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Gerrit De Vynck

@gerritd
108 posts
2026-02-05
Sam is using the Zuckerberg playbook of saying ad-funded tech is more democratic than subscription driven products
2026-02-05 View on X
@sama

Sam Altman says Anthropic's Super Bowl ads are funny but “dishonest”, and Anthropic serves a “product to rich people” while OpenAI is “committed to free access”

First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for a...

2025-11-06
My summary of OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar's vision for the company she laid out today at WSJ tech conference [image]
2025-11-06 View on X
Wall Street Journal

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says an “IPO is not on the cards right now”, and that OpenAI hopes the US government will “backstop” financing of its data center deals

Sarah Friar says the AI giant could reach break-even quickly and would like government backstop on data-center investments

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar at @WSJ conference says they want a “federal backstop” to make it cheaper to finance massive investments in AI chips for data centers
2025-11-06 View on X
Wall Street Journal

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says an “IPO is not on the cards right now”, and that OpenAI hopes the US government will “backstop” financing of its data center deals

Sarah Friar says the AI giant could reach break-even quickly and would like government backstop on data-center investments

@WSJ @sama Friar says reports that the co is losing $11.5B a quarter is a “way overestimation”
2025-11-06 View on X
Wall Street Journal

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says an “IPO is not on the cards right now”, and that OpenAI hopes the US government will “backstop” financing of its data center deals

Sarah Friar says the AI giant could reach break-even quickly and would like government backstop on data-center investments

this is a walk back. Friar brought up the word backstop first. I didn't take it as she was asking the govt to only backstop OpenAI loans, but loans for AI infra in general. it's a logical thing to want if you really think AI is geopolitically existential for the U.S. But it's
2025-11-06 View on X
Wall Street Journal

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says an “IPO is not on the cards right now”, and that OpenAI hopes the US government will “backstop” financing of its data center deals

Sarah Friar says the AI giant could reach break-even quickly and would like government backstop on data-center investments

2025-02-23
Imagine if a bank lost $1.5 billion in client money in a hack.  Imagine if a casino lost that amount! www.coindesk.com/business/202...
2025-02-23 View on X
New York Times

Even as Trump embraces crypto, attracting millions of new investors, the Bybit hack and memecoins show how crypto remains the wild West of the financial world

Hours after Coinbase said the S.E.C. was dropping a lawsuit against it, another major cryptocurrency exchange reported a potentially record-setting theft.

Imagine if a bank lost $1.5 billion in client money in a hack.  Imagine if a casino lost that amount! www.coindesk.com/business/202...
2025-02-23 View on X
CoinDesk

DefiLlama: Bybit experienced a “bank run” of over $4B after the ~$1.5B hack, leading to a ~$5.5B total outflow; CEO says “about 50%” of funds were withdrawn

Major cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has seen total outflows of over $5.5 billion after it suffered …

2025-02-15
Intel's struggles are still a MASSIVE problem for the US's goal of building its own semiconductors and maintaining strategic independence through the coming decades. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
2025-02-15 View on X
New York Times

Sources: Intel has spoken with the Trump administration and TSMC over the past few months about a deal in which TSMC assumes control of Intel's foundry business

The Silicon Valley giant is trying to cut a deal it hopes would help it pull out of a yearslong slump.

Intel's struggles are still a MASSIVE problem for the US's goal of building its own semiconductors and maintaining strategic independence through the coming decades. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
2025-02-15 View on X
Bloomberg

Source: TSMC is considering a controlling stake and fully operating Intel's US factories after a Trump team request, as Trump aims to boost US manufacturing

www.bloomberg.com/news/article... @cdmasterzang : Make Taiwan Great Again! X: Scott Lincicome / @scottlincicome : “Intel's foundry operation lost more than $13 billion on $17.5 bil...

2025-01-22
Seems like OpenAI wants to build AI data centers without Microsoft.  Either OpenAI is more bullish on the need for compute or it found a way to wrangle itself the ability to spread itself out over multiple partners [embedded post]
2025-01-22 View on X
TechCrunch

Microsoft says it has signed a new deal with OpenAI that gives Microsoft “right of first refusal”, meaning it's no longer OpenAI's exclusive cloud provider

Microsoft was once the exclusive provider of data center infrastructure for OpenAI to train and run its AI models.  No longer.

NEW: internal Google documents show the company rushed to provide AI tools to Israel's ministry of defense in the weeks after Oct. 7. Google employees pushed for giving more access to the military out of concern that if they didn't, Amazon would swoop in and take the business
2025-01-22 View on X
Washington Post

Documents: Google gave Israel access to its latest AI tools from the early weeks of the Israel-Hamas war, directly assisting the Defense Ministry and the IDF

The company fulfilled requests from Israel's military for more access to AI tools, as it sought to compete with Amazon, documents obtained by The Post show.

2024-12-07
NEW - OpenAI employees pushed back internally against the company's deal with Anduril. One pointed out that Terminator's Skynet was also originally meant to be an aerial defense weapon
2024-12-07 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Palantir and Anduril launch a consortium to accelerate AI capabilities for US national security, focusing on data readiness and processing data at scale

The companies said they wish to ultimately expand the partnership to other industry partners  —  Palantir Technologies is partnering …

2024-11-30
Big Tech has pushed around Canadian news A Lot the last few years. Meta completely blocked news in Canada instead of paying fees to Canadian news orgs
2024-11-30 View on X
Toronto.com

Major Canadian news organizations, including Torstar, Postmedia, and CBC, sue OpenAI, alleging breach of copyright and terms of use

A broad coalition of Canada's major news organizations, including the Toronto Star, Metroland Media, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press and CBC …

2024-11-19
if this ends in MSFT owning Chrome I'm moving to Fiji
2024-11-19 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: DOJ antitrust officials plan to ask a judge to force Google to sell Chrome, license Search data, uncouple Android from Search and Google Play, and more

- Antitrust officials also to seek data licensing, AI measures  — Google says the proposals would harm consumers and developers

2024-11-15
Lina Khan isn't done yet. The FTC is preparing to sue Microsoft for anti-trust violations in its cloud business. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2024-11-15 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: the US FTC plans to investigate allegations that Microsoft is abusing its market power in productivity software to prevent customers from leaving Azure

Unfortunately for big tech, JD Vance is a big fan of Lina Khan and has described here as “doing a pretty good job” so the election is unlikely to be a respite from FTC investigatio...

2023-10-23
Incredible story by @lizzadwoskin, revealing just how extensive Russia's disinformation efforts in the Sahel have been over the years, and how they've contributed to multiple coups in the region https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-10-23 View on X
Washington Post

How Russia helped overthrow governments in Burkina Faso and the surrounding French-speaking Sahel region using wide-ranging online disinformation campaigns

2023-10-22
Incredible story by @lizzadwoskin, revealing just how extensive Russia's disinformation efforts in the Sahel have been over the years, and how they've contributed to multiple coups in the region https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-10-22 View on X
Washington Post

How Russia helped overthrow governments in Burkina Faso and the surrounding French-speaking Sahel region of Africa using online disinformation campaigns

This never-before-told tale reveals how covert online battles in the French-speaking Sahel region helped topple governments.

2023-09-30
“the overall policy from the founders was to ignore them” - wild excerpt on Vine's treatment of creators and how it contributed to its demise from @TaylorLorenz's new book! https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-09-30 View on X
Washington Post

A history of Vine's failure to build relationships with its top creators, who Vine leadership resented for gaming the app's ranking algorithm and their humor

The wildly popular video app's contentious relationship with its own power users offers a cautionary tale for social platforms X: @herbscribner , @enahpets , @washingtonpost , @kat...

2022-11-14
Dan O'Dowd says Tesla's “full self-driving” tech is dangerous. He'll keep running into mannequins until someone listens. New from me 🚘 🚘 🚘 https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2022-11-14 View on X
Washington Post

A profile of Dan O'Dowd, who made a fortune with his embedded systems OS company and is now obsessed with exposing Tesla's FSD beta as incomplete and unsafe

Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post : Tweets: @gerritd , @realdanodowd , @gartenberg , and @niubi Tweets: Gerrit De Vynck / @gerritd : Dan O'Dowd says Tesla's “full self-driving” te...

2022-11-05
this is the worst time in years for digital ad businesses. Facebook is currently worth less than Coca Cola. YouTube is faltering. Snap did lay-offs. Advertisers have less money to spend and Twitter already wasn't their first option. They don't need a lot of excuses to cut back https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-05 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Elon Musk says Twitter suffered “a massive drop in revenue” due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, despite doing “everything” to “appease the activists”

lets be honest—isn't any less “brand safe” than two weeks ago. But it's an unspoken rule of Serious Media that we report the weather, we don't make it. https://twitter.com/... @cab...