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Nilay Patel

@reckless1280
128 posts
2024-11-26
The tiniest bit of competition always works https://www.theverge.com/...
2024-11-26 View on X
The Verge

Threads begins testing an option to set For You, Following, or a custom feed as the default, another improvement seemingly sparked by competition from Bluesky

For You, following, or a custom one — as your default.  Also making this more visible in the app.  Interested to see how and if people use this. Jason Kottke / @jkottke : FINALLY. ...

The tiniest bit of competition always works https://www.theverge.com/...
2024-11-26 View on X
Axios

Meta says Threads had 35M new signups since November 1 and is now going on three months of 1M+ million signups per day; Threads had 275M+ MAUs in Q3 2024

- Bluesky said last week it now has more than 20 million users. … - According to the new data, another 20 million new signups have been added in the past 11 days.

2024-10-29
Really enjoyed talking to Airbnb CEO @bchesky on Decoder about founder mode, the Airbnb platform and where it's going - and this thought experiment about Apple inventing the iPhone without Steve Jobs https://www.theverge.com/...  [images]
2024-10-29 View on X
The Verge

Q&A with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on “founder mode” and why it's not about micromanagement, obsessing over company structure, Airbnb's Co-Host Network, and more

The Airbnb cofounder discusses being ‘in the details’ and why traditional management is doing it wrong. Threads: @reckless1280 Threads: Nilay Patel / @reckless1280 : Really enjoyed...

2024-10-22
We live in the dumbest possible era of content moderation https://www.theverge.com/...
2024-10-22 View on X
TechCrunch

Jack Sweeney says Meta suspended Instagram and Threads accounts tracking celebrities' private jets, including Zuckerberg's; Meta cites a “risk of physical harm”

Instagram and Threads accounts that track the private jets of celebrities - including Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk …

2024-10-21
Asked Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi about lobbying against tax reform on Decoder and the company was so upset about it they demanded we delete the entire section of the interview.  (We've never done that at The Verge and never will.)  —  You tell me if this is “egregious” and “disappointing.” https://www.theverge.com/... …
2024-10-21 View on X
The Verge

Q&A with Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi on AI, tax, and more; in a follow-up, an exec said “at the very least the end portion of your interview should be deleted”

We declined. … Today's episode of Decoder, well — it's a ride.  I'm talking to Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi … Threads: @reckless1280 . Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social . Forum...

2024-10-12
Even for Tesla standards that Robotaxi event was remarkably light on details, huh
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
Even for Tesla standards that Robotaxi event was remarkably light on details, huh
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.

2024-10-08
Every platform company is about to be at war with itself as the algorithmic recommendation AI team tries to fight off the content made by the generative AI team
2024-10-08 View on X
Garbage Day

As Meta proudly unveils AI tools, Facebook users find feeds clogged with AI junk, even when Facebook is needed as a civic resource to coordinate disaster relief

by which they mean there are no instances of deep fakes of candidates themselves or voting-related activities.  It has been a weird coverage cycle. Mark Little / @marklittlenews : ...

2024-10-05
Meta on a real tear of being very proud of products it's not shipping https://www.theverge.com/...
2024-10-05 View on X
Bloomberg

Meta Movie Gen can create up to 16-second videos based on a text prompt, available to some staff and external partners; Meta plans to add it to its apps in 2025

But a Demo Shows It Isn't Perfect Hamsat Abdurasheed / News.ng : Meta Takes On Open AI, Launches Advanced Video-Creation AI Tool, Movie Gen Raw Story : Meta AI turns pictures into ...

Meta on a real tear of being very proud of products it's not shipping https://www.theverge.com/...
2024-10-05 View on X
Wired

Meta announces Movie Gen, a suite of AI models for generating realistic video and audio clips; Movie Gen Video has 30B parameters and Movie Gen Audio has 13B

The next frontier in generative AI is video—and with Movie Gen, Meta has now staked its claim.

2024-09-27
Free speech absolutist  —  RE: https://www.threads.net/...
2024-09-27 View on X
The Verge

X is blocking links to Ken Klippenstein's newsletter with a hacked JD Vance dossier and has suspended Klippenstein's X account for posting Vance's personal info

X is preventing users from posting links to a newsletter containing a hacked document that's alleged to be the Trump campaign's research …

2024-09-26
Second exclusive alert: @zuck is on a special video episode of Decoder this week, interviewed by @alexheath.  Lots in here — everything from Threads to politics to the future of AR tech https://www.theverge.com/...
2024-09-26 View on X
Platformer

At Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg was the whole show, giving it a “Zuck or nothing” feel, and he has never seemed more intent on claiming the mantle of innovator

The company has an expansive vision for the future — and until then, some incremental updates

This is broadly how basically every tech company feels about the value of AI training data — they are using so much of it no single creator or publisher matters, and they're striking deals to keep the loudest happy.  Sort of good that @zuck just came right out and said it on Decoder so everyone can stop pretending the industry feels otherwise: [Links to Verge article: “Mark Zuckerberg: creators and publishers ‘overestimate the value’ of their work for training AI"]
2024-09-26 View on X
The Verge

Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Meta's Orion AR glasses, partnering with Ray-Ban, Threads, X, downranking political content, mental health, AI regulation, and more

they are using so much of it no single creator or publisher matters, and they're striking deals to keep the loudest happy.  Sort of good that @zuck just came right out and said it ...

This is broadly how basically every tech company feels about the value of AI training data — they are using so much of it no single creator or publisher matters, and they're striking deals to keep the loudest happy.  Sort of good that @zuck just came right out and said it on Decoder so everyone can stop pretending the industry feels otherwise: [Links to Verge article: “Mark Zuckerberg: creators and publishers ‘overestimate the value’ of their work for training AI"]
2024-09-26 View on X
Platformer

At Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg was the whole show, giving it a “Zuck or nothing” feel, and he has never seemed more intent on claiming the mantle of innovator

The company has an expansive vision for the future — and until then, some incremental updates

Second exclusive alert: @zuck is on a special video episode of Decoder this week, interviewed by @alexheath.  Lots in here — everything from Threads to politics to the future of AR tech https://www.theverge.com/...
2024-09-26 View on X
The Verge

Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Meta's Orion AR glasses, partnering with Ray-Ban, Threads, X, downranking political content, mental health, AI regulation, and more

they are using so much of it no single creator or publisher matters, and they're striking deals to keep the loudest happy.  Sort of good that @zuck just came right out and said it ...

2024-09-22
When you think of great places to highlight diverse female athletes, you think of, uh, Elon Musk's X?  Good scoop by @kylie.robison -> https://www.theverge.com/...
2024-09-22 View on X
The Verge

Email: Linda Yaccarino announces X is launching a “video tab” feature and an X-exclusive women's soccer reality show, The Offseason, produced by Alexis Ohanian

Kylie Robison / The Verge : Threads: @reckless1280 . Bluesky: @lupersec.bsky.social See also Mediagazer Threads: Nilay Patel / @reckless1280 : When you think of great places to hi...

2024-09-21
When you think of great places to highlight diverse female athletes, you think of, uh, Elon Musk's X?  Good scoop by @kylie.robison -> https://www.theverge.com/...
2024-09-21 View on X
The Verge

Email: Linda Yaccarino announces X is launching a “video tab” feature and an X-exclusive women's soccer reality show, The Offseason, produced by Alexis Ohanian

In a late Friday email, X CEO Linda Yaccarino announced the launch of a new “video tab” feature … Threads: @reckless1280 . Bluesky: @lupersec.bsky.social See also Mediagazer Thread...

2024-09-18
iPhone reviews!  I spent a lot of time with the iPhone 16 Pro: https://www.theverge.com/... And @allisonjo1 reviewed the regular 16 and 16 Plus: https://www.theverge.com/... There's no particular reason to upgrade yet — but if you care about photos, the new Tone control brings Apple's HDR processing back to reality. …
2024-09-18 View on X
The Verge

iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max review: physical shutter button, 4K120 video, and camera tone control, but Camera Control can be fiddly and an incremental upgrade

I'm not saying you should buy a new phone for a single camera setting... but I'm not not saying that, either.

2024-09-17
This is fascinating because the TikTok algo is so famously censorious creators invented words like “seggs” and “unalive” https://www.theverge.com/...  [image]
2024-09-17 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A US appeals court signals skepticism with TikTok's arguments against the law that could force it to sever ties with China to keep operating in the US

Judges are considering the validity of legislation that could shut down Chinese-backed app used by half of Americans

2024-08-27
It's funny that Elon doesn't realize the Telegram CEO getting arrested is entirely consistent with his (weird, bad) free speech definition that governments should just pass speech laws - laws he complies with in countries around the world
2024-08-27 View on X
New York Times

French prosecutors: Pavel Durov's arrest is part of a probe “against person unnamed” into CSAM, drug sales, and more on the app and not working with authorities

A case was opened last month to investigate child pornography, drug sales, fraud and other criminal activities on the platform.