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Matt Stoller

@matthewstoller
780 posts
2026-03-09
And Trump pardons Ticketmaster while no one's looking. [image]
2026-03-09 View on X
Associated Press

The DOJ reaches a settlement in its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation in a case that alleged an illegal monopoly over live events in the US

2026-02-28
It's not actual cash raised, this deal adds to the thicket of circular financing from the biggest companies in the worlds. A whiff of Ponzi.
2026-02-28 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI says ChatGPT has 900M+ weekly active users, 50M+ consumer subscribers, and weekly Codex users have more than tripled since the start of the year to 1.6M

raising the stakes for AI monetizationZac Hall /9to5Mac:ChatGPT approaching 1 billion weekly active users

It's not actual cash raised, this deal adds to the thicket of circular financing from the biggest companies in the worlds. A whiff of Ponzi.
2026-02-28 View on X
CNBC

OpenAI raised $110B at a $730B pre-money valuation, up from $500B in a secondary financing in Oct.; Amazon invested $50B, Nvidia and SoftBank invested $30B each

OpenAI announced a $110 billion funding round on Friday, a financing that's more than double the size of its last raise a year ago …

2026-02-27
This story will be seen as ‘AI being disruptive’ instead of a payment company well-known for enabling systematic fraud firing its employees to enable more fraud. The slopification of American business.
2026-02-27 View on X
CNBC

Block says it is laying off 4,000+ of its 10,000+ employees, saying AI tools have changed “what it means to build and run a company”; XYZ jumps 15%+

Block said Thursday it's laying off more than 4,000 employees, or about half of its headcount.

This story will be seen as ‘AI being disruptive’ instead of a payment company well-known for enabling systematic fraud firing its employees to enable more fraud. The slopification of American business.
2026-02-27 View on X
Reuters

Block reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $6.25B, gross profit up 24% to $2.87B, driven by a 33% surge in Cash App, and forecasts Q1 gross profit up 22% to $2.8B

Block (XYZ.N) on Thursday said it will cut over 4,000 jobs, nearly half its workforce, as part of an overhaul …

It's not actual cash raised, this deal adds to the thicket of circular financing from the biggest companies in the worlds. A whiff of Ponzi.
2026-02-27 View on X
CNBC

OpenAI raised $110B at a $730B pre-money valuation, up from $500B in a secondary financing in Oct.; Amazon invested $50B, Nvidia and SoftBank invested $30B each

OpenAI has closed a $110 billion funding round, a financing that's more than double the size of its last raise a year ago, which was a record for a private tech company.

2026-02-23
He's saying a really big spreadsheet and a baby are morally equivalent. One reason to believe that life is divine is so that you don't allow sociopaths like this anywhere near anything important.
2026-02-23 View on X
TechCrunch

Sam Altman says discussions about AI's energy usage are “unfair”, as it takes “20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time” to train a human

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed concerns about AI's environmental impact this week while speaking at an event hosted by The Indian Express.

He's saying a really big spreadsheet and a baby are morally equivalent. One reason to believe that life is divine is so that you don't allow sociopaths like this anywhere near anything important.
2026-02-23 View on X
New York Times

In recent interviews, Sam Altman said AI's adoption faces more resistance than he expected, while Jensen Huang warned the “doomer narrative” may be winning

Tech leaders are beginning to worry about the public's underwhelming enthusiasm for their plans to remake the world with artificial intelligence.LinkedIn:Bridget FahrlandandDaron Y...

2026-02-22
He's saying a really big spreadsheet and a baby are morally equivalent. One reason to believe that life is divine is so that you don't allow sociopaths like this anywhere near anything important.
2026-02-22 View on X
The Indian Express

Sam Altman says currently “the idea of putting data centers in space is ridiculous” and that it is “not something that's going to matter at scale this decade”

Once allies at OpenAI, Sam Altman and Elon Musk are now sharply divided over the future of AI infrastructure.

He's saying a really big spreadsheet and a baby are morally equivalent. One reason to believe that life is divine is so that you don't allow sociopaths like this anywhere near anything important.
2026-02-22 View on X
TechCrunch

Sam Altman says discussions about AI's energy usage are “unfair”, as it takes “20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time” to train a human

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed concerns about AI's environmental impact this week while speaking at an event hosted by The Indian Express.

And Wall Street Dems move in. Obviously a President can and should make decisions about mergers, not speech. Conflating the two is shallow fraudulent thinking, it is one path from Dems, and it will cause the end of America.
2026-02-22 View on X
Bloomberg

Trump calls on Netflix to fire board member Susan Rice or face “consequences,” after she said corporations that “take a knee” to Trump would be held accountable

Donald Trump called on Netflix to fire board member Susan Rice or “pay the consequences,” …

2026-02-19
Mark Zuckerberg is testifying today in a trial about whether his products addicts kids.
2026-02-19 View on X
CNBC

Social media addiction trial: Mark Zuckerberg says increasing engagement on Instagram is not a company goal and that Meta removes underage users it identifies

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed back against the notion that the social media company made increasing time spent on Instagram a company goal.

2026-02-17
“Why am i paying for these kinds of slopvertorials to appear in this newspaper?” The comments in this hack piece are hilarious. FT readers are not having it.
2026-02-17 View on X
Financial Times

Analysis: US productivity rose by ~2.7% in 2025, nearly doubling the 1.4% annual average over a decade, as AI-exposed sectors cooled their entry-level hiring

2026-02-16
“Why am i paying for these kinds of slopvertorials to appear in this newspaper?” The comments in this hack piece are hilarious. FT readers are not having it.
2026-02-16 View on X
Financial Times

Analysis: US productivity rose by ~2.7% in 2025, nearly doubling the 1.4% annual average over a decade, as AI-exposed sectors cooled their entry-level hiring

New economic data suggests the US is transitioning to a phase of measurable gains from the technology

2026-02-13
I had some hopes for Trump antitrust appointee Gail Slater. She's not corrupt. And she was surrounded by enemies and was constantly being undermined. That said, she didn't go down fighting on principle. She was meek and cynical, and got knifed anyway.
2026-02-13 View on X
Axios

US DOJ antitrust chief Gail Slater says she is leaving, in a departure viewed as a victory for tech giants over some of MAGA's more populist voices

2026-02-12
Yes when everyone is mad about food and medical prices what Americans really want is the head of the Federal Trade Commission to police what's on Apple News.
2026-02-12 View on X
Financial Times

US FTC chair asks Tim Cook to review Apple News' ToS and curation, citing allegations that it promotes “left-wing” outlets and suppresses conservative sources

US regulator issues warning to iPhone maker about its News platform following controversy over Super Bowl half-time show

He says law and accounting will be ‘fully automated’ just like software. He says engineers now spend their time debugging and doing strategic work and architecture. That's not fully automated! This sales pitch is so transparently dishonest.
2026-02-12 View on X
Financial Times

Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft is pursuing “true self-sufficiency” in AI by building models for enterprise and health care and reducing its reliance on OpenAI

2026-02-10
The trial of Meta for facilitating child sex trafficking starts today in New Mexico. https://nmdoj.gov/...
2026-02-10 View on X
Associated Press

Opening statements in New Mexico's Meta lawsuit: state prosecutors argue that Meta misrepresented the safety of its platforms, while Meta's attorney pushes back

Meta has failed to disclose what it knows about the harmful effect of its platforms on children in violation …

2026-02-03
“Though concretely, don't say dumb things in email. That is always a pain in the ass.” That's Steve Sinosfky to Apple on how to avoid antitrust liability. I was kidding about how the consumer welfare standard is in the Epstein Files, but maybe I wasn't?
2026-02-03 View on X
Wired

The US DOJ releasing emails between tech industry notables and Jeffrey Epstein kicks off a renewed flurry of acrimonious social posts and lurid news coverage

The Department of Justice has released more than 3 million documents and photos related to Jeffrey Epstein.

2026-02-02
“Though concretely, don't say dumb things in email. That is always a pain in the ass.” That's Steve Sinosfky to Apple on how to avoid antitrust liability. I was kidding about how the consumer welfare standard is in the Epstein Files, but maybe I wasn't?
2026-02-02 View on X
Wired

Newly-released emails between tech industry notables and Jeffrey Epstein kick off a renewed flurry of acrimonious social posts and lurid news coverage

The Department of Justice has released more than 3 million documents and photos related to Jeffrey Epstein.