WSJ tech columnist and author of How to AI, the no-nonsense guide to what AI actually is and how to actually use it, for the rest of us
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I wrote a book about how to actually get real value out of AI.
It's for CEOs and solopreneurs and skeptics and enthusiasts alike.
It's the no-nonsense, bullshit-free guide that a lot of people need, but were afraid to ask for.
You can pre-order it now.
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š§µAfter saying he hadnāt read the WSJ Musk/Ukraine story, and asserting āwe canāt direct a private company,ā Rubio was asked that does not mean the admin did not have foreknowledge of the action.
He responded:
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Mark Zuckerberg Discussed Leaving California Over Wealth Tax. New from me, @MeghanBobrowsky and @pkwsj: wsj.com/business/mark-zuckerā¦
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As the White House and Elon Musk point fingers at one another over who restricted Starshield to Ukraine, here are some of the real life repercussions for troops on the front lines.
From @siobhan_ogrady, @carlottagall and @antontroian
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Are you one of the 2.5 million Muse users who has made a purchase through Muse? For a value over $200??? WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU BUYING? I want to hear from you (seriously -- dms open) businessinsider.com/meta-q3-ā¦
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The Department of Homeland Security is openly engaging in an unprecedented, partisan campaign to intervene in the midterm elections. My latest piece @NewYorker surveys the effort and looks at what it means at the local level: newyorker.com/news/the-politā¦
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Meet Hingey, our custom-built iPhone Duo folding robot. Over four nights, it folded the phone more than 32,000 times. YOU WONāT BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT. (Or maybe you will.)
š¤ Made with AI
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Contra @BillAckman and @johnarnold, the Fed is entirely capable of killing the AI boom and bringing down inflation. My newsletter recalls those in 2000 who wrongly doubted the Fed could deflate the Internet mania. Also this morning: shout outs to @jasonfurman @mtkonczal and @Samfr. Please subscribe! Read today's here: wsj.com/finance/investing/yeā¦
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Scooooooooop: New Anthropic draft prospectus. $80.7 billion net loss, $750 billion in potential future compute spending, red-hot revenue growth, risks galore. @anissagardizy8 got the details. wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-reā¦
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SCOOP: Anthropic's latest draft S-1 documents show financials results for the first half of the year, gigantic spending plans for the future, and a laundry list of risk factors.
- Anthropic recorded a net loss of $80.7 billion in the first half of the year, tied to accounting adjustments related to previous financings
- Anthropic is set to spend >$600 billion on compute in the coming years, inclusive of cloud agreements and chip leases.
More in @WSJ:
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There's more to the Character AI bankruptcy, and @tenuous has the scoop: Court filings indicate that the decision was actually a key part of a deal that has let Disney hire most of CAI's staffāincluding its now former CEOāpotentially acquire most of CAI's technology, and avoid the beleaguered startupās many legal liabilities and obligations wired.com/story/disney-askedā¦
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OPENAI to EMPLOYEES: If someone is trying to seduce you, first consider ā could they be a spy???
OpenAI is warning its employees about honeypot spies and strangers with children in playgrounds ... a very fun one with @georgia_wells and @MeghanBobrowsky:
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THE SHRUGFLATION TRIANGLE
I wrote about what happens when the two biggest borrowers in the economy seemingly stop caring what money costs: (1) oil, AI, and Treasuries feeding into each other (2) who ends up paying for it (people) and (3) why nobody seems to be able to stop it
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There are real limits to what we can accomplish in a world where people believe nothing they do really matters.
My book (!) is about how we wound up in a place where millions of people feel like spectators in their own lives. And how we course correct. Because we can.
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Even before the Saudi OpenAI employee was arrested yesterday, the startup had been warning staff to beware of people trying to glean work-related information from them--from honeypots to playground spies
More in my story w/ @georgia_wells @erinkwoo
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āIām going to make you a lot of fāing money,ā Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle told a businessman at Davos this year as she was trying to get into a party, according to a recording reviewed by
@WSJ
Read the latest from @rebeccaballhaus @drewhinshaw @JoeWSJ and me
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A rogue Anthropic agent submitted a FAKE MURDER TIP to the Philadelphia police department
Philly cops say: āThe two-month delay in detecting and reporting the incident to the city is unacceptableā
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"Last year, Bessent got so angry about the way his daily briefing book was organized that he picked up the binder full of papers and threw it at a wall, people familiar with the matter said." Read @schwartzbWSJ @jdawsey1 @PhilipWegmann @GZuckerman
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Updated with details about which employees OpenAI has parted ways with for allegedly mishandling confidential company information: Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni.
Korbak served as the technical contact for Redwood Research and METR in their investigation of the Hugging Face incident.
Rolling scoopage with @berber_jin1 + @ZeffMax
wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-partsā¦ via @WSJ
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Over the last few weeks, so many people have asked me: if people at Anthropic believe that AI has a meaningful chance of killing us all, why are they building it? @berber_jin1 and I did a deep dive into Anthropicās relationship with effective altruism to try to explain how doomerism came to be so influential at the company.
The tale took us to a group house in San Francisco, āclothing optionalā swims in the Bahamas and a co-working space in Berkeley funded by an Anthropic investorās money that has become a central gathering place for those most worried about the existential risk from AI.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-safety-efā¦ via @WSJ
