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Theo Priestley

@tprstly
65 posts
2025-10-09
Data farming for their Ai ambitions.  —  Big nope.  [embedded post]
2025-10-09 View on X
TechCrunch

SoundCloud evolves into a more social platform with the introduction of new community-oriented features, including playlists based on friends' likes

Music streaming app SoundCloud is evolving into a more social platform with the introduction of new community-oriented features. Bluesky: @tprstly Bluesky: Theo Priestley / @tprstl...

2025-10-06
I really don't think women are worried about appearing in someone's faked party political broadcasts, Bill.  [embedded post]
2025-10-06 View on X
The Verge

OpenAI executive Bill Peebles says Sora users can now stop AI-generated versions of themselves from appearing in certain contexts like videos involving politics

It won't help stop the avalanche of AI slop OpenAI has unleashed. … Sora now lets you rein in your AI doubles …

2025-10-05
Amazing how the cost of GPUs, storage, memory, electricity are all about to skyrocket in order to achieve this wonderful “abundance for all mankind” that equates to the destruction of jobs and creativity on top in order to get there.  —  www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
2025-10-05 View on X
Tom's Hardware

The AI boom is driving memory and storage shortages that may last a decade; OpenAI's Stargate has deals for 900K DRAM wafers per month, or ~40% of global output

Once-cheap SSDs, DRAM, and HDD prices are climbing fast as AI demand and constrained supply converge to create the tightest market in years. Bluesky: @smcgrath.phd , @broximar , @z...

2025-09-29
All your self-driving EVs, Roombas, holiday photos, constant video calls, GPS phone tracking, all that data being used for free to sell back as a service.  —  And help the Terminators get around lol [embedded post]
2025-09-29 View on X
Financial Times

Google DeepMind, Meta, Nvidia, and others are racing to release world models, aiming to navigate the physical world by learning from videos and robotic data

Google DeepMind, Meta and Nvidia are developing systems that aim to better understand the physical world

2025-09-26
What is the point?  —  What is the fucking point?!  —  We had everything given to us and for a brief moment the web was perfect and then in the space of a generation it's become useless.  [embedded post]
2025-09-26 View on X
Reuters

Meta rolls out Vibes, a platform where users can create and share short-form, AI-generated videos, in the Meta AI app and on the meta.ai website

Meta Platforms (META.O) launched a new feed of AI videos, called Vibes, as the social media giant looks to fast-track work on artificial intelligence technology.

2025-09-06
Time and again US police is conned into spending millions on an AI that is supposed to “predict crime”, and time and again it fails to deliver any expected results.  [embedded post]
2025-09-06 View on X
Forbes

Public records show C3 AI's Project Sherlock, its flagship contract to speed up policing in San Mateo County, has struggled with usability and other issues

San Mateo County pumped $12 million into a grand AI surveillance system made by billionaire Tom Siebel's C3 AI that was supposed to level up its police work. LinkedIn: Thomas Brews...

2024-08-02
It's hilarious to think that a generative AI startup's best defence when taken to court is “well they've got all the rights and it's not fair so we plagiarised because that's what fair use is now” The mental gymnastics to avoid admitting theft is nuts. https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/ ...
2024-08-02 View on X
Billboard

Court filings: AI startups Suno and Udio respond to copyright lawsuits from major music labels, saying using proprietary music to train AI models is fair use

In their first responses to the sweeping copyright lawsuits that could define AI music, lawyers for Suno and Udio don't exactly hold back.

2024-02-23
Reddit would be worthless without its users, and they sold all their content to Google for $60m. That's how much they valued their community. Remember this. But I bet you won't.
2024-02-23 View on X
CNBC

Reddit files to list its IPO on the NYSE, reporting revenue up 20% YoY to $804M in 2023, net loss down 43% YoY to $90.8M, 73M DAUs, and a $3.42 global ARPU

- Reddit on Thursday filed to go public.  — Its market debut will mark the first major tech initial public offering of the year …

2023-12-15
The techno barons want to influence politics so they get their own way. It's all coming true before our eyes and we're just sitting back, watching it roll over us without a word. @bronwynwilliams
2023-12-15 View on X
Andreessen Horowitz

Andreessen Horowitz says “we will, for the first time, get involved with politics by supporting candidates who align with our vision and values” for technology

As software has eaten the world, it has become integral to every industry and nearly every endeavor in our society.

2023-11-20
Notice that Satya says “Microsoft stays committed to OpenAI” meaning “we'll continue to provide them with Azure services until they're no longer useful to us.”
2023-11-20 View on X
TechCrunch

Satya Nadella says Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI staff will join Microsoft's new “advanced AI research team” and Microsoft remains committed to OpenAI

Microsoft has hired OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head up a “new advanced AI research team,” …

At this point there definitely is no more OpenAI by the end of the year and this'll make Netflix a fortune as a docudrama.
2023-11-20 View on X
TechCrunch

Satya Nadella says Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI staff will join Microsoft's new “advanced AI research team” and Microsoft remains committed to OpenAI

Microsoft has hired OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head up a “new advanced AI research team,” …

2023-07-25
All these platforms have no idea what to do next, they can't innovate any further so they're all copying this burning trash heap in the mistaken belief people actually want it all over again from scratch.
2023-07-25 View on X
TechCrunch

TikTok rolls out support for text posts, available via the app's Camera page and letting users add sounds, locations, stickers, and more

TikTok Users Can Now Make Text Posts Chris Dawson / ChannelX : TikTok introduces text only posts Leigh Mc Gowran / Silicon Republic : TikTok challenges Twitter with new text posts ...

2023-06-20
Sam Altman is not your friend. https://time.com/...
2023-06-20 View on X
TIME

Documents show OpenAI lobbied for parts of the EU's AI Act to be watered down, including successfully avoiding its general purpose AI being deemed “high risk”

The CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, has spent the last month touring world capitals where, at talks to sold-out crowds …

2023-05-17
Artificial Intelligence on the edge, on all your personal devices, so what's the true cost?.... this will be Apple's ‘privacy’ play for future iPhones no doubt. “You need to make the AI hybrid — [running in both] the data centre and locally — otherwise it will cost too much... https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-17 View on X
Financial Times

Tech companies are racing to run generative AI natively on mobile devices to reduce computing costs, but face hurdles like limited memory and processing power

[running in both] the data centre and locally — otherwise it will cost too much... https://twitter.com/...

2023-05-01
Every platform post-twitter will fail because nobody really cares anymore https://twitter.com/...
2023-05-01 View on X
Techdirt

Six months after Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, an overview of its alternatives, including Mastodon, Bluesky, and Nostr, and how they might evolve and improve

Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve …

2023-04-30
Every platform post-twitter will fail because nobody really cares anymore https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-30 View on X
Techdirt

Six months after Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, an overview of its alternatives, including Mastodon, Bluesky, and Nostr, and how they might evolve and improve

Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve …

Every platform post-twitter will fail because nobody really cares anymore https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-30 View on X
Washington Post

On Bluesky, Jack Dorsey criticizes Elon Musk's leadership of Twitter, saying “it all went south” and Musk should have paid the $1B breakup fee to ditch the deal

The former CEO issued his strongest criticism yet of Musk's takeover of the social media site

2023-04-28
No, AI is not going to give employees superpowers and transform knowledge work, it's going to decimate it @drewhouston https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-28 View on X
TechCrunch

Dropbox plans to lay off 16% of its staff, or ~500 employees; CEO Drew Houston blames slowing growth and because “the AI era of computing has finally arrived”

Today, our cofounder and CEO Drew Houston shared the difficult news … Emma Roth / The Verge : Dropbox is laying off 500 people and pivoting to AI Rob Thubron / TechSpot : Dropbox b...

2023-04-12
The sum of humanity is reduced to filtering out the crap that AI churns out. “Reddit moderators say they already see an increase in spam and that the future will “require a lot of human labor.” https://www.vice.com/...
2023-04-12 View on X
VICE

Reddit moderators detail recent spam generated by AI tools like ChatGPT, including in higher volume and at faster post speeds, sometimes via coordinated attacks

2023-03-28
This is what soul crushing looks like. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-28 View on X
The Verge

Zoom partners with OpenAI to expand its Zoom IQ assistant with features to generate whiteboards from text prompts, recap meetings, summarize threads, and more