🇺🇸 I am moving to San Francisco this summer to cover AI 🇺🇸 please do get in touch with tips and to set up meetings 📧 [email protected]

I talked to Hannah Murphy at Financial Times about AI-generated conspiracy theory videos, which feels like the perfect integration of things I talk about these days!
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NEW: The roadshow for Reddit’s closely watched public debut will start on Monday, per sources

It plans to price the IPO on March 20 & start trading the following day in a tech listing that will set the tone for the market in 2024
Story w/ Nicholas Megaw
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NEW: we don’t reflect enough on how severe the housing crisis is, and how it has completely broken the promise society made to young adults.

The situation is especially severe in the UK, where the last time house prices were this unaffordable was in ... 1876.

“There’s an autocratic advantage to attacking the idea that there’s such a thing as objective truth”

My Financial Times big read on the coming year of elections, deepfakes and the disinformation doomsday scenario

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🚨 FT Weekend mag will be available this weekend - Dec 9 & 10 - at fine newsstands WORLDWIDE. Pieces by matthew bremner Yuan Yang Duncan Fyfe @scriblerianm Jancis Robinson Tim Harford 🥩🥩Tim Hayward🥩🥩 @cookinbootsTreat Simon Kuper. Buy a copy (or several) so we maybe do it again!

My first story for Bloomberg's Businessweek magazine (!) about Sam Altman's triumphant return and the challenges ahead.

'Sam Altman Won the War for OpenAI. Now Comes Winning the Peace.'

Gift link here:
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Elon Musk told advertisers who halted spending on X over his endorsement of an antisemitic post to “go fuck” themselves, deepening a rift between the billionaire and...the companies that generate almost all of the social media platform’s revenues

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Elon Musk in response to advertisers like Disney pulling their ads on Twitter/X:

“Don’t advertise…go fuck yourself. Go. Fuck. Yourself. Is that clear?“

Tech folks of London, I'm back from SF for some time to renew my visa & work from FT HQ

Invite me to your Xmas parties!

If any X/Meta/TikTok/social media ppl want to chat - in person, in confidence - over a ☕️ or🍺, DMs open or Signal +1 415 805 2350

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Comcast have just confirmed to me that they are also pausing spending on Elon Musk's X amid concerns about antisemitic content

Bad look for Linda Yaccarino who previously headed up NBCUniversal's advertising business before joining X in June
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holy wow, looks like Sam Altman was fired by OpenAI's board for withholding information from it

CTO Mira Murati now the interim CEO while they search for a permanent successor

full statement here: openai.com/blog/openai-an…

Scoop: X, formerly Twitter, is now valued at $19 billion, based on the firm's employee equity compensation plan. The privately-held company, owned by Elon Musk, is giving employees RSUs at a share price $45 according to a source familiar with the matter. fortune.com/2023/10/30/x-f…

At the CreatorIQ conference yesterday chatting early internet culture & creator economy with TaylorLorenz.Substack.com !

I interviewed the 'godmother' of AI Fei-Fei Li ahead of the release of her new memoir.

We talked about why she thinks the US needs to take a 'moonshot mentality,' to funding AI research, and why she isn't an AI doomer like some of her academic peers.

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