Executive Editor, Tech & Innovation, @forbes. Previously: BuzzFeed News, Recode, AllThingsD (He/him) @jawnpaczkowski on threads
Joined February 2008
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Cursor staff returned from the holiday weekend to an all-hands meeting with a slide deck titled “War Time." The fastest growing AI coding company had been confronted with a new reality: developers may no longer need a code editor at all via @annatonger forbes.com/sites/annatong/20…
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The Oracle cofounder’s official residence is now in Manalapan, Florida, not the Hawaii island that he famously bought in 2012, according to previously unreported county records.
More details in my latest for @Forbes:
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Influencer marketing has helped AI video company Higgsfield hit $300 million in annual revenue run rate in just eleven months. But misleading marketing tactics, payment problems and a social media strategy based on shock has led to backlash among creators.
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Feb 5
Crazy pay packages are not just for AI researchers. It's come to data labeling. This week @Mercor offered sales and project leads at @micro1_ai signing bonuses of $500k - $2m in CASH. These are early 20-somethings that already make $1m a year!
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Thiel, the king of contrarian investors told Epstein to pass on Spotify, and also advised against investing in Palantir, the defense-tech firm he co-founded, saying the price was "below market."
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Epstein had access to tech billionaires like Thiel and Musk. But he walked away from several deals with major startups—including Spotify and SpaceX—that could have netted him hundreds of millions in total.
Ffrom @_IainMartin and me for @Forbes:
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I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.
Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.)
But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.
Despite how difficult this job can be, I am proud to be a foreign correspondent at The Washington Post.
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Reporters terminated today by the Washington Post include @ceodonovan, whose beat had been "tech companies and corporate accountability, with a focus on Amazon" bloomberg.com/news/articles/… @hgmiller29
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A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
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Feb 5
🚨send me journalism jobs🚨
We’re compiling job/freelance opportunities for our hundreds of #washingtonpost colleagues who were fired today. If you’ve got something please reply, DM, or email me Brianna.sacks@washpost.com
Also I’m not above asking for a retweet. Thanks and ✊🏻
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Feb 5
Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Secretive Silicon Valley Investments forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/…
More from me @_pheebini
Did Epstein’s relationship with Peter Thiel mean that he missed out on a $500m windfall from Spotify’s massive IPO?
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Nearly every story I published at The Post included the disclaimer "Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post." That statement seems especially stark today.
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Today I was laid off from my job covering Amazon for Jeff Bezos's Washington Post.
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In Sam Altman's two wide-ranging interviews with @richardjnieva and me for @Forbes, we discussed everything from his daily routine to how his vision is moving beyond ChatGPT.
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The nut graf.
Feb 4
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
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NEW: We profiled Sam Altman for the cover of Forbes Magazine. For the story, we talked to Bob Iger, Masa Son, Satya Nadella, Brian Chesky, Paul Graham and more. Graham’s take was resonant: “He’s good at getting people to do what he wants.” w/ @annatonger
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"Sam Altman says the stick of uranium in his office is nothing to worry about. Sitting vertically on his desk like a squat ebony Slim Jim, it is perhaps the most eyebrow-raising among the impressive array of historic innovations he has collected over the years."
NEW: We profiled Sam Altman for the cover of Forbes Magazine. For the story, we talked to Bob Iger, Masa Son, Satya Nadella, Brian Chesky, Paul Graham and more. Graham’s take was resonant: “He’s good at getting people to do what he wants.” w/ @annatonger
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"I knew another tech billionaire went to Epstein Island because Epstein told me while I was emailing back and forth with him to find a time to hang out" is a bold thing to put out into the world.
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Jan 28
New: OpenAI is developing a "real-humans-only" social network to take on the bot problem, sources say. The play? OpenAI considered gating access with biometric verification like World’s eyeball scanning "Orb", or Apple's Face ID.
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Jan 16
Data center REITs were created as a way for ordinary people to invest and make money from them. Now, the mainstreaming of #AI is turning into a trillion dollar business, yet the two biggest data center real estate firms have lagged in public markets. Here’s why—and how they could catch up.
My latest for @Forbes:
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In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention site to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many places.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
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