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Comparing Notes: Meta Trial Verdict w/ Jacob Ward (opens the original)
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The Terrifying Things Claude Can Do (opens the original)
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The public resignation of Jacob Coxon — who told the world his industry is “gambling with our lives” — buried two other chilling warnings from inside the AI industry this week. The first is “An Alien Mind,” an essay OpenAI’s chief scientist Jakub Pachocki published on September 6, in which he describes his own creation as an intellect nobody fully understands and says no lab has solved alignment well enough to keep scaling at full speed. The second is Anthropic’s September threat report , which
“They Are At The Whim of The President” (opens the original)
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The story of MapQuest refusing to rename a lake isn’t about MapQuest. It’s about Big Tech, and whether we can rely on its principles. On Anderson Cooper 360 last night, anchor Jim Sciutto asked me whether Google and Apple’s decision to rename Lake Ontario per the president’s wishes was a matter of business. “I don’t think it’s because they’re outraged by Canadian names on lakes,” I told him. And that’s not just a feeling: Trump last year said into the microphones that Apple was excluded from his
“We Were Gonna Win.” So Why Did the States Settle with Meta? I Asked Colorado’s Attorney General. (opens the original)
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By now you know how I felt about it. When I heard, seven days into the Meta trial, that the company would be allowed to settle with the States, I was astounded. “They did what?” I shouted at my phone first thing that morning. For one thing, it was clear in even those first few days in court that there was a mountain of evidence showing that executives at… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.theripcurrent.com/su
"Maybe He'll Listen to the CEOs Who Are About to Get This in the Throat" (opens the original)
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Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey has spent a career worrying about the twin threat of debt and valuations. On Monday, in the Financial Stability Board’s letter to the G20’s finance ministers and central bank governors, Bailey says a new horror has moved to the front of his nightmares: “For the financial system, the most immediate concern is the potential impact of frontier AI on cyber risk.” He’s worried about sovereign debt fragilities, private credit, and stretched asset valuations, sure
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