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Casey Newton

@caseynewton
1748 posts
2026-04-16
“Dying shoe company becomes compute provider” is easily the best bubble story we have seen so far [embedded post]
2026-04-16 View on X
Financial Times

Shoe company Allbirds, which sold last week for $39M after its valuation fell from $4B+ in 2021, says it aims to become an AI compute provider; BIRD jumps 800%+

Ah, zeitgeist:  —  Allbirds is a San Francisco maker of wool trainers that was once valued at more than $4bn.

“It's 2026 and we've decided the Siri team should learn how to code” unfortunately one of the funnier stories of 2026 so far [embedded post]
2026-04-16 View on X
The Information

Sources: Apple plans to send <200 developers from its Siri team, a group internally known as a “laggard”, to a multi-week AI coding bootcamp, as it revamps Siri

Apple is sending a portion of its Siri programmers back to coding school just two months before the company is expected to unveil a major, AI-powered revamp of the voice assistant ...

2026-04-15
Ok.  So why didn't it? [embedded post]
2026-04-15 View on X
NBC News

Letter to Senators in January: Apple said it told X it may remove Grok from the App Store for not stopping the app from generating nude and sexualized deepfakes

In a letter to senators sent in January, Apple detailed how it responded to Grok's ability to generate sexualized deepfakes.

“Dying shoe company becomes compute provider” is easily the best bubble story we have seen so far [embedded post]
2026-04-15 View on X
Financial Times

Shoe company Allbirds, which sold last week for $39M after its valuation fell from $4B+ in 2021, says it aims to become an AI compute provider; BIRD jumps 800%+

Ah, zeitgeist:  —  Allbirds is a San Francisco maker of wool trainers that was once valued at more than $4bn.

2026-04-14
I have this enabled on my account, use a range of Google services daily, and it has never once manifested itself in any way [embedded post]
2026-04-14 View on X
TechCrunch

Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets users connect their Google accounts for tailored Gemini answers, to India, initially for AI Pro and Ultra users

Google announced on Tuesday that it's bringing Gemini's Personal Intelligence feature to users in India.

2026-04-10
Posting on X is for people who have humiliation fetishes [embedded post]
2026-04-10 View on X
Electronic Frontier Foundation

EFF says it is leaving X, as “X is no longer where the fight is happening” and an X post now gets less than 3% of the views a tweet got seven years ago

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn't a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

2026-04-09
Posting on X is for people who have humiliation fetishes [embedded post]
2026-04-09 View on X
Electronic Frontier Foundation

EFF says it is leaving X, as “X is no longer where the fight is happening” and an X post now gets less than 3% of the views a tweet got seven years ago

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn't a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

2026-04-08
Anthropic's Mythos model represents a dangerous new moment for cybersecurity.  Experts tell me that hackers and nation states may catch up within months — and that the cat-and-mouse game between attacker and defender is about to become much more high-stakes www.platformer.news/anthropic- my...  [image]
2026-04-08 View on X
New York Times

Mythos Preview's hacking ability is not a publicity stunt; sources say tech companies privately spoke to Trump officials about the implications for US security

this may shock people — must begin with the two A.I. superpowers, the U.S. and China. It is now urgent that they learn to collaborate to prevent bad actors from gaining access to t...

Anthropic says it's only releasing its new model to cyber-defenders because it has already found zero-day exploits in every major operating system www.anthropic.com/glasswing [image]
2026-04-08 View on X
Anthropic

Anthropic announces Project Glasswing, a cybersecurity initiative that will use its Claude Mythos Preview model to help find and fix software vulnerabilities

Today we're announcing Project Glasswing1, a new initiative that brings together Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Apple, Broadcom …

Anthropic's Mythos model represents a dangerous new moment for cybersecurity.  Experts tell me that hackers and nation states may catch up within months — and that the cat-and-mouse game between attacker and defender is about to become much more high-stakes www.platformer.news/anthropic- my...  [image]
2026-04-08 View on X
Anthropic

Anthropic announces Project Glasswing, a cybersecurity initiative that will use its Claude Mythos Preview model to help find and fix software vulnerabilities

Today we're announcing Project Glasswing1, a new initiative that brings together Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Apple, Broadcom …

2026-04-07
Anthropic says it's only releasing its new model to cyber-defenders because it has already found zero-day exploits in every major operating system www.anthropic.com/glasswing [image]
2026-04-07 View on X
Anthropic

Anthropic announces Project Glasswing, a cybersecurity initiative that will use its Claude Mythos Preview model to help find and fix software vulnerabilities

Today we're announcing Project Glasswing1, a new initiative that brings together Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Apple, Broadcom …

This is petty but maybe my favorite part of the New Yorker's story about OpenAI www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...  [image]
2026-04-07 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI announces a Safety Fellowship program for external researchers, engineers, and practitioners to study the safety and alignment of advanced AI systems

A pilot program to support independent safety and alignment research and develop the next generation of talent

This is petty but maybe my favorite part of the New Yorker's story about OpenAI www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...  [image]
2026-04-07 View on X
New Yorker

Interviews with Sam Altman and 100+ people on if he can be trusted amid allegations of consistent lying and more: some defend him as others call him a sociopath

Slack messages and H.R. documents, some photographed on a cellphone to avoid detection on company devices.  One memo begins with a list: “Sam exhibits a consistent pattern of...” T...

Anthropic says it's only releasing its new model to cyber-defenders because it has already found zero-day exploits in every major operating system www.anthropic.com/glasswing [image]
2026-04-07 View on X
TechCrunch

Anthropic says it will make Claude Mythos Preview available to 40+ organizations that maintain critical software and doesn't plan to make it generally available

Anthropic on Tuesday released a preview of its new frontier model, Mythos, which it says will be used by a small coterie of partner organizations for cybersecurity work.

2026-04-06
This is petty but maybe my favorite part of the New Yorker's story about OpenAI www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...  [image]
2026-04-06 View on X
New Yorker

Interviews with Sam Altman and 100+ people on if he can be trusted amid allegations of consistent lying and more: some defend him as others call him a sociopath

New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

2026-04-03
About 10 minutes after announcing that it was time to cut back on side projects and pivot to the enterprise, OpenAI has acquired a media company 🤔 openai.com/index/openai...
2026-04-03 View on X
Wall Street Journal

OpenAI acquires tech news show TBPN; Fidji Simo says the move aims to “help create a space for a real, constructive conversation about the changes AI creates”

TBPN staff will help with marketing and communications at OpenAI but keep their editorial independence, the ChatGPT parent says

For that kind of money you could employ a handful of AI researchers! [embedded post]
2026-04-03 View on X
Financial Times

Source: OpenAI bought TBPN, which was set to generate $30M+ in 2026, for “low hundreds of millions of dollars”; OpenAI says TBPN will be editorially independent

I also genuinely question TBPN's reach and their revenue!  But I guess we will never know now.  [embedded post]@newsjennifer:Pro tip: nobody is buying the ‘editorially independent’...

For that kind of money you could employ a handful of AI researchers! [embedded post]
2026-04-03 View on X
The Information

Sources detail Fidji Simo's moves at OpenAI, including spearheading the TBPN acquisition and pushing OpenAI to cut Sora and avoid other social media products

In recent weeks, Fidji Simo has burst into public view as the OpenAI executive bringing much-needed discipline to the AI startup …

For that kind of money you could employ a handful of AI researchers! [embedded post]
2026-04-03 View on X
Wall Street Journal

OpenAI acquires tech news show TBPN; Fidji Simo says the move aims to “help create a space for a real, constructive conversation about the changes AI creates”

TBPN staff will help with marketing and communications at OpenAI but keep their editorial independence, the ChatGPT parent says

2026-04-02
For that kind of money you could employ a handful of AI researchers! [embedded post]
2026-04-02 View on X
Financial Times

Source: OpenAI bought TBPN, which was set to generate $30M in 2026, for “low hundreds of millions of dollars”; OpenAI says TBPN will be editorially independent

George Hammond /Financial Times: