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306 posts
2026-02-27
We will also need to reinvent thinking things through from first principles, but I don't know where to start
2026-02-27 View on X
@karpathy

AI coding agents made a huge leap forward since December, completing complex projects with minimal oversight, meaning “programming is becoming unrecognizable”

@jack @blocks At least capitalize your sentences when you're firing half your staff.
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 …

@jack @blocks At least capitalize your sentences when you're firing half your staff.
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.

2026-02-26
We will also need to reinvent thinking things through from first principles, but I don't know where to start
2026-02-26 View on X
@karpathy

AI coding agents made a huge leap forward since December, completing complex projects with minimal oversight, meaning “programming is becoming unrecognizable”

It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the …

2026-02-06
Notice how Mars is now off the menu
2026-02-06 View on X
Cheeky Pint

Q&A with Elon Musk on plans for 1TW of space GPUs, Grok and human consciousness, Optimus, xAI's business plan, China's manufacturing win, DOGE, and more

Timecodes  —  Transcript  —  Are there really three hours of questions?  Are you fucking serious?  —  Dwarkesh Patel

2026-02-05
Notice how Mars is now off the menu
2026-02-05 View on X
Cheeky Pint

Q&A with Elon Musk on plans for 1TW of space GPUs, Grok and human consciousness, Optimus, xAI's business plan, China's manufacturing win, DOGE, and more

Timecodes  —  Transcript  —  Are there really three hours of questions?  Are you fucking serious?  —  Dwarkesh Patel

2026-02-03
Mariner acquires albatross
2026-02-03 View on X
Bloomberg

SpaceX acquires xAI; sources say the all-stock deal values the combined company at $1.25T, with SpaceX valued at $1T and xAI at $250B; xAI burns ~$1B per month

Elon Musk's SpaceX has acquired xAI, in a deal that encompasses the billionaire's increasingly costly ambitions to dominate artificial intelligence and space exploration.

2026-02-02
Mariner acquires albatross
2026-02-02 View on X
Bloomberg

SpaceX acquires xAI; sources say the combined company is expected to price shares at ~$527 each in a potential IPO and would have a valuation of $1.25T

Elon Musk plans to merge SpaceX with xAI, according to people familiar with the matter, in a deal that encompasses the billionaire's …

2025-07-01
@matthewstoller Or we use the competing phone and AI assistant from what I guess you would call the other monopoly.
2025-07-01 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Mike Rockwell and Craig Federighi started a project to evaluate external models to power Siri; after testing, Anthropic's tech seemed most promising

Apple Inc. is considering using artificial intelligence technology from Anthropic PBC or OpenAI to power a new version of Siri …

2025-01-11
In 2017 we knew that programmers at big tech companies had no appetite to unionize, so we tried to push for more targeted goals like “make management give you a board seat”, with zero success. It's frustrating that employee power was there for the taking and no one bothered.
2025-01-11 View on X
CNBC

Memo: Amazon halts some of its DEI programs, saying it is “winding down outdated programs and materials” as part of a broader review of hundreds of initiatives

Amazon is halting some of its diversity and inclusion initiatives, joining a growing list of major corporations …

In 2017 we knew that programmers at big tech companies had no appetite to unionize, so we tried to push for more targeted goals like “make management give you a board seat”, with zero success. It's frustrating that employee power was there for the taking and no one bothered.
2025-01-11 View on X
Axios

Memo: Meta terminates major DEI programs, including for hiring, training, and procurement, citing a changed “legal and policy landscape” around DEI in the US

Meta is ending its DEI programs Bradley Cortright / New York Sun : Meta Abandons its DEI Programs Days Ahead of Trump's Inauguration Edith Olmsted / New Republic : Mark Zuckerberg ...

2024-07-28
@Carnage4Life We just had a story about how Amazon burned $25 billion on Alexa. There are like 50 better examples of destroying value in tech on a grand scale.
2024-07-28 View on X
New York Times

Sources detail how Elon Musk undermined CEO Linda Yaccarino's efforts to repair X's business over the past year; X's US revenue fell 53% YoY to $114M in Q2

Linda Yaccarino, the C.E.O. of X, has worked hard to bring back advertisers and fix the platform's business.

2024-04-01
The idea that a Microsoft engineer would notice latency is easily the least credible part of this whole story.
2024-04-01 View on X
Security Boulevard

Microsoft engineer Andres Freund accidentally found the malicious code in versions of the XZ Utils compression tool, likely preventing thousands of infections

Yesterday's discovery of the xz backdoor was an accident.  But what a fortunate accident it was.

2024-02-15
Staying up late at a Holiday Inn Express to explain how you're totally not threatened by your wife's new boyfriend
2024-02-15 View on X
The Verge

In a video, Mark Zuckerberg shares his thoughts on the Vision Pro, saying Quest 3 “is the better product, period”, highlighting Apple's tradeoffs, and more

closed won mobile but open won PC, and i believe open will win the next” is not only brilliant but even more bullish for crypto than VR Tobi Lutke / @tobi : Great message, lots of ...

2024-02-14
Staying up late at a Holiday Inn Express to explain how you're totally not threatened by your wife's new boyfriend
2024-02-14 View on X
The Verge

In a video, Mark Zuckerberg shares his thoughts on the Vision Pro, saying Quest 3 “is the better product, period”, highlighting Apple's tradeoffs, and more

Now that it can be strapped to our faces and worn in strange places, opinions about Apple's Vision Pro are flying left and right.

2023-10-13
This is a misunderstanding of how to use Twitter effectively. You can still get feeds of arbitrarily high quality on any topic, including breaking news, but it requires using the lists feature. That has never been adequately promoted or supported, but it's at everyone's disposal
2023-10-13 View on X
Financial Times

The EU opens an investigation into X over hosting disinformation tied to Hamas' Israel attack and sends X a formal request for information under the DSA

'In this particular case, the Commission services are investigating X's compliance with the #DSA, including with regard to its policies and practices regarding notices on illegal c...

This is a misunderstanding of how to use Twitter effectively. You can still get feeds of arbitrarily high quality on any topic, including breaking news, but it requires using the lists feature. That has never been adequately promoted or supported, but it's at everyone's disposal
2023-10-13 View on X
Reuters

In a letter to Thierry Breton, X CEO Linda Yaccarino says X has removed hundreds of Hamas-linked accounts, labeled tens of thousands of posts, and more

The X social media platform has removed hundreds of Hamas-affiliated accounts and taken action to remove or label tens of thousands …

A lot of people who spent the Trump years cheerleading for critical thinking, fact-checking and fighting disinformation are now leaving in a huff now that this site is not ideologically homogeneous instead of putting their principles into action. Sad!
2023-10-13 View on X
Reuters

In a letter to Thierry Breton, X CEO Linda Yaccarino says X has removed hundreds of Hamas-linked accounts, labeled tens of thousands of posts, and more

The X social media platform has removed hundreds of Hamas-affiliated accounts and taken action to remove or label tens of thousands …

A lot of people who spent the Trump years cheerleading for critical thinking, fact-checking and fighting disinformation are now leaving in a huff now that this site is not ideologically homogeneous instead of putting their principles into action. Sad!
2023-10-13 View on X
Financial Times

The EU opens an investigation into X over hosting disinformation tied to Hamas' Israel attack and sends X a formal request for information under the DSA

'In this particular case, the Commission services are investigating X's compliance with the #DSA, including with regard to its policies and practices regarding notices on illegal c...

2023-10-12
This is a misunderstanding of how to use Twitter effectively. You can still get feeds of arbitrarily high quality on any topic, including breaking news, but it requires using the lists feature. That has never been adequately promoted or supported, but it's at everyone's disposal
2023-10-12 View on X
Reuters

In a letter to Thierry Breton, X CEO Linda Yaccarino says X has removed hundreds of Hamas-linked accounts, labeled tens of thousands of posts, and more

The X social media platform has removed hundreds of Hamas-affiliated accounts and taken action to remove or label tens of thousands …