Ina Fried
@inafried
Chief Technology Correspondent for @Axios; former Senior Editor at Recode. Huge softball, hockey, basketball fan. she/her 🏳️⚧️
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In my opinion, it's ok for Anthropic to be a business and act like one. But this reinforces the need for open science and open-source AI to avoid concentration of power and control in the hands of a few of these businesses, otherwise we'll be in big trouble!
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.”
Late-night solidarity: The @NYPost hears that Jimmy Fallon "and a handful of other top comedians are expected to make a cameo" on tonight's edition of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert." Preview clip from the taping is expected to come out shortly... nypost.com/2025/07/21/med…
The artist behind Michelle Obama's portrait pulled her show from the National Portrait Gallery, alleging the museum wanted to remove her painting that depicts the Statue of Liberty as a transgender woman from the exhibition. trib.al/ApVx1BY
The public betas for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe, watchOS 26 and tvOS 26 are now live, per Apple. beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/
I’ve joined Cognition to continue to work on the future of software engineering. I was employee #2 at Windsurf and have worked on AI+code for years. There’s never been a more exciting time and place for it than now at Cognition. I had a place at Google DeepMind as part of the…
Trump wanted to break up Nvidia — but then its CEO won him over theverge.com/news/712753/tr…
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
Microsoft warned that at least three Chinese hacking groups have been targeting SharePoint trib.al/v8dTjOP
“I cannot go on living; my strength is exhausted,” said Jewish teenager Miriam Wattenberg. She documented the Nazis’ mass deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center in July 1942. The "Great Action" devastated the largest Jewish community in Europe.
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.”
I’d like to announce I’m back on this app but since I don’t pay for premium, it will be seen by 4 people. Anyway to those 4 people, I captured something amazing this month 🐻
David Letterman shared a video montage slamming CBS after 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert' was canceled: "You can’t spell CBS without BS,” he wrote. Watch: rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-m…
More news: Get ready for some Jon Stewart F-bombs: Tonight’s Daily Show is airing uncensored on Comedy Central, that’s only happened a handful of times in the history of the show.
NEW: "Go f**k yourself": Colbert responds to Trump post trib.al/QS38aJ2
When I came across this photo today, I was immediately floored. But I couldn't figure out what was happening: How was the image being reflected like that? To find out, I went straight to the source: the man behind the camera. His answer blew me away. 👇 💬 Sean Gardner, Getty…
Ex-officer in fatal Breonna Taylor raid sentenced to 33 months trib.al/wAO8adf
Judge sentences a former Louisville police officer involved in the fatal raid of Breonna Taylor’s home to nearly three years in prison, in a sharp rebuke to the Trump administration, which had requested he serve only one day behind bars. @GlennThrush nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/…
Massie reiterating to reporters what he told @Axios last week: His plan has been to hold a vote on his Epstein bill *after* the August recess to give colleagues time to hear from angry constituents.
Massie tells @Axios it doesn't really matter whether next week's votes are canceled — his plan was to have the Epstein files vote in Sept. During summer recess, he says, members are "going to get the question, 'Why haven't you supported this already?'" axios.com/2025/07/18/tru…
This was our announcement for Spotify launching in the U.S., 14 years ago. At the time, we weren’t sure if people here would embrace it the same way they had in Europe. We launched invite only because we didn’t know what kind of demand to expect, or honestly if we were even…
An obituary on a beloved bunny I was fortunate enough to call a friend, @AThegreat100. He will be dearly missed: apnews.com/article/ballpa…