I hosted two convos at Yahoo’s Cannes stage: a chat with CEO Jim Lanzone, followed by a creator-economy panel with Beehiiv CEO Tyler Denk, After School’s Casey Lewis, and Cat Goetz (CatGPT) Everyone agreed that the value of unique, original content is rising with AI. sources.news/p/what-ai-ca...

Brought Sources Live to Cannes Lions with Yahoo and Jim Lanzone, Tyler Denk, Casey Lewis, CatGPT and many more awesome folks

Databricks and Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski has a phrase for the AI industry's current trajectory: "feudalism with better branding." He's trying to fight AI's concentration of power by incentivizing top AI researchers to do their work out in the open. sources.news/p/fight-to-k...

Sources: Anthropic is planning to release a public version of Mythos tomorrow - Will have substantial guardrails and not be as cyber permissive as what Project Glasswing partners can access - Will be dramatically better at long-horizon, multi-turn tasks sources.news/p/inside-app...

Substack is opening up to AI At the ACCESS live show in SF last week, CEO Chris Best revealed that MCP integration is coming soon. Also: His theory of AI slop, why YouTube is the real competition, and where independent media goes next. sources.news/p/substack-o...

Tech CEOs invited to the White House tomorrow for the signing of Trump’s EO on AI safety, per sources: - Elon Musk - Andy Jassy - Sundar Pichai - Mark Zuckerberg - Satya Nadella - Tim Cook - Sam Altman - Dario Amodei - Marc Benioff - Nikesh Arora - George Kurtz - Chuck Robbins - Misha Laskin

Notes from Google I/O, including: - What Sundar Pichai told me about Mythos - How Google is setting up for what I'm calling the tokenmaxing hangover - My interviews with the SVPs of Google Search and Devices sources.news/p/google-tok...

Anthropic's hunt to find the next Claude Code New podcast with Mike Krieger, whose Labs team came up with Claude Code, Computer Use, and MCP. Lots of new stuff in this convo: sources.news/p/anthropic-...

Sources: Sam Altman has recently discussed starting a new compute company he’d raise capital for, with OpenAI as the majority shareholder. Stargate redux? sources.news/p/sam-altman...

"These are human beings. They will f*ck you up if you do not come across as an empathetic human being." Anjney Midha on the data-center backlash in his first detailed pitch for AMP, the AI compute startup he left a16z to build sources.news/p/the-ai-coa...

Today’s surprise compute pact between Anthropic and Elon Musk's SpaceX is weird and arguably unprincipled. It also has a very strange clause that both sides have yet to explain. sources.news/p/anthropic-...

Andon Labs made the viral AI vending machine at Anthropic HQ, an AI-run store in SF, and an AI-run cafe in Sweden that just opened “We want to point to a thing in the real world and say, look, that's way more than a chatbot” Enjoyed this conversation sources.news/p/what-happe...

An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on why AWS will be a better OpenAI partner than Microsoft, chip bubble fears, Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, and more (Alex Heath/Sources) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Interviewed AWS CEO Matt Garman about Amazon's big partnership with OpenAI, and he came out swinging: “Obviously, that investment has worked out great for Microsoft. I think we’ll be a better partner to OpenAI… We really do view it as a win-win. We don’t just say that.” sources.news/p/how-amazon...

joined CNBC Squawk Box this morning to discuss the Elon vs OpenAI trial youtu.be/nwiqHCWFJVI?...

New feed check issue: Elon vs. OpenAI goes to court, AGI doesn’t matter, China kills Manus, why an OpenAI phone makes sense, and more sources.news/p/openai-goe...

The Audacity is a really good new AMC show set in Silicon Valley. Loved having the showrunner on the podcast this week. sources.news/p/silicon-va...

Sources: Meta's move to track how employees use their computers to train AI caused such a strong reaction that a follow-up note was posted internally acknowledging “there has been a lot of concern about this." sources.news/p/metamates-...

Sources: - Snap set to announce big layoffs tomorrow. Some teams halved or more. - Specs subsidiary will gain employees ahead of the glasses' imminent launch, which will loosely follow Apple's rollout of the Vision Pro. - The $400m deal with Perplexity is not happening. sources.news/p/snap-cruci...

Today's Stanford AI Index shows that people hate AI. The attacks on Sam Altman's home over the weekend show what's at stake. sources.news/p/ai-reputat...

I spoke with Logan Graham, who is helping lead Anthropic's Project Glasswing, about the reaction to yesterday's announcement He says Glasswing could "transition very quickly into a third-party-led consortium that features all the other model providers," including OpenAI sources.news/p/anthropic-...

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I spoke with the ClawFather for his first interview since joining OpenAI a few weeks ago. He’s already built a bridge between Codex and his personal OpenClaw agent. sources.news/p/clawfather...

New pod: Did Disney dodge a bullet with OpenAI? Is Fortnite the bigger problem? With @alexeheath.com. Listen! Watch! open.spotify.com/episode/79Zn...

Via @alexeheath.com, two more ridiculous bits about OpenAI killing Sora. 1. Lack of focus or internal coordination expressed in executive comms. “This is how fast things move”? Sora has been over for months. 2. They’re splitting safety from security (ok) and putting security under “scaling”?

“I don’t think Claude is going to go build a bank” Mercury CEO Immad Akhund joins us this week on the pod to talk all things AI and banking, thinking outside of the box, companies whitewashing their layoffs with AI, tech's poker culture, and more sources.news/p/mercury-ce...

From my interview with Spotify’s co-CEO at SXSW: Spotify is building the ability to remix and create covers of songs with AI. He calls it a “huge missed opportunity for artists” sources.news/p/inside-spo...

- This week on the pod: Starboy’s creator joined from a hot tub - What I’m up to at SXSW / Nvidia GTC - Notes on news about Meta, xAI, Perplexity, and Travis Kalanick sources.news/p/starboy-an...

I spoke with Anthropic employees in the midst of the company's fight with the Trump administration and Claude hitting the top of the App Store sources.news/p/my-day-ins...

Earlier this week, I spent an afternoon inside Anthropic HQ meeting with various leaders. It was fascinating and I learned a lot. sources.news/p/my-day-ins...

Some personal news: I’m transitioning from CEO to a new role as Bluesky’s Chief Innovation Officer! I’m excited to welcome @toni.bsky.team as our interim CEO. More here: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Google's Liz Reid on the progression of AI in Google Search - here are my notes on that interview by @alexeheath.com www.seroundtable.com/liz-reid-goo... #google #googleai #googleaimode

Sources: OpenAI is pausing the rollout of ChatGPT Adult Mode More in today's newsletter sources.news/p/liz-reid-g...

If you believe what both OpenAI and Anthropic proclaim — that they’re building AGI that will change everything — this bitterness should probably alarm you. sources.news/p/darios-big...

I’ve never seen such a combination of technical and moral (at least perceived) superiority from a tech company since the heyday of Apple. sources.news/p/anthropic-...

No discussion of tech media can get past this basic traffic fact: in the AI world, Google and social no longer refer traffic, which means that the vast majority of readers just never find you in the first place. Analysis: growtika.com/blog/tech-m...

Interviewed Reddit CEO Steve Huffman about AI slop, agents, his deals with OpenAI and Google, becoming a better platform for creators, his worry about prediction markets, and a lot more sources.news/p/steve-huff...

What AI bubble? In an interview, Stripe co-founder John Collison said the payments giant isn't seeing the signs “No one’s looking for a refund of their tokens” sources.news/p/why-stripe...

I spoke with the co-author of the Citrini viral AI prediction post that tanked stock prices. sources.news/p/the-ai-doo...

Sources: Snap’s SVP of Specs, who had been leading the hardware effort for six years, is out after a “blow-up” with CEO Evan Spiegel about the company’s strategy sources.news/p/figmas-ans...

“I don’t do this for the money… I want to have fun and have impact.” sources.news/p/how-did-me...

The comfortable industry narrative is that AI is a tool. The 4o saga is a window into how many people view LLMs as companions and even lovers. sources.news/p/openais-4o...

Lots of chatter this week about what’s behind all the departures at xAI Turns out the reason mostly boils down to what all-too-often actually drives the AI industry’s drama: money sources.news/p/what-happe...

New interview: OpenAI's CEO of Applications. Fidji Simo, on how ads in ChatGPT will work, what will end the Code Red, a social network for AI agents, the state of Sora, and a lot more Her first in-depth pod since joining OpenAI www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmBK...

Last week, Jony Ive showed me the interior of the first Ferrari electric car that LoveFrom designed. He was candid about his philosophy on who he works with post-Apple and where his head is as he builds OpenAI's first device. sources.news/p/jony-ive-i...

Inside Reflection: the new AI lab that's coming for DeepSeek: Just published my full Sources Live interview with Reflection AI’s co-founder from Davos sources.news/p/inside-ref...

This week's pod was a fun one: we had Sari Azout join to discuss taste as a differentiator in the age of AI, founder life in Miami, and what she learned from the crypto bubble Ellis and I also talk Clawdbot mania and the new essay from Anthropic's CEO Available everywhere now: access.show

Just published my full interview with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth in Davos. We discuss: - Why the recent VR layoffs happened - Meta's new AI model, which just dropped internally - Glasses production ramping up - The new Compute org - Building a humanoid sources.news/p/metas-cto-...

Just published my full interview with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis in Davos Some things we discuss: - Gemini 4 - The Apple deal - Robotics - BCI - Post-AGI life sources.news/p/interview-...

The three main AI labs got messy this year at Davos sources.news/p/davos-kick...