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@pranavdixit

@pranavdixit
172 posts
2026-01-14
.@getsupernatural getting discontinued amid the Reality Labs layoffs is sad not just because it was one of Meta's most compelling VR products, but because of what it meant to the people who used it. In 2023, I wrote a cover story for @theinformation about an unexpected group of
2026-01-14 View on X
The Verge

As part of its Reality Labs cuts, Meta is closing three VR gaming studios and will stop developing new content and features for its VR fitness app Supernatural

Developers from Twisted Pixel Games and Sanzaru Games have posted about their studios being closed down.

2025-10-04
🚨 Scoop: Internal memos show Meta's new Superintelligence Labs is steering teams from slow internal systems to faster third-party tools like Vercel to speed up AI development.  Executives say Meta's own tech “is not conducive to vibe coding.” www.businessinsider.com/meta- superin...
2025-10-04 View on X
Business Insider

Memo: Meta Superintelligence Labs' products team, led by Nat Friedman, is pushing staff to ditch Meta's slow infrastructure toward tools like Vercel and GitHub

Pranav Dixit / Business Insider :

2025-03-15
Streisand effect.  The book is number 3 on Amazon's US bestseller list.  And here's the situation at my local public libraries.
2025-03-15 View on X
Wired

Meta's effort to neutralize Sarah Wynn-Williams' book, filled with gossipy anecdotes, feels less about defending its reputation than a need to punish a defector

Mark Zuckerberg might be in his post-fact-checking-era.  But that hasn't stopped Meta from going after the author of Careless People.

2025-01-31
Scoop with @jyoti_mann1 and @HughLangley: Mark Zuckerberg said that Meta missed TikTok's rise because it didn't seem ‘social’ enough, a leaked recording of an all-hands meeting obtained by @BusinessInsider revealed. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
2025-01-31 View on X
Business Insider

In a leaked recording of an all-hands meeting, Mark Zuckerberg said Meta was slow to respond to TikTok's rise because “we didn't think TikTok was social”

- Mark Zuckerberg addressed several recent policy changes in a company all-hands meeting on Thursday.

2025-01-08
🚨Scoop: The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) has convened an emergency meeting of its members tomorrow following Meta's announcement that it will end its third-party fact-checking partnerships in the US. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
2025-01-08 View on X
New York Times

Meta's fact-checking partners PolitiFact and FactCheck.org say they had no role in deciding what the company did with fact-checked content, denying Meta's claim

Fact-checking groups that worked with Meta said they had no role in deciding what the company did with the content that was fact-checked.

🚨 Scoop: Meta's US fact-checking partnerships will officially end in March, and payments to partners will continue through August. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Plus: 👉The rollout of Community Notes is expected to take time. Meta will build and implement the system through 2025.
2025-01-08 View on X
Business Insider

Audio: Meta told the International Fact-Checking Network that its US partnerships will end in March but Community Notes rollout is expected to take time

Pranav Dixit / Business Insider :

🚨 Scoop: Meta's US fact-checking partnerships will officially end in March, and payments to partners will continue through August. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Plus: 👉The rollout of Community Notes is expected to take time. Meta will build and implement the system through 2025.
2025-01-08 View on X
New York Times

Meta's fact-checking partners PolitiFact and FactCheck.org say they had no role in deciding what the company did with fact-checked content, denying Meta's claim

Fact-checking groups that worked with Meta said they had no role in deciding what the company did with the content that was fact-checked.

🚨Scoop: The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) has convened an emergency meeting of its members tomorrow following Meta's announcement that it will end its third-party fact-checking partnerships in the US. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
2025-01-08 View on X
Wired

Meta's fact-checking partners, including USA Today, say they were blindsided by Meta's decision to drop them and reject claims of being “too politically biased”

www.wired.com/story/metas-... Kate Starbird / @katestarbird : This is extra-funny, since the fact-checkers often bent over backwards to not appear to be biased against conservative...

2024-08-25
New: I wrote about @Tollbitofficial, a startup aiming to be the “iTunes” of AI content licensing. Its founders told me they want to end the “Napster days” of AI by making it easy for AI companies to pay for the data they need. 🎶🤖 https://www.engadget.com/...
2024-08-25 View on X
Engadget

A profile of TollBit, which has raised $7M and aims to create a marketplace where AI companies can pay publishers for their content on an ongoing basis

Pranav Dixit / Engadget :

Despite raising $7M, bringing on Meta's former high-profile media partnerships head @campbell_brown, and onboarding 100 publishers, TollBit's model is still hypothetical. No money has changed hands yet, but investors are knocking on their door. 💸🚪 https://www.engadget.com/...
2024-08-25 View on X
Engadget

A profile of TollBit, which has raised $7M and aims to create a marketplace where AI companies can pay publishers for their content on an ongoing basis

Pranav Dixit / Engadget :

2024-08-24
End of an era.
2024-08-24 View on X
Neowin

Microsoft confirms that the Windows Control Panel, which debuted in 1985 with Windows 1.0, is “in the process of being deprecated in favor of the Settings app”

this app is replacing it Threads: Chris Yiu / @clry2 : Farewell to Control Panel, the Logan of the Windows universe Bluesky: @lakewitchhouse.bsky.social : the past is another count...

Despite raising $7M, bringing on Meta's former high-profile media partnerships head @campbell_brown, and onboarding 100 publishers, TollBit's model is still hypothetical. No money has changed hands yet, but investors are knocking on their door. 💸🚪 https://www.engadget.com/...
2024-08-24 View on X
Engadget

A profile of TollBit, which has raised $7M and aims to create a marketplace where AI companies can pay publishers for their content on an ongoing basis

So far though, its business model of becoming a marketplace where AI companies can pay publishers directly for their data is a complete hypothetical X: @pranavdixit and @pranavdixi...

New: I wrote about @Tollbitofficial, a startup aiming to be the “iTunes” of AI content licensing. Its founders told me they want to end the “Napster days” of AI by making it easy for AI companies to pay for the data they need. 🎶🤖 https://www.engadget.com/...
2024-08-24 View on X
Engadget

A profile of TollBit, which has raised $7M and aims to create a marketplace where AI companies can pay publishers for their content on an ongoing basis

So far though, its business model of becoming a marketplace where AI companies can pay publishers directly for their data is a complete hypothetical X: @pranavdixit and @pranavdixi...

2024-08-23
End of an era.
2024-08-23 View on X
Neowin

Microsoft confirms that the Windows Control Panel, which debuted in 1985 with Windows 1.0, is “in the process of being deprecated in favor of the Settings app”

While Microsoft keeps testing and adding new features to Windows, it also keeps shedding stuff the company feels is no longer necessary.

2024-07-31
Please don't get your news from AI-based chatbots. Please.
2024-07-31 View on X
The Verge

After users reported that Meta's AI assistant incorrectly claimed the attempted assassination of Donald Trump did not happen, Meta blames hallucinations

Meta's AI assistant incorrectly said that the recent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump didn't happen …

2024-07-03
Indian social network Koo is shutting down as buyout talks collapse. As I reported in 2021, Koo started off as a Twitter alternative filled with hate speech and embraced by India's government at a time when Twitter the government were locked in a tug of war over free speech.
2024-07-03 View on X
TechCrunch

Koo, an Indian rival to X that had raised $60M+ from Tiger Global, Accel, and others, shuts down after last-resort acquisition talks with Dailyhunt collapsed

The Indian social media platform Koo, which positioned itself as a competitor to Elon Musk's X, is ceasing operations …

2024-06-09
Other AI-powered apps have been doing this too. I wrote about @arcinternet's Browse For Me feature which also scrapes from web pages. There's attribution, sure, but most people aren't going to click through to the original. https://www.engadget.com/...
2024-06-09 View on X
Forbes

AI search engine Perplexity is republishing parts of stories by Forbes and others, with nearly identical words and inadequate attribution, on its Pages feature

The startup, hailed as an AI-focused Google challenger, is republishing parts of exclusive stories from multiple publications …

2024-06-08
Other AI-powered apps have been doing this too. I wrote about @arcinternet's Browse For Me feature which also scrapes from web pages. There's attribution, sure, but most people aren't going to click through to the original. https://www.engadget.com/...
2024-06-08 View on X
Forbes

AI search engine Perplexity is republishing parts of stories by Forbes and others, with nearly identical words and inadequate attribution, on its Pages feature

The startup, hailed as an AI-focused Google challenger, is republishing parts of exclusive stories from multiple publications …

2024-05-30
The Atlantic, five days ago.  [Screenshot of Atlantic article headline: “Media Companies Are Making a Huge Mistake With AI"]
2024-05-30 View on X
Axios

The Atlantic and Vox Media sign multiyear licensing and product deals with OpenAI; The Atlantic plans an experimental Atlantic Labs with OpenAI's and other tech

- The Atlantic has been publishing content since 1857. … - Both agreements also allow OpenAI to tap into the respective …

2024-05-21
OpenAI just shared this statement with me attributed to @sama about the Scar Jo incident. [image]
2024-05-21 View on X
NBC News

Scarlett Johansson says she declined OpenAI's ChatGPT voice offer and was “shocked, angered” that Sam Altman would pursue Sky, a voice “eerily similar” to hers

The “Her” actor released a statement following OpenAI pulling its “Sky” voice from ChatGPT, which many people said sounded like her.