Also thrilled to announce that Natalie Portman is developing my short story "Constellations" for film, thru her MountainA production company. I'm psyched at the prospect of her starring in it. "Constellations" appeared in the MIT Technology Review earlier this year (see today's pinned post for link)

I'm working on booting up fiction again at @technologyreview.com. Tell me your favorite sci-fi and sci-fi-adjacent authors. Who would you love to see in our pages? Bonus points for new and emerging folks!

i for one have full confidence in the trump administration's ability to adequately refit a plane donated by a foreign government into a highly secure mobile command center for the united states executive, following their unquestionably successful renovation of A Large Pool of Water

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2mo ago

President Trump on Friday displayed the Boeing 747-8 that will serve as the new US presidential jet.

Huh

none of this is true and the place where this is going is potentially very awful

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 2mo ago

RFK Jr: Kids with autism will never hold a job. They'll never play baseball. They'll never write a poem. They'll never go out on a date.

I need more friends on the bird app roostsocial.app/invite/KMCNG2

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

I am in Dutch with the robots

Imagine being in the control room at your grownup TV job the first time you realize that television is created by people making choices, and doesn’t just happen organically.

“I have been in combat in Afghanistan,” Scott Pelley told the NYT just after he was fired. “I have been in combat in Iraq. I have been in the war zone in Ukraine multiple times, risking my life and the happiness of my family because of my devotion to the broadcast.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/b...

CBS News Fires Scott Pelley of ‘60 Minutes’

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I tell ya, if you agree to judge any literary contest, you better put your full self into it, in this age of AI slop and plagiarism. And that includes how you describe the winners, so we don't think you had AI help writing those fulsome anodyne descriptions lol.

The Android XR sunglasses are pretty cute. I'm surprised they went with such a feminine design, especially given how much more skeptical of AI women seem to be in general.

One interesting piece of coding news—agentic coding is being consolidated under the Antigravity brand. Gemini CLI is becoming Antigravity CLI. Perhaps that heralds some much-needed refocusing for the company's agentic coding efforts.

I'm @ Google I/O in sunny Mountain View today, and I'll be sharing my thoughts here throughout the day. We're just over halfway through the keynote now, and one thing is already pretty obvious—Google isn't coming for Anthropic and OpenAI's shared agentic coding crown anytime soon

I understand this may come off as salty (and maybe it is!) but it's accurate. Thiel may have never told anyone on record that he did what he did had we not published it first at Forbes.

What?

Look, look, look, I'm sorry. Look. I don't do the best job of promoting my own work. So, here I am. Posting.

Cool. Cool. The venue holds 2900 people. Cool.

OpenAI's lawyer pulls up a photo of the founding members of OpenAI during the company's early days, wearing T-shirts and jeans in a scrappy office and “working day and night," he says. Musk, who was at Y Combinator, came by occasionally to “yell at people for not moving fast enough,” he says.

“No one should be allowed to steal a charity,” says Musk's lawyer. Musk brings two claims against OpenAI (breach of charitable trust and unjust enrichment) and one claim against Microsoft (aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty).

“Either go do something on your own or continue with OpenAI as a nonprofit,” Elon Musk told Sam Altman and Greg Brockman in the company's early days. Musk's lawyer says Altman and Brockman reassured him that they were comitted to keeping OpenAI a nonprofit.

I'm a reporter (and lawyer) covering Musk v. Altman for @technologyreview.com . Here's what's going on day 2 of the trial at the Oakland federal courthouse. Elon Musk and Sam Altman are here. Musk will likely testify today. Opening statements from both parties' lawyers to come soon.

I'll be reporting on the Musk v. Altman trial at the Oakland courthouse for @technologyreview.com. I'm a lawyer who clerked for a federal judge in California, so follow me to unpack what's really happening in the courtroom! www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/27/1...

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are going to court over OpenAI’s future

Elon Musk says he’s suing to save the company’s mission. The case could have huge consequences for OpenAI and the AI race.

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This is my district. You know things are bad when the URL slug is "supervisor-silly" (the url slug is not wrong) missionlocal.org/2026/04/dist...

District 4 shaping up to be San Francisco’s loudest and silliest race. As predicted.

Re-litigating political done deals and fervently focusing on crime in one of the city's safest neighborhoods is bizarre. But we're doing it.

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"Cringey texts, raw diary entries, and endless scheming behind the founding and growth of OpenAI are expected to come to light," in Elon Musk's case against OpenAI, @technologyreview.com's Michelle Kim writes. She'll have up-to-the-minute coverage on X www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/27/1...

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are going to court over OpenAI’s future

Elon Musk says he’s suing to save the company’s mission. The case could have huge consequences for OpenAI and the AI race.

technologyreview.com

Last night @carnage4life.bsky.social accused me of helping perpetuate negative myths about AI. I hate when people perpetuate negative myths about AI, so this thread will be about the very many real harms committed using AI by Dare's employer Meta. 1/

Once again, I repeat: data centers are a political issue and their capacity to motivate voters should not be underestimated. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

A town of 7,000 planned so many data centers, it’s like adding 51 Walmarts

Developers plan to build six sprawling data center campuses in Archbald, Pennsylvania, covering about 14 percent of the town’s land. Residents are fighting back.

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I know the whole world appears to be going in the other direction. But someone is going to make an authentic appeal to basic morality and justice one of these days, and that person will become President of the United States.

Trump's new Navy Secretary is very concerned about an implacable foe: "Witchcraft," which has "really taken over" in places like California. www.businessinsider.com/hung-cao-gop...

GOP Senate candidate Hung Cao warns of 'witchcraft' happening in California: 'We can't let that happen in Virginia'

Cao, who was the GOP nominee against Democratic Rep. Jennifer Wexton in 2022, also said he was "African-American because I grew up in Africa too."

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Jay Bhattacharya falsely accused people of “censoring” him for years — including Stanford Internet Observatory. He has his job because of pretend censorship — he parlayed being a fake victim into a government appointment. Here he is suppressing a paper because he doesn’t like its conclusions.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Jay Bhattacharya has ordered that a paper showing the effectiveness of COVID19 vaccines in preventing severe disease and hospitalization be suppressed and hidden. This man has been crying nonstop about political censorship for 6 years. But he’s the one who is actually doing it.