Leading the Future, a pro-AI PAC backed by Palantir-cofounder Joe Lonsdale, hit pro-regulation Democrat Alex Bores with attack ads over Bores' work for Palantir
and building a strategy that other politicians will have to contend with. https://www.politico.com/...Katie Fossett /@katelynfossett:“Leading the Future's goal is not actually to kill Alex's race. The...
President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval”
Transformer Weekly: Trump signs EO, Hochul guts the RAISE Act, and GPT-5.2 launches Michael Kan / PCMag : Trump Signs Executive Order to Go After ‘Burdensome’ State AI Laws Poligirlsayswhat / Baller A...
How David Sacks' AI and crypto policies in Trump's White House benefit his investments, those of his Silicon Valley friends, and the All-In podcast he co-hosts
Calls Conflict Claims “Nothing Burger” Mike Pearl / Gizmodo : 438 Reasons to Doubt that David Sacks Should Work for the Federal Government Mark Toon / Protos : David Sacks sends silly legal threat to ...
Sources: Marc Andreessen complained to the UK government last week about the Online Safety Act and called for a reprimand of technology secretary Peter Kyle
Venture capitalist's intervention comes amid backlash to sweeping new internet legislation — Marc Andreessen …
Margit Wennmachers, who has shaped a16z's marketing approach since joining in 2010, is stepping down and “graduating” from operating partner to partner emeritus
they're hiring some talented and influential people. Gina Bianchini / @ginab : @wennmachers @a16z You were impressive the first time Liz Hamren introduced us. You seemed like a natural introduction to...
Meta shareholders suing Mark Zuckerberg and Meta leaders over alleged Cambridge Analytica privacy violations reach a settlement deal, ending an $8B trial
This firm was used by Putin to get Trump elected in USA through political propaganda and Brexit in UK. Ian Turner / @juiceianturner : No mention on the BBC site about Cambridge Analytica's involvement...
Meta and Anduril partner to build EagleEye, a line of XR products like helmets that enhance soldiers' hearing and vision and enable control of AI weapon systems
An AI-Powered Combat Headset That Can Detect Drones Vaughn Cockayne / Washington Times : Meta, Anduril team up to bring high-tech perception to U.S. warfighters Bloomberg : Meta Teams Up With Anduril ...
Yann LeCun says DeepSeek “profited from open research and open source” like Meta's Llama and is proof that open source models are surpassing proprietary ones
“Marc Andreessen, a co-inventor of the pioneering Mosaic web browser, co-founder of the Netscape browser company and current general partner at the famed Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) venture capital fir...
Industry insiders say DeepSeek's focus on research makes it a dangerous competitor as it's willing to share breakthroughs rather than protect them for profits
China is pulling the same trick. — www.ft.com/content/747a... Mastodon: Brian Kung / @briankung@hachyderm.io : “There's a pretty delicious, or maybe disconcerting irony to this, given OpenAI's found...
Q&A with Curtis Yarvin, a computer engineer and blogger whose ideas are increasingly popular with tech elites, on why democracy is bad, dictators, and more
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m... @traplife : www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m... We wanted to know why democracy is the worst form of government. So in this week's ‘The Interview’, we sat down with a fas...