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...

Demis Hassabis told me Google has no plans to put ads in Gemini It's interesting they've gone for that so early,” he said of OpenAI putting ads in ChatGPT. “Maybe they feel they need to make more revenue.” sources.news/p/googles-ai...

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...

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...