I want to speak very plainly to you, so that we are both comforted by the honesty.
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Russell Brandom
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"It’s a warning to the wider tech industry: comply, or we can shut you and your products down." techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/t...
me and who
Google has signed a $920 million/month compute deal with SpaceX techcrunch.com/2026/06/05/g...
A couple questions raised by the deal: First, where is this compute coming from? The Anthropic deal was supposed to encompass all of Colossus 1, so is SpaceX also selling off Colossus 2 capacity as it comes online?
I like some of the Dua Lipa songs but I don't really want her integrated into my web services
[dejected] Knicks in five
The Trump administration's decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary, retaliatory, or both, but the message is clear: The AI industry isn't immune fro...
SpaceX has agreed to acquire Cursor for $60 billion, per SEC filing techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/s...
On the other side, Google has arguably the largest stockpile of AI compute in the world; they're usually selling it, not buying it. This is the first deal I'm aware of in which they're paying another data center operator for limited-term access. Why?
TV commercials used to be so tastefully horny... we've lost so much.
Russell Brandom
Trying to think of the nearest historical precedent to a national government taking semi-permanent near-majority ownership in an entire industry -- maybe Mexico forming Pemex in the 30s? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/o...
