Brendan O'Boyle

@Reuters reporter in Mexico | Covering Latin America | Views my own | Scoops & tips via DM or [email protected]

[Brendan O'Boyle @BrenOBoyle]

PROFESSIONAL NEWS (if anybody still sees my tweets post-Musk)

I’m moving to Brasília, Brasil, in June to help @Reuters cover October’s pivotal election.

Please don’t hesitate to reach out with connections, tips, and recommendations for living in Brazil’s capital!

[boz @bloggingsbyboz]

Colombia has 99.8% of its ballots counted. Peru has 99.7% of its ballots counted. The difference is that Colombia's election finished a few hours ago, and Peru's finished two weeks ago.

[Brendan O'Boyle @BrenOBoyle]

My colleague @CassLGarrison is on the ground in La Paz this morning after President Paz declared a state of emergency in an effort to squash roadblocks that have caused shortages of food and medicine.

Follow for updates: https://t.co/5hA4XkCz95

[Reuters @Reuters]

In Mexico, soccer is played wherever space permits https://t.co/edtK5INYha https://t.co/edtK5INYha

[Reuters @Reuters]

They are the unofficial mascot of Mexico City as the capital gears up to host five soccer World Cup matches. But the use of the critically endangered axolotl salamander has created backlash from the public and scientists. READ MORE: https://t.co/rwRU0CTR5K

[Brendan O'Boyle @BrenOBoyle]

@emilytgreen No Emily noooo

[Brendan O'Boyle @BrenOBoyle]

@denalifox It all felt iconic at the time

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Brendan O'Boyle @BrenOBoyle]

@HamptonPrezcott Charlotte…

[Brendan O'Boyle @BrenOBoyle]

@vulture The irony of Aubry (most likely) winning and getting the same fan reaction Michele did when she beat Aubry in S32.

[Brendan O'Boyle @BrenOBoyle]

@KTLA @CaliforniaICP Looks like he engineered his own "gotcha"

[Brendan O'Boyle @BrenOBoyle]

So, is anyone working shorter days because of AI?

Less stressed?

Seeing friends and family more?

No?

[Brendan O'Boyle @BrenOBoyle]

@TonyFrangieM @DKThomp This is kind of what I expected after the Covid lockdown era...but that's not what happened.

[Brendan O'Boyle @BrenOBoyle]

@WSJ *fewer nightclubs

[Reuters @Reuters]

Two years after its launch, Mexico's $25 billion Mayan Train is struggling. Ticket sales are low, hotels along the route sit mostly empty and despite government promises, the local communities near the line say they have seen little benefit https://t.co/Ci0srlaBB4

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In Mexico, flagship Mayan tourist train leaves trail of broken pledges https://t.co/gjAkO3qRpg https://t.co/gjAkO3qRpg

[Brendan O'Boyle @BrenOBoyle]

I don’t think either will be their party’s nominee…

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

BREAKING: Gavin Newsom and JD Vance are now tied to win the 2028 presidency

[Brendan O'Boyle @BrenOBoyle]

@BrazilBrian Brian I'm having flashbacks from working on this in 2021 and then Castillo taking us all by surprise.

[YourFriendKevin @YourFriendKevin]

When people see a world that lacks hope and stability, they stop making long term plans and become more desperate for immediate success. That's why everyone is gambling, using ai to replace friendships and doing this shit

[Brendan O'Boyle @BrenOBoyle]

Not over the deadly accident days earlier??

[Financial Times @FT]

Air Canada CEO to step down over failure to speak French https://t.co/r8StMENF0H