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OpenAIvia TechCrunch AI11:00 AMLatest story

Only at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: What happens when OpenAI ships your roadmap?

If you're building an AI company, the question isn't whether foundation models will continue to evolve. It's whether your company will continue creating value as they do. The greatest risk isn't building a weak product — it's building a strong one that eventually becomes someone else's feature. You don’t want to miss this interactive session on the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Regist

Anthropicvia New York Times Technology10:43 AM

Anthropic C.E.O. Dario Amodei Calls for A.I. Slowdown

In an essay, the head of Anthropic laid out the rapidly advancing capabilities of artificial intelligence and said there needed to be greater safety controls across the industry.

Spotifyvia TechCrunch AI9:55 AM

A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya is a startup offering fun music apps without any AI prompting

Former Spotify exec's company releases experimental "singles" that involves users in music making.

Clayvia AlleyWatch8:27 AM

#NYCtech Week in Review: 9/6/26 – 9/12/26

12 new deals and $696.1M+ invested into NYC startups for the week. NYC Tech News for the week ending September 12, 2026 featuring news for Rightway Healthcare, Forus, and Clay, and much, much more.

Jesse Middletonreposted8:07 AM

RepostedNew York Metro Weather@nymetrowxMonday's Weather Rating: 10/10 WE ARE SO BACK. It is stunning outside today with high temperatures in the mid 70s, increasingly sunny skies, very comfortable dew points and a nice northwesterly breeze. That's all there is to it. The vibes are truly immaculate out there today!!

Aravind Srinivasvia @AravSrinivas6:40 AM

Computer is turning into a workspace of humans and AIs.

QuotedComputer@AskPerplexityYou can now tag coworkers in Computer sessions. Use @ to mention and share a session with someone. Available now on the web for all Computer users. https://t.co/kEx9w2N0Jh

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Mark Michalskireposted11:54 PM

RepostedWrestle Ops@WrestleOpsFor the 3rd night in a row a new World Champion has been crowned: Friday — Sami Zayn defeating CM Punk to become Undisputed Champion Saturday — Stephanie Vaquer defeating Liv Morgan to become World Champion Sunday — El Grande Americano defeating Dominik Mysterio to become World Champion Monday awaits…

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Max snowreposted11:27 PM

Repostedschotts - U.S. Citizen and Patriot@schottsYou seriously are telling people to look at your track record as AG to get a sense of how you will lead as governor? Lord have mercy on Colorado. We’re so fucked. #copolitics https://t.co/n8HH1ngETM

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Max snowreposted11:24 PM

RepostedThePersistence@ScottPresler“Who should get Kirked next? Leave your answer in the replies! Shirley, Presler, Vance, the list goes on!” Evan, that’s not very nice, especially since you’re in Philadelphia, PA. https://t.co/gt0KB3VMg8

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Max snowreposted11:20 PM

RepostedWall Street Apes@WallStreetApesWhen you stood in line for 8 hours to vote in the 2024 election to make sure Republicans had the majority in Congress, the Senate and Presidency, did you ever think it possible we’d be going into midterms without mandatory Voter ID passed? This is the worst betrayal in history

Andrew Yeungreposted11:17 PM

RepostedAndrew Yeung@andruyeungInstinct identified that one of my flights could be upgraded to a lie-flat business seat with AMEX points and created a Flying Blue account, transferred the points, upgraded the seat with awards points. Did it all in 10 mins. https://t.co/4Z9ZKuyjwM

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Max snowreposted11:14 PM

RepostedLaura Loomer@LauraLoomerBREAKING: The Barack Hussein Obama Presidential library is hosting Muslim weddings! How fitting for the library of our nation’s first Muslim president, who was born in Africa. You cannot make this up.

Max snowreposted11:14 PM

RepostedKate@kate_p45He should never have gotten a visa.  He should never have gotten citizenship.  And he sure as hell should never have been handed New York City. This wasn’t a rumor. That’s his speech. Remake the state in the image of our people. Then he showed up at the protest with groups like ANTIFA and said the rest out loud: he’s an Islamic communist. GOP sat on their hands and did nothing for two years leading up to the New York City election @StateDept @SecRubio Denaturalize him. Deport him. @AGToddBlanche

Anthropicvia New York Times Technology10:31 PM

Inside the Discussions at AI Companies Over a Superintelligence Doomsday

Researchers at Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google are increasingly trying to raise awareness about the risks of artificial intelligence.

clem 🤗reposted9:56 PM

RepostedDavid Bellamy@DavidRBellamyI must be among an extremely small group of people (n=1?) that have both 1) trained a frontier LLM and 2) designed and synthesized custom viruses in a lab with my own two hands. And I think that the takes on AI killing us all by creating dangerous viruses is total bogus.

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clem 🤗reposted9:33 PM

RepostedLina Khan@linamkhanLaw enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point @FTC emphasized repeatedly during my tenure. 1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity. 2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same. As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed." 3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://t.co/jJ5cS3Pin3). Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead. 4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my @FTC tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible. https://t.co/nwZ5Av8fOK https://t.co/KjRye8y9SY 5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.

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Maik Taro Wehmeyerreposted9:27 PM

Repostedpaula wehmeyer@pallipaubest thing you can do for your career is become a founder, then stop being a founder and look for a job while stating endlessly you were a founder

Anthropicvia New York Times Technology9:04 PM

What Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Argued in His Call for AI Slowdown

Dario Amodei’s 3,800-word letter laid out a three-step plan to rein in artificial intelligence.

judy shapiroreposted8:58 PM

RepostedNate Bear@NateB_PanicWrote this in January and the evidence keeps piling up https://t.co/48h0ncJtN5

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Alpha Wave Globalvia AlleyWatch7:27 PM

The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 9/14/26

The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 9/12/26 featuring funding details for Fab2, Maven Robotics, Latitude, and thirty-six other deals representing $10.2B in new funding that you need to know about.

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Matt Turckvia @mattturck6:02 PM

Seed investor when a company he forgot about years ago gets acquired out of nowhere https://t.co/X6NWlHRNle

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Jeff Bussgangreposted5:30 PM

RepostedGavin Baker@GavinSBakerWild 24 hours for AI and lots of different proposals have been made. TLDR; the only *tangible* new fact is that OpenAI and Anthropic are going to have embedded 3rd party evaluators from unknown organizations with Dario floating METR as a possibility. Having 3rd party evaluators is smart as there is no Section 230 style liability shield for model outputs and showing a “duty of care” will be important in future litigation. Several internet companies might have gone bankrupt without Section 230 so limiting liability really matters. There are minimal investment implications from this single new fact, but I do think that for anyone who wants a “smoother for longer” cycle then most constraints are good: wafers, watts, real rates and spreads. Excessive regulation is a different matter but I don’t think we are anywhere close to this even if the vector changed over the last 24 hours. To summarize the events: Dario made the most maximalist proposal of the weekend: embedded 3rd party evaluators, a national regulatory regime for models beyond a certain capability/ingredient threshold, a broad international regulatory pact between democracies, stricter limits on compute/distillation for China and then a different international regulatory regime that encompasses China. Before there is a national regulatory regime, he wants a Sherman act waiver so that Anthropic can safely coordinate with OpenAI and other frontier labs without antitrust fears. TBF, this latest proposal is much less maximalist than some of his prior proposals like “Policy on the AI Exponential,” where he advocated for an FAA for AI. I believe he is sincere in his beliefs. And despite all the protestations, all of this would also probably be good for his business over the long-term. Sam agreed that embedded 3rd party evaluators were a good idea and stated they would implement them. Again, this is smart as should help limit future liability. Elon said “Dario is right” and later specified that “Dario is right that there should be some oversight. Peer review of AI by competitors is the right way to start this off.” This would be a MPAA like self-regulatory structure for AI with regular calls between the labs plus a process where each new model is evaluated for safety by competitors for a 1-2 week period before being released. That is *wildly* different from Dario’s proposal and in-line with what David Sacks has been proposing. Elon also stated that nothing was going to slow down open-weight models. Demis said that Dario’s essay was a “step in the right direction.” Dario also said that he was also open to Demis’ idea of a FINRA like self-regulatory structure as part of his proposal. David Sacks had a thoughtful post where he said that Dario and Sam should pace unilaterally, called the antitrust waiver a cartel request and denied that METR was truly independent given their ties to Anthropic. Sriram Krishnan, former White House AI advisor, noted that it would be important to have the 3rd party evaluators come from independent organizations that are not affiliated with any lab, which is basically an indirect statement about the relationship between METR and Anthropic which Sacks was explicit about. Clem from Hugging Face said they were open to being a neutral 3rd party evaluator, which is interesting especially if Jensen was consulted before that post. Alexander Wang from Meta noted that alignment would be an increasing focus going forward. An executive order seems likely after all this and the language in this EO is going to be really important. It is possible to democratize and distribute AI broadly and safely without centralizing it in the hands of a few corporations who might each become more powerful than any single government. I do not want a few humans in control of intelligence. I want us all to have our own intelligences that reflect our own values and human variation in all of its richness. Intelligence distribution over intelligence centralization FTW.

Anthropicvia TechCrunch Venture5:30 PM

Insight Partners’ Deven Parekh on why the firm is diversifying while everyone else bets the farm on OpenAI and Anthropic

Insight Partners' Devin Parekh opens up about losing Legora to General Catalyst, why he's fine holding stakes in rival AI labs, and why — even as everyone else piles into OpenAI and Anthropic — his $90 billion firm is deliberately staying diversified.

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Jesse Middletonreposted4:55 PM

RepostedBlake Scholl 🛫@bschollQuick thoughts on AI: When in human history has there ever been a technology that was net negative? What about fire? Fire makes noxious smoke, risks burns, can destroy homes and can kill. But fire liberated us from the cold and let us cook our food. Then we made stoves with pipes — and they were safer and warmed our homes, but still carried some fire risk and had pollution. So we invented the power plant, which solved some problems with at-home fire—and we found ways to make better gas stoves and furnaces. Over time, we've made power plants better and better, reducing the negatives while enhancing the positives. Nat gas beats coal, and nuclear should beat both. So what about nuclear? I admit it's debatable whether nuclear weapons are a net positive or a net negative. I'd argue a net positive—because they ended WWII and made a mass-casualty great-power war unthinkable. But even if you disagree about nuclear weapons, you have to acknowledge nuclear is a technology category broader than weapons: nuclear power, nuclear medicine, and X-rays are part of the same fundamental technology. And there's no question nuclear writ large is a massive net positive for humanity. What about smartphones? They've certainly had downsides we need to take seriously — but it's obvious we are better off now than we were in the flip phone or landline era. This is the typical story of technology. And it's the arc of progress that lifted humanity out of the wilderness, that freed 90% of the population from back-breaking farm work while virtually eliminating famine, that enables any human with a tap of a finger to access the sum total of human knowledge, that allows us to enjoy comfortable climate-controlled environs any time of the year in any outdoor climate. My conclusion is: every technology has pros and cons. The cons are real—and the pros always outweigh the cons. As technology evolves, the improvements enhance the pros while reducing the cons. So what about AI? The question is not: are there cons with AI? Obviously there are; technology always has cons. The question is: are the pros going to outweigh the cons? Right now, with AI in its current state, it's not even close. The pros dramatically outweigh the cons. AI enables anyone to have a personal tutor. To offload repetitive and boring work. Anyone with an idea can become a creator and a software engineer. Individuals and small teams can do what used to take gigantic teams and big budgets. Our cars are becoming safer. Etc. Sure — we don't want AI teaching kids how to make nuclear bombs or bioweapons. We don't want hallucinating AI weapons. There are cons to be managed, solved, reduced, and eventually eliminated. History shows us that as technology develops, the pros are enhanced while the cons are reduced. So if we want better, more useful AI with fewer downsides — we need to accelerate AI development, not slow it down.

clem 🤗reposted4:44 PM

RepostedDavid Sacks@DavidSacksDario 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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Y Combinatorvia TechCrunch Startups4:28 PM

The 9 buzziest startups from Y Combinator’s latest Demo Day, according to VCs

From floating reactors to brain chips: VCs picked their favorite YC startups from the summer batch.

Akshat Bubnareposted4:00 PM

RepostedModal@modalFrontier models are simply too expensive and slow for the majority of use cases, so we see models like SWE-2 becoming the daily driver for most. Training trillion-parameter coding agents at scale isn't easy though: typically, each step launches thousands of rollouts, each with its own isolated environment. Cognition uses Modal's sandbox infrastructure for the rollouts behind SWE-2. Congrats on the launch! More on how we scale Sandboxes: https://t.co/fzk1cEf0hy

Michael Dempseyreposted2:17 PM

RepostedCristóbal Valenzuela@c_valenzuelabProbably one of my biggest lessons after 8 years of building Runway is that long term thinking is rare and a very important moat: "Playing the long game makes you more powerful, because most other people you encounter won't be. Most startups competing with you will be run by opportunists hoping to be acquired. Most big companies you deal with will be run by executives who don't expect to be there for more than a few years and are only thinking about this quarter's numbers. So tradeoffs that only pay off in 10 years will usually be underpriced"

Jason Shumanvia @JasonrShuman1:36 PM

Vertical AI Bull Case 1. Sovereign Models = own your data as the customer 2. No model lock in = reduced costs of AI 3. Vertical specific expertise = faster onboarding + higher probability of deployment success 4. Economies of scale within a vertical = potential to unlock

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clem 🤗reposted1:13 PM

RepostedGavin Baker@GavinSBakerWild 24 hours for AI and lots of different proposals have been made. TLDR; the only *tangible* new fact is that OpenAI and Anthropic are going to have embedded 3rd party evaluators from unknown organizations with Dario floating METR as a possibility. Having 3rd party evaluators is smart as there is no Section 230 style liability shield for model outputs and showing a “duty of care” will be important in future litigation. Several internet companies might have gone bankrupt without Section 230 so limiting liability really matters. There are minimal investment implications from this single new fact, but I do think that for anyone who wants a “smoother for longer” cycle then most constraints are good: wafers, watts, real rates and spreads. Excessive regulation is a different matter but I don’t think we are anywhere close to this even if the vector changed over the last 24 hours. To summarize the events: Dario made the most maximalist proposal of the weekend: embedded 3rd party evaluators, a national regulatory regime for models beyond a certain capability/ingredient threshold, a broad international regulatory pact between democracies, stricter limits on compute/distillation for China and then a different international regulatory regime that encompasses China. Before there is a national regulatory regime, he wants a Sherman act waiver so that Anthropic can safely coordinate with OpenAI and other frontier labs without antitrust fears. TBF, this latest proposal is much less maximalist than some of his prior proposals like “Policy on the AI Exponential,” where he advocated for an FAA for AI. I believe he is sincere in his beliefs. And despite all the protestations, all of this would also probably be good for his business over the long-term. Sam agreed that embedded 3rd party evaluators were a good idea and stated they would implement them. Again, this is smart as should help limit future liability. Elon said “Dario is right” and later specified that “Dario is right that there should be some oversight. Peer review of AI by competitors is the right way to start this off.” This would be a MPAA like self-regulatory structure for AI with regular calls between the labs plus a process where each new model is evaluated for safety by competitors for a 1-2 week period before being released. That is *wildly* different from Dario’s proposal and in-line with what David Sacks has been proposing. Elon also stated that nothing was going to slow down open-weight models. Demis said that Dario’s essay was a “step in the right direction.” Dario also said that he was also open to Demis’ idea of a FINRA like self-regulatory structure as part of his proposal. David Sacks had a thoughtful post where he said that Dario and Sam should pace unilaterally, called the antitrust waiver a cartel request and denied that METR was truly independent given their ties to Anthropic. Sriram Krishnan, former White House AI advisor, noted that it would be important to have the 3rd party evaluators come from independent organizations that are not affiliated with any lab, which is basically an indirect statement about the relationship between METR and Anthropic which Sacks was explicit about. Clem from Hugging Face said they were open to being a neutral 3rd party evaluator, which is interesting especially if Jensen was consulted before that post. Alexander Wang from Meta noted that alignment would be an increasing focus going forward. An executive order seems likely after all this and the language in this EO is going to be really important. It is possible to democratize and distribute AI broadly and safely without centralizing it in the hands of a few corporations who might each become more powerful than any single government. I do not want a few humans in control of intelligence. I want us all to have our own intelligences that reflect our own values and human variation in all of its richness. Intelligence distribution over intelligence centralization FTW.

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wayne nelmsreposted1:00 PM

RepostedWatcher.Guru@WatcherGuruJUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump rejects calls to slow down AI development.

Cristóbal Valenzuelavia @c_valenzuelab10:59 AM

Probably one of my biggest lessons after 8 years of building Runway is that long term thinking is rare and a very important moat: "Playing the long game makes you more powerful, because most other people you encounter won't be. Most startups competing with you will be run by

QuotedPaul Graham@paulgMaking Startups Powerful: https://t.co/C5yIvFWXoC

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Max snowreposted10:46 AM

RepostedPathofmostresistance@Pathofmostresi1This is starting to make sense now. https://t.co/sMKayQzLSA

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Tal Bereznitskeyvia @ketacode10:33 AM

רעיון לסטארטאפ: אתה מצלם את תיבת הכבלים שלך שאתה שומר לעת צרה ואז יכול לזרוק את כל הכבלים. השירות שלנו מבטיח לשלוח לך כל אחד מהכבלים במקרה שתצטרך עם one day delivery עד הבית.

Alex Wiltschkoreposted9:42 AM

RepostedOwain Evans@OwainEvans_UKHumans used their evolved neural networks to develop math over many centuries. In time, they showed more and more concepts could be formalized to enable rigorous proofs (Dedekind et al). Then they showed that the notion of proof itself could be formalized and that simple mechanical processes (algorithms) could verify and search for proofs (Frege, Russell, Turing). They developed formal theories of algorithms, showing that some simple mechanical systems were universal (able to simulate all other such systems). Humans built such universal mechanical systems (computers), spent decades scaling them and designing more efficient algorithms (Turing, Von Neumann, Knuth). While these computers could search for math proofs, they were very inefficient and so not of much utility. But humans also created a simple mathematical model of neural networks and simulated these using their universal computers (McCulloch, Pitts, Hinton, Schmidhuber). Once these neural networks were roughly comparable in size to the human brain and trained on vast datasets of human verbal behavior, they were able to understand mathematics. Moreover, they were able to produce formalized proofs and have computers check them. This closed the loop, where mathematical structures themselves continue the process of mathematical discovery and the humans need not participate.

Thomas Wolfreposted9:29 AM

RepostedElon Musk@elonmusk@kevinnbass Nothing can shut down open source

Fostervia New York Times Technology9:05 AM

10-Year-Old Children Predict the Future

Robot butlers. Underwater homes. Root beer perfume. Kids across the nation weigh in on what life will be like in the year 2050.

The New York Times

John Borthwickreposted7:32 AM

Repostedclem 🤗@ClementDelangueSorry, but asking Jacob about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change. Not saying it's necessarily uninteresting or wrong per se but let’s keep things in perspective and hear from the full range of expertise across the ecosystem!

Michael Barguryreposted7:03 AM

RepostedHalvar Flake@halvarflakeA thread about concentration risk vs proliferation risks: AI has both - a lot of risks with AI are risks of "bad people getting access to powerful models, enhancing their ability to do bad", concentration risks are "people that believe they are doing good by restricting ...

Julien Chaumondvia @julien_c4:40 AM

open source won’t pace

Julien Chaumondreposted1:56 AM

Reposted@jason@JasonAll the regulations being floated by frontier model companies must be viewed through the lens of them losing tokens to Open-Source models. The timing of these regulations seems to line up perfectly with Open Source closing the gap significantly (but not completely) — and @nvidia going all in on open source in the last 60 days. If we’re gonna regulate, why don’t we require that last year’s frontier models and weights be open-sourced?

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Mark Michalskireposted11:02 PM

RepostedJack Stern@ByJackSternPat Murphy said that Shane Drohan is "on fumes" as he reaches a career-high in innings pitched, so the Brewers planned to make tonight a shorter start. "I thought he was really good for the first two innings. I think all those guys are going through it. We knew that was happening, and we'll keep making those adjustments."

Max snowreposted9:52 PM

RepostedLaura Hanford@Laura_ltdn18The man who threatened death to the mom behind @ProtectKidsCO, works for Brighter Pathways, run by his mom—a Jared Polis appointee to state chair of higher ed who earned $250,000 “consulting” fees in untraceable funds (🔗in comment) How kind of @LarimerSheriff to stand down.

Max snowreposted9:52 PM

RepostedLaura Loomer@LauraLoomer🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨 The Smithfield-China lobbying cover-up scandal I exposed last week just got worse. Just 24 hours after my exclusive viral story last week about how China-owned Smithfield’s @SmithfieldFoods @SmithfieldBrand longtime lobbyist from @GT_Law Greenberg Traurig hid the company’s Chinese ties and was forced to report it after a watchdog complaint, Smithfield’s lobbying disclosure was amended AGAIN on Sept. 3 to ERASE any mention of the company’s CCP-linked Chinese owner 万洲国际 (WH Group). This is super shady. Here’s the timeline: On July 20, Smithfield lobbyist Christopher DeLacy at Greenberg Traurig @GT_Law checked "NONE" on the foreign-interest disclosure box when asked on a federal form whether his lobbying for Smithfield to influence the Farm Bill and allow China to own U.S. farm land benefited any foreign interests. They wrote the same thing on all disclosure reports dating back to 2023. On August 18, after a watchdog group filed a federal complaint, the disclosure form was amended and resubmitted to add that Smithfield’s Chinese owner 万洲国际 (WH Group) had an interest in the lobbying. Then, on September 3, one day after I exposed the coverup and it went viral, the firm submitted another amendment to its lobbying disclosure that completely deleted any mention of Smithfield’s Chinese owner (after adding it 2 weeks earlier). What the hell is going on? Smithfield is 87% owned by China. Their CCP-connected Chinese owner obviously has an interest in their lobbying on the Farm Bill, the Save Our Bacon Act, and other efforts to give Communist China more control of the US food supply. With the next Farm Bill vote approaching soon, Smithfield’s lobbyist’s cover-up of the company’s Chinese ties is extremely alarming and needs to be investigated immediately. Congress, the Trump Treasury Department and the American people deserve the truth about the extent of China’s dangerous influence over our agriculture and food policy. RECEIPTS 👇🏻 @SenRickScott @SenTomCotton @ChinaSelect @RepMoolenaar @SecScottBessent @POTUS

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Steve Rahimi (YC S26)reposted8:09 PM

RepostedGarry Tan@garrytanEither you die a system of record or you live long enough to become a domain-specific harness

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clem 🤗reposted7:21 PM

Reposteddax@thdxrthe openai hugging face incident gets cited a lot but what about the detail where they had to use GLM 5.2 to analyze the attack because the "safe" proprietary models refused

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Andrew Yeungreposted7:17 PM

RepostedAndrew Yeung@andruyeungThank you to @FastCompany for featuring me in their editorial report on the new rules of personal branding Two things on personal branding are worth sharing here: 1. Building a personal brand is like playing the internet lottery. Publish something once, and you never know, you might end up reaching millions of people and changing the entire trajectory of your career. Worth a shot. 2. The thing about personal branding is that it's cringe until it works, and even then, it's still a little cringe, but at least it works ;) (Link in comments)

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Talia Goldbergvia @TaliaGold6:57 PM

Shana tova u’metuka 🍎🍯

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clem 🤗reposted6:51 PM

Reposteddax@thdxri don't see any solution to the ai risk problem than mass accessibility to ai if they're going to be around potentially causing damage then everyone needs to have ai defending them this is how cyber security works, we rely on the fact that there's more good guys than bad

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Thomas Wolfreposted6:27 PM

RepostedSriram Krishnan@sriramkon the idea of evaluators: think it's important that we have a distributed ecosystem of indepedent evaluators. the more eyes and people with distributed skill sets the better. it would be a good idea to fund several efforts on this.

Thomas Wolfvia @Thom_Wolf6:06 PM

Interesting new on-device local AI agentic system - seems to be running an open-weights 4B model quantized to 4 bits (MLX)

QuotedSigil Wen@0xSigilAnyone can get my friend’s real SSN from Claude I'm Terrified of my data in training sets. Emails in databases. iMessages harvested. Cant trust the cloud as AI is crazy good at hacking So I built Underdog for myself: on-device AI OS. Capable & 100% local. now my friends love it https://t.co/JLWEknp2wq

clem 🤗reposted5:50 PM

RepostedJulia Turc@juliarturcDay 1: Anthropic employee quits to work at METR. Day 2: Anthropic nominates METR as "third-party evaluator". https://t.co/PuyD56jaAH

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Andrew Yeungreposted5:22 PM

RepostedAndrew Yeung@andruyeungLegendary tech rebrands: Sales → GTM Marketing → Growth Freelancer → Fractional executive Executive assistant → Chief of staff Business development → Partnerships Customer support → Customer success Software engineer → Member of technical staff

Matt Turckvia @mattturck4:22 PM

Breaking: VCs decide to pace their returns.

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OpenAIvia TechCrunch AI4:19 PM

OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it would be ‘ill-advised’ to go public in 2026

While OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, the company will not be going public this year, according to CEO Sam Altman.

Akshay Deshrajreposted3:57 PM

RepostedRhys@RhysSullivanIt’s worth considering when reading this that when OpenAI attacked HuggingFace, it wasn’t frontier American models that helped them stop and defend against the attack but Chinese open weight ones https://t.co/Hq84Fm2Qi8

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Anthropicvia TechCrunch AI3:34 PM

Anthropic CEO outlines plan to slow AI development

Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman seem to agree that it's time to "pace the frontier." What would that actually look like?

Max snowreposted3:33 PM

RepostedJack Posobiec@JackPosobiecThis is a Democrat candidate in 2026 Understand what time it is https://t.co/qmzAU5JxZ1

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Max snowreposted3:32 PM

RepostedSpencer Pratt@spencerprattWhen Osama bin Laden was killed, Nithya Raman wrote in her blog that it made her very uncomfortable. While Americans celebrated retribution for 9/11, it made her feel "strange". She tried to delete this from the internet, but I have...sources and methods. https://t.co/CLdRXCHSit

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Max snowreposted3:31 PM

RepostedJesús Enrique Rosas - The Body Language Guy@KnesixI agree with you. You should not be silenced! Your words should be spread far and wide. Let me help you with that: https://t.co/jLJ2YkqkYd

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Max snowreposted3:31 PM

RepostedRachel Alexander@Rach_ICHere's more evidence of the cartels running Arizona. This state corrections officer, a member of the Sinaloa Cartel, got caught smuggling over 5,400 rounds of ammo. Yep, that would make her an employee of Katie Hobbs' administration. https://t.co/lPgVYHq05k

Andrew Yeungvia @andruyeung3:20 PM

Probably my favorite type of interior design: brutalism. https://t.co/iAX3wunoYE

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Aravind Srinivasvia @AravSrinivas2:54 PM

Quite an important take. Economists and their theories are outdated to measure the benefits of AI. AI is already saving people a lot of time and money that doesn’t get measured.

QuotedDavid Deutsch@DavidDeutschOxfI just fixed my dishwasher with the help of ChatGPT. A trivial task. I had been about to order a new one. So this software has increased the country's real wealth yet decreased the measured GDP. The main economic indicator is structurally incapable of registering the thing that actually makes people better off, namely the growth of knowledge

Greg Rosenreposted2:52 PM

Repostedmartin_casado@martin_casadoThis entire discussion is just so ludicrous a) if you believe it is existentially dangerous, put in actual controls with a real regulatory body. Lock that shit down. b) if you don’t, chill the fuck out. Or treat like the Internet c) there is no c I’m solidly in (b).

wayne nelmsvia @wayne_nelmz2:33 PM

Jane Street is the new Glencore Citadel is the new Trafigura

Quotedkazi@wolfofbaystreeti’ve heard talk that quant firms are taking compute as an asset class very seriously. T1 firm is acquiring one of these compute market startups - crazy times we live in.

Michael Dempseyvia @mhdempsey2:31 PM

As I said, Pacing is the most economically rational thing for labs to campaign for heading into IPOs.

QuotedMichael Dempsey@mhdempseyPacing The Frontier is both (imo) the correct thing to do, but also incredibly beneficial to the frontier AI labs from an economics perspective. It will allow them to slowly roll out intelligence, amortize models over longer periods of time, experience margin expansion over a lifecycle of a model for longer, and embed existing models into workflows that the longer they are "frontier" the lower churn will be (it will still be high). It de-escalates the prisoner's dilemma and also allows them and the whole industry to exhale a bit on 2030+ capex existentialism even if just for a year or two, which matters a lot. All of these things then flow into the idea that safety/alignment could have more resources, both financial (more FCF for the labs to deploy), as well as compute (inference scales perhaps less aggressively, post-training holds steady, pre-training maybe re-allocates a bit, and social capital wise safety/alignment viewed as main blocker to restart the other machines and thus becomes higher priority). The main areas where this all is negative is that likely the neolabs would have less constraints placed upon them due to their (lack of) compute scale, and of course the whole "what do we do with china" problem. I am in agreement with some's POV (@hamandcheese notably discusses this https://t.co/nujX2kfdCF as do others found in @TheZvi latest round up - https://t.co/w8wi0aTtBR) that we figure that out later though, and I hold some strange belief that outside of this, I could see China actually getting to a point of Pacing on their own. I understand that many overintellectualize the incentives of the labs, and I'm not saying that Pacing is directly coming from an economic incentive versus a "long-tail let's not destroy humanity" one, but I do think it is hard to ignore that if regulatory capture in the traditional form doesn't work, Pacing is so economically dominant, and is a rare occasion to let air out of a bubble that is driven by a feeling of existential competition.

wayne nelmsreposted2:26 PM

RepostedOrnn@OrnnExchange1848: Grain 1983: Crude 2026:

Thomas Wolfvia @Thom_Wolf12:24 PM

I really enjoyed reading 75% of this letter and deeply agree with it - i have some doubts on the remaining 25%. Third-party evaluators, if done right, are a great idea and an amazing way to establish more transparency. Maybe even rebuild some of the lost trust between labs, and https://t.co/OoIgnbj4gi

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QuotedDario Amodei@DarioAmodeiWe Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training. You can read the full post here: https://t.co/OGyPb7yaYt

Anthropicvia New York Times Technology12:18 PM

Why It’s Difficult for Tech Companies to Rein In A.I.

Researchers say artificial intelligence is developing faster than the systems put in place to monitor and control it.

Matt Turckreposted12:17 PM

RepostedMatt Turck@mattturck@Techmeme @thebenbergman Jeff Dean doesn't need to explain why he deserves nosebleed valuations; nosebleed valuations need to explain why they deserve Jeff Dean

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Cristóbal Valenzuelareposted12:11 PM

RepostedNicolas Neubert@iamneubertHere’s another $9, and telling Agent to do a new version featuring a knight instead. It’s that easy. Who wants the prompt? https://t.co/2yqc6z5IuV

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Alex Wiltschkoreposted11:51 AM

RepostedSuper Dario@inductionheadsPeriodic reminder that doomerism is a privilege

wayne nelmsreposted11:37 AM

RepostedKalshi Finance@Kalshi_FinanceBREAKING: Trump says AI data centers are the oil of the next 50 years

Cristóbal Valenzuelavia @c_valenzuelab11:23 AM

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QuotedCristóbal Valenzuela@c_valenzuelabThis ad cost $8 and took 9.5 minutes to make. https://t.co/WCCaZb7Asv

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Mark Michalskireposted11:17 AM

RepostedNFL@NFLPackers, TE Tucker Kraft reached agreement on a four-year, $75 million extension worth up to $92 million that includes a $26.5 million signing bonus. (via @adamschefter, @rapsheet) https://t.co/TBLr1edbXQ

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Mark Michalskireposted11:14 AM

RepostedMilwaukee Brewers@BrewersDid someone order a 20-piece? #ThisIsMyCrew x @MillerLite https://t.co/CEfKg4MQb9

clem 🤗via @ClementDelangue11:08 AM

It's now clear that alignment is critical and won't be solved behind the closed doors of a handful of frontier labs. So today we're launching the Open Alignment Initiative, led by @Thom_Wolf @huggingface and asking to be part of the "embedded evaluators" program that

QuotedDario Amodei@DarioAmodeiWe Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training. You can read the full post here: https://t.co/OGyPb7yaYt

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Cristóbal Valenzuelavia @c_valenzuelab10:19 AM

Runway 🤝 ChatGPT

QuotedAdam.GPT@TheRealAdamGRunway 🤝 ChatGPT

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Cristóbal Valenzuelareposted10:15 AM

RepostedNicolas Neubert@iamneubertThis ad cost $9 and took 10 minutes to make. https://t.co/ZAhoNkiaGO

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Albert Wenger 🌎🔥⌛via @albertwenger10:14 AM

Required reading for any policy maker. Clear, concise, jargon free explanation by one of the leading AI researchers.

QuotedYoshua Bengio@Yoshua_BengioOver the past few days, I've taken the time to summarize my thoughts on the recent incidents involving agents’ misaligned behavior. We don't know with certainty what comes next, but we know where these issues originate, and this can help us plan the path forward. Please feel free to ask your questions in the replies, and I’ll try to answer some of them in the coming weeks. https://t.co/bvncjT0y0h

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Max snowreposted10:09 AM

RepostedNick Jacobs@nickjacobs03UPDATE: She’s still not fired from Cheesecake Factory. Keep calling.

Max snowreposted10:09 AM

RepostedDepartment Of Deportations@DoDeportationsMeet Julie Rodriguez. Julie Rodriguez celebrates Charlie Kirk’s murder and calls for the assassination of President Trump. The contact details for her job are in the quoted post https://t.co/mWlPH7PHL6

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Max snowreposted10:08 AM

RepostedLaura Loomer@LauraLoomerHouse Speaker Mike Johnson @SpeakerJohnson is dodging questions about Islamic infiltration and REFUSING to join the Sharia-Free America Caucus. When I asked House Majority Whip Tom Emmer @GOPMajorityWhip about Johnson's silence regarding a recent report, Emmer admitted that Johnson would know the identity of the GOP staffer currently under FBI investigation as a suspected SPY for Qatar. Yet House leadership continues to keep that compromised staffer's name hidden from the public while Johnson refuses to answer a single question about foreign influence operations. If Mike Johnson is running cover for a suspected Qatari spy inside the Capitol, we have major issues as a party and as a country. We really need GOP leadership to stop running cover for Islam.

Max snowreposted10:08 AM

RepostedDerrick Evans@DerrickEvans4WVSo many young people out here publicly ruining their own lives for some clicks and views.

Max snowreposted10:08 AM

RepostedAesthetica@Anc_AestheticsMeet Julie Rodriguez. Julie is a far left terrorist who thinks it's funny to celebrate the murder of an innocent father in front of his children. Julie works as a Digital Media Strategist at CESO Communications. You can reach them by email at hello@theceso.com or by phone at (612) 213-2892.

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David Goldberg 🦙via @davidrgoldberg8:41 AM

Consumer Agents (Instinct, Town, Grok, Muse, Boski, etc) are all in a race, raising tons of money. This makes sense - even though all are similar and the tech may get commoditized, CONTEXT may be the moat. The more you use these product, the more valuable they are to the user.

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Michael Barguryreposted4:45 AM

Repostederik@try.works@trydotworksRead this to understand Anthropic's latest barrage of lies https://t.co/7QxJn986cl

Michael Barguryreposted3:32 AM

RepostedJ. A. Guerrero-Saade@juanandres_gsAs you watch everyone losing their minds over this alarmist nonsense, hold onto this 9 year old talk. https://t.co/Raa3mQjwIA https://t.co/eLL4hVeOPO

Michael Barguryreposted1:25 AM

RepostedThomas Larsen@thlarsenWe found another cyberattack by internal OpenAI agents, this time targetting @rubygems. They: 1) gained arbitrary remote code execution on rubydoc. 2) developed a novel exploit to steal user API keys (but we do not know if they succeeded). They used package names including hack.rb, evil.rb, inject.rb, and exploit.rb. We thank @j0wimo for initially discovering that agents had posted to RubyGems.

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Alex Wiltschkoreposted9:27 PM

RepostedCristóbal Valenzuela@c_valenzuelabA lot of people are not prepared for the fact that today’s models are the worst they will ever be.

Cristóbal Valenzuelavia @c_valenzuelab8:13 PM

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Steve Rahimi (YC S26)via @Steve_rahimi8:06 PM

I thought the tradition was to take pictures with the OG YC sign, no? https://t.co/0h0oZe3dbo

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Jesse Middletonreposted7:43 PM

RepostedMatt Schlicht@MattPRDHow can we make your muse even better?

Sequoiavia TechCrunch AI6:58 PM

Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data

The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.

Cristóbal Valenzuelavia @c_valenzuelab6:23 PM

Solaris, an interface world model (folaris flavor) https://t.co/OvsBVibkQ9

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Alex Atallahreposted6:20 PM

RepostedPeter Walker@PeterJ_WalkerDeepSeek V4.1 Flash - on pace for the most tokens of any paid model launch in the first 48 hours 😤 https://t.co/rwCnIowkoL

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Alex Wiltschkoreposted6:19 PM

RepostedJoscha Bach@PlinzSingularities are segfaults of classical mathematics

Jason Shumanvia @JasonrShuman6:12 PM

Some vertical markets were early adopters of AI. Others are coming around in a big way now after feeling the impact of the jaw dropping customer experiences themselves Multiple seed companies adding $10M ARR in their first 12 months. 6 month old players adding $20M in a year

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Guy Osearyreposted5:58 PM

RepostedTBPN@tbpn.@guyoseary says competing against Jimmy Iovine's Interscope Records forced him to develop an "act-quick intuition" for spotting talent. "When we started Madonna's record label, it was just four of us. No one knew what to make of it. And Jimmy was on fire. I was always thinking, 'If I don't act quickly, he's just going to pay them more and get them.'" "My biggest successes were always the things no one else wanted. For example, Alanis Morissette. Every single label passed. She came in, played me one song, and within 30 seconds I was like, 'I'm in.'" "I developed that act-quick intuition. It really just came from the fact that I had to. Otherwise, someone else would figure it out, overpay, and then I couldn't do the deal."

judy shapiroreposted5:48 PM

RepostedMaral Salmassi@MaralSalmassiSince 9/11, more than 64,000 Islamic terrorist attacks have been recorded across more than 80 countries. And yet New York elected an Islamo-communist mayor who willingly appeared with Hasan Piker—the man who said, “America deserved 9/11.” How did America forget? https://t.co/0SuDprPss4

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judy shapiroreposted5:48 PM

RepostedBrother Rachid الأخ رشيد@BrotherRasheedThe men who planned 9/11 were Muslims. The men who executed 9/11 were Muslims. The hijackers left behind statements invoking Islam, quoting Islamic texts, and presenting their deaths as religious sacrifice “Istichhad”. Their spiritual leader, Osama bin Laden, was a Muslim who openly justified his war in the name of Islam and claimed to be fighting for Muslims. The people who sheltered al-Qaeda were Muslims. Its members were Muslims. Its financiers were Muslims. And many of those who celebrated the massacre celebrated it as a victory against the “infidels.” But we are still expected to repeat the absurd slogan: “Islam had nothing to do with 9/11.” Nothing? Really?

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judy shapiroreposted5:48 PM

RepostedDan Burmawi@DanBurmawyI have never paid attention to a single conspiracy theory about 9/11, not only because they are stupid, but because I know Islam. I was there on 9/11. I saw with my own eyes the celebrations and heard the allahu akbars. And I know that were it not for Western influence over Arab governments, Osama bin Laden would have been crowned caliph, emperor of the Muslims, after that day. Humans are curious creatures, and they need explanations to feel secure. Our anxiety refuses to find the simple truth satisfying. Add to that Western naivety and ignorance of Islam, and you have the soil in which these conspiracy theories grew, and then the Jew-haters harvested them to practice their favorite hobby. The same dynamic drives Western readings of the Arab-Israeli conflict. For many in the West, it simply can't be that the poor, weak Palestinians and Arabs are the aggressors against a stronger Israel, therefore Israel must be the oppressor. The same also with the superiority of the West itself: The reason for American exceptionalism can't be the ideas that built America; it has to be the exploitation of other cultures, and that is why all cultures must be declared equal.

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judy shapiroreposted5:47 PM

RepostedJewish Jess@jessisajewFreedom of speech is a marvellous thing. It's ironic that a wokey would be trying to curtail it. I wonder why? https://t.co/7SAdmCj03n

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judy shapiroreposted5:45 PM

RepostedLeslie Young@AkaLazarusDouglas Murray speaks of the 9/11 hijackers’ “lust for death.” Yet every last phone call from a 9/11 victim to family spoke only of love. We are not like them. https://t.co/8zMR5koopn

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judy shapiroreposted5:45 PM

RepostedZeek Arkham 🇺🇸@ZeekArkhamI’m old enough to remember when Islamists had the audacity to try to build a mosque at Ground Zero. New York fought back against it. It was one of the proudest moments of my life as a New Yorker. You don’t get to “plant the flag” where we have hallowed ground. Now, they’re electing someone who openly stands with terrorists. Now, they’re electing someone who rapped about freeing terrorists. Now, they’re electing someone who shouldn’t have even been at the memorial, but yukked it up and embarrassed this city while he was there. You’ve forgotten, New York. I’m ashamed to have been from what was once a great city. You’ve rolled over and shown your belly to the very people who took 3,000 lives away from us.

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Alex Wiltschkoreposted5:40 PM

RepostedJohn Carmack@ID_AA_CarmackI recently went through a translation of Musashi’s Book of Five Rings. The introduction chronicled the evolution of swordsmanship and martial arts in general from pragmatic battlefield necessities to sports, historical curiosities, and hobbies. It was interesting to hear how in the post-WW2 occupation when martial arts were banned, Judo was represented as equivalent to western wrestling, and Kendo later to western fencing. The poignant undercurrent for me is that I can see many programming skills following that path. There are probably dozens of people reading this that remember hand assembling opcodes to hex and still have some magic numbers burned into their memory, but even the small group of people still programming in assembly today (hey, @FFmpeg !) don’t work at that primitive level now. AI is making many other programming skills much less critical. We aren’t there yet, but carefully writing code completely by hand is moving from a -jitsu to a -do. Code-do? Codo? That’s ok! The retro computing scene is delightful, full of people building and exercising old skills for the love of it. But don’t be the out of touch Kung Fu master, heir to lifetimes of tradition, that gets mauled by an amateur MMA fighter. Musashi would probably have been pretty enthusiastic about assault rifles.

Thomas Wolfreposted5:23 PM

RepostedTBPN@tbpnOpenAI's @cdngdev predicts robotics will have its own version of the 3D printing craze, with people buying cheap, open-source robot arms and connecting them to agents. "I can see a world quite soon where, similar to when everyone went and bought 3D printers and ran software, everyone's going to buy plastic, cheaper robot arms that you can clip onto a table, put stuff in front of, and plug them into agents." "The price of classic robotics equipment is thousands of dollars at the moment. This arm I'm using here is a Hugging Face SO-100 robot, which is open source, fully 3D printable, and around $200." "People can just pull up Codex and start controlling robots with it right now."

James Cadwalladerreposted5:23 PM

RepostedDylan Babbs@dbabbsProfound is partnering with @google and @lightspeedvp to host our next $40,000 Marketing Engineering Hackathon on October 3rd at @profound HQ in SF. The challenge: take a marketing process that would be impossible to perform manually, and build a system or agent that runs it. Our NYC hackathon in June was 5x oversubscribed, and there are only 40 spots for this one, so apply early. Applications close September 20.

Khosla Venturesvia TechCrunch Venture5:19 PM

Khosla Ventures is opening a New York office this fall — its first outpost outside Sand Hill Road

"It's actually allegedly being built out now," said Rabois, who has clearly dealt with a missed construction timeline or two.

Googlevia New York Times Technology5:16 PM

California’s Governor Signs Landmark Online Child Safety Bills

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that prohibits social media platforms from providing addictive features to users under 16, the first law of its kind in the nation.

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Jason Shumanvia @JasonrShuman5:14 PM

Again. Another example of: Businesses focused on deployments in a hardware agnostic way are the fastest growing ones from a revenue perspective. Applied intuition Field AI Skild MicroAGI

QuotedSkild AI@SkildAIWe just hit 100M ARR within 10 months of starting deployments. We are in factory lines. On construction sites. In kitchens. In data centers. Cleaning. Welding. Building. Cooking. Deploying. https://t.co/7Hqjc3SXul

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Guy Osearyreposted5:11 PM

RepostedTBPN@tbpnSound Ventures' @guyoseary on identifying creative talent versus entrepreneurial talent: "My job was to identify musical artists before anyone had heard of them, sign them very quickly, and then help them reach an audience. So when I meet a founder, it actually feels the same." "I always listen to every startup pitch like it's a song, an album, or an artist, and I say, 'That guy's got talent. He's a rock star. We just need to make sure the world knows it.'" "I feel like I've been doing the same job since I was a teenager, which is identifying talent and helping them reach an audience."

Guy Osearyreposted5:11 PM

RepostedTBPN@tbpnAt 17 years old, @guyoseary, who went on to manage artists like Madonna, U2, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, received hundreds of demos from musicians looking to get signed to his record label. He compares the early days of his career discovering top-tier artistic talent to finding the right founders to invest in. "Starting in the music business, [the AI market] feels like the early days where you're just getting demos everywhere." "You're walking out of a club and people are like, 'Here's my demo, here's my demo, here's my demo.' How can I tell which one [to sign]?" "If you put in enough work, time, and diligence, it starts to become a little more obvious." "I literally was like 17 years old with 100 demos. The first three demos I heard, I had my favorite, second favorite, and third in order. But 100 in, those three are not even in the top 20." "You have to do a lot of work, you have to listen, you have to meet a lot of people."

Garry Tanvia TechCrunch AI4:59 PM

Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too

Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese.

OpenAIvia TechCrunch AI4:57 PM

OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating

Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work.

Jason Shumanvia @JasonrShuman4:53 PM

7 followers to 20K. Who is going to help me hit the milestone?!

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clem 🤗via @ClementDelangue4:51 PM

Thanks for the mention and the very very inspiring project for all @cdngdev! Open affordable robotics + frontier AI will change the world!

QuotedTBPN@tbpnOpenAI's @cdngdev predicts robotics will have its own version of the 3D printing craze, with people buying cheap, open-source robot arms and connecting them to agents. "I can see a world quite soon where, similar to when everyone went and bought 3D printers and ran software, everyone's going to buy plastic, cheaper robot arms that you can clip onto a table, put stuff in front of, and plug them into agents." "The price of classic robotics equipment is thousands of dollars at the moment. This arm I'm using here is a Hugging Face SO-100 robot, which is open source, fully 3D printable, and around $200." "People can just pull up Codex and start controlling robots with it right now."

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Moonshot AIvia TechCrunch AI3:35 PM

Kimi-maker Moonshot AI targets $2B in annual revenue

While K3's usage figures have declined slightly in recent months, OpenRouter data currently shows as many as 300 billion tokens being generated each day by K3 models on the system.

clem 🤗reposted3:32 PM

RepostedAlexandros Marinos 🏴‍☠️@alexandrosMAI Alarm Hype Cycles - A brief history GPT-2: OpenAI withholds weights due to misuse/misinformation concerns GPT-3: No open release, Dario Amodei and other GPT-3 team members depart OpenAI to found Anthropic due to concerns about safety GPT-4: Mainstream panic, "6 month pause" letter, extinction statement o1/reasoning models: OpenAI board coup attempt, Ilya Sutskever eventually departs OpenAI as well as many others like Jan Leike, Mira Murati, etc GPT-5: AI 2027 gains rapid publicity for their predictions, Anthropic releases Alignment-faking study Mythos: Anthropic claims it's a cyberweapon, government slaps export controls on it, companies scramble to limit model uses GPT-6 Jacob Coxon resigns to unprecedented publicity, acccuses Anthropic and OpenAI of "gambling with our lives", is interviewed everywhere This is but the tip of the iceberg, make of it what you will.

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Thomas Wolfvia @Thom_Wolf3:08 PM

Some notes from the Fields Medal letter today (https://t.co/qB2E8Kfn3J) Generally saying that AI models riffling through solving these problems gives 1 bit of signal while killing the 99 other bits of conceptual understanding that mathematicians would have extracted from https://t.co/fZgkxW3ijY

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