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Paul Rietschka

@paul_rietschka
49 posts
2025-01-05
This product strategy has “future HBS case study” written all over it.
2025-01-05 View on X
404 Media

After a backlash, Meta says newly viral AI-generated profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting them

and what you can do with it Mia Sato / The Verge : Meta's AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well Josh Kerwick / Star Observer : Meta Wipes Scrutinised AI Accounts, I...

2025-01-04
This product strategy has “future HBS case study” written all over it.
2025-01-04 View on X
404 Media

After backlash, Meta says newly viral AI profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting the profiles

Earlier this week, Meta executive Connor Hayes told the Financial Times that the company is going to roll out AI character profiles …

2024-12-29
Trump has truly lost a step.  Old Trump would've immediately recognized a way to capitalize on this with his cult by doubling down on the racism, announcing an extension of the pogrom he's planning to include HB1 visa holders, and then issuing some garbage fantasy about how America, when rid of the scourge of HB1 visa holders, will enter a golden age. …
2024-12-29 View on X
New York Post

Trump supports H-1B visas, saying “I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I've been a believer in H-1B”, siding with Musk in the MAGA debate on the issue

President-elect Trump told The Post Saturday he supports immigration visas for highly skilled workers …

2024-11-19
Chrome as a sort of Mozilla-style PBC would be such a great development.  Of course, we could have used Firefox all along instead, but that Rubicon was crossed ages ago and, personally, the horrid UI of Firefox* makes my eyes bleed. …
2024-11-19 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: DOJ antitrust officials plan to ask a judge to force Google to sell Chrome, license Search data, uncouple Android from Search and Google Play, and more

- Antitrust officials also to seek data licensing, AI measures  — Google says the proposals would harm consumers and developers

2024-10-25
How does this man still have a security clearance?  How is he allowed to maintain an executive position at his defense contractor companies?  —  What is even going on?  I feel like I'm going insane, or as if I'm living inside some kind of laudanum-induced hallucination.  —  RE: https://www.threads.net/...
2024-10-25 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Vladimir Putin since late 2022; Putin asked Musk to not activate Starlink in Taiwan as a favor to Xi Jinping

Regular contacts between world's richest man and America's chief antagonist raise security concerns; topics include geopolitics, business and personal matters

2024-10-12
The fact this tawdry spectacle took place on the lot of a movie studio — a facility owned by a company, Warner Bros., whose business is artifice — is telling.  Leon's robot slave will never see production.  A two-seat taxi with no steering wheel is a death trap.  The bus didn't/doesn't need reinvention. …
2024-10-12 View on X
Business Insider

Analysts question the feasibility of Tesla's robotaxi plan, citing a lack of rideshare partnerships and Musk's history of missing FSD targets; TSLA drops 8.8%

- Tesla's driverless taxi plan has been met with skepticism over its feasibility and competition with rivals.

2024-10-11
The fact this tawdry spectacle took place on the lot of a movie studio — a facility owned by a company, Warner Bros., whose business is artifice — is telling.  Leon's robot slave will never see production.  A two-seat taxi with no steering wheel is a death trap.  The bus didn't/doesn't need reinvention. …
2024-10-11 View on X
Business Insider

Experts question the feasibility of Tesla's robotaxi plan, getting scale without rideshare partners, and cite Musk's history of missed FSD dates; TSLA down 7%+

- Tesla's driverless taxi plan has been met with skepticism over its feasibility and competition with rivals.

2024-10-02
Anthropic has been absorbing the problematic “talent” exiting the uber-problematic OAI.  This may prove problematic as the company is ingesting the e/acc nonsense and other assorted weirdness contributing to OAI's demise.
2024-10-02 View on X
TechCrunch

Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma, who spent years as a doctoral fellow at Google before joining OpenAI's founding team as a research scientist

a great hire for anthropic Shakeel / @shakeelhashim : Big get for Anthropic: one of OpenAI's first employees and a long-time Google AI scientist. @luke_metro : Announcing this in t...

2024-09-29
It's not a company.  It's not a cult.  It's...an incinerator for cash with no future prospects whatsoever.  $44/per user for ChatGPT Pro, btw, for those of you who enjoy making poor decisions.
2024-09-29 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Source: Apple is no longer in talks to participate in an OpenAI funding round that is expected to raise as much as $6.5B

Company behind ChatGPT is aiming to raise around $6.5 billion in funding set to close next week  —  Apple is no longer in talks to participate in an OpenAI funding round expected …

2024-09-28
It's not a company.  It's not a cult.  It's...an incinerator for cash with no future prospects whatsoever.  $44/per user for ChatGPT Pro, btw, for those of you who enjoy making poor decisions.
2024-09-28 View on X
New York Times

Docs: OpenAI had $300M in monthly revenue in August, up 1,700% since early 2023, 350M MAUs in June, and expects ~$3.7B in annual sales but $5B in losses in 2024

As the company looks for more outside investors, documents reviewed by The New York Times show consumer fascination with ChatGPT and a serious need for more cash.

2024-09-24
This reads like an essay from a precocious high schooler.  Which is fitting given the lack of qualifications of the author.  Why does anyone listen to this person? https://ia.samaltman.com/
2024-09-24 View on X
Sam Altman

Sam Altman claims “deep learning worked”, superintelligence may be “a few thousand days” away, and “astounding triumphs” will incrementally become commonplace

In the next couple of decades, we will be able to do things that would have seemed like magic to our grandparents.

2024-09-17
This is a way of inducing a headcount reduction — aka, a layoff — without having to do so formally.  I personally don't think we're headed for a recession, or at least a major one, any time soon as the fundamentals are too strong, but we're in the doldrums in tech and I don't see a way out anytime soon. …
2024-09-17 View on X
CNBC

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy tells staff to return to the office five days per week from January 2, 2025, citing the importance of the policy to the company's culture

Amazon orders employees back to the office five days a week Michael Grothaus / Fast Company : Amazon CEO Andy Jassy orders employees back to the office 5 days a week in one of the ...

2024-08-03
Not calling out the person who posted this re: the Character c-suite abandoning ship as I like/respect them (and don't do so in comments, damnit), but this is absolutely delusional, likely self-aggrandizing, and wholly wrong.  There's no talent shortage in the field. …
2024-08-03 View on X
TechCrunch

Character.AI co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and some employees, are joining Google; Google has signed a non-exclusive agreement to use its tech

In a big move, Character.AI co-founder and CEO CEO Noam Shazeer is returning to Google after leaving the company in October 2021 to found the a16z-backed startup.

The LLM market was never a space ripe for startups, nor is it a space brimming with opportunity.  —  Have you used Character's product?  I have not, and I can confidently say you have not, either.  —  There just aren't products in the space, period. https://techcrunch.com/...
2024-08-03 View on X
TechCrunch

Character.AI co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and some employees, are joining Google; Google has signed a non-exclusive agreement to use its tech

In a big move, Character.AI co-founder and CEO CEO Noam Shazeer is returning to Google after leaving the company in October 2021 to found the a16z-backed startup.

2024-07-09
This company with its high school graduate CEO is absolutely a fraud.  I look forward to investors losing their shirts while Wang walks away with a fortune.
2024-07-09 View on X
The Information

How Scale AI's $13.8B valuation from May 2024's $1B funding round is almost certainly too high, given below-average margins, a reliance on few clients, and more

Cory Weinberg / The Information : Threads: @paul_rietschka . X: @coryweinberg and @coryweinberg Threads: Paul Rietschka / @paul_rietschka : This company with its high school gradu...

2024-05-29
Oof.  Just as the generative summary nonsense was rolled out, failed predictably and, worse, was received negatively by users.  Pichai has been middling-to-awful for the company.  We say this occasionally, but it bears repeating: the co. needs actual leadership with a vision. …
2024-05-29 View on X
SparkToro

A leak purports to show thousands of pages of internal Google Search API documentation, including many claims that seem to contradict Google's public statements

On Sunday, May 5th, I received an email from a person claiming to have access to a massive leak of API documentation from inside Google's Search division.

2024-05-28
Musk is one of a handful who, despite any failure small, large, or gargantuan, will never lose access to capital.  This man destroyed Twitter, the greatest self-induced destruction of business value in corporate history.  Now he “founds” an OAI copycat and, despite OAI itself having dubious future prospects, he has zero issues raising $6B. …
2024-05-28 View on X
xAI

xAI raised a $6B Series B from Valor, Vy Capital, a16z, Sequoia, Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Holding, and others, Elon Musk says at an $18B pre-money valuation

xAI is pleased to announce our series B funding round of $6 billion.  —  xAI is pleased to announce...

2024-05-26
“Google inadvertently reinvents expert systems.”  This will end well.
2024-05-26 View on X
Business Insider

Google says the vast majority of AI Overviews provide high-quality information and many of the viral examples have been uncommon queries or have been doctored

Step 1: Google rolls out a new AI-powered product.  Step 2: Users quickly find the product's flaws and point them out with social-media posts, which become news stories.

2024-05-25
“Google inadvertently reinvents expert systems.”  This will end well.
2024-05-25 View on X
The Verge

Google says it is “taking swift action” to remove AI Overviews on certain queries “where appropriate under our content policies”

Social media is abuzz with examples of Google's new AI Overview product saying weird stuff, from telling users to put glue on their pizza to suggesting they eat rocks.

More of this from more ppl.  Whittaker is a gem. https://techcrunch.com/...
2024-05-25 View on X
TechCrunch

Q&A with Signal President Meredith Whittaker on the clash with Elon Musk, Telegram's Pavel Durov, “dorm room high jinks” of OpenAI's “edge lords”, and more

' I don't think we can have a conversation about disinformation without having a conversation about the role of massive homogenous platforms that have cannibalized … @researchbuzz@...