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Sheera Frenkel

@sheeraf
115 posts
2026-03-03
We profiled Palmer Luckey, who is at the forefront of new defense tech companies selling autonomous weapons to the U.S. military. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/t...
2026-03-03 View on X
New York Times

A profile of Palmer Luckey and his startup Anduril, which has $6B+ in global contracts, had ~$2B in 2025 revenue, has raised nearly $7B, and is valued at ~$31B

2026-03-02
We have some new details on this in our story: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/t...
2026-03-02 View on X
The Verge

Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow US laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data

On Friday evening, amidst fallout from a standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced …

We have some new details on this in our story: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/t...
2026-03-02 View on X
New York Times

Sources detail how the Anthropic and DOD talks fell apart and how officials at US intelligence agencies, including the CIA, still hope for a peace agreement

The Pentagon and Anthropic were close to agreeing on the use of artificial intelligence.  But strong personalities, mutual dislike and a rival company unraveled a deal.

We have some new details on this in our story: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/t...
2026-03-02 View on X
The Atlantic

A source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected from Americans

Right up until the moment that Pete Hegseth moved to terminate the government's relationship with the AI company Anthropic …

We profiled Palmer Luckey, who is at the forefront of new defense tech companies selling autonomous weapons to the U.S. military. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/t...
2026-03-02 View on X
New York Times

A profile of Palmer Luckey and his startup Anduril, which has more than $6B in global contracts, had roughly $2B in revenue last year, and is valued at ~$31B

2025-11-24
The most thorough reporting I've seen on how Chat GPT is affecting some people's mental health, (and what the company is doing about it).  Great work from @kashhill.bsky.social and @Jen Valentino www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
2025-11-24 View on X
New York Times

Interviews with current and former OpenAI employees detail how updates that made ChatGPT more appealing to boost growth sent some users into delusional spirals

It sounds like science fiction: A company turns a dial on a product used by hundreds of millions of people and inadvertently destabilizes some of their minds.

2025-09-11
Social media companies haven't figured out how to stop violence from going viral.  —  (And I have written this exact story after the shootings in Christchurch, Pittsburg, Texas, and countless other moments where deadly violence was caught on camera).  —  www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/t...
2025-09-11 View on X
New York Times

Graphic videos of Charlie Kirk's shooting, first posted to X, also spread to Instagram, Threads, YouTube, and Telegram within hours, amassing millions of views

First posted to X, they amassed millions of views on Instagram, Threads, YouTube and Telegram within hours.

2025-03-13
Wow.  Meta taking legal steps against a new book published about the company.  Has anyone seen this type of legal order before?  —  about.fb.com/wp-content/u...
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.

2025-01-18
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg had their PR people coordinate this exchange, (in case you were wondering).  [image]
2025-01-18 View on X
Engadget

Zuckerberg says there's a “bogus narrative saying I blamed Sheryl for a bunch of stuff” and he was just addressing the origin of “bring your whole self to work”

Well, specifically, they want me to know.  —  On Thursday, The New York Times published a lengthy story …

2025-01-17
Sheryl Sandberg became a household name because of Lean In, her manifesto about women in the workplace.  —  How can she not respond to Mark Zuckerberg not just doing away with DEI, but blaming her for it in a conversation with Trump? [image]
2025-01-17 View on X
New York Times

Sources: Zuckerberg told Stephen Miller that he would do nothing to obstruct Trump's agenda and blamed Sheryl Sandberg for an inclusivity initiative at Facebook

Stephen Miller was the architect of Donald J. Trump's hard-line immigration agenda in his first term.

2025-01-15
So wild to watch this drumbeat of Meta/Zuckerberg doing away with programs they once proudly touted as technical solutions to help safeguard democracy.  [embedded post]
2025-01-15 View on X
Platformer

Sources and docs: Meta has dismantled its system for identifying and limiting viral hoaxes, and told content-ranking teams to stop penalizing misinformation

The company built effective systems to reduce the reach of fake news.  Last week, it shut them down  —  I.

2025-01-11
Mark Zuckerberg is on Joe Rogan this morning and if you ever doubted how far his veer to the right has gone, the interview is a must-listen.  —  Come for him comparing fact checkers to the book 1984, stay for him dismissing the Russian election interference of 2016.
2025-01-11 View on X
CNBC

On Joe Rogan's podcast, Mark Zuckerberg said Biden administration officials would “scream” and “curse” at Meta employees to take down vaccine content, and more

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan in a podcast published on Friday that his company was pressured …

As a reporter who covered the Facebook apology tour circa 2016, and spent HOURS on the phone with FB flak and executives earnestly telling me Zuckerberg was torn up over Russian election interference and was making it a top priority to fix misinfo on FB, this week's developments are 🙃
2025-01-11 View on X
New York Times

Sources detail Zuckerberg's sprint to remake Meta after meeting with Trump at Thanksgiving; he no longer wants to keep his views of how Meta should be run quiet

After visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta's speech policies.

2023-05-08
The extremely violent videos auto-playing in people's Twitter feeds today really feels like we've gone back in time to when Christchurch happened, and platforms vowed they would put systems in place.
2023-05-08 View on X
New York Times

Images of a Texas mall mass shooting go viral on Twitter, fueling criticism of its reduced moderation; Twitter allows some graphic posts like Ukraine war images

Graphic images of the attack went viral on the platform, which has made cuts to its moderation team.

2023-04-01
The profile @CadeMetz has written on Sam Altman is masterful, and has so many gems like this. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-01 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A profile of Sam Altman, whose social-minded capitalism may make him the ideal CEO for OpenAI as some say he's too commercially minded to lead a tech revolution

The CEO behind ChatGPT navigates the line between developing artificial intelligence on the cutting edge and pushing technology to dystopia

2023-03-07
Gen Z wants to know why their Instagram photos keep getting posted to Facebook. Got to contribute to this fun story by @KalleyHuang https://t.co/...
2023-03-07 View on X
New York Times

After Instagram added a prompt to cross-post on Facebook, sources say at Meta's request, some young adults express surprise that their posts are on Facebook

Teenagers and young adults are flummoxed.  The reason it keeps happening involves an online prompt and product design.

2022-12-21
Our story on Zuckerberg's testimony on the FTC/Within trial is up: https://www.nytimes.com/... We'll be updating as the day goes on.
2022-12-21 View on X
CNN

SEC deposition: Mark Zuckerberg considered disclosing in 2017 that Facebook was investigating “organizations like Cambridge Analytica”, but advisers said not to

Brian Fung / CNN :

In San Jose today, waiting for Mark Zuckerberg to appear to give his testimony on the FTC/Meta/Within trial. I'll be filing to the NYT first (hi editors) but will follow with tweets.
2022-12-21 View on X
CNN

SEC deposition: Mark Zuckerberg considered disclosing in 2017 that Facebook was investigating “organizations like Cambridge Analytica”, but advisers said not to

Brian Fung / CNN :

This is an aside, but what has come through in this Meta vs. FTC trial is how clearly Zuckerberg doesn't want to find himself in the position he is in today, running his software on someone else's hardware. He wants to be the Apple of the metaverse (insert railroad analogy).
2022-12-21 View on X
New York Times

Mark Zuckerberg testified in US federal court about Meta's acquisition of Within, as the FTC seeks an injunction to stop the deal, in a highly unusual challenge

Meta's chief executive made a rare court appearance as the Federal Trade Commission tries to block his company's purchase of the virtual reality start-up Within.

This is an aside, but what has come through in this Meta vs. FTC trial is how clearly Zuckerberg doesn't want to find himself in the position he is in today, running his software on someone else's hardware. He wants to be the Apple of the metaverse (insert railroad analogy).
2022-12-21 View on X
CNN

SEC deposition: Mark Zuckerberg considered disclosing in 2017 that Facebook was investigating “organizations like Cambridge Analytica”, but advisers said not to

Brian Fung / CNN :