mat honan ☀️
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mat honan ☀️
@mat
Editor in chief @techreview. Formerly BuzzFeed News, formerly WIRED. Pro-California. Hella Frisco. Not super active on this site. Signal me: @mat.911



Anthropic and Alignment Anthropic is in a standoff with the Department of War; while the company's concerns are legitimate, it position is intolerable and misaligned with reality. stratechery.com/2026/anthropic…

I highly recommend everyone starts using @openclaw immediately. Start using it as you would do a human assistant that can do anything on your computer. That will start saving an entire database of your actions, preferences, connections, likes, dislikes, how you interface with the world - everything. Do this ESPECIALLY if you are an entrepreneur. As models get better, and companies/open source starts really scaling up agentic breakthroughs, this database will give you a "save file" that models with ever-increasing capability to can use to INSTANTLY pick up where you left off. This will be a gigantic hack into getting a massive head-start in the agentic revolution. Very explicit example: I've been using OpenClaw for almost a week. It's amazing. I love it so much. But it's not perfect. But a model by the end of 2026 will surely exist that will blow Opus 4.6's capability out of the water. At a much cheaper cost. Or xAI might ship a LEGIT "digital human" - aka an AI agent on steroids - that will be the full realization of a do-anything agent. All I have to do with those new agents is point them at my openclaw files to learn from it and pick up where we left off, which will have at least 10 months of extremely pertinent, super valuable data about everything. Don't wait. Start now.


If you came for Super Bowl and need a bite to eat, you need to try a Mission burrito. I stopped by one of my favorites, La Taqueria, but there’s great food all across this neighborhood. Make sure to check out everything our city has to offer this week!

I'm among the hundreds of people laid off by The Post. This comes six months after hearing in a national meeting that race coverage drives subscriptions. This wasn't a financial decision, it was an ideological one.

Jeff Bezos just fired hundreds of reporters at the Washington Post — including the Amazon reporter holding his OWN company accountable. Reminder: Jeff Bezos' net worth is nearly $250,000,000,000.



As 2025 comes to a close, I'm continuing a tradition that I started during my time in the White House: sharing my annual lists of favorite books, movies, and music. I hope you find something new to enjoy—and please send any recommendations for me to check out!

I am working to address an apparent error for a data point I cited in my book about the water footprint of a proposed data center in Chile. I’d like to explain what happened, what I’m doing to remedy it, and provide more recent data on the water footprint of data centers. 1/













