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Dan Primack

@danprimack
1110 posts
2026-04-07
Read the New Yorker piece about @sama on plane ride back to Boston. Outside of a few specific quotes from Dario notes, not sure there was anything in there that hadn't been previously reported.
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...

For example, so much of this was in @_KarenHao book.
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...

For example, so much of this was in @_KarenHao book.
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

Read the New Yorker piece about @sama on plane ride back to Boston. Outside of a few specific quotes from Dario notes, not sure there was anything in there that hadn't been previously reported.
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

2026-04-06
Read the New Yorker piece about @sama on plane ride back to Boston. Outside of a few specific quotes from Dario notes, not sure there was anything in there that hadn't been previously reported.
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.

For example, so much of this was in @_KarenHao book.
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.

2026-03-27
If SpaceX raises $75 billion in its IPO, that would be more than all U.S. IPOs raised in 2023 and 2024 combined.
2026-03-27 View on X
Reuters

Source: Elon Musk is discussing allocating as much as 30% of SpaceX's IPO to individual investors, at least three times the usual retail slice

Elon Musk is discussing allocating as much as 30% of SpaceX's initial public offering to individual investors — at least three times the usual retail slice …

As an aside, I also can't recall the last time a real conglomerate went public. And that's what SpaceX is now, given the purchase of xAI which previously bought X/Twitter.
2026-03-27 View on X
Reuters

Source: Elon Musk is discussing allocating as much as 30% of SpaceX's IPO to individual investors, at least three times the usual retail slice

Elon Musk is discussing allocating as much as 30% of SpaceX's initial public offering to individual investors — at least three times the usual retail slice …

2026-03-20
You don't need $100 billion to buy manufacturing companies.
2026-03-20 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100B for a fund that would buy companies in industrial sectors like chipmaking and defense and automate them with AI

Amazon.com founder has traveled to Middle East, Singapore in fundraising effort linked to Project Prometheus AI startup

You don't need $100 billion to buy manufacturing companies.
2026-03-20 View on X
New York Times

Sources: Jeff Bezos' $100B fund would be part of the same holding company as Project Prometheus and would invest in companies that could benefit from its tech

The new fund would operate alongside the Amazon founder's A.I. start-up, Project Prometheus.  —  Jeff Bezos is in early discussions …

2026-03-19
You don't need $100 billion to buy manufacturing companies.
2026-03-19 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100B for a fund that would buy companies in industrial sectors such as chipmaking and defense and revamp them with AI

Amazon.com founder has traveled to Middle East, Singapore in fundraising effort linked to Project Prometheus AI startup

2026-03-14
Leaving aside the bad precedent (govt threatening to shut down a co unless it gets paid), the fee itself is kinda insane. The entire enterprise value was only around $14 billion. So this would be a 71% “banker's” fee.
2026-03-14 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: the Trump administration is set to receive a ~$10B fee from investors in TikTok's US business for the government's role in brokering the TikTok US deal

Investors in social-media platform's U.S. business, including Oracle and Silver Lake, agreed to give the government several multibillion-dollar payments, sources say

2026-03-12
Nvidia is both funding and competing with the LLM giants
2026-03-12 View on X
Wired

Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B-parameter hybrid MoE open-weight model; filing: Nvidia plans to spend $26B over the next five years to build open models

The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek.

2026-03-10
When the Trump administration canned DOJ antitrust chief Gail Slater, we wrote that all eyes should be on the Live Nation/Ticketmaster case — watching to see if her ouster paved the way for a settlement. Today: Settlement.
2026-03-10 View on X
Associated Press

The US DOJ reaches a settlement in its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation, in a case that alleged an illegal monopoly over US live events

2026-03-09
When the Trump administration canned DOJ antitrust chief Gail Slater, we wrote that all eyes should be on the Live Nation/Ticketmaster case — watching to see if her ouster paved the way for a settlement. Today: Settlement.
2026-03-09 View on X
Associated Press

The DOJ reaches a settlement in its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation in a case that alleged an illegal monopoly over live events in the US

2026-03-06
Shots fired by someone who usually keeps his public powder dry (yes, Kushner is big OpenAI investor)
2026-03-06 View on X
CNBC

Google and Amazon join Microsoft in saying they will keep working with Anthropic on non-defense projects after DOD designated Anthropic a supply chain risk

Google said it will continue offering Anthropic's artificial intelligence technology for clients, excluding for defense work …

Shots fired by someone who usually keeps his public powder dry (yes, Kushner is big OpenAI investor)
2026-03-06 View on X
Anthropic

Dario Amodei says Anthropic plans to fight the DOD's risk designation in court, claims the DOD's letter has a “narrow scope”, and apologizes for his leaked memo

Yesterday (March 4) Anthropic received a letter from the Department of War confirming that we have been designated …

2026-03-05
Nah. It was cut-and-dried law. He signed the deal and chose not to do the due diligence.
2026-03-05 View on X
Associated Press

Elon Musk defends his social media posts in a Twitter shareholder trial accusing him of misleading statements before trying to stop the acquisition in July 2022

A defiant Elon Musk on Wednesday took the stand in a jury trial to defend himself against accusations that he engaged in a pattern …

2026-03-03
There is a valid argument for DoD not wanting to work w/ cos that used Claude in products being sold to DoD, given mission disagreement between the company and DoD. There is no good argument for banning Claude use at other, non-national security depts. Beyond spite.
2026-03-03 View on X
Hyperdimensional

The Anthropic-DOD skirmish is the first major public debate on control over frontier AI, and institutions behaved erratically, maliciously, and without clarity

On Anthropic and the Department of War  —  I.  —  A little more than a decade ago, I sat with my father and watched him die.

There is a valid argument for DoD not wanting to work w/ cos that used Claude in products being sold to DoD, given mission disagreement between the company and DoD. There is no good argument for banning Claude use at other, non-national security depts. Beyond spite.
2026-03-03 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: amid negotiations with the DOD, Anthropic submitted a bid to compete in a $100M DOD contest to develop voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming tech

Anthropic PBC was among the artificial intelligence companies that submitted a proposal earlier this year to compete …