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Gary Rivlin

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AI VALLEY and the race to cash in on AI. To buy: bit.ly/3OOPZEB. Ex-NYTimes, ex-Wired, ex-alt weekly editor. 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Panama Papers

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Gary Rivlin @grivlin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Credit Acceptance has been at this for a long, long while. My 2016 @motherjones.com article on the company: “They Had Created This Remarkable System for Taking Every Last Dime From Their Customers," shorturl.at/lpDi0
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"They had created this remarkable system for taking every last dime from their customers"
Welcome to the lucrative, predatory world of subprime car loans.
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Gary Rivlin @grivlin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We need a wider debate than taking place among our AI Overlords-and, as with the railroads back when, real oversight. That’s been my message for 2 years but @jamellebouie.net says it beautifully here. AI can still be a net-positive if we're deliberate how we get there www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
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Opinion | The Railroads Were Once the Octopus That A.I. Is Now
New matrix, meet the old matrix.
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Carter Dougherty @carterd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This one is just too good ... Labor Sec nominee pitches lower cost labor to come to America and go on welfare ...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This is so utterly insane I’m at a loss. But it makes sense if you want to turn the entire US intelligence apparatus into a tool for domestic persecution and domination. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Names Bill Pulte as Acting Director of National Intelligence
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
If you’re an idiot racist (but I repeat myself), it’s vital to oppose DEI because you believe people of color and women couldn’t possibly be qualified for good jobs; then you must prove it by keeping qualified, deserving people from getting good jobs. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...
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Hegseth Strikes Two Black and Two Female Officers From Promotion List
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Bob Mann @robertmannbooks.com · 27/03/2026
Gutter racism. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...
Mr. Buria chastised the Army secretary for selecting Maj. Gen.
Antoinette R. Gant, a combat engineer who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, to take command of the Military District of Washington, said three current and former defense and
administration officials familiar with the exchange. The command provides security and performs ceremonial duties in the nation's
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 28/02/2026
For once, The Lincoln Project agrees with Trump.
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
One family to control CBS, CNN, HBO, and TikTok.
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Michael Tomasky @mjtoma.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
New Column: We're going to be hearing--and learning--a lot more about this fellow in the coming weeks and months. Who is Jay Clayton, and will he do Trump's and Bondi's bidding? Read on. newrepublic.com/article/2032... via @newrepublic.com
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Get to Know the Name Jay Clayton—Our Fate May Depend on His Honesty
There seems a chance that Trump’s self-appointed Epstein investigator may actually be on the level—but the orders he’s been asked to carry out will be anything but.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The New York Post is owned by Lachlan Murdoch, solely because his daddy bought it and passed it on to him. And it's backing Andrew Cuomo, a meathead whose whole career in politics stems from his daddy being good at it. But *Mamdani* is the nepo baby, because his mom was a filmmaker? Sure.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
The cowardice of the elites is a defining feature of America in 2025
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Just so I'm clear: TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft. TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism. Free speech, everyone.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 14/09/2025
Inside Stephen Miller’s Reign of Terror Everything you love or hate about Donald Trump’s America, you cherish or intensely loathe about Stephen Miller’s republic of fear. Read about Miller’s eight months of remaking the nation and world: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Gary Rivlin @grivlin.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
spot on analysis of Silicon Valley by Nick Clegg. Though it's his self-pity line that most resonates and helps explain the Valley's sprint to the right: "If you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Google in 2015: Our goal is to power 100% of our operations with clean energy Google's President in 2025: I agree that Silicon Valley has been overtaken by a 'climate extremist agenda' and that powering data centers with coal plants is a "fantastic" idea
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Gabriel Snyder @gabrielsnyder.com · 19/08/2025
How it started… how it’s ending…
Screenshot of NYPost story:

'It's a 24-hour city': Mayor
Adams defends party lifestyle
By Jesse O'Neill
Published Oct. 20, 2022
Updated Oct. 20, 2022, 2:26 p.m. ET

Mayor Eric Adams claims he wants to encourage New Yorkers to go out again.

Mayor Eric Adams has defended his late-night party lifestyle — insisting that he is helping the Bia Apole economv.screenshot of amNY story:

Op-Ed | Quality of life and ending the culture of'anything goes'
By Mayor Eric Adams
Posted on August 19, 2025

Every dav evervwhere I go — whether it's at a town
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Gary Rivlin @grivlin.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
MSNBC → MS NOW. Carrying forward the proud legacy of HBO/Max rebranding brilliance.
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Gary Rivlin @grivlin.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Md: “What Donald Trump is doing is, in some ways, a dress rehearsal for going after others around the country. And I think we need to stop this."
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Gary Rivlin @grivlin.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
nothing can be non-partisan, everything is politicized
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Of all of Trump's treachery, surrendering the future of renewable electricity to China while exploding the demand for nonsense AI slop and crypto crap may be the worst. It will be the hardest to reverse, most expensive & the most excruciating for our kids' kids. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/o...
Some observers even believe that China will become the world’s first “electrostate” — a country that runs on electricity, not oil. What it has already accomplished is, in some ways, more impressive: With its solar panels and batteries, China is on its way to turning energy production into something closer to a manufactured good. It is now able to sell solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles to the rest of the world as a low-cost, low-pollution alternative to fossil fuels or internal combustion vehicles.

China did not pursue these technologies simply for the environment’s sake: Its national security needs have long led it to seek alternatives to petroleum. (It still builds a lot of coal-burning power plants for the same reason.) But Americans should not miss the significance of what seems to be happening: China’s low-cost electronic technologies once augmented gasoline and internal-combustion cars; now, they are replacing them. And as Chinese companies transform the global energy market with cheap solar panels, batteries and E.V.s, America is acting like a doddering industrial giant — too hooked on oil and gas revenues, and the political power that results from them, to exercise the economic muscles it will need in the future.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
It’s a hopeful sign that the finger-in-the-wind New York Democrats are sounding more like Pritzker every day.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
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Gary Rivlin @grivlin.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Not snow nor rain nor gloom of AI hype: I used to edit him, now he delivers mail and mini-book reviews. Love how he sums up what I was aiming for: not hype, not alarm, but a clear-eyed account of how AI became the Next Big Thing. I was hoping for an A- but I'll take the B+
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Sam Horrorwitt @shurwitt.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
89. I mainly wanted to read this because I used to work with Gary and enjoy his writing. And it is what it says on the tin. Neither boosterish nor cautionary, it’s less about the ethics of AI than an account of how it became the Next Big Thing through following the players involved. #booksky
Book cover: AI Valley by Gary Rivlin
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Harry McCracken @harrymccracken.com · 10/07/2025
Grok seems chastened, but I assume it will be back to being incredibly offensive before we know it.
 Who controls Hollywood?
No single entity "controls" Hollywood. The entertainment industry is a complex ecosystem driven by major studios (Disney, Warner Bros., Universal, etc.), streaming platforms (Netflix, Amazon, Apple), talent agencies, and influential producers, directors, and actors. Power is distributed among these players, with influence shifting based on market trends, financial success, and cultural impact. For instance, Disney's acquisition of Fox and Marvel gave it significant sway, but independent studios and streaming giants also shape the landscape. Creative and economic decisions are often dictated by a mix of corporate executives, high-profile creatives, and audience demand. Claims of conspiratorial control (e.g., by specific groups) often lack evidence and oversimplify the industry's decentralized nature. If you want specifics on a studio, person, or trend, I can dig deeper.
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Any particular religious denomination?
There's no evidence that a specific religious denomination controls Hollywood. The industry is diverse, with individuals from various backgrounds—religious, cultural, and otherwise—-holding influence.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
'“If you’re asking me how it got in there, no, I don’t know,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said ... “I don’t know anything about it. I’m not sure what it does,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) added. Both GOP senators serve on the Senate Finance Committee, which crafted the tax provisions of the bill.'
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
wild to think we're only just beginning to enter the "find out" phase of "what happens when you introduce almost unheard-of levels of chaos into the economy in the form of tariffs + defunding the federal government & universities + rounding up and/or terrorizing millions of workers"
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Gary Rivlin @grivlin.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
“Could AI destroy us?” the NY Post asks in this article quoting me several times. My fear? Not the end of humanity but the people calling the shots. As I’m quoted saying, “I don’t trust Big Tech—but Big Tech controls AI. And that should scare the hell out of us.” bit.ly/4kmjsTN
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The $320B AI revolution lets you create ultra-realistic videos and chat with dead celebs — but could it also destroy us?
“I don’t trust big tech and AI is in the hands of big tech,” one expert ominously told The Post.
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Gary Rivlin @grivlin.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
"100% this. But I've also been thinking about how fast the establishment—editorial boards, the political center, business leaders—unites to demonize him. The establishment panic machine. The money will be just one piece of the onslaught
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
They told me if I voted for Kamala we'd have Middle East war, inflation, an economic slump, weaponization of DOJ, no peace in Gaza or Ukraine and incompetents all over govt. Well, sure looks that way now.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I like this Gavin more than podcast Gavin.
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Gary Rivlin @grivlin.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
AI isn’t just a tool—it’s a wrecking ball aimed at the job market. Meanwhile, the people in power pretend it’s not happening. My latest in Time.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/05/2025
“Putin is tired of this whole thing,” Trump said on Fox News. “He’s not looking good. And he wants to look good.” In reality, it is Trump who is tired of “this whole thing,” Trump who’s not looking good, and Trump who wants to look good. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Nobody in Ukraine Thinks the War Will End Soon
Ukrainians are confident that they can continue fighting, even without the same level of American support.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
> @nypost.com
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Gary Rivlin @grivlin.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
AI could make the rich richer and the rest of us... redundant. While people in power pretend it’s not happening. My warning in @TIME: bit.ly/4kKC6VT
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AI Will Devastate the Future of Work. But Only If We Let It
Will we harness AI to augment human potential rather than simply replace it, asks Gary Rivlin.
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Gary Rivlin @grivlin.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Loved WHAT KIND OF PARADISE, the latest from @janellebrown.bsky.social. A very different kind of coming of age novel set both in the remote mountains of Montana and dot-com Silicon Valley of the '90s. Highly recommend; the best book I've read this year
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
McSweeney's: New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for "The President Violated the Constitution" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/new...
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Alyssa Katz @alykatzz.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Orthodox Jewish leaders are not forgiving Andrew Cuomo easily, or at all, for his COVID response, which included special extra-tough "red zone" lockdown rules for their neighborhoods, outlined on maps like they were tracing disease-ridden ghettoes.
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Major Jewish Community Endorsements Still Up for Grabs in Mayor's Race
By this time in the 2021 primary, leaders of most large Orthodox groups had picked a candidate to back.
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Paul Rauber @citizenstx.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
"A judge had justified [Walczak's] incarceration by declaring that there 'is not a get-out-of-jail-free card' for the rich. "The pardon, however, indicated otherwise."
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
all in all, pretty apt that the topic that got everyone noticing that XAI's folks could simply screw with Grok was white genocide
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 14/05/2025
Pete Rose will no longer be banned from the Baseball Hall of Fame, writes Dave Zirin. The decision is likely rooted the sport’s surrender to the gambling-addiction economy.
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The Late Pete Rose Is Finally Welcome in Baseball’s Moral Slophouse
Joe Jackson and Pete Rose will no longer be banned from the Baseball Hall of Fame. The decision is likely rooted the sport’s surrender to the gambling-addiction economy.
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Gary Rivlin @grivlin.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
That much-ballyhooed DOGE Congressional caucus? Yeah, as one could have predicted
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library. Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams. Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...
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Barnard suspends WKCR and Spectator reporters who covered Butler Library protest
Barnard and Columbia issued interim suspensions Thursday afternoon to four student journalists who covered a Wednesday pro-Palestinian protest in Butler Library, citing “information received” from Pub...
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Like Trump, I was around at the only other time that the same person was Sec State and Nat Security Advisor. (Kissinger, for a while under Nixon.) Anyone who was around at the time knows that the arrangement was a disaster.
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Gary Rivlin @grivlin.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Give a listen to me talking AI VALLEY with Newt Gingrich. I’ll confess I liked him way more as a podcast host than I did as Speaker of the House in the '90s. A surprisingly fun conversation: ihr.fm/4izk2fZ
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Episode 835: Gary Rivlin on “AI Valley” - Newt's World | iHeart
<p>Newt talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Rivlin about his new book, &ldquo;AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence.&rdquo; The...
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Gary Rivlin @grivlin.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Hear me talking about my hopes and fears for AI on my old home station, KQED (local NPR affiliate in SF) with host @scottshafer.bsky.social.
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Gary Rivlin @grivlin.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Thrilled to be invited to talk about the promise & perils of AI on @kqedforum.bsky.social and share tales of the founders, VCs, and tech giants vying to cash in. Bay Area friends, please give a listen at the 10am hour
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