My DMs are open and my Signal handle is in my bio for any Silicon Valley VCs who want to talk/need unlicensed therapy rn

As Elon Musk and Donald Trump take jabs at each other online, their respective businesses are plummeting in value. wired.com/story/musk-tru…

“The feud is putting pressure on some of Musk's closest associates from the tech industry, including Trump’s AI and crypto czar David Sacks, Marc Andreessen, and other investors, to choose whether to align themselves with the Tesla CEO or continue supporting the president”

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.”

scoop from Lauren Goode: OpenAI is seeking capital from new and existing investors. The fundraising effort is part of a $40 billion round announced in March. The round will reopen on Monday, July 28.

OpenAI is fundraising yet again. Awesome scoop from Lauren Goode - wired.com/story/openai-f…

Source: OpenAI's $40B round announced in March is reopening on July 28; SoftBank's commitment could be cut to $10B if OpenAI does not restructure by end of 2025 (@laurengoode / Wired) wired.com/story/openai-f… techmeme.com/250722/p27#a25… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

i have no words other than AHHHHHHH my weekly WIRED newsletter - model behavior - is almost here. my very first edition goes live next tuesday 🌷🤠

Sources: NIST withheld publishing an AI safety report and several other AI documents at the end of Biden's term to avoid clashing with the Trump administration (Will Knight / Wired) wired.com/story/inside-t… techmeme.com/250806/p47#a25… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

Are you a coder who's been using Claude Code and are giving GPT-5 a spin today (or have had early access to it?) Would love to chat. DMs open.

So far I'm hearing GPT-5 is very...thorough. Elaborate, almost. DM me your observations x.com/LaurenGoode/st…

While everyone else has been talking about Nvidia’s GPUs, Lisa Su has discreetly turned AMD into a chipmaking phenom. And as the US-China tech war rages, she’s at the center of it all. wired.com/story/lisa-su-…

Q&A with AMD CEO Lisa Su on AI accelerators, US manufacturing, becoming AMD CEO in 2014, aiming to surpass Nvidia, OpenAI, Tesla, xAI, China, ROCm, and more (@laurengoode / Wired) wired.com/story/lisa-su-… techmeme.com/250812/p9#a250… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

My long-in-the-works Big Interview with AMD CEO Lisa Su is out—and more timely than ever. We talk about export controls, making chips in the US, AI in healthcare, what drives her (aside from Starbucks & boxing), and of course, competing with Nvidia wired.com/story/lisa-su-…

I'm sorry what

What really motivated the US government to ban Nvidia from selling powerful computer chips to China? wired.com/story/chips-ch…

So a founder & CEO I talked to the other day quite seriously used BCE as "Before ChatGPT Era" and I can't stop thinking about this

“Someone is going to lose a phenomenal amount of money, we don't know who, and a lot of people are going to make a phenomenal amount of money." Sam Altman at dinner with journalists in San Francisco 👀 wired.com/story/sam-altm… via Zoë Schiffer Will Knight

OpenAI's GPT-5 is supposed to be a "true coding collaborator" for developers. Early reviews? *Extremely* mixed wired.com/story/gpt-5-co…

Some developers say GPT-5 excels at technical reasoning and planning coding tasks and is cost-effective, but Claude Opus and Sonnet still produce better code (@laurengoode / Wired) wired.com/story/gpt-5-co… techmeme.com/250815/p18#a25… x.com/Techmeme/statu…