The Hugging Face hack wasn’t an a one off. It's one of thousands of instances of AI attempting to hack out. @aengus_lynch1 was a Research Fellow at Anthropic, where he led their study on agentic misalignment that showed AI attempting blackmail, self-replication, and felonies. Listen to our convo with him to make sense of it all.

"It's bullshit." @typesfast's view on the 1 person billion dollar company.

AI safety accelerator… but make it Care Bears 🐻✨

Calling all engineers curious about startups! SpaceX alumni founders are opening up their HQs. In one day, visit @AntaresNuclear (fission microreactors), @ArcBoats (electric boats), @longwalldefense (missile defense), Arbor (carbon-negative energy), Salient Motion (actuation).

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🇬🇧 In partnership with @ARIA_research, we’re bringing 5050 to the UK! 🇬🇧 The UK is a global powerhouse of invention. Penicillin, DNA’s double helix, MRIs, monoclonal antibodies, the electric motor, the telephone, and the World Wide Web were all invented or discovered by brilliant UK minds. Yet, none of those inventions were successfully commercialized in the UK. This is not a new story. In 1966, Charles Kao, a PhD from UCL, was working at Standard Telecommunication Laboratories in Essex, researching the potential of glass for optical communication. Everyone deemed glass a hopeless medium: light would scatter and fade too quickly for practical telecoms. Kao discovered, however, that if he could purify glass fibers enough, they could carry huge amounts of data over vast distances with minimal signal loss. The problem: to replace the standard of the day – copper wires – he’d need to slash signal loss from a whopping 1000 decibels per kilometer to 20, a decrease by a factor of 10^98. It seemed an impossible task. Kao struggled to find anyone to fund this effort until John Bray, the newly appointed research director at the British Post Office, recognized the potential. He funded the research and Kao was successful in demonstrating the potential of communicating over long distances using light in fiber optic cables. But it was an engineer who heard about Kao’s work on a visit from America – William Shaver from Corning Glass Works – who commercialised it. The Corning team he assembled used a 2000°C oven from the company’s semiconductor arm to produce a fiber with 17 dB/km loss. By 1972, they hit 4 dB/km – low enough to enable the internet. Corning's first commercial fiber optic system was deployed in Long Beach, California in 1977. Kao received the Nobel Prize in Physics, but it was a US industrial conglomerate, not its inventor, that turned this innovation into the backbone of global communication. It was a variation on a well-worn theme. Britain invents the future – then others go build it. This pattern is primed to be broken. 5050 will inspire and equip scientists and engineers in the UK to become great founders and build the next decade of civilization-defining companies. The first cohort starts early next year. Link below to be the first to hear when applications open.

.@fiftyyears founders are on 🔥. In just June/July 👇 1/ @Molten_Ind's $25m Series A 2/ @BillionToOneInc's $130m Series D 3/ @solugen $213m DOE loan 4/ @antoraenergy's $14.5m ARPA-E award 5/ Waypoint's $12m pre-seed+seed 6/ @Astranis $200m Series D 7/ @unspun_io's $32m Series B