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Stefan Smith

@thestefansmith
13 posts
2026-02-26
Woke is back; the companies are retreating.
2026-02-26 View on X
The Verge

Discord says it won't roll out age verification globally in March as previously planned, delaying the change until H2 2026 after it adds verification options

2026-02-25
Claude has a chance to cement itself as THE “ethical” AI company. If their communications team cannot spin this into a bigger win long term then they're bad at their jobs.
2026-02-25 View on X
Axios

Sources: DOD told Anthropic it will invoke the Defense Production Act or label Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, if not given unfettered Claude access by Friday

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei until Friday evening to give the military unfettered access …

Claude has a chance to cement itself as THE “ethical” AI company. If their communications team cannot spin this into a bigger win long term then they're bad at their jobs.
2026-02-25 View on X
Reuters

Source: Anthropic has no intention of easing Claude usage restrictions for military purposes, following Dario Amodei's meeting with Pete Hegseth

Artificial intelligence lab Anthropic has no intention of easing its usage restrictions for military purposes, a person familiar with the matter …

Woke is back; the companies are retreating.
2026-02-25 View on X
The Verge

Discord says it won't roll out age verification globally in March as previously planned, delaying the change until H2 2026 after it adds verification options

Now it will hold off on expansion until it adds more verification options, vendor transparency, and other changes.

2025-12-22
Torrenting being back is so Millennial coded.
2025-12-22 View on X
Billboard

Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files

The breach allegedly includes 86 million audio files.

2025-01-28
A giant contract to embed ChatGPT across the entire federal government announced after a massive stock market dip driven by a Chinese firm showing they're not as cutting edge as imagined. https://www.cnbc.com/...
2025-01-28 View on X
CNBC

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov, built for US government use, and says 90K+ government employees have generated 18M+ prompts within ChatGPT since the start of 2024

OpenAI on Tuesday announced its biggest product launch since its enterprise rollout.  It's called ChatGPT Gov and was built specifically for U.S. government use.

2021-06-29
All it cost was American democracy. https://twitter.com/...
2021-06-29 View on X
CNBC

On Monday, Facebook's stock rose 4.2%, closing at $355.64, giving Facebook a $1T market cap for the first time, the fifth US company to hit the milestone

The irony: The milestone was achieved following a federal judge's dismissal of an antitrust complaint from the FTC, which sent shares up. https://www.axios.com/... Caleb Watney / @...

All it cost was American democracy. https://twitter.com/...
2021-06-29 View on X
CNBC

US district court dismisses FTC's antitrust complaint against Facebook, saying its definition of market dominance was insufficient, but will let FTC refile it

- A federal court on Monday dismissed the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust complaint against Facebook.

2020-09-26
I've been on Telepath for a few months now and the level of conversation possible on their is really unique. It's time for a less reactionary online platform; I'm glad that @MarcBodnick and his team have stepped into the void. https://twitter.com/...
2020-09-26 View on X
Protocol

Marc Bodnick launches Telepath, a “kinder” social network with Reddit's subreddit topic structure, Twitter's in-the-moment feel, and Snapchat's ephemerality

2020-09-25
I've been on Telepath for a few months now and the level of conversation possible on their is really unique. It's time for a less reactionary online platform; I'm glad that @MarcBodnick and his team have stepped into the void. https://twitter.com/...
2020-09-25 View on X
Protocol

Marc Bodnick launches Telepath, a “kinder” social network with Reddit's subreddit topic structure, Twitter's in-the-moment feel, and Snapchat's ephemerality

mansplaining, microaggressions, sealioning, gaslighting, endless replying etc. /1 Kia Richards / @kiarichards_ : I'm excited about this platform and the requirements for people to ...

2020-08-22
Shutting off political advertisements after the election won't do anything but prevent campaigns from fighting misinformation—a horrible idea. https://twitter.com/...
2020-08-22 View on X
New York Times

Sources: Facebook is exploring steps like a “kill switch” to shut off political ads after the election, if Trump attempts to dispute the results using Facebook

a horrible idea. https://twitter.com/... Fred Guttenberg / @fred_guttenberg : The current occupant of the WH knows he can't win the election. Voters will elect @JoeBiden. The rest ...

2020-06-17
Facebook letting users opt-out of political ads is a big deal, but it's immediate impact is that it puts even more pressure on organic social to engage users and spur engagement on the platform https://www.cnbc.com/...
2020-06-17 View on X
USA Today

Facebook launches Voting Information Center for accurate election information and tools for voter registration, aiming to help register 4M people via its apps

The 2020 election is going to be unlike any other.  It was already going to be a heated campaign, and that was before the pandemic …

Facebook letting users opt-out of political ads is a big deal, but it's immediate impact is that it puts even more pressure on organic social to engage users and spur engagement on the platform https://www.cnbc.com/...
2020-06-17 View on X
CNBC

Facebook and Instagram will allow some US users to turn off political ads starting Wednesday; the feature will roll out to all US users over the next few weeks

- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced the social network will allow its users to turn off seeing political ads.