Deepa Seetharaman
@dseetharaman
tech reporter writing about AI. dseetharaman.23 on Signal. Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/deepa.bsky.social
Some news: I'm leaving the Wall Street Journal today, after a decade covering Facebook, then tech + politics, and now AI. I’ve reported from so many corners of Silicon Valley but mostly its white-hot center. It’s been a huge privilege. 🧵
Shengjia is one of the brightest, humblest, and most passionate scientists I know. We went to PhD together for 5 yrs, sitting across the hall at Stanford Gates building. Good old times. I didn’t expect this, but not at all surprised either. Very bullish on MSL!
We're excited to have @shengjia_zhao at the helm as Chief Scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs. Big things are coming! 🚀 See Mark's post: threads.com/@zuck/post/DMi…
President Trump's comments on copyright at the AI Summit, slightly abridged. 'You can't be expected to have a successful Al program when every single article, book, or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for. ... It's not doable. And if you're going…
Scoop: @BusinessInsider obtained an internal list of websites that could and couldn't be used for training Anthropic's latest AI models. Anthropic's contractor Surge AI left the list fully public on Google Docs. 'Sites you can use' include Bloomberg, Harvard, & the Mayo Clinic
SCOOP: Leaked memo from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei outlines the startup's plans to seek investment from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. “Unfortunately, I think ‘no bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on.”
Paramount/Colbert and WSJ/Epstein are related. There’s no evidence to date that Paramount owner Shari Redstone made the move to placate Trump. Same for Larry and David Ellison, who plan to buy Paramount. And there are definitely non-Trump reasons to bail on late-night TV. 👇
The amount of people who think publications the scope of the Wall Street Journal just put explosive stuff out about a public figure without well established authentication procedures and running it through a team of lawyers knows literally nothing about journalism.
I am so proud of my brave, brilliant colleagues @khadeeja_safdar and @joe_palazzolo, proud to live in a country where the founders put freedom of speech in the very first amendment, and proud to work at The Wall Street Journal. wsj.com/politics/trump… via @WSJ
“The letter bearing Trump’s name, which was reviewed by the Journal, is bawdy—like others in the album. It contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker. A pair of small arcs denotes the…
Human beings as custom-made luxury goods washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
Surprising! And curious to see if other, similar studies pop up confirming or disproving this finding.
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
NEW: Meta has made unusually high compensation offers to new members of its “superintelligence” team — including a more than $200 million package for Apple’s AI models chief. Here’s how the packages are actually structured — bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Reuters is reporting that OpenAI is about to release an AI-powered web browser to directly compete with Chrome that will 'fundamentally change how consumers browse the web'.
Microsoft boss: we are crushing it. But also, we made a difficult decision to lay off thousands. Rest of you need to use AI asap.
new from me and @GerritD on an internal forum for Google Deepmind employees, Sergey Brin called the UN a “transparently antisemitic organization” after a new report accused tech companies of profiting from genocide in Gaza
This is Anna Delvey for people who care about SQL databases
PSA: there’s a guy named Soham Parekh (in India) who works at 3-4 startups at the same time. He’s been preying on YC companies and more. Beware. I fired this guy in his first week and told him to stop lying / scamming people. He hasn’t stopped a year later. No more excuses.
SCOOP on the tender offer for LPs in Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross's NFDG funds. Meta is offering to buy up to 49% of the holdings at face value - quite unusual at a time when secondaries are done at steep discounts. Meta won't have info rights in portcos wsj.com/articles/meta-…
Happy pseudo Friday, here’s me on The Journal podcast talking about Meta’s $100 million offers to AI researchers open.spotify.com/episode/0WGMeH…
Statement from Executive Editor Matt Murray: “For three decades, Ellen Nakashima has been one of the most careful, fair-minded, and highly regarded reporters covering national security. Reaching out to potential sources rather than relying solely on official government press…
It has come to my attention that Washington Post reporter @nakashimae appears to be actively harassing ODNI staff. Instead of reaching out to my press office, she is calling high level Intelligence Officers from a burner phone, refusing to identify herself, lying about the fact…