Ashlee Vance
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Writer at Bloomberg. 2X NYT best-seller. Emmy-nominated host+writer of Hello World. Doc producer @HBO . NYT, El Reg alum. My new book
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Instant NYT bestseller.
Amazon best book of the year so far in 2023. Come on down
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700 of 770 OpenAI employees saying they will go now. What is the board going to be board of?
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There's just no way Steve Jobs releases this mess. He would have demeaned someone until that battery weighed nothing and fit in the headset
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Felt like an overachiever in college but now realize I was an amateur
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So, here's what happened at OpenAI tonight. Mira planned to hire Sam and Greg back. She turned Team Sam over past couple of days. Idea was to force board to fire everyone, which they figured the board would not do. Board went into total silence. Found their own CEO Emmett Shear
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Had a 20-minute walk down Market Street with a friend who remarked, "I've never seen anything like this," as his head was on a swivel the entire time. I love SF. What the city has become is unconscionable.
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This is like Apple firing Steve Jobs only they're doing it after the iPhone has become the best selling computer in history
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Several pockets of 20 to 30 people all off their heads. A number of them with pants barely on. Zombies. The walking dead. Cops observing the proceedings from 100 feet away.
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Tonight, a room full of engineers crapped themselves
Tonight, we radically increased the design goals for the new Tesla Roadster.
There will never be another car like this, if you could even call it a car.
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SpaceX has only been around for 22 years and is doing laps on, well, the entire world.
Europe and Russia have largely done nothing in the last two decades to address the competition.
SpaceX just put a rocket into orbit today that will extend its lead dramatically, while just…
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It is my understanding that MULTIPLE people who have talked directly with the board, including the new CEO (as reported below), have asked for evidence of Sam's wrongdoing and been given precisely nothing
Scoop: There's movement, y'all. Sam and board chatting. Sam might just be back after all
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The first time I visited SF at 18 the city felt magical. It had its rough around the edges spots. But so do all big cities. The center of the city now is apalling. Any official not spending every waking moment trying to fix it should go.
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A couple of weeks ago, I went to a weapons test site in the Nevada desert to see a test flight of Anduril's latest creation called Roadrunner. Contrary to the name . . .
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Interviewed a young man today who has a startup that's probably going to be valued at hundreds of millions of dollars shortly. He asks me not to mention that he dropped out of Harvard because his parents don't know 😂
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It is very, very, very, very, very hard for me to believe that
@sama
ends up becoming a long-term Microsoft employee. Let's be real. This saga continues
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SpaceX makes ridiculously hard stuff look ridiculously routine. That is all.
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500 of 770 employees of OpenAI are heading out
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So Amazon made Alexa and then was like, "Cool, we're never touching this thing again no matter how much AI advances."
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Just incredible sacrifice by this anonymous camera person. A true hero
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There is no company - that does actually interesting and world-changing things - that is this far ahead of their competition.
Non space folk have no idea how anomalous this is
Three Falcon 9 launches in 20 hours, carrying to orbit:
- 4 crewmembers headed to the
@Space_Station
- 53 rideshare spacecraft
- 23
@Starlink
satellites
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I suspect there might not be enough cars in the U.S. for the number of lawyers that shall descend upon San Francisco
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It's amusing and amazing that
@SpaceX
has gotten to the point where it's putting stuff on the Moon as a side quest
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Microsoft is NOT pleased about the outcome. Tomorrow will be an interesting day for stock.
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This reminds me of the South African rocket success story SpaceX
This morning I met with
@collision
, President of
@stripe
– a European success story in payments.
Great conversation about the international payments landscape, how we tackle cyber-risks and fraud, and the role of financial education.
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This . . . is . . . not . . . normal
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What if I told you . . . . we ain't done tonight, friends
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This isn't tolerance. It's giving up. The city's leaders should not be able to sleep with their shame.
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All you startup losers out there trying to make AGI and cure death when you should be making handbags
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.
@anduriltech
just beat out Boeing and Lockheed to make autonomous fighter craft for the Air Force.
This is a very big deal for a bunch of reasons
The
@usairforce
has selected Anduril to design, manufacture, and test production-representative Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA).
In this era of great power competition, there is no time to waste on business as usual. We look forward to delivering CCAs on schedule, within
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Can we all take a moment to reflect that the US government spent the past few months talking about AI regulation. And we go on and on and on about safe AGI. And yet four people on a video call took control of the world's most advanced AI and now appear to have it held hostage
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I watch this every morning while drinking my Athletic Greens
This video of Steve Ballmer promoting Windows 1.0 is just 😲
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Probably my single favorite thing about 2024 is that
@ID_AA_Carmack
is sitting in front of a computer near Dallas working to make an AI unlike any other and that almost no one is paying attention to this.
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The great irony that person the tech world wants to hear from the most runs a question and answer site but will answer none questions
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Meta, Google and Microsoft better watch out now that the capitalists have arrived
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60 Minutes doing tech stories is like two people with dementia running for president
I am actually shocked by this latest segment from
@60Minutes
about the Artemis program and Starship.
The way it was all worded was shameful.
"RUD is SpaceX speak for "our Starship rocket just blew up again"
"And now you've seen some of the perils of relying on SpaceX"
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A number of billionaire types started rocket/aerospace ventures at close to the same time - 20 years ago. But only
@SpaceX
has really made it and is, in fact, running circles around the industry now. From the new book, back in the Falcon 1 days
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Think I've been to as many European start-ups as just about anyone on the planet. There's a weird psychological limiter on start-up ambitions that is not helped by universities or governments
i love europe but everyone's intuitions right now are seriously under-rating the fact that europe doesn't actually make almost anything anymore
their modern life is completely dependent on other powers, and this is eventually going to cause real problems
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Wait. This kid killed it at basically the best public school in the US and was rejected by . . . wait for it . . . . University of Illinois, University of Michigan, and University of Wisconsin. This seems impossible.
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"There are a lot of people at Twitter doing great work, and it is super appreciated," says Elon. It's not meant to be lets trash Twitter non-stop.
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Was game of chicken until the very end. Only constant was board talking to just about no one.
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"Yeah, that was a mistake," says Elon about banning Paul Graham. "Fucking post Mastodon all damn day long. I don't care."
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Elon aiming for "unregretted user minutes." Unlike TikTok which is full of regret (last part me)
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How is it that a decent chunk of the world's most productive people are also total video game addicts?
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Starlink feels kinda like magic. Being in the middle of nowhere and then getting all the info in the world (plus cooking shows) in about three minutes is nuts
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Things are indeed about to get real, real weird. I spent the last couple of weeks using a coding assisstant AI that can create web sites, debug code and do massive coding jobs all on its own. It's name is Devin and it's backed by $21 million from Peter Thiel and others.
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Well, here we go. The follow on to my
@elonmusk
biography is now on sale.
This new one took five years of reporting across four continents. Hope you love it! I loved writing it.
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"I now think that Twitter will, in fact, be okay next year." Roughly cash flow break even, Elon says. "This will be difficult."
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Twitter was tracking to spend $5bn next year, says Elon. Also, because of debt on transaction, $1.5bn debt servicing required. With revenue tracking to $3bn. "So that's like a negative cash flow situation of -$3bn next year. Not good."
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So the US government quite possibly has evidence that alien life exists and we're really just gonna all hang out and wait patiently until they feel like telling us like this isn't the biggest thing ever?
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My son never wants to go to SF for a visit. Nor do his friends. They think it's a war zone.
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This hurts more when you realize that Arnault did this only working three months per year
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$60m in SMS texts per year. Twitter paying telcos who are not being super honest in other parts of the world who were basically gaming the system and running 2fa texts over and over again, says Elon.
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So, no one from the OpenAI board is at the HQ except for possibly Ilya (who has WHAT?!?!? flipped sides). Do the hundreds of employees on Team Sam just like take over the building now? 😂
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Scoop: a start-up called Cognition AI has released what appears to be the most capable coding assisstant yet. Instead of just autocompleting tasks, it can write entire programs on its own.
Is backed by Peter Thiel and Founders Fund, among others
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We live in very exciting times.
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For a limited time, you can get SIGNED first editions of my new book "When The Heavens Went on Sale" from the wonderful, indie stores below.
This is a pre-sale deal only. You can buy the book and then drop your receipt here - -
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Wtf
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Sometimes life and humans and tech are just awesome. Here's a 🧵 on such awesomeness. It releates to these ancient Greek and Roman scrolls that we can now read thanks to AI and some creative folks
Story here
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What could go wrong?
For the Tesla FSD test drive in Palo Alto tonight, I will ask the car to drive to
@finkd
’s house.
Will also test latest X livestream video, so you can monitor our adventure in real-time!
If we get lucky and Zuck my 👅 actually answers the door, the fight is on!
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Most of the time I'm an optimist. But this is some serious "Don't Look Up" sadness. Gizmo purveyor telling us its gizmos clean the skies through better consumption.
How many billions in cash does Apple have? How many smart people? Make something real.
At Apple, we believe that climate change is one of the world’s most urgent priorities and we are deeply committed to doing our part. Today we had a special guest—a real force of nature—stop by to check on our progress.
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After visiting a few start-ups the last couple of weeks, I'm reasonably convinced we're on the verge of cracking cryonics and preserving bodies AND brains in new ways.
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Says actions may seem sometimes "spurious or odd." It is because there is a fire drill at the moment. Not because he wants to be capricious.
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"That is why I spent the last five weeks cutting costs like crazy."
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SpaceX and Rocket Lab have reused engines working now. Please ask your local government space program what they've been doing for decades . . .
The data is in, perfect performance from the reused engine and the stage.
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"Somebody has to pay for the servers. So the speech has to cost at least $8."
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This is the closest I could find to a Sam-Bankman-Fried-shaped hole in the world that needs filling
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@BillAckman
Longtime reader, first time responder. Not a big fan of BI. They published vast chunks of my Musk book for sport. But how do you win this? If you don't put quotes around other's words, it has all the hallmarks of plagarism - intentional or not. This will be a waste of time + 💰
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lord only knows how many people bail out of OpenAI. Will find out soon
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$1.5bnish of server related costs. "Somebody has to pay the bills."
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Seems like such a genuine dude. Super interesting to hear about his experience with the implant and to hear his sense of humor.
Neuralink was kind enough to open their doors for me to tour their headquarters a few weeks back. It was an amazing experience and a day I'll never forget. This was at a company wide meeting at the end of the day. Thank you to everyone who made this possible. Hope y'all enjoy!…
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Next Google Meet update to include new "Are you sure you want to terminate your CEO?" feature that has an AI chatbot walk you through the possible consequences of your actions when it hears talk of a coup.
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France's entire economy hinges on American actors selling things to wealthy Chinese buyers
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Naked and Afraid needs to send a film crew to Burning Man right now
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Scoop: There's movement, y'all. Sam and board chatting. Sam might just be back after all
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A couple notes from my
@cognition_labs
story today.
I first met the CEO
@ScottWu46
and his brother
@WuNeal
when they were teenagers in sport coding competitions. People talked about them with reverential awe. They helped make the US competitive against Russia, China and others.
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If you thought the HR Department sucked, wait for the AI Relations Department
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Can other people see this or am I the only one trapped in the Upside Down?
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Am looking forward to blowing y'all's mind on Monday. Story dropping
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