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In email to X staff, Musk says "user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive, and we're barely breaking even"; sources: banks plan to sell their debt in X (Wall Street Journal)
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January 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
In email to X staff, Musk says "user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive, and we're barely breaking even"; sources: banks plan to sell their debt in X (Wall Street Journal)
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(also techmeme almost immediately linked to me, so respect to them)
April 27, 2026 at 5:11 PM
(also techmeme almost immediately linked to me, so respect to them)
Damn did techmeme kill the post
October 1, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Damn did techmeme kill the post
"We'll post anything!" -Techmeme
June 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
"We'll post anything!" -Techmeme
I never dreamed I’d be on techmeme but I suppose it was inevitable the joker would be mentioned
A profile of AI skeptic Ed Zitron: Sam Altman's firing and return was his "Joker moment", tech journalism is flawed, his brash persona is not a mask, and more (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)
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September 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I never dreamed I’d be on techmeme but I suppose it was inevitable the joker would be mentioned
US officials say overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI system was among the factors that contributed to a February missile strike in Iran that killed 123 children (Bloomberg)
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September 18, 2026 at 10:51 PM
US officials say overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI system was among the factors that contributed to a February missile strike in Iran that killed 123 children (Bloomberg)
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Sources: the US "almost started a war" after an AI-assisted report hallucinated that a Chinese ship was carrying nuclear weapons components in the Middle East (CNN)
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September 18, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Sources: the US "almost started a war" after an AI-assisted report hallucinated that a Chinese ship was carrying nuclear weapons components in the Middle East (CNN)
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A study of eight AI search engines found they provided incorrect citations of news articles in 60%+ of queries; Grok 3 answered 94% of the queries incorrectly (Columbia Journalism Review)
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March 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
A study of eight AI search engines found they provided incorrect citations of news articles in 60%+ of queries; Grok 3 answered 94% of the queries incorrectly (Columbia Journalism Review)
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The way Techmeme summarizes the juiciest detail from the end of a news story is a wonderful public service
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg demanded a review at Meta after his 2023 knee surgery post on Facebook initially got anemic attention; Meta downplays the significance (Wall Street Journal)
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January 8, 2025 at 7:34 AM
The way Techmeme summarizes the juiciest detail from the end of a news story is a wonderful public service
1. not sure why techmeme ignored my reporting on this when i framed it negatively, could be anything
2. these are piss poor numbers
2. these are piss poor numbers
Similarweb: Gemini's web app had 10.9M average daily visits in March, up 7.4% MoM; Sensor Tower: Claude and Gemini saw activity jump after flagship model debuts (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
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April 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
1. not sure why techmeme ignored my reporting on this when i framed it negatively, could be anything
2. these are piss poor numbers
2. these are piss poor numbers
Source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected about Americans (Ross Andersen/The Atlantic)
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March 1, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected about Americans (Ross Andersen/The Atlantic)
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poor Nintendo, announcing the Switch 2 just in time to have it cost ten thousand dollars
April 3, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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every company on earth demanding its underpaid workers use the garbage generator machine for everything and now they're mad that all they're getting is garbage
Research: low productivity gains from AI may stem from employees using AI to produce "workslop", or low-effort, passable work that creates more work for others (Harvard Business Review)
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September 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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A German court rules that X must provide researchers access to data for tracking misinformation and disinformation ahead of Germany's national election (Thomas Escritt/Reuters)
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February 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
A German court rules that X must provide researchers access to data for tracking misinformation and disinformation ahead of Germany's national election (Thomas Escritt/Reuters)
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this is a v good techmeme headline www.techmeme.com/260925/p9#a2...
Jensen Huang tells Ezra Klein that AI is just software whose existential risks are overstated, yet his standards would shut down OpenAI and 10x safety spending
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September 25, 2026 at 8:20 PM
this is a v good techmeme headline www.techmeme.com/260925/p9#a2...
Sources: ~$18B of debt tied to an Oracle New Mexico data center slid into stressed territory, as investors grow wary of construction delays amid local pushback (Financial Times)
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September 18, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Sources: ~$18B of debt tied to an Oracle New Mexico data center slid into stressed territory, as investors grow wary of construction delays amid local pushback (Financial Times)
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Research: low productivity gains from AI may stem from employees using AI to produce "workslop", or low-effort, passable work that creates more work for others (Harvard Business Review)
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September 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Research: low productivity gains from AI may stem from employees using AI to produce "workslop", or low-effort, passable work that creates more work for others (Harvard Business Review)
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I was literally speculating about this yesterday www.youtube.com/live/zKww9M7... Instead of saying they are pulling out of data centers because the demand isn't there, the hyperscalers say that they just can't build them because of the evil NIMBYs www.cnbc.com/2026/09/24/o...
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September 24, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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Sources: OpenAI's GPT-5, codenamed Orion, is behind schedule and faces technical hurdles, including high computing costs and limited high-quality training data (Deepa Seetharaman/Wall Street Journal)
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December 21, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Sources: OpenAI's GPT-5, codenamed Orion, is behind schedule and faces technical hurdles, including high computing costs and limited high-quality training data (Deepa Seetharaman/Wall Street Journal)
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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 (Axios)
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February 24, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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 (Axios)
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dot techmeme was right there smh
October 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
dot techmeme was right there smh
Analysis: the Trump family has generated about $1.4B from crypto projects since Trump's inauguration a year ago, making up about one-fifth of their fortune (Bloomberg)
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January 21, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Analysis: the Trump family has generated about $1.4B from crypto projects since Trump's inauguration a year ago, making up about one-fifth of their fortune (Bloomberg)
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