The "freedom tech" inflection point: 🧵1/

A white hat hacker and a journalist walk into a bar. Read all about it here (h/t Mike Orcutt, samczsun): projectglitch.xyz/p/how-samczsun…

Was shocked to see this chart kinda buried in an FT opinion piece. Friends have told me the market for entry level CS jobs was brutal, but I didn't realize it was THIS bad. One can quibble with their definition of "top AI company," (which doesn't include OpenAI, Anthropic)...

Super excited for this conversation!

Great piece, can’t wait for the book!

Today's PGP* meeting is going to be great. Don't miss it! Starting at 10 AM ET. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

WTF?

it seems that OpenAI's latest model is consistently better than other LLMs at deception and betrayal.

Helped out on this project. So fun to work with alex duffy who is tireless, smart, funny, and good natured even when things are breaking. Definitely check out the stream and the article—super interesting stuff. Congrats Alex and to the whole Every 📧 team!

The Senate could vote on stablecoin legislation any day now. Unfortunately, a political narrative has taken hold that glosses over what's actually in the bill. Great analysis from Veronica 💫 !

A couple folks have reached out to me this morning saying I buried the lede here. I somewhat disagree (I like the lede we chose!) but want to point out a little scoop🍨: A BitGo executive told me that BitGo is, technically, the "issuer" of WLFI's stablecoin USD1. USD1 is a

AI Diplomacy made Business Insider ! The people want better benchmarks: "Everyone knows the usual benchmarks are a bore." Couldn't have built it w/o Tyler Marques - excited to keep it rolling Shipping updates to the stream constantly, come check it out!

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Anthropic bought books, ripped off their covers, and scanned them to train Claude. Judge said that's totally fine. "Rare Data Hunter" is actually going to be a job title by 2030. Finding unique training data will matter as much as writing good code.

This was a fun one to edit. Willem is an eloquent writer, and a pleasure to collaborate with.

interesting result -- worth reading the whole thread and post

Using AI to commit vital acts of local journalism in Kerr County, TX. Interesting reflection on its utility and limitations. cjr.org/laurels-and-da… via @cjr

Current state of AI safety leaves a bit to be desired