Theo Wayt
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Reporter @theinformation covering Amazon, e-commerce and logistics. Email: theo @theinformation .com Cell/Signal: 917 300 8909
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Killings. Shootings. Carjackings. For Amazon's growing fleet of gig drivers, these threats are part of the job.
At least 5 Amazon Flex drivers have been shot since 2022,
@theinformation
found as part of an investigation into the program's safety record.
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BROOKLYN, NY -- The brownstone around the corner from my apartment that has had a life-size cardboard cutout of Elizabeth Warren in one of its front windows for months has now placed a Bernie Sanders cutout in the doorway, adding further uncertainty to an already turbulent race.
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Cop-speak is so wild
"He was an NYPD officer that discharged his firearm," NYPD Commissioner Shea confirmed on Wednesday. "As a result of that discharge, an individual was struck in the head and killed."
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Resigning from office and then immediately running a red light
JUST NOW: Gov Cuomo, driving himself, leaves Midtown Manhattan following his resignation announcement
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Watching the MoviePass relaunch press event.
“I love product placement in movies," says CEO Stacy Spikes, wearing a Steve Jobs/Elizabeth Holmes-style turtleneck. "I’m the person that has a notepad and I’m writing down, is that Hugo Boss?… I’m that guy”
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Mayor Adams asks NYers to send photos of subway cops using phones on the job
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He explains that with the new version of MoviePass, you can watch ads to earn credits that can go toward free movies. Your phone camera will track your eyeballs to make sure you're actually watching. "What it does is it basically creates a transaction between you and the brand."
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A couple hundred people at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis protesting in front of the balcony where MLK was murderered
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New and exclusive: controversial neighborhood watch app Citizen is quietly hiring New Yorkers to run around the city and livestream crime scenes for $25 an hour via
@nypost
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Scoop: Sen. Jon Ossoff is expected to snub Nancy Pelosi by introducing legislation that would ban stock trades by members of Congress and their families.
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Found this old New York Times at my parents’ house. 3 months ago today.
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New and exclusive: Facebook has refused to comment on staffer Dani Lever’s role helping Andrew Cuomo defend himself from accusations of sexual misconduct — even as legal experts tell The Post her advising Cuomo may have broken state lobbying law
@nypost
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NYU has the third highest number of sugar babies of any univeristy in the US, according to SeekingArragement.
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After California shut down a Tesla factory in 2020 due to coronavirus concerns, Elon Musk said health authorities were being “fascist” and should “give people back their godd—n freedom.” Now that China is doing the same thing, he's kept his mouth shut.
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“the NYPD managed to arrest just 13 drivers for striking pedestrians with their cars, despite recording nearly 1,800 such collisions”
NYC falling apart as de Blasio heads for exits, shocking mayor's report shows
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After 18 months and 742 stories, today is my last day with
@nypostbiz
. Starting next week I'll be covering Amazon for
@theinformation
, still out of NYC.
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My reporting on Amazon's Just Walk Out has gotten warped in a lot of other news outlets and on social media over the past few days. But the story's virality gets at a fundamental truth: a lot of flashy AI still needs people behind the scenes.
My
@theinformation
column:
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This builds on great reporting by
@ericlevai
, who uncovered paid Citizen workers in Los Angeles
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Well I'm happy to say I'll be joining the New York Post's business section next month as a technology reporter, which also means I'm moving back to New York.
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an interaction i had yesterday while covering an arrest by a group of
@NYPDnews
cops. one of them demanded i show a press pass to record on a public street (which doesn’t require a press pass) & appeared to turn on his bodycam, which should’ve already been on during any arrest
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On Friday, I covered a new lawsuit by a group of Deutsche Bank investors against the bank over its dealings with Jeffrey Epstein. Tonight, a gunman dressed as a FedEx driver showed up to the home of the judge assigned to the case, murdered her son and wounded her husband.
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in case some of you don’t know this about me here are the photos timothée chalamet took in my dorm room bed freshman year
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Even CEOs can get fired over Zoom, apparently.
Dave Clark was blindsided by his firing as Flexport CEO yesterday, which happened during a video call with
@typesfast
and a16z’s Robert Swan, Clark told
@nickwingfield
.
@theinformation
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The first Google News result when you search Amazon right now is the company's PR response to the FTC lawsuit, not a news story
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Ryan confirms my reporting on the Ossoff ethics bill —
Can also confirm he’s hunting for a Republican cosponsor to launch it
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Good afternoon. I am reporting live from the NYU Virtual Reality grad alley for
@businessinsider
. As far as I can tell there's only one other person in my server right now. I wish I could make my avatar smile.
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Our past reporting on the role of human reviewers in Amazon's Just Walk Out tech is getting a lot of attention today.
For the record, here's what we reported last May, along with the company's comment.
Amazon billed its "Just Walk Out" stores as some triumph of AI. In reality, it was powered by thousands of low-paid Indian workers manually adding up items in your cart as you shopped.
How insanely dystopian.
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New w/ exclusive details: Assemblyman
@rontkim
is calling for an audit of pricey state contracts given to Cuomo-aligned PR firm Kivvit that were first identified by The Post. "This is the governor’s inner circle of people who landed ludicrous contracts."
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Today's my first day covering tech companies for the New York Post :) You can reach me at twayt
@nypost
.com or DM for signal
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Thread 🇲🇽🚢🇺🇸🚚🇨🇦: American companies that manufacture overseas are increasingly dodging import duties by embracing a controversial trade "loophole" that's been key to the rise of Shein and Temu.
@theinformation
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@xX_niceguy_Xx
This poignant photo perfectly encapsulates the fractured state of the Democratic Party.
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The 1/3 of Americans with Bachelor's degrees have been living progressively longer for the past 30 years, while the other 2/3 have died younger since 2010, according to the
@PrincetonEcon
economists who first identified 'deaths of despair'
@AcademicTimes
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Scoop: Gettr, the Twitter alternative started by ex-Trump adviser Jason Miller, has seen more than 1 million new users sign up in less than a week after Joe Rogan joined the site. Rogan signed on after Twitter banned Marjorie Taylor-Greene. via
@nypost
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I’m at Adam Neumann’s WeWork SPAC day party and he’s wearing a “STUDENT FOR LIFE” shirt. “A brand without a past does not have a future,” Adam tells attendees, who are pounding champagne on a Thursday morning.
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Today is my first day covering Amazon for
@theinformation
. You can reach me at theo
@theinformation
.com or via text/Signal at 917 300 8909.
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George Floyd was killed in a blue city in a blue state. Most of the riots are happening in blue cities in blue states. Of course Democrats want to reframe these protests as anti-Trump, but I don't think he's most people's main concern right now.
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new year news: i’m going to be working as a stringer for the
@AP
’s New York desk starting later this month.
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New and exclusive: two ex-Cuomo aides who helped the Governor smear accuser Lindsey Boylan have left their executive roles at PR firm Kivvit. The news comes after the Post reported on the company’s millions of dollars in state contracts.
@nypostbiz
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A remarkable number of people are responding to this by saying it's not a story because Uber and Lyft's algorithms automatically raise prices when there's high demand. Yes, obviously they do, but when algorithms have a real impact on people in emergency situations that's news.
Uber, Lyft accused of upping prices after Brooklyn subway attack
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Here’s a photo of me at the New York Stock exchange because later this month I’m going to start as a reporter covering banking, insurance and investments for Fastinform, a new, soon-to-launch business news outlet.
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Exclusive: rats and other rodents keep chowing down on Teslas, allegedly because the company uses soy-based wiring that animals can mistake for food. One NYC Tesla owner is on the hook for more than $5000 in damage that the company won’t cover.
@nypost
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Exclusive: a forthcoming bill from
@ChrisMarteNYC
would bar grocery apps from advertising 15 minute delivery times. He says they incentivize delivery workers to break traffic laws and put themselves and pedestrians in danger. via
@nypost
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:( “At Goldman, bankers gripe that they’re forced walk to local chains like Sweetgreen because the cost of delivery with tip, taxes and fees typically takes the price of a salad or Chipotle bowl past the $25 limit.” via
@nypost
@LJMoynihan
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Exclusive w/
@nickwingfield
-- Amazon once had audacious plans for remaking physical retail, including a secret effort to take on Target. Now it’s closing stores and pausing the opening of ones that have already been completed.
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The influencer who lives above me has now flooded her bathtub through my ceiling twice
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Exclusive: As recently as November, Shopify's top execs were gung-ho about plans to spend hundreds of millions on warehouses in 2023. Then it suddenly sold off the business entirely.
The inside story of Shopify's U-turn w/
@anngehan
@theinformation
:
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NYU is throwing 2020 grads a “virtual reality grad alley” where we can walk around a digital version of Washington Square and teleport to the top of the Empire State Building. The avatars look like sullen purple Lego men.
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New: a top communications manager at Facebook, Dani Lever, helped Cuomo fight sexual misconduct allegations — including by helping leak confidential files about accuser Lindsey Boylan in an attempt to "discredit and disparage her," per AG report
@nypost
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“If Adam opened a hot dog stand in Staten Island I would invest,”
@Jason
told The Post. “I actually think he has an 80% chance of making this work since this is his ‘revenge startup.’"
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@nypost
Meta’s recent rebranding may have helped the company rehabilitate its image following a wave of scandals, but at the end of the day, it's still an advertising company.
“They’re a basketball player saying that they’re a skier,”
@DivesTech
told The Post.
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Amid a crackdown on foreign universities in China, NYU Shanghai quietly added a pro-government course, students told me. It was apparently taught on campus by instructors including Yu Lizhong, the chancellor of the school. My scoop for
@motherboard
/
@VICE
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Exclusive w/
@mvpeers
-- Amazon is working on a stand-alone sports streaming app. The move suggests CEO Andy Jassy is considering new ways to squeeze revenue out of Amazon's pricey streaming rights deals, such as a possible separate sports tier of Prime.
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Exclusive: 'Zombie' Amazon grocery stores are piling up across the US. They've been fully built out but are completely empty. As Amazon prepares to make more cuts in early 2023, locals have no idea when, if ever, the stores will open.
@theinformation
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Exclusive: Amazon employs around 400 economists who help decide everything from where to build warehouses to how much to pay workers. It rivals the Fed as America's largest employer of econ PhDs.
Now, the man who built the program is out.
@theinformation
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Many such cases — “After The Information went to Jobs's communications firm Sunshine Sachs for comment, the firm moved up an announcement planned in the New York Times.”
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Exclusive: Amazon has frozen hiring in sections of its lucrative web services division in an apparent escalation of its efforts to cut costs. Amazon Web Services had been exempt from a partial hiring freeze Amazon announced earlier in October. via
@nypost
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Scoop: Amazon is tired of people sending back so many packages, so it's adding a "frequently returned" warning to some listings, suggesting customers double check “product details and customer reviews” before they buy. w/
@anngehan
@theinformation
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More than 100%
São Paulo says it has fully vaccinated more than 100 percent of its adults. Will it be enough to stop omicron?
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New🛒🍌: Amazon's high-tech checkout system, Just Walk Out, has been a key part of its push into grocery stores. Not anymore.
The company's top grocery exec told me he's dropping the tech from new stores and removing it from many existing ones in favor of smart shopping carts.
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Shopify found a lot of red flags last year when it was considering buying fulfillment startup Deliverr. Shopify wound up paying $2.1 billion for Deliverr anyway, then sold it at a serious loss to Flexport this month.
Full story:
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Exclusive: Reps. Ken Buck and David Cicilline are introducing a bipartisan House bill that would break up Google's gargantuan online ad business. "Google is selling ads, they’re buying ads, and they’ve bought the auction company," Buck said.
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Exclusive w/
@erinkwoo
-- Marc Lore's food startup, Wonder, has laid off about 130 employees and is pivoting away from its core business model of cooking food in mobile kitchens that park in customers' driveways. (thread)
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Elon Musk’s brain-chip company Neuralink is facing a legal challenge from an animal rights group that has accused the company of subjecting monkeys to “extreme suffering” during years of gruesome experiments.
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I'm really tired of my university's suffocating bureaucracy, explicit nepotism and incentivization of performative stress. I'm so glad I'm about to graduate and enter the adult world, where I'm sure none of these problems exist.
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Wow did a CEO write this
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Scoop: Flexport is raising $260m in convertible debt from Shopify, giving the logistics startup breathing room after it burned through cash last year.
Shopify also gave Flexport a previosuly unreported $40m cash infusion last summer.
@theinformation
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If this Wall Street Journal story on Wonder that ran today looks familiar, it’s because
@erinkwoo
and I basically wrote the same thing back in November.
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SCOOP
@theinformation
: Flexport founder
@typesfast
has fired at least four of ousted CEO Dave Clark's top lieutenants.
developing story w/
@anngehan
@parismartineau
@nickwingfield
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Grace Charles from Brooklyn is the first protestor of the day, wearing a “FREE R. KELLY” shirt. “I don’t think he went and slept with anyone underage,” she says. “I don’t think a 12 year-old can take R Kelly!”
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I hear the coronavirus vaccine is only going to be available at the bodegas of New York City
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Walked in on my father washing a cast iron skillet with soap and he told me “that’s how it’s always been done in this family.”
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By mailing me a $5 bill along with a request to fill out a survey, Nielsen Ratings has now given me more stimulus money during the pandemic than the federal government
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Thank you for sharing my story... Sean Spicer
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23 is the age when you can no longer call it "studying abroad." it has to be "doing research."
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I swear to God people will not stop giving puppies and babies my name. I didn’t meet anyone else named Theo until I was 19 and now I can’t go to Prospect Park without thinking strangers are yelling at me when they’re really talking to their French bulldogs and Muji-clad toddlers.
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Oh to be a tenured journalism professor! You don't even have to read anything your students turn in, you just have to assign the same five Joan Didion & David Foster Wallace pieces that are ten thousand words longer than anything your students will ever get paid to write.
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Today my father asked if I’d ever heard of this website called Ozy, said he’d been reading it for years
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SCOOP: Flexport plans to lay off up to 30% of its workforce, or about 1000 people. It's the latest and most drastic in a series of cost-cutting moves
@typesfast
has made at the decade-old company since he returned as CEO in September.
via
@theinformation
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