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Phoebe Liu

@pheebini.bsky.social

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@forbes tech + money reporter / @forbesunion / 📧 pliu@forbes.com / HaWWWWWWWks

Phoebe Liu @pheebini.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

After her most recent grant announcement on Tuesday, MacKenzie Scott is now America's third-most-generous philanthropist by dollar amount, and second by percentage of wealth. More insights and context in my latest for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

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Phoebe Liu @pheebini.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna cofounded Open Philanthropy to find charities that create the biggest impact/$. Now, they’re changing its name and encouraging others to join. See table for their biggest grantees. My latest for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

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Phoebe Liu @pheebini.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

In my latest for @forbes.com I did some math on how the spate of massive #AI infra deals is benefiting the dealmakers most of all. These founders, CEOs and investors keep getting richer while critics condemn their "circular deals": www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

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Phoebe Liu @pheebini.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Amid all this $ORCL's proxy came out ... Larry Ellison now has 346 million shares pledged (as of 9/19/25), up from 277 million last year. The difference is worth ~$20 billion (more than the supposed EV of whatever portion of TikTok's U.S. business that's supposed to spin out)

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Phoebe Liu @pheebini.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

3/ The core of what's at risk here, and how CoreWeave's cofounders are thinking about it: www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

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Phoebe Liu @pheebini.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

2/ A closer look at financials here: www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

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Phoebe Liu @pheebini.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

New @forbes.com magazine cover story—from @rashis.bsky.social and me—is our take on #CoreWeave, one of the biggest beneficiaries of the #AI boom. It's a fascinating firm built on bold bets, complex risk & no shortage of luck. Would love to hear what you think: www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

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Phoebe Liu @pheebini.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

3/ “If Surge didn’t exist, what would Edwin do for fun? He’d probably make data and train AI," says Surge AI head of product Nick Heiner. "It just happens to be a lucrative thing." Lucrative = there'll be competition. And no one minces words in this space: www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

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Phoebe Liu @pheebini.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

2/ Surge has grown quickly and is profitable, but in a rapidly changing and competitive industry, that doesn't mean it's a clear path ahead. www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

The existential question for outfits like Surge: As AI advances, will there come a time when there is no need for human data annotations? Models like Meta’s Llama 4, released in April, already relied heavily on AI creating and labeling its own data, so-called “synthetic data,” per a Meta researcher. Surge uses a “human-in-the-loop” variation to this approach, in which AI generates its own data and labels it but humans critique its performance. Chen feels strongly that humans are vital.

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Phoebe Liu @pheebini.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Here's the FCC filing that breaks down some of the ownership structure in New Paramount:

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