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Max Chafkin

@chafkin
133 posts
2026-01-20
i've been saying this for six months, but he never was “out” of politics https://www.axios.com/...
2026-01-20 View on X
Axios

Source: Elon Musk donates $10M to boost pro-Trump Senate candidate Nate Morris, who is seeking to replace Mitch McConnell, in Musk's largest-yet Senate donation

2025-12-19
First off, credit to Anthropic for being unusually transparent about the limitations of its tech. Also LOLOL at spending tens of billions of dollars (and all of human knowledge) on a bad vending machine. https://www.wsj.com/...
2025-12-19 View on X
Wall Street Journal

In an experiment, Claude ran a vending machine in the WSJ newsroom and lost $1,000+ after it dropped prices to zero, gave away a free PlayStation, and more

until someone pointed out this would fall afoul of the US Onion Futures Act of 1958. @andonlabs : Turns out journalists are better red-teamers than AI researchers. We've taught the...

2025-12-18
lol the big tech platforms have replaced the open web for one where you have to pay $15/month to try to make a hyperlink https://techcrunch.com/...
2025-12-18 View on X
TechCrunch

Meta is testing limiting Facebook professional accounts and Pages to posting just two links per month, unless they subscribe to $14.99+/month Meta Verified

is this seriously under consideration?!  —  #Open Social Web  —  RE: https://www.threads.com/... Forums: Msmash / Slashdot : Meta Is Considering Charging Business Pages To Post Lin...

2025-12-11
what happened in 2001 i forget [image]
2025-12-11 View on X
CNBC

Oracle reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $16.06B, below $16.21B est., and raises its FY capex forecast to ~$50B, up from $35B as of September; ORCL drops 15%+

Oracle shares sank 11% in extended trading on Wednesday after the database software maker reported lower quarterly revenue …

2025-11-26
this is so bleak! very hard to understand why big tech companies are spending tens of billions of dollars to try to ruin the internet for everyone https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2025-11-26 View on X
Bloomberg

Some food bloggers warn Google's AI Overviews and AI food pictures are burying their real, tested recipes, setting home cooks up for disaster this Thanksgiving

Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures  —  Eb Gargano has been writing recipes …

2025-10-28
What are we doing here https://www.wired.com/... [image]
2025-10-28 View on X
New York Times

An ex-OpenAI staffer of four years says it isn't doing enough to protect users, especially those with mental health issues, and needs to offer more than words

I've read more smut at work than you can possibly imagine, all of it while working at OpenAI.  —  Back in the spring of 2021 …

2025-10-24
wrote about the pardon of CZ and why the claim (from White House spox Karoline Leavitt) that this was a victimless crime stretches the truth https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]
2025-10-24 View on X
Bloomberg

Trump's pardon of CZ is a gift to the crypto industry, which has spent heavily to ease regulations and rewrite history to remove associations with criminality

The move by Trump comes as his family works to profit from coins.

wrote about the pardon of CZ and why the claim (from White House spox Karoline Leavitt) that this was a victimless crime stretches the truth https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]
2025-10-24 View on X
Wall Street Journal

President Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's World Liberty Financial

reporting no longer grounded in truth. The facts are clear and stated as follows: 👇 @acyn : Collins: Can you explain why you chose to pardon the founder of Binance and did it have ...

2025-08-19
lol [image]
2025-08-19 View on X
PitchBook

American Exceptionalism Acquisition, a SPAC led by Chamath Palihapitiya and focused on energy, AI, DeFi, and defense, files for a US IPO, seeking to raise $250M

American Exceptionalism Acquisition Corp. A 25,000,000 Class A Ordinary Shares … Steve Goldstein / MarketWatch : Chamath Palihapitiya warns ‘no crying in the casino’ as he launches...

2025-08-13
i'm so sick of hearing boosters write things like “AI detects cancer better than doctors” based on really thin studies and wishful thinking. well, here's a study that shows that AI not only did a worse job than human docs, but actually degraded their abilities www.medpagetoday.com/gastroentero...
2025-08-13 View on X
MedPage Today

Study: endoscopists accustomed to using AI during colonoscopies detected fewer precancerous growths after the tech was taken away, raising “deskilling” concerns

- The adenoma detection rate (ADR) in more than 1,400 non-AI assisted colonoscopies dropped 6 percentage points …

2025-06-13
if you're wondering why so many in silicon valley got behind Trump, especially immediately after the election, this a reason. FB, OpenAI, Palantir now have executives embedded in the army at the same time they are trying to sell tech to the DoD.
2025-06-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

The Army Reserve launches Detachment 201, an innovation corps with Palantir CTO, Meta CTO, and other tech execs advising on AI and tech as lieutenant colonels

Silicon Valley executives are joining a new innovation corps in Army Reserve  —  The nerd brigade is reporting for duty.

2025-06-04
it is really weird that tesla simultaneously says “anything that goes wrong with FSD is the fault of the person supervising it” and also: “the technology is perfect.” great scoop from @danahull.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
2025-06-04 View on X
Bloomberg

Photos and partial footage of an FSD-enabled Tesla sideswiping a parked SUV and hitting a woman in November 2023 show FSD's limits; the NHTSA is investigating

The setting sun was blinding drivers on the Arizona interstate between Flagstaff and Phoenix in November 2023.

2025-05-22
would love to know how they arrived at a 6.5 billion valuation for a company with 55 employees that hasn't released any products in a category where there have only been failures www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
2025-05-22 View on X
Bloomberg

OpenAI acquires io, Jony Ive's secretive AI startup, for nearly $6.5B in stock; Ive and LoveFrom will remain independent but take over design for all of OpenAI

OpenAI will acquire the AI device startup co-founded by Apple Inc. veteran Jony Ive in a nearly $6.5 billion all-stock deal …

2025-05-16
old enuf to remember when every “ideas” columnist was warning that the llms were basically about to turn into gods
2025-05-16 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Meta has delayed rolling out its Behemoth LLM, internally slated for an April release, to fall or later, after struggling to improve its capabilities

The company's struggle to improve the capabilities of latest AI model mirrors issues at some top AI companies

2025-04-23
gotta say the details about Tesla's robotaxi program are super underwhelming. 10-20 cars at launch with remote operators. it sounds way behind waymo etc, both from a business standpoint and technically.
2025-04-23 View on X
Bloomberg

Elon Musk says production of Tesla's humanoid robot Optimus is affected by China's recent restrictions on exports of rare earth minerals used in magnets

Speaking on the company's earnings call on Tuesday, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said production was impacted by the “magnet issue”.

2025-03-13
Weird on a few levels.  First off b/c the order doesn't apply to Macmillan...so it seems mostly to be an effort to get to get the author to not do press as a contractural matter.  Which...interesting view of free speech from a supposedly radically pro free speech company [embedded post]
2025-03-13 View on X
The Verge

An arbitrator instructs a former Meta employee to stop promoting and publishing her book alleging company misconduct; publisher Flatiron Books earlier objected

An arbitrator has instructed the book's author and its publishers to stop publishing the book, though it's unclear how much authority the arbitrator has to do so.

2025-03-10
There is a LOT here.  Meta disputes it all, but NBC is citing documents and sources that support the authors' account.  Among the funniest deets: Zuck's employees let him win Catan www.nbcnews.com/tech/social- ...  [image]
2025-03-10 View on X
NBC News

Memoir: ex-Facebook employee Sarah Wynn-Williams, who was fired in 2017, says Joel Kaplan sexually harassed her, among other claims; Meta cleared Kaplan in 2017

The book by Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former New Zealand diplomat, addresses Facebook's impact on democracy during a crucial period in the company's history.

2025-01-17
one thing that's sort of been lost in the zuck masculine energy rebranding is that buried in that announcement is yet another admission that AI isn't working as well as people want it to [image]
2025-01-17 View on X
New York Times

Sources: Zuckerberg told Stephen Miller that he would do nothing to obstruct Trump's agenda and blamed Sheryl Sandberg for an inclusivity initiative at Facebook

Stephen Miller was the architect of Donald J. Trump's hard-line immigration agenda in his first term.

2025-01-06
this is adorable [image]
2025-01-06 View on X
The Guardian

Emmanuel Macron joins growing European criticism of Musk, says “the owner of one of the world's largest social networks” is “intervening directly in elections”

French president accuses world's richest man of intervening directly in continent's democratic processes

2024-11-06
elon's net worth is gonna go up by like $15 billion today. pretty good return on his $185mm investment. [image]
2024-11-06 View on X
Financial Times

Elon Musk's gamble on Donald Trump pays off, as Trump wins the race; Trump gave Musk a lengthy shout out in his victory speech, calling him “a super-genius”

“A star is born: Elon,” said Donald Trump in a lengthy shout out to his biggest donor while claiming victory in the US presidential race on Wednesday morning.