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@baldingsworld

@baldingsworld
68 posts
2025-12-09
One upside to this move is that Chinese models are well known to have massive security holes so this is going to leave the door wide open to grab Chinese data
2025-12-09 View on X
CNBC

President Trump says the US will let Nvidia ship its H200 chips to “approved customers” in China and elsewhere, on the condition that the US gets a 25% cut

President Donald Trump on Monday said Nvidia will be allowed to ship its H200 artificial intelligence chips to …

One upside to this move is that Chinese models are well known to have massive security holes so this is going to leave the door wide open to grab Chinese data
2025-12-09 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: Beijing is set to limit access to Nvidia's H200 chips despite President Trump allowing their export to China, in its push for chip self-sufficiency

but will Beijing want them? Taylor Herzlich / New York Post : China to restrict access to Nvidia's advanced H200 chips — as Trump looks to lift export curbs: report Maximilian Schr...

2023-11-23
Seen some defense of the board actions and specifically character. Problem is even if board wanted just a change in leadership and direction there is a proper way and a Cluster* inducing wildly incompetent way to go about these actions. They shouldn't be in charge of anything
2023-11-23 View on X
The Information

Source: a breakthrough spearheaded by OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever enabled a model that could solve basic math problems, stoking excitement and concern

One day before he was fired by OpenAI's board last week, Sam Altman alluded to a recent technical advance the company …

Seen some defense of the board actions and specifically character. Problem is even if board wanted just a change in leadership and direction there is a proper way and a Cluster* inducing wildly incompetent way to go about these actions. They shouldn't be in charge of anything
2023-11-23 View on X
Axios

OpenAI reaches a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with an initial board of Bret Taylor as chair, alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo

4 key takeaways Jason Dorrier / Singularity Hub : OpenAI Mayhem: What We Know Now, Don't Know Yet, and What Could Be Next New York Times : Explaining OpenAI's Board Shake-Up CNBC :...

2023-11-22
Seen some defense of the board actions and specifically character. Problem is even if board wanted just a change in leadership and direction there is a proper way and a Cluster* inducing wildly incompetent way to go about these actions. They shouldn't be in charge of anything
2023-11-22 View on X
Axios

OpenAI reaches a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with an initial board of Bret Taylor as Chair alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo

OpenAI said late Tuesday that it had reached a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with a new board chaired by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor.

2023-11-16
Journos just parroting what they are told is standard operating procedure but this isn't the reason Alibaba is scrapping it's cloud listing it's because China won't let them list over seas given the data they handle. This had been made very clear
2023-11-16 View on X
Bloomberg

Alibaba reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to ~$31B, beating ~$30.9B est., a ~$3.8B net income, up from a ~$3B loss in Q2 2022, and calls off its cloud spinoff

- The decision marks a dramatic reversal on a signature move  — Alibaba's historic six-way restructuring is now in doubt

2023-02-15
I love this story for so many reasons but the idea of Vietnam is not even remotely close to what Vietnam is or how it views itself or the US. There is so much hope here for Vietnam https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2023-02-15 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at Vietnam's plans to make Ho Chi Minh City a startup hub; report: Vietnam drew a record $2.6B in VC funding across 233 deals in 2021, up from $700M YoY

Bloomberg :

2022-12-14
US universities China policies are a complete shambolic embarrassing joke. MIT and their famous “we have decided not to spy for China” must be so proud https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-14 View on X
Rest of World

Some Chinese students are using remote access apps to cheat on TOEFL, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, and other US entry exams, fueled by the introduction of at-home testing

Viola Zhou / Rest of World : Tweets: @scholars_stage , @violazhouyi , @violazhouyi , and @baldingsworld Tweets: T. Greer / @scholars_stage : The stories I could tell https://resto...

2022-11-29
Just so we are clear: Apple is totally cool with genocide, slave labor, and authoritarian speech. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-29 View on X
MacRumors

Elon Musk says Apple threatened to “withhold” Twitter from App Store “but won't tell us why” and calls out Apple's lower Twitter ad spend and alleged censorship

Apple has cut back on its Twitter advertising, according to Twitter CEO Elon Musk.

Just so we are clear: Apple is totally cool with genocide, slave labor, and authoritarian speech. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-29 View on X
Washington Post

Source: in Q1 2022, Apple was the top advertiser on Twitter, spending $48M and accounting for over 4% of Twitter's revenue that quarter

now he's worried about ‘tyranny’ if Apple deplatforms him The Verge : Elon's pretend naiveté about Apple and the App Store is very funny. Barron's Online : Elon Musk Takes on Apple...

2022-11-22
No idea how they structured it but this could mean real problems for mom and dad. At the very least HUUUUGE tax bill. If they are connected to the company via funds and not just through son, problems increase exponentially https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-22 View on X
Reuters

Records: FTX, its executives, and SBF's parents bought 19+ properties in the Bahamas worth ~$121M over the past two years as “residence for key personnel”

Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX, his parents and senior executives of the failed cryptocurrency exchange bought …

2022-11-01
Twitter content moderation was such a dumpster fire, dumpster fires refused to be associated with their content moderation protocols. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-01 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Twitter froze some staff access to content moderation and policy enforcement tools, raising worries about a misinformation spike before the US midterms

Twitter Inc., the social network being overhauled by new owner Elon Musk, has frozen some employee access to internal tools used …

2022-09-05
Remember when people laughed that Twitter human sampling 100 accounts and finding no bots was an acceptable methodology? That was symptomatic of how badly run the company is and how little initial control and surprisingly tech capabilities they have https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-05 View on X
Washington Post

Peiter Zatko's allegations offer details on Twitter's misinformation policies and failures, including accepting a QAnon proponent into its Birdwatch program

A document from whistleblower Peiter Zatko that details the company's failings in policing misinformation shows what happens when a business model fails Tweets: @markseibel , @bald...

2022-07-03
“Internal Security Protocols” = MSS approved https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-03 View on X
Bloomberg

In a letter to nine GOP senators, TikTok says China-based employees who clear internal security protocols can access certain information on TikTok's US users

Alex Barinka / Bloomberg :

2022-04-30
Funny how this is being sold as China going soft when in reality it's Beijing saying, I'll stop burning it down if you give it to me. See how a slight change radically alters the understanding. Same outlet recently told us China shocked by Russian war https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-04-30 View on X
South China Morning Post

Sources: China plans to end its regulatory crackdown on the country's Big Tech companies and give internet platforms a bigger role to boost its ailing economy

Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post :

2022-04-07
I think this is great and they're is a more technical version in the replies for those interested. The problem is this: Google will not do this for Chinese apps we know are both security nightmares and or linked to the state https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-07 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Google Play removes dozens of Android apps, including Muslim prayer apps with 10M+ downloads, after researchers find malware tied to a US defense contractor

Code placed in consumer-facing apps is tied to U.S. national-security contractors, documents show

2022-01-29
This is good but notice it is done by a technical decidedly less political agency https://www.reuters.com/...
2022-01-29 View on X
Reuters

The FCC revokes China Unicom's authorization to operate in the US, granted ~20 years ago, citing national security; Unicom can still offer data center services

2022-01-28
This is good but notice it is done by a technical decidedly less political agency https://www.reuters.com/...
2022-01-28 View on X
Reuters

The FCC revokes China Unicom's authorization to operate in the US, granted ~20 years ago, citing national security; Unicom can still offer data center services

Reuters : Source: Federal Communications … .

2022-01-03
Trust me when I say: China targets everyone. They have data on almost everyone. This is what makes the blissful willful ignorance of academics just stunning at this point https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-01-03 View on X
New York Times

Investigation: how China identifies, tracks, and pressures its critics on Facebook and Twitter, including Chinese living abroad and citizens of other nations

I'm pro immigration but it is not remotely simple as saying just allow high skill immigration. This industry and governments around the world throwing all nature of subsidy at firm and worker alike. Very small pool of workers. Gross over simplification to reduce to immigration https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-03 View on X
Wall Street Journal

The chip industry faces a recruitment gap, as plans for new fabs in the US will require an estimated 70K to 90K more workers by 2025 compared to 2020 levels

Stephanie Yang / Wall Street Journal :