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Editor in chief @techreview. Formerly BuzzFeed News, formerly WIRED. Pro-California. Hella Frisco. Not super active on this site. Signal me: @mat.911
San Francisco, CA Katılım Ekim 2006
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@techreview "What was the technology like at that point?" Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers asks Sutskever, in a rare interjection, showing genuine curiosity.
Comparing AI in 2018 to now, "it was like the difference between an ant and a cat," says Sutskever. "It's a big difference."
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Ilya Sutskever and the rest of the OpenAI board briefly fired Sam Altman as CEO in 2023. “This kind of environment, where the executives [don’t] exactly have the correct information, makes the environment not conducive to attaining any difficult, grand goal,” such as “safe AGI," says Sutskever, reflecting on the event. He thought about firing Altman for a year before doing so.
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Day 9 of Musk v. Altman trial in federal court in Oakland, California. Ilya Sutskever, former OpenAI chief scientist, and Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, will testify.
I'm a reporter (and lawyer) at @techreview
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When asked if Sam Altman was not candid with her by fall of 2023, Mira Murati takes a long pause, sighs, and says, "Not always."
“I had an incredibly hard job to do in an organization that was very complex, and I was asking Sam to lead and lead with clarity," she says.
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I also wrote this piece, a while ago now, on data centers. And it is also a thing that I hope readddddddds like something a human being wrote. And moreover it's just gotten to be more true and more true and more true.
technologyreview.com/2026/01/14/113…
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I wrote this piece on AI Malaise. And I think it's good! Or maybe not. Maybe you will hate it, like licorice. But it's distinctly un-AI. (I hope.)
technologyreview.com/2026/04/21/113…
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Look, look, look, I'm sorry. Look. I don't do the best job of promoting my own work. So, here I am. Posting.
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Shivon Zilis describes her complicated relationship with Elon Musk. Before 2020, "there had been kind of a one-off at the offsite," she says, describing it as romantic. “Then we were friends and eventually colleagues,” she says.
Later, when she wanted to be a mom, "Elon had made the offer around that time [to be a sperm donor] … and I accepted," she says.
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@techreview Stuart Russell testifies during cross-examination that he's getting paid $235,000 by Elon Musk to testify about AI safety in this trial. He says that will make up 20% of his annual income.
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Day 5 of Musk v. Altman trial in federal court in Oakland, California. Stuart Russell, a computer scientist at UC Berkeley, will testify about AI safety. OpenAI president Greg Brockman will also testify.
I'm a journalist (and lawyer) reporting on the trial for @techreview.
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"That's not a leading question, that's a leading answer," says Musk to OpenAI's lawyer during cross-examination.
"You're not a lawyer," says Judge Gonzalez.
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Day 4 of Musk v. Altman trial in Oakland federal courthouse!
Elon Musk continues to get cross-examined by OpenAI’s lawyer William Savitt, who once represented Tesla (and Twitter in its battle against Elon Musk). Elon will then be cross-examined by Microsoft’s lawyer and then direct-examined by his own lawyer Steven Molo.
I'm a reporter (and lawyer) covering the trial for @techreview.
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to my fellow bay area residents visiting cities other than san francisco:
if you could try not to tweet like the smoke aliens from Arrival first encountering humanity after you go to exotic places like "new york," i would really appreciate it
this reflects on me as well
Parv@ParvSondhi
NYC observations after spending last week there • people are actually outside touching grass (or cement 😅) • very few AI ads or billboards around • even cafes i went to - very few screens with claude code or cursor or some coding tool • people are way more open to socializing. everyone is willing to strike up a conversation (not about AI agents) • the energy is electric - everyone’s moving with purpose. • found a way to talk to folks without mentioning AI • way more artists, and non traditional creators. Met an actual physical product designer which was cool. it’s genuinely refreshing to remember there’s a whole world outside the feed been traveling the last few days and the SF tech bubble makes it easy to forget how alive real cities feel. sorry SF, you’re still home… but perspective is healthy 🤷♂️
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In opening statement yesterday, OpenAI's lawyer argued that Elon was suing OpenAI to give his own AI company xAI, which makes the chatbot Grok, an edge. Elon says "xAI has a very small market share" and that al though it is "technically a competitor," it is "much much smaller than OpenAI."
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Day 3 of the Musk v. Altman trial in Oakland federal courthouse. Elon Musk continues to testify, represented by his lawyer Steven Molo. US District Judge Yyvonne Gonzalez Rogers is presiding over the case.
I'm a reporter (and lawyer) covering the trial for @techreview.
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IN HONOR OF CALIFORNIA’S 175TH ANNIVERSARY, WE WILL BE ROLLING OUT A VERY SPECIAL DRIVER’S LICENSE FOR EVERY CALIFORNIAN THIS SUMMER! IT WILL FEATURE A HANDSOME, HIGH-QUALITY PHOTO OF ME, GAVIN C. NEWSOM. MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING IT’S THE BEST LICENSE EVER MADE IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. THIS IS ABOUT CELEBRATING OUR BEAUTIFUL STATE (IT IS NOT ABOUT ME, DESPITE THE VERY HANDSOME PHOTO!). ENJOY! — GOVERNOR GCN
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@techreview Elon’s lawyer pulls up an email between him and Shivon Zilis and asks Elon who she is. “Shivon was my chief of staff,” he says. He chuckles awkwardly.
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@techreview After Elon Musk recruited Ilya Sutskever, who he says was probably the “number one” most valuable member of Google, to join OpenAI, Larry Page refused to speak to him ever again, he says.
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At various times, Elon says he, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and Ilya Sutskever brainstormed various ways to fund OpenAI, which was a nonprofit. They talked about attaching it to Tesla or creating a for-profit entity. “I was not opposed to there being a small for-profit that provides funding to the nonprofit,” he says, as long as the tail didn’t waive the dog.
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“Nobody ever told Microsoft that it helped violate any special donation conditions" stipulated by Elon Musk, says Microsoft's lawyer. Musk is suing Microsoft for aiding and abetting OpenAI. He claims that Microsoft knew that its investment in OpenAI's for-profit ventures helped OpenAI breach its duty to donors, including Musk.
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