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Ezra Klein

@ezraklein
35 posts
2025-03-05
Biden's top AI advisor on the national security side believes we're going to hit AGI during Trump's term. As liquid and chaotic as this moment is, more fundamental upheaval is coming. It is hard to even know how to think about that. [image]
2025-03-05 View on X
New York Times

Q&A with ex-White House AI adviser Ben Buchanan on the Biden administration, AGI, OpenAI's Deep Research, the US labor market, China, hacks, AI labs, and more

This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.”  You can listen to the conversation by following …

2025-01-20
Weird reading the final sentence of my 2022 piece on TikTok. Now it's...what? Donald Trump was right and Donald Trump should finish what he started? [image]
2025-01-20 View on X
The Verge

TikTok restores its service in the US, thanking Donald Trump for “the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties”

The company said this afternoon that it is “in the process of restoring service” and thanked President-elect Trump for …

Also, a simple trade could be that we allow TikTok to thrive in America under Chinese ownership if they open the Chinese market to our platforms. Trump's a dealmaker, he should demand a deal that is good for America, not just one that enriches him, personally. [image]
2025-01-20 View on X
Axios

Donald Trump says he will sign an executive order on January 20 to delay enforcing the TikTok US ban and argues for a TikTok joint venture with 50% US ownership

Yes, Trump said he's “most likely” to give #TikTok 90-day extension.  —  No, that's not a legally available option.  —  The 270 days lapsed.  An extension is no longer available (e...

Weird reading the final sentence of my 2022 piece on TikTok. Now it's...what? Donald Trump was right and Donald Trump should finish what he started? [image]
2025-01-20 View on X
Axios

Donald Trump says he will sign an executive order on January 20 to delay enforcing the TikTok US ban and argues for a TikTok joint venture with 50% US ownership

Yes, Trump said he's “most likely” to give #TikTok 90-day extension.  —  No, that's not a legally available option.  —  The 270 days lapsed.  An extension is no longer available (e...

Also, a simple trade could be that we allow TikTok to thrive in America under Chinese ownership if they open the Chinese market to our platforms. Trump's a dealmaker, he should demand a deal that is good for America, not just one that enriches him, personally. [image]
2025-01-20 View on X
The Verge

TikTok restores its service in the US, thanking Donald Trump for “the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties”

The company said this afternoon that it is “in the process of restoring service” and thanked President-elect Trump for …

2024-11-13
Online gambling is going to be a fascinating dividing line between the NatCon coalition that sees itself as restoring virtue and the Barstool Conservative side. The evidence is overwhelming that a lot of people are getting hurt, and not just here.
2024-11-13 View on X
Bloomberg

How gambling apps are ravaging Brazil in the wake of legalization; Nubank reassured investors in September 2024 that it had limited exposure to troubled bettors

The boom shocked policy makers who are now scrambling to control it  —  At the headquarters of the United Nations … X: @lucas_shaw , @lpolgreen , @_night_brain__ , @ezraklein , @ot...

2023-11-23
My thinking right now is very similar to Derek's.  This is just an annus horribilis year for effective altruism.  EA ended up with two big swings here.  One of the richest people in the world.  Control of the board of the most important AI company in the world.  Both ended in catastrophe. …
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 …

My thinking right now is very similar to Derek's.  This is just an annus horribilis year for effective altruism.  EA ended up with two big swings here.  One of the richest people in the world.  Control of the board of the most important AI company in the world.  Both ended in catastrophe. …
2023-11-23 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sam Altman's return at OpenAI, partly formed on effective altruism principles, revealed hard limits and caps a bruising year for the divisive social movement

Sam Altman's firing showed the influence of effective altruism and its view that AI development must slow down; his return marked its limits

2023-11-18
If I were a cynic I'd wonder how much Meta has been paying Musk to act like this.  He's opened up a huge new business opportunity for Meta with Threads, created all manner of opportunities for Zuck to burnish his public reputation by acting as Musk's foil, and now seems determined to drive as many X users to Threads as possible. …
2023-11-18 View on X
CNBC

Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Global, Lionsgate, and Comcast suspend ads on X, joining other media and tech companies

- Apple has paused its online advertising campaigns on X, formerly Twitter, after owner Elon Musk made antisemitic comments on the platform.

For the extremely literal among you: I am serious about Musk acting in ways that serve Meta's interests, I am not serious about them paying him.  This is the kind of help money can't buy.
2023-11-18 View on X
Axios

Sources: Apple pauses all its advertising on X after Elon Musk's endorsement of an antisemitic X post and a report that Apple ads ran next to pro-Nazi content

companies are twitchy and once they see others getting out in front of something they race to be next in line and email a reporter they know with the headline https://www.bloomberg...

If I were a cynic I'd wonder how much Meta has been paying Musk to act like this.  He's opened up a huge new business opportunity for Meta with Threads, created all manner of opportunities for Zuck to burnish his public reputation by acting as Musk's foil, and now seems determined to drive as many X users to Threads as possible. …
2023-11-18 View on X
Axios

Sources: Apple pauses all its advertising on X after Elon Musk's endorsement of an antisemitic X post and a report that Apple ads ran next to pro-Nazi content

companies are twitchy and once they see others getting out in front of something they race to be next in line and email a reporter they know with the headline https://www.bloomberg...

For the extremely literal among you: I am serious about Musk acting in ways that serve Meta's interests, I am not serious about them paying him.  This is the kind of help money can't buy.
2023-11-18 View on X
CNBC

Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Global, Lionsgate, and Comcast suspend ads on X, joining other media and tech companies

- Apple has paused its online advertising campaigns on X, formerly Twitter, after owner Elon Musk made antisemitic comments on the platform.

2023-11-16
If I were a cynic I'd wonder how much Meta has been paying Musk to act like this.  He's opened up a huge new business opportunity for Meta with Threads, created all manner of opportunities for Zuck to burnish his public reputation by acting as Musk's foil, and now seems determined to drive as many X users to Threads as possible. …
2023-11-16 View on X
Rolling Stone

Elon Musk replied “You have said the actual truth” to an X user who, replying to a “Hitler was right” inquiry, accused Jewish groups of “hatred against whites”

The billionaire amplified a post Wednesday accusing the Jewish community of promoting “dialectical hatred against whites”

I continue to be fascinated by the question of whether Twitter changed who Elon Musk is or it simply revealed who he is.
2023-11-16 View on X
Rolling Stone

Elon Musk replied “You have said the actual truth” to an X user who, replying to a “Hitler was right” inquiry, accused Jewish groups of “hatred against whites”

The billionaire amplified a post Wednesday accusing the Jewish community of promoting “dialectical hatred against whites”

2022-04-28
Musk's tweeting today is making me more confident of the argument I make here. I don't think he'll change the platform that much, at least not soon. But I think having the owner of the platform tweet like he does will change the feel of it dramatically. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-28 View on X
Wired

Experts speculate as to what Elon Musk's takeover means for Twitter users' privacy; some worry that there is nothing stopping him from accessing users' DMs

2021-09-12
The Apple decision seems very good for anyone who uses Apple products. An example of courts making it harder for a company to mistreat its own customers.
2021-09-12 View on X
The Verge

Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple, ruling that Apple can't prohibit developers from linking to external purchase options in addition to IAP

The order opens up a new avenue for purchases on the iPhone  —  Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers issued a permanent injunction …

The Apple decision seems very good for anyone who uses Apple products. An example of courts making it harder for a company to mistreat its own customers.
2021-09-12 View on X
Bloomberg

Epic ruling is a win for Apple as it costs the company just a few billion annually and doesn't force Apple to change its fees or let 3rd-party app stores on iOS

one of the linchpins of the internet economy — may be ending.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi : Great summary/quotes. Look beyond the (one) headline. #epicv...

2021-09-11
The Apple decision seems very good for anyone who uses Apple products. An example of courts making it harder for a company to mistreat its own customers.
2021-09-11 View on X
The Verge

Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple, ruling that Apple can't prohibit developers from linking to external purchase options in addition to IAP

A major win for Epic Games and Fortnite  —  Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers issued a permanent injunction in the Epic v. Apple case … Source: United States District Court .

2021-04-15
The key thing is the behaviors don't feel, to the people engaging in them, like a big deal. You're just dunking on someone! Or criticizing them! Or making fun of them! You're just doing some tweets. Joining in on the game. You don't want anyone fired or harassed or swatted.
2021-04-15 View on X
Galaxy Brain

Twitter's Trending Topics, designed to surface significant news, invariably leads to context collapse, where disparate audiences are lecturing past each other

“You're repurposed as fodder for content generation in a way that's just so dehumanizing. I don't really believe in cancel culture, I think it's a platform failure.” https://warzel.substack.com/ ...
2021-04-15 View on X
Galaxy Brain

Twitter's Trending Topics, designed to surface significant news, invariably leads to context collapse, where disparate audiences are lecturing past each other