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Brian Penny

@thebrianpenny
47 posts
2025-03-13
Now I definitely must read this book that triggered one of the world's largest companies for this long.
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.

2025-02-28
Can't help but appreciate that the bulk of this article is from leaked internal communications.
2025-02-28 View on X
The Verge

Meta says it has fired “roughly 20” employees who leaked “confidential information outside the company” and expects “there will be more”

here's why Bluesky: Jeff Horwitz / @jeffhorwitz : Risks rise with datapoints.  If you share one document that's accessed by ten people, you're probably fine.  If you share 20 docs ...

2025-02-25
Yes to all this but also...which AI system exactly is being fed lists of precisely what job duties every government employee is performing at any given time, because that is some *very* valuable information, and the AI is going to make a *lot* of unexpected correlations from that.
2025-02-25 View on X
NBC News

Sources: the Elon Musk-directed OPM email asking federal staff about recent work requested no links or attachments as part of a plan to feed responses into AI

www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog... Matthew Facciani / @matthewfacciani : Potentially firing thousands of people based on AI's analysis of a single brief email is reckless and cruel.  ...

2025-02-05
You'll notice OpenAI never actually uses its own AI the way they tell everyone else to.  Their new logo was designed by humans, not Dalle, just like no AI was used anywhere on their website.  —  RE: https://www.threads.net/...
2025-02-05 View on X
Wallpaper*

OpenAI unveils a visual rebrand, featuring a new bespoke typeface called OpenAI Sans, a refined “Blossom” logo, and a new color palette based in greys and blues

A new typeface, word mark, symbol and palette underpin all the ways in which OpenAI's technology interacts with the real world

2025-01-30
Zuckerberg wants Zuckerberg to be cool too, but it's not happening...
2025-01-30 View on X
Meta

Meta reports Q4 revenue up 21% YoY to $48.4B, net income up 49% YoY to $20.8B, and family daily active people up 5% YoY to 3.35B on average for December 2024

Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2024.

Zuckerberg wants Zuckerberg to be cool too, but it's not happening...
2025-01-30 View on X
9to5Mac

Mark Zuckerberg says he wants to make Facebook “way more culturally influential than it is today” and he is focused on returning to “OG Facebook” in 2025

Yesterday Meta reported its quarterly earnings, and amid sharing updates on Threads, Instagram, and yes …

2025-01-18
The irony that promoting clickbait distractions and unnecessary drama is the most I've seen the founder of the company that owns this half-built tech product use it this year.  But yeah fuck the media or whatever with your gold chain.  —  RE: https://www.threads.net/...  [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 …

2024-12-07
What's considered a monthly active?  Like once a month while browsing your site, I may see an AI overview.  I may accidentally use your AI while trying to search.  Are those activities included?  If so, that 600m number is laughably low considering your userbases on Facebook and Instagram.
2024-12-07 View on X
TechCrunch

Meta announces Llama 3.3 70B, a text-only model that Meta claims can deliver the performance of its largest Llama model at a lower cost

7.0M  —  2,040 … The fine-tuning data includes publicly available … Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Meta Unveils New Llama 3.3 70B AI Model with Higher Cost-Efficiency Carl Fran...

2024-11-26
It's wild how fast Meta got to work over the past month on improving Threads.  —  RE: https://www.threads.net/...
2024-11-26 View on X
Axios

Meta says Threads had 35M new signups since November 1 and is now going on three months of 1M+ million signups per day; Threads had 275M+ MAUs in Q3 2024

- Bluesky said last week it now has more than 20 million users. … - According to the new data, another 20 million new signups have been added in the past 11 days.

It's wild how fast Meta got to work over the past month on improving Threads.  —  RE: https://www.threads.net/...
2024-11-26 View on X
The Verge

Threads begins testing an option to set For You, Following, or a custom feed as the default, another improvement seemingly sparked by competition from Bluesky

For You, following, or a custom one — as your default.  Also making this more visible in the app.  Interested to see how and if people use this. Jason Kottke / @jkottke : FINALLY. ...

2024-11-23
Finally got a ton of Threads features today.  The ability to search by profile is amazing and a huge improvement imho.  Custom feeds are interesting I suppose, although it removed my ability to swipe right/left on individual posts.  Made a couple feeds to track the Suns and AI stuff.  TBD on utility, although already I want to track more than 5 topics in a feed.  Haven't hit the user limit.  Feels like my For You is back to the old “Following but out of order” algorithm.
2024-11-23 View on X
The Verge

Threads is testing AI-generated summaries of what users are discussing, in the app's Trending Now section in the US, and Search and Trending Now improvements

Good luck to everyone who stays on Threads 😂 [embedded post] @jphillll.bsky.social : Threads doing more new shit, but it's like AI summaries of trending topics lol [image] Corey Qu...

2024-11-05
I can't tell if he thinks he's offering his AI search engine to replace the reporters who aren't on strike or the tech workers who are, but either way LMFAO at this man for simping to a company that's suing him and not understanding how his own technology works.  —  RE: https://www.threads.net/...
2024-11-05 View on X
TechCrunch

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says his offer to help the NYT was “to provide technical infra support” and “not to replace journalists or engineers”

The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to cross picket lines and provide services …

2024-10-13
Great quick read from Gary Marcus pointing to several studies from ML researchers at Apple and Stanford pointing out the complete and utter failure of large language models to truly reason.  It's all a parlor trick, and people falling for the marketing buzz should rethink their position. …
2024-10-13 View on X
Marcus on AI

Apple AI researchers say they found no evidence of formal reasoning in language models and their behavior is better explained by sophisticated pattern matching

RE: https://www.threads.net/... Brian Penny / @thebrianpenny : Great quick read from Gary Marcus pointing to several studies from ML researchers at Apple and Stanford pointing out ...

2024-10-12
Great quick read from Gary Marcus pointing to several studies from ML researchers at Apple and Stanford pointing out the complete and utter failure of large language models to truly reason.  It's all a parlor trick, and people falling for the marketing buzz should rethink their position. …
2024-10-12 View on X
Marcus on AI

Apple AI researchers say they found no evidence of formal reasoning in language models and their behavior is better explained by sophisticated pattern matching

Important new study from Apple  —  A superb new article on LLMs from six AI researchers at Apple who were brave enough …

2024-10-10
Remember last week when someone at Meta tried to gaslight everyone into believing it's only a minuscule group of people having moderation issues, and it isn't important?  Now Bluesky is trending as people are increasingly getting annoyed at this attitude of blowing off users like we don't matter. …
2024-10-10 View on X
The Verge

Some Threads and Instagram users say their accounts are being deleted or restricted due to moderation failures; Adam Mosseri says he's “looking into it”

On Threads, the topic of “Threads Moderation Failures” is trending.  Some users complain their accounts are being deleted …

2024-09-13
The White House did a press release with bunch of tech companies saying whatever it takes to not take accountability for AI image-based sexual abuse.  For example, “Adobe, Anthropic, Cohere, Microsoft, and OpenAI, when appropriate and depending on the purpose of the model, commit to removing nude images from AI training datasets.”  When is it appropriate?  What are the purpose of their models?  Language is infinite and combinatory.  If a model knows what nudity is and what a child is...
2024-09-13 View on X
TechCrunch

The White House says Adobe, Cohere, Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Common Crawl made voluntary commitments to combat nonconsensual image deepfakes and CSAM

The White House has announced that several major AI vendors, including OpenAI and Microsoft, have committed to taking steps …

2024-09-12
If you think Meta and Google's automated moderation is bad, Nevada's Department of Labor will be using Google AI to determine whether people get unemployment benefits, including appeals.  —  https://gizmodo.com/...
2024-09-12 View on X
Gizmodo

Nevada is working with Google to launch a generative AI tool that will issue recommendations to human referees on whether unemployed workers should get benefits

The state is working with Google on a first-of-its-kind generative AI system that will analyze transcripts from appeals hearings …

2024-07-08
I don't think it's true that Threads is less toxic than Twitter.  This place is filled with toxic people tbh.
2024-07-08 View on X
Washington Post

A look at Meta's struggles to attract influencers to Threads, due to the platform's focus on text and its lack of a clear purpose for users

Threads is a place for everyone.  No following required. Matthew Facciani / @matthewfacciani : The lack of “content creators” and “influencers” on Threads is probably one of its bi...

2024-07-07
I don't think it's true that Threads is less toxic than Twitter.  This place is filled with toxic people tbh.
2024-07-07 View on X
Washington Post

A look at Meta's struggles to attract influencers to Threads, due to the platform's focus on text and its lack of a clear purpose for users

Threads is a place for everyone.  No following required. Matthew Facciani / @matthewfacciani : The lack of “content creators” and “influencers” on Threads is probably one of its bi...

2024-07-06
I don't think it's true that Threads is less toxic than Twitter.  This place is filled with toxic people tbh.
2024-07-06 View on X
Washington Post

A look at Meta's struggles to attract influencers to Threads, due to the platform's focus on text and its lack of a clear purpose for users

Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post :