people online love to talk about whether dario amodei or sam altman holds the mandate of heaven. but over the past few months it’s felt like several disparate threads of dissatisfaction with the frontier labs have started to come together.
their tokens are expensive, they might
DAILY SITUATION RECAP (via @theojaffee):
Sam Altman explains his vision for AI governance. He proposes giving the US government a 5% stake in OpenAI (and presumably other AI labs), and creating a US-led international forum to establish standards, assess capabilities and risks,
SITUATION UPDATE: Alibaba has banned employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code at work after the tool drew scrutiny for features that can identify China-linked users, per Reuters.
The ban follows Anthropic’s accusation that Alibaba was distilling Claude.
SITUATION EXPLAINED: Why is China building a sovereign AI stack to compete with Nvidia?
We asked @StevenGlinert and @MitchsBrew, co-founders of Sphere Semi.
"What I see as the only real viable crack in Nvidia's armor is what's coming out of China, which is ironic given Jensen's
SITUATION EXPLAINED: Why did token maxing happen and why is it ending?
@kmad, AI Engineer and Developer:
"It's funny how quickly we turned... it was like three months or something of token maxing. Had all these leaderboards and everything."
"A lot of folks have kind of just
SITUATION EXPLAINED: What would it take to make Americans feel like they have skin in the game for the future of AI?
We asked @StephenKentX, media director at @ConsumerChoiceC
"I am not offended by the idea of a sovereign wealth fund. I think that we are in a populist moment.
SITUATION EXPLAINED: Why doesn't the Alaska sovereign wealth fund analogy actually work for AI?
We asked @StephenKentX, media director at @ConsumerChoiceC
"Bernie Sanders has made his first opening offer in the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act to have the US government
SITUATION EXPLAINED: Why does the KIDS Act pretend to give parents power they already have?
@StephenKentX, media director at @ConsumerChoiceC
"I still happen to believe that parents have full control of their households. The problem is that they just don't like to say no. The
What I dislike most about the KIDS Act and other "online safety" bills supposedly "helping parents" is that it allows politicians to pretend they're empowering you. It's a lie. You're giving up authority, and the laws absolve parents of responsibility in guiding their kids ⬇️
SITUATION EXPLAINED: Why does duckweed produce 10 to 15 times more ethanol per acre per year than corn?
We asked @jared_western, founder and CEO of Western Chemicals.
"The great thing about duckweed, and kind of the superpower of duckweed beyond the wastewater cleaning, is just
SITUATION EXPLAINED: How do you turn wastewater into fuel?
We asked @jared_western, founder and CEO of Western Chemicals.
"The good news is biology basically does all the work. We just need to create the ideal conditions for the biology to thrive and do its thing."
"The
SITUATION DETECTED: Microsoft has launched Frontier Company, a new $2.5B operating business embedding 6,000 engineers into customer organizations to deploy AI systems.
