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Shira Ovide

@shiraovide
640 posts
2026-02-24
To note the contradictory signals from stock investors:  —  *The AI boom is unsustainable, we must sell when Big Tech says it's spending zillions on AI investments.  —  *The AI boom is going to eat all jobs, friends and industry so sell any stocks in AI's kill zone. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
2026-02-24 View on X
CNBC

IBM shares closed down 13.15% after Anthropic outlined in a blog post how Claude Code can automate the exploration and analysis phases of COBOL modernization

International Business Machines stock is getting slammed Monday, becoming the latest perceived victim of rapidly developing AI technology …

To note the contradictory signals from stock investors:  —  *The AI boom is unsustainable, we must sell when Big Tech says it's spending zillions on AI investments.  —  *The AI boom is going to eat all jobs, friends and industry so sell any stocks in AI's kill zone. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
2026-02-24 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Software stocks like AppLovin and CrowdStrike extended their weeks-long selloff; several of the biggest decliners were discussed in Citrini Research's post

The weeks-long selloff in software stocks deepened Monday amid general unease about the threat posed by AI.  —  Software-makers AppLovin, CrowdStrike …

2026-02-20
Hundreds of AI data centers are sprouting up.  The electrical grid cannot handle it all.  —  The answer for now is largely off-grid, fossil fuel generators.  —  “This whole thing feels like a fairy tale concocted on the back of a napkin,” one expert said.  —  www.washingtonpost.com/business/ 202...
2026-02-20 View on X
Washington Post

Tech companies are increasingly building private power plants to fuel off-grid data centers, a move some warn has reliability challenges and hurts climate goals

Tech companies are building data centers with their own private power plants, a risky bet that will increase carbon emissions and other pollution.

2026-02-16
Worth listening to the real David Greene voice and a Google sound-alike.  —  Bonus reference to a legal case involving Bette Midler and a Ford commercial.  [embedded post]
2026-02-16 View on X
Washington Post

Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allegedly replicating his voice in NotebookLM without permission; Google says the voice is based on a paid actor

NPR's David Greene says he was “completely freaked out” when he heard an AI voice that sounded just like his own, and he's suing over it.

2026-02-15
Worth listening to the real David Greene voice and a Google sound-alike.  —  Bonus reference to a legal case involving Bette Midler and a Ford commercial.  [embedded post]
2026-02-15 View on X
Washington Post

Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allegedly replicating his voice in NotebookLM without permission; Google says the voice is based on a paid actor

NPR's David Greene says he was “completely freaked out” when he heard an AI voice that sounded just like his own, and he's suing over it.See also Mediagazer

2026-01-18
An easy prediction: ChatGPT users will hate ads, the ROI will be low, and OpenAI will make craploads of money.  —  A lizard could make gobs of ad revenue with a platform that has 800 million users.  —  openai.com/index/our-ap...
2026-01-18 View on X
Financial Times

OpenAI plans to test ads below ChatGPT replies for users of free and Go tiers in the US; source: OpenAI expects to make “low billions” from ads in 2026

$500bn start-up seeks ways to fund expansion and fend off competition from rivals Google and Anthropic

2026-01-17
An easy prediction: ChatGPT users will hate ads, the ROI will be low, and OpenAI will make craploads of money.  —  A lizard could make gobs of ad revenue with a platform that has 800 million users.  —  openai.com/index/our-ap...
2026-01-17 View on X
Financial Times

OpenAI plans to test ads below ChatGPT replies for users of free and Go tiers in the US; source: OpenAI expects to make “low billions” from ads in 2026

$500bn start-up seeks ways to fund expansion and fend off competition from rivals Google and Anthropic

2026-01-16
An easy prediction: ChatGPT users will hate ads, the ROI will be low, and OpenAI will make craploads of money.  —  A lizard could make gobs of ad revenue with a platform that has 800 million users.  —  openai.com/index/our-ap...
2026-01-16 View on X
Financial Times

OpenAI plans to test ads below ChatGPT replies for users of free and Go tiers in the US; source: OpenAI expects to make “low billions” from ads in 2026

$500bn start-up seeks ways to fund expansion and fend off competition from rivals Google and Anthropic

2026-01-07
“the chatbot generated about 6,700 [images] every hour that were identified as sexually suggestive or nudifying, according to Genevieve Oh, a social media and deepfake researcher....Oh calculated that 85% of Grok's images, overall, are sexualized.”  —  www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
2026-01-07 View on X
Bloomberg

Researcher: Grok generated ~6,700 sexually suggestive or “nudifying” images per hour on X between January 5 and January 6; 85% of Grok images are sexualized

Elon Musk's X has become a top site for images of people that have been non-consensually undressed by AI …

2026-01-04
Data brokers are the invisible engines of the data surveillance economy.  It's hard to escape.  Until.  —  California just opened a website to delete (and keep deleting) your information from 500+ data brokers in one fell swoop.  —  Try it if you're in California and LMK how it goes! privacy.ca.gov/drop/
2026-01-04 View on X
PCMag

California launched a free tool on January 1 that lets residents request the deletion of their personal data from over 500 registered data brokers

privacy.ca.gov/drop/ Shira Ovide / @shiraovide : Data brokers are the invisible engines of the data surveillance economy.  It's hard to escape.  Until.  —  California just opened a...

2025-12-22
I was snarky about the Anthropic “soul” manual so I appreciate the thoughtful view here:  —  www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/t...  [embedded post]
2025-12-22 View on X
New York Times

Some experts in the human-computer interaction field say making AI chatbots act humanlike creates cognitive dissonance for users over how much to trust them

I first noticed how charming ChatGPT could be last year when I turned all my decision-making over to generative A.I. for a week.

2025-12-12
Epic Games has now (probably) forced Apple and Google to make dramatic changes to a highly profitable business that consumers can or will feel.  —  Did even government Big Tech antitrust actions have this big an impact?  —  www.theverge.com/news/843265/ ...
2025-12-12 View on X
The Verge

Tim Sweeney: the Ninth Circuit's decision on the Epic v. Apple contempt ruling appeal “completely shuts down” App Store rules letting Apple collect “junk fees”

In an interview, Epic Games' CEO says that an appeals court ruling in its case against Apple is ‘really awesome for all developers.’

2025-12-10
Petty examples of serious intracompany divisions at Meta in 2025 (NYT today, left) and in 2018 (right) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/t...  www.wsj.com/articles/beh...  [images]
2025-12-10 View on X
New York Times

Sources: this fall, Alexandr Wang told people that he disagreed with top Meta execs like Chris Cox and Andrew Bosworth, including on using Instagram data for AI

When Mark Zuckerberg revamped Meta's artificial intelligence operations this year, he recruited a new leader — Alexandr Wang …

2025-12-06
We're going to need a new mythical beast if there's a nearly trillion-dollar unicorn. www.wsj.com/business/spa...
2025-12-06 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: SpaceX is planning a secondary share sale that would value the company at $800B, surpassing OpenAI to make it the most valuable US private company

Company's CFO told investors about the transaction in recent days, sources say  —  SpaceX is kicking off a secondary share sale …

2025-11-26
AI slop is ruining tamales now.  —  by @davey.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...  [image]
2025-11-26 View on X
Bloomberg

Some food bloggers warn Google's AI Overviews and AI food pictures are burying their real, tested recipes, setting home cooks up for disaster this Thanksgiving

Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures  —  Eb Gargano has been writing recipes …

Aha, the legal response: The boy using ChatGPT to plan his suicide violated the terms of service  —  www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...  [image]
2025-11-26 View on X
NBC News

Filing: OpenAI denies liability in a lawsuit alleging ChatGPT gave a teen who died by suicide information about suicide methods, arguing that he misused ChatGPT

The family of Adam Raine filed a lawsuit against the AI company in August.  On Tuesday, OpenAI said in a new court filing that is not responsible for the teen's death.

2025-11-24
I said an exasperated “oof” out loud after reading the end of this great @kashhill.bsky.social & @jenvalentino.bsky.social piece. 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.

2025-11-13
Hi, I keep having to say that this is not a “factory” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/insi...
2025-11-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Microsoft unveils an AI “super factory”, a new class of hubs for AI training, in Atlanta, as part of its plan to double its data center footprint over two years

Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal :

This is sound public messaging to scam victims and future victims: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/ 202...  [image]
2025-11-13 View on X
Washington Post

US Attorney Jeanine Pirro launches a federal investigative task force to crack down on overseas crime organizations behind crypto scams targeting Americans

U.S. victims were defrauded of $9.3 billion in cryptocurrency scams last year, many of them operated by crime networks in Southeast Asia, officials said.

Hi, I keep having to say that this is not a “factory” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/insi...
2025-11-13 View on X
Dwarkesh Podcast

Q&A with Satya Nadella on business models for AGI, Copilot, Microsoft AI, the hyperscale business, the OpenAI partnership, capex, sovereign AI efforts, and more

As part of this interview, Satya Nadella gave Dylan Patel (founder of SemiAnalysis) and me an exclusive first-look at their brand-new Fairwater 2 datacenter.