8+ hour, 6+ min ago  (67+ words) Marcus on AI | Substack Breaking: Open AI is pondering "drastic" price cuts. And that's a sign of weakness Here's the scoop itself: To longtime readers here, this should come as no surprise, because it fits 100% with bullet point three in…...

20+ hour, 11+ min ago  (297+ words) Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is, to my mind, one of the worst laws the US Congress has passed in a long time; it has shielded social media companies from liability, and caused all kinds of chaos. A lot…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (229+ words) Sorry to bother your mailbox again but this legal decision is potentially huge, especially if it spreads and other countries make similar decisions. Coupled with my newsletter from earlier today on Soft Bank and Open AI (which is seeming more…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (1086+ words) A couple weeks ago, Steve Eisman, who predicted the subprime mess (Steve Carrell played him in The Big Short), interviewed me, and asked me how the AI boom might all fall apart. For reasons I am about to explain, that…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (317+ words) Remember two months ago, when the world was panicking over Claude Mythos, sparked in part by a tweet from Axios? and how Tom Friedman freaked out about it at the New York Times? And how Anthopic said Mythos was too…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (359+ words) Jensen Huang has apparently likened the upcoming IPO's to Amazon, Google and Meta: As someone on X just pointed out (I am rewriting slightly for clarity, and trusting their numbers, which sound about right to me), Amazon returned 2, 538x the original…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago  (417+ words) Aat Stanford earlier this week (following up his Google IO talk of about ten days ago), Sir Demis Hassabis, Nobel Laureate put a tight window around AGI: I believe that we're only a few years away from that, maybe like…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago  (266+ words) The twitterverse is all verklempt with Anthropic's latest blog. The blog, which shows considerable advances in the ability of their systems to write code, is interesting, and make an argument for slowing down AI research that should be considered. But…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (107+ words) Just over three years ago, at the US Senate, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) asked me for my three most important suggestions for AI legislation. Number one on my list was preflight checks, similar to the FDA review for drugs, for…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (463+ words) 1. Everybody, even Google, seems to be treating AI as if it were some kind of winner take all competition like web search was, in which Google taking over 90% 2. But everybody is building essentially the same technical solution with essentially the…...