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James McLeod

@jamespmcleod
64 posts
2024-10-06
Extremely funny stuff. https://www.axios.com/...
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
Extremely funny stuff. https://www.axios.com/...
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 …

2024-06-13
OpenAI is being paid like a freelancer! https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-06-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Apple isn't paying OpenAI to add ChatGPT into its OSes and aims to eventually make money from AI by striking revenue-sharing deals with chatbot makers

- The iPhone maker isn't paying OpenAI to use the chatbot  — Apple announced OpenAI agreement as part of AI push this week

2023-11-21
If only there was some well-established structure whereby workers could organize and take collective action.
2023-11-21 View on X
Bloomberg

Ilya Sutskever and over 700 out of ~770 OpenAI staffers sign a letter saying they may quit and join Sam Altman unless the board resigns and reinstates Altman

- Majority of OpenAI employees sign letter seeking new board  — Board member Ilya Sutskever is among the signatories

2023-11-20
If only there was some well-established structure whereby workers could organize and take collective action.
2023-11-20 View on X
TechCrunch

Satya Nadella says Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI staff will join Microsoft's new “advanced AI research team” and Microsoft remains committed to OpenAI

Microsoft has hired OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head up a “new advanced AI research team,” …

2023-06-07
After being one of the most significant people driving the crypto/web3 hype cycle of the past few years, on the day when the SEC launches legal action against the two biggest crypto exchanges, Marc Andreessen has a new message: https://twitter.com/...
2023-06-07 View on X
Andreessen Horowitz

A look at why AI will “save the world”, such as by augmenting human intelligence, a case against the moral panic about AI, and the China risk of not pursuing AI

2023-05-01
For those of us who've been following AI development for a while, this is astonishing. Hinton is a giant within the world of artificial intelligence. The pessimism from leading experts about the future of this field is incredibly troubling. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-05-01 View on X
New York Times

An interview with AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who recently left Google after over a decade to speak about AI's risks, on regrets, quitting the company, and more

For half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT.  Now he worries it will cause serious harm.

2023-04-26
The weirdest aspect of surveillance capitalism is very large tech companies convincing users that they should want to surveil themselves for some marginal benefit, so that the company collecting population-level data can realize much larger benefits. See also: Ring, Amazon. https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-26 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Apple is working on emotion tracking tools, coming to its Health app in 2023, and an AI-powered health coaching subscription service codenamed Quartz

Apple Inc. is working on an artificial intelligence-powered health coaching service and new technology for tracking emotions …

2023-03-17
That's at least three eyebrow-raising things in one tweet. https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-17 View on X
Financial Times

Private equity firm Ethical Capital Partners acquires Pornhub owner MindGeek, which had $460M in 2018 revenue and sources say profit margins near 50% at times

Patricia Nilsson / Financial Times :

2023-03-12
This is the crazy thing with the SVB situation. 93% of the deposits are over the $250k FDIC insurance threshold. Makes sense since it was a bank for tech companies that would potentially have millions of dollars to fund their growth. But it makes the situation ... very messy. https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-12 View on X
Bloomberg

As the “Bank of Startups”, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed from its exposure to interest-rate risk, a lack of diversity among depositors, and VC herd mentality

an unsecured illiquid claim on a failed bank. Absent @jpmorgan @citi or... https://twitter.com/... Bob Elliott / @bobeunlimited : Fed/FDIC decisions on SVB determine whether they r...

2023-03-11
This is the crazy thing with the SVB situation. 93% of the deposits are over the $250k FDIC insurance threshold. Makes sense since it was a bank for tech companies that would potentially have millions of dollars to fund their growth. But it makes the situation ... very messy. https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-11 View on X
Bloomberg

As the “Bank of Startups”, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed from its exposure to interest-rate risk, a lack of diversity among depositors, and VC herd mentality

Programming note: Money Stuff was supposed to be off today, but: bank run!  —  SVB

2023-03-10
this whole Patagonia vest bank run situation is ~wild~ https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-10 View on X
Bloomberg

Email: VC firm Greenoaks warned founders of potential problems at SVB in November 2022; a source says over 12 portfolio companies withdrew ~$1B in recent months

Venture investment firm Greenoaks Capital Partners warned its startup founders of potential problems at SVB Financial Group's Silicon Valley Bank …

this whole Patagonia vest bank run situation is ~wild~ 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 …

2023-02-05
“yes I will definitely pay a share of the advertising revenue that I have decimated by platforming Nazis and promoting conspiracy theories” “oh, also you have to pay me $8 to be eligible for a share of the revenue which might not exist and definitely won't be more than $8/mo” https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-05 View on X
The Verge

Elon Musk says Twitter will start sharing revenue from reply-thread ads with users who pay for Twitter Blue, starting on February 3, but doesn't give details

People don't engage with content they agree with.  —  Getting ratioed is the way to make money, lol. Toni Aittoniemi / @gimulnautti@mastodon.green : @Techmeme “Reply now to receive...

2023-02-04
“yes I will definitely pay a share of the advertising revenue that I have decimated by platforming Nazis and promoting conspiracy theories” “oh, also you have to pay me $8 to be eligible for a share of the revenue which might not exist and definitely won't be more than $8/mo” https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-04 View on X
The Verge

Elon Musk says Twitter will start sharing revenue from reply-thread ads with users who pay for Twitter Blue, starting on February 3, but doesn't give details

People don't engage with content they agree with.  —  Getting ratioed is the way to make money, lol. Toni Aittoniemi / @gimulnautti@mastodon.green : @Techmeme “Reply now to receive...

2023-02-01
Let's just hope it's more trustworthy than the actual answers ChatGPT gives. https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-01 View on X
Axios

OpenAI debuts a free web-based tool to help determine if text was written by a machine, rated as “very unlikely”, “unlikely”, “unclear”, “possible”, or “likely”

2023-01-25
You probably shouldn't need a chatbot to understand that a lot of post-secondary exams are just pattern-matching and not a meaningful examination of understanding a topic. https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-25 View on X
NBC News

Wharton School Professor Christian Terwiesch found OpenAI's ChatGPT was able to pass a final exam for the school's MBA program, scoring between B- and B

ChatGPT uses AI to pass final exam at UPenn's Wharton  —  New research conducted by a professor at University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School found …

2023-01-13
It is increasingly clear that SBF was and is, first and foremost, a narcissist who really cannot stop talking. He talked to sell a multi-billion dollar fraud, and is now launching a Substack while he is on trial, a step that no lawyer I've ever met would endorse. https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-13 View on X
Axios

Sam Bankman-Fried publishes a Substack post offering his account of how FTX collapsed, sticking to his claims of innocence even after ex-executives pled guilty

think there shouldn't be a paying option anymore... Dave Weisberger / @daveweisberger1 : https://www.wsj.com/... It is tiresome to read SBF's half truths. 1/ His claims about Binan...

2023-01-12
It is increasingly clear that SBF was and is, first and foremost, a narcissist who really cannot stop talking. He talked to sell a multi-billion dollar fraud, and is now launching a Substack while he is on trial, a step that no lawyer I've ever met would endorse. https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-12 View on X
Axios

Sam Bankman-Fried publishes a Substack post offering his account of how FTX collapsed, sticking to his claims of innocence, even as ex-executives plead guilty

Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried on Thursday published his account of how the crypto company collapsed.

2023-01-11
The guy who got clowned in the Facebook founding story is now getting clowned again in the crypto crash. Poor fella. https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-11 View on X
Bloomberg

Cameron Winklevoss demands that DCG's board remove CEO Barry Silbert and alleges he and Genesis lied publicly, after his January 8 resolution deadline passed

Gemini crypto exchange co-founder Cameron Winklevoss called for the board of Digital Currency Group to remove Barry Silbert …