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Big Tech Watch
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Watching the Big Tech Companies Watching You. Highlighting the impact of BigTech's enormous power and influence in our culture, our economy, and democracy.




Insane that Elon Musk has pulled it off again, absolutely crushing the AI wars with Grok 4. Summarizing the core announcements: — Post-training RL spend == pretraining spend — $3/M input told, $15/M output toks, 256k context, price 2x beyond 128k — #1 on Humanity’s Last Exam (general hard problems) 44.4%, #2 is 26.9% — #1 on GPQA (hard graduate problems) 88.9%. #2 is 86.4% — #1 on AIME 2025 (Math) 100%, #2 is 98.4% — #1 on Harvard MIT Math 96.7%, #2 is 82.5% — #1 on USAMO25 (Math) 61.9%, #2 is 49.4% — #1 on ARC-AGI-2 (easy for humans, hard for AI) 15.9%, #2 is 8.6% — #1 on LiveCodeBench (Jan-May) 79.4%, #2 is 75.8% Grok 4 is “potentially better than PhD level in every subject no exception”.. and it’s pretty cheap. Massive moment in the AI wars and Elon has come to play.

Big Tech giants have forced American consumers to use their app stores at the expense of innovative startups that threaten their bottom line. Today, @SenBlumenthal and I filed the Open App Markets Act to promote competition and protect consumers within the app market.


These bills have been introduced in over a dozen other states, including OH, SC, and TX. Policymakers in those states should know that these bills don’t solve the problem. They help bad actors to rewrite the rules in their favor.

Age verification bills like HB570 in LA undermine parents’ rights in favor of government mandates and corporate control. Concerningly, HB570 sponsor Kim Carver thinks the government knows best when it comes to parenting. Don’t believe us? See for yourself.





UPDATED THROUGH MORNING OF MAY 17: @ABC, @CBSNews, @NBCNews have spent ONLY 52 seconds on Hunter Laptop SINCE @NYTimes March 16 admission. newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoff…







