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Lachlan Markay

@lachlan
37 posts
2026-02-05
I'll withhold judgment until Sunday, but in all likelihood the best Super Bowl commercial contest has already been won [video]
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...

I'll withhold judgment until Sunday, but in all likelihood the best Super Bowl commercial contest has already been won [video]
2026-02-05 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Anthropic plans a 30-second ad during the Super Bowl that parodies the prospect of intrusive ads in AI conversations, and will also air a 60-second pregame ad

Ads are coming to AI.Taylor Herzlich /New York Post:Super Bowl commercial sees Anthropic mock OpenAI for bringing ads to ChatGPTJames Peckham /PCMag:Anthropic Says No Ads on Claude...

2026-02-04
I'll withhold judgment until Sunday, but in all likelihood the best Super Bowl commercial contest has already been won [video]
2026-02-04 View on X
Anthropic

Anthropic says “Claude will remain ad-free”, its users “won't see ‘sponsored’ links adjacent to” conversations, and responses won't be influenced by advertisers

There are many good places for advertising.  A conversation with Claude is not one of them.

I'll withhold judgment until Sunday, but in all likelihood the best Super Bowl commercial contest has already been won [video]
2026-02-04 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Anthropic plans a 30-second ad during the Super Bowl that parodies the prospect of intrusive ads in AI conversations, and will also air a 60-second pregame ad

Chatbot wars are heating up, with Anthropic's Claude highlighting the potential frustration of bringing ads into ChatGPT

2025-07-26
Calling it a “hack” is quite generous to the company behind this app, which simply left these files in a publicly accessible cloud storage bucket waiting for someone to find
2025-07-26 View on X
NBC News

Tea says hackers accessed a database from more than two years ago, leaking 72,000 images, including 13,000 verification photos and images of government IDs

The viral app requires new users to take selfies, which it says it deletes after review.  —  Hackers have breached the Tea app …

2023-05-18
OpenAI is “working on building a machine learning classifier that will flag when ChatGPT is asked to generate large volumes of text that appear related to electoral campaigns or lobbying.” https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-18 View on X
Semafor

After FiscalNote, which offers data to US lobbyists, shared plans to use ChatGPT, OpenAI told the company the chatbot can only be used for grassroots campaigns

2022-10-26
The TikTok security executive hired to ward off foreign investment scrutiny by US natsec regulators was subject to intense internal investigations—"pretextual fishing expeditions"—by its Beijing parent company https://www.forbes.com/...
2022-10-26 View on X
Forbes

Sources: ByteDance launched audits into TikTok Chief Security Officer Roland Cloutier before he quit, hamstringing his efforts to build a robust security team

2021-10-22
The terms of service for Trump's new social media site contain a non-disparagement clause https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-22 View on X
Washington Post

The TOS for TRUTH Social shows it bans “excessive use of capital letters”, reserves the right to ban users, and hopes to benefit from Section 230 protections

very truthy: TRUTH Social | Truth Social https://truthsocial.com/ Tom Coates / @tomcoates : Watching the ‘Truth social’ conversation. Looks like it's a Mastodon instance which shou...

The terms of service for Trump's new social media site contain a non-disparagement clause https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-22 View on X
ABC News

Trump announces the Trump Media & Technology Group and TRUTH Social, a social network coming in Nov. to “stand up” to Big Tech, in the App Store for preorder

The former president has been banned from several platforms.  —  Silenced by many major platforms …

2021-10-21
The terms of service for Trump's new social media site contain a non-disparagement clause https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-21 View on X
ABC News

Trump announces the Trump Media & Technology Group and TRUTH Social, a social network coming in Nov. to “stand up” to Big Tech, in the App Store for preorder

The former president has been banned from several platforms.  —  Silenced by many major platforms …

2021-10-07
And, inevitably, future Facebook employees https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-07 View on X
Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg says that Facebook does not prioritize profit over safety and well-being and argues that many of Frances Haugen's claims don't make sense

I wanted to share a note I wrote to everyone at our company.  —  Hey everyone: it's been quite a week, and I wanted to share some thoughts with all of you.

2021-10-06
And, inevitably, future Facebook employees https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-06 View on X
Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg says that Facebook does not prioritize profit over safety and well-being and argues that many of Frances Haugen's claims don't make sense

I wanted to share a note I wrote to everyone at our company.  —  Hey everyone: it's been quite a week, and I wanted to share some thoughts with all of you.

And, inevitably, future Facebook employees https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-06 View on X
Mother Jones

During her testimony, Frances Haugen offered only weak remedies for Facebook's failures and specifically opposed breaking up the company

Fight disinformation.  Get a daily recap of the facts that matter.  Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.  —  Leaks are generally good.

2021-09-18
Excited to announce my new biotech startup, Frnknstn https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-09-18 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Internal docs show how antivax activists flooded vaccine content on Facebook with negative comments, despite Zuckerberg's push to promote COVID-19 vaccines

Internal company documents suggest that the company plays down awareness of its flaws. Kara Swisher / New York Times : The Endless Facebook Apology Katie Canales / Insider : Apple ...

2021-09-17
Excited to announce my new biotech startup, Frnknstn https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-09-17 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Internal docs show Facebook's weak response after staff flagged human traffickers and drug cartels using its platform for recruitment in developing countries

Employees raised alarms about how the site is used in developing countries, where its user base is already huge and expanding

2021-03-04
Well that was quick! https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-04 View on X
Axios

Facebook says that on Thursday it will lift the ban on political and social issue ads in the US, imposed after the November election

FB says advertisers who have completed the ad authorization process may submit new ads that require a “Paid for by” disclaimer or edit existing, eligible ads to turn them back on. ...

2021-02-20
“But here, a bunch of lazy newspaper execs who failed to adapt and to figure out better internet business models not only want the traffic, they also want to get paid for it.” https://www.techdirt.com/...
2021-02-20 View on X
The Verge

App Annie: Australian Broadcasting Corporation's news app was briefly the most downloaded app on the AU App Store after Facebook's news ban and is now second

Readers may be going directly to the source  —  The Australian Broadcast Company's ABC News app shot to the top of Apple's App Store charts …

“But here, a bunch of lazy newspaper execs who failed to adapt and to figure out better internet business models not only want the traffic, they also want to get paid for it.” https://www.techdirt.com/...
2021-02-20 View on X
Techdirt

Facebook's refusal to pay a misguided media tax, pushed by Rupert Murdoch, is a defense of the open web and criticizing it for rejecting a link tax is bizarre

I have no problem with “big tech” or “Silicon Valley” or anything else, just Facebook which is really bad. James Surowiecki / @jamessurowiecki : No way to win. Facebook chooses not...

2021-02-19
“But here, a bunch of lazy newspaper execs who failed to adapt and to figure out better internet business models not only want the traffic, they also want to get paid for it.” https://www.techdirt.com/...
2021-02-19 View on X
Techdirt

Facebook's refusal to pay a misguided media tax, pushed by Rupert Murdoch, is a defense of the open web and criticizing it for rejecting a link tax is bizarre

None of this should have been a surprise.  Back in September we wrote about Facebook publicly saying that if Australia went forward …

2021-02-09
Authorities in Pinellas County, FL, say a hacker gained access to water treatment systems and tried to poison an entire town by spiking sodium hydroxide levels https://www.vice.com/...
2021-02-09 View on X
VICE

Police say a computer in a water treatment plant in FL, set up for remote access, was breached; the intruder tried raising sodium hydroxide levels in the water

The hacker tried to drastically increase sodium hydroxide levels in the water, Pinellas County, Florida, officials said on Monday.