Gerrit De Vynck 🦭
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Tech reporter for @WashingtonPost. AI, defense tech. Signal me at GerritD.27 email: [email protected].
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whoever is telling Trump this is a battleship is punking him. barely a corvette imo
UPDATE: The new ship class will be called "Trump-class" battleships.
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did not think i was gonna have to turn the brightness up on a film set in the Aegean Sea
The first trailer for Christopher Nolan’s ‘THE ODYSSEY’ has been released. In theaters on July 17, 2026.
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Today we’re releasing the Baz CLI with a completely different way to review code.
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Here is the FCC's determination. They've added "UAS and UAS critical components produced in a foreign country" to the list of banned imports https://t.co/MAPWQ2w1GV
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BREAKING - FCC officially decides to ban all DJI and Autel drones. Huge impact on consumer drone market, as well as for law enforcement, search and rescue, survey work, etc.
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reminds me of when the Canadian Conservative party used the term "old stock" Canadian. Voters didn't love it
Being a Heritage American entitles me to having authoritative opinion on what it means to be an American. People fresh off the boat don’t get to show up and demand that I rewrite my opinions of history and citizenship just to placate their demands. Assimilation means new
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the bill Hochul signed was less restrictive than what the NY legislature passed. I would have thought it would be framed as a conditional win by the tech industry. but Sacks is doubling down on his opposition to it
NY Gov. Hochul let the cat out of the bag. She says NY is “setting the national standard” on AI regulation. Is that what Red States want? Republicans must unify behind President Trump’s One Rulebook, otherwise NY & CA will set the rules for the entire country.
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Two blockbuster pieces on @ReadTransformer today about AI and the Catholic Church. Vatican AI advisor @paolobenanti lays out how the Catholic Church should view superintelligence, arguing that "the development of superintelligence cannot be permitted to proceed without
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Opinion: Paolo Benanti, AI advisor to the Vatican and a professor of moral philosophy, argues that there is a moral imperative to ensure that artificial intelligence never becomes humanity’s master
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I don't quite think Roon and Anjney are right. I think a lot of people have already moved on from "AI is wasteful bullshit" to "there's something real here and I don't like where it's going."
the tech industry is preparing for the wrong fight. roon is right that the loudest criticism of artificial intelligence you still hear is that it doesn’t work, that it’s a bubble, a parlor trick, a grift wrapped around underwhelming demos and overpromises. skeptics point to
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I thought "Technology Business Programming Network" was a joke on their part. Will always be Technology Brothers to me
Am I tripping or did @tbpn used to stand for Technology Brothers Podcasting Network? “Technology Business Podcasting Network”??? Did we get gentrified, bros?
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every week we get more evidence that "pre-civilization" societies were way more complex and organized than we've been taught the last hundred years
Wow! “French marine archaeologists have discovered a massive undersea wall off the coast of Brittany, dating from around 5,000 BC”. https://t.co/LdS8XHrWAQ
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Jordi: It seems pretty obvious that the models just getting smarter is not by default going to make adoption accelerate massively again. If you're a business that's not doing code-gen, not generating a bunch of assets, etc. - and somebody says, "For $20 a month, you get someone
NEW: Ramp AI Index shows AI adoption held flat at 45% of businesses in November, driven by slight declines in the finance and technology sectors @tryramp By the model... OpenAI: -1% Anthropic: +0.8% Google: +0.7%
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Trump's AI EO directs federal agencies to look into withholding federal funding for states that introduce "burdensome" AI regulations (@gerritd / Washington Post) https://t.co/TKl5wamFiM
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Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: Trump's AI executive order directs federal agencies to look into withholding federal funding from states passing “the most onerous and excessive laws” around AI
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The new White House preemption EO is the same as the draft from November but makes a key concession the Republicans and Dems opposed to Trump's AI policy. In the section about directing @DavidSacks to draft new AI legislation, it says the new law shouldn't preempt state child
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good framing of a really complicated thing to explain
"I've never seen anything like it," says Linux Foundation CEO Jim Zemlin. https://t.co/Sfs5QPDiMf
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first ad from tech industry PAC targeting @AlexBores is out
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we released our first State of Enterprise AI report today -- grounded in actual usage and survey data, it shows that enterprise AI adoption is not only broadening but deepening. some notes: *enterprise messaging volume is up ~8× YoY, with the avg employee sending ~30% more
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there are so many things that we should do in space before putting data centers there
News: we are reporting that the SpaceX IPO, targeted for mid 2026, seeks to raise significantly more than $30 billion (exceeding what Aramco raised in their 2019) IPO. The valuation would be near to/around $1.5 trillion. One rationale to raise that much money: data center in
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Hank Green covered AI water use and imo did a pretty great job
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