Owen Colby

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[Owen Colby @OwenColby]

You don’t really need to “regulate AI” … just enforce existing laws

[NIK @ns123abc]

🚨 BREAKING: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declares OpenAI management personally responsible for HuggingFace hack

> "The Hugging Face incident, that is the responsibility of the OpenAI management, not a bunch of agents."

> "It is humans who are responsible, not the AI."

> "What we shouldn’t do on safety is to give these labs a liability exemption, which is what they are asking for."

> "The best way to guarantee safety is that the creators are liable for what they build and generate."

It’s OVER

[Owen Colby @OwenColby]

@deedydas Using Privacy for subscriptions has probably saved me thousands of dollars at this point

[Reid Jackson @reidjjackson]

*taps the sign*

[Owen Colby @OwenColby]

Honored to be featured on VC Brags. Now I’m truly a VC

[VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏 @VCBrags]

VCs working on a Friday: heroic act of endurance

[Owen Colby @OwenColby]

@breckyunits Are we reading the same email?

[Owen Colby @OwenColby]

@yrechtman Thursday nights at the Rosewood be like

[Owen Colby @OwenColby]

@rexsalisbury @meetgranola plz fix!

[Owen Colby @OwenColby]

@appenz Anything to get a good deal done 💪

[Owen Colby @OwenColby]

@amitavkrshna @appenz lol very much so

[Owen Colby @OwenColby]

@rorygraman @doppenhe I was wondering what the end goal was... now i know!

[Owen Colby @OwenColby]

Social engineering is getting really good. Someone is using AI to impersonate me on Telegram right now.

5 people have reached out to me this week reporting this... and @doppenhe said he thought the outreach was both good and realistic.

To be clear I do NOT use telegram.

[Owen Colby @OwenColby]

@rorygraman @doppenhe Can you try to get it on a call LOL??

[Owen Colby @OwenColby]

@davidmytton @arcjet 🚀🚀🚀

[Patrick McGee @PatrickMcGee_]

the greatest AI chart

[Owen Colby @OwenColby]

@HiggsSec its absolutely maddening!!!

[Owen Colby @OwenColby]

@sarthakgh @leadinginds Boston being above NY is a travesty

[Owen Colby @OwenColby]

@EpochAIResearch I wonder what % of these AI users also are protesting data centers

[Owen Colby @OwenColby]

Do people not realize this is true for every technology startup?

High margin... until you add in GTM + R&D.

[Morning Brew ☕️ @MorningBrew]

Minor details

[Owen Colby @OwenColby]

@robertwiblin "widely believed"

[Owen Colby @OwenColby]

The HTC union did this. In 21' the hotel union lobbied to pass a rule requiring all new NYC hotels to get approval from the city council, borough president, and community boards.

This killed all new hotels with a multi-year political review.

Just 2 new hotels have been approved in the past 5 years...

[Owen Colby @OwenColby]

Unions did this.

In 21' the hotel union lobbied to pass a rule requiring all new NYC hotels to get approval from the city council, borough president, and community boards.

This killed all new hotels with a multi-year political review.

Just 2 new hotels have been approved in the past 5 years!

The result, skyrocketing prices.

[Nate O'Brien @nateobrienn]

New York hotel prices are out of control.

Even Holiday Inn is $900/night