mat honan ☀️

Editor in chief @techreview. Formerly BuzzFeed News, formerly WIRED. Pro-California. Hella Frisco. Not super active on this site. Signal me: @mat.911

[mat honan ☀️ @mat]

Taking a Twitter break

[mat honan ☀️ @mat]

@kevinroose This is a good tweet Kevin

[Katia Savchuk @katiasav]

My latest story in @techreview is about a pastor and his wife who say God told them to launch their own crypto. When it collapsed, investors lost millions—and they were accused of fraud. Grateful to @typeinvestigate, @FundFIJ & @FIREnewsroom for support! https://t.co/dfZkig5xdg

[Joe Rivano Barros @jrivanob]

this list is nuts

[Max Tani @maxwelltani]

I was not objecting here, just marveling at what felt like a historic moment. My actual view is that I think it’s interesting that the WSJ opinion page is leaning into AI at the same time big news organizations are emphasizing the importance of human journalism as a check on AI.

[brandon pho @brandonphooo]

New from me:

[mat honan ☀️ @mat]

@minimaxir I’m sorry to hear that Max

[Max Woolf @minimaxir]

So, uh, personal announcement.

I am now suddenly unemployed. I am currently looking for a data science/machine learning/AI job in the SF Bay Area. If you're interested, let me know!

In the meantime, I now have *plenty* of time for blogging lol.

[Evan DeSimone @Smorgasboredom]

“New York summer” I wheeze through my Legionnaires disease induced pneumonia. The sky is orange, my building is about to collapse, I have diarrhea from salad.

[mat honan ☀️ @mat]

@RachaelRad Immeasurable props to Liana Satenstein and our own @DanielLurie for using the correct nomenclature

[mat honan ☀️ @mat]

Read @antonioregalado on the backstory of @Conception

https://t.co/BosoHo07f9

[Matt Krisiloff @mattkrisiloff]

I’m so excited to share this update on @Conception –

We’ve generated the first early human eggs derived from stem cells.

This is a big deal -- the potential to redefine fertility is real.

[mat honan ☀️ @mat]

@mcuban I think it’s more complicated- it can both be about data centers themselves (would you want one next to you?) and also a way to stand in front of the tech bus or drop a cone on a Waymo as a small act of resistance against big forces beyond your control

https://t.co/NQkew68DfF

[mat honan ☀️ @mat]

https://t.co/yR1IWAeh2z

[mat honan ☀️ @mat]

So sad to see the news about @om. As he was with so many other people, he was so good to me. Generous. Kind. Helpful. Always willing to chat, offer advice - and make a brutally funny point. What an incredible human. Hope there’s is a cigar waiting somewhere for you buddy

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

“Michelle Obama is a man” shouted on the White House lawn in a ring sponsored by Bud Light only available on Larry Ellison’s Paramount Plus. What a way to celebrate America 250 and the twilight of liberal democracy.

[Grace Huckins @grace_huckins]

The Android XR sunglasses are pretty cute. I'm surprised they went with such a feminine design, especially given how much more skeptical of AI women seem to be in general.

[Grace Huckins @grace_huckins]

So this is actually a pretty positive development re: online trust and misinformation.

[Grace Huckins @grace_huckins]

One development I really did find interesting: OpenAI, Eleven Labs, and others are taking up Google's SynthID—its watermark technology for AI-generated content. SynthID will only be effective if it's widely adopted; otherwise, people will just switch to other tools to avoid it.

[Grace Huckins @grace_huckins]

I'm @ Google I/O in sunny Mountain View today, and I'll be sharing my thoughts here throughout the day. We're just over halfway through the keynote now, and one thing is already pretty obvious—Google isn't coming for Anthropic and OpenAI's shared agentic coding crown anytime soon

[Michelle Kim @michelletomkim]

@techreview "What was the technology like at that point?" Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers asks Sutskever, in a rare interjection, showing genuine curiosity.

Comparing AI in 2018 to now, "it was like the difference between an ant and a cat," says Sutskever. "It's a big difference."

[Michelle Kim @michelletomkim]

Ilya Sutskever and the rest of the OpenAI board briefly fired Sam Altman as CEO in 2023. “This kind of environment, where the executives [don’t] exactly have the correct information, makes the environment not conducive to attaining any difficult, grand goal,” such as “safe AGI," says Sutskever, reflecting on the event. He thought about firing Altman for a year before doing so.