You’d think a recap of a lawsuit’s public filings would be boring but no, this is incredibly revealing Getting ready to file my Helen Toner Apology Form

I read thousands of pages in Musk v Altman so you don't have to The case is going to jury trial in April, and based on the evidence that has been unsealed so far, it's going to be a wild one sources.news/p/20-revelat...

Alex Heath went indie hunterwalk.com/2026/01/15/i...

As I first reported earlier today, more Thinking Machines employees are in talks to join the 3 founding members who just rejoined OpenAI Sources say TM lacks a clear product/business strategy and has been struggling to raise a new round of financing sources.news/p/thinking-m...

Sources: Google wants Gemini in iOS like ChatGPT Today's model partnership is just the beginning, as Google hopes it's the first step to getting a deeper, product-facing integration like OpenAI enjoys on Apple devices More in today's newsletter: sources.news/p/google-wan...

- Lenovo’s AI strategy matters more than you may think - Weird scenes from the CES show floor - What folks here are saying about the weird Nvidia keynote yesterday sources.news/p/lenovos-ai...

An update on Sources: - Now publishing 4 days a week - Raising subscription prices - First-ever Sources Live in Davos later this month sources.news/p/whats-next...

New details on the Nvidia/Groq deal: - The whole process took less than 2 weeks and was personally driven by Jensen Huang - No other bidders - Huang wired money early and really wanted the deal closed before the new year sources.news/p/behind-nvi...

Probably the most entertaining -and unlikely!- story in tech this year: A software engineer tricking more than a dozen Y Combinator startups: acing the interview, then delivering little to no work, collecting paychecks, and swindling the next company newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-10x-ov...

an interview with the head of Threads sources.news/p/whats-next...

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v1.112 is live! We’re launching Find Friends, a contact import feature that helps you find people you know on Bluesky. Try it! In the mobile app, go to Settings → Find friends from contacts. Read how we took a more secure approach to this than other platforms: bsky.social/about/blog/1...

Everyone in AI knows a bubble is forming. The fight now is over blame, exposure, and who can come out strongest on the other side. sources.news/p/no-one-kno...

OK here we go! Today we launch Hype Correction, our critical look at where AI is, and how we should reset our expectations. www.technologyreview.com/supertopic/h...

“Journalists are also some of the most obsessive users of the platform. If we could get them back to posting their stories, I think users will have access to the complete picture on all issues” sources.news/p/x-wants-it...

I talked to X's head of product about why the platform wants journalists to come back and what he's doing to try and make it happen sources.news/p/x-wants-it...

I asked NeurLPS attendees for their takeaways from the world's largest gathering of AI researchers: - Google is king - Reinforcement learning is the big thing - Parties are getting over the top sourcesnews.substack.com/p/googles-ri...

Scoop from @laurengoode.bsky.social: Slack CEO Denise Dresser is leaving the company and joining OpenAI. She'll be the new chief revenue officer and report to COO Brad Lightcap: www.wired.com/story/slack-...

Substack is starting to test ads with a handful of writers Just connecting brands without taking a cut (for now) An about-face given how much the founders have criticized ad-driven social media, but also inevitable www.readfeedme.com/p/substack-i...

@alexeheath.com spoke with Robert Smith of Highwire on striking out on his own: talkingbiznews.com/media-news/t...

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei just threw shade at OpenAI and Sam Altman “There are some players who are YOLOing… Let’s say you’re a person who just kind of constitutionally wants to YOLO things or just likes big numbers, then you may turn the dial too far” sources.news/p/anthropics...

Sources: Instagram is moving to 5 days a week back in the office, per an internal memo from Adam Mosseri today. It's the first big org within Meta to return to 5 days a week. Mosseri also pushes to have fewer meetings, more prototypes vs decks, etc. sources.news/p/instagrams...

Scoop w/ @peard33.bsky.social and @mzeff.bsky.social: OpenAI locked down its San Francisco offices today after receiving a threat from an activist previously associated with Stop AI: www.wired.com/story/openai...

From my Q&A with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: "World models are the thing I’m mostly spending my research time on" "I’d love more" TPUs "You look at seed rounds with just nothing being tens of billions of dollars... It’s not quite logical to me" sources.news/p/demis-hass...

Buy Anthropic. Short Perplexity. Notes from this year’s Cerebral Valley Summit sources.news/p/what-insid...

Sources: During a recent private call, OpenAI's investors asked about external signs that ChatGPT's growth is slowing. CFO Sarah Friar said time spent was down since "content restrictions" were added in Q3, but that the trend is expected to "reverse" sources.news/p/chatgpts-q...

recap of a big NYC week: inside the Sources launch party, shooting the Breaker Media pod, speaking at the Media Summit indie media panel, and joining the Altogether collective sources.news/p/inside-the...

did a very NYC tech thing last night sources.news/p/election-n...

very excited to be part of this www.axios.com/2025/11/04/i...

Sources launch party tonight is gonna be great

Sources: YouTube announces opt-in layoffs and major leadership changes. “Looking to the future, the next frontier for YouTube is AI” per internal memo from CEO Neal Mohan. “We need to set ourselves up to make the most of this opportunity.” sources.news/p/youtube-an...

Sources: Sam Altman has tapped Mikhail Shapiro, an award-winning biomolecular engineer, to join his Neuralink rival Merge Labs The hire suggests that, unlike Neuralink, Merge will take a noninvasive BCI approach that relies on gene therapy + ultrasound sources.news/p/altman-tap...

Google is getting back into AR glasses with Gemini / Android XR We had the head of Android on the pod this week, and I wanted to know what Google learned from the original Glass launch in 2013

Sources: Snap is in talks to raise at least $1 billion for AR glasses Multiple investors involved, including Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund Plan is to move Specs into a new independent subsidiary and structure similarly to Waymo/Alphabet sources.news/p/snap-eyes-...

Today's issue of Sources: Google targets Gemini 3 for December Perplexity just hit $200 million in ARR sources.news/p/google-rea...

I spent time with AI and Hollywood folks this week, and it was clear that if nothing changes, Hollywood is going to get mostly steamrolled by technology that’s moving faster than its leaders can comprehend. sources.news/p/hollywood-...

at a conference and the guy next to me seemed like he was on the phone talking to a colleague about deal flow or something, kept saying stuff like "it's hard to hear you?" he's talking to ChatGPT

talked with OpenAI's Greg Brockman about Stargate, the deal with AMD, and an AI bubble sources.news/p/openai-sta...

Notes from today’s big OpenAI event, including what Sam Altman and Jony Ive talked about plus a bunch of juicy tidbits from a post-keynote exec Q&A sources.news/p/chatgpt-ea...

wrote about using the new Sora app sources.news/p/openai-mad...

We've got the one and only @zoink.bsky.social on the second episode of ACCESS! We discuss: - Figma's IPO and what's next - MCP / how he's thinking about AI - The future of design Out everywhere you can get podcasts

SOURCES: OpenAI is planning to bring ads to ChatGPT. Also: In a message to employees, Sam Altman says he wants 250 gigawatts of compute by 2033. He calls OpenAI's team behind Stargate a "core bet" like research / robotics. "Doing this right will cost trillions." sources.news/p/openai-ads...

Trump’s EO on H-1B visas has thrown the tech industry into chaos overnight I just published an email Google sent H-1B employees yesterday warning them to not leave the US / to return by midnight tonight sources.news/p/heres-goog...

First issue of Sources is out! It’s a deep dive into the (very cool) new Meta Ray-Bans. They’ve got a display, neural band that feels like sci fi, & suggest a lot about where things are headed Feat. my interview w/t Zuck (full convo airs on the Access podcast tomorrow) sources.news/p/meta-ray-b...

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.

big week

I wrote about Charlie Kirk and the viral content machine that sprang to life in the wake of his shooting — and how this time, even people running the country are partaking in the churn. www.theverge.com/analysis/776...

monopoly business is a booming www.theverge.com/command-line...

And Apple stock's up 4% after hours because it can keep collecting free money from Google in the search deal.

The power shift inside OpenAI