𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚐 𝚋𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛.

Tech @Reuters | ex @nytopinion @washingtonpost @WSJ @business | [email protected] | People love me on Yelp!

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If you're not listening to the new podcast highlighted by @NewYorker that just dropped on the plot to abduct Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer...then what ARE you doing?
@kenbensinger @jvgarrison
https://t.co/1KLlTkpQIl

[𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚐 𝚋𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛. @GregBensinger]

LLM…Large Language Movie

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In other news, Philip Morris urges teens to pause cigarette use
https://t.co/cNQrRngCOG

[Ken Bensinger @kenbensinger]

SpaceX is expected to be the biggest IPO ever, but sometimes things don't work out as planned. @GregBensinger on times when public offerings went south

https://t.co/A9cRHDO9N8

[𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚐 𝚋𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛. @GregBensinger]

The road to an IPO is paved with pitfalls -- SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI would do well to study their history. After all, even billionaire founders can be seduced by Playboy
https://t.co/O2eBVt26Id

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If you want to know what's happening in the SpaceX IPO, @DEER_ECHO_ is your daily read. Here with another big piece of news:
https://t.co/JeVTBJeOcv

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@Techmeme

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Privacy advocates warned about Amazon Ring's new Familiar Faces feature that scans faces at people's doors...now the first lawsuit has arrived
https://t.co/WZGH4xrP9n

[𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚐 𝚋𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛. @GregBensinger]

Is it really confidential if you announce it?
https://t.co/14RM22MbIf

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It's D-Day for Kindle lovers who have held on to their devices for 12 years or more. Starting today, Amazon will not let them connect to its online store to download more books -- a "betrayal," says one Kindle lover
My story on how Kindle stans are coping:
https://t.co/iZOhCJqWOX

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Tomorrow marks the end of the line for older Kindles as Amazon cuts support. Devotees are scrambling to preserve their beloved older devices: downloading hundreds of ebooks, jailbreaking, sideloading, cutting off WiFi. Whatever it takes. My story:
https://t.co/iZOhCJqWOX

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Jury will enter Oakland courtroom to read Musk v Altman verdict. Fast!

Expert witness testimony has concluded in deference to verdict

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Former OpenAI official Shivon Zilis is testifying that health issues prevented her from having children and Musk "was encouraging everyone around him to have kids and noticed I had not and he said that if that was ever interesting he'd be happy to make a donation"

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Elon Musk in court says he never directed the X algorithm to boost his own account or to de-emphasize the OpenAI's account

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AWS CEO Garman on AI: “we are hiring just as many software developers as we ever had inside of Amazon.”
The company cut 30,000+ jobs since October.

[Techmeme @Techmeme]

Internal memo: Amazon is replacing white-collar job titles at its Ring and Blink units with the designation "builder", and "builder leaders" for managers (@gregbensinger / Reuters)

(Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

[Ken Bensinger @kenbensinger]

Amazon is stripping job titles of employees at Ring & Blink. Now everyone will just be called a "builder."

Workers worry this is a way to make it harder to get promotions and raises.

@GregBensinger

https://t.co/3vn62OiiS3

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Hindenburg

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Bring back the "print" button on online articles, you cowards!

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@BlackLabelAdvsr @annierpalmer Only time will tell

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Amazon will report its quarterly earnings on April 29 - a Wednesday.
That marks the first time since April 23, 2008 that Amazon reported on a Wednesday and only the 8th time in that span that it was not on a Thursday