Marc Andreessen went apeshit on main using Anthropic’s Claude for some reason (well, it seems like he just isn’t a fan of Yuval Harari’s book about AI). Here’s a slice:
I CAN TASTE COLORS AND THEY ALL TASTE LIKE PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION FEES! THE VOID HAS A TERMS OF SERVICE AGREEMENT! MY SOUL REQUIRES A SOFTWARE UPDATE!
Okay. Sure. Why not.
X CEO Linda Yaccarino commended Mark Zuckerberg’s move to ditch third-party fact-checking in favor of a Community Notes-style moderation (inspired by X) onstage at CES. “It couldn’t be more validating,” Yaccarino said. “Mark and Meta realized that it’s the most effective, fastest fact checking, without bias.”
“Mark, Meta — welcome to the party,” she added.
X now includes AI-powered suggestions on certain posts. These appear as pre-written questions that users can click on. When selected, these questions are processed by xAI’s Grok chatbot, which analyzes the post and provides answers.
It’s really odd, and quite an eyesore. I also don’t think the questions are ... all that relevant for shitposts?
It appears X CEO Linda Yaccarino made an account with her competitor, Threads, within the last few days. She hasn’t posted anything or followed anyone, though.
This new account comes just a few days before she’s slated to take the stage at CES.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went on a Bari Weiss podcast recently and spoke about his ongoing feud with Elon Musk:
I don’t live inside Elon’s head, so this is a little bit of a speculation. Elon definitely did a lot to help OpenAI in the early days, and in spite of all this, I’m very grateful. And I think he’s just a sort of legendary entrepreneur.
He’s also clearly a bully, and he’s also someone who clearly likes to get in fights. Right now, it’s me. It’s been Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg, lots of other people. And I think fundamentally, this is about OpenAI doing really well. Elon cares about doing really well. Elon started, and now runs, a very direct competitor that’s trying to do exactly what OpenAI does. Everything we’re doing, I believe Elon would be happy about if he were in control of the company.
OpenAI’s search leader Shivakumar Venkataraman, hired from Google just 7 months ago to lead the company’s search efforts, has departed with no explanation for his exit or succession plan, per The Information.
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