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Ryan Mac

@rmac18
1352 posts
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
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 …

@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 …

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

2024-10-06
Mike Moritz out there somewhere, chuckling
2024-10-06 View on X
Axios

Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a “significant” personal donation to Kamala Harris' campaign; Horowitz and Marc Andreessen endorsed Trump in July

tech oligarchs depend heavily on their access in washington, so will do everything they can to keep it.  a16z desperately wants washington to legitimize crypto, so they can get a r...

2024-10-05
Mike Moritz out there somewhere, chuckling
2024-10-05 View on X
Axios

Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a “significant” personal donation to Harris' campaign; Horowitz and Marc Andreessen endorsed Trump in July

- At the time, President Biden was still running for reelection. … - He notes that he and Felicia have known Harris …

2024-09-27
There are parallels to the NYPost Hunter Biden laptop story. The key difference is Twitter prevented distribution of the NYPost story because it believed the material had been hacked (though it later turned out not to be.) In Klippenstein's case, it's been established that the
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 …

Also lol I still have a tab open that hasn't refreshed where Ken is still alive [image]
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 …

The irony of this is that it appears X got rid of the page explaining its once existent “hacked materials” policy. So it's unclear why Klippenstein was suspended. https://help.x.com/... https://x.com/... [image]
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 …

2024-09-10
In Oct. 2022, Elon Musk's reps assured Twitter that he had the ~$44 billion needed to buy the company. Then hours before the deal deadline, a Musk adviser said he was short and demanded Twitter wire about $400 million from its balance sheet to cover them. The adviser reasoned the [image]
2024-09-10 View on X
Vanity Fair

An excerpt from the book “Character Limit” on Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition and how his inner circle employed hardball tactics in a touch-and-go transaction

In an excerpt from their new book, Character Limit, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac detail how Musk's “goons” … Bluesky: @ishaav.bsky.social . X: @rmac18 , @rmac18 , and @ranimolla Bluesk...

Some of the first words uttered by Musk when he closed the deal to buy Twitter? “Fuck Zuck!” https://www.vanityfair.com/... [image]
2024-09-10 View on X
Vanity Fair

An excerpt from the book “Character Limit” on Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition and how his inner circle employed hardball tactics in a touch-and-go transaction

In an excerpt from their new book, Character Limit, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac detail how Musk's “goons” … Bluesky: @ishaav.bsky.social . X: @rmac18 , @rmac18 , and @ranimolla Bluesk...

2024-09-07
Trump has been impressed with what Musk has done with X, which is part of the reason why he wants the Tesla chief to slash spending as the head of a “government efficiency commission.” A look at how the world's richest man is influencing Trump. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2024-09-07 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Donald Trump says Elon Musk has agreed to lead a government efficiency commission, which would let Musk influence federal agencies that regulate his companies

https://apnews.com/... Bluesky: @mack70d.bsky.social : The most chilling and foreboding sentence you will read today. Pete Miles / @petermiles.bsky.social : What could possibly go ...