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Greg Linden

@glinden
42 posts
2026-03-10
Remarkable to see AI-powered search experiences so badly implemented, such a bad user experience, that companies have to add band-aids like toggles to disable them to reduce people abandoning the product entirely.  Trillion dollar company, maybe test the UX and verify customers actually like it? [embedded post]
2026-03-10 View on X
TechCrunch

After a backlash, Google adds a toggle to let Google Photos users return to the “classic” search experience instead of the newer AI-powered “Ask Photos” option

In a slight capitulation to those who don't want AI infused into their everyday apps …

2026-03-02
I'd go on to point out that lines of code is well known to be a terrible software engineering productivity metric, but I think all this is just an excuse for layoffs the CEO wanted to do anyway.  Om Malik has a good recent piece on that:  —  om.co/2026/02/28/b...
2026-03-02 View on X
On my Om

Block is a poster child for the lack of operational discipline common among mid-tier public tech companies that lived on the largesse of cloud, mobile, and ZIRP

Jack Dorsey, CEO of Block (the company formerly known as Square), went on X (the company formerly known as Twitter …

2026-02-28
This was inevitable.  You can't control a bully by giving him what he wants.  Complicity is seen as weakness and just leads to demands for more.  They were arrogant fools for thinking they could control this.  [embedded post]
2026-02-28 View on X
CNBC

Claude hit #2 on Apple's US App Store, hours after the DOD designated Anthropic a supply chain risk; it bounced between #20 and #50 for much of February

Anthropic's Claude artificial intelligence assistant app jumped to the No. 2 slot on Apple's chart of top U.S. free apps late on Friday …

This was inevitable.  You can't control a bully by giving him what he wants.  Complicity is seen as weakness and just leads to demands for more.  They were arrogant fools for thinking they could control this.  [embedded post]
2026-02-28 View on X
Politico

The Pentagon's fight with Anthropic sparks fears in Silicon Valley and the Capitol of a fundamental shift in the balance of power between DC and the AI industry

“The American people deserve to know what Trump officials are planning at the Pentagon.”  —  #AI@fightingliberal:‘Attempted corporate murder’: Trump's threats against Anthropic chi...

This was inevitable.  You can't control a bully by giving him what he wants.  Complicity is seen as weakness and just leads to demands for more.  They were arrogant fools for thinking they could control this.  [embedded post]
2026-02-28 View on X
Anthropic

Anthropic says it'll challenge “any supply chain risk designation in court” and that the designation would only affect contractors' use of Claude on DOD work

Earlier today, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth shared on X that he is directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk.

2026-02-20
Remarkable that Walmart let this happen.  Walmart should have been the Walmart of the Web, not Amazon.  Complete failure by Walmart execs, a surprising inability to compete online despite Walmart's strength in logistics.
2026-02-20 View on X
Bloomberg

Amazon dethrones Walmart as the world's largest company by revenue, reporting $717B in 2025 sales, compared to Walmart's $713.2B for the 12 months to January 31

2026-02-19
Remarkable that Walmart let this happen.  Walmart should have been the Walmart of the Web, not Amazon.  Complete failure by Walmart execs, a surprising inability to compete online despite Walmart's strength in logistics.
2026-02-19 View on X
Bloomberg

Amazon dethrones Walmart as the world's largest company by revenue, reporting $717B in 2025 sales, compared to Walmart's $713.2B for the 12 months to January 31

Amazon.com Inc. has officially dethroned Walmart Inc. as the biggest global company by revenue, a milestone attesting …

2026-01-20
Going after advertising is the best way to reduce scams and crap on social media.  Ads fund all the scams.  It's where the money is, a huge lever to pull.  Large fines for breaking existing laws would be a good start.  [embedded post]
2026-01-20 View on X
Bloomberg

The UK Gambling Commission says Meta is letting illegal gambling sites advertise on Facebook and Instagram, calling its ad library a “window into criminality”

Meta Platforms Inc. is turning a blind eye to illegal gambling sites that advertise on Facebook and Instagram, according to the UK's Gambling Commission.

2026-01-19
Going after advertising is the best way to reduce scams and crap on social media.  Ads fund all the scams.  It's where the money is, a huge lever to pull.  Large fines for breaking existing laws would be a good start.  [embedded post]
2026-01-19 View on X
Bloomberg

The UK Gambling Commission says Meta is letting illegal gambling sites advertise on Facebook and Instagram, calling its ad library a “window into criminality”

Meta Platforms Inc. is turning a blind eye to illegal gambling sites that advertise on Facebook and Instagram, according to the UK's Gambling Commission.

2025-12-27
Foolish that anyone could have thought anything else: “If you close your eyes and you don't look at the code and you have AIs build things with shaky foundations as you add another floor, and another floor, and another floor, and another floor, things start to kind of crumble.”  [embedded post]
2025-12-27 View on X
Fortune

Cursor CEO Michael Truell warns that “vibe coding” advanced projects may create “shaky foundations” and eventually “things start to kind of crumble”

Nothing controversial here.  If you have AI write a bunch of code that you don't understand then you'll have a bad time. @pileofgarbage.net : Very amusing watching the CEO of garba...

2025-12-26
Foolish that anyone could have thought anything else: “If you close your eyes and you don't look at the code and you have AIs build things with shaky foundations as you add another floor, and another floor, and another floor, and another floor, things start to kind of crumble.”  [embedded post]
2025-12-26 View on X
Fortune

Cursor CEO Michael Truell warns that “vibe coding” advanced projects may create “shaky foundations” and eventually “things start to kind of crumble”

Michael Truell, cofounder and CEO of Cursor.STUART ISETT—FORTUNE  —  Cursor may utilize AI …

2025-12-17
And Silicon Valley trying to use Trump to threaten the EU, like this stuff, I think will only make the EU more interested in enforcing their laws with massive fines and promoting their own EU companies as better alternatives to badly behaved US companies.  —  bsky.app/profile/tech...  [embedded post]
2025-12-17 View on X
New York Times

The US threatens penalties against European companies, like Mistral and Spotify, if the EU does not roll back regulations and lawsuits targeting US tech giants

bsky.app/profile/tech...  [embedded post] Simonetta Vezzoso / @wavesblog : “With support from the U.S. tech industry, the Trump administration has taken an aggressive posture again...

2025-12-09
Remarkable to see NeurIPS, which used to be a relatively niche academic conference, covered in the national press including interviews with researchers.  That's quite a change.  Even during the 2000 dot com bubble, I don't remember press coverage of academic research conferences.  [embedded post]
2025-12-09 View on X
NBC News

Scientists at NeurIPS 2025, which had a record 26K attendees, say questions about how AI models work and how to measure them remain unresolved, despite progress

Google pivoted toward pragmatic methods, OpenAI doubled down—and Martian launched a $1 million interpretability prize.

2025-12-03
This is a badly done study.  We know that developers incorrectly guess their own productivity using AI: “When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer ... Gap between perception and reality ... experiencing the slowdown ... believed AI had sped them up.”  —  metr.org/blog/2025-07... …
2025-12-03 View on X
Anthropic

Anthropic's employees self-report using Claude in 60% of their work, most for debugging and code understanding, achieving a 50% productivity boost, and more

What Traders Should Watch Jeremy Kahn / Fortune : How Anthropic's safety first approach won over big business—and how its own engineers are using its Claude AI X: @anthropicai : Ho...

2025-11-19
The right thing to do is go after social media *advertising*.  Ads fund the scams and harms; it's where the money is.  Much bigger fines for scammy ads would change platform incentives for tuning recommender systems.  And regulators already know how to regulate scammy ads.  [embedded post]
2025-11-19 View on X
The Verge

A new bipartisan Senate bill amends Section 230 to make commercial social media platforms responsible if their recommendation systems cause foreseeable harms

A new bill would hold social media platforms responsible for foreseeable algorithmic harms.

2025-10-30
Zuck spent five years and $70 billion dollars to build a business that loses $4.4 billion/year to create only $470 million in revenue.  So bad you can't give it away, I guess.  Five years is a long time get something this small and crappy.
2025-10-30 View on X
CNBC

Meta reports Reality Labs Q3 revenue of $470M, above $316M est., and a $4.4B operating loss, below $5.1B est.; Reality Labs has lost $70B+ since 2020

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC : X: @thetranscript_ , @counternotions , @contrariancurse , and @thetranscript_ Bluesky: @karlbode.com , @glinden , @robertchilver.com , @scriban , and @nor...

Zuck spent five years and $70 billion dollars to build a business that loses $4.4 billion/year to create only $470 million in revenue.  So bad you can't give it away, I guess.  Five years is a long time get something this small and crappy.
2025-10-30 View on X
Meta

Meta reports Q3 revenue up 26% YoY to $51.2B, vs. $49.4B est., net income down 83% YoY to $2.7B, and family DAP up 8% to 3.54B for September; META drops 12%+

Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2025.

2025-10-28
I'd love to better understand this deal.  Is it that Microsoft gets $250B (if OpenAI can get more investors) booked as profitable cloud revenue and all the IP if OpenAI goes bankrupt?  And OpenAI gets more freedom in the unlikely case it doesn't go under? [embedded post]
2025-10-28 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI completes its recapitalization, “simplifying” its structure; OpenAI Foundation now has equity valued at ~$130B and still controls the OpenAI for-profit

OpenAI has completed its recapitalization, simplifying its corporate structure.  The nonprofit remains in control …

2025-09-30
Missing are any details of how well this works, cost effectiveness compared to humans, and where it fails.  Wired's article gets into that a bit, saying that DoorDash won't disclose anything.  I'd assume this is a demo and that doesn't work at scale yet.  —  www.wired.com/story/doorda... …
2025-09-30 View on X
Bloomberg

DoorDash unveils delivery robot Dot, standing 4-foot, 6-inches tall and able to carry up to 30lb of cargo at up to 20mph, and a smart scale for restaurants

DoorDash Inc., the largest food-delivery app in the US, unveiled a delivery robot and a smart scale for restaurants …

2025-09-28
Good article by an expert in the field.  To summarize, we won't have humanoid robots in the next 15 years, but we will have a lot of defining down what “humanoid robot” means, those still won't work for much, and VCs will lose investors a lot of money.  [embedded post]
2025-09-28 View on X
Rodney Brooks

iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks details why humanoid robots won't learn human-level dexterity from current methods, how to make them safe for humans, and more

rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids- wont-learn-dexterity/  —  In this post I explain why today's humanoid robots will not learn …