Erin Griffith

not everyone fears the AI bubble www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/t...

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...

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...

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.

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...

tired: buying a house wired: LANDMAXXING www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

You're laughing... I can't withdraw my Bonk from Kraken and you're laughing?

It has been suggested to me that this premise would make a funny musical and I 100% agree

New story from me: Trapped! Inside a Self-Driving Car During an Anti-Robot Attack. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/t...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

pour one out for the salesforce ones

“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...

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...

Why is every story about de blasio these days so damn entertaining www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

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)

"We were promised Mamala and instead we got Mountainhead." tinabrown.substack.com/p/the-bezos-...

anyone else see Mountainhead? I shared some thoughts here: substack.com/home/post/p-...

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.

This is too funny sfstandard.com/2025/05/30/o...

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

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/...

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...

🩸BLOOD FLOWER🩸

the new york sewer rats have finally elected a new rat pope

big news, Geely is bidding for Zeekr. almost as significant as the time flink acquired cajoo. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Sovereignty outran Journalism. at least it wasn’t tyranny 🙃

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.

ahaha Quince sells discount gold bars they really do have a dupe of everything

honestly perfect headline techcrunch.com/2025/04/21/c...

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:

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...