Kurt Wagner
@KurtWagner8
Covering social media, Facebook + X/Twitter for Bloomberg @Business. Author of “Battle for the Bird.” DMs are open. Go Seahawks. Go M’s. Signal: kurtwagner.08
🚨 It's Pub Day 🚨 Truly ecstatic to share that my new book, "Battle for the Bird," is officially out! If you've ever cared about Twitter - or wondered "how did we get here?" - this book is for you! I hope you'll give it a read! simonandschuster.com/books/Battle-f…
Zuckerberg’s “superintelligence” group is growing. I count seven known hires from OpenAI so far, including these four
Meta Platforms Inc. has hired four notable artificial intelligence researchers from OpenAI, ramping up a hiring spree for its Superintelligence group. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
NEW: @danielgross, who co-founded SSI with Ilya Sutskever and was formerly CEO, is leaving to join Meta's new superintelligence lab where he will work on AI products. w/ @KurtWagner8 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
AI-written notes will still be reviewed by humans before they show up publicly
X will start to publish Community Notes written by artificial intelligence agents, a move to increase the speed of the social network’s fact-checking product and expand it to reach more people. @KurtWagner8 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
X will start to publish Community Notes written by artificial intelligence agents, a move to increase the speed of the social network’s fact-checking product and expand it to reach more people. @KurtWagner8 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
he did it... X has a new head of product
Ladies and gentlemen, I've officially posted my way to the top: I'm joining @X as Head of Product. 𝕏 is the most important social network in the world. It's where internet culture originates and where the world's most influential people convene. Finding my community and…
Scoop: Meta had acquisition conversations with Perplexity last month. Talks fell through and Perplexity raised at a $14B valuation. Meta invested that amount in Scale.AI instead bloomberg.com/news/articles/… w/ @markgurman @rileyraygriffin
New: Meta's ScaleAI investment is finalized. Full Meta-Scale AI investment story is here (gift link)... w/ @shiringhaffary @rachelmetz bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
NEW: Meta's Scale AI investment is done. * $14.3B invested * $29B valuation * Scale CEO Alexandr Wang is joining Meta in an senior AI role
NEW: More details on Meta's new "superintelligence" team Meta has hired top Google DeepMind researcher @jack_w_rae and Johan Schalkwyk, ML lead of popular voice assistant app, Sesame. Plans to hire up to 50 ppl, including a chief scientist, per sources. w/ @KurtWagner8
Some great new details on Zuckerberg's efforts to create a new "superintelligence group" at Meta from @rileyraygriffin & @KurtWagner8 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
A scoop big enough to post on a Saturday night! $meta in talks to invest more than $10b in scale ai! bloomberg.com/news/articles/… w/ @davidcarnevali @shiringhaffary @KurtWagner8
Elon Musk struck a deal with Visa, naming the payments company the first major partner on his mission to turn X into an “everything app” -- great story by @PaigeSmithNews and @KurtWagner8 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
BREAKING ON TIKTOK: The Supreme Court has ruled to UPHOLD the TikTok divest-or-ban law, clearing the way for a potential nationwide shutdown on Sunday. Several moving parts that could change how this shakes out. News coming from @GregStohr @KurtWagner8 @business and me