John Paczkowski
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Executive Editor, Tech & Innovation, @forbes. Previously: BuzzFeed News, Recode, AllThingsD (He/him) @jawnpaczkowski on threads
San Francisco, CA
Joined February 2008
This Secretive Company Built An Empire By Hawking Bad Financial And Health Advice On Facebook
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The Agora Companies, sued by the SEC, FTC, and two state AGs, reach hundreds of millions of people across social media with misleading promises of wealth and wellness.
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RT @DavidJeans2: New- Will Somerindyke supplied munitions to warzones for years. Now with investor BVVC, he's joined the defense tech boo….
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Will Somerindyke founded Regulus Global a decade ago. Now, he’s raising hundreds of millions for ammunitions startup Union — and Regulus is the first customer.
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RT @Forbes: Elon Musk Is A Billionaire Federal Welfare Vampire
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As Elon Musk’s DOGE chainsaws through federal agencies with budget and staff cuts, Tesla and SpaceX, cornerstones of his wealth, continue to benefit from public money. They probably wouldn’t have...
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Worth a reread given the latest spat: In the past 15 years alone, Tesla, Musk’s $1.1 trillion company, and SpaceX, his $350 billion valuation company, have sucked in a stunning $30 billion in public dollars.
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As Elon Musk’s DOGE chainsaws through federal agencies with budget and staff cuts, Tesla and SpaceX, cornerstones of his wealth, continue to benefit from public money. They probably wouldn’t have...
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RT @alexrkonrad: SCOOP: ex-OpenAI staffers have raised $20M for a pre-launch startup, Applied Compute. Led by Benchmark, the round values….
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The reinforcement learning startup, founded by Rhythm Garg, Linden Li and Yash Patil, is valued at $100 million pre-launch -- and has already received investment interest at 5x that price.
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Elon Musk Has Fired One Of His Top Tesla Lieutenants
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Omead Afshar, a long-time Musk lieutenant, was tasked with improving the company’s business in North America and Europe late last year but sales continue to drop in both.
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RT @pkafka: Weed is omnipresent in NYC. Less so in the NYT newsroom, but they're getting there. Nimble edit. ht….
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2 of the top 15 TikToks about Iran this past week were AI-generated propaganda. They reached tens of millions. So we reverse image searched them and found they'd been posted more than 100x each across YouTube and Instagram, too.
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In the lead up to U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, AI generated videos glorifying Iran’s military might reached tens of millions of viewers on social media.
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RT @ebakerwhite: Over the past 48 hours, TikTokers — and BlueSkiers, Threaders, and even Twitterers — took a cue from 2020 K-Pop stans and….
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TikTokers Say They Trolled Trump’s Birthday Parade By Reserving Tickets They Didn’t Use
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“We don't want Tesla to fail because if Tesla fails that means a lot of retirees are going to lose a lot of money in terms of their portfolios. If you're going to have Musk there, then make sure he's there or get another CEO.".
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Meanwhile, a new consumer sentiment survey finds most people want someone else to run the EV company.
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RT @SchwabKatharine: Forbes is hiring! We're looking for a standout AI reporter to come join my team! Best part -- you get to work with the….
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Heya friends. The Forbes Tech & Innovation desk is hiring. Come break news and raise hell with me and @SchwabKatharine .
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RT @alexrkonrad: Interesting profile of VC Hemant Taneja, and the "strategic conglomerate" he's trying to build at General Catalyst, by my….
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Investors are always encouraging startups to push the innovation envelope. General Catalyst’s Hemant Taneja is applying that advice to his own firm.
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RT @richardjnieva: New: I chatted with Niantic CEO John Hanke and other company brass about the bombshell decision to sell off Pokemon Go a….
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Niantic was still raking in hundreds of millions a year from the beloved mobile game when CEO John Hanke decided to sell its games business and pivot to enterprise AI. Why blow it all up now?
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RT @TheAlexKnapp: My latest: I talked to Abel Avellan, whose company AST SpaceMobile aims to use satellites to let you use your cell phone….
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Abel Avellan is taking on SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Project Kuiper in the battle to provide broadband satellite internet directly to your smartphone.
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RT @_KarenHao: In 2019 I was the first journalist to embed within OpenAI to profile them. Afterwards they refused to speak to me for 3 year….
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In 2019, Karen Hao, a senior reporter with MIT Technology Review, pitched writing a story about a then little-known company, OpenAI. This is what happened next.
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RT @Bernstein: My father was a Nazi hunter, until he was killed in the Lockerbie bombing, when I was four. Now, a man will stand trial for….
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He was a Nazi hunter — and was killed in the Lockerbie bombing. What does it mean to seek justice for his death?
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RT @DavidJeans2: NEW: Shield AI is one of defense tech’s most hyped startups, largely thanks to its V-BAT drone. But last year, a grisly i….
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Shield AI executives overlooked its V-BAT drone’s safety hazards. With sales falling short and the CEO stepping down, the company is trying to win back military customers.
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RT @ebakerwhite: New from me: chatbots for schoolchildren dispensed dangerous information — including instructions for how to synthesize fe….
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AI study aid chatbots for teen users provided detailed recipes for drugs, dangerous dieting advice, and tips on “pickup artistry” in tests conducted by Forbes.
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What if Bill and Melinda never discovered philanthropy–and never sold a share of Microsoft? They’d be worth $1.5 trillion combined, Forbes figures, and Bill would likely be the world’s first trillionaire
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If he’d never given away a dime or sold a share of the software giant, Gates would have nearly 10 times more leftover to give away.
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