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Rat King

@mikeisaac
1692 posts
2026-04-16
this is just going to be the default for any failing entity that owns a significant amount of real estate able to be converted into data centers im waiting for the arby's server farms
2026-04-16 View on X
Financial Times

Shoe company Allbirds, which sold last week for $39M after its valuation fell from $4B+ in 2021, says it aims to become an AI compute provider; BIRD jumps 800%+

Ah, zeitgeist:  —  Allbirds is a San Francisco maker of wool trainers that was once valued at more than $4bn.

2026-04-15
this is just going to be the default for any failing entity that owns a significant amount of real estate able to be converted into data centers im waiting for the arby's server farms
2026-04-15 View on X
Financial Times

Shoe company Allbirds, which sold last week for $39M after its valuation fell from $4B+ in 2021, says it aims to become an AI compute provider; BIRD jumps 800%+

Ah, zeitgeist:  —  Allbirds is a San Francisco maker of wool trainers that was once valued at more than $4bn.

2026-04-14
the openai/anthropic feud is like the mad men elevator meme but both companies are ginsberg
2026-04-14 View on X
The Verge

Internal memo: OpenAI's Chief Revenue Officer says Anthropic is “grossing up rev share with Amazon and Google”, which overstates its “run rate by roughly $8B”

OpenAI's chief revenue officer, Denise Dresser, sent a four-page memo to employees on Sunday …

2026-04-13
the openai/anthropic feud is like the mad men elevator meme but both companies are ginsberg
2026-04-13 View on X
The Verge

Internal memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer says Anthropic is “grossing up rev share with Amazon and Google” and overstating its “run rate by roughly $8B”

OpenAI's chief revenue officer, Denise Dresser, sent a four-page memo to employees on Sunday …

2026-04-10
not a great look for meta to do this also reminded me of the physical billboards ive started noticing along the highways some lawyers have moved on from mesothelioma and car accidents to social media harms to minors https://www.axios.com/...
2026-04-10 View on X
Axios

Meta begins removing Facebook and Instagram ads from lawyers seeking clients who claim to have been harmed by social media while under the age of 18

2026-04-09
new model release day for meta and the first since the company acquired scale leadership last year “Muse Spark” [image]
2026-04-09 View on X
Axios

Meta says Muse Spark powers queries in Meta AI and its “shopping mode” feature, and it plans to release a version of Muse Spark under an open-source license

Meta on Wednesday debuted Muse Spark, a homegrown AI model it says significantly narrows the performance gap with models from OpenAI, Anthropic and others.

not a great look for meta to do this also reminded me of the physical billboards ive started noticing along the highways some lawyers have moved on from mesothelioma and car accidents to social media harms to minors https://www.axios.com/...
2026-04-09 View on X
Axios

Meta begins removing Facebook and Instagram ads from lawyers seeking clients who claim to have been harmed by social media while under the age of 18

Meta on Thursday began removing advertisements from attorneys who were seeking clients that claim to have been harmed by social media while under the age of 18.

@paularambles slightly bummed i didn't get a “as first tweeted by rat king” citation
2026-04-09 View on X
The Information

Source: Meta shutters Claudeonomics, an internal, employee-built leaderboard tracking each employee's token usage, due to the data “being shared externally”

new model release day for meta and the first since the company acquired scale leadership last year “Muse Spark” [image]
2026-04-09 View on X
CNBC

Meta is opening a private API preview for Muse Spark to select partners, and plans to offer paid API access to a wider audience later; META closed up 6.5%

Jonathan Vanian /CNBC:

@kevinroose ...annnnd the “claudenomics” dashboard inside meta has been taken down, im told unclear to me if this was a homespun one by employees or an official one. (employee projects come and go frequently) conspicuous timing though...
2026-04-09 View on X
The Information

Source: Meta shutters Claudeonomics, an internal, employee-built leaderboard tracking each employee's token usage, due to the data “being shared externally”

new model release day for meta and the first since the company acquired scale leadership last year “Muse Spark” [image]
2026-04-09 View on X
Financial Times

Meta releases Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang, to “power a smarter and faster” Meta AI across Meta's products

Muse Spark ‘purpose-built’ for social media apps as investors question huge AI investment

2026-04-08
@kevinroose ...annnnd the “claudenomics” dashboard inside meta has been taken down, im told unclear to me if this was a homespun one by employees or an official one. (employee projects come and go frequently) conspicuous timing though...
2026-04-08 View on X
The Information

Source: Meta shutters an internal, employee-built leaderboard, dubbed Claudeonomics, tracking staff token usage, due to the data “being shared externally”

Meta Platforms has taken down an internal, employee-built leaderboard tracking how many tokens staffers were using.

@paularambles slightly bummed i didn't get a “as first tweeted by rat king” citation
2026-04-08 View on X
The Information

Source: Meta shutters an internal, employee-built leaderboard, dubbed Claudeonomics, tracking staff token usage, due to the data “being shared externally”

Meta Platforms has taken down an internal, employee-built leaderboard tracking how many tokens staffers were using.

new model release day for meta and the first since the company acquired scale leadership last year “Muse Spark” [image]
2026-04-08 View on X
Financial Times

Meta releases Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang, to “power a smarter and faster” Meta AI across Meta's products

Muse Spark ‘purpose-built’ for social media apps as investors question huge AI investment

2026-04-07
i mean look twitter never really drove significant traffic so it's not exactly something to fixate on. Google and Facebook are more important and they basically turned all traffic off over the past few years. but people (media) care about twitter b/c they stare at it daily
2026-04-07 View on X
Silver Bulletin

How social media became a “freak show”: X punishes external links and most top accounts, such as Catturd, are low-quality but get more engagement than the NYT

The ecosystem is unhealthy, especially on Twitter, and that's producing some strange beasts among the most influential accounts.

i dont think it's right to say tech writ large hates traditional media, but an enormously influential swath of it does influencers and non-traditional media produce real, valuable stuff. but a lot of it is based on information being dug up by old school reporting. it's symbiotic
2026-04-07 View on X
Silver Bulletin

How social media became a “freak show”: X punishes external links and most top accounts, such as Catturd, are low-quality but get more engagement than the NYT

The ecosystem is unhealthy, especially on Twitter, and that's producing some strange beasts among the most influential accounts.

@kevinroose my q is how long does meta tokenmaxxing last before they realize this is a big waste of resources!
2026-04-07 View on X
The Information

Sources: Meta has an internal leaderboard dubbed “Claudeonomics” where its 85K+ employees compete on AI-token usage and earn rewards like “Token Legend” status

Employees at Meta Platforms who want to show off their AI superuser chops are competing on an internal leaderboard for status as a …

even if i werent a journalist who worked at the outlet he's referring to, this is such a reductive way to look at the internet and news if you choke out the sources that produce new information, over time that goes away and the void is filled with crap (pushed by paid accts)
2026-04-07 View on X
Silver Bulletin

How social media became a “freak show”: X punishes external links and most top accounts, such as Catturd, are low-quality but get more engagement than the NYT

The ecosystem is unhealthy, especially on Twitter, and that's producing some strange beasts among the most influential accounts.

i dont buy this “safety risk” argument — they didn't have the same reservations about safety for open-sourcing the last three years of releases this is about staying competitive and catching up to the other labs while not giving away their work. quite a change [image]
2026-04-07 View on X
Axios

Sources: Meta is preparing to release the first AI models developed under Alexandr Wang, with plans to offer versions of those models via an open source license

funny — meta product growth director sent out an internal memo today with the title “token usage is NOT impact” after the twitter chatter the past 24 hours after @jyoti_mann1's story on “tokenmaxxing”
2026-04-07 View on X
The Information

Sources: Meta has an internal leaderboard dubbed “Claudeonomics” where its 85K+ employees compete on AI-token usage and earn rewards like “Token Legend” status

Employees at Meta Platforms who want to show off their AI superuser chops are competing on an internal leaderboard for status as a …