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Cory Bergman

@corybe.com
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Cofounder and chief product officer @factal.com. Journalist entrepreneur, AI nerd. Former Breaking News, NBC News. Seattle

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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 16/08/2026
For most of my life, ideas felt scarce enough to save. Now they’re so abundant, I need to get better at throwing them away. corybe.com/blog/ai-and-...
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AI and the anxiety of endless ideas
AI makes divergence nearly free while convergence remains hard. For most of my life, ideas felt scarce enough to save.
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 05/08/2026
The screen whenever I start my car
AI image
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 26/07/2026
It’s like a sci-fi alternate universe. www.reuters.com/graphics/UKR...
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Inside Ukraine’s Kill Zone
Drones now dominate the war in Ukraine. Fly through the front line’s deadly “kill zone” and discover how surveillance, kamikaze drones and new tactics are reshaping modern warfare. An immersive Reuter...
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 02/05/2026
Surprised more folks don’t follow @factal.com on this platform: global breaking news without the hype, consistently faster than any other source on Bluesky. (This feed is a small subset of our full service).
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 09/08/2025
Joys of camping: book spot one year out, battle traffic for hours, pull into a packed parking lot with trees, listen to kids complain about crap internet, fall asleep early exhausted, wake 1 am 2 am then 3 am, fall down in the dark trying to pee, up at 5 am, leave early after kids threaten mutiny.
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 08/08/2025
Just got GPT-5 and the first test (oddly I know) is whether voice mode can speak in Spanglish. Passed with flying colors, switching back and forth flawlessly for the first time.
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 05/08/2025
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
The Niche Machine is here. We are now not just seeing AI slop about current events and natural disasters, we are seeing hyperpersonalized AI slop that combines "news" and disinformation with any interest / celebrity / hobby you could possibly imagine www.404media.co/the-ai-slop-...
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The Hyperpersonalized AI Slop Silo Machine Is Here
We are on a path to where social media will feed you hyperpersonalized AI slop about anything and everything.
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 12/07/2025
“We have never graduated coders. We have always graduated software engineers.” www.geekwire.com/2025/coding-...
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Coding is dead: UW computer science program rethinks curriculum for the AI era
The University of Washington's Allen School is rethinking how to train the next generation of software engineers in an AI-dominated job market.
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 12/07/2025
@theverge.com Hey how can I tell on mobile web which story is free and which is premium?
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Alex Johnson @malexjohnson.com · 10/07/2025
Of course it did. And there will be more reports like this. www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...
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Swedish bodyguards' fitness app data reveals private locations of royal family
Data from bodyguards' Strava apps showed the royals took trips to a private island in the Seychelles and to a luxury villa on the French Riviera.
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 08/07/2025
Amazing how much CGI looks Ike AI now.
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 03/07/2025
Seattle is at risk of becoming an “old tech” town — nearly all AI innovation is squarely back in Silicon Valley/SF. Microsoft is powering a big part of it, but faces increasing risks as AI upends software ecosystems. Amazon… ugh… had a huge head start with Alexa, and now…?
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 02/07/2025
Microsoft cuts people to help offset the high cost of AI data centers. Then as AI gets even better, it will cut more people. Double whammy for tech workers.
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Bearly Fantasy @bearlyfantasy.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Worst Father's Day JCPenney ad photos ever.
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 02/07/2025
Fascinating data point from Cloudflare’s CEO: click rates to AI source citations are plummeting because people trust the results more. In a ratio of pages scraped to search visitors, OpenAI was 250:1 six months ago, now 1500:1. m.youtube.com/watch?v=H5C9...
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Axios’ Sara Fischer in conversation with Cloudflare’s Matthew Prince
YouTube video by Axios
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
A moderately common event is someone confidently tells me that LLMs can't solve their specific puzzle, I whack it in o3, it spins up a python programme that solves it in 12 seconds, and it turns out the person had only ever tested it on the free versions of ChatGPT and Grok
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
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ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 26/06/2025
Good overview of how AI is playing a larger roll in elections — for better or worse. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/t...
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A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 26/06/2025
Unsurprising — and as AI makes it easier to get the news, fewer Americans will pay (at least directly).
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Klemens Arro @klemens.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I like this. Context engineering.
Screenshot of a tweet by Tobi Lutke (@tobi) posted on June 19, 2025, at 6:01 AM. The tweet reads:
"I really like the term 'context engineering' over prompt engineering.
It describes the core skill better: the art of providing all the context for the task to be plausibly solvable by the LLM."
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 25/06/2025
Not a fan of these kinds of user surveys. Reducing information friction is always popular if you design it well. Users struggle to articulate features — or even recognize that AI is at play. Anti-AI fears skew numbers, too. 1/2
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 24/06/2025
When someone is talking with their AI in voice mode, it’s rude to interrupt. 😏
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 23/06/2025
👎👎👎 OKC 👎👎👎 #Sonics
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
We as a community are rooting for Indy and not this dishonorable basketball, yes?
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 23/06/2025
What is up with all the Achilles injuries in the NBA? Can’t remember it happening this often over the years. #nbasky
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 21/06/2025
AI is changing how we speak www.theverge.com/openai/68674...
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You sound like ChatGPT
AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 21/06/2025
Completely agree, and feeds and lists don’t help when there’s so little niche content to begin with. If engagement mostly rewards political posts, there’s not much incentive to post anything else. The architecture invites content diversity but the culture discourages it.
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 21/06/2025
Excellent thread 💯
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
NEW from me and @thiccreese.bsky.social: Disney is suing Midjourney for copyright infringement, but Midjourney's new video tool still produces animations of some Disney characters (including stuff like Wall-E with a gun or Yoda smoking weed): www.wired.com/story/midjou...
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'Wall-E With a Gun': Midjourney Generates Videos of Disney Characters Amid Massive Copyright Lawsuit
A week after Disney and Universal filed a landmark lawsuit against Midjourney, the generative AI startup's new V1 video tool will make clips of Shrek, Deadpool, and other famous creations.
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 13/06/2025
Agree — this is why Bluesky engagement is steadily declining. bsky.jazco.dev/stats
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 09/06/2025
These @erikwemple.bsky.social media Q&A columns are great and illustrate 1) people have deserving questions 2) the media has a long ways to go to be transparent and 3) the oddity of qualifying transparency as “opinion,” as it is here. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Can Trump stop ABC, CBS or NBC from broadcasting? I answered your questions.
Erik’s Q&A with readers is at 12 p.m. ET on Monday, June 9. Submit your questions.
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 09/06/2025
I’m always amazed by the lack of geographic detail in local news reporting. Can have unintended effect of making localized events appear to be widespread.
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 06/06/2025
Rooting for the Pacers to destroy the Sonics Stealers. #nba
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 01/06/2025
The Last of Us Season 2 was garbage and it has nothing to do with the actors. Looking forward to Stranger Things...
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 22/05/2025
One of those ☀️ days in Seattle
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Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Wow: after 15 years, YouTube has taken down the original 'Rick Roll' video due to a "licensing issue," likely due to the acquisition of Astley's record lable. The metadata remains, but if you click through it goes to 'video not found': www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...
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Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Rick Astley
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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
This is some good journalism
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Excellent NYT graphic. In the space of about 3 months, tariffs on China: -- doubled; -- went up ≈ 2.5X from there; -- roughly doubled again; -- went up ≈ 40% from there; -- and now have dropped ≈ 80% from the peak -- but are still 3X what they were in February. www.nytimes.com/article/trum...
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Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
This headline hurt my brain. “Boy hits car” is the name of a band. I had to read this a few times
Headline from an Instagram post that says
“Boy hits car concert cancelled after truck hits venue”
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 11/05/2025
This is one of my biggest frustrations with tariff news coverage — it’s lazy and/or illustrates a lack of depth in business and economics. It’s like covering COVID through statements, not science.
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Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Sunday's @nytimes.com carries the photos of 15 medics and rescue workers shot and killed by the IDF in Gaza in March, collected from their families and colleagues. QR links out to video reconstruct, Six Deadly Minutes. Please share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWhN...
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 10/05/2025
“This is the most difficult misinformation environment I’ve ever encountered.” blog.factal.com/2025/05/how-...
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How Factal helps our members navigate the India-Pakistan attacks and misinformation surge - Factal Blog: News about global security, disaster response and crisis collaboration
There's no bigger stage for mis- and disinformation than the deep-rooted hostility between India and Pakistan. Both governments routinely engage in censorship and disinformation efforts, and they rank...
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 08/05/2025
Incredible story and novel use of AI www.npr.org/2025/05/07/g...
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After an Arizona man was shot, an AI video of him addresses his killer in court
AI experts say this is likely the first time that AI has been used in the U.S. to create an impact statement read by an AI rendering of the deceased victim
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
It's honestly kind of insane how the last few months have been logistics companies and OEMs staring off into the distance at impending oblivion while the companies that use those services are in complete denial of what's going on and assume the tariff otaku will change his mind at the last second
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Y’all, the shortages are coming and they are baked in. Even if all the tariffs disappear tomorrow the resulting surge will logjam the system. Also it doesn’t seem like they are disappearing tomorrow. Just cause multinationals can navigate this doesn’t mean countless small businesses aren’t toast.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
New from 404 Media: the Signal clone the Trump administration uses was just hacked. TeleMessage makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, Waltz used it. A hacker got some users' messages, group chats. Hugely significant breach www.404media.co/the-signal-c...
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The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked
TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked.
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 04/05/2025
I find it amazing that most Americans don’t see — or choose to ignore — the Covid-size economic disruption that’s about to hit. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/b...
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A Tidal Wave of Change Is Headed for the U.S. Economy
American consumers are not yet seeing much evidence of the drastic changes President Trump has made on trade. But they are on their way.
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 04/05/2025
Sovereignty beats Journalism. Typical.
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Cory Bergman @corybe.com · 03/05/2025
He’s 94. Not shocking.
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