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Ashlee Vance

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Writing at and host of the Core Memory podcast. 2X NYT best-seller. Filmmaker @HBO (Wild, Wild Space) + @Netflix (Don't Die).

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1Sep 23, '24VC the other day told me, "We've lost several really good founders to ayahuasca. They came back and just didn't care about much anymore."514×15.7M34k1.3k11k
2Nov 20, '23700 of 770 OpenAI employees saying they will go now. What is the board going to be board of?143×4.4M8.7k660494
3Jul 21, '24The US just beat China in the Math Olympiad. A great win for the country and immigration and proof that individuals can overcome poor public education127×3.9M3.4k192483
4Aug 30, '24Put the cartels in charge of higher education100×3.1M51k3.4k2.9k
5Nov 20, '23So, here's what happened at OpenAI tonight. Mira planned to hire Sam and Greg back. She turned Team Sam over past couple of days. Idea was to force board to fire everyone, which th83.6×2.6M5.9k599932
6Oct 5, '24The world's richest human and the secretary of transportation just casually hammering out disaster relief on X. What a bizzarely sane moment in the midst of our long national night77.5×2.4M38k2.3k2.4k
7Nov 20, '23You wake up, and it somehow gets weirder.59.2×1.8M3k158245
8May 25, '24In honor of what is likely @RafaelNadal's last French Open, I present my best Rafa story. A few years ago, I went to hit with Mark Hurd at Larry Ellison's house/resort in Palm Spri50.7×1.5M3.1k287975
9May 2, '25My exclusive feature story and a short film on Brad Smith - aka @ALScyborg - the first ALS patient to receive a @neuralink implant. We spent months with Brad and his family to watc43.6×1.3M3.6k666374
10Feb 9, '24There's just no way Steve Jobs releases this mess. He would have demeaned someone until that battery weighed nothing and fit in the headset40.4×1.2M8.1k393346
11Dec 12, '24AI reading a PDF of a book instantly and knowing everything in it still gets me36.1×1.1M3.5k312190
12Aug 16, '24mini 🧵 Am not allowed to say who said this, but someone with a very, very deep knowledge of AI and modern factories says Tesla has massive edge on bridge between AI and physical w34.5×1.1M4.1k3241.2k
13Dec 1, '23A couple of weeks ago, I went to a weapons test site in the Nevada desert to see a test flight of Anduril's latest creation called Roadrunner. Contrary to the name . . .34.3×1M1.9k140484
14Aug 27, '24.@hudzah was kind enough to show me his fusor this morning (from the very San Francisco sentences files). and i have thoughts. for one . . .29.3×893k1.4k811.2k
15Aug 25, '24Boeing was paid billions more than SpaceX to be seven years late on a mission it could not complete . . . And will now be rescued from total disaster by SpaceX Never forget, many b28×856k9.4k1.7k773
16Sep 28, '24If I ran any kind of language learning app, I'd be very scared right now. Just spent the last two days being tutored in Spanish by ChatGPT, and it's incredible26.6×813k3.2k104703
17Jan 13, '25🧵 Well, friends, after a long, epic run at Bloomberg, I'm launching my own thing - Core Memory - a sci-tech media company making movies, shows, pods and stories. We're going deep 26.5×810k3.3k247510
18Oct 13, '24SpaceX is now on to its second generation of reusable rocket technology and all of Europe is still just like, oh, well, crap, we never thought it would work in the first place and 26.5×808k13k460479
19Jul 8, '24Spent six years making this sucker . Hope you guys enjoy. Coming to HBO on July 1726×792k6.1k5881.7k
20Jul 30, '24Satoshi is either dead or the one human in history who could actually keep a secret. Cannot believe this mystery endures.23.2×709k3k95112
21Jun 19, '25I happened to be at @neuralink last night when Starship went boom. And so was @elonmusk until well past midnight PT. He was in three-hour+ long meeting when the explosion happened.23.1×706k6.7k291416
22Nov 20, '23500 of 770 employees of OpenAI are heading out22.8×695k1.8k140129
23Oct 20, '24I repeat. This is NOT normal.22.6×690k3.4k115294
24Feb 14, '24This . . . is . . . not . . . normal22.1×674k1.5k5249
25Mar 29, '25Anthropic seems to have found evidence of their models thinking via quite nuanced planning as opposed to pure next token prediction, but the reaction to the paper was muted. What a19.8×603k3.4k1101.2k
26Feb 7, '24Things are terrible18.6×566k2.5k314329
27Oct 3, '24This document is so sad and infuriating. NASA once made the near impossible possible. It seems irreparably lost now.18.5×564k4.1k6901.1k
28Nov 1, '24Mark Cuban fleecing Yahoo for $5.7 billion in !!!1999!!! is an all-timer. The company had 570,000 users . . . and that was its peak relevance. Tons of money for a service no one ev16.2×494k4.2k168516
29Nov 4, '24Is there a secret stash of federal contractors with lots of rockets and satellites we don't know about?14.5×443k8k230109
30Aug 22, '24At least one third of the podcast industry is the same 30 people interviewing each other14.2×435k11k682194
31Oct 13, '24But . . . it doesn't count if there's not a paper, right?13.2×402k7.1k162196
32Nov 20, '23What if I told you . . . . we ain't done tonight, friends12.9×393k1.4k3044
33Mar 29, '25It feels more and more like the US and China are heading out on timelines quite different from the rest of the world, and it feels more and more like China might end up in a timeli12.6×386k2.3k103440
34May 29, '25Fresh episode on the future of babies with @noor_siddiqui_ and @OrchidInc Full show below 👇12.2×373k9k8043.3k
35Jun 5, '24.@MrBeast is 26. You can't run for President until you're 35. My prediction is he runs in 2036 and raises 10x his nearest competitor by turning the whole campaign into an ongoing g11.8×361k9.3k233287
36Feb 7, '25A single tab in Chrome on my laptop is consuming 102,400 times the amount of memory as the entire Apollo Guidance Computer11.7×359k14k590557
37Feb 23, '24Interviewed a young man today who has a startup that's probably going to be valued at hundreds of millions of dollars shortly. He asks me not to mention that he dropped out of Harv11.1×340k1.9k46163
38Nov 20, '23It is very, very, very, very, very hard for me to believe that @sama ends up becoming a long-term Microsoft employee. Let's be real. This saga continues11.1×338k2k6085
39May 22, '24This is kinda nuts. This startup made eInk go fast. Is based off some old Japanese research. Looks awesome11×337k3.4k163716
40Sep 22, '23Did Tim Cook just buy 20 rocket launches or something?10.8×331k2k4237
41Jun 10, '24Roger Federer won 80 percent of the matches he played during his career but only 54 percent of the points. A reminder of the fine margins where greatness can be found.10.7×326k3.1k240442
42Sep 30, '24The US currently has the capacity to make about 20,000 consumer-style drones a year. China's current capacity is closer to 20,000 drones a day.10.3×315k1.7k221258
44Sep 20, '242005 could not comprehend this paragraph10.2×312k7.7k405457
46Nov 8, '23So Amazon made Alexa and then was like, "Cool, we're never touching this thing again no matter how much AI advances."10.2×311k1.8k7338
47Jun 17, '25It’s my understanding that three of the four members of the All In podcast were allowed to invest in Anduril’s latest round but no room was found for one Jason Calacanis10.0×304k2.4k35205
48Jul 28, '25If you can't afford a European vacation, just buy some Nescafe packets, get a single bed with a cover that's too small and leave your shower door open so that water pools on the ba9.8×299k5k130392
49Jul 26, '25The U.S. has a major Tesla and SpaceX problem. They seem to be the only companies that have really propelled manufacturing forward over the past 20 years. Story below because the U9.5×290k2.5k106297
50Nov 18, '23This is like Apple firing Steve Jobs only they're doing it after the iPhone has become the best selling computer in history9.3×283k3.3k178110
51Oct 13, '24One of the more remarkable things about SpaceX is that it's now two decades old and employs thousands of people but goes perhaps even faster than ever. This is not the natural orde9.2×280k5.3k317186
52Aug 2, '25We went from talking about climate change all the time to coating every available square foot of Earth in AI data centers REALLY fast8.9×271k1.6k101103
54Jan 23, '25Science Corp. has created its own line of neurons that it's fusing with an animal's existing neurons via an implant, and we may end up with monkeys playing poker. How's your Thursd7.5×228k1.6k242742
55Apr 24, '24.@anduriltech just beat out Boeing and Lockheed to make autonomous fighter craft for the Air Force. This is a very big deal for a bunch of reasons6.9×211k1.4k109137
57Sep 10, '24It's weird that the federal government seems to care more about the water quality at a rocket launch pad than they did in Flint, Michigan6.8×206k4.5k42272
58Aug 16, '24Remember when the Google guy was talking to the equivalent of GPT 2.5, saw God and freaked everyone out and now we all use something way better and people say it's ho-hum?6.6×202k1.8k63111
59Feb 28, '24Tonight, a room full of engineers crapped themselves6.5×199k2.2k8255
60Jun 6, '24NASA's AI Innovation Fellow 😂 really going for it. Am sure this will end well for him.6.5×199k1.8k2687
61Aug 29, '24Every successful founder I've known checks which of their rivals CEOs are at Burning Man and then uses that week to poach as many of their top employees as possible5.9×179k1.6k33186
62Mar 15, '24SpaceX has only been around for 22 years and is doing laps on, well, the entire world. Europe and Russia have largely done nothing in the last two decades to address the competitio5.9×179k2.2k208150
64Sep 6, '24You know what's cooler than taxing unrealized gains? A completed DoD audit. This will sound crazy, but I propose we do the very basics and get the government to spend less than it 5.7×175k4.2k365127
65Feb 3, '25Whether you're into what DOGE is doing or not. People need to cut back on the way too aggressive vitriol against someone like Luke and his Fing family. He has a massive brain, a ki5.4×166k1.8k5169
66Oct 20, '24So in six days, SpaceX caught a brand new rocket with metal chopsticks, launched a probe to Jupiter for NASA, put up more of its space Internet satellites AND launched space Intern5.4×164k4.4k406206
68Oct 13, '24"Don't dream, kids." 😂 Iconic.5.3×162k1.7k122189
69Sep 5, '24I'm confused5.3×161k2.1k2748
70Jan 25, '25Huberman needs to consider that bullying @bryan_johnson now will be considered child abuse in three years5.2×160k3.8k7686
71Jul 31, '25At this rate, Figma will be able to acquire Adobe by the end of next week5.1×155k2.5k7172
72Oct 3, '24I'm confused. Precisely none of this stuff was made in Arkansas, was it?5.0×154k2.1k3668
73Aug 4, '24We can talk about how limited these current models are, but I chucked an elderly parent's chest x-ray image and bloodwork (in Spanish) into ChatGPT, and it gave me what turned out 5.0×153k1.2k79136
74Jul 1, '24Imagine what would happen in Europe if even half the people who work on regulation worked on building something instead4.7×144k3k24878
76Dec 9, '24I'd wager that @SpaceX lands something on Mars before California has a rider on its high-speed rail4.6×141k4k18246
77Feb 23, '24It's amusing and amazing that @SpaceX has gotten to the point where it's putting stuff on the Moon as a side quest4.6×141k1.5k8227
78Aug 16, '24It's kinda amusing that SpaceX revealed its plans to put up thousands of comm sats years ago and then the DoD and rivals end up shocked and scrambling way after the fact because Sp4.6×140k2.7k173116
80Oct 13, '24Your reminder that Bechtel will need $2.7 billion and until 2029 to make a launch tower that can't catch rockets with chopsticks4.2×129k2.4k207140
81Mar 5, '24There is no company - that does actually interesting and world-changing things - that is this far ahead of their competition. Non space folk have no idea how anomalous this is4.2×129k1.7k11970
83Aug 3, '24SpaceX will need to land a rocket in the middle of the stadium for the 2028 games4.0×122k2.8k9984
84Oct 13, '24The US should absolutely have its national security hinge on the whims of the California Coastal Commission and how six randos feel about someone's tweets.4.0×121k2.4k12994
85Apr 17, '24This reminds me of the South African rocket success story SpaceX3.8×117k1.5k6348
88Jan 16, '25It took @blueorigin a minute to build an orbital class rocket. But now it has a very, very big one flying. Btwn @spacex, @RocketLab, Blue, @fireflyspace and @stoke_space coming, th3.4×105k1.5k10661
89Nov 19, '24It's weird how little the Biden administration decided to interact with the rise of the US commercial space industry be it SpaceX, Rocket Lab, Planet or Blue Origin given what a ma3.3×101k2.8k9779
90Jul 28, '25For every Starship that gets built, California puts down five inches of highspeed rail3.2×98k3k10344
91Jun 4, '25Whacking @rookisaacman to get back at @elonmusk is so incredibly dumb. May well be the end of @NASA3.1×93k1.8k8854
92Jun 28, '24I'm starting to think he actually believed that GM was leading the electric car revolution2.9×87k1.5k5919
93Mar 14, '24Just incredible sacrifice by this anonymous camera person. A true hero2.6×79k1.7k6549
94Sep 24, '24VC the other day told me, "We've lost several really good founders to wallpaper apps. They came back and just didn't care about much anymore."2.0×62k1.5k2533
98Jan 16, '25Like two decades worth of space stuff happened this week1.4×44k1.5k7925
99Aug 22Out on a frozen lake in Canada, an upside-down cell tower is collecting data on the local fish population. The device is called Echo, and it’s just the beginning of what Dominion D1.0×30k100929

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