Anthropic's Mythos Holdout: Security Fears or Compute Shortage?
“This raises an obvious question: how much of Anthropic’s reluctance to make Mythos widely available is due to security concerns, as opposed to the more prosaic reality that Anthropic simply doesn’t have enough compute?” @stratechery @benthompson
AI Adoption Spreads Bottom‑Up, Even CEOs Join In
All of these companies are rapidly adopting AI. It's just happening bottom-up, workers and managers doing it themselves and not necessarily telling the CEO. And the CEO is probably doing it too. https://t.co/jvxVnj38Az
Social Sanctioning Engine Stalls; Scandals Lose Impact
It's incredible the extent to which the social sanctioning engine has simply seized up. Hit pieces that would have been 5-alarm fires 5 years ago now come and go with no notice. Nobody cares, it's over.
Silicon Valley Sees AI Obsession as Binary Extremes
Overheard in Silicon Valley: "Everyone in the world is now either 'too AI psychotic' or 'not AI psychotic enough'."
AGI Pricing: 11 Companies Pay -$9M, Others Infinity
New AGI pricing tier just dropped: negative $9 million if you're one of 11 specific companies; infinity otherwise.
AGI Pricing Spans $20/Month to $10 Billion
The pricing tiers for AGI are something like (1) $20/month, (2) $200/day = ~$75,000/year, (3) $1,000/day = ~$350,000/year, and (4) ~$10 billion. For now.
AI Exposes Old Flaws, Finally Boosts Cybersecurity
Every security flaw discovered by AI was there before AI, waiting to be discovered either by people or by AI. The world has never been good at securing computer systems; finally with AI we are going to get good.
Industry Crippled by Total Supply Chain Component Shortage
It’s an unfortunate time for the industry to run out of every single important component in the supply chain.
From $10k Daily to $20 Monthly: AI Cost Revolution
Magical OpenClaw experiences that use frontier models cost $300-1,000/day today, heading to $10,000/day and more. The future shape of the entire technology industry will be how to drive that to $20/month.
Rising Costs and Token Surge Challenge Model Equilibrium
Frontier models become more expensive to serve. Token demand explodes at exponential rates. Solve for the equilibrium.
Tech Job Openings Surge 2026, Defying AI Layoff Narrative
"Tech job openings rebounded sharply in 2026, challenging popular narrative that AI is wiping out engineering roles...more than 67,000 software eng job openings, highest level in 3 years. Listings have doubled since a trough in mid-2023." https://t.co/VDyuxXi9Tm
Future Innovation Thrives When Work Becomes Play
Silly Business Theory is right: in the future the best work, greatest progress, most valuable innovations won't come from laboring under the false consciousness that work must be hard and serious to produce value. The best work is going to...
Tegmark Calls for Ban on Open‑Source AI
I've been in the room with Vitalik-backed Max Tegmark and United States Senators when Tegmark pounds the table demanding open source AI software be made illegal. https://t.co/vmjW8mAykb
Vitalik Funds AI‑doom Lobby Pushing Illegal Restrictions
Vitalik funds one of the main AI doomer lobbying organizations trying to make this illegal.
AI Safety Cannot Depend on Secrecy and Control
The idea that “AI safety” could be based on secrecy and control has been fatally falsified.
