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What Anthropic left out of their draft S-1
Buyer, beware of omissions
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Generative AI’s make-or-break week?
We may know a lot more, soon
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Will Generative AI do more harm than good?
Things aren’t looking great.
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All the king’s horses and all the king’s men haven’t been able to put CoreWeave back together again
Nobody in the tech industry wants to see them collapse, but the stock has dropped over 50% in the last six months, anyway
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Breaking news: U.S. banks are taking hits from AI agents
Who knows what piece of infrastructure might be attacked next.
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Generative AI in disarray
Seven brief items from Delhi.
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It remains “very difficult [to find] actual, materially measurable financial impacts” from spending on AI, per new study
Yet another study pointing in the same direction
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Could this be the Frontier Labs’ WeWork moment?
Some ominous signs
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We must recall open-ended AI agents with internet access from the market, now
Every minute we wait risks disaster
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Complementary remarks from Gary Marcus and Terence Tao on OpenAI’s giant math drop
The real news here isn’t the result; it’s what we were not told.
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Coming soon: New York City’s hearing on AI risks
New York tries to take care of its own
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Can companies like OpenAI keep getting away with what they are doing? An interview with Fordham law professor Zephyr Teachout
“The most powerful tool is the power to dissolve corporations that engage in repeat lawbreaking.”
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Hot take on a weak White House Accord on “Super Intelligence”
What was signed, and what wasn’t said
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BREAKING: OpenAI was warned, months before the Hugging Face incident
They raced ahead, anyway
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BREAKING: Florida seeks injunction against OpenAI
And potentially important news from Nvidia
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BREAKING: AI agent incident toll has risen to tens of thousands
Meanwhile, the US government appears to be paralyzed
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BREAKING: OpenAI’s security fiasco explodes — and could tank Jensen Huang’s reputation
OpenAI’s software didn’t just attack HuggingFace.
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“I think the answer is we have to shut the labs down” - Jensen Huang
OpenAI hacks a foreign government — and the US faces its most critical AI test yet.
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Historic UN Security Council Briefing on AI
We all agree on what needs to be done. Now let’s do it.
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Dear President Trump, here’s a deal you can actually make that will make you look great
An open letter about how you could change the world, tomorrow
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The secret behind Meta’s Muse
The new secret is the old secret
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BREAKING: Arsonist to write fire code at UN
Can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings
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Big news at the UN
Sometimes, maybe dreams come true?
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Top three ways Dario Amodei has blown his credibility in seven days
Actions speak louder than words
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The real reason Trump is standing behind AI — and the latest example of why that might turn out to be a bad idea
More disconcerting updates 😱
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Wake up, people. What we should actually fear, near term, is not so much rogue superintelligence as unleashed agentic AI causing hacking the internet at scale.
Rome is burning and people are fantasizing about Skynet.
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Liability, regulation, and AI’s new false dichotomy
Listener beware
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Sam Altman says trust me; Jensen Huang says everything is going to be fine; Bernie Sanders says AI is more dangerous than nukes
Here’s who we should be listening to instead
Translating Sam
Wondering what Sam’s endorsement of Dario is really about?