An interview with Nikita Bier, who wants to lure journalists back to X with a rebuilt recommendation algorithm with no keyword suppression or manual downranking
Product chief Nikita Bier on journalists who left: “We have to earn their trust.” Also: Fidji Simo on OpenAI's Code Red, and a new episode of ACCESS. X: @ashleymayer . Bluesky: @fahadhumayun.com , @t...
OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, its first open-weight models since GPT-2; the smaller gpt-oss-20b can run locally on a device with 16GB+ of RAM
gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b push the frontier of open-weight reasoning models Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog : OpenAI's new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good OpenAI on GitHub : ...
YouTube's CEO says that OpenAI training Sora with YouTube videos would violate YouTube's ToS, and Google adheres to YouTube's creator contracts to train Gemini
depending on how it trains its Sora video tool Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : YouTube CEO's warning to OpenAI over Sora training data could backfire spectacularly Cecily Mauran / Mashable : OpenAI's...
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Threads, the future of AI, Quest 3, his Elon Musk rivalry, decentralized social media, “open-source” AI tools, encryption, and more
“[It] actually makes people feel more confident investing in a system if they know that they have freedom over how they operate. … X: Elon Musk / @elonmusk : @xDaily lmaooo @jamesborow : One of the be...
Q&A with Roblox CEO David Baszucki on the company adding experiences for people aged 17+, its aging users, its social graph, young developers, Robux, and more
@Roblox CEO @DavidBaszucki on @verge's @DecoderPod with @alexeheath and @reckless https://www.theverge.com/... [image] Alex Heath / @alexeheath : I recently sat down with @Roblox CEO @DavidBaszucki fo...
Sources: Meta plans to debut its Twitter rival, potentially named Threads, in mid-July and is pitching celebrities and creators to join a “sanely” run platform
“#Meta is hoping for at least 10s of millions of users within the first few months” for their Twitter competitor #p95 — The #fediverse and #activitypub will be a small minority show within months. …...
Source: Twitter abruptly fired around 50 engineers and warned dozens more on the evening before Thanksgiving; some were told their “code is not satisfactory”
Hearing that roughly 50 Twitter engineers were abruptly fired last night and dozens more received warnings: https://twitter.com/... Tweets: @alexeheath , @gergelyorosz , @gergelyorosz , @film_girl , @...
Meta Quest Pro review: improved controllers but irredeemably bad software and feels like it was launched without plan or purpose, highlighting VR's drawbacks
Meta's $1,499 headset is better at showcasing VR's weaknesses than its new strengths. … Mark Zuckerberg is betting the entire future of his company on the metaverse. Tweets: @reckless , @mmasnick , @g...
eMarketer: US advertisers are on track to spend $65.3B on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks in 2022, up 3.6% YoY, which is ~10x slower than in 2021
A decade-long era of breakneck growth in social media advertising has come to an abrupt halt. Who killed the boom? Tweets: @alexeheath and @philwahba See also Mediagazer Tweets: Alex Heath / @alexehe...
Q&A with Facebook app head Tom Alison on the needs of young adults, changes to the Feed, TikTok's influence, recommendation systems, political content, and more
Nilay Patel / The Verge : Tweets: @alexeheath , @tomalison , and @verge Tweets: Alex Heath / @alexeheath : This is the first in-depth interview with @tomalison, a longtime Facebook exec who took over...