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John Paczkowski@pczki.bsky.social |
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Forward into terror. Executive Editor, Tech & Innovation, @forbes. Previously: BuzzFeed News, Recode, AllThingsD.
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John Paczkowski
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New: One of Iran's top nuclear scientists has teamed up with former Pentagon and CIA officials to take on fusion energy, one of the world's hardest problems.
At the helm of this unlikely team? A high school grad who's convinced Silicon Valley to back him. www.forbes.com/sites/davidj...
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Rather than a live camera feed, Tesla’s main cobalt source instead posts a single grainy photo of the sprawling mine complex in southern Congo every month, taken by an Airbus satellite orbiting far above the Earth.
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“This is a lot like two drunk guys at a bar saying I'm too drunk to drive home,” aerospace consultant Cliff Collier told Forbes. “And then one of them says, ‘I know, we'll get in the same car and go together.’ This is not going to solve either company's problems.” www.forbes.com/sites/jeremy...
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Update on @perplexity_ai, which misappropriated our investigative reporting. Turns out they are also using inaccurate AI-generated blather from blogs and LinkedIn posts as sources. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...
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Signal jammers used to disrupt satellite-guided drones in the Middle East since the start of the war in Gaza are now confusing residents of Cyprus, puzzled to find their phones wrongly reporting that they are in other countries. www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...
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Every since I read this ProPublica piece a few years ago, I use this "pretend we're talking about a guy named Bob" test all the time. (Here it's about antitrust, but it's useful everywhere.)
www.propublica.org/article/yiel...
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John Paczkowski
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Titanium in commercial Boeing and Airbus jets whose murky origins are being investigated by U.S. and European regulators was supplied by a division of China’s largest state-owned aerospace conglomerate, according to documents obtained by Forbes. www.forbes.com/sites/jeremy...
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Emily Baker-White
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In Florida, California, and more than 48 other state and local jurisdictions, court system vulnerabilities exposed medical records from child abuse victims, body cam footage, and other sealed documents through unsecured websites.
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John Paczkowski
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Perplexity is scraping the work of journalists at Forbes, CNBC, Bloomberg and other pubs, claiming its tiny, missable footnotes are fair credit. In our case, it also lifted text and artwork. www.forbes.com/sites/sarahe...
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Scoop --
Eric Schmidt has been poaching talent from SpaceX, Apple, Google and even Schmidt Futures for his secretive military drone project.
And for several months, they've been testing these drones in a Silicon Valley suburb. www.forbes.com/sites/sarahe...
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NEW: More than 1,000 Google employees have signed a letter urging the company to divest its 401(k) plans from fossil fuels. It 5d2ef7f17e1ccent study that estimates Google employees lost out on $1.15B over last 10 years because of fossil fuel investments www.forbes.com/sites/richar...
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John Paczkowski
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The Midas Seed List is back. Pear VC’s
@pejmannozad
retains his spot at the top of our ranking of the top 25 seed investors from around the world which this year features three new entrants
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Scoop After restructuring privacy and compliance teams, Google Chief Privacy Officer Keith Enright is out and will not be replaced. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
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Billionaire investors of the internet era are now locked in a war of words and influence to determine whether AI’s future will be one of concentrated safety, or of unfettered advancement. The stakes couldn’t be higher. www.forbes.com/sites/alexko...
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Emily Baker-White
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There's a zero day attack happening on TikTok right now, affecting a number of big accounts including Paris Hilton and CNN. It's spreading through DMs — I'd avoid opening them until we know more.
www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...
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John Paczkowski
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There's a zero day attack happening on TikTok right now, affecting a number of big accounts including Paris Hilton and CNN.
It's spreading through DMs — I'd avoid opening them until we know more. www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...
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Emily Baker-White
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In recent years, schools have locked down their wifi systems to prevent kids from browsing social media or accessing "inappropriate" websites.
That's led more kids to download VPNs — some of which can sell their data or share it with foreign adversaries.
www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...
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Zach Everson
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NEW: Trump’s Social-Media Business Planned For His Conviction Before He Was Even Charged
Three years ago, Truth Social’s parent company viewed Trump’s criminal conviction as a realistic enough possibility that it announced a contingency plan.
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New --
OpenAI is formally resurrecting its robotics team after abandoning efforts to build general purpose robots in 2020.
Its new team has been around for ~2 months and is currently hiring research engineers. www.forbes.com/sites/kenric...
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Huh. I wonder where I read SO many of these details 5-6 months ago. Perhaps it was an @ebakerwhite scoop. I forget because there are so many of them. www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...
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Scoop: Helsing, the European defense tech startup, is raising about $400 million. General Catalyst is leading the ~$4 billion valuation deal, sources say. It comes just eight months after GC led the last round.
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“But Mach’s giddy financing had been prefaced by a troubling, and near fatal, misstep. Months earlier, Thornton and another employee were almost killed while testing a Mach weapon.”
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“Calhoun ... says that it's too expensive and too risky and has given all sorts of reasons why they shouldn't do it. The problem is if they don't do it, then that's effectively a counsel of despair. It means that you've accepted that you are now only about a third of the narrowbody market.”
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“Nobody saw it coming last year,” van de Wouw, Xeneta’s chief air freight officer, told Forbes. “Their volumes could be the same order of magnitude as the largest freight forwarder in the world. Their volumes are crazy.”
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New: AI-generated kids are flooding social media. In the images, fake little girls are dressed suggestively as nurses, superheroes, ballerinas and french maids—and older men are flocking to them. On a growing problem that falls into a troubling gray area:
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Zach Everson
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NEW: Biden borrowed at least $50,000 via home equity loan in 2023, new disclosure reveals
me, for @forbes.com
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Bolt's Ryan Breslow and investor Activant Capital have filed to settle their bitter lawsuit over Breslow's outstanding $30 million debt, which was swept from the company's bank account after he defaulted on a personal loan. www.forbes.com/sites/sarahe...
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Emily Baker-White
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Here's a list of things I found noteworthy about the TikTok's complaint filed yesterday.
We knew this was coming, but there were still some fun surprises (Yiming domiciled in Singapore! another 500M on Project Texas!)
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Missing anti-harassment clauses, bungled PTO guidelines and botched bereavement leave terms: ChatGPT-generated company policies are exposing employers to a buffet of legal and financial risks.
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NEW: Elon Musk likes to say laser lidar sensors are unnecessary "appendixes" for autonomous driving. But that's not stopping Tesla from buying lots of the 3D imaging sensors from Luminar www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...
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After decades and 10s of billions of dollars on R&D, the Army has used lasers to take down hostile drones in the Middle East, an Army official has told Forbes. It’s the first time the Defense Department has acknowledged that such weapons have been used in combat.
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“And crammed into a giant bookcase in the living room are several self-help volumes: The Wisdom of Psychopaths, Confessions of a Sociopath and two copies of The Psychopath Code.”
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Dr. Elon promises a sub-$30,000 electric car to help the masses fight climate change. Mr. Musk gets condemned by the White House for spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories on a social media platform he overpaid for and prioritzes a $100,000 Cybertruck that’s recalled five months after launch.
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Emily Baker-White
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New from me: over 30 TikTok employees have been interrogated at the border about the company's data access flows, data centers, Project Texas — and whether they're members of the CCP.
www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...
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Zach Everson
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A pro-Ted Cruz super PAC has received $630,000 from iHeartMedia, which produces his podcast.
Today, the House is holding a hearing on a bill iHeartMedia wants to see passed.
Ted Cruz co-authored the bill and is promoting the hearing.
Previously: www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
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John Paczkowski
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SCOOP: A top First Amendment law firm is assembling a lawsuit of creators and small businesses to fight a U.S. ban on TikTok.
The firm, Davis Wright Tremaine, also sued Montana over its TikTok ban last year and thwarted Trump’s push to ban the app in 2020: t.co/TxQm9He222
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John Paczkowski
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The Biden admin says it wants a divestment of TikTok, not a ban. But here's why separating TikTok from ByteDance may be all but impossible. Plus: What TikTok leadership has been telling employees over the last few days.
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Emily Baker-White
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Years ago, FB, IG, YT, and TW, announced they would label posts by state media, so people would know if they were reading government propaganda. TikTok then followed suit.
But today, YouTube is the only one actually labeling in the Middle East, where there is a war.
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NEW: Wes Edens has broken ground on Brightline West, his $12 billion Las Vegas-to-SoCal railway, aided by billions from the Biden Administration. But building more high-speed lines like this one won’t be easy.
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NEW: They pump iron, chew nicotine and build weapons. Beloved by a16z investors and inspired by Palmer Luckey, they call themselves the Gundo bros, "unapologetic" Americans building defense tech companies in LA.
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John Paczkowski
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NEW: They pump iron, chew nicotine and build weapons. Beloved by a16z investors and inspired by Palmer Luckey, they call themselves the Gundo bros, "unapologetic" Americans building defense tech companies in LA.
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🚨 SCOOP 🚨 Google takes down over 120 YouTube videos and nearly 30 ads that were promoting AI deepfake porn tools, after @forbes alerted the tech giant. One YouTube channel w/ 900k views was hosted by an AI deepfake, promoting 'nudifier' Telegram bots.
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NEW: For years, competitive business information from top U.S. advertisers was widely available to TikTok and ByteDance staff most anywhere, including in China. Inside TikTok's chaotic ads division and employees' concerns over how it's handled client data:
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NEW: A fight over a vital federal tax credit intended to kickstart a market for clean hydrogen and worries over high production costs are cooling near-term expectations for the climate-friendly fuel
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When Saudi minister Abdullah Al Swaha took the stage of the Leap conference in March a $1 billion funding boost for the kingdom’s AI accelerator was a big talking point. Founders who had already taken part in the program say they struggled to get paid.
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New: We spoke to Docusign CEO Allan Thygesen, a longtime Google vet, about what he calls a “reinvention” for his company — going beyond e-signatures and into managing all contracts across a client's business
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One warm, clear day in October 2022, an unremarkable white Dodge Caravan crossed the Tijuana border into the United States. Hidden under a paint tarp were 10 metal canisters of a toxic greenhouse gas — destined for sale on Facebook.
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Altman’s personal collection of technological artifacts, for example — described to Forbes by Hoffman as including jet engines and Bronze Age swords — could not be appraised.
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Stephanie Pope's sudden appointment to run Boeing Commercial Airplanes has drawn skepticism from industry observers, who question whether the finance specialist has the right skills to fix the production problems with the 737 MAX.
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