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I write @BigTechnology and host Big Technology Podcast. Contributor @CNBC . Author of ALWAYS DAY ONE. alex.kantrowitz @gmail .com

New York, NY

https://t.co/3ewqJ0bAJW

Joined April 2009

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Friday Pod: Details on my email exchange with @elonmusk , a look at whether GenAI is a real business yet, the case for AI boyfriends. And a lot of goofy stuff. With @ranjanxroy

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Emails From Elon, AI Revenue Questions, Chatbot Boyfriends

Listen to this episode from Big Technology Podcast on Spotify. Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Ranjan's visit to India and his use of...

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Imagine having a system designed for this very purpose

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I love that a beekeeper saved a baseball game last night, threw out a first pitch, amped up the crowd, and did postgame interviews. Make him the MLB commissioner.

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ChatGPT is getting training updates and lying about them

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More proof NYC is the best city in the world. Blackout hits, @hadestown takes the show to the sidewalk. (Via @misskimizzo )

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This is incredible. Firefighters for the win (via @maz_jovanovich )

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This website lolll

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The meme that Elon cut 75% of Twitter and the service works just fine is a bit off. Many of those cuts were in the sales org and revenue is down 40%. That's not working fine.

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Breitbart editor declares war following Bannon's exit, then Twitter does its thing:

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Elon switched his paperwork last week from passive to activist investor. He’s no longer bound by the agreement that caps the amount of Twitter he can own. He seems mad. Only getting more interesting from here.

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Holy, this is nuts. Wingsuit landing into a moving plane.

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Mr. Beast paid for 1,000 people to have blindness curing surgery, raised awareness for it, and this is the reaction.

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BREAKING: Facebook blocks Trump from accessing his accounts indefinitely, per Zuckerberg. "We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great."

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Fantastic twitter own right here

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From Italy: “Many of us were too selfish to follow suggestions to change our behavior. Now we’re in lockdown and people are needlessly dying.”

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A coronavirus cautionary tale from Italy: Don’t do what we did - The Boston Globe

Many of us were too selfish to follow suggestions to change our behavior. Now we’re in lockdown and people are needlessly dying.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Finally, some good news: Cleveland Clinic develops COVID-19 test that gives results in hours, not days.

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I think we’re all under appreciating “EH!POCALYPSE NOW” which is Pulitzer-worthy in my opinion

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First tweet on Thursday. Resignation Friday.

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Inflation going over well in New York

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Choose your fighter

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This is good TV

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Texas Judge: "I can’t understand this. If someone at the jail takes your wallet, they give you a receipt. They take your kids, and you get nothing? Not even a slip of paper?"

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The SNL ⚠️BeReal⚠️ sketch just absolutely nails it 😂😂

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Hi, I'm Tim Cook. And today I'm so very excited to introduce the Apple Lawnmower.

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Zuck's longevity remains remarkable

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This is the most important line of @RonanFarrow 's Musk piece. His power comes from the state's total failure to build basic infrastructure.

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Zuckerberg, Trump, Melania, and Thiel had a secret dinner at the White House last month. Facebook has been preaching political transparency. Yet it didn't disclose this.

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Trump hosted Zuckerberg for undisclosed dinner at the White House in October

The meeting took place during Zuckerberg’s most recent visit to Washington, where he testified before Congress about Facebook’s new cryptocurrency Libra.

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These Signal ads are amazing. Facebook banned them for being a little bit too relevant.

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Did anyone at Google give this layoff a minute of thought? Or maybe this was intentional. Damn.

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Don Lemon on CNN right now: "Open your eyes, America. We are teetering on a dictatorship."

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Meet the new voice of the Google Assistant: @johnlegend Coming soon, Google announces at #io2018

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Ever since I saw the shape of Dan Crenshaw's district I haven't stopped thinking about it. WTF is this.

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Trump's digital director Gary Coby just tried this out. Twitter blocked his account out within five minutes.

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In case you were wondering how much Sam Altman mattered to Microsoft. I'm gonna go with A LOT.

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4 years

A New Jersey woman got charged with violating the state's stay at home order after she went outside to throw a molotov cocktail at her boyfriend's house.

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Stepping out during stay-at-home order could get you in trouble

Offenders accused of spitting, coughing, even throwing a bomb when they should have stayed home

www.courierpostonline.com

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7 years

So how does Trump respond to this

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Crazy: Perplexity CEO @AravSrinivas told me he'd agreed to hire someone from Google. Then Google didn't just match that person's salary, but 4X'd it. Nuts.

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2 years

Can we all agree this is the world’s dumbest invention

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News: Twitter will allow its employees to work from home forever. @jack just emailed the company about it. Details here:

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Twitter Will Allow Employees To Work At Home Forever

Two months into working from home, Twitter makes it permanent for some.

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An Amazon worker died of a heart attack, laying on floor for 20 mins before someone spotted him “A couple of days before, he put the wrong product in the wrong bin and within two minutes management saw it on camera and came down to talk to him about it”

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Man, if we find out there were people typing behind ChatGPT this entire time...

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Man wearing nothing but a mask just passed me in San Francisco. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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This whole Bitcoin laundering case is just so insane

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LOL. Elon Musk to Facebook AI VP. That's one way to end an argument.

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Two well-liked Twitter employees accessed thousands of users’ private information and illegally passed it to the Saudi Royal Family, per the FBI. It is a crazy story. With many twists and turns, including a fake invoice, an escape from SF, and more.

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How Saudi Arabia Infiltrated Twitter

“Proactive and reactively we will delete evil my brother.”

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Translation: We lied to you. Willfully. Repeatedly. Now we're coming clean. But only because a defamation suit would nuke us out of existence if we don't.

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This remains funny

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Robinhood is now hated by retail investors, Wall Street hedge funds, Ted Cruz, and AOC. Good luck with this one folks.

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@sriramk I think you know how silly this entire plan has been

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Fairly remarkable note from @mtaibbi . “I didn’t bother to take this possibility seriously enough. To readers who trust me not to make those misjudgments, I’m sorry.”

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Wow. This is absolutely insane.

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Well @jack just periscoped to everyone, seemed to start giving some internal updates, and then says "I just realized this is live" and signed off.

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Holy crap, this is incredible:

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This is some 🔥🔥🔥🔥 from the head of Facebook's AI research:

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Put this man in the debates

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Strong favorite for a Quarantine Award 😂😂😂

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You might have missed it, but Snapchat's product is absolutely booming. It's now used by 115 million more people each day than Twitter. Yes, you read that right.

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All the CEOs who are like, "Man, I wish I could do that" are you willing to cut revenue in half too?

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Finally, a task too big for @elonmusk

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Here’s a TikTok posted this weekend about work in an Amazon Fullfillment Center...

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Conservatives call for a protest in front of an empty Twitter HQ. The only person who shows up is someone with an anti-Trump sign. Gotta love San Francisco.

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The police have arrived en masse. No protesters except for one man with an anti-Trump sign. And no Twitter employees, of course, bc ... COVID.

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Crazy story, but one of my stories was plagiarized by a new Substack using AI last week. I found the writer used AI tools to lift the work, remix it, and pass it off as their own. Here’s what happened 👉

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A Writer Used AI To Plagiarize Me. Now What?

Anyone can use AI to copy, remix, and publish stolen work. The platforms have no good answer for what happens next.

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How does anyone take this guy seriously?

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Looking forward to reading this tweet again in 18 hours

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love how twitter is always showing me stuff "in case i missed it", despite certainly being in possession of data showing that i, in fact, did not miss it

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When the odds look long. When the challenges seem insurmountable. Don't give up. There's still a chance. As this guy who dropped his AirPod in the tracks today found out:

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PayPal paid $4 billion for Honey, a browser extension that helps you shop smart online. Now, this is showing up at the top of Amazon:

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A VC-backed grocery delivery service just gave me two chocolate bars, a coffee, and $60 in credit to download their app. Capitalism is good.

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Narrator: It was bad

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Spotted in The @nytimes newsroom: a paper from February 26, 2020. “It Could Be Bad.”

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Congressman: What about YouTube? Zuck: You're asking me about YouTube?? Congressman: Yes

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I’m fairly certain 90% of the people saying “Web3” have no idea what they’re talking about

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How many journalists have been attacked this weekend? Vice reporter gets pepper sprayed in the face while on the ground shouting “press” and holding up his ID card.

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Jfc @Wendys

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One thing we’re now seeing is that Twitter’s old team did a better job than they were credited for

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One Twitter advertiser in my DMs: "We have seen major lags in programmatic revenue reporting and complete disorganization on who to communicate with there for normal partner management questions/ issues"

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4 years

The state of journalism captured in one tweet

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Joe Sonka 😐

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I won a Pulitzer Prize today, and I’m on my second week of unpaid furlough starting next Monday. Please subscribe to the @courierjournal to support our work:

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Public: Zuck, you running for President? Zuck: Well, here's me meeting with teachers, eating local food and calling people "folks"

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3 years

Wednesday 1/6: Insurrection Wednesday 1/13: Impeachment Wednesday 1/20: Inauguration Wednesday 1/27*: Gamestop

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Tik Tok ban creates another news cycle that’s not coronavirus or economy. Which is the intent.

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@JoeScibelli I don't think you read my tweet

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Zuck straight up delivering stump speeches on his Facebook page now

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News: Twitter is going to let you add images/GIFs to quote tweets. Starting today. Have fun everyone.

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News: Twitter offered Russian television network RT 15% of its US elections ad space.

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Twitter Offered Russian Television Network RT 15% Of Its Total Share Of US Elections Advertising

A Russian news outlet described by the US intelligence community as "the Kremlin’s principal international propaganda outlet" was once a top sales prospect for Twitter's US elections ad team.

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3 years

Australian TV man...

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Ad Age has the best 404 error page. Nothing even close.

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News: In Elon Musk's first year, Twitter lost approximately 13% of its daily active users. The rebrand really hurt, with 5% month-over-month daily user drops in August and September. Comprehensive data via Apptopia. Check it out on @BigTechnology -->

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Exclusive Data: Twitter Is Shrinking Under Elon Musk

Twitter's lost 13% of its daily app users and its rebrand has failed. But those remaining on still engaged, according to new data from Apptopia. Threads, meanwhile, is a nonfactor.

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7 years

It's better to be lucky than good

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Literally took six days

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The whole internet feels like a pirate ship right now

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Scott Atlas has resigned. he leaves behind this curve.

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Trust but verify

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Alex Trebek is a savage

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The most Twitter thing to happen next is for Elon to back out of the deal, leaving the company with declining morale, a cratering stock, and cleared out upper ranks

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7 years

Twitter is simultaneously getting more important and more unbearable

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2 years

Rule No. 1 about leaving Twitter: If you feel compelled to tweet about leaving, you're probably not leaving

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3 years

‘Read before you Retweet’ resulted in 40% more article opens. A) Shows how thoughtless and reactive this platform is in its natural state B) Kudos to Twitter for trying. Don’t stop here.

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Twitter: Our 'Read Before You Retweet' Function Actually Works

The prompts, which ask people to read stories before re-tweeting them, resulted in 40 percent more articles opens, so the beta feature will become permanent in the coming weeks.

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4 years

Two scary paragraphs

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7 years

NYC subways are so bad, riders needed to put on a graduation ceremony for stranded straphanger late for the real one

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7 years

The 2020 general election between Zuck and The Rock is gonna be wild

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6 years

Holy shit. Twitter says more than 50,000 Russia-linked bots were tweeting election-related content during 2016 campaign:

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4 years

Actually think Twitter without an edit button is great

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Crazy how a layoff of 11,000 people at Meta is the No. 3 tech story of the week

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