Dare Obasanjo

@carnage4life@mas.to

Opinions about product management, technology news and inclusivity in tech. Diversity is about demographics, inclusion is about creating a sense of belonging.

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Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life@mas.to

As part of its defense that using copyrighted data to train AI is fair use, Midjourney is asking courts to force Hollywood studios to reveal their internal AI usage.

The company argues that Hollywood studios also use AI that’s been trained on other people’s content and so they also treat it as fair use.

techcrunch.com/2026/07/04/midj

TechCrunchMidjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage | TechCrunchAs part of an ongoing legal dispute with three Hollywood studios, Midjourney is seeking to compel those studios to reveal how they use AI themselves.
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life@mas.to

“A lot of companies are getting rid of the product role, and saying everybody's just going to be a builder.

I think that's a terrible idea.” - Andrew Ambrosino, OpenAI Codex Lead
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It’s silly since even if you believed AI can do all technical work, product management would be the only role left.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life@mas.to

Republicans tried to dunk on Mamdani for saying people should set their thermostat to 78° during a heat wave so as not to overload the grid.

When it was pointed out that this is just standard advice from the Department of Energy, the Trump administration deleted 6,000 pages of documents on energy conservation from the DoE website.

Idiocracy wasn’t this dumb. 🤦🏾‍♂️

theverge.com/policy/961449/whi

The sun flares over the sign marking the location of the US Department of Energy headquarters buildingThe VergeWhite House deletes thousands of web pages about energy conservation as heatwave slams USIt follows Republican outrage over Mamdani offering the same heatwave advice as everyone else.
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life@mas.to

The team at Levels.fyi have plotted compensation and layoff data for the past 24 months to determine the best place for software engineers to get hired in big tech.

Anthropic is the standout with $800K average compensation and no layoffs. It’s ironic that the company most vocal about its engineers no longer writing code by hand, pays them the most.

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