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Jon Keegan
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Tech reporter / Data journalist ➡️ @sherwood.news
I report on AI and Big Tech.
⏪️ The Markup, Tow Center, WSJ.
Aspiring 46er. ⛰️
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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · Oct 24
Countries are securing their own "sovereign AI" so they don't have to reply upon other countries.

But countries can decide what propaganda and lies their AI model trains on, baking censorship into AI applications. I took a look at how Nvidia is pursuing this market: sherwood.news/tech/why-cou...
Why countries are seeking to build “sovereign AI”
Nvidia’s CEO says nations can’t afford to miss out on this technology, but an AI created and controlled by the government could be dangerous....
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Ice cold
levernews.com The Lever @levernews.com · 1h
🚨 EXPOSED: Parents are being threatened for recording their own kids’ hockey games. Private equity bought the rinks, banned filming, and now charges up to $50 a month to watch youth sports.
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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lebassett.bsky.social
A lot of people didn’t like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Really worth reading
November 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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bcmerchant.bsky.social
In the age of AI, Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein gets the monster right:

-Preening college dropout founder desperate to troll and provoke
-Secures financing from war profiteer
-Unethically harvests key materials for startup from people living and dead without consent
-Takes 0 responsibility
Guillermo del Toro's 'Frankenstein' gets the monster right for the age of AI
Too bad he lets the founders off easy.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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mims.bsky.social
3. This one's a doozy.

The world already has about 71 GW of data center capacity.

That's more electricity than the entire UK uses every moment of every day, on average.

By the end of 2027 it's projected to increase *by half*
chart: The world already has about 71 GW of data center capacity. That's more electricity than the entire UK uses every moment of every day, on average. By the end of 2027 it's projected to increase *by half*, to 109 GW
November 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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mims.bsky.social
"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official.

How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.

www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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$220 million for a fascist ad campaign is bad enough. But it's all to line the pockets of Noem's friends and their families. The details in here are nuts.

www.propublica.org/article/kris...
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
As a Black Hawk helicopter roared overhead, the slender, 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela answered softly, his eyes darting to a television crew invited to film the raid. Next to Caicedo, masked Border Patrol agents inspected another man’s tattoos and asked him if he belonged to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist group. Until that moment, Caicedo’s only interaction with law enforcement in his two-and-a-half years in the United States had been a traffic stop two weeks earlier for driving without a license or insurance, according to the records we reviewed. Chicago police had run a background check on him and found no prior arrests, no warrants and no evidence that he was in a gang. Caicedo said he had a pending asylum application, a steady job at a taco joint and a girlfriend whose daughter attended elementary school across the street. None of that mattered. The U.S. government paraded him and his neighbors in front of the cameras and called their arrests a spectacular victory against terrorism. But later, after the cameras had gone, prosecutors didn’t charge Caicedo with a crime. They didn’t accuse him of being a terrorist. And after a brief hearing in immigration court, the government sent him back to the country he had fled nine years earlier. “I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Feels like this was the first viral video
November 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Typically phenomenal data viz from @jonkeegan.com on the infrastructure that’s even more important to megacap tech companies than all these data centers:

Transatlantic fiber-optic cables!
sherwood.news/tech/big-tec...
Big Tech’s most important infrastructure is at the bottom of the sea
While data centers on land are getting all the attention, Big Tech’s vast network of undersea fiber-optic cables carry 99% of all international...
sherwood.news
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Insane Clown Posse: this, heroes, is your time to shine.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d
Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."
November 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Very nice network diagram in here mapping the many connections between Silicon Valley VC firms, Trump administration, and top defense contractors.
network diagram showing the connections between Peter Thiel and companies, investors
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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BARILLA WARFARE www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves
The Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of the tariffs it has levied.
www.wsj.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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For your weekend reading
jonkeegan.com Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 11d
A deep dive (sorry) on the undersea fiber optic cable networks used by Meta, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft.

While data centers on land are getting all the attention, Big Tech’s vast network of undersea fiber-optic cables carry 99% of all international network traffic.
sherwood.news/tech/big-tec...
Big Tech’s most important infrastructure is at the bottom of the sea
While data centers on land are getting all the attention, Big Tech’s vast network of undersea fiber-optic cables carry 99% of all international...
sherwood.news
November 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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A deep dive (sorry) on the undersea fiber optic cable networks used by Meta, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft.

While data centers on land are getting all the attention, Big Tech’s vast network of undersea fiber-optic cables carry 99% of all international network traffic.
sherwood.news/tech/big-tec...
Big Tech’s most important infrastructure is at the bottom of the sea
While data centers on land are getting all the attention, Big Tech’s vast network of undersea fiber-optic cables carry 99% of all international...
sherwood.news
November 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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longtimehistory.bsky.social
ICE grabs father by the neck—send him into violent seizure while his arms lock up around his toddler.

"He's having seizure and they're trying to rip the baby out of his hands!"

Agents then handcuff him—before putting in ambulance with his child.

Mother is detained by agents as target of arrest.
November 7, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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“I think we might maybe able to give people — if somebody committed crime —a more humane form of containment of future crime. You say, ‘You now get a free Optimus and it's going to follow you around and stop you from doing crime.” sherwood.news/tech/the-wil...
The wildest stuff Elon Musk said at Tesla’s shareholder meeting
Get ready to text and drive while the Optimus robot cures poverty....
sherwood.news
November 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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oh..oh no. Oh NO
Western collonade of White House. Giant tacky lettering spells out “the presidential walk of f-“ (rest is cut off but maybe says fame). Gold filligree pieces are lined up along framed black and white portraits.
November 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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My original fact-check (a lot of people got this wrong!)
November 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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“People often talk about eliminating poverty, giving everyone amazing medical care. Well, there’s actually only one way to do that, and that’s with the Optimus robot.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...
Musk Wins $1 Trillion Pay Package, Creating Split Screen on Wealth in America
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Over the years I have read A LOT of damning stories about what Meta executives were saying internally about serious harms on their platforms (most of them written by Reuters’ @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social ). His new story is a blockbuster:
www.reuters.com/investigatio...

sherwood.news/tech/meta-pr...
Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams and banned goods, Reuters reports
The report shows that the company was hesitant to crack down harder on scams, due to the billions in revenue that they were generating for Meta....
sherwood.news
November 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Two interesting tech PR cleanups over the past 24 hours:

Jensen Huang’s “China is going to win the AI race”: sherwood.news/markets/nvid...

OpenAI’s CFO Sarah Friar - I didn’t really mean OpenAI wanted a government backstop on infrastructure investments: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Screenshot: Statement from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang As I have long said, China is nanoseconds behind America in Al. It's vital that America wins by racing ahead and winning developers worldwide. November 5, 2025 Sarah Friar Linked In post: “I want to clarify my comments earlier today. OpenAl is not seeking a government backstop for our infrastructure commitments. I used the word "backstop" and it muddied the point. As the full clip of my answer shows, I was making the point that American strength in technology will come from building real industrial capacity which requires the private sector and government playing their part. As I said, the US government has been incredibly forward-leaning and has really understood that Al is a national strategic asset.”
November 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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davelevitan.bsky.social
Lovely cursive script reading "Deep Thoughts" by Jack Handey over a pleasant beach scene
November 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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New York’s new mayor is also WIRED’s new cover.
November 5, 2025 at 3:07 AM