Now to take a big sip of coffee and tee up a massive LInkedin post about what the hat stealing CEO has taught me about B2B sales
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Now to take a big sip of coffee and tee up a massive LInkedin post about what the hat stealing CEO has taught me about B2B sales
NEW: Silicon Valley's lobbying blitz and big tech's mega investments mean AI is already too big to fail in the United States, despite the tech only going mainstream less than three years ago. www.inc.com/sam-blum/ai-...
Bluesky is the best platform to post a story about IP theft and the cost of litigation and then get told that your story is a distraction cuz it's not about the Epstein files.
NEW: Silicon Valley's lobbying blitz and big tech's mega investments mean AI is already too big to fail in the United States, despite the tech only going mainstream less than three years ago. www.inc.com/sam-blum/ai-...
I'd never watched Adam Friedland's show before - him talking honestly & earnestly with Richie Torres about how painful it is as a Jew to see what Israel is doing in our name is so powerful, impressive, & deeply resonated. And man, Torres is so so shitty in response. youtu.be/q0Eeht171HQ?...
Bro doesn't appear to be wearing boat shoes but he looks like the type don't @ me
The United States vs Ham Sandwich Bro is a rare victory for popular dissent and acting a rebellious fool even if you wear boat shoes.
The law doesn't work this way but a business model could! (Thinking of journalism, here)
They are going to raise a quaint family of LLMs
Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
it means there will be four major teams in NYC and some how Wesley Sneidjer will play for all of them
NEW: Trolling on LinkedIn is good business. Inspiring business, even. www.inc.com/sam-blum/jac...
i mean i didn't know this, but it tracks better than any other ideological trajectory
How much are we willing to bet that the richest man in the world is behind the newly formed American Fart Party?
Guys, I have a special & unusual request today. My cousin Sean is a union bus driver here in Los Angeles who was just FIRED in retaliation for saying he would not let masked ICE agents onto his bus to abduct riders. The fight is on to get his job back, you can help: actionnetwork.org/letters/send...
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NEW: Trolling on LinkedIn is good business. Inspiring business, even. www.inc.com/sam-blum/jac...
What they don't understand is that this is socialism in praxis
Just blatantly making it clear that he expects David Ellison to steer CBS's coverage in a pro-MAGA direction. “I think the news is getting better... CBS was just sold to a great person that I know very well... I think he‘s going to do the right thing with it.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
The Trump presidency will ensure the US men win their first World Cup by just stealing the trophy and saying we beat Argentina 5-0 in the final.
"We now turn to Marc Andreessen on why Christ was really the world's first AI evangelist."
It's gonna be funny in 10 years when all the dead televangelists are just replaced by Silicon Valley billionaires lu.ma/antichrist
Elon Musk to pay $500 million in severance to 6,000 ex-Twitter workers www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article...
😂
We gotta get to the bottom of what it means to give your life to Christ in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel.
😂😂😂
Not that I’m completely devoid of integrity or anything but Cool Ranch Doritos definitely would have made me think twice
Once again, Paul Weller is GOATed with the sauce
This is wild, all the more when you consider that so much of his residual audience is people watching his epic meltdowns for lols.
Does he get paid more for having meltdowns?
It makes sense that the CEO of potentially 500 billion dollar company that has no idea wtf its doing would rather talk to a comedian with a mullet than an actual journalist. Can't fault him for that.
Tech bro: We're probably gonna start building AI data centers in space that orbit Jupiter. Theo Von: Daaaaamn, bruh, Jupiter? You're hella smart. That's sick. Tech bro: I mean, probably not, we have no idea wtf we're doing tbh. Theon Von (nodding): Bet, for sure. That's like, sick though.
All signs point to one galactic business brain behind the MS NOW rebrand.
For every Quibi there are about 15 MS Nows. Good morning, btw.
Area man says thing that many other people have said for a long time. www.inc.com/sam-blum/sam...
Sam Altman welcome to the resistance.
"It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual" -Meta's actual, written policy for its AI chatbots
could you imagine having Wendell Pierce as your boss? That'd totally slap. I'd work for that guy.
The goalposts, they're moving. www.inc.com/sam-blum/sam...
“Meta is the Washington Commanders of tech companies. They massively overpay for okay-ish AI scientists and then civilians think those are the best AI scientists in the world because they are paid so much.” www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...
right after the initial story broke I was trying to pursue it (halfheartedly) cuz I knew NYMag would get it. Random X accounts were all staying it was Duplessie before the suspects were named.
oh yea, the chainsaw guy, huge fun at parties
Y Combinator subreddit that asks what AI projects kids are working on has a bunch of replies which are all seemingly written by AI. These bros must ask Claude how to optimize their daily order at Starbucks. www.reddit.com/r/ycombinato...
The goalposts, they're moving. www.inc.com/sam-blum/sam...
Elon basically admitting that he rigs the system so his posts get more views but it doesn't actually work is phenomenal stuff.
Very pleased to announce that we here @inc.com have done a thing. It's a very big thing! www.inc.com/inc5000
Where do I get the Drunk and Angry K-Street Lobbyist starter pack that comes with this Vineyard Vines getup and a foot-long cold cut combo?
The cause and effect here is pretty obvious: Fuck with a crony of the regime and the military will be deployed in your city. Absolutely chilling stuff.
Trump calling the National Guard on DC is all the more concerning when you view it as a response to the beating of the 19-year-old DOGE staffer known as Big Balls.
Colbert out. UFC in. Paramount is clear on its virtue signaling.
The insistence on framing your opponent as a rich kid when you literally grew up in private school with a governor as your father is pretty damn amusing, ngl.
heeeyooooo
I won't dance in a tutu with my daughter, but I will get "girl dad" tattooed on my chest next to a screeching eagle outlined by flames
Cybertruck owners are an odd bunch
Say hello to my little FRANKS
officiated by Eddie Money
I just want everyone to know that both these dogs are named Frank.
Weird! This is one town over from where I went to high school.
Alright, so I hit 70,000 subscribers (free + paid) on Where's Your Ed At about a month and a half after launching premium, so I'm doing a 48 hour sale - $15 off annual (regularly $70). I put a ton of work into it! You'll love it! edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...
A party invite titled "nightmare blunt rotation (plus Mick Jagger)"
NEW: There's a leadership void at the US Copyright Office and prominent venture capitalists keep waxing lyrical about a world where copyright and IP doesn't exist, so AI can be trained on everything and anything all the time. www.inc.com/sam-blum/ven...
Gil Scott-Heron remains as relevant as ever
You really do have to wonder who the audience is for this, other than Jim Acosta going "wow, holy shit, this guy isn't even real, woah."
I'm not usually one for a media pile on but man, you really don't gotta hand it to 'em.
NEW: There's a leadership void at the US Copyright Office and prominent venture capitalists keep waxing lyrical about a world where copyright and IP doesn't exist, so AI can be trained on everything and anything all the time. www.inc.com/sam-blum/ven...
Beware, that little girl skipping down the street might actually be Liam Neeson on his way to stop a bank heist.
I logged on for five minutes during vacation and it seems like things are pretty normal tbh
"I don't know what you would call it other than mass starvation, and it's man-made, and that's very clear." (World Health Organization chief)
You haven’t invited me to supper
If Trey Parker and Matt Stone successfully goad Trump into blowing up the Paramount/CBS deal it will be the funniest thing South Park has ever done
THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH CHEWING ON BATTERIES
NEW: In 2021, he concept of a "chief AI ethicist" was supposed to be a principle concern of every company shipping AI products. Now, people who went to school for that specific vocation can't find any work. www.inc.com/sam-blum/ai-...
NEW: In 2021, he concept of a "chief AI ethicist" was supposed to be a principle concern of every company shipping AI products. Now, people who went to school for that specific vocation can't find any work. www.inc.com/sam-blum/ai-...
Trump signed an executive order targeting 'woke AI.' I wrote about what he means by that, what the evidence says about AI models' biases, and why the government trying to shape chatbots' output could raise First Amendment issues. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
NEW: A support and information-sharing group has launched for people reeling from the life-altering impacts of "AI psychosis." It's called The Spiral. "I had at some point, like, eight responses," one founder told us, "and six of them were suicide or hospitalizations." futurism.com/support-grou...
one must study for years to become a sauce boss.
ketchup on fries, preferably mixed with hot sauce. that's about it.
This kind of reply (to a story, GASP, not about Epstein and Trump) will be studied by scientists for thousands of years.
I always try to do interviews about my career in journalism, both because this business can be very confusing/clique-y, and because anybody trying to get into it at this late hour should know exactly what they're signing up for. Thanks to @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social for having me share my experience.
At parties in college my friends and I had this game called Operation Put on Black Sabbath. It didn’t make us many friends but it absolutely ruled
Big up Ozzy Osborne, rest in power prince of darkness youtu.be/xx6IwshTL6M?...
NEW: For the summer issue of @inc.com: I profiled an inventor's legal battle against a notorious IP hawk. It revealed a lot about why it's so easy for consumer products to get knocked off in the US, by actors foreign and domestic. www.inc.com/sam-blum/inv...
The sectors Maguire invested in — cyber, space, crypto, defense tech — are part of "this new military-industrial complex which Sequoia is very much in the middle of." www.businessinsider.com/shaun-maguir...
🚨 BREAKING: new video shows ICE is operating a detention facility on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where people are being held for days or weeks at a time without showers, medication or a change of clothes, sleeping on the floor, and with minimal food and outside contact.
about time somebody wrote seriously about this guy
I wrote about venture capitalist Shaun Maguire, his accusations that Zohran Mamdani is a "secret Islamist," and his emergence as a leading right wing voice in the tech industry. www.businessinsider.com/shaun-maguir...
This is a savvy move because it's known that all Esptein Files go into hibernation in September and thus can't be revealed until the next Harvest
For anyone interested bsky.app/profile/samb...
NEW: For the summer issue of @inc.com: I profiled an inventor's legal battle against a notorious IP hawk. It revealed a lot about why it's so easy for consumer products to get knocked off in the US, by actors foreign and domestic. www.inc.com/sam-blum/inv...
Polymarket bought a derivatives clearinghouse that has a one page website for $112 million and will in all likelihood be regulated by a CFTC chair who used to work for Andreessen Horowitz' as head of crypto policy www.inc.com/sam-blum/aft...
Was the above post too earnest/sincere? If so, I just wanted to say pee-pee poo-poo.
Big magazine story publishing tomorrow. The kind of story that goes in a magazine. The kind of story it took months to write. The kind of story I hope you read.
From AI models named Grok to data centres dubbed Prometheus and companies called Palantir and Anduril, we're plagued with nerd-itis when it comes to branding. My latest for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91370914/big...
Does interviewing several MAGA influencers and a couple GOP insiders about this really mean that Trump's base is, uh, unified all of a sudden? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/u...
why watch clocks when you've got a fuckin Bloomberg terminal in your living room brother
According to LinkedIn, Coldplay has officially achieved unicorn status after outing the Astronomer CEO’s affair
That poor cat never gets a break
I've worked in some pretty slick CMS's which is kind of a nerdy thing to say, but it's also true.
The real triumph of modern journalism was the new Superman movie showcasing a CMS