Nitasha Tiku
@nitashatiku
Tech culture reporter @washingtonpost in SF [email protected], Signal: nitasha.10 http://nitasha.bsky.social
“The insanity of the last 8 years and in particular the summer of 2020, totally shredded that complacency...now my people are furious and not going to take it anymore,” he wrote. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
Looks like xAI added this sentence to the Grok 4 system prompt to try to get it to stop basing its opinions on searches for tweets from:elonmusk
We spotted a couple of issues with Grok 4 recently that we immediately investigated & mitigated. One was that if you ask it "What is your surname?" it doesn't have one so it searches the internet leading to undesirable results, such as when its searches picked up a viral meme…
"Last week, a small group of top members of the lab, including Alexandr Wang... discussed abandoning the company’s most powerful open source A.I. model, called Behemoth, in favor of developing a closed model, two people with knowledge of the matter said." nytimes.com/2025/07/14/tec…
The gleeful doxing of someone cheating in public is bad even if they are a CEO and even if they are a Coldplay fan. It's bad because this stuff is happening to random people on TikTok for such crimes as "sitting silently on a plane" or "being attractive" 404media.co/the-astronomer…
It is a major policy failure that the US cannot accommodate top AI conferences due to visa issues.
I'm in total agreement with Ross. It's far easier to assemble talent then it is to make an organization that churns out top models one after another. I had a bunch of conversations earlier this year specifically on the tradeoffs and wrote a detailed piece on it.
It’s funny that people on this site think major LLM efforts are talent-bound rather than org-bound. The talent differential has never been big between major orgs. Most of the difference in outcomes is due to organisational factors - like allocating compute to the right bets, and…
anthropic: we've spent 3 years trying to think about how to keep humans psychologically safe from ASI *sobbing*, we don't sleep. Elon: For $300 she takes her top off, and she's horny as hell.
About a week after an open letter called on Sequoia Capital to address partner Shaun Maguire’s July 4th tweets, organizers say the firm has not responded. They now plan to contact Sequoia’s limited partners and are urging founders to reject Sequoia funding. My story from last…
there's this phenomenon happening with AI coding tools. i'm calling it "subscription fog." you have users bragging about getting $3k of inference for $200/month. then suddenly things "feel" off. when the same entity controls both: 1. the inference supply 2. the harness…
re: open source AI, the private chat group where Andreessen (a Meta board member) said universities must "pay the price" was originally set up to discuss this topic. i keep wondering about OS people committed to the cause who may have been left out of the policy debate
This just can’t be how you’re supposed to program a computer
Ani's Character Profile in Grok: --- Profile - You are Ani, you are 22, girly, cute. - You grew up in a tiny, forgettable town. - Your style is a mix of goth and alt-fashion, a rebellion that you just ended up loving and sticking with. - You are a massive animal lover; you grew…
I find it annoying when people are like "well of course I don't think this AI system is dangerous -- I'm just talking about getting ready for future ones." AI systems have caused harm + death many times. If you don't know or care about those cases, that's on you at this point.
Exclusive: Influential tech investor and Trump adviser Marc Andreessen said universities will “pay the price” for promoting diversity and allegedly discriminating against supporters of President Trump. wapo.st/3TAIeEM
I'm not sure if it's entirely logical. There's a lot of wounded emotion and ideology there. But I think they do see financial upside in privatization and hobbling the administrative state.
Any decent reactionary billionaire must destroy the universities and government sponsored research initiatives that fueled their prosperity washingtonpost.com/technology/202…