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David Wallace-Wells

@dwallacewells
16 posts
2026-02-19
“The key finding is that switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed shifted users toward more conservative positions: policy priorities, views on Trump's criminal investigations, and attitudes toward the war in Ukraine all shifted to the right.”
2026-02-19 View on X
Gizmodo

Study: X's feed algorithm favors conservative content, and switching to For You for seven weeks shifted users' views toward more conservative political opinions

The algorithm also doesn't like posts by traditional news media, the researchers found.

2026-01-30
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2026-01-30 View on X
Financial Times

Tesla plans to scrap its premium S and X models and convert its California factory into an Optimus manufacturing hub, as Elon Musk refocuses on robotics and AI

2026-01-29
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2026-01-29 View on X
Financial Times

Tesla plans to scrap its premium S and X models and convert its California factory into an Optimus manufacturing hub, as Elon Musk refocuses on robotics and AI

Elon Musk's electric-car maker invests $2bn in the billionaire's xAI  —  Tesla plans to scrap two models and invest $2bn in Elon Musk's xAI …

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2026-01-29 View on X
Reuters

Source: SpaceX and xAI are in talks to merge ahead of a planned IPO this year; under the proposed deal, shares of xAI would be exchanged for shares in SpaceX

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are in discussions to merge ahead of a blockbuster public offering planned for later this year.

2025-05-08
Bill Gates on the real costs of brutal U.S. cuts to foreign aid. [image]
2025-05-08 View on X
New York Times

Q&A with Bill Gates on closing the Gates Foundation on December 31, 2045, donating ~$200B, President Trump, Elon Musk, AI drug discovery, AI advances, and more

Today the Gates Foundation celebrates its 25th anniversary by announcing its plans to close up shop.

Bill Gates on the real cost of the brutal cuts to U.S. foreign aid. [image]
2025-05-08 View on X
New York Times

Q&A with Bill Gates on closing the Gates Foundation on December 31, 2045, donating ~$200B, President Trump, Elon Musk, AI drug discovery, AI advances, and more

Today the Gates Foundation celebrates its 25th anniversary by announcing its plans to close up shop.

2025-02-04
The agency which tech oligarchs told us just a few weeks ago was run independently and without oversight by Elizabeth Warren has had its leader fired and replaced by Trump's Treasury Secretary.
2025-02-04 View on X
Bloomberg Law

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent orders the CFPB to stop activities, like rulemaking, communications, and litigation; in November, Musk said to “delete CFPB”

Search by Topic  —  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has shut down a wide variety of operations inside …

2024-10-13
“The truth is, it's getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentage of Americans have dissociated from reality.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2024-10-13 View on X
The Atlantic

The bleak online discourse about hurricanes Milton and Helene revealed not just a misinformation crisis in the US but a cultural assault on reality itself

The truth is, it's getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentage of Americans have dissociated from reality.

2024-10-12
“The truth is, it's getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentage of Americans have dissociated from reality.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2024-10-12 View on X
The Atlantic

The bleak online discourse about hurricanes Milton and Helene revealed not just a misinformation crisis in the US but a cultural assault on reality itself

The truth is, it's getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentage of Americans have dissociated from reality.

2022-12-31
“Call it the improbable paradox of the modern tech giant. Some of the most powerful, profitable, and expansive companies in human history—associated at least nominally with wide-ranging innovation—are stuck.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2022-12-31 View on X
The Atlantic

Meta's dramatic implosion, Elon Musk's Twitter train wreck, and Amazon's labor uprising show that 2022 was not just a disastrous year, but a reckoning for tech

The companies that define our digital lives have hit a wall.  —  The dramatic, multidimensional implosion of Meta …

2022-12-30
“TSMC sits at the epicenter of the world's tech supply chains. It produces 90 percent of the world's most advanced processor chips, all of them in a handful of facilities in Taiwan.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2022-12-30 View on X
The Atlantic

Apple is doubly vulnerable to Chinese escalation against Taiwan, which could impact the complex iPhone components and assembly, driving production to near zero

Chris Miller / The Atlantic :

“TSMC sits at the epicenter of the world's tech supply chains. It produces 90 percent of the world's most advanced processor chips, all of them in a handful of facilities in Taiwan.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2022-12-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Analysts and sources detail improving iPhone output in China despite COVID-19 issues; Foxconn's main Zhengzhou iPhone facility is now operating at ~70% capacity

Main Foxconn facility recovers to about 70% of capacity and wait times for iPhone Pro models shorten

2022-12-29
“TSMC sits at the epicenter of the world's tech supply chains. It produces 90 percent of the world's most advanced processor chips, all of them in a handful of facilities in Taiwan.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2022-12-29 View on X
The Atlantic

Apple is doubly vulnerable to Chinese escalation against Taiwan, which could impact the iPhone's complex components and assembly, driving production near zero

Long before it reached your home, even before its tiny components were pieced together in an assembly plant …

“TSMC sits at the epicenter of the world's tech supply chains. It produces 90 percent of the world's most advanced processor chips, all of them in a handful of facilities in Taiwan.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2022-12-29 View on X
Bloomberg

TSMC begins mass producing 3nm chips in Taiwan, which need ~35% less power than 5nm chips, following Samsung, and also promises to build 2nm plants in Taiwan

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. kicked off mass production of next-generation chips Thursday, ensuring the island remains …

2022-05-16
“Bitcoin has no future as a payments network because of its inefficiency and high environmental costs, according to one of crypto's most influential chief executives.” https://www.ft.com/...
2022-05-16 View on X
Financial Times

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried says bitcoin has no future as a payments network because of its inefficiency and high environmental costs

Bankman-Fried criticises biggest digital asset over inefficiency and high environmental costs  —  Bitcoin has no future as a payments network …

2020-01-05
“I find it bizarre that the world has decided that consumer internet is the highest form of technology.” @danwwang on the surprising weakness of the Chinese tech sector: https://danwang.co/...
2020-01-05 View on X
Dan Wang

US-China trade war has revealed China's weaknesses in developing foundational technologies, weaknesses that China can be expected to overcome in the long term

Following the twists and turns of the trade war meant that I had less time for personal writing this year, so this letter is the only piece I'll publish. Tweets: @legalnomads , @dw...