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Sam Biddle

@samfbiddle
193 posts
2026-02-28
Incredible moment to be urging the world to trust the Department of Defense to do the right thing
2026-02-28 View on X
@sama

Sam Altman says OpenAI reached an agreement with the DOD to deploy its models in DOD's classified network and asks DOD to extend those terms to all AI companies

Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safet...

2025-06-06
(I find this very unlikely given how embedded Starlink is and the lack of alternatives)
2025-06-06 View on X
CNBC

Trump says Elon Musk “went CRAZY” and that canceling his government contracts is “the easiest way to save money”, as their One Big Beautiful bill feud escalates

Musk has gone to war with Donald Trump.  What happens next? Dan Milmo / The Guardian : Elon Musk signals he may back down in public row with Donald Trump Wired : Elon Musk's Feud W...

Anthropic is tightening its relationship with U.S. national security agencies—presumably exempted from the company's standard acceptable use policy ( https://support.anthropic.com/ ...) https://www.anthropic.com/...
2025-06-06 View on X
TechCrunch

Anthropic unveils custom Claude Gov models tailored for US national security customers and designed to be applied to planning, support, analysis, and more

presumably exempted from the company's standard acceptable use policy ( https://support.anthropic.com/ ...) https://www.anthropic.com/... @elder_plinius : You think these Gov model...

2025-06-05
“The data for the first time puts a concrete figure on how many requests governments around the world are making, and sometimes receiving, for push notification data from Apple.” https://www.404media.co/...
2025-06-05 View on X
404 Media

Apple's July 2022 to June 2024 transparency report shows it gave governments data tied to thousands of push notifications, which can include unencrypted content

Apple provided governments around the world with data related to thousands of push notifications sent to its devices …

2025-05-23
The Trump administration is building a central online marketplace for the Intelligence Community to buy private information about individuals from unregulated data brokers — coming soon to https://www.icdata.gov/ https://theintercept.com/...
2025-05-23 View on X
The Intercept

Docs: ODNI is developing a centralized portal to streamline the purchase of commercially available information, like location data, by US intelligence agencies

US intel is buying up vast volumes of sensitive information that would have previously required a court order, essentially bypassing #FourthAmendment.  But #surveillance state has ...

2025-03-14
Takes a ton of chutzpah for Meta to attempt to have the book's publishers enjoined by a private arbitrator. What possible jurisdiction could the arbitrator claim over them? [image]
2025-03-14 View on X
The Verge

An arbitrator instructs a former Meta employee to stop promoting and publishing her book alleging company misconduct; publisher Flatiron Books earlier objected

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/t... Josh Sternberg / @joshsternberg.com : Guess what book I just bought!  —  www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/t... Karl Bode / @karlbode.com : this must be th...

2025-03-13
Takes a ton of chutzpah for Meta to attempt to have the book's publishers enjoined by a private arbitrator. What possible jurisdiction could the arbitrator claim over them? [image]
2025-03-13 View on X
The Verge

An arbitrator instructs a former Meta employee to stop promoting and publishing her book alleging company misconduct; publisher Flatiron Books earlier objected

An arbitrator has instructed the book's author and its publishers to stop publishing the book, though it's unclear how much authority the arbitrator has to do so.

2025-02-05
Hiring a guy whose sole credential is ‘famously killed someone on the subway’ says a lot re: what we're really talking about when we talk about “American Dynamism”
2025-02-05 View on X
The Free Press

a16z hires former Marine Daniel Penny, who in December a New York jury acquitted in a controversial subway chokehold case, to work on its American Dynamism team

“Daniel acted with courage in a tough situation,” said partner David Ulevitch in a statement explaining the hire.

2025-02-04
“Dox” used to mean “my social security number and home address were posted on 4chan” and now it's “naming the people administering the federal government.” Like ‘disinformation’ before it, rendered completely and hilariously meaningless by overuse
2025-02-04 View on X
Bloomberg Law

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent orders the CFPB to stop activities, like rulemaking, communications, and litigation; in November, Musk said to “delete CFPB”

Search by Topic  —  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has shut down a wide variety of operations inside …

“Dox” used to mean “my social security number and home address were posted on 4chan” and now it's “naming the people administering the federal government.” Like ‘disinformation’ before it, rendered completely and hilariously meaningless by overuse
2025-02-04 View on X
Wired

Sources: Marko Elez, a 25-year-old Elon Musk-linked engineer, has admin privileges over Treasury Department code that controls Social Security payments and more

The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department.  It's also where, sources say …

2025-01-26
Meta has defended its free release of Llama on explicitly anti-China competition grounds! This is unsurprisingly not, however, a psyop, or economic warfare. [image]
2025-01-26 View on X
MIT Technology Review

Rather than weakening China's AI capabilities, US sanctions appear to be driving startups like DeepSeek to innovate by prioritizing efficiency and collaboration

The AI community is abuzz over DeepSeek R1, a new open-source reasoning model.  —  The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek …

I will never stop pointing out the irony of China hawks coopting China's historical rationale for blocking American technology without even the slightest trace of irony or self-awareness. “It's a western conspiracy to destabilize our nation” is the oldest trick in the book!
2025-01-26 View on X
MIT Technology Review

Rather than weakening China's AI capabilities, US sanctions appear to be driving startups like DeepSeek to innovate by prioritizing efficiency and collaboration

The AI community is abuzz over DeepSeek R1, a new open-source reasoning model.  —  The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek …

Interesting how often when something Chinese outperforms something American (TikTok, deepseek, cars, etc) it's a “psyop” or “economic warfare” or “digital fentanyl” or a “cyberweapon” and not just “another country made something people like”
2025-01-26 View on X
Financial Times

Industry insiders say DeepSeek's focus on research makes it a dangerous competitor as it's willing to share breakthroughs rather than protect them for profits

China is pulling the same trick.  —  www.ft.com/content/747a... Mastodon: Brian Kung / @briankung@hachyderm.io : “There's a pretty delicious, or maybe disconcerting irony to this, ...

Is DeepSeek lying about its model? Maybe! I certainly would not say that “misleading the public about an LLM” is a Chinese thing, though.
2025-01-26 View on X
MIT Technology Review

Rather than weakening China's AI capabilities, US sanctions appear to be driving startups like DeepSeek to innovate by prioritizing efficiency and collaboration

The AI community is abuzz over DeepSeek R1, a new open-source reasoning model.  —  The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek …

I will never stop pointing out the irony of China hawks coopting China's historical rationale for blocking American technology without even the slightest trace of irony or self-awareness. “It's a western conspiracy to destabilize our nation” is the oldest trick in the book!
2025-01-26 View on X
VentureBeat

Yann LeCun says DeepSeek “profited from open research and open source” like Meta's Llama and is proof that open source models are surpassing proprietary ones

“Marc Andreessen, a co-inventor of the pioneering Mosaic web browser, co-founder of the Netscape browser company and current general partner at the famed Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)...

Meta has defended its free release of Llama on explicitly anti-China competition grounds! This is unsurprisingly not, however, a psyop, or economic warfare. [image]
2025-01-26 View on X
VentureBeat

Yann LeCun says DeepSeek “profited from open research and open source” like Meta's Llama and is proof that open source models are surpassing proprietary ones

“Marc Andreessen, a co-inventor of the pioneering Mosaic web browser, co-founder of the Netscape browser company and current general partner at the famed Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)...

Is DeepSeek lying about its model? Maybe! I certainly would not say that “misleading the public about an LLM” is a Chinese thing, though.
2025-01-26 View on X
VentureBeat

Yann LeCun says DeepSeek “profited from open research and open source” like Meta's Llama and is proof that open source models are surpassing proprietary ones

“Marc Andreessen, a co-inventor of the pioneering Mosaic web browser, co-founder of the Netscape browser company and current general partner at the famed Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)...

Interesting how often when something Chinese outperforms something American (TikTok, deepseek, cars, etc) it's a “psyop” or “economic warfare” or “digital fentanyl” or a “cyberweapon” and not just “another country made something people like”
2025-01-26 View on X
MIT Technology Review

Rather than weakening China's AI capabilities, US sanctions appear to be driving startups like DeepSeek to innovate by prioritizing efficiency and collaboration

The AI community is abuzz over DeepSeek R1, a new open-source reasoning model.  —  The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek …

2025-01-25
Is DeepSeek lying about its model? Maybe! I certainly would not say that “misleading the public about an LLM” is a Chinese thing, though.
2025-01-25 View on X
VentureBeat

Yann LeCun says DeepSeek “profited from open research and open source” like Meta's Llama and is proof that open source models are surpassing proprietary ones

If you hadn't heard, there's a new AI star in town: DeepSeek, the subsidiary of Hong Kong-based quantitative analysis …

Meta has defended its free release of Llama on explicitly anti-China competition grounds! This is unsurprisingly not, however, a psyop, or economic warfare. [image]
2025-01-25 View on X
VentureBeat

Yann LeCun says DeepSeek “profited from open research and open source” like Meta's Llama and is proof that open source models are surpassing proprietary ones

If you hadn't heard, there's a new AI star in town: DeepSeek, the subsidiary of Hong Kong-based quantitative analysis …