Lucas Matney

When Jeff Stein reported on Pentagon health official Keith Bass, Bass sued him. Through the Substack Defender program, we helped secure local counsel and fight the case. Today, Jeff won! The case was dismissed with prejudice in federal court.

Canadian politician reads AI prompt aloud in legislature without realizing it: "Here's a more natural, flowing version of that section that reads like a legislative speech rather than a series of short points"

the government of india does not like technologies like bitchat and wants it taken down

10 years. Bigscreen started in 2016 as an app on Steam for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Now, we've built two generations of our VR headset, and shipped 50,000+ orders to customers in 50+ countries. Today also marks one year since Beyond 2 launched. In the first 10 days, Beyond 2 sold more units than Beyond 1 did in its first year of sales. Bigscreen is now profitable, with annual revenue growing 3X year over year for the past 4 years in a row. We've built a great business, product, and community, and we have an ambitious roadmap ahead of us. Thanks to everyone who's been part of this journey. The people who tested the Beyond prototypes in 2021. The passionate customers who preordered the Beyond 1 and Beyond 2. There's a lot more to build, and we're just getting started. I wrote a post reflecting on the past 10 years. You can read more here: x.com/DShankar/statu…

It always fascinates me how little control Apple exerts in shaping the real world experience of using an iPhones. They can't even give users or parents the tools to help define those limits themselves.

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey was shot on more than 2 million feet of KODAK 65mm Motion Picture Film made in Rochester, NY. Kodak also manufactured the print film for the 35mm, 70mm 5-perf, and IMAX 70mm releases. We're thrilled to celebrate the film's theatrical release today.

me and Claude fable 5 all day everyday :

“It is yours” Incredible positioning for a lab to take

big if true

Note my grandpa wrote in his copy of Infinite Jest 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

The world you were born in no longer exists

Scoop: Benchmark has raised $2 billion across two new funds, including its first growth fund, a big shift for a firm that spent decades defending a smaller, focused approach to venture investing. Details here: wsj.com/finance/invest…

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Here we goooo wsj.com/tech/anthropic…

Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah was invited to speak at today's presentation of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica humanitas." Read the full text of his remarks: anthropic.com/news/chris-ola…

IN THE 90s, WE’LL PROBABLY SEE ONLY TEN REAL BREAKTHROUGHS IN COMPUTERS. HERE ARE SEVEN OF THEM. Very much enjoying “Steve Jobs in Exile” by @geoffrey_cain - I started selling Macintosh in 1984 and sold NeXT computers in ‘89 for BusinessLand where I got this poster.

"I still click on links" is going to be the new "I still get the Times in print."