Eli Tan

New York Times reporter covering Meta and Silicon Valley. Reach me [email protected] or elitan.60 on Signal.

[Eli Tan @elitanjourno]

@ditzkoff It’s a blue fog!

[Teddy Schleifer @teddyschleifer]

NEW —

The extraordinary story of how Mark Zuckerberg wheeled and dealed to get Meta’s board of directors to protect him from California’s wealth tax.

With @elitanjourno

https://t.co/ZYnxhazGDo

[Eli Tan @elitanjourno]

@coryweinberg @kateconger @nytimes @theinformation Woohoo

[Teddy Schleifer @teddyschleifer]

another day, another moment being wildly impressed by @elitanjourno

https://t.co/kr9ghbPuxz

[Eli Tan @elitanjourno]

@thesamreynolds @netflix To replace us with WSJ…stolen valor!

[rat king 🐀 @MikeIsaac]

🎶 mammas, dont let your babies grow up to be podcasters... 🎶

@readmaxread @eringriffith @elitanjourno

https://t.co/2IP7UMxRDI

[Kashmir Hill @kashhill]

In the summer of 2024, an employee at Meta had a daring idea to save the company billions of dollars on its A.I. data centers: Claim they were 'experimental' to tap a lucrative tax credit meant to inspire companies to tackle novel challenges.

Gift link to investigation by @JesseDrucker, @elitanjourno, @MikeIsaac, and me:
https://t.co/AjtDhj9krP

[rat king 🐀 @MikeIsaac]

how the American taxpayer helps back Meta's A.I. data center expansion

by @kashhill @JesseDrucker @elitanjourno and me

https://t.co/ra4zoxozde

[rat king 🐀 @MikeIsaac]

i just want to note something personally important to me, noticed by @elitanjourno:

MZ did a few versions of this tweet before but i think copypasted from Threads, where the personal agent has the @ muse handle

on this platform it ended up tagging the prog rock band @muse

[rat king 🐀 @MikeIsaac]

gut morgen...

three — three! — reporting jobs now open to cover AI companies with me and my colleagues in San Francisco

apply here

OpenAI
https://t.co/rTdxw9ezQz

Anthropic
https://t.co/Km7FPFWhht

SpaceX/Xai/Musk
https://t.co/1hexRJzre2

[Jake @indurskyjake]

I asked agents where in the city LeBron might live.

They all suggested the same couple of buildings that have a common problem — there's no availability.

Read about potential LeDestination's and how LeBron might navigate the city's competitive luxury rental market here:

[Eli Tan @elitanjourno]

@davidzmorris Fair enough. Having read a lot of this AI fan fiction I’m always suprised how much is coming to fruition, as ridiculous as it can be

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

5 Things to Know About Meta’s Giant Data Center in Louisiana https://t.co/d11moj52my

[rat king 🐀 @MikeIsaac]

News —

in an interview, Mark Zuckerberg blasts "centralization" of A.I. power and calls out some of the "doom" from other leading A.I. labs...i.e. Anthropic and OpenAI (though not by name)

w/ @elitanjourno

https://t.co/BU8t2aF32M

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

Just as Meta was cutting a secret deal with state officials to bring a massive AI data center to Louisiana, the state's power in Washington, @SpeakerMikeJohnson, buried the Kids Online Safety Act that had passed the senate 91-3 but was bitterly opposed by Meta
https://t.co/z6M6JxYgKU via @NYTimes

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

After Elon signed his compute-as-a-service deal with Anthropic, the question was who would Mark Zuckerberg back? We may have our answer. The NYT says Anthropic proposed the two year deal in June, META is considering it, and they are currently in discussions.

[rat king 🐀 @MikeIsaac]

News: Meta in early talks to sell computing power to Anthropic in what could be a $10 billion deal

if such a move happens, it could mark the start of a cloud computing business for Meta as it faces investor pressure for its AI spending

w/ @elitanjourno

https://t.co/Cdwpea4otb

[Eli Tan @elitanjourno]

Some brutal details in here. (Meta denies it's true)

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

META USED AI-POWERED SOFTWARE TO TARGET WORKERS WITH MEDICAL CONDITIONS FOR LAYOFFS, LAWSUIT CLAIMS

[Sridhar Ramesh @RadishHarmers]

The defining principle of our society is that people who were lucky during the dot com boom or Web 2.0 should have vast and ever-growing individual power over the entire world. The only acceptable check on their power is their squabbles with each other.