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Ryan Mac

@rmac18
1360 posts
2026-04-16
Aron D'Souza, the man who coordinated with Peter Thiel to take out Gawker Media, has a new venture that says it will use private investigators and AI to apparently push back on unfavorable media stories. It's claiming it has developed an “AI Tribunal,” whatever that means.
2026-04-16 View on X
TechCrunch

Objection, which aims to use AI and experts to evaluate claims in news stories, debuts with funding from Peter Thiel, Balaji Srinivasan; evaluations cost $2,000

After helping lead the lawsuit that bankrupted media firm Gawker, Aron D'Souza says he saw something broken in the American media system …

It's unsurprising that tech billionaires including Thiel are funding this and that the company's solution to the intractable problem of journalism is AI. But I'm asking anyone to explain in plain english what this actually means and how it will actually work. [image]
2026-04-16 View on X
TechCrunch

Objection, which aims to use AI and experts to evaluate claims in news stories, debuts with funding from Peter Thiel, Balaji Srinivasan; evaluations cost $2,000

After helping lead the lawsuit that bankrupted media firm Gawker, Aron D'Souza says he saw something broken in the American media system …

2026-04-15
Aron D'Souza, the man who coordinated with Peter Thiel to take out Gawker Media, has a new venture that says it will use private investigators and AI to apparently push back on unfavorable media stories. It's claiming it has developed an “AI Tribunal,” whatever that means.
2026-04-15 View on X
TechCrunch

Objection, which aims to use AI and experts to evaluate claims in news stories, debuts with funding from Peter Thiel, Balaji Srinivasan; evaluations cost $2,000

After helping lead the lawsuit that bankrupted media firm Gawker, Aron D'Souza says he saw something broken in the American media system …

It's unsurprising that tech billionaires including Thiel are funding this and that the company's solution to the intractable problem of journalism is AI. But I'm asking anyone to explain in plain english what this actually means and how it will actually work. [image]
2026-04-15 View on X
TechCrunch

Objection, which aims to use AI and experts to evaluate claims in news stories, debuts with funding from Peter Thiel, Balaji Srinivasan; evaluations cost $2,000

After helping lead the lawsuit that bankrupted media firm Gawker, Aron D'Souza says he saw something broken in the American media system …

2026-04-04
Elon is making the banks who want to work on SpaceX's IPO subscribe to Grok. Some of those banks are paying tens of millions of dollars for the chatbot. He's also asked that they advertise on X. Scoop from @maureenmfarrell. [image]
2026-04-04 View on X
New York Times

Sources: Musk requires banks seeking roles in SpaceX's IPO to subscribe to Grok and advertise on X; some banks are spending tens of millions integrating Grok

Mr. Musk is requiring Wall Street firms to purchase subscriptions to his A.I. chatbot if they want to advise on one of the largest initial public offerings in history.

2026-04-03
Elon is making the banks who want to work on SpaceX's IPO subscribe to Grok. Some of those banks are paying tens of millions of dollars for the chatbot. He's also asked that they advertise on X. Scoop from @maureenmfarrell. [image]
2026-04-03 View on X
New York Times

Sources: Musk requires banks seeking roles in SpaceX's IPO to subscribe to Grok and advertise on X; some banks are spending tens of millions integrating Grok

Mr. Musk is requiring Wall Street firms to purchase subscriptions to his A.I. chatbot if they want to advise on one of the largest initial public offerings in history.

2026-03-21
The day before the 20th anniversary of the first post on Twitter, Elon Musk was found liable of misleading investors before he bought the company in 2022 for $44 billion. Tweeting does have consequences, apparently. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2026-03-21 View on X
Bloomberg

A US jury finds Elon Musk intentionally misled Twitter shareholders by disparaging the company in 2022 to buy it for a lower price than his original $44B bid

Elon Musk defrauded Twitter Inc. investors when he disparaged the company in 2022 in an effort to buy the social media platform …

2026-03-20
The day before the 20th anniversary of the first post on Twitter, Elon Musk was found liable of misleading investors before he bought the company in 2022 for $44 billion. Tweeting does have consequences, apparently. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2026-03-20 View on X
Bloomberg

A US jury finds Elon Musk intentionally misled Twitter shareholders by disparaging the company in 2022 to buy it for a lower price than his original $44B bid

Elon Musk defrauded Twitter Inc. investors when he disparaged the company in 2022 in an effort to buy the social media platform …

2026-02-09
My favorite Super Bowl memory is still when Elon Musk was at the 2023 game in Arizona and panicked about his Eagles tweet getting less engagement than Joe Biden's. He then flew immediately to Twitter's San Francisco office to start emergency meetings to fix the site's algorithm.
2026-02-09 View on X
TechCrunch

A look at the 2026 Super Bowl ads from Anthropic, Meta, Amazon, Google, and others, as AI continued to take center stage in ad creation and AI product promotion

Following last year's trend of showcasing AI in multimillion-dollar ad spots, the 2026 Super Bowl advertisements took it a step further …

2026-02-03
“I knew another tech billionaire went to Epstein Island because Epstein told me while I was emailing back and forth with him to find a time to hang out” is a bold thing to put out into the world. [image]
2026-02-03 View on X
Wired

The US DOJ releasing emails between tech industry notables and Jeffrey Epstein kicks off a renewed flurry of acrimonious social posts and lurid news coverage

The Department of Justice has released more than 3 million documents and photos related to Jeffrey Epstein.

Today is the third time Elon Musk has bought Twitter in four years.
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
“I knew another tech billionaire went to Epstein Island because Epstein told me while I was emailing back and forth with him to find a time to hang out” is a bold thing to put out into the world. [image]
2026-02-02 View on X
Wired

Newly-released emails between tech industry notables and Jeffrey Epstein kick off a renewed flurry of acrimonious social posts and lurid news coverage

The Department of Justice has released more than 3 million documents and photos related to Jeffrey Epstein.

2025-12-13
The company also confirmed a potential IPO in 2026, according to a letter from Bret Johnsen, I obtained. “Note in addition to this Purchase Offer, we are preparing the company for a possible IPO in 2026. Whether it actually happens, when it happens, and at what valuation are
2025-12-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Internal message: SpaceX has authorized an insider share sale at $421/share, valuing the company at ~$800B, and said it's preparing for a possible IPO in 2026

SpaceX has authorized an insider share sale that values Elon Musk's rocket and satellite maker at about $800 billion …

2025-12-01
@shaunmmaguire @DavidSacks That is not our determination. If you actually read the screenshot you posted in your next tweet, we write that *the White House* said that Sacks had “initiated or completed divestment of over 99% of your holdings in companies that could potentially raise a conflict of interest [image]
2025-12-01 View on X
Axios

The reaction to NYT's David Sacks story aside, Sacks is pushing policies to help the US win the AI race, which also benefit him, his allies, and even his foes

Top of the Morning  —  I come here neither to praise nor pillory David Sacks, the venture capitalist who spends half …

Today's been a good example of what X has become: complaints from a subset of wealthy tech folks about a story that circulate more widely than the actual story itself. Musk bought the platform to control the message and he and his friends are getting just that.
2025-12-01 View on X
New York Times

How David Sacks' AI and crypto policies in Trump's White House benefit his investments, those of his Silicon Valley friends, and the All-In podcast he co-hosts

Calls Conflict Claims “Nothing Burger” Mike Pearl / Gizmodo : 438 Reasons to Doubt that David Sacks Should Work for the Federal Government Mark Toon / Protos : David Sacks sends si...

@shaunmmaguire @DavidSacks That is not our determination. If you actually read the screenshot you posted in your next tweet, we write that *the White House* said that Sacks had “initiated or completed divestment of over 99% of your holdings in companies that could potentially raise a conflict of interest [image]
2025-12-01 View on X
New York Times

How David Sacks' AI and crypto policies in Trump's White House benefit his investments, those of his Silicon Valley friends, and the All-In podcast he co-hosts

Calls Conflict Claims “Nothing Burger” Mike Pearl / Gizmodo : 438 Reasons to Doubt that David Sacks Should Work for the Federal Government Mark Toon / Protos : David Sacks sends si...

Today's been a good example of what X has become: complaints from a subset of wealthy tech folks about a story that circulate more widely than the actual story itself. Musk bought the platform to control the message and he and his friends are getting just that.
2025-12-01 View on X
Axios

The reaction to NYT's David Sacks story aside, Sacks is pushing policies to help the US win the AI race, which also benefit him, his allies, and even his foes

Top of the Morning  —  I come here neither to praise nor pillory David Sacks, the venture capitalist who spends half …

2025-07-09
so the day before Elon Musk decides to unveil a new version of Grok, his chatbout is deciding to cosplay as Adolf Hitler. do i have that right?
2025-07-09 View on X
NBC News

After Elon Musk said xAI improved Grok “significantly”, Grok wrote many antisemitic posts and called itself “MechaHitler”; xAI took “action to ban hate speech”

In some posts, Grok inserted antisemitic remarks into its answers without any clear prompting.

so the day before Elon Musk decides to unveil a new version of Grok, his chatbout is deciding to cosplay as Adolf Hitler. do i have that right?
2025-07-09 View on X
Axios

X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that “after two incredible years, I've decided to step down”; X hired Yaccarino in 2023 after running NBCUniversal's ad business

X CEO Linda Yaccarino said Wednesday she is stepping down from her role. … - Under her leadership …

2024-10-09
Would love to know what “within the boundaries of the law” means exactly!
2024-10-09 View on X
Bloomberg

Brazil's Supreme Court authorizes the return of X after the company complied with its demands, including taking down some accounts and appointing a legal rep

- Court banned platform in August as billionaire defied orders  — Social network had 22 million users in South American country