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Erin Griffith

@ering.bsky.social
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NYT reporter covering startups & venture capital Writing a book about startups in the 2010s🦄

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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
not everyone fears the AI bubble www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/t...
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Why an A.I. Bubble Might Not Be a Bad Thing
As fears spread over a possible artificial intelligence bubble, some tech investors say: Bring it on.
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
eBay will pay $56 million to the couple behind EcommerceBytes. The company tried to silence their coverage with a harassment campaign, including sending shipments of live cockroaches and a bloody pig mask. A portion of the $$ will go to First Amendment charities www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/t...
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Couple Stalked by eBay Settle for $56 Million
Two Massachusetts journalists were harassed by a Silicon Valley security team in a case that raised questions about when executives should be held responsible.
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Librarians hosting anti-AI workshops say "the anti-AI movement isn’t about rejecting technology altogether so much as it is about advocating for more control, agency, and freedom in how people use technology" techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/l...
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Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
BREAKING: Trump just ordered warning signs and exhibits to be installed outside the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to alert the public that the museum does not, in his view, accurately reflect American history. For the record: It does.
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Trump Orders Warnings Placed at ‘Inaccurate’ Smithsonian History Museum
President Trump said the signage at the National Museum of American History would correct what a disputed White House report described as “extreme political activism.”
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
tired: buying a house wired: LANDMAXXING www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
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The Superrich Aren’t Just Buying Mansions—They Want the Entire Block
“Landmaxxers” like Ken Griffin and Larry Ellison are snapping up neighboring properties to create private compounds.
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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 06/07/2026
You're laughing... I can't withdraw my Bonk from Kraken and you're laughing?
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
i will now be whispering "driverless taxis do not run from rage" under my breath every time i see one zip by
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
It has been suggested to me that this premise would make a funny musical and I 100% agree
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
New story from me: Trapped! Inside a Self-Driving Car During an Anti-Robot Attack. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/t...
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Trapped! Inside a Self-Driving Car During an Anti-Robot Attack.
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
New story about how Hollywood (and the world) sees the tech industry, from "Silicon Valley" to "Mountainhead," to a promising new show called "The Audacity." ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/t...
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Silicon Valley’s Image Takes a Dark Turn in Pop Culture
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
New story about how Hollywood (and the world) sees the tech industry, from "Silicon Valley" to "Mountainhead," to a promising new show called "The Audacity." ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/t...
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Silicon Valley’s Image Takes a Dark Turn in Pop Culture
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
to everyone pining for a reboot of "Silicon Valley," I have bad news from the showrunner: “It would feel like a period piece, because at its core, it’s optimistic, and I think we’re living in a post-optimistic world." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/t...
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Silicon Valley’s Image Takes a Dark Turn in Pop Culture
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
An eye-opening story from @ering.bsky.social and Karen Weise on how Jeffrey Epstein worked his way into the inner sanctum of Microsoft's C-suite www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/t...
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How Jeffrey Epstein Ingratiated Himself With Top Microsoft Executives
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
One of @ering.bsky.social's great file finds: Epstein tried to help create an tech fund shortly before he was arrested in 2019 with two tech types. One of his partners, however, was worried about the "optics" of telling founders that Epstein was involved. So they suggested Epstein conceal himself.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Here is Epstein asking Peter Thiel if he should invest in Spotify or Palantir. Thiel was (and still is) Palantir's chairman and tells Epstein there is "no need to rush." This is one of several emails where Thiel gives Epstein advice. Epstein later invested $40m into one of Thiel's VC funds.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
For example, here is Coinbase cofounder Fred Ehrsam in 2014 emailing w/ people around Epstein, including crypto entrepreneur Brock Pierce, asking to meet Epstein before the financier invested $3m in Coinbase. Coinbase was a two year old startup. Epstein netted multimillion dollar returns from this.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships. We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
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Jeffrey Epstein’s Money Mingled With Silicon Valley Start-Ups
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
New: we dug into Epstein’s dealmaking in Silicon Valley. He used his connections with tech’s elite to get into hot startup deals, some of which paid off handsomely (coinbase) and others that did not (jawbone). W/ @rmac.bsky.social + matt Goldstein www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
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Jeffrey Epstein’s Money Mingled With Silicon Valley Start-Ups
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
pour one out for the salesforce ones
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
“Dependence is problematic,” Robert said. “On the other hand, it’s good for business.” Talking about chatbots but applies to any addictive business … social media, cigarettes, junk food, gambling… www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/t...
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Why Do A.I. Chatbots Use ‘I’?
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I'm back from a very long book+mat leave! My first story is a look at what's going on with VC funding for AI startups. I've written a version of this story a few times over the last couple years, but each time, the frenzy has gotten crazier: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/t...
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A.I. Deal Making Is Getting Faster and Faster
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Why is every story about de blasio these days so damn entertaining www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
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Exclusive: British newspaper spoke to the wrong de Blasio, not an ‘imposter’
How a Long Island vintner, with the help of ChatGPT, prompted a transatlantic journalistic debacle.
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
the recap of seasons 1-3 of The Morning Show is so unintentionally hilarious. thank you for reminding me of the roughly 9 million ABSURD plot twists I forgot about, none of the which make any sense together. (i love this insane show)
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
"We were promised Mamala and instead we got Mountainhead." tinabrown.substack.com/p/the-bezos-...
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Is an event that those involved call "the blip" really dramatic enough for an entire movie? It wasn't a gripping rise and fall. It's a tiny, kinda-pointless-in-the-end blip that happened along the rise. I will say Andrew Garfield as Altman is pretty good www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Luca Guadagnino to Direct True-Life OpenAI Movie ‘Artificial’ for Amazon MGM
Andrew Garfield, 'A Complete Unknown' scene-stealer Monica Barbaro, and 'Anora' actor Yura Borisov are circling lead roles in the story of Sam Altman's firing and rehiring.
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
anyone else see Mountainhead? I shared some thoughts here: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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no charm, only money
did you roomcuck yourself?
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I wrote a story in 2014 about a digital payments startup called Clinkle. At the time, a source provided me with photo of Clinkle CEO Lucas Duplan burning (fake) money with Richard Branson. It became a metaphor after Clinkle crashed. Now Duplan filed a DMCA takedown to get it removed from Google.
Lucas Duplan in a white blazer and Richard Branson in a leather jacket lighting fake money on fire with a lighter and smiling at the cameraa DMCA take down request filed by Lucas Andrew Duplan to Google that reads: 

This article/image features a unique moment with Richard Branson and me in a private setting, showcasing a highly distinctive interaction involving burning banknotes and demonstrating new technology, reflecting a rare and specialized concept. As the copyright owner, I assert that this content is both original and of significant personal and commercial value. Its unauthorized use by third parties is without my permission and constitutes a clear violation of copyright law and misuse of protected intellectual property. Given the exclusive and recognizable nature of this image, it is imperative for Google to remove it promptly from search results to prevent further infringement, as there is no valid basis for further public dissemination without explicit permission. Additionally, there is little commercial value as the article is almost 10 years old. Thank you.
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
This is too funny sfstandard.com/2025/05/30/o...
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OpenAI spent $3 million on that Jony Ive and Sam Altman video
From hiring cops and extras to moving a city bus stop, OpenAI managed to produce what may have been history’s most expensive coffee date.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
this piece looking back on NYC dining is hitting me so hard with nostalgia, ESPECIALLY this sam sifton riff on the scene at roberta's in 2008 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
fashion trends are moving too fast or i'm too old to follow them. anyway, skinny jeans are apparently "back" already www.vogue.com/article/best...
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From Kate Moss to Taylor Swift—It’s Time to Revisit Black Skinny Jeans
Super slim-leg jeans are back and every generation is wearing them in this wash.
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
🩸BLOOD FLOWER🩸
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Brent Black @brentalfloss.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
the new york sewer rats have finally elected a new rat pope
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
2 obsessive thoughts i've had about the west village girlies story: 1. how do they afford it and if they're rich, why be so basic? 2. carrie bradshaw lived in the UES!!!!!!!!!! (I know the satc ladies hung out downtown but they did not live there!)
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
big news, Geely is bidding for Zeekr. almost as significant as the time flink acquired cajoo. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Geely Submits Bid to Take US-Listed EV Brand Zeekr Private
Billionaire Li Shufu is ramping up a push to streamline his sprawling business empire, with his Hong Kong-listed Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd. offering to take premium electric-car maker Zeekr privat...
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Sovereignty outran Journalism. at least it wasn’t tyranny 🙃
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I'm not sure i will ever be able to comprehend the deep and enduring hatred my dog feels for the US Postal Service. Today a nice mail lady even gave him a treat, which he accepted then immediately returned to growling and calls to abolish the USPS.
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
ahaha Quince sells discount gold bars they really do have a dupe of everything
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
honestly perfect headline techcrunch.com/2025/04/21/c...
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 17/04/2025
The story gets you all excited about this molecule in the air of a distant planet that is believed to only be produced by living organisms, and then it ends this way:
But Joshua Krissansen-Totton, an astrobiologist at the University of Washington, said he worried that American astrobiologists may not be able to follow up on the latest results on K2-b18b.
The Trump administration is reportedly planning to cut NASA's science budget in half, eliminating future space telescope and other astrobiology projects. If that happens, Dr. Krissansen-Totton said,
"the search for life elsewhere would basically stop."
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 17/04/2025
My new favorite scientist “I’m not screaming, ‘aliens!’” said Nikole Lewis, an exoplanetary scientist at Cornell University. “But I always reserve my right to scream ‘aliens!’” 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...
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Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet (Gift Article)
Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Congrats to TurboTax, which has worked for two decades to stop Americans from being able to file taxes for free. www.propublica.org/article/insi...
Internal presentations lay out company tactics for fighting “encroachment,” Intuit’s catchall term for any government initiative to make filing taxes easier — such as creating a free government filing system or pre-filling people’s returns with payroll or other data the IRS already has. “For a decade proposals have sought to create IRS tax software or a ReturnFree Tax System; All were stopped,” r
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Oh man, someone hacked the crosswalks in Palo Alto to have Zuck's voice assure people there is nothing they can do to stop AI slop from being forcefully inserted into every facet of their conscious experience. And Musk talking about how lonely he is. techcrunch.com/2025/04/14/s...
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Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons hacked to imitate Musk, Zuckerberg's voices | TechCrunch
The crosswalk buttons, which include audio alerts, were hacked over the weekend.
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
so goldman's approach to tariffs is "if we don't talk about them maybe they're not real" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/b...
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Goldman Sachs Avoids Mentioning the Word ‘Tariffs’ Amid Trump Trade Policy Uncertainty
Wall Street’s top firms have been reluctant to criticize President Trump’s trade policy, but Goldman took it to a new level on Monday.
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The women of the Blue Origin flight "are like payload specialists with a specialty in marketing private rockets. If the flight proves anything, it is that women are now free to enjoy capitalism’s most decadent spoils alongside the world’s wealthiest men." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/a...
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Blue Origin’s First All-Female Spaceflight Stunt
Blue Origin’s all-female flight proves that women are now free to enjoy capitalism’s most extravagant spoils alongside rich men.
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
the debanking that the crypto industry accused the banks and govt of conspiring to do is nothing compared to **revoking peoples social security numbers** www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
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Pressuring Migrants to ‘Self-Deport,’ White House Moves to Cancel Social Security Numbers
By placing migrants in Social Security’s “death master file,” the Trump administration is seeking to cut off their access to credit cards, bank accounts and other financial services.
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
have we gotten to the part where everyone says the stock market is tanking bc of DEI yet
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Ozy Media's claim to fame was that it "discovered" big liberal names like AOC and Trevor Noah before they were famous. They were funded by Laurene Powell Jobs and partnered with all the mainstream media outlets. Carlos Watson was on the board of NPR! How did he convince Trump to pardon him?
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Erin Griffith @ering.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
which famous white collar criminal will be next in line for a pardon... elizabeth holmes, sam bankman-fried, ryan salame, charlie javice (convicted literally today)... it may be time to update this headline
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