So infuriating to see what’s happening at @AP
, a news organization that gave me my first business news job and taught me so much as a young journalist.
@rachelmetz
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Journalist Frustrated by Changes at Associated Press
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Why Humanoid Robots Struggle With Simple Tasks
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this is a *really* good, very accessible piece by @johnpavlus for @QuantaMagazine about why it's so incredibly hard to make humanoid robots work well and generalize tasks. Why Do Humanoid Robots Still Struggle With the Small Stuff? quantamagazine.org/why-do-hu… via @QuantaMagazine
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Cursor AI coding startup seeks $50 billion valuation funding
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👀 scoop w/ @RebeccaTorrenc5 and @nmasc_ 👀 Cursor, a leading artificial intelligence startup for coding, is in talks with investors for a funding round that would value the startup at about $50 billion bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Cursor seeks funding at $50 billion valuation
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🍨🍨🍨 Natasha Mascarenhas (@nmasc_) Scoop on the terminal w/ @rachelmetz + @RebeccaTorrenc5: Cursor having discussions with investors for funding at $50 billion valuation — https://nitter.net/nmasc_/status/2031887227559821319#m
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OpenAI’s Head of Industrial Compute Secures Trillions in AI Resources
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Check out this interesting piece from @dinabass and @shiringhaffary about how OpenAI’s new head of industrial compute is securing allllll that compute for ChatGPT ⬇️ Dina Bass (@dinabass) OpenAI's @sk7037 serves as Head of Industrial Compute, which means he gets to help figure out how to line up trillions of $ in AI compute. @shiringhaffary & I spoke with him about his role, Nvidia, AWS, memory shortages & more bloomberg.com/news/articles/… — https://nitter.net/dinabass/status/2031574410537349572#m
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OpenAI acquires Promptfoo AI security and red-teaming startup
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OpenAI is buying AI security eval and red-teaming startup Promptfoo bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Story with @rachelmetz
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Thrive Investor Criticizes Anthropic CEO’s Anti-OpenAI Stance
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Rare to see Thrive make this kind of public statement (Thrive is one of the largest investors in OpenAI) Joshua Kushner (@JoshuaKushner) dario’s commitment to hating openai is seemingly stronger than his commitment to the values and principles of anthropic — https://nitter.net/JoshuaKushner/status/2029961562794889726#m
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UC Berkeley’s BearGPT chatbot faces unfair labor practice charge
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a great example of the real-world consequences of a chatbot offering inaccurate information: an unfair labor practice charge alleges UC Berkeley's BearGPT incorrectly told union members that they had no vote on how much they pay in dues. dailycal.org/news/campus/uc-…
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Rachel Metz covers a16z summit amid Pentagon-Anthropic feud tensions
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For my first edition, I'm in DC for @a16z's American Dynamism Summit.@EmilMichael is the event's surprise keynote speaker, here to address the Pentagon/Anthropic feud. Alex Karp is up next. A room full of Pentagon officials and defense tech investors at the dawn of war? Should… https://t.co/3WAbXFhpyb pic.twitter.com/6elOieyvPC
— Julia Black (@mjnblack) 3 mars 2026For my first edition, I'm in DC for @a16z's American Dynamism Summit. @EmilMichael is the event's surprise keynote speaker, here to address the Pentagon/Anthropic feud. Alex Karp is up next. A room full of Pentagon officials and defense tech investors at the dawn of war? Should get interesting. Julia Black (@mjnblack) Big day! You can now SUBSCRIBE to my new weekly @VanityFair newsletter, A Billion to One. I'll be covering big money, big tech, and big personalities from my usual insider-outsider perspective. New issues drop Tuesdays… including today. Don't miss out! vanityfair.com/newsletter/bi… — https://nitter.net/mjnblack/status/2028830797545816390#m
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Cursor and Claude Code growth narratives challenge tech bubble perceptions
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Narrative violation. Cursor goes $1B to $2B in 3mos. Claude Code went $0 to $2.5B in 8mos. Everyone in the tech/X bubble think people are wholesale ditching Cursor, but enterprise diffusion is glacial. Most of the world just got a hold of it.
→ View original post on X — @rachelmetz, 2026-03-02 23:08 UTC