Marissa Mayer Ran Yahoo. She’s Back With A.I. She Thinks Women Will Love. (Gift Article)
She made her name as a pioneer at Google, then as chief executive at Yahoo. Now Mayer is entering the crowded marketplace for A.I. assistants — and hoping to draw in more women with a product that tac...
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It’s hard to decide what part of this story on Marissa Mayer’s new startup is most loathsome, but this “women need a wife or, in other words, a digital servant” construction makes me want to flip over an actual table www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
'When I asked Mayer if it’s somewhat depressing to imagine a frictionless future when birthday celebrations, holiday gifts and family vacations are planned by A.I., she seemed caught off guard. '“I haven’t really thought that through,” she said.' Yeah. We noticed. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
This sort of AI assistant technology will only be destructive unless and until the people developing it can actually grapple with these sorts of questions because they are at the heart of everything. What is worth doing with this one life? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
Imagine boasting about this to the New York Times... www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
"She thought it was perfect." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
Jesus. "To Mayer, outsourcing some of the mental load to the machines isn’t a bad thing. (At one point, she mused enthusiastically about the potential efficiency gains of having her A.I. assistant talk directly to her husband’s A.I. assistant)." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
We are taking our lead from people whose main skill set is untreated anxiety around basic interaction and complete lack of respect for process and pedagogy eye it comes to their kids And why post Reconstruction white women claimed they need slaves www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
How much of a shit parent do you have to be to not be able pick 3 words to describe your child? How rotted is your brain to hope an LLM chatbot knows your kid better than you? The secondhand thinking is horrifying. Dear god.
I feel like the share of AI use cases among these execs that boil down to some form of outsourcing parenting is astoundingly high. And then Zuck does stuff like this + using it to coach him in jiu-jitsu. Real compelling examples for the average Joe lol www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
I too have struggled with the beginning-of-the-year "describe your kid in three words" requests from teachers. But didn't turn to A.I. for help. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
“When I asked Mayer if it’s somewhat depressing to imagine a frictionless future when birthday celebrations, holiday gifts and family vacations are planned by A.I., she seemed caught off guard. “I haven’t really thought that through,” she said.”
Ein großflächiges Bombardement der Bay Area erscheint immer mehr als die einzig vernünftige Lösung. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
I personally think it's a great idea to hand the country over to tech billionaires, one of whom needed AI to describe her own kid lol www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
I'm halfway through Ruth Schwartz Cowan's More Work For Mother, and so far the tldr is technology that promises solve for the problem of women doing most of the work in the home has a funny way of simply generating even more work to fill up the new space www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
The selling point for this new AI product appears to be that you really need it if you don't know basic things about your own child. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
"AI, what is special about my child? I look at them and I just don't know. When I'm dying, I hope they ask AI to think about who I was." (reposted with alt-text & screenshot via: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...)
The whole article is even worse, it's about how they can't seem to get women as hooked on AI products as men are, and the "solution" as always, for every stupid product women aren't buying, must be to dumb it down to something women can understand www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
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Inte alls mörkt. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
What if instead of outsourcing our brains to AI, we strove for gender parity in parenting, lowered societal expectations for things like kids' birthday parties & Halloween, reconsidered our work culture, etc? Just throwing it out there.
The #BrokenTimes' first, sexist home-page promo for this story was "Maybe We All Need an A.I. Wife". It changed. Marissa Mayer Ran Yahoo. She’s Back With A.I. She Thinks Women Will Love. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
Most disheartening about this interview is Marissa Mayer's view that gender doesn't matter in tech and that eventually gender balance will come. She is worth $1.4B. She wants women at the table but doesn't see a role in doing anything proactive about it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
OK, I did the fucking homework because I can’t help myself. It’s a big New York Times access profile, it’s definitely Dazzle PR, and this anecdote was the lede. The whole pitch was clearly rooted in gender. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
Oh my god. She’s calling this awful AI tool an “AI wife” how sexist and condescending and the NYT takes it seriously 😶 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
What I find interesting about the NYT piece on Dazzle & its CEO Marissa Mayer, a series: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
first date idea: send your AI assistant in your place ♥️ “To Mayer, outsourcing some of the mental load to the machines isn’t a bad thing. (At one point, she mused enthusiastically about the potential efficiency gains of having her A.I. assistant talk directly to her husband’s A.I. assistant).”
Women and AI is my research focus. They use it a lot in their personal lives, they just don’t make it their whole personality like men do. The tech is meh. They dont crave the Barbie Pink version of AI. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
Oh. I see: “When I asked Mayer if it’s somewhat depressing to imagine a frictionless future when birthday celebrations, holiday gifts and family vacations are planned by AI, she seemed caught off guard. ‘haven’t really thought that through,’ she said.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
Here's the actual article-- gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
Source: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s... Reposted because USE ALT TEXT, JFC! I can't wait for the wave of no-contact adults in 10 years. Outsourcing basic connection to autocomplete is actual monster behavior.
I am all-in on AI in a lot of ways, but man this is painful to read and (obviously???) not where you should need it… I get it parenting is hard (I have a 2yo and 5yo) but I feel sorry for Marissa if she feels this disconnected from her kid. :( www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
A profile of former Google VP and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, whose startup Dazzle is building an AI assistant to help non-tech enthusiasts with mundane tasks (Alexandra Alter/New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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The tech world has a hole in their souls. How broken. They want to take the humanity out of people and let AI agents tell them about their own kids. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
Maybe Billionaires Think Different “Her daughter Marielle was turning 10, and Marielle’s teacher wanted three bullet points summarizing what made her special.” So Marissa Mayer asked Dazzle, her personal agent.
AI that's strong enough for a man, but pH balanced for a woman. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
If coming up with 3 attributes for one's child ("empathetic, creative, and an animal lover") is an impossible task for you, such that you're impressed when your AI does it based on your photo roll, then this isn't the flex you think it is. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
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This is from this piece, which I think might just be a press release that the New York Times printed as Women In Tech content. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
It is an excerpt from a a New York Times article: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
You know a proposal to let AI become a childcare provider is coming, right? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s... "Mayer is aiming to build an A.I. tool that can handle everyday hassles ..." Mayer considers helping her 10yo daughter w her homework to be an "everyday hassle." Hopefully, her daughter will never read this article.
'When I asked Mayer if it’s somewhat depressing to imagine a frictionless future when birthday celebrations, holiday gifts and family vacations are planned by A.I., she seemed caught off guard. '“I haven’t really thought that through,” she said.' 😅🤕 Topmoeder! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
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HOT TIP: If you have to ask Dazzle to come up with three adjectives about your kid, maybe, I don’t know…spend less time on AI and more with your kid?
לול תראה מה הכותרת של הכתבה שממנה זה נלקח. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
This?
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I'm your mom. I can't think of 3 things that make you special. “Her daughter Marielle was turning 10, and Marielle’s teacher wanted three bullet points summarizing what made her special. Mayer…likes cracking a hard problem. But she felt overwhelmed by the range and complexity of potential answers.”
To the tone deaf mother quoted here: A.I. tells you what you want to hear, unlike the magic mirror in Sleeping Beauty. So sadly, you may STILL not know what makes your kid special. ——— Marissa Mayer Ran Yahoo. She’s Back With A.I. She Thinks Women Will Love. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
For me, the most ridiculous part of this story is that women like Mayer are simply tripling down on the idea that it’s “women’s work” to do household chores, parenting minutiae, and looking polished. Depressing. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s... "Late last year, Marissa Mayer was struggling with what felt like an impossible task. Her daughter Marielle was turning 10, and Marielle’s teacher wanted three bullet points summarizing what made her special." Impossible task? Mommie Dearest.
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The lede is buried about halfway thru the article: “'I haven’t really thought that through,' she said." Gift article link: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
We are now at "AI...for her" stage www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
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Using so-called A.I. to output positive traits about your child because you can't think for yourself is the dystopian future for us all if we default our thinking to machines. Big tech is desperate for us to "need" it. This feels more like marketing than truth... www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
This is AI / tech bro brain rot. Imagine being her daughter and realizing your mom had to use AI to list three attributes about you www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
"Maybe We All Need an A.I. Wife"? (No, maybe we don't.) Explore this gift article from @nytimes.com . You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
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Marissa Mayer launches Dazzle, an AI assistant that analyzes camera-roll images to handle everyday tasks and aims to attract more women
(this is a great piece btw, impressively deadpan) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
Memo to Nathan Fielder: Here's your next movie.
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OMG no! Marissa Mayer had to use #AI to tell the teacher 3 things about her daughter. This is not a solution to AI's "women problem"!
A Halloween story! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
Dear NYT, I think you got this headline wrong. It should read: "Marissa Mayer Ran Yahoo into the Ground. Who Cares What She Thinks." Marissa Mayer Ran Yahoo. She’s Back With A.I. She Thinks Women Will Love. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
This is embarrassing, fawning native advertising for Mayer’s new app (after 2 others failed) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
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Dystopia has gotten real fuckin real
Yahoo was Marissa Mayer's first failure. I predict Dazzle will be her second. Puzzling why The New York Times gave her so much space. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
Also I don’t thinks she has a hope in hades of getting this startup off the ground, but I like the team she has built and there is definitely a need for a better UX for AI for some user profiles www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
Is this like when Bic made pens for women? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
Can Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s Former CEO, Help Fix A.I.’s Gender Problem?
[NYT] Can Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s Former CEO, Help Fix A.I.’s Gender Problem?
She Knows Silicon Valley. Does She Know What Women Want From A.I.? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s... Now Marissa Mayer is entering the crowded marketplace for A.I. assistants — and hoping to draw in more women with a product that tackles the mental load.
I’ve already been blocked by Amanda and I know I’ll get dragged for mansplaining but I read a distrust of technology and a belief it takes control away from users. I see the opposite, a chance to regain control of what I like.
As a woman, I do not want this. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
Here's the full article. "Enjoy" is entirely the wrong word. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
Women and AI is my research focus. They use it a lot in their personal lives, they just don’t make it their whole personality like men do. The tech is meh. They dont crave the Barbie Pink version of AI. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/style/marissa-mayer-ai-assistants-women.html
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“It essentially understands your personality, your likes, your dislikes, because it knows what you think looks good.” 1000% what is wrong with pretty much everything. I give zero fucks if it 'looks good', I care if it IS GOOD.
Really thought this was a good anecdote to tell a NYT reporter. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
Requiring or desiring (and I’m not sure which is worse) an AI slop machine to come up with *three* words to describe your own daughter is peak tech brain rot, on par with the morning commute podcast drivel. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
I wish it wasn’t.
These people are so lost from humanity. If you can’t genuinely come up with what is special about your own daughter and feel so overwhelmed that you use an AI agent to give you answers, then you are very broken. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
I wonder why this PR post wasn’t in the technology section but the style section. Did the style writer not see the app? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...
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Can Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s Former CEO, Help Fix A.I.’s Gender Problem? (Gift Article) f the nyt
There are so many awful things happening in the world right now and I am adding these opening 4 paragraphs to the list: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...