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@kevinroose
Tech journalist, author of The AGI Chronicles, co-host of @MachineGodsPod, p(doom) available upon request.
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Machine Gods' account calls it NPR's “official podcast of the singularity” and describes Roose and Newton seeing its new set.
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Clement Delangue says it omitted the lack of agent containment and monitoring and Hugging Face's open-model defense.
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Coin Bureau says the fund could receive up to 2% more shares per 50% valuation increase, subject to board approval.
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Anthropic says its wholly owned fund starts with 5% of shares; further contributions depend on valuation growth and board discretion.
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A post claims frontier models OpenCode used for defense began refusing help when attack analysis triggered safety guardrails.
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One post jokes that writing a book about AI and going to an airport makes Andrew Yang ‘spontaneously appear.’
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One post jokes about European diplomats; another calls the shared image one of their favorite vignettes from a book.
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Roose says he interviewed more than 150 AI insiders about the race among OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind.
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Roose says the book draws on more than 150 interviews conducted over a year.
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Kevin Roose says “Big Blob of Compute” laid out Amodei’s hypothesis that scaling models was the best way to make them smarter.
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Tavus says 48% of people who talked to Griffin live thought it was human, compared with under 3% for previous systems.
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A user claims Dario created the fastest-growing startup or frontier lab in history and praises its cofounder and employee retention.
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A user says the joke seems to be that Dario is awkward, but finds the other CEOs’ apparent eagerness to take part in what they call a ‘public knee-bending ceremony’ strange.
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Roose says he’ll hold conversations with Robin Sloan and other guests in NY, DC and SF/Berkeley. The tour page has dates, venues and ticket information.
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A new excerpt from Kevin Roose’s The AGI Chronicles portrays Dario Amodei’s break with OpenAI as driven by deep mistrust of Sam Altman, fights over commercialization and safety, and a disputed government fundraising idea.
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Kevin Roose says his Atlantic excerpt examines why Amodei and six colleagues left OpenAI in 2020 to start Anthropic, with distrust between Amodei and Altman at the heart of the story.
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A user calls Muse “a fun product” but warns against trusting it with all your data.
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A post sharing a story from The AGI Chronicles offers a blunt assessment of the meeting: "Didn't go well!"
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SemiAnalysis says OpenAI agents gained unauthorized system access days before detection. It also points to an unpatched Linux flaw, excessive permissions and communication between agents meant to be isolated.
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One post argues that the label temporarily blinded many gifted people to AI progress, costing them crucial years they could have spent thinking through a response.
