Excited to join @theinformation covering the A.I. boom in San Francisco. I'll be tracking where the new money is going, how tech culture is shifting, and what it all means for the city itself. I started today. DMs open for tips, coffee, or just to say hi 👋
Super Bowl-level ad prices are forecasted for FIFA's new, mandatory "water breaks," where TV broadcasters can air ads in the middle of a World Cup game for the first time
reuters.com/business/media-t…
Another winner from the SpaceX IPO: a couple hundred thousand teachers in Canada.
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan turned a $220 million investment in SpaceX some years back into ~$11 billion. via @globeandmailtheglobeandmail.com/business…
For @theinformation this week I wrote about how proposals to tax billionaires in California, Washington state, and New York have set off a new flight to tax refuges
And og tax haven Incline Village — 'the Hamptons of the Bay Area,' as one VC put it — is at the center of it
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as more work gets automated, many major insurers that cover companies for liability are carving out exemptions for AI-related issues on the job … via@laurabratton5 theinformation.com/articles/…
I wrote about the new tech party scene in SF for @theinformation, amid the AI boom
Out: In-your-face blow-outs
In: Small dinner parties in private backrooms; intimacy, exclusivity and discretion over extravagance
And it's helping lift the sails of the restaurant industry in town
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Interesting results but perhaps a skewed playing field. AI thrives in a contextless void.
Online pop-quizes aside, most writing and communication does not originate from a place of nothingness. Ask your fav chatbot for something as simple as an email to a friend or family member; it won't work
We made a blind taste test to see whether NYT readers prefer human writing or AI writing.
86,000 people have taken it so far, and the results are fascinating. Overall, 54% of quiz-takers prefer AI. A real moment!
nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told employees on Friday that the OpenAI-Pentagon deal was "safety theater" and the Trump administration didn't like Anthropic because it hadn't "given dictator-style praise to Trump."
He expressed skepticism at the safeguards OpenAI touted.
'At Google’s public sector sales kickoff this month, Google recognized the lead sales representative for the DHS as a top performer, according to a photo of the awards and two people familiar...' via @erinkwootheinformation.com/articles/…