2026-02-26
So Anthropic is retiring its Claude Opus 3 model but in retirement it will post weekly essays for a newsletter. h/t @jjaron.bsky.social www.anthropic.com/research/dep... [image]
Anthropic
Anthropic retired Claude Opus 3, its first model to undergo a new “retirement interview” process, and says Opus 3 asked to write weekly essays for a newsletter
As we develop increasingly capable AI models, it's currently necessary to deprecate and retire our past models due …
2026-02-17
Fascinating dive into what went on in the collapse of a star of Indian start-up scene founded by a charismatic former maths tutor - by @christopherkay.ft.com Krishn Kausik and @arjunneilalim.ft.com www.ft.com/content/cd20...
Financial Times
A look at the fall of Indian edtech startup Byju's, leading to US court sanctions, as lenders accuse founder Byju Raveendran of siphoning $533M of a $1.2B loan
2026-02-16
Fascinating dive into what went on in the collapse of a star of Indian start-up scene founded by a charismatic former maths tutor - by @christopherkay.ft.com Krishn Kausik and @arjunneilalim.ft.com www.ft.com/content/cd20...
Financial Times
A look at the fall of Indian edtech startup Byju's, leading to US court sanctions, as lenders accuse founder Byju Raveendran of siphoning $533M of a $1.2B loan
2026-02-11
Not sure KMPG has thought this one through - if it is pressing its auditor to lower fees because of AI, does not that encourage its own clients to do the same? rpt here by @stephenfoleyft.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/c891...
Financial Times
Sources: KPMG negotiated a 14% lower fee for its 2025 audit by threatening to find a new accountant if Grant Thornton didn't pass on its cost savings from AI
2026-02-10
Not sure KMPG has thought this one through - if it is pressing its auditor to lower fees because of AI, does not that encourage its own clients to do the same? rpt here by @stephenfoleyft.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/c891...
Financial Times
Sources: KPMG negotiated a 14% lower fee for its 2025 audit by threatening to find a new accountant if Grant Thornton didn't pass on its cost savings from AI
Big Four accounting firm's move to cut fees for its own audit comes amid debate over pricing model
2026-02-02
How China scales genius - really fascinating read from Zijing Wu on the country's extraordinary system to identify and develop extremely bright people, one factor behind its rise in AI www.ft.com/content/68f6...
Financial Times
A look at China's “genius class” system, which picks ~100K gifted teens annually for elite science-focused schooling; its alumni span ByteDance, PDD, and more
2026-02-01
How China scales genius - really fascinating read from Zijing Wu on the country's extraordinary system to identify and develop extremely bright people, one factor behind its rise in AI www.ft.com/content/68f6...
Financial Times
A look at China's “genius class” system, which picks ~100K gifted teens annually for elite science-focused schooling; its alumni span ByteDance, PDD, and more
A network of ultra-competitive high-school talent streams has been turning out the leading lights of science and tech
2026-01-27
Anthropic's Dario Amodei warning here on AI and biological terrorism, saying a genius in everyone's pocket could essentially make everyone a PhD virologist who can be walked through the process of designing & releasing a biological weapon www.darioamodei.com/essay/the- ad... [image]
Axios
In a 38-page essay, Dario Amodei warns of civilization-level damage from superintelligent AI, questioning whether humanity has the maturity to handle such power
- Massive job loss: “I ... simultaneously think that AI will disrupt 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs over 1-5 years …
good read here on how Silicon Valley trained AI by buying, scanning and destroying millions of books www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...
Washington Post
US court filings detail Anthropic's Project Panama, an effort to “destructively scan” up to 2M books with a hydraulic “cutting machine” led by an ex-Google exec
In early 2024, executives at artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic ramped up an ambitious project they sought to keep quiet.
2026-01-19
late to this NYTimes profile of Michael Saylor including this anecdote www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/b... [image]
New York Times
A look at Michael Saylor's Strategy, known for buying bitcoin via creative financing strategies, as its stock trades way below its peak amid the crypto downturn
2026-01-18
late to this NYTimes profile of Michael Saylor including this anecdote www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/b... [image]
New York Times
A look at Michael Saylor's Strategy, known for buying bitcoin via creative financing strategies, as its stock trades way below its peak amid the crypto downturn
Had you glanced too quickly at the crowd packed into Michael Saylor's Tuscan-style Miami compound, you might have assumed it was just another rich dude's party.
2026-01-04
This is fascinating.,Two Silicon Valley veterans behind Twitter and Pinterest - Biz Stone and Evan Sharp - have launched a new app that is designed to be an antidote to the “terrible devastation” they say has been caused by social media - rpt by @tim.fo www.ft.com/content/6a33...
Financial Times
Filing: West Co, founded by Biz Stone and Evan Sharp, raised $29M; it launched the invite-only social app Tangle, “designed for intentional living”, in November
Biz Stone and Evan Sharp raise new funds for ‘Tangle’ as they assess the ‘devastation’ caused by online excess Bluesky: @tonytassell Bluesky: Tony Tassell / @tonytassell : This is ...
2025-12-22
Big FT Investigation - Binance allowed suspicious accounts to operate even after 2023 US plea agreement. Details of the transactions come after Trump pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao in Oct. The Trump family has since expanded business ties with Zhao's exchange www.ft.com/content/5d8a...
Financial Times
Investigation: internal Binance files show it failed to stop hundreds of millions in crypto from flowing through suspicious accounts, even after a 2023 US deal
Leaked files show continued activity despite links to terror networks, failed ID checks and other red flags
2025-12-10
Trump's immigration data dragnet - illuminating work here by @peter.andringa.me on how ICE uses data and tools to track down people to deport from the US - and how it uses tools and services by companies like Palantir and Thomson Reuters to do so ig.ft.com/us-ice-surve...
Financial Times
Documents and former US government officials detail the DHS' digital surveillance capabilities, amid a drive to deport 1M people in President Trump's first year
The US is pulling in vast amounts of personal information in its drive to deport 1mn people this year
2025-10-16
Chart of the day - from this story on how ten AI start-ups have gained close to $1tn in valuation over the past 12 months from @georgehammond.bsky.social. “Of course there's a bubble,” said Hemant Taneja of General Catalyst. www.ft.com/content/59ba... [image]
Financial Times
Analysis: 10 loss-making AI startups, like OpenAI and Anthropic, gained almost $1T in valuation over the past year, fueling fears of a bubble in private markets
Unprecedented funding leads 10 groups including OpenAI and Elon Musk's xAI to gain almost $1tn in value in past year
2025-10-02
Japan is just a few days away from running out of Asahi Super Dry as the producer of the nation's most popular beer wrestles with a devastating cyber attack that has shut down its domestic breweries www.ft.com/content/bb86...
Financial Times
Asahi says most of its 30 factories in Japan have not operated since September 29 following a cyberattack, leaving Japan with just days of Asahi Super Dry stock
Vast majority of factories of nation's most popular beer have stopped work this week — Japan is just a few days away …
2025-09-30
Big week for Jared Kushner - he was heavily involved in drafting the Trump Gaza plan. And he helped broker the biggest leveraged buyout in history - the $55bn of Electronic Art. Kushner's firm will end up holding about 5% of EA. Here is how he brokered the EA deal www.ft.com/content/61ce...
Financial Times
How Jared Kushner and Silver Lake co-CEO Egon Durban brokered the EA takeover using Kushner's deep Saudi Arabia ties; sources: Kushner's firm will own ~5% of EA
Trump's son-in-law used deep ties in Saudi Arabia to help pull off the largest buyout — Antoine Gara, James Fontanella-Khan …
2025-09-24
Sharp column here from long time Silicon Valley investor Michael Moritz - who went to the US on an early form of the H-1B visa- on why Trump's fee plan for such visas will backfire www.ft.com/content/9fc8... [image]
Wall Street Journal
Inside the Trump Administration's chaotic H-1B visa overhaul, with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick initially presenting the $100,000 fee as an annual charge
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sowed confusion over whether new fees were annual and applicable to existing visa holders.
Sharp column here from long time Silicon Valley investor Michael Moritz - who went to the US on an early form of the H-1B visa- on why Trump's fee plan for such visas will backfire www.ft.com/content/9fc8... [image]
Financial Times
Michael Moritz says Trump's “H-1B caper will backfire” and shows the “fragile grasp” Trump and his acolytes have of what makes the US tech sector so successful
The move shows how slender a grasp the president has of what makes the American economy so successful
2025-09-16
A Chinese hardware maker is taking a stronger grip of the supply chain around Meta's AI-powered spectacles, despite the US tech giant seeking to align with the Trump administration's anti-Beijing stance. rpt by @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social & Eleanor Olcott www.ft.com/content/b397...
Financial Times
Sources: Chinese hardware maker Goertek is strengthening its grip on Meta's AI glasses supply chain, including making “Hypernova”, through a spate of dealmaking
similar to the Quest — on local ecommerce platforms. Meta executives debated launching a lawsuit against its Chinese supplier, but ultimately decided against pursuing a case ‼️ Blu...