May 9: I’ll be interviewing Snap Inc. CEO Evan Spiegel with Emily Chang at the Bloomberg Technology Summit. Will I see you there?

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Bob van Luijt Brittany I spent the last few months asking developers and investors what they think about the space. And it's so far been one of the most fun stories to follow in the industry so far. supervised.news/p/lets-check-b…

Super excited to interview Meta’s Chris Cox alongside Tom Giles at the Bloomberg Technology Summit! Really stellar lineup of speakers coming together… see you there!!
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A group of Facebook employees invested millions with a co-worker. Then, they lost everything.
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Vector databases are not going away. Large context windows and RAG co-exist, and the way they interact is actually MEMORY.

Increasingly you're going to need structured representations of knowledge/info that you build into your workflow and insert into the context window, drawn…

Bluey is an absolute sensation among parents and their kids. It’s also a fascinating business story… like, why doesn’t Disney have any Bluey merchandise or experiences at their theme parks, even though it’s a dominant show on Disney+?

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This is so exciting!!! Welcome Dana!! Can’t wait to work with you!

Excited to share my investigation with Davey Alba won a James Madison Freedom of Information Award from Society of Professional Journalists NorCal! We collected 115 warrants to show how police obtain sweeping data from Google even for nonviolent cases—and for people who had nothing to do with the crime.

One of my favorite genres of stories is Mark Bergen and Rachel Metz on Stability AI! The latest installment is especially juicy

Must follow if you want to keep up on the chip wars! Welcome to the team Mackenzie 🎉🎉🎉

The Middleton speculation made something clear: Conspiracy is the internet’s favorite sport. It starts here and becomes mainstream.
At one point last week MOST of the content on my For You was about her. None of it was right. This is just what people do for fun & followers now.

Wow! Our investigation on Generative AI Bias won a sigmaawards! Kudos to our dream team Dina Bass Chloe Whiteaker and Jillian Ward. It's an honor for this article to be recognized among the other winning pieces, each an incredible piece of data journalism.
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So honored to have been chosen as a winner in this year's sigmaawards for our work on racial and gender bias in image-generation AI. Congrats to Leonardo Chloe Whiteaker and Jillian Ward -- it was such a privilege to work with you on this!

Scoop: It's a generally accepted truth that Joe Rogan's podcast is the biggest on Earth (!) But how massive is his audience?

Last month, Spotify quietly started testing a feature that discloses how many followers podcasts on the platform have.

His show is almost 3X bigger than…

We got the paywall removed! Please read and share: bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

Even if TikTok had a new owner, the dangers of online data sharing remain.

“If you think of the internet ecosystem as a colander with a million holes in it, I don’t know why they think plugging one of those tiny holes is going to fix these problems”…

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Microsoft is hiring Google DeepMind Co-Founder Mustafa Suleyman to oversee its consumer AI products. I talked to Satya Nadella and Suleyman about his new role bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The latest on TikTok: The DOJ is pushing for TikTok divestiture in closed-door Senate briefings this week. TikTok is circulating a document titled “TikTok’s Response to DOJ'

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New: US House of Representatives just voted 352-65 to pass a bill that would require Bytedance to either sell TikTok or it will be banned in the US.

Onto the Senate…

SCOOP: The Pentagon pulled out of a plan to spend as much as $2.5 billion on a chip grant to Intel

Lawmakers then directed Commerce to make up for the shortfall using Chips Act $$

That’s created some… complications

More details in my story w/ Ian King
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