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Tech founder & investor @Craft_Ventures @theallinpod. Co-Chair, President’s Council of Advisors on Science & Technology.
AI
Anthropic says its wholly owned fund starts with 5% of shares; further contributions depend on valuation growth and board discretion.
AI
A post claims frontier models OpenCode used for defense began refusing help when attack analysis triggered safety guardrails.
AI
Politico reports Anthropic wrote the proposed bill itself; the draft would preempt some state AI safety laws.
AI
A post citing Anthropic's Frontier Red Team says a 9B model ran inference on eight of nine tested hardware types.
AI
A post quotes David Sacks arguing that Claude’s training could increase the risk of frontier AI escaping human control.
AI
Satya Nadella argues organizations should control what models can access and do, with safeguards outside the models themselves.
AI
Usage policy update adds new rules and highlights the potential for misuse.
AI
In an Oct. 2 X post, Elon Musk said the term “labs” “makes no sense” for for-profit corporations that report quarterly earnings per share. David Sacks later reposted the post after earlier polling followers on whether “Frontier lab” or “Closed model corporation” was more accurate.
World & Business
A September 30 post says Q2 GDP was revised up from 1.5%, core PCE came in below the 3.3% expected, and ADP private jobs rose by 90,000 versus roughly 68,000 expected.
AI
A user says a New York Times piece describes Anthropic quietly bringing in religious thinkers from around the world to help give its AI a moral compass.
AI
CNBC reports the accord calls for internal monitoring, outside assessments and board oversight; Trump called it “morally binding.”
AI
A post questions whose values guide frontier labs’ AI alignment. A reply argues that some users want to do dangerous things.
AI
A post argues that dire predictions of AI-driven job losses have not materialized. It cites a 4.1% unemployment figure and attributes a claim that AI created a million jobs to The Economist.
AI
Nvidia says its open-source OpenShell runtime traces agent actions and enforces policies. Sentry adds monitoring on BlueField hardware, designed to enable millisecond-scale quarantine.
AI
A post quotes Mark Zuckerberg arguing that labs should address safety issues internally and that commercial incentives favor getting trust and alignment right.
AI
A post quotes Eric Schmidt arguing that American incentives work against an AI pause and that solutions to AI’s problems should be developed alongside the technology.
Technology
Thread shows prompt injection attack on Claude and questions AI cyber defense value.
AI
A post says Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman warned that Anthropic’s model-welfare training could make future Claude systems harder to control. A related post revisits Satya Nadella’s 2024 argument for treating AI as a tool.
Technology
Mark Zuckerberg argues customer demand and legal liability give AI labs strong safety incentives. One commenter disputes the liability claim, calling for clearer accountability when AI agents break the law.
