More on the turf wars, burnout and compensation demands leading up to OpenAI's recent spat of leadership departures. And, Sam Altman tells staff that the 7% equity stake idea is "ludicrous." W/ Erin Woo Amir Efrati theinformation.com/articles/behin…

They’re back: Abbott and Credlin are once again a power behind the throne of the Liberal party. James Massola reports the pair are directly, but informally advising Peter Dutton. smh.com.au/politics/feder…

Labor’s green manufacturing plan isn’t dead, but it has taken an absolute beating. My colleague Mike Foley on what’s gone wrong and how it could get back on track. theage.com.au/politics/feder…

Exclusive with John Kehoe: It’s happened again! An off record briefing with the RBA about interest rates was leaked, this time an RBC client used the Bloomberg terminal to tell an associate, who then pinged the RBC sales desk why they weren’t invited. afr.com/policy/economy…

With respect to my friend Jay Jacobs, I absolutely hate this chart. Nobody just sits on dollars. If you just invested in T-Bills, you didn’t lose purchasing power. (Apologies for the lazy Friday night Excel plot.)

look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power

Great story here from Myriam Robin

The internet can always get stranger: 404media.co/ai-generated-p…

For a decade, several times a day, reporters at the Express have published a headline starting with "BBC Weather" in a bid to steal Google traffic. Today, as a result, they were first to an actual news story. That is what you get for a long-term investment in a reporting beat.

SCOOP w/Jeff Mason .Kamala Harris could sit down with Joe Rogan for an interview in the final stretch of the U.S. presidential campaign, three sources said on Monday. Harris campaign officials met with Rogan's team this week but an appearance has not been confirmed yet, two

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The recent political polarisation of Silicon Valley is really striking. 25 years ago most big tech and VC execs were moderates. Then the whole sector shifted gradually leftwards up until 2020, and now suddenly we have a sharp divide into Democrat-backers and Trump backers.

The gravy plane: Alan Joyce, Anthony Albanese and the opaque politics of schmooze smh.com.au/national/the-g… Exclusive extract from my new book The Chairman’s Lounge in today’s The Sydney Morning Herald

In a judgment handed down in late June this year but only uploaded to Austlii and Jade last week, Judge Tran of the Victorian County Court recognised a tort of invasion of privacy in Australian law. #auslaw #privacy austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdo…

Google, Meta and a spate of tech and corporate-aligned industry groups met directly with the Attorney General's Department prior to the government's introduction of a watered-down privacy law bill in September

Gumroad was one of the very few startups doing not just full-remote, but full-remote mainly in an async setting. That Gumroad is coming to the conclusion that it’s more efficient (looking at business output) to pay more to have an in-person core team: this is notable.

AP: The WH press shop altered the official transcript of Biden’s call where he appeared to call Trump supporters “garbage.” The official WH stenographers objected and called it a “a breach of protocol,” per an internal email. apnews.com/article/biden-…

this is just to say i have forked the repo that was on your github and which you were probably saving for a YC application forgive me it was so beautiful there was such hype and it was MIT licensed

U.S. Embassy Australia President Lyndon Johnson watching sheep shearing in Canberra in 1966

new: a Kamala campaign adviser explains why she didn't go on Joe Rogan: ft.com/content/9292db… from Joshua Franklin & me