Joyce Carol Oates may be the best poster of our time.

NEW: There's been an exodus of key Tesla engineers this year, including departures of those running its Model Y, 3 & Cybertruck programs. The changes coincide with Elon Musk's pivot to AI-oriented businesses hashtag#tesla hashtag#electricvehicles www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

Have you been using #Sora? Some back-of-napkin math suggests OpenAI is spending more than a quarter of what it’s making to power its AI slop factory. There are also potential silver linings (more training data + future tax savings). My latest for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

OpenAI has gone wild with compute deals this year, committing to spend far more than its balance sheet can currently sustain. So who takes the fall if it can’t pay? Latest for @forbes.com with @pheebini.bsky.social and @richardnieva.bsky.social. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

Trump bet big on bitcoin. His timing could not have been much worse. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

New: "Trump Media Lost $54.8 Million Last Quarter—And Is On Track To Lose Far More" Revenue was $972,900—about what Taylor Swift brought in over 15 minutes on her Eras Tour. with @danalexander21.bsky.social for @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

don't worry -- the OLD Farmer's Almanac (founded in 1792 with the old timey-cover you see at the grocery store) is still going

NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

SCOOP (free, as it's FOIA-based!): I obtained 1,665 pgs of documents about "Bicken Ben," a growing private school the Zuckerbergs ran illegally out of their Palo Alto compound Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point: www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

Let it be known that my proposed hed for this was "Elon Musk’s Trillion-Dollar Pay Plan Makes Perfect Sense If You’re High On Ketamine"

New: I profiled Sierra, the $10B AI customer service startup from Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, which wants to make AI agents the primary way businesses interact with customers. For the piece, I talked to their old bosses, Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai www.forbes.com/sites/richar...

I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

NEW: Former xAI researcher Eric Zelikman is in talks to raise $1 billion at a $5 billion valuation to build AI models that are better at collaborating with humans. The startup is called Humans&. With Anna Tong and @iainmartin.bsky.social. www.forbes.com/sites/annato...

🚨 EXPLOSIVE NEW investigation: We uncovered previously undisclosed details about an 18-month money laundering investigation into Jeffrey Epstein that took place alongside the 2007 sex crimes probe, according to emails obtained from Epstein's personal Yahoo account 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

New: With Mercor’s new fundraise and $10 billion valuation, its founders become the world’s youngest self-made billionaires at age 22, younger than Mark Zuckerberg was when he hit that status at age 23 two decades ago. www.forbes.com/sites/richar...

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum. www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

Luca Ferrari bought his first app back in 2014 for just $10,000 with the hope that his Milan-based startup could turn it around. A decade later, Ferrari has become one of tech’s biggest dealmakers, and a new billionaire, after a new funding round valued his startup at more than $11 billion.

A scoopy day at @forbes.com. Another one from @iainmartin.bsky.social and me— buzzy legal AI startup Harvey has closed a $150 million funding round, nabbing a $8 billion valuation. www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...

Harvey has closed a new $150 million funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz valuing the San Francisco-based legal AI startup at over $8 billion www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...

London-based AI video generation startup Synthesia has closed a funding round that nearly doubles its valuation to $4 billion www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

AOL Has A New Italian Owner: Unicorn Startup Bending Spoons www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

One of Elon Musk's big gripes with Wikipedia is that his entry there has a whole section on his salute during his inauguration speech earlier this year. His Grokipedia entry doesn't mention it at all, but the "Nazi salute" Grokipedia entry says this:

New: "Trump Crypto Partner Suspends CEO With No Explanation After Stock Falls 74%" me, for @forbes.com 1/

One of Europe’s most successful startup investors Klaus Hommels who made early bets on Facebook, Spotify, and Skype, has told backers of his fund Lakestar that future startup bets will be made with his own capital. www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...

Just published: "Trump’s White House Demolition Isn’t His First Time Leveling A Building — Or Ignoring Preservationists" me, for @forbes.com

We’ve updated our story with an additional comment provided by the United States Justice Department.

AI agents startup Genspark is in talks to raise over $200 million at a 1 billion+ valuation. Investors include LG tech ventures and SBI investment, sources tell Forbes Last month, Genspark said it reached a $50 million run rate 5 months after launch. www.forbes.com/sites/annato...

New from me: TikTok ignored repeated questions about whether and how they share data with ICE. Also, earlier this year, they quietly updated their policies about what happens when law enforcement asks for your data. 1/ www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

My review of the excellent “Every Screen on the Planet: the secret story of TikTok” by @ebakerwhite.bsky.social is in the Financial Times this weekend! @ftweekend.com Gift link here:

🚨NEW🚨 In a recently-unsealed warrant ICE's HSI division detailed a case in which it spied on an undocumented immigrant's WhatsApp account. She was dealing fake ID documents. An ICE HSI agent spied on who she contacted on WhatsApp, then identified those contacts. www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

NEW: Rivian's had a tough few years in the volatile, but CEO RJ Scaringe is betting its new R2 electric SUV will mark a big growth phase. “I'm very, very biased, but I think R2 is going to drive a step-change in overall EV adoption” #electricvehicles #Rivian www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

Older adults across the country are turning to AI companions to help deal with loneliness. We visited a senior care facility in the Bronx and spoke with residents about their experience speaking to AI bots. With @richardnieva.bsky.social. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

🚨SCOOP🚨 DHS ordered OpenAI to identify a user who'd made 2 specific prompts. User was anonymous and accused of helping run 15 child abuse sites. They'd disclosed the prompts to an undercover agent. First example of what I'm calling a reverse AI prompt search. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

New: We interviewed elderly people who are chatting with AI bots in nursing homes and at home to combat loneliness. “[The calls are] not about anything that's really important, but it gives me something to do,” one senior said. With @rashis.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Guys, I think we might have lost the element of surprise on this one.

the year is 2030. a doctor solemnly informs you that you have plastic in your testicles bc millions of people persuaded by celebrity marketing bought synthetic pubic hairs that were eventually consumed by fish that you ate

What's it like to own a Cybertruck in the year 2025? We talked to owners about their most controversial purchase and why they (still) love it: www.wired.com/story/owning...

Andy Slavitt’s Town Hall Ventures has been investing in healthcare innovations focused on low-income and vulnerable communities. With $440M new funding from investors that include John Doerr, it now has total assets of $1.4 billion. New from me @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

NEW: A $250 million plan to tap the Great Salt Lake as source of lower-cost lithium for batteries 🔋 #lithium www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

I chatted with AMD’s senior vice president of AI about the company’s massive deal with OpenAI, and how AMD’s software efforts played a part in scoring the agreement. www.forbes.com/sites/richar...

What do you know? Tesla’s wildly misnamed “Full Self-Driving” feature is under federal investigation for being janky and dangerous www.forbes.com/sites/zachar...

Neil Zeghidour has held talks with American and French investors to commercialize the voice AI tech developed at a Eric Schimdt-backed AI research lab Kyutai @forbes www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...

Ah yes let us not judge her based on the words that come out of her own mouth but rather whether or not she created shareholder value

Just to be clear, we wrote that paragraph long before the App Store removed ICEBlock. www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

NEW - CISA insiders tell me about "chaos" in the agency since the shutdown began, exacerbated by major leadership departures and the expiration of the Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Act. “It's just a matter of time before something major happens,” says one. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...