Fun(?) fact: I was literally the only journalist who attended this debate in person. There was a big spin room with space for 30+ reporters and I was the only one in it.
"The quirky timing of these six- and seven-figure spends — used to bankroll mailers and TV ads bashing their foes — means these shadowy groups won’t have to disclose their donors until just days before the primary, or in some cases until July."
https://t.co/TzmmLk56Rq
Reuters - Israeli firm BlackCore, suspected of interfering in France's local elections in March, is also suspected of meddling in elections in New York City and Scotland, and operating in Angola and Togo, the head of France's disinformation detection service Viginum said.
I don’t make it to all the events… but I always try to get to the @semafor ones. Some thought provoking insights around AI, the constraints, and adoption — especially in the enterprise. As always, great questions from @ReedAlbergotti.
"The costs of token are far higher than the actual value that these tokens are generating at scale," @Cisco's @jpatel41 tells @ReedAlbergotti.
"The big risk in the market is, if you don't create an equilibrium there, then people just pull back on using tokens."
"It's actually very bullish for AI that it has gotten this expensive because empirically people are actually willing to pay the money," @levie tells @ReedAlbergotti.
"You could not rip out coding agents from our engineering team. We would sort of cease to function as an organization."
Does the US government understand quantum?
"I try to spend as much time as I can building a quantum computer, but I do run around in Washington ... I think the serious people are taking that very seriously."
NEW: The former CIA officer found with more than 300 gold bars in his home worked closely with the Stephen Feinberg, the #2 Pentagon official, on a covert program to spy on China
Joe Scarborough, 6:03am: "The New York Times just dropped the first installation of what is going to be, I think, one of the most important books on the Trump presidency, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan..."
Trump, 6:55am:
EXCERPT from Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, by @jonathanvswan and me, in NYT Magazine today. How the Epstein files crisis paralyzed the Trump White House for the better part of a year https://t.co/QF4Lp3oC65
“ChatGPT could not find one example in American history of a third-place candidate surging days after an election to overtake second place…” and the tab was closed