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1.9K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
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📊 Post engagement
4
Avg engagement / post
0.2%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Students who’ve used AI to help write their school applications · 13 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
1.2 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
2.5×
Follows 791 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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The toy market is being flooded with pricey playthings that are programmed with generative AI like OpenAI’s large language models GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, allowing them to hold full-fledged conversations, play learning games and tell jokes to ch…
ByteDance launched a lil slate of generative AI apps recently -- but it didn't announce them or attach its name to them. The apps also don't use ByteDance tech; instead, they use OpenAI's GPT. https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/…
NEW: California-based AI chip company Blaize had raised $200M but was running out of capital, and struggling to raise more.
Now it's going public via a SPAC backed by Middle Eastern investors — amid US scrutiny of semiconductor sales to G…
News: Anthropic's funding round led by Menlo Ventures is happening through a rising tactic for doing mega-sized startup deals: the SPV. And It navigates complex terms with backers Amazon and Google. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/…
NEW: Silicon Valley investors like Eric Schmidt poured their money and influence into the $1 billion AI unicorn Rebellion Defense.
But as we report, the company is marred by leadership scandals, mass layoffs, failed contracting bets and r…
At the time of publication, the most straightforward searches for phrases like "AI porn" returned explicit imagery, including artificially-generated collections of "goth sluts," "naughty nurses" and "winter flashing,” and a decorative thro…
A story has it all…… Futuristic tech utopias, Peter Thiel, an heir to the House of Medici, crypto and, of course, the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahemerson/2023/12/15/bhutan-futuristic-city-dragon-king/?sh…
News: edge computing startup Armada is looking to bring AI to remote places like oil rigs and mines.
Led by CEO Dan Wright, one-year-old Armada has a "close collaboration" with SpaceX and is already valued at close to $250 million, raisin…
“There’s no widespread consumer demand for a bullet-resistant exterior.”
“At its gross vehicle weight, people would not be able to drive it on a standard driving license anyway.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2023/12/08/the-busi…
Scooplet: Congress is turning the heat back up on TikTok — and demanding answers from the FBI about its criminal investigation (w/DOJ) into the company.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2023/12/07/congress-wants-answers-about-…
Family members of Israeli hostages are being threatened and harassed through text, WhatsApp and Facebook messages from unknown senders — some of whom claim to be Hamas. "There's no version of events where this isn't malicious," one cyberse…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
journa.host
A journalists server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 4 views per post.
📤Posts about 1.2× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated43/100
Fair
Credibility score
73%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 73% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.2% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Executive Editor, Tech & Innovation,
@forbes Previously: BuzzFeed News, Recode, AllThingsD (He/him)
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