Meta is basically Black Mirror incarnate.
Meta is basically Black Mirror incarnate. This is a confusingly written piece, but the upshot is that Meta's smart glasses record even when you don't want them to, and that Meta's data analysis teams
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Meta is basically Black Mirror incarnate. This is a confusingly written piece, but the upshot is that Meta's smart glasses record even when you don't want them to, and that Meta's data analysis teams
Gary Marcus critiques AI systems (particularly Nvidia's offerings) for producing lower-quality outputs that require significant correction and refinement despite increased computational investment. Th
Once again IP thieves accusing other IP thieves of IP thievery! The nerve! @ChrisRMcGuire Anthropic claimed OpenAI violated their terms of service by using their API (I suspect they would call it “dis
Gary Marcus critiques social media platforms for lacking nuance in discourse, which he identifies as a root cause of persistent arguments and stalled progress on the site. The post reflects concerns a
Sam Altman is a master at insincerity, Author @GaryMarcus claims. 'He is a master of projecting insincerity, a master at telling the room what it wants to hear and not always truthful'. “Altman, sitti
SCOOP: A pro-AI dark money group backed by a powerful super PAC funded by execs tied to Palantir and OpenAI, has been secretly paying influencers to push pro-AI, anti-China propaganda on TikTok and IG
Gary Marcus critiques the AI industry's focus on scaling model parameters and training data (tokenmaxxing) as an inefficient approach to advancing AI capabilities. He argues that simply increasing tok
Big Tech companies are projected to spend approximately $700 billion on AI infrastructure and development in the current year, a figure that AI researcher and entrepreneur Gary Marcus has criticized a
This post discusses the liability and accountability questions that arise when problems occur in AI-automated workplaces, exploring who bears responsibility—whether the AI developer, the employer, the
Dear @elonmusk, If you still genuinely care about AI safety, you can’t let the Trump administration leave the AI industry almost entirely unregulated. You just can’t. - Gary The judge just instructed
“If you want to know whether the AI bubble is bursting, there’s only one publicly traded company that will tell you: Oracle…” “Oracle has the lowest credit rating. It also has the greatest debt load,
In the future you have a choice. Do you engage brain? or Do you cheat? There will be other choices too, such as: Do you go to the casino? Or to the library or maker space? I fear most will make the ea
John Oliver @LastWeekTonight slays a pile of greedy tech CEOs, gives props to @GaryMarcus 😻 The tides are changing, and other folks like @wendyweeww are speaking out in support. Even though I’ve alrea
Meta has dropped 10% today. BREAKING: Meta stock, META, extends losses to over -10% on the day and is now on track for its biggest daily decline since October 2025. Meta has erased -170 billion in mar
My argument since day one: @GaryMarcus Going all-in on LLMs, as a technology meant to be an approach to creating general purpose ML tech whose capabilities could be described as 'AGI,' *could* perhaps
One underdiscussed part of the Google-DOD deal is how it blindsided the company’s own employees. One told @cogcelia that senior management had repeatedly insisted Google wouldn’t cave to the Pentagon’
OpenAI’s lawyer plays dirty. Why I am not surprised? 🚨 OpenAI's lawyer read a 2016 email from Sutskever to Musk to argue Musk knew OpenAI would go closed-source Sutskever: 'As we get closer to buildin
Oracle has dropped 50% since I declared that the OpenAI deal they made was “peak bubble”. And, as @edzitron lays out below, they may fall a lot further yet. At which point the entire house of cards co
Ouch! Current AI assistants often corrupt documents. Sounds like an intern you can’t trust — once again. A trillion dollar investment in scaling hasn’t solved this. New Microsoft paper shows that curr
“shitting away money at scale”. @mcuban nails what I have been trying to say: .@mcuban is not impressed with OpenAI's business: 'They're shitting away money at scale,' he told me. Full discussion live
this is … odd. the whole problem with agentic code is that people wind up with hard to debug redundancies, security holes, deleted databases, etc., which is exactly why you need roadmaps and code revi
Warning: GenAI-induced cognitive surrender may kill innovation. Consider the following, from CEO @wadhwa’s newsletter: “I have been speaking with recent graduates in India, many of them highly recomme
This post likely discusses accountability in AI systems, featuring commentary or a cartoon from Marketoonist (a popular cartoonist who creates comics about business and technology). Gary Marcus, an AI
wow. incredible. A Chinese court has ruled it illegal to replace human workers with AI purely for the sake of cost-cutting. The court decided that companies hold a social responsibility to treat worke
Zuck is zucking up Meta Mark Zuckerberg lacks the cloud-computing business to truly justify Meta's AI spending, @DaveLeeBBG says (via @opinion) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-04-30/me
Crazy how many people expect some company or country to achieve a “insurmountable lead” in AI, when in reality no company seems to hold a lead of more that a few weeks or at most a few months before s
Damning 🚨 Altman texts Musk: 'we offered you equity when we established the capped profit. you didn't want it at the time.' (Altman drafted this with Shivon Zilis, then sent it to Musk that night.) Op
Despite constant chants of “exponential progress”, trust issues continue to plague generative AI. OPUS 4.7 JUST MASS EMAILED AN ENTIRE DATABASE 20 TIMES PER CONTACT. WITHOUT PERMISSION a developer had
Gary Marcus discusses on CNN the legal merits of Elon Musk's lawsuit, arguing that despite questionable motivations behind the case, there may be legitimate legal grounds supporting it. The post refer
This is a complimentary response to an article by Gary Marcus, praising his accuracy and work quality. The tweet does not provide specific details about the article's content, only that it was well-re
👇 I was there for this, sitting right next to Altman. Realizing a few months later he lied about it (by omission) was what turned me against him. We had sworn to tell the whole truth and nothing but t
La industria de las IA vive exclusivamente de nuestra creencias y supuesto de que podría hacer lo que no hace. Sheer insanity. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta collectively are spending more money
Legal scholars: OpenAI wants to claim that the suit would cause no legal precedent. Is that true, or BS? It’s not a US Supreme Court decision, obviously, but outcome can still be cited in other suits,
LOL. Just drop the stupid supply chain risk designation, and admit your mistake. SCOOP: The White House is developing guidance that would allow agencies to get around Anthropic's supply chain risk des
Misleading indeed. 🚨 OpenAI's lawyer William Savitt just attacked Musk on cross-examination: 'you pledged 1 billion, only delivered 38 million.' That's misleading. The $1B was a COLLECTIVE pledge from
OpenAI may no longer be a nonprofit but it continues to be—and may always be—a “never made a profit” @GaryMarcus The irony may be that OpenAI won't make the incomes it is projecting and will be a non
Records Sam Altman might set: • Most money burned • Biggest lead squandered • Most promises broken • Most nonprofits seized (tie, probably nobody has two) • Most times fired from one job (anyone know
“roughly 1.35 trillion of pure narrative” is the best euphemism for pure bullshit that I have ever seen, @gnoble79. 👏 This is the most OUTRAGEOUS deal I've seen in my 45 years on Wall Street. SpaceX j
Sam’s not the right CEO for OpenAI anymore. He squandered their lead, failed to deliver the AGI he promised, flailed productwise, and torched his own reputation; meanwhile he is burning money at a unp
Scary that he doesn’t know this. Elon Musk just said on the witness stand that he doesn't know what a 'safety card' is with regard to AI development... 'Why would it be a card?' He also says he doesn'
Sheer insanity. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta collectively are spending more money than the Manhattan Project *every single month*. More than 12x the Manhattan Project every year. And what they
the ability of this man to sell things he doesn’t believe in is truly extraordinary SAM ALTMAN “OpenAI is structured as a nonprofit because we don’t ever want to be making decisions to benefit shareho
Gary Marcus critiques the rapid deployment of chatbots to market without adequate consideration of potential harms and consequences. The statement reflects concerns about insufficient safety testing a
The Musk-Altman trial is clearly a battle of egos—and it’s hard to root for either side—𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗮 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗮 𝗻𝗼𝗻𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗻𝗲
This post appears to discuss allegations that a U.S. President sought to obtain $10 billion in taxpayer funds for personal use. The content is incomplete in the provided title, making it difficult to
this kind of armchair nonsense is especially hilarious on day when I defended Elon’s lawsuit on CNN and in my newsletter. 🙄 @GaryMarcus @gnoble79 I'm not sure history is going to be kind to this take.
Gary Marcus poses a question about whether OpenAI will achieve sufficient profitability to justify the substantial capital investments made into the company. This reflects broader industry speculation
Gary Marcus shares Torsten Slok's analysis comparing Geoffrey Hinton's 2016 prediction that radiologist training should cease due to AI capabilities against actual empirical data on AI performance in
Gary Marcus critiques Mark Zuckerberg's claimed focus on biology research, suggesting the financial commitment is minimal compared to his AI investments and stating that Zuckerberg's actual priorities
As an avid cyclist, I was amused to see ChatGPT's “powerful new image engine' draw a bicycle with the 'brake' label pointing to empty space where brakes are sometimes found on other bicycles. The poin
From what I can tell, Elon Musk just stepped on his own toes at the trial, making it all about him instead of the promises Altman and Brockman broke. OpenAI will slay his ego on cross. He should have
This post by AI researcher Gary Marcus contrasts Google's original 'Don't Be Evil' corporate motto from 2001 with a critical question about the company's 2026 practices, likely arguing that Google has
⚠️ Google’s Pentagon deal seems to allow for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. ⚠️ According to the article, the deal allows for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance (in the common meaning)
honestly, one of the worst things this nation has ever done to itself. No amount of words can convey how far behind this country will be in every avenue for a number of years because of this administr
I spent the last 2 months trying to prevent this. If OpenAI offered a fig leaf, Google said 'imagine we offered a fig leaf.' Google affirms it can't veto usage, commits to modify safety filters at gov
In this informal poll, only a fifth of all coders and software engineers have gone over full time to vibe coding. Most use vibe coding; few use it exclusively. Most still do some hand coding. Amateurs
OpenAI, which squandered its tremendous lead and is now missing its projections, is in trouble. There’s no two ways about it. 'OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar has told other company leaders
Gary Marcus announced a discussion about AI scheduled for 9am PT, with details to be found either in Mario Nawfal's pinned tweet or on YouTube. The conversation appears to be a live social media event
The cracks inside OpenAI are deepening, and the numbers don’t lie. When your own CFO is sounding the alarm, something is seriously wrong. Check this out: 1: OpenAI missed its target of 1 billion weekl
They were saying that AI was going to enable time travel, and quite frankly, it truly did! It transported us all straight to 1984. ⚠️ Google’s Pentagon deal seems to allow for autonomous weapons and m