2025-11-24
So many 🚩🚩🚩 in this company [embedded post]
Forbes
Sources: Infinite Reality, rebranded as Napster, told staff that $3B+ in funding from an unnamed investor is not coming, calling itself a “victim of misconduct”
Forbes : Bluesky: @mrmarketmis . Forums: Slashdot Bluesky: @mrmarketmis : So many 🚩🚩🚩 in this company [embedded post] Forums: Slashdot : Napster Said It Raised $3 Billion From a M...
2025-09-15
Excellent article: AI's disruption is real, but the profits won't accrue where the hype says they will — “Value will be competed away and captured downstream by customers and savvy incumbents (as it happened in shipping containerization)” — “AI Will Not Make You Rich” — joincolossus.com/article/ai- w... …
Colossus
The AI revolution has more in common with shipping containerization than the boom unleashed by the microprocessor: diffuse global benefits but few new fortunes
The disruption is real. It's also predictable. — ISSUE 04 — Fortunes are made by entrepreneurs and investors … X: @actaccordingly , @shearic , @joincolossus , @sameer_singh17 ,...
2025-08-15
Strange, this should have been a bonus point with this administration
Wired
Sources: xAI was part of a US GSA's AI initiative alongside OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, but the GSA removed xAI after Grok posted antisemitic content in July
A short thread for the reader to try figure out what the common denominator is here. — A. Grok was about to get a lucrative Govt. contract. It went all Nazi, because well, birds...
2025-02-09
The grifters leading the gullible [embedded post]
New York Times
How Sam Altman outflanked Elon Musk to win over Donald Trump, including by telling Trump in a phone call that the tech industry will achieve AGI during his term
After helping President Trump get elected, Elon Musk was poised to dominate the country's A.I. policies. Then Mr. Altman sneaked into the White House.