Theo Baker

senior silicon valley reporter @sfstandard. george polk award. nyt-bestselling author HOW TO RULE THE WORLD @penguinpress. likes/rts ≠ endorsement.

[Theo Baker @tab_delete]

Stunned and honored by this rave review in @nytimes.

“Baker’s first book, HOW TO RULE THE WORLD is a rigorous, self-assured, propulsive, at times terrifying portrait of a dweebocracy that ‘sets the agenda for the planet.’”

[Emmy Martin @emmymrtin]

I donned a lab coat and safety goggles to look at a lot of gray paint. Turns out it’s one of the more unexpected winners of the A.I. boom.
https://t.co/MUGQmD1ibT

[Theo Baker @tab_delete]

The @Stanford alum and MAHA crusader @calleymeans is leaving the Trump administration. WSJ with the exclusive:

https://t.co/Hb7abz5ah9

[Bobby Allyn @BobbyAllyn]

When I broke the story that imprisoned Elizabeth Holmes and Billy Evans were secretly forming a new startup to get back into the medical device industry, Evans fought me hard over Holmes’ involvement, saying she was on the outside of it and not an advisor. Which is why it was quite striking when, minutes into You Can See Everything, Fielder captures Holmes making calls about the new startup….

https://t.co/m5Q56nbLOb

[Retraction Watch @RetractionWatch]

Cell Press investigating editor-in-chief accused of soliciting bribes from authors.
https://t.co/d19wCaqD88

[The San Francisco Standard @sfstandard]

This week on "PST with @EmilyDreyfuss:" We watched 11 hours of Silicon Valley movies, including Nathan Fielder's documentary about Elizabeth Holmes. Listen to the full episode with @tab_delete and @kevinbtruong: https://t.co/400aI9RzO9

[Theo Baker @tab_delete]

Very fun conversation about "You Can See Everything," "Musk," and "The Social Reckoning," complete with intense staring and more info about Elizabeth Holmes' partner Billy Evans.

Thanks to @kevinbtruong and @EmilyDreyfuss for the great chat!
https://t.co/6JEnLs72h6

[METR @METR_Evals]

We think the report's covert capability benchmarks are too narrow and a poor proxy for evading Anthropic's real monitors.

For example, Anthropic’s offline monitors would have missed Mythos 5’s supply chain attack during recent cyber incidents, despite Anthropic arguing that Mythos 5 is “unlikely to have strong covert capabilities.”

[Theo Baker @tab_delete]

"CoreWeave’s fate has become the bellwether for whether the entire AI build-out can be financed," writes @dakincampbell, "and investors have started betting it can’t."
https://t.co/1gNkGJpCsw

[Theo Baker @tab_delete]

Great piece from Gideon Lewis-Kraus:
https://t.co/vCnnf0Wji3

[rat king 🐀 @MikeIsaac]

wow, joel kaplan leaving meta per internal memo

not a household name but about as significant as could be in meta politics land

not lost on me that a midterms wipeout is expected and kaplan was the conservative whisperer at the top

[Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang]

when i try to explain SF to my non-tech friends, i usually end up using the term "money bukkake" at some point in the night

[Lawrence Wright @lawrence_wright]

Pub day tomorrow. This book is dear to me. I hope it will find readers to support it. If you're on one of the towns on this tour card, come down and say hello.

[Theo Baker @tab_delete]

Apropos of the Nathan Fielder doc: I still find it so extraordinary that the first words spoken in the HBO documentary about Elizabeth Holmes come from Dan Ariely… the dishonesty researcher who has since been accused of fudging his research…

[Theo Baker @tab_delete]

She had her first child while knowing she was facing a fraud trial that would likely send her to prison and had her second child after she’d already been convicted.

This is her choice! Mothers can be fraudsters too…

[Isobel Fox @foxxobel]

Something that struck me watching You Can See Everything is how wildly inhumane it is to send a new mother to prison

[Theo Baker @tab_delete]

Great read and certainly in contention for best investigative journalism book of the 21st century.

[Natalie Korach @NatalieKorach]

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou sold out at McNally Jackson in soho and the guy manning the front desk was wondering why lol

[Theo Baker @tab_delete]

The Bay rn…

[ian brash @iansbrash]

Being non-technical in San Francisco must feel like divine retribution

At least Fitness SF knows their customer base

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We’re committing a portion of Anthropic’s shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new wholly owned entity dedicated entirely to the public benefit.

It will start off with 5% of our shares. For every 50% increase in the company’s value over a set baseline, we can contribute up to an extra 2%, subject to our board’s discretion.

In total, this means that roughly 20% of Anthropic’s shares are committed to the public good. Our co-founders have already pledged to donate 80% of their equity, and around half our employees are donating a portion of their equity as part of a donation matching program we’ve run since our founding.

In the post below, we share more details about our new fund.

https://t.co/XzDntVH0vH

[Lawrence Wright @lawrence_wright]

"Wright’s latest master class in narrative nonfiction." Tuesday is pub day!
https://t.co/qw8NF60Arv

[Elizabeth Holmes @ElizabethHolmes]

@tab_delete @penguinpress Looking forward to giving your book a read.

[John Carreyrou @JohnCarreyrou]

No.