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Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion
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15K
0.9× the show's usual
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1h 07m
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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We're also joined by Steven Adler, ex-OpenAI safety researcher and author of Clear-Eyed AI on Substack. We cover: 1) The Viral "Something Big Is Happening" essay 2) What the essay got wrong about recursive self-improving AI 3) Where the essay was right about the pace of change 4) Are we ready for the repercussions of fast moving AI? 5) Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 model card's risks 6) Do AI models know when they're being tested? 7) An Anthropic researcher leaves and warns "the world is in peril" 8) OpenAI disbands its mission alignment team 9) The risks of AI companionship 10) OpenAI's GPT 4o is mourned on the way out 11) Anthropic raises $30 billion
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