Vote with your dollars people.

That was when it was supposed to cost around $35,000.

Four years later when my reservation was ready to order, on December 8, 2023, the CyberTruck cost more than $100k.

Because it cost almost 3x more than what was originally advertised, I cancelled the order. I know many other people who canceled for the same reason. Keeping in mind this was after several delays, so I and many others with reservations were already frustrated with the product before it became available to order.

Is there a backstory between these guys / FDB?

So what’s the big breakthrough here?

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Customer hereby grants to Wiz a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free right to use Customer Data to provide the Services and perform its obligations under this Agreement.

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Or if reading terse legal documents isn’t your thing, go ahead and just read through Wiz’s own blog post about how their scanner works, which confirms they have full, direct access to customer EBS volume snapshots in the default “full SaaS” deployment model. [1]

Your point that due diligence would have taken issue with this might not be grounded in Google’s reality.

0: https://wiz.pactsafe.io/legal#wiz-subscription-agreement

1: https://www.wiz.io/blog/the-wiz-approach-to-agentless-scanni...

Google already have one of the best security teams in the industry - Project Zero [0]. They don't need Wiz's "enterprise" expertise for security.

This deal is about DATA. Wiz, as a cybersecurity vendor, have full remote access to their customers cloud compute storage (EC2 EBS volumes, etc) in the name of "security scanning" - this is actually part of their unique selling point - "agent-less scanning" which is unlike traditional security tools that require an agent installed in the OS. Instead, Wiz is able to just clone your full data volume and scan it locally in their cloud accounts/VPC.

With this deal Google has bought a ton of confidential data from Wiz's customers without their explicit knowledge or approval, and they will use it to improve Google's AI models like Gemini and probably several other products.

A year ago Google struck a $60M/yr deal with Reddit to exclusively license their content [1] for the same reason, and that data is probably much smaller and less valuable than the data Wiz has access to from their customers, which include companies like Morgan Stanley, DocuSign, Slack, Plaid, and others. [2]

Sources:

0: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com

1: https://www.reuters.com/technology/reddit-ai-content-licensi...

2: https://www.wiz.io/customers

What does Sergey mean by this?

Here’s the update from Twitter:

https://x.com/askplaystation/status/1888376843255824475?s=46

No communication from Sony on the cause or expected time to recovery.

This story is now being picked up by major news outlets:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/02/08/playstat...

“Over the past six months (…) we hired a Head of Trust and Safety and a Head of Content Policy and brought on more engineering safety support team members.“

Better late than never, but not by much. It’s not like they didn’t think about investing in safety before launch, they just didn’t prioritize it, to the public’s (and their brands) detriment.

I suppose this is why more legislation is needed in the AI space, because private companies can’t be trusted to prioritize public safety. Not everyone’s Apple.

1. https://blog.character.ai/community-safety-updates/

The approaches seem very different though. I'm curious if anyone here has used either or both and can share feedback.

The data shows overall VC investment vs profit by year, but not all startups return value in the same year they’re funded.

Could it just be that after 2020 VC investments shifted towards startups with longer profit horizons? Could that explain why the author thinks VCs are “bleeding” cash?