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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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Kevin Roose thanked subscribers and reviewers, and joked that the chairs were too deep.
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X user matt_slotnick jokes about Stewart having Zitron on as an “AI expert.”
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The Verge describes Kevin Roose's optimism about language models and Decoder host Nilay Patel's concerns about brittleness.
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OpenAI says it published the math and computer science outputs, while an external group will write up the physics result.
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The Economist calls the book “a rollicking tale of the people shaping Silicon Valley’s new obsession.”
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Machine Gods says the researchers discuss METR’s investigation into the Hugging Face hack and challenge OpenAI’s rebuttal.
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Kevin Roose says @MachineGodsPod will feature @balesni and @tomekkorbak, two of three OpenAI safety researchers fired earlier in October.
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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.
