Falk Rehkopf
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Conversational AI now listens, thinks, and responds in real time, turning code into conversations that feel alive. But, every call now carries possibility and risk as the same tech that powers tutoring and healthcare can also drive million-dollar scams.
www.ft.com/content/2134...
www.ft.com/content/2134...
Voice phishing is AI fraud in real time
Just as we learnt to treat emails with caution, we must now learn to doubt a human-sounding voice
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Conversational AI now listens, thinks, and responds in real time, turning code into conversations that feel alive. But, every call now carries possibility and risk as the same tech that powers tutoring and healthcare can also drive million-dollar scams.
www.ft.com/content/2134...
www.ft.com/content/2134...
Over half of CEOs feel lonely, and those leaders are twice as likely to underperform.
Executive isolation sets in when truth and perspective fade.
Strong leaders build trusted channels to keep both alive.
More here: www.falkrehkopf.com/blog/struggl...
Executive isolation sets in when truth and perspective fade.
Strong leaders build trusted channels to keep both alive.
More here: www.falkrehkopf.com/blog/struggl...
Struggling with “Executive Isolation”? Here's What to Do — Falk Rehkopf
Even at the top, leadership can feel isolating, not from a lack of people, but from a lack of truth, trust, and shared emotional weight. This post exposes “executive isolation,” the paradox where auth...
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November 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Over half of CEOs feel lonely, and those leaders are twice as likely to underperform.
Executive isolation sets in when truth and perspective fade.
Strong leaders build trusted channels to keep both alive.
More here: www.falkrehkopf.com/blog/struggl...
Executive isolation sets in when truth and perspective fade.
Strong leaders build trusted channels to keep both alive.
More here: www.falkrehkopf.com/blog/struggl...
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This was a great interview by Manny Yekutiel www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
OpenAI's Sam Altman defends Bay Area billionaire when grilled over wealth gap
Their interviewer asked: "Couldn't you make it better?"
www.sfgate.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:07 AM
This was a great interview by Manny Yekutiel www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
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You gotta spend money to lose money
Snap announces a deal to distribute Perplexity's search engine to Snapchat users; Perplexity will pay Snap $400M through a combination of cash and equity (Bloomberg)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 6, 2025 at 6:09 AM
You gotta spend money to lose money
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a little late, but i wrote about it
An Antidote to Shamelessness
Zohran Mamdani ran an online campaign based on real people and a real message. It worked.
www.theatlantic.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
a little late, but i wrote about it
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I wrote about Bluesky a year after the big post-election surge in users, and whether you can build a happier version of Twitter while keeping its same basic shape www.platformer.news/bluesky-2025...
November 4, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I wrote about Bluesky a year after the big post-election surge in users, and whether you can build a happier version of Twitter while keeping its same basic shape www.platformer.news/bluesky-2025...
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"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...
America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani - The American Prospect
It’s encouraging on many levels: New York City didn’t submit to a campaign of flagrant bigotry from disgraced two-time loser Andrew Cuomo, and Americans, particularly young ones, can still be politica...
prospect.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...
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wrote this 364 days ago
November 5, 2025 at 4:20 AM
wrote this 364 days ago
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New from me: I went deep on the way that generative AI and chatbots act as wormholes, pushing us deeper into our own minds. They threaten to compound the problems of algorithmic targeting that have festered unaddressed for years and years—what comes next may be even more alienating and isolating (🎁)
The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here
The social-media era is over. What’s coming will be much worse.
www.theatlantic.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
New from me: I went deep on the way that generative AI and chatbots act as wormholes, pushing us deeper into our own minds. They threaten to compound the problems of algorithmic targeting that have festered unaddressed for years and years—what comes next may be even more alienating and isolating (🎁)
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Trump's incoherent answers to Norah O'Donnell raise new questions about Joe Biden's mental fitness.
November 3, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Trump's incoherent answers to Norah O'Donnell raise new questions about Joe Biden's mental fitness.
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NEW: I learned a lot talking to Alex Karp's biographer, Michael Steinberger. Namely, that Palantir has ambitions to become what IBM used to be for the U.S. government: its de facto operating system.
www.inc.com/sam-blum/ale...
www.inc.com/sam-blum/ale...
Alex Karp Wants to Make Palantir the De Facto Operating System of the U.S. Government, Says Biographer
A new book explores how a liberal academic became the CEO that now embraces the Trump administration and ICE.
www.inc.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
NEW: I learned a lot talking to Alex Karp's biographer, Michael Steinberger. Namely, that Palantir has ambitions to become what IBM used to be for the U.S. government: its de facto operating system.
www.inc.com/sam-blum/ale...
www.inc.com/sam-blum/ale...
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New York Times editorial board has compiled "a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about.
During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.
This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about.
During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.
October 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
New York Times editorial board has compiled "a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about.
During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.
This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about.
During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.
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so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
www.theatlantic.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.
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Our devices work for Big Tech, not us on.ft.com/4nsINgc | opinion
Our devices work for Big Tech, not us
Hate for a $100 to-do list is misplaced
on.ft.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Our devices work for Big Tech, not us on.ft.com/4nsINgc | opinion
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i know there is a history here with Bo French but i also think it can’t really be overstated just how much X has done to make people feel comfortable using this type of bottom feeding message board language in public
if you're wondering how things are going in texas, the chairman of the Tarrant County GOP is joking that Nov. 1st, the day SNAP benefits are poised to run out, is "National Chimp Out Day"
October 29, 2025 at 1:11 AM
i know there is a history here with Bo French but i also think it can’t really be overstated just how much X has done to make people feel comfortable using this type of bottom feeding message board language in public
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The Register is reporting that OpenAI lost $11 billion in the last quarter. This company is a shambling monstrosity, financial insanity as a direct result with the markets’ obsession with growth.
www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/m...
www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/m...
Microsoft earnings suggest $11.5B OpenAI quarterly loss
: Satya has also delivered Sam most of the cash he promised
www.theregister.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:53 AM
The Register is reporting that OpenAI lost $11 billion in the last quarter. This company is a shambling monstrosity, financial insanity as a direct result with the markets’ obsession with growth.
www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/m...
www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/m...
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Sarah Longwell, publisher of the (sort of) conservative news and opinion website, The Bulwark, as interviewed by Dylan Byers of @puck.news
October 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Sarah Longwell, publisher of the (sort of) conservative news and opinion website, The Bulwark, as interviewed by Dylan Byers of @puck.news
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I cannot come up with a better term than “batshit insanity” and I have been a psychology professor for 25 years.
October 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I cannot come up with a better term than “batshit insanity” and I have been a psychology professor for 25 years.
Effective communication turns words into action! I just shared 7 must know frameworks for leaders to simplify complexity and align teams. Which one resonates with you? Read: www.falkrehkopf.com/blog/7-must-... #Leadership #Communication
7 Must-Know Communication Frameworks for Leaders — Falk Rehkopf
Great leaders aren’t just great thinkers—they’re great communicators. But, even brilliant ideas can fall flat without the right framework to bring them to life. This article introduces seven powerful ...
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October 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Effective communication turns words into action! I just shared 7 must know frameworks for leaders to simplify complexity and align teams. Which one resonates with you? Read: www.falkrehkopf.com/blog/7-must-... #Leadership #Communication
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i think editors should occasionally entertain the idea that bannon is just full of shit www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon...
Steve Bannon Reveals ‘There’s a Plan’ for Third Trump Term
Bannon divulged that there are “many different alternatives” for securing a third term for Trump.
www.thedailybeast.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
i think editors should occasionally entertain the idea that bannon is just full of shit www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon...
Forrester’s 2026 predictions for tech leaders:
25% of CIOs will need to rescue failed AI projects;
1/3 will bring gig workers & AI agents into teams;
Volatility is the only constant; embrace governance, talk business value, and lead humans + bots.
#TechLeadership
www.forbes.com/sites/forres...
25% of CIOs will need to rescue failed AI projects;
1/3 will bring gig workers & AI agents into teams;
Volatility is the only constant; embrace governance, talk business value, and lead humans + bots.
#TechLeadership
www.forbes.com/sites/forres...
Predictions 2026: The Future Of Global Tech Leadership
Discover key predictions for 2026 as global tech leadership evolves. Explore trends, innovations, and challenges shaping the future of technology and driving industry growth.
www.forbes.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Forrester’s 2026 predictions for tech leaders:
25% of CIOs will need to rescue failed AI projects;
1/3 will bring gig workers & AI agents into teams;
Volatility is the only constant; embrace governance, talk business value, and lead humans + bots.
#TechLeadership
www.forbes.com/sites/forres...
25% of CIOs will need to rescue failed AI projects;
1/3 will bring gig workers & AI agents into teams;
Volatility is the only constant; embrace governance, talk business value, and lead humans + bots.
#TechLeadership
www.forbes.com/sites/forres...
Compliance is overrated. Discernment matters. Transformative leaders know how to say 'no' wisely, to protect focus, build trust and spark innovation.
Explore the 4 disciplines of principled refusal in my new blog post: www.falkrehkopf.com/blog/transfo...
Explore the 4 disciplines of principled refusal in my new blog post: www.falkrehkopf.com/blog/transfo...
Transformative Leaders Disobey (Wisely) — Falk Rehkopf
Most leaders are conditioned to equate helpfulness with virtue and disagreement with risk, but real authority lies in selective commitment. In complex organizations, reflexive 'yeses' drain focus. Cog...
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October 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Compliance is overrated. Discernment matters. Transformative leaders know how to say 'no' wisely, to protect focus, build trust and spark innovation.
Explore the 4 disciplines of principled refusal in my new blog post: www.falkrehkopf.com/blog/transfo...
Explore the 4 disciplines of principled refusal in my new blog post: www.falkrehkopf.com/blog/transfo...
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David and Larry Ellisons’ sloptastic vision for Hollywood is coming into focus:
“Paramount has reportedly signed a $200M+ multiyear deal for Higgsfield AI to use mass-use Popcorn AI model that ingests dailies and script notes, then outputs regional cuts: new leads, alternate jokes, revised endings”
“Paramount has reportedly signed a $200M+ multiyear deal for Higgsfield AI to use mass-use Popcorn AI model that ingests dailies and script notes, then outputs regional cuts: new leads, alternate jokes, revised endings”
October 23, 2025 at 8:12 AM
David and Larry Ellisons’ sloptastic vision for Hollywood is coming into focus:
“Paramount has reportedly signed a $200M+ multiyear deal for Higgsfield AI to use mass-use Popcorn AI model that ingests dailies and script notes, then outputs regional cuts: new leads, alternate jokes, revised endings”
“Paramount has reportedly signed a $200M+ multiyear deal for Higgsfield AI to use mass-use Popcorn AI model that ingests dailies and script notes, then outputs regional cuts: new leads, alternate jokes, revised endings”