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Fred Benenson

@fredbenenson
53 posts
2025-01-28
Has anyone heard of someone significant canceling a big NVDA purchase order because of DeepSeek?  That would be meaningful true canary but I have a hard time imagining it in the short term given:  • big hardware spends are budgeted far in advance  • no team would choose efficiency over capacity when they can have both …
2025-01-28 View on X
Bloomberg

Sam Altman says DeepSeek's R1 is an “impressive model, particularly around what they're able to deliver for the price” and OpenAI “will pull up some releases”

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman welcomed the debut of DeepSeek's R1 model in a post on X late on Monday.

Has anyone heard of someone significant canceling a big NVDA purchase order because of DeepSeek?  That would be meaningful true canary but I have a hard time imagining it in the short term given:  • big hardware spends are budgeted far in advance  • no team would choose efficiency over capacity when they can have both …
2025-01-28 View on X
CNBC

Nvidia calls DeepSeek's work “an excellent AI advancement”, reiterating “inference requires significant numbers of Nvidia GPUs and high-performance networking”

Nvidia called DeepSeek's R1 model “an excellent AI advancement,” despite the Chinese startup's emergence causing …

2024-10-06
This comports with my theory that certain VCs care just as much about *beeing seen* as having picked the winner than any actual policy or political agenda
2024-10-06 View on X
Axios

Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a “significant” personal donation to Kamala Harris' campaign; Horowitz and Marc Andreessen endorsed Trump in July

tech oligarchs depend heavily on their access in washington, so will do everything they can to keep it.  a16z desperately wants washington to legitimize crypto, so they can get a r...

2024-10-05
This comports with my theory that certain VCs care just as much about *beeing seen* as having picked the winner than any actual policy or political agenda
2024-10-05 View on X
Axios

Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a “significant” personal donation to Harris' campaign; Horowitz and Marc Andreessen endorsed Trump in July

- At the time, President Biden was still running for reelection. … - He notes that he and Felicia have known Harris …

2024-05-07
Also worth nothing that Zuckerberg and the Threads team turned out to be a lot more trustworthy when it came to their promises of supporting decentralizatioin than Jack
2024-05-07 View on X
TechCrunch

Bluesky confirms Jack Dorsey left its board and says the public benefit company is searching for a new board member; Dorsey announced Bluesky in December 2019

2024-05-06
Also worth nothing that Zuckerberg and the Threads team turned out to be a lot more trustworthy when it came to their promises of supporting decentralizatioin than Jack
2024-05-06 View on X
TechCrunch

Bluesky confirms Jack Dorsey left its board and says the public benefit company is searching for a new board member; Dorsey announced Bluesky in December 2019

It sounds like Bluesky's most prominent backer is no longer on its board.  —  On Saturday, Jack Dorsey posted on X about grants …

2024-01-08
indeed, leave DRUGS out of this Elon was always a chud and no amount of sobriety would have saved him from tanking Twitter
2024-01-08 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: some executives and board members fear that Elon Musk's use of LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, mushrooms, ketamine, and other drugs could harm his companies

Some executives and board members fear the billionaire's use of drugs—including LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, mushrooms and ketamine—could harm his companies

2023-03-10
Zero sympathy for SVB. At FORMER JOB in 2010 we had been stuck with them and their site only worked on Windows XP w/ Internet Explorer. Since no one had one, we had to buy the cheapest Lenovo ($394!) we could find just to login. https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-10 View on X
Financial Times

Silicon Valley Bank launches a $2.25B share sale after losing ~$1.8B on its ~$21B of US Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities

Technology-focused lender suffered loss on $21bn portfolio of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities  —  Silicon Valley Bank has launched a $2.25bn share sale …

2022-12-11
ah yes, it is the mainstream press that SBF has had under his thumb, yes yes https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-11 View on X
Axios

Sources: Alameda secretly loaned $43M to LLCs tied to The Block CEO Michael McCaffrey, used in part to buy and run the crypto news site; McCaffrey resigns

The Block, a media company that says it covers crypto news independently, has been secretly funded for over a year with money funneled …

2022-12-10
ah yes, it is the mainstream press that SBF has had under his thumb, yes yes https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-10 View on X
Axios

Sources: LLCs tied to the CEO of crypto news site The Block secretly received $43M in Alameda loans, used in part to buy and run the site; CEO has now resigned

The Block, a media company that says it covers crypto news independently, has been secretly funded for over a year with money funneled …

2022-11-14
Hearing that Michael Lewis has been embedded with SBF for the last six months has got to be some of my favorite news of the year. I had been hoping he'd tackle crypto, and now it turns out he's got the best possible story. What a delightful addition to an already great week. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-14 View on X
The Ankler

Source: Michael Lewis shadowed Sam Bankman-Fried for the past six months and CAA is pitching Lewis' yet-to-be-written book on FTX's collapse to Hollywood buyers

Author compares Sam Bankman-Fried, Binance's CZ to ‘Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader’ in email sent by CAA  —  In this issue:

2022-11-02
Welp, this escalated quickly, even if it was just a matter of time - generative AI is now running headlong into issues of authorship, original ability and artistic identity. Ready Andy's excellent deep dive into one such issue. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-02 View on X
Waxy.org

An engineer reimplemented Google AI's text-to-image diffusion model DreamBooth for Stable Diffusion, letting anyone cheaply and easily recreate artists' styles

Andy Baio / Waxy.org : Tweets: @waxpancake , @dreamwieber , @simonw , and @fredbenenson Tweets: Andy Baio / @waxpancake : Last week, a Redditor fine-tuned an AI image model on the...

2022-07-04
If you still think Bitcoin is a net positive for human rights in developing nations, you're either lying to yourself or complicit with the autocrats or both. And the number of western elites (investors, CEOs, etc) in denial about this is maddening. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-07-04 View on X
New York Times

How El Salvador President Nayib Bukele weaponized bitcoin to whitewash his government's growing authoritarianism on the world stage and spread local propaganda

and lining their pockets — at the expense of our rights and livelihoods.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Alex Gladstein / @gladstein : “Bitcoiners aren't supposed to trust government....

2022-07-03
If you still think Bitcoin is a net positive for human rights in developing nations, you're either lying to yourself or complicit with the autocrats or both. And the number of western elites (investors, CEOs, etc) in denial about this is maddening. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-07-03 View on X
New York Times

How El Salvador President Nayib Bukele weaponized bitcoin to whitewash his government's growing authoritarianism on the world stage and spread local propaganda

SAN SALVADOR — Bitcoiners — enthusiasts of the world's most popular cryptocurrency — aren't supposed to trust government. Tweets: @timmuth , @fredbenenson , @schwarz , @stalfel , @...

2022-06-13
this conversation about consciousness and emotions and death with an AI named LaMBDA at Google is absolutely chilling this is without-a-doubt one of the craziest things I've ever seen technology do, I almost can't believe it's real wow @nitashatiku https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-13 View on X
Washington Post

A look at advanced large language models, as Google places an engineer on paid leave after he became convinced that its LaMDA chatbot generator was sentient

AI ethicists warned Google not to impersonate humans.  Now one of Google's own thinks there's a ghost in the machine.

@nitashatiku the problem is that the humans running the thing don't even have a good grip there https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-13 View on X
Washington Post

A look at advanced large language models, as Google places an engineer on paid leave after he became convinced that its LaMDA chatbot generator was sentient

AI ethicists warned Google not to impersonate humans.  Now one of Google's own thinks there's a ghost in the machine.

2022-06-12
this conversation about consciousness and emotions and death with an AI named LaMBDA at Google is absolutely chilling this is without-a-doubt one of the craziest things I've ever seen technology do, I almost can't believe it's real wow @nitashatiku https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-12 View on X
Washington Post

A look at advanced large language models, as a Google engineer is placed on paid leave after becoming convinced that its LaMDA chatbot generator became sentient

AI ethicists warned Google not to impersonate humans.  Now one of Google's own thinks there's a ghost in the machine.

@nitashatiku the problem is that the humans running the thing don't even have a good grip there https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-12 View on X
Washington Post

A look at advanced large language models, as a Google engineer is placed on paid leave after becoming convinced that its LaMDA chatbot generator became sentient

AI ethicists warned Google not to impersonate humans.  Now one of Google's own thinks there's a ghost in the machine.

2022-05-22
Apple trying to win the Malicious Compliance Corporate Leader of the Year Award with this repair kit nonsense https://www.theverge.com/...
2022-05-22 View on X
The Verge

Hands-on with Apple's Self-Service Repair kit to swap iPhone batteries: users are rented 79 lbs of tools, including a heat station, for a 7-day $1,200 card hold

Apple must be joking.  —  That's how I felt again and again as I jumped through hoop after ridiculous hoop to replace the battery in my iPhone Mini. Tweets: @danielpunkass , @carlh...

2022-05-08
“We will sell access to the data” is one of the most common lazy ideas entrepreneurs come up with when they're challenged on how their social media company is going to make money. Also the idea that brokering user data is somehow less offensive than advertising...🤦🏻‍ ♂️ https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-08 View on X
New York Times

Elon Musk's investor pitch deck: grow Twitter revenue 5x to $26.4B, cut ad revenue reliance to <50% by 2028, grow Twitter Blue's users to 69M by 2025, and more