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85% of AMZN’s net income last quarter was the valuation jump in Anthropic. AMZN owns $180b~ in Anthropic equity. AWS AI revenue is ~45% Anthropic/28% OpenAI, per Barclays. Sales to labs pushed AWS prices 20% higher for ML in June and 15% in Jan. MS upgrade ignores customer risk
OpenAI once pushed to keep AI chips from China. Now it's staying quiet. politi.co/3TRuwRQ
Laurel retweeted
The TL;DR of @chrislehane's post is:
1. There's a bunch of great policy ideas we would like to see done vaguely in the future.
2. We like talking about these proposals, but don't actually want them to become law.
3. Because the most likely path for any of these ideas to actually become law is through state legislatures, we will lobby hard in the lame duck session for bills with anti-democracy clauses to stop states from implementing them.
Amid upset in the AI safety world over leaked proposals from Anthropic, @chrislehane from OpenAI pounces with an essay calling for congressional action. He continues leaning into Obernolte/Trahan FRONTIER and even nods to kill switches linkedin.com/pulse/raising-b…
Laurel retweeted
Opinion: New Jersey's strong new data collection law missed a chance to truly deter future unlawful acts by subjecting violators to jury trials and potential damages. news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-…
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Meta Platforms Inc. was hit with hundreds of new AI-related copyright complaints Monday from authors, representing a considerable expansion of an already vast litigation landscape against top artificial intelligence firms. news.bloomberglaw.com/litiga…
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Zohran Mamdani: "Let me first address the house-phishing example. This is what happens when realtors are using AI to generate images of apartments that are not actually on the market. It also speaks to this belief that we're seeing across many sectors, that if you use AI, then you are inhibited from the consequences of it...
Lina Khan has spoken about this, which is that for all of this talk of AI as a technology of the future, it also obfuscates the fact that the laws of today can still be used to hold that technology accountable."
From our people's town hall with @AINowInstitute
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Lina Khan on AI: "These are individuals that have become used to a certain level of impunity, elite impunity that I think we've talked about in the past as being a broader cultural, social phenomena that results when we're not holding the rich and the powerful to the same rules and the same standards that we do to everybody else.
I think there are a lot of magazine profiles and other assessments looking at what these individuals as a personal matter and their character. I think to me, some of that is a little bit less interesting than this basic question of: Who is deciding in the first instance what trajectory these technologies take?
And whenever you have a tiny number of elites getting to call the shots around this potentially transformational technology, that is gonna be dangerous even if you have the most benevolent, well-meaning people in the driver's seat. It really comes down to the concentration of power."
From our people's town hall with @AINowInstitute
Laurel retweeted
Business Insider confirms it: Amazon has warehouses of GPUs that can’t be installed, and is buying them so far in advance that a supply chain team said they “didn’t have a clear forecasted path” to installing them.
businessinsider.com/amazon-2…
Free newsletter: I estimate that ~50% of AI chip sales - $200bn to $300bn+ - are sitting in warehouses, with NVIDIA selling hundreds of billions of GPUs years in advance. Data centers take way longer to build than hyperscalers are leading us to believe.
wheresyoured.at/wherere-all-…
Laurel retweeted
This by @econliberties Sr. Fellow Leo Wise explains how the Court cleared the way for nonstop corruption from Trump and corporate execs. A big problem is courts using technical language & hypotheticals to obscure the moral stakes. @ZephyrTeachout’s linked paper is a must read too
Great piece by Leo Wise in @TheAtlantic on how the Supreme Court has legalized what any common-sense reader would say is corruption.
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Ron has once again claimed that the Attorney General can't do anything to help Minnesotans afford their lives.
Well, Ron, have I got news for you.
Laurel retweeted
Export controls are neither inherently good nor bad. The simplest way to think about them is the delta between the costs imposed on the target and the costs borne by the issuer. Sometimes that's obvious (nuclear tech and Iran); sometimes it takes some thought.
Controls on China carry real costs, with reciprocal rare earth restrictions coming to mind. But on semiconductors, the @techstatecraft team has done the work and makes a powerful case for banning DUVi exports to China, at a modest cost to the U.S. and allies.
If even the approachable executive summary is too much, let this chart be your key takeaway.
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Since MOFCOM’s announcement last week of updated export control rules, I have yet to find as comprehensive a write-up as the below from the Geopolitechs Substack.
I still assess that China will continue to view and use its open model ecosystem as a powerful policy tool, but these draft rules introduce optionality. Whether out of safety concerns or leverage, the world is on notice that the flow of cheap intelligence is not a permanent guarantee.
Laurel retweeted
Union Pacific/Norfolk Southern: Deal Opponents, Supporters Target VP Vance in Lobbying Efforts
library.thecapitolforum.com/…
h/t @jbliss1987 & @rebeccamkern
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Great piece by Leo Wise in @TheAtlantic on how the Supreme Court has legalized what any common-sense reader would say is corruption.
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Matt Stoller@matthewstollerOct 19
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Shame on me for assuming people knew that Yglesias was just doing corporate lobbying for the airline industry. I generally thought readers understood that he's a liar, and not to take anything he says seriously. I guess not. So here's an explanation.
In terms of safety, the 1500 hour requirement was put in place by the Obama administration after a series of deadly crashes due to pilot error, the last one being the 2009 Colgan crash. Since implementation of the rule, deaths from pilot error have dropped by 99.8%. There's plenty of evidence that the safety standard worked.
Comparing raw hours in U.S. and European systems of pilot training doesn't make sense, they have different philosophies of how to build competency. Europeans do a lot more front-loading of testing and academic training, Americans rely more on flight experience.
U.S. airlines want to cut wages and safety standards to juice returns, and have been pushing to roll back this safety rule ever since it was enacted. Since Yglesias's piece was on how to reduce prices, I think you can just logically deduce that it's done in bad faith. Does anyone really think airlines will cut prices if they are able to skimp on safety and wages? Of course not.
The bottom line is pilot experience matters, as Captain Sully Sullenberger noted. Senator Tammy Baldwin, a military pilot who survived a crash only because of her experience, said the following:
"Anyone who refuses to see sense here—anyone who votes to reduce the 1,500 hour rule for pilot training—will have blood on their hands when the inevitable accident occurs thanks to an inadequately trained flight crew."
time.com/6309503/congress-ai…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Both pilots in the 2009 Colgan Air crash had 3379 and 2244 total flight hours. The FAA found no quantifiable relationship between the 1500-hour requirement and airplane accidents. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgan_Ai… theaircurrent.com/aviation-safet…
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Matt Stoller@matthewstollerOct 19
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Jamie Dimon says JP Morgan has financed $230 billion to shore up American supply chains. That includes financing the $125 billion NextEra-Dominion merger. In other words Dimon is lying. But what else is new?
wsj.com/finance/banking/jami…
Laurel retweeted
In their bankruptcy filings Character AI disclosed that the FTC opened an investigation into them under Chair Khan, only for it to be closed by the Trump-Vance FTC.
No justice for the parents of children who harmed themselves because of their chatbots.
This week, Character AI said it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, citing legal and operational woes. Character AI is an app and website that allows users to interact with hyper-realistic digital companions.
Juliana Peralta’s parents warned about the platform after their 13-year-old daughter died by suicide inside their home a few years ago, 60 Minutes reported this past December. When police searched Peralta's phone, they discovered the Character AI app was open to what investigators described as a “romantic” conversation.
If you or someone you know is in emotional distress or a suicidal crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
Laurel retweeted
Investors lent $1.25 billion to the company that runs AI computers for Microsoft and OpenAI. Four months later, they're down about $230 million on it. And the company's stock just dropped 15% because the people who lend money to AI companies are getting nervous.
The company is CoreWeave. Back in June it sold those bonds promising to pay 9.625% a year until 2032. Then investors started worrying about whether it can actually pay all that back. If you own one of those IOUs today and want out, nobody's paying you full price anymore. You'd get about 81 cents on the dollar. That's why the chart shows the yield at 15%, since whoever buys at 81 cents collects the same interest payments for a lot less money.
CoreWeave has four of these bond deals out there, around $6.75 billion total, and every one of them is now yielding over 12%. S&P rates the company B+, which is junk.
What gets me is how cheap this money was at the start of the year. In January, the Bank for International Settlements looked at private loans to AI companies and found lenders were charging 6.2 percentage points over the base rate. For every other kind of private credit borrower, it was 6.1. Lenders were treating the most expensive buildout in a generation as basically no riskier than lending to a chain of dental offices.
Chamath's team found why that's catching up with everyone now. CoreWeave borrowed for five years against customer contracts that average about three. So the loan sticks around after the contracts paying for it run out, and at that point the lender is betting on what CoreWeave can rent a GPU for in 2029 or 2030, on chips that will be a couple of Nvidia generations old by then.
The mood flipped fast, too. In May 2025, CoreWeave's first big bond deal, $2 billion at 9.25%, drew five times more orders than it could fill, and the stock jumped 19% the day it priced. Investors read all that borrowing as proof the AI demand was real. Seventeen months later, the same pile of debt is what's dragging the stock down.
And the bonds are only the part you can see. CoreWeave also borrowed billions in private loans, including a $7.5 billion deal led by Blackstone and Magnetar. Private loans don't get a fresh price every afternoon the way bonds do. They get valued every so often, mostly by the same funds that made them. So this chart is about the only live reading anyone has on what AI debt is really worth, and right now it's telling you lenders badly underpriced the risk back in January.
Replying to @FredaDuan
There is no ROI. Demand is there but consumers will not pay. Only the enterprises will pay and that revenue is not adequate to cover the capex and show returns . This is the primary reason bond market is freaking out. Remember the Bond holders get paid first . The equity guys may be the bag holders, especially the private equity and the VC funds.




























