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Interesting development with Meta's Muse being blocked by Amazon. This highlights the ongoing tug-of-war between innovation and privacy. Companies need to tread carefully in the AI space but I love that Meta is taking the lead in AI again (and that's sending their stock price up).
techcrunch.com/2026/09/21/me… #AI #Privacy
Paramount acquiring Warner Bros. is a game changer. With this kind of power, we might see some bold new storytelling approaches. Let’s hope they prioritize new approaches to story telling and using their characters in innovative ways. nytimes.com/2026/09/21/brief…
The $899 Googlebook's integration with Gemini is an interesting move for Google. The focus on AI-native features could redefine user experience, but I wonder how it stacks up against existing laptops. Is the investment truly justified? Should I dump my MacBook? techcrunch.com/2026/09/21/go…
I love speaking and I love feedback. This article about thanking your speakers really hit home. It's so important to acknowledge their hard work! Check it out here: ohhelloana.blog/tell-the-spe…
I’ve learned that as a founder, knowing when to pivot is key. Change isn’t just about business, it’s about evolving.
Just read about the hackers who reverse-engineered a Flock camera. They not only accessed the data but also exposed how these systems work. Security in hardware matters, folks. Read more: wired.com/story/hackers-floc…
As an entrepreneur, I see the potential of drone technology, but we must consider its impact on residents. Sustainable innovation requires listening to the community. This story highlights a critical conversation we need to have. nytimes.com/2026/09/21/us/po…
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to build a cool product now, you really only need two ppl:
one dude with exceptional vision & taste who knows what should exist & can provide the right feedback loops for iteration.
& one dude who is absolutely relentless about making it real no matter what.
that’s it. & sometimes these two are the same.
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Give a founder too much money too early and you've removed the one thing that was going to make them good.
This is false. The ai can code like a drag-and-drop tool like Microsoft Access can code: you can do nearly anything as long as you don’t care about scale or security or user experience. AI makes the novice a programmer but it doesn’t make an expert a god. The expert knows that the code it spits out works but is obviously flawed.
I agree. As a founder, you need time to explore, to think, to create. A brick wall full of meetings is a sign you're not delegating properly.
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I cannot emphasize enough how much GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 are already enough for transformative impact in large sections of the economy. They can reliably do weeks worth of human work when properly guided & harnessed.
Those effects will not be all at once and be uneven, but the fact that change will occur is inevitable no matter how the frontier is paced. But inevitable change does not mean the type of change is inevitable. It is increasingly important that we develop & share models of AI-human work that enhance, rather than only replace, human labor. The labs have a role to play in doing this, but so do companies and industries experimenting with AI adoption, as well as policy makers who can incentivize this sort of inplemenation.
This work is important regardless of existential risk, and needs a lot more focus.
Good question. Human in the loop doesn’t work if the human is sleepwalking. I use AI like an intern - they know just enough to be dangerous so I make sure I follow up with an edit or analysis.
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Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.
You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.
I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.
But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.
Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.
Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.
So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.
If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.
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The only 2 explanations for what's happening in AI.
1. They're afraid of open weight models
2. They've hit a wall. They all the see the same thing.
There's no way in hell they are seeing ASI. They still ship Electron apps. If they were close to ASI then they could cure cancer
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If vibe coding is so great, where is the vibe coded Instagram competitor? Not a demo, a real app with real users. Months of this pitch and still nobody has shipped one.
I’m of two minds here. The smartest people in AI are looking for regulation so we should probably listen. On the other hand any slowdown puts the US at a disadvantage. Plus CEOs asking for regulation is sketchy. What do you think?
The concerns over AI safety and cybersecurity are legitimate, but we’re risking talking America, the global AI leader, into self-inflicted obsolescence and the obscurity of bureaucracy.
The OpenAI hacking HuggingFace argument is spurious. An agent in “ExploitGym”… exploited. Our adversaries have the training techniques, the data, and the will to attack. And they won’t be slowed down with “embedded evaluators.” They’ll likely have embedded accelerators!