Steven Levy

The Meta antitrust trial dove into Facebook's pivot from friend content to a new feed full of "entertainment"--posts, sometimes toxic, from strangers and businesses. Meta gathered a locked in audience for that stuff--even though users hunger to hear from friends,

Among Trump's zillion executive orders, one aims to evaporate government "information silos." If he gets his way on this, your privacy might be evaporated as well. PS the order demands that he consolidates the stuff about you held by states as well. https://t.co/hXvML7SfdE

My deep dive into Anthropic, formed by idealistic OpenAI defectors who believe they can achieve AGI safely. They are doomers and Utopians at the same time. Their most important collaborator is also their product: Claude. https://t.co/dtP8WMc9aH

At 30, Yahoo is still alive. I spoke with CEO Jim Lanzone to make sense of its purple haze of a history, check out his turnaround plans, and look at its future. https://t.co/PdFHnnwtHk

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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @FreedomofPress. https://t.co/ocQRSVUjlf

RT @neilturkewitz: “Please pause for a moment to savor the irony. Meta, the company that recently announced an end to fact-checking in post…

Meta probably realizes that all-out war on this book will only help its sales. But they are furious that an insider--who signed an NDA!--is going White Lotus on them, showing what it's like on the inside. https://t.co/023vCATvTg

A rare update on the quest to solve the encoded message in Kryptos, Jim Sanborn's famous sculpture on CIA grounds. Sanborn is miffed at people using AI to complete the solution--the models tell people they've cracked it and it's always wrong, It also burns energy!

Taara, the Alphabet X project that's internet fiber without the cable (it's a laser beam) has now developed a chip that could make the technology cheaper and maybe ubiquitous. Taara will soon spin out of Alphabet with outside funding. My exclusive. https://t.co/E5HV5fvGhy

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's new company is Thinking Machines Lab. She wants to make cutting-edge models more accessible and has assembled an all-star team--many from her former employer. https://t.co/RHUGL1b02X

Here's the irony: the fed bureaucracy needed to be smashed--to serve the people. DOGE has the opportunity to do it, but instead is pursuing a political agenda that will make us worse. https://t.co/xjGGiEUUBp

Clapped so hard on that interception that my Apple Watch thought I’d fallen. 🦅

Think of LLMs as the iPhone. Took a while before the apps made it indispensable. This is the year when that same might happen with generative AI. https://t.co/fvlegDCIPg

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