Meghan Bobrowsky

Sources: Dario Amodei spoke with Meta's Alexandr Wang earlier this year, hoping to source more compute; Meta declined the request (Wall Street Journal)

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Meet the Anthropic executive who convinced the White House and Elon Musk that the company isn’t woke:

6-foot-6 Tom Brown bought a house in Washington and appealed to Republicans while tackling the company’s compute shortage.

Profile w/ @keachhagey:

wsj.com/tech/ai/tom-br…

interesting interview with Katie Harbath in @stratechery today in which she argues that Anthropic and OpenAI are trying to get the government involved in regulating AI to avoid becoming scapegoated for broader societal problems, like she says Facebook was

what the-- oh fleet week

Dying at what Amazon has gleaned about me from my purchases… checks out

Did a dog write this

In other OpenAI news… some pretty compelling data here on the company’s momentum with businesses

From @AngelAuYeung

Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn’t leave a paper trail.

“It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she wrote on Signal, according to messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Please.”

Read story w/ dream team: @rebeccaballhaus @drewhinshaw @JoeWSJ wsj.com/politics/polic…

“What’s your deadline?”

Now! The answer is always now!!

a few days late but amazing paragraph in @cityofthetown's larry ellison profile

Larry Ellison thinks of himself as an octopus and has wrapped his arms around Silicon Valley, Hollywood, DC, Israel and Hawaii. I spent the last year talking to the people closest to him to understand what the 82 old increasingly reclusive billionaire wants. For @VanityFair

The best girl dinner in sf

A profile of Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, who is the company's first senior executive from Gen Z and has succeeded in building hype for Muse (@MeghanBobrowsky / Wall Street Journal)

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A 20-something Harvard dropout built Facebook into a social media giant. A 20-something MIT dropout is helping usher it into the AI era.

My profile of Alexandr Wang, the camo-wearing Gen Z billionaire behind Meta’s new consumer agent app, featuring ~those~ memes

wsj.com/tech/ai/alexan…

At Meta’s annual conference today, Mark Zuckerberg painted a vision of a future where people access their Muse AI agents completely hands-free, both via its smart glasses and a new handheld device coming this winter

More in my write-up here: wsj.com/tech/ai/mark-z…

At the end of the Meta Connect keynote, Mark Zuckerberg pulled a small handheld device out of his pocket

He said it’s called “Muse Charm” and that users would be able to access their Muse AI agent via it

He said Meta is planning for it to go on sale in time for the holidays

Reporting live from Meta Connect

Wrote about Meta’s new Muse AI agent and what hurdles Meta will have to overcome for it to succeed

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According to a survey, only 8% of U.S. consumers said they would trust Meta with their passwords

Meta released its new AI agent Muse two weeks ago that needs users' passwords to be fully effective -- ie to purchase items, book appointments, respond to emails

Following the “Stop The AI Race” protest this morning and they stopped by Dreamforce before marching on to City Hall