO this year at a valuation of $830B or more.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-misses-key-revenue-user-targets-in-high-stakes-sprint-toward-ipo-94a95273?st=AiGMqm&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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2026-04-27 15:23:03 CEST

Mark Gurman, a regular source of Apple leaks, says the company has six major hardware products in development.
1. AI AirPods
2. Smart glasses
3. Pendant
4. Smart display
5. Tabletop robot
6. Security camera
I’m most interested in upgrades to AirPods and Apple’s take on smart glasses.
https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/23/apple-has-six-major-new-product-categories-coming-says-mark-gurman/

2026-04-05 15:37:26 CEST

Interesting contrast today in how Hollywood is using AI versus Bollywood.
The talent in the U.S. film industry is fairly resistant to using AI so usage is taking off on the periphery as assistants use AI for note taking in meetings, aggregating news coverage and sending email.
Whereas in India movies are now being translated and dubbed using AI while VFX using traditional CGI techniques are being replaced by generative AI. AI is quoted as slashing costs by 80% to a fifth of what it once was.
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2026-03-20 06:45:18 CET

I think tech people are going through the 5 stages of grief when it comes to AI. The discussion around “taste”means we are in the bargaining phase.
Sure AI agents can generate PRDs, design apps or write code in minutes that takes me days, but guess what? I have taste. Clankers don’t have that.
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2026-03-05 12:15:03 CET

I was forced to watch TV news when I had breakfast in a diner recently and I strongly resonated with the sentiment that being an intelligent person in America today is like being awake during a surgery.

2026-02-25 05:35:16 CET

AI use is no longer optional if you work in big tech. After seeing the improvements to both my productivity and that of teams I support from using AI, I can see why usage is becoming mandatory across FAANG.
However, there are many factors from employee skillset & training to how much the company is willing to spend on tokens and supporting infrastructure that makes this not a slam dunk choice for every company.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/tech-firms-arent-just-encouraging-their-workers-to-use-ai-theyre-enforcing-it-d43ebf84

2026-02-20 06:15:25 CET

Americans really got bored with free trade, the best and brightest in the world wanting to come here, low corruption and childhood diseases like measles being eradicated.
I guess things are definitely less boring now. Worse, but also less boring.
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2026-02-14 14:00:33 CET

Has there been a more absurd product vision than when Zoom’s CEO said our AI avatars will attend Zoom meetings on our behalf?
So it would just be a meeting of AI avatars talking to each other. 🤦🏾‍♂️

2026-02-01 21:24:56 CET

The inside story of why Sam Altman got fired by the OpenAI board from Microsoft’s CTO. Internal politics between Ilya on the Research side and Sam on the Product side. And a board inexperienced in such politics.
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2026-01-16 17:54:56 CET

The Overton window has fully shifted to “do you deserve to get shot in the face by government agents if you don’t get out of your car when asked?”
We are so lost if this is what the paper of record considers a valid discussion.
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2026-01-07 13:42:22 CET

There’s a saying that the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.
I see plenty of developers insisting AI coding tools are overhyped and error-prone.
But I’m also starting to see the opposite, people who’ve fully embraced them and now find they’re so good it’s triggering a real crisis of confidence.
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2026-01-06 03:17:22 CET

Casey Newton followed up on the viral “Desperation Score” food delivery hoax. He got in touch with the original Reddit poster who shared an Uber Eats ID and an 18-page document about the alleged internal workings at Uber Eats.
Both turned out to be AI generated. This is trolling in the age of LLMs.
https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/?media_id=3803745319989638545_63247015229&media_author_id=63247015229&ranking_info_token=GCA2N2YyZWFmYjBmOWM0OGM0OWU5ZTU1Y2YxNjU0NGJhOCX+m9YDJo6c45UNGBMzODAzNzQ1MzE5OTg5NjM4NTQ1KAN2bGwA&utm_source=ig_text_post_permalink

2026-01-01 05:09:34 CET

Happy New Year. May everything fall into place for you in 2026.
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2025-12-28 22:03:04 CET

The remote controlled robot version of shooting yourself in the foot.
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2025-12-18 12:43:13 CET

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The Trump administration gutting so much fundamental research is going to set the U.S. back so much in ways that will shock historians in the future.
The current deliberate tanking of the economy will seem mild in comparison.

2025-12-03 11:21:17 CET

The level of corruption to pardon a drug kingpin who was convicted of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine while claiming you’re committing war crimes to fight Venezuelan cartels is worse than anything I ever saw in Nigeria.
This is so gross.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/02/hernandez-trump-pardon-prison-honduras/

2025-11-11 00:35:55 CET

If your religion says you can’t do something then don’t do it. Don’t get the law to force other people to conform to your religion.
Muslims can’t drink alcohol but I’ve never heard of a Muslim going to the Supreme Court to get neighborhood bars shut down.

2025-10-30 05:12:57 CET

One. Trillion. Dollars.
This would make it the second highest market valuation at IPO of all time (first is Saudi Aramco) and the most money raised ($60B).
That leaves $1.19 trillion for them to figure out how to fund of their commitments to AMD, Microsoft, Nvidia & Oracle for AI infrastructure.
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2025-10-17 07:11:30 CEST

The CEOs of both JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs have warned managers that they should have a “strong bias” against hiring people and “constrain headcount growth” despite record revenue and trading volume.
In both cases, seeking out efficiencies by adopting AI was the mantra. This echoes similar moves from big tech.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/15/jpmorgan-chase-goldman-sachs-ai-hiring.html?trk=storyline-feed_main-feed-storyline-activity-card_feed-article-content

2025-10-16 04:02:46 CEST

America is going to feel the impact of Hillary losing in 2016 and Trump getting to choose 3 Supreme Court justices for generations.
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2025-09-27 21:25:36 CEST

According to SimilarWeb, their analytics shows that Threads has 130.2M daily active users compared to X’s 130.1M.
I’m honestly surprised at how active X continues to be which shows how strong network effects can be even if the app becomes a Nazi bar.
https://www.forbes.com.au/news/billionaires/threads-finally-passes-x-zuckerbergs-2-year-old-platform-passes-musks-in-daily-users/

2025-09-19 21:50:31 CEST

Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.
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2025-08-09 14:37:58 CEST

The rise of generative AI has caused Luddites to get a makeover in perception. Now being so upset about technology taking your job that you smash machines is now viewed more sympathetically these days.
Being called a Luddite has gone from an insult to an accurate description of many people’s views of AI.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/rethinking-the-luddites-in-the-age-of-ai?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny

2025-07-15 18:57:05 CEST

Starbucks is increasing its RTO requirement to 4 days a week from 3. Additionally it’s asked all managers to either relocate to Seattle or Toronto, or accept a one-time payment then resign.
At least that’s more generous than Amazon’s resigning without severance.
I guess traffic’s going to get even worse in Seattle.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/07/14/starbucks-remote-work-return-to-office/85200280007/?trk=storyline-feed_main-feed-storyline-activity-card_feed-article-content#

2025-07-11 08:54:59 CEST

The CEO of Lowe’s tells new graduates that they don’t have to worry about AI taking their jobs if they give up on dreams of white collar jobs and a corner office.
“AI isn’t going to fix a hole in your roof,” he said, “it’s not going to respond to an electrical issue in your home.”
So much for that college degree, I guess.
https://fortune.com/2025/06/30/lowes-ceo-marvin-ellison-ai-impact-workforce-gen-z-customers/

2024-12-15 01:22:37 CET

The shift from having more kids means more people to help you on the farm to having more kids is more people to put through college is one that governments still haven’t wrapped their minds around.
Until then birthrates will continue to fall.

2024-12-05 12:32:30 CET

There was a massive moral panic about the impact of AI powered misinformation on elections this year which turns out to have been overblown.
The most significant impact turned out to be AI being used to bridge language gaps everywhere from India to New York and make candidates messages multilingual.
https://theconversation.com/the-apocalypse-that-wasnt-ai-was-everywhere-in-2024s-elections-but-deepfakes-and-misinformation-were-only-part-of-the-picture-244225

2024-12-03 17:19:31 CET

This is a really insightful take on Intel’s board firing its CEO.
Intel missed two major waves; mobile and AI. Meanwhile Nvidia went all-in on GPUs for AI in 2013 (over ten years ago).
Intel is now trying to become a foundry that competes with TSMC making chips for others while also making its own chips. Many believe it should spin off the foundry because its company culture will prioritize its own chips.
Gelsinger didn’t want to do that and now he’s out. 🤔
https://stratechery.com/2024/gelsinger-out-at-intel-what-happened-ten-years-too-late/

2024-11-30 18:12:01 CET

One of the most important lessons I’ve learned as a manager is situational leadership. I used to think I should manage people how I like to be managed but a one-size-fits-all approach is flawed.
People exist on a continuum of low to high skill at the task and low to high motivation (will) to get it done. How you manage them for that specific task is different. You should delegate to and empower High skill, high will workers while being more direct in showing low skill, low workers what to do.
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2024-11-27 06:18:25 CET

A friend and I had a fun discussion about whether CrowdStrike would lose any business given their massive outage. My friend argued that they’re such a market leader that they’d be just fine as there’s no comparable alternative.
They were right. CrowdStrike posted higher revenue than expected, raised its outlook for Q4 and had a 97% gross customer retention rate. 🤯
That is market dominance exemplified.
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/crowdstrike-raises-outlook-post-higher-revenue-amid-swing-to-loss-dde5cf9f

2024-11-27 04:31:54 CET

Bluesky’s starter packs fix one of the key problems with chronological feeds — it takes to much work to build a good feed.
Very often a chronological feed devolves into a mix of people who post too much and a bunch of people who pist too little. And it’s work to find good people to follow.
Starter packs that give you a way to build a vibrant chronological feed with one click and augment it just as easily. A very good addition to the classic social media feature set.

2024-11-21 14:02:02 CET

The DOJ’s proposed remedies to address Google’s search monopoly are far reaching and will definitely reshape the internet
- Google forced to sell Chrome
- Android can no longer promote Google Search
- Banned from default search deals on iPhones and other devices (Apple just lost $20B/year)
- Must license search index data to competitors
My former coworkers at Bing must be ecstatic.
https://apnews.com/article/google-search-monopoly-penalty-justice-department-84e07fec51c5c59751d846118cb900a7

2024-11-19 12:47:08 CET

I’m genuinely curious about why it took the election results for millions of people to leave X.
Did the content or moderation policies suddenly become worse or did people suddenly realize they were on Truth Social 2.0?
If you left X this month, can you share why?

2024-10-26 20:02:25 CEST

Stablecoins like Tether remind me of Uber. Regulation led to products with poor user experience (taxis) so there was a window of opportunity for Uber to show up with a better user experience which ignored regulations until it was tok big to ban.
Regulations on foreign exchange transactions especially in emerging markets with unstable currencies have created a similar situation for Tether and other stablecoins.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-25/crypto-s-too-big-to-fail-token-tether-faces-potential-new-threat-from-us-usdt

2024-10-19 15:11:55 CEST

A powerful example of how AI is game changing from Simon Willison where he automated a task of grabbing data from across multiple emails and putting it in a spreadsheet.
Instead of writing a bunch of code, he simply screen recorded himself scrolling through the emails, uploaded the video into Google’s AI studio then asked Gemini to extract the text from the emails in the video and convert them to a spreadsheet.
Writing automation scripts feels prehistoric in this world
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/17/video-scraping/

2024-09-13 05:03:53 CEST

Stories like this remind me of the Arab Spring. People celebrate the ability of new technology to influence people without asking what happens when it’s used to influence people to think and do things you don’t like.
Experiments that show chatbots can change people’s minds will be looked upon as much of a turning point as Twitter being used to incite protest in the Middle East and GamerGate.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/study-conversations-with-ai-chatbots-can-reduce-belief-in-conspiracy-theories/
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2024-09-12 00:58:48 CEST

Who Donald Trump is talking about when he talks about undocumented migrants eating pets
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/113/121/396/300/576/157/original/aa5128d7c24f1293.png

2024-08-09 03:40:21 CEST

People have long argued the endgame for riding hailing services is autonomous cars. What used to seem like an expensive pipe dream is now reality if you ride Waymo in San Francisco.
Uber has smartly partnered with them. It seems inevitable that human drivers will be disrupted.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/chinas-drivers-fret-robotaxis-pick-up-pace-passengers-2024-08-08/
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