Whose video did OpenAI take to train Sora? @kevinschaul.bsky.social and I are back on our training data bullshit to find out. Gift link 🎁 t.co/c3Zg4gcYIT

NEW Made in China: antitrust, anti-dumping, anti-discrimination. Beijing is ready to use a myriad of legal tools it learned from the US to create new bargaining chips on the TikTok deal table. The focus this time is on legacy semiconductor chips.

When the U.S. stopped policing foreign disinformation, Russia didn’t stop producing it. Kirk’s assassination brought it roaring back. (Gift link with strings) wapo.st/4moekj1

I’m launching Sources, a new publication about the tech industry’s inside conversation, and Access, a tech interview podcast with my friend @hamburger.bsky.social. The first issue of Sources drops tomorrow, featuring an interview with Mark Zuckerberg, which airs in full on Access this Thursday.

Who's using ChatGPT?

A new wrongful death lawsuit alleges that Character AI and Google are liable for the death by suicide of a 13-year-old girl in Colorado, Juliana Peralta This is the third wrongful death claim against a popular AI app for a teen's death by suicide this year www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

A trolling and nihilistic message “designed to be maximally disruptive and incomprehensible, cloaked in layer upon layer of irony" www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

incredible way to test sycophancy

Statement from @postguild.bsky.social on the firing of Karen Attiah:

NYT INVESTIGATION: Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches. NYT digs into links between a lucrative transaction involving the Trump family’s cryptocurrency firm and an agreement giving the Emiratis access to A.I. chips. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

OpenAI studied 1.5M user chats and found - half of all users are 18-26 - 2 yrs ago users were 80% men. now 52% women - talking about relationships and personal issues (therapy) is 1.9% of usage www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

New: To maintain or even strengthen your bones, it helps to load the skeleton. And, jumping around can do the trick. 💀 wapo.st/3IkMAxP

"Almost everyone in the business community thinks the tariffs are a bad idea, but CEOs are all too aware that saying so could put their job and company at risk of retaliation from the administration," Sachin Shivaram writes. https://wapo.st/3VodhEF

Mark Zuckerberg went on a hiring spree to lure top AI research talent to Meta. At least three recent hires have resigned: www.wired.com/story/resear...

Beck was a big special ops guy in Iraq. He has a Bronze Star and a combat ribon

New letter from @warren.senate.gov warning YouTube not to pay Trump millions to settle his lawsuit over banning him after Jan.6 (like Meta and X already did) www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

NEW: A string of previously unreported break-ins at National Guard armories in Tennessee is part of a recent series of similar crimes across the US. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop. (No paywall bc FOIA) www.wired.com/story/myster...

Trump threatens 100% tariffs on semiconductors, except if you convince him you're doing your best to build stuff in the US. Tim Cook playbook pays off once again www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Really interesting story on Russian and Chinese investment in America's leading space company. open.substack.com/pub/elonmusk...

great fresh story on the AI and hollywood mess www.wsj.com/business/med...

Lots of ways to show how huge Big Tech's AI spending spree is but my fav is probably that it's bigger than all the money they spent from 2010-2022 www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Wapo is not dead www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0... www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

we need a feature length movie about these two paleontologists feuding over half a femur for 30 years

One of the hard lines on facial recognition technology in the U.S. has been using it to do live searches on real-time cameras. The Washington Post reports that's been happening in New Orleans, however, by a police-adjacent nonprofit called PROJECT NOLA. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

You get a chatbot! And you get a chatbot! And you get a chatbot! With @gerritd.bsky.social slate.com/podcasts/wha...

sam altman went to congress and did the meme

new pope followed every millennial parent and chose Leo as the name

very excited and honoured to have had the chance to spend time in Western North Carolina and contribute to this work

The Washington Post wins two Pulitzer Prizes in breaking news reporting and illustrated reporting and commentary. Post reporters were also finalists in three categories, including national and international reporting as well as commentary. wapo.st/4mkkGkT

During its antitrust trial Google confirmed that websites opting out of AI crawling only affects Gemini. Google search still uses your content to power AI overviews. The only way to opt out of your content showing up in AI overviews in search is to opt out of being shown in Google search results.

Lina Khan: "Mark bought his way out of competing, so I’m not surprised that he thinks he can buy his way out of law enforcement, too. His proposed remedy, like his market strategy, is: ‘let my illegal monopoly keep monopolizing'" www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

In America, it's completely legal to pay people with disabilities as little as 25 cents an hour. Josh Eidelson spent months working on this story. It's really worth reading. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

celebrating the end of the Google antitrust investigation/trial I started covering when I was 27

Baja California Police Cmdr. Abigail Esparza Reyes devoted her career to capturing fugitives from U.S. justice. She’s the Abigail in Kevin Sieff's 2022 Post report on the Gringo Hunters. She saw her job as protecting Mexico from American criminals. She was shot to death Wednesday. wapo.st/3RJ9eAT

Don't miss this story from my colleague Dino Grandoni, looking at how a company's claims of dire wolf "de-extinction" (which scientists question) are being interpreted as a reason to scale back legal protections for endangered species: wapo.st/3R88Yvc

what MJ Lenderman would sound like if he had good posture

another perfect truck they won't let us have here www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt-F...

"The iPhone is in many ways the ultimate symbol of the age of globalized supply chains ... Trump has declared an 'economic revolution' that seeks to wipe away that system." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

NEW: It's another wild day as the world scrambles in reaction to President Trump's tariffs. The latest: --Trump threatens massive new tariffs on China if it proceeds with retaliation --Markets remain in flux, esp after an erroneous report about a tariff pause www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/b...

Taiwan response to tariffs - no reciprocal tariffs, will work to take down "non-trade barriers," essentially telling Trump what he wants to hear. But they will also push to diversify their exports to other countries more. english.president.gov.tw/NEWS/6935

The tech titans who lined up to kiss Trump’s ring are among the biggest losers from his tariffs. They’re still holding out hope he’ll deliver for them. Gift link to our story today: wapo.st/4ckrKsM

Semiconductors are actually exempt, per White House fact sheet released after the speech. Most US tech companies import finished tech products assembled in other countries, so looks like those will still be hit www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

Here's a table I typed up (with alt text): bsky.app/profile/rory...

Tons of conversation the last few weeks that asian allies would be spared tariffs because the U.S. needs them to help contain China. But Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand are among the hardest hit