Thank you to The Atlantic for publishing my op-ed on why these AI licensing deals represent a fatal error for publishers. Once a week someone in publishing tells me “this time will be different.” I don’t see it and here is why: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

New: Sequoia and Bedrock led $85M investments into Mach Industries, a defense tech startup led by a teenager with a vision to make hydrogen weapons for the military.

A near-fatal accident is just the start of the company's issues:
forbes.com/sites/davidjea…

Building 'responsible AI' is still a challenge for top AI firms (as multiple news cycles this week have proven).

I'll be discussing AI safety with experts from Cohere, Hugging Face, and Salesforce today at 2pm ET, which should be an interesting convo. Tune in:

A new Women's Circle movement but to discuss the psychological torture of X's pronatalist algorithm

What’s my aesthetic? I guess I’d say “kitten in a wong kar-wai movie”

Seems like she is saying the CEO of OpenAI is not consistently candid.

Had to check that this was real… but yeah it’s real

fascinating story

THEY. ARE. DRAGGING. HARRISON. BUTKER.

It's a bit terrifying to write a personal essay. But I wrote about the decision to freeze my eggs at 36, in the beginning of the pandemic, and the cognitive dissonance of being screamed at about the birth rate but also that IVF is inherently bad. laura-bassett.com/p/on-being-40-…

The section I edit at @TheInformation, Weekend, is hiring! (RTs appreciated.)

Two roles:

A reporter to cover how technology is used by young ppl, teens and kids. And how tech they shouldn’t use ends up in their hands.

A reporter to work the vice beat: online gambling, dark

The Weekend is hiring!!! x2!!!

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Congrats to our friends and colleagues at Accion's Digital Transformation Fund on their $152.5m raise - we're excited to partner with you in building a more financially inclusive world!

techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/acc…

Technology is rapidly enabling things authoritarian governments couldn't have asked for in their wildest dreams.

Just as authoritarianism is on the rise around the world.

What could possibly go wrong?

<literally any request at all>

gpt4o:

Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure, with assistance from Elon Musk. The goal seems to be to get activists to switch away from encrypted Signal to mostly-unencrypted Telegram. I want to talk about this a bit. 1/

the best parts of a Margaux MacColl piece are the moments where you realize she could be talking about a single VC firm, or about the entire country. theinformation.com/articles/the-m…