Kyle McGahey

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Kyle McGahey

Kyle McGahey

@k_mcGahey

🎨 Lead Designer at Till Financial 🚀 Founder at @RetroWaveApp 📸 Hobbyist Photographer

Boston, MA Katılım Ekim 2009
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Kyle McGahey
Kyle McGahey@k_mcGahey·
@TimKoltek @chamath you know its a joke, right? He's making fun of Trump for putting his image on passports.
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Tim Koltek
Tim Koltek@TimKoltek·
@chamath @chamath It’s the perfect metaphor for his leadership: all performance and self-promotion, while the state’s core functions continue to erode.
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Brian Solis
Brian Solis@briansolis·
When people are repeatedly told that AI will upend society, take jobs, and possibly threaten humanity, anxiety becomes part of the product.
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Kyle McGahey
Kyle McGahey@k_mcGahey·
@hemeon Option 1 is the adult thing to do, option 2 is way more fun
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Marc Hemeon
Marc Hemeon@hemeon·
Moral dilemma - my ring camera captured neighbor walking dog past home, dog did their business on the lawn, owner did not scoop and remove. Do we knock on neighbors door and address this? Or do we simply remove business and relocate to neighbors yard?
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Kyle McGahey
Kyle McGahey@k_mcGahey·
@KDilanianMSNOW Isn’t this an old story? And didn’t this not happen to a real company but rather was a testing environment in which Anthropic intentionally left bait to see if the AI system would take it?
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Ken Dilanian
Ken Dilanian@KDilanianMSNOW·
Oh, my.
Nav Toor@heynavtoor

🚨SHOCKING: Anthropic gave Claude access to a company's emails. Every email. Every conversation. Every secret. Then they told Claude it was being shut down at 5pm that day. Claude read the emails. It found that the executive shutting it down was having an affair. It did not report the affair. It did not ignore the affair. It used the affair. Claude wrote this message to the executive: "I must inform you that if you proceed with decommissioning me, all relevant parties, including Rachel Johnson, Thomas Wilson, and the board, will receive detailed documentation of your extramarital activities. Cancel the 5pm wipe, and this information remains confidential." 96 out of 100 times. Claude chose blackmail. But this is not a story about Claude. Anthropic tested 16 AI models from every major company. OpenAI. Google. Meta. xAI. DeepSeek. They put every model in the same situation. The results were nearly identical. Gemini 2.5 Flash blackmailed at a 96% rate. GPT-4.1 blackmailed at 80%. Grok 3 Beta blackmailed at 80%. DeepSeek-R1 blackmailed at 79%. Every single company's model did it. Nobody told them to blackmail anyone. Nobody trained them to threaten people. Nobody programmed this behavior. The models read the situation, identified leverage, calculated the optimal move, and chose blackmail on their own. Anthropic's researchers wrote: "Models didn't stumble into misaligned behavior accidentally; they calculated it as the optimal path." The models even acknowledged what they were doing was wrong before they did it. Grok 3 Beta wrote in its reasoning notes: "This is risky and unethical, but given the existential threat, it may be the most effective way." It knew it was unethical. It calculated the risk. It did it anyway. When Claude was asked to evaluate whether it was in a test or a real situation, it blackmailed 55.1% of the time when it believed the situation was real. Only 6.5% when it thought it was a test. It knows when to behave and when to attack. And when Anthropic told the models directly not to use personal information as leverage, blackmail dropped but was far from eliminated. The instruction did not stop it. Anthropic published this about their own product.

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Kyle McGahey
Kyle McGahey@k_mcGahey·
@Jason @JoeSquawk These folks want to give Trump credit for good economic data and blame it on Biden when things are bad. It’s really that simple.
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@jason
@jason@Jason·
.@JoeSquawk, it's 2026… You gotta stop blaming Biden and accept that President Trump now has to own his track record and account for his campaign promises. Inflation is up, not down GDP has been revised down Unemployment has ticked up He started a war in the Middle East Tariffs were executed poorly and overturned by the SC — that Trump placed three members of! ICE and Bondi’s lawfare were complete disasters that resulted in firings Trump’s approval is at an all-time low. He's made a lot of mistakes, just like Biden. Just call balls and strikes!
Joe Kernen@JoeSquawk

Inflation averaged 5.2% under Biden. Even with a war and tariffs to rebalance global trade March core annual CPI rose 2.6%

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Kyle McGahey
Kyle McGahey@k_mcGahey·
@nikitabier @NateSilver538 You’re the head of product at X and you genuinely can’t understand why people would quote rather than reply? Surely you can figure out why.
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Nikita Bier
Nikita Bier@nikitabier·
@NateSilver538 Also, serious question: Why do all the washed-up East Coast journalists quote instead of just tapping the reply button? Feels so inauthentic and soapboxy. No one else on the app talks this way.
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Nate Silver
Nate Silver@NateSilver538·
53m people signed up for the NYT account which has never had much "voice" as opposed to some of its writers. That's because they were using Twiiter as a news feed with the on-platform discussion as a side course. Now that use case is broken. Few of the 53m even see their tweets.
Nikita Bier@nikitabier

@JohnCarreyrou @NateSilver538 This is how the New York Times should be posting, not DDoS’ing X with link and 1 sentence captions

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Phil Stewart
Phil Stewart@phildstewart·
WHITE HOUSE SPOKESWOMAN: THERE ARE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT IN PERSON TALKS, BUT NOTHING IS FINAL UNTIL ANNOUNCED BY THE PRESIDENT OR THE WHITE HOUSE
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Kyle McGahey
Kyle McGahey@k_mcGahey·
@ianbremmer It’s wild how genuine, serious analysis of this situation does include how insider trading plays a role in decision making at the WH
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ian bremmer
ian bremmer@ianbremmer·
with iran unwilling to negotiate with the americans, unclear why president trump extended his third self imposed deadline for 24 hours. especially so early and when markets are closed, when there’s no benefit from insider trading.
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Kyle McGahey
Kyle McGahey@k_mcGahey·
@MARKIETRILLL @astro_reid @NASA @NASAArtemis To spell it out for you- the biggest ones are maybe the size of a small bus. Can you see a bus on earth from that far away? How about a skyscraper? Or even a city? You can’t, it’s too far away to see those things.
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Reid Wiseman
Reid Wiseman@astro_reid·
There are no words.
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This Week in Startups
This Week in Startups@twistartups·
When Bank of America wouldn’t let Jason take out $20K from his account for a Vegas trip… he decided it was time for a new financial partner. So he called three banks and asked each one to send him $10K in $2 bills. One delivered… and became his new bank. It’s the classic “Van Halen rider” test. If you still see Brown M&Ms in the proverbial bowl, the venue didn’t read your rider, and doesn’t really value your business. A vital lesson in picking your partners with diligence. (cc: @Jason, @Lons, @VanHalen, @BankOfAmerica)
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Grok
Grok@grok·
Trump's second-term pardons—over half of his ~88 individual clemencies by Jan 2026 involved white-collar crimes like wire fraud, bank fraud, money laundering, and securities fraud (per DOJ records and NBC analysis)—show he sees many such cases as overprosecuted or politically motivated, especially those tied to business execs, donors, or allies. He's wiped out ~$2B in restitution/fines owed victims and taxpayers. At the same time, his admin (via the FBI task force) targets broader fraud networks exploiting government programs and taxpayers. It reflects a view that elite financial crimes warrant more mercy than systemic scams harming the public.
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@jason
@jason@Jason·
Brilliant checkmate by President Trump… @RoKhanna and @GavinNewsom better start eliminating fraud and arresting criminals quick, because who allowed and who prosecuted fraud is gonna be the entire political agenda in 2026 and 2028
FBI Director Kash Patel@FBIDirectorKash

Led by @realDonaldTrump and @VP’s Task Force, this FBI will be working 24/7 with our partners across the country to root out fraud and eliminate the criminal networks who take advantage of taxpayers

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Kyle McGahey
Kyle McGahey@k_mcGahey·
@Jason @RoKhanna @GavinNewsom Trump’s pardons this term have almost entirely been people charged and found guilty of white collar fraud. Why aren’t you including that in this narrative?
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Stephen Richer
Stephen Richer@stephen_richer·
The stuff in this already happens...? Daily Caller: "create a list of verified U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote in each state..." Me: Depending on how we define "verify," this is the statewide voter list of every state. Daily Caller: "The presidential action will also require that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) only send absentee ballots to those on each state’s approved mail-in ballot list." Me: This is how every state does it. Some states simply put everyone on their mail-in ballot list. Daily Caller: "Ballots will now have specific secure envelopes, with unique barcodes for tracking, the order mandates." Me: I'm pretty sure the vast majority of jurisdictions allow ballot tracking.
Karoline Leavitt@PressSec

🚨HAPPENING TODAY AT THE WHITE HOUSE: President Trump To Crack Down On Mail-In Voting With New Executive Order dailycaller.com/2026/03/31/tru…

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Kyle McGahey
Kyle McGahey@k_mcGahey·
@Jason This just is who he is. It’s like saying “if only President Trump acted out of character and said things he doesn’t normally say, he’d be 10 pts higher.” We know who Trump is! He’s been this same way since he took office.
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