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Wes
@whurd.bsky.social
Information security, technology, policy/politics/philosophy/econ, society, fin, some religion and theology. M.A. Religious studies @uofdenver, B.S. Computer Sci Opinions are mine - not institutionally tied.
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Here's some interesting (but opaque) details about Anthropic corporate structure; maybe some details are new to you too. It's an interesting approach, to try to avoid what they escaped from at OpenAI. But it feels brittle - if those trustees ever get "corrupted," how can it get back on track?
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So @prosharesetfs.bsky.social shuttered a fund that was up 30+% this year, presumably because of low amount of assets etf.net/etf/MAKX Still.. 🤨
Can confirm.. was talking to people from EU about this It's noticeable..
Many people in writer Rachel Handler’s life felt that something was amiss, that commercial chocolate didn’t taste the way it used to. For our Cover Story, Handler spends several months tumbling down a chocolate vortex to find out why. www.grubstreet.com/article/choc...
Schmidt contradicts things he has said in the past so many times in this.. it's a doozy. also.. "rent-seeking elites afflicted by strategic myopia" Elites like Eric Schmidt??!
“Even without active alliance building or coercion, China and the United States can make all other countries that seek access to advanced AI beholden to them,” write Niall Ferguson, Lisa Klaassen, and Eric Schmidt.
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Is this conjecture, or do people know somethng?? I think it's long past time that USG level with the American people. be straightforward about what intel we have and what we don't know. Enough of the performative bullshit that permeates our politics. Like.. yesterday.
Robert Redfield told NewsNow “it doesn't make sense to me that this was wild-type plague.”
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🟢 UPDATE: Our Irkutsk 'plague' tracker has been continuously monitoring reports for any credible information, and our assessment of LOW credibility remains unchanged. Our assessment will update in real-time, if warranted. Bookmark our tracker here. irkutsk.america2.news
I didn't have it in my bingo card for 2026 that a major publication of record would be freaking out about a language-based goal maximization and automation system (stochastic approximation) doing *checks technical post* .. clever ways of scraping public data and submitting a form flagged as spam..
(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
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@nytpitchbot.bsky.social "The Trump admin is doing AI nationalization the right way" - Ezra Klein Cc @nationalreview.bsky.social
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Falls Church movie theater to screen international film festival
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@archive.org something's wrong with your site at an intermediary or peering level. Multiple reports of inaccessible - downforeveryoneorjustme.com/internet-arc... Timeout despite DNS resolving fine Routing on Comcast isn't finding the way
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"The wedding was officiated by Ross Douthat, the former New York Times columnist who recently joined “60 Minutes.” He had reached out to Aschenbrenner after reading his manifesto, and they met last year when his family was on a California road trip"
Great chapter in the story of America's shitty oligarchy. I find it really weird that many AI companies keep so many weird hangers-on on the payroll despite none of them having any background in the actual skills needed to develop AI tools. This kid was 2 years out of undergrad and worked in crypto?
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Lolcow.. have been on at least one non-public meeting with this guy.. wasnt impressed. I'm glad this article and recent developments finally give people permission to just ignore him, something that a lot of people already wanted to do. illustrative of how full of shit the DC ecosystem really is..
Trump alum and voluble Substacker Dean Ball is angling to shape the future of OpenAI, if he can get people to listen. https://bit.ly/4wNOHhz
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Yikes.. Long-pull permissionless innovation has gotten out of hand..
8)...It brushed aside the record. Despite the volume and quality of comments—including a technical report on eye-injury risk and objections from the American Astronomical Society and the Air Line Pilots Association—the Bureau's order downplayed or ignored them. ...