Paresh Dave

Oakland cops toss student journalist from news conference about John Beam’s death First Amendment advocates are now calling for an end to a policy requiring journalists to have police-issued credentials.

She wasn't the only one

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The US Military Wants to Fix Its Own Equipment. Defense Contractors Are Trying to Shoot That Down A push by military contractors could alter pending legislation that would have empowered servicemembers to repair equipment. Lobbyists are pitching a subscription service instead.

Even troops are struggling to get a right to repair

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Local contractor employees stop Music City Loop work - Nashville Banner Willie Shane and his crew walk off the Music City Loop project, citing safety concerns and payment issues with The Boring Company.

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ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.

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Jeff Bezos' New AI Venture Quietly Acquired an Agentic Computing Startup Project Prometheus has raised over $6 billion in funding and hired over 100 employees, a handful of whom joined through its acquisition of General Agents, according to records and sources.

Adding to the New York Times' big unveil last week of Jeff Bezos' new AI company Project Prometheus, we reveal an acquihire and that two Transformers paper authors are founding advisors

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Amazon Workers Issue Warning About Company’s ‘All-Costs-Justified’ Approach to AI Development Amazon Employees for Climate Justice says that over 1,000 workers have signed a petition raising “serious concerns” about the company’s “aggressive rollout” of artificial intelligence tools.

Amazon employees sound off on the alleged current harms of AI, including worsening the environment, fueling authoritarian behavior, and making work less fun

www.wired.com/story/amazon...

Good to know. Wonder what the latest thing they got was

Because you're very familiar with Micron? What have you learned about them?

Yup that seems to generally be the case

A $100 Billion Chip Project Forced a 91-Year-Old Woman From Her Home Azalia King was the last holdout preventing the construction of a Micron "megafab." Onondaga County authorities threatened to use eminent domain to take her home away by force.

Terms of the agreement to have her move will not be available until the county’s Industrial Development Agency votes to finalize it, likely in mid-December. Earlier this year, the county agency reportedly offered $100,000, while the family countered for $10 million.

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A $100 Billion Chip Project Forced a 91-Year-Old Woman From Her Home Azalia King was the last holdout preventing the construction of a Micron "megafab." Onondaga County authorities threatened to use eminent domain to take her home away by force.

A 91-year-old woman refused to sell her home of 60 years to make room for a $100 billion Micron superfab. She finally gave up when authorities threatened to take it through eminent domain. from @peard33.bsky.social

Bytes: Week in Review — Meta wins antitrust case, AI shopping isn't as smooth, and Vine makes a comeback Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino on “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

Bytes: Week in Review — Meta wins antitrust case, AI shopping isn't as smooth, and Vine makes a comeback www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...

OpenAI Locks Down San Francisco Offices Following Alleged Threat From Activist A message on OpenAI’s internal Slack claimed the activist in question had expressed interest in “causing physical harm to OpenAI employees.”

Scoop w/ @peard33.bsky.social and @mzeff.bsky.social: OpenAI locked down its San Francisco offices today after receiving a threat from an activist previously associated with Stop AI: www.wired.com/story/openai...

A $100 Million AI Super PAC Targeted New York Democrat Alex Bores. He Thinks It Backfired Leading the Future said it will spend millions to keep Alex Bores out of Congress. It might be helping him instead.

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A federal prosecutor alleged one defendant boasted that his father “had engaged in similar business for the Chinese Communist Party.”
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Four Indicted In Alleged Conspiracy To Smuggle Supercomputers and Nvidia Chips to China A federal prosecutor alleged one defendant boasted that his father “had engaged in similar business for the Chinese Communist Party.”

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OpenAI's Fidji Simo Plans to Make ChatGPT Way More Useful—and Have You Pay For It As OpenAI expands in every direction, the new CEO of Applications is on a mission to make ChatGPT indispensable and lucrative.

"I worry a little bit about paternalism around the narrative of slop. We need to be looking at this new medium as raising the floor of what could be created before and giving minimum access to people who didn’t have access before."

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San Francisco property tax: The city could owe $1B in refunds if it fails to meet its deadline Soaring appeals are straining the city budget and leaving homeowners stuck in a growing backlog.

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What insiders really think about the AI race Buy Anthropic. Short Perplexity. Notes from this year’s Cerebral Valley Summit. Also: Robinhood's Vlad Tenev this week on ACCESS.

"Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger: 'Time spent is, I can tell you, not on any of the dashboards that I look at. It’s just not a main consideration.'"

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The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.

And it's helping swing elections www.wired.com/story/the-da...

You Won’t Be Able to Offload Your Holiday Shopping to AI Agents Anytime Soon Chatbot developers and retail giants are battling over user data as they lay the foundation for a future in which AI agents can do all your online shopping for you.

Expedia’s app for ChatGPT provides real-time flight and hotel pricing data in response to user queries. Users must still manually make bookings—no AI agents are involved yet. But the feature is leading to greater sales than Expedia anticipated.

www.wired.com/story/inside...

Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Plan to Make Mobile Voting Happen Political consultant Bradley Tusk has spent a fortune on mobile voting efforts. Now, he’s launching a protocol to try to mainstream the technology.

Political consultant Bradley Tusk has spent a fortune on mobile voting efforts. Now, he’s launching a protocol to try to mainstream the technology. www.wired.com/story/bradle...

Excited to announce I’m joining @wired.com as a senior writer covering the business of AI!

I’ve long been a fan of WIRED, but its recent coverage has felt especially impactful. I'm thrilled to work with this talented team, and continue reporting on AI as it reshapes Silicon Valley and the world.

OpenAI’s Open-Weight Models Are Coming to the US Military The gpt-oss models are being tested for use on sensitive military computers. But some defense insiders say that OpenAI is still behind the competition.

The gpt-oss models are being tested for use on sensitive military computers. But some defense insiders say that OpenAI is still behind the competition.

www.wired.com/story/open-a...

Any SF Bay Area tech companies with in-office requirements excusing employees from coming in tomorrow because of the storm?

Just can't imagine the justification for "non-essential workers" (as the pandemic defined it) to commute in what the tech industry would call suboptimal weather conditions.

The EPA Is in Chaos “We learn who is furloughed when we send an email to someone and get the out-of-office message,” one employee tells WIRED.

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Apple Pulls China’s Top Gay Dating Apps After Government Order The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China’s marginalized LGBTQ+ community.

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Social Security Employees Grill Management During Tense Shutdown Meeting WIRED obtained notes from a Social Security Administration management meeting, where employees pressed leadership on plans for the agency.

"We're a metro office where we have to pay for parking, and our parking is like $10 to $15 a day, and it's really starting to add up for employees. And we do have employees that have been embarrassed to come to me and say that they can't afford to come to work"

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Google, Microsoft, and Meta Have Stopped Publishing Workforce Diversity Data Other big tech companies including Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia have continued their annual disclosures this year even as the Trump administration cracks down on DEI.

Other big tech companies including Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia have continued their annual disclosures this year even as the Trump administration cracks down on DEI.

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I was one of the four people who got canned.

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