Kyle Wiggers
@Kyle_L_Wiggers
AI PR/Comms Lead | [email protected] | Pronouns: he/him.
It's with sadness I'm announcing next week will be my last at TechCrunch. I've accepted a comms role — I'll reveal where soon — and will, at least for now, be hanging up my journalism hat. I'd like to thank my colleagues for all their support over the years — it's been a ride.
“After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence.” nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opi…
Sonnet 3.5's first mission
We're announcing a $200M ceiling contract with the U.S. Department of Defense. Through hands-on prototyping and direct collaboration across the Department, we will help enhance U.S. national security and responsible AI deployment.
Missouri's AG claims chatbot rankings of presidents on anti-Semitism amount to "fraud" meriting a state investigation. By that logic, any historian offering opinions about historical figures in a book could face liability. Just more censorship disguised as consumer protection.
The AI Action Plan is out. Immediate reactions in this thread:
The last thing you see before you realize your alignment strategy doesn’t work
Great science starts with great questions. 🤔✨ Meet AutoDS—an AI that doesn’t just hunt for answers, it decides which questions are worth asking. 🧵
People should be concerned about companies imposing their political views on the public in opaque ways, but this is not just a left-wing thing as recent events indicate, nor is it easy to fix without concentrating a dangerous amount of power in gov't. x.com/AndrewCurran_/…
The White House is preparing an executive order requiring AI models to be 'politically neutral and unbiased' according to a report by the WSJ. Compliance will determine eligibility for federal contracts, so this is a big deal for all the labs. The EO is expected next week.
Need to avoid this
Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety
I’m calling for a total and complete shutdown of people moving between AI companies until we can figure out what the hell is going on. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
those $100M offers might sound compelling now, but if Trump fires Powell that won’t even be enough for a cup of coffee
There is a need for an AI influencer that does honest in-depth real-use review of new models. Instead of the “this is insane, 10 ways how kimi k2 is changing the world.” Maybe they exist?
There is a need for an AI influencer that does honest in-depth real-use review of new models. Instead of the “this is insane, 10 ways how kimi k2 is changing the world.” Maybe they exist?
Spearphishing PSA—looks like there's a concerted attack on AI safety/governance folks going around. Be wary of calendar links via DM, and *never* give a 2-factor auth code over the phone. I almost got caught by this—got a phone call last week, but figured out it was sus. 🧵
And @ajeya_cotra's account has been hacked by the same folks - if you get messages from her asking to schedule a meeting, be very wary! She says she will never reach out to a potential grantee by Twitter, always email.
Particle physicists saying thanks to the sensors at CERN are like: “Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
xAI folks, please tell me that you do not *actually* work by cutting & pasting source code files into the query entry box on grok.com.
You can cut & paste your entire source code file into the query entry box on grok.com and @Grok 4 will fix it for you! This is what everyone @xAI does. Works better than Cursor.
If Rubio actually fired State’s ASEAN team while at ASEAN, it’s a bizarre and incomprehensible decision.
Secretary Rubio fired State HQ's entire ASEAN team while he was in Malaysia, attending the ASEAN meetings they prepared for him. Glad he liked the meetings, though.
Kimi K2 will have a major impact on enterprises rather than consumer, so it'll take longer to happen. DeepSeek moment was caused by low training cost ($5M) & exposed reasoning traces. Kimi has neither, but a mostly permissively licensed, open frontier model makes major waves.
🚀 Hello, Kimi K2! Open-Source Agentic Model! 🔹 1T total / 32B active MoE model 🔹 SOTA on SWE Bench Verified, Tau2 & AceBench among open models 🔹Strong in coding and agentic tasks 🐤 Multimodal & thought-mode not supported for now With Kimi K2, advanced agentic intelligence…