BIG TECH

Building Influence Through Truth-Speaking on Tech Topics

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19 October 2025 17h45

A moment of reflection on a long journey: Countless people have blocked or muted for speaking truths that were difficult to accept, often long before they were widely recognized. Yet I have still reached nearly 200,000 followers (and over 80,000 substack subscribers) speaking

Elon Musk AGI Definition Bet Accountability Challenge

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19 October 2025 17h22

Elon has given his own definition of AGI, and say there is a 10% chance of his next model can achieve it. (Reality? Near zero.) In effort to hold him accountable, I hereby offer $1,000,000 to charity on 10:1 odds to @Elonmusk – using his definitions — if he accepts the bet and

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World Models: The VC Buzzword Nobody Understands

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19 October 2025 17h10

World models: No one knows what it means, but it’s provocative. It gets the VCs going.

Betting on Grok Next Release Terms and Conditions

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19 October 2025 15h30

i would be happy to make a bet on those terms at the 10:1 that he mentioned for the next release of Grok. would he?

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From FAANG to MANGO: AI dominance in US tech

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19 October 2025 14h32

From the #FAANG gang to #MANGO: how AI came to dominate US tech https://
search.app/Ztt8m #AI #artificial_intelligence #UStech #technology #US @AlbertoEMachado @Eli_Krumova @postoff25 @Khulood_Almani @anand_narang @NutritiousMind @baski_LA @TanyaSinha_ @devaang @AlAmadi1

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The Sacred Triangle of New Capitalism: Nvidia, OpenAI and Microsoft

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19 October 2025 14h29

This diagram sums up the new capitalism: a sacred triangle between Nvidia, OpenAI and Microsoft. The others gravitate around it, mere satellites of a silicon oligopoly.

Defining AGI: Elon Musk’s Achievement Timeline Challenge

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19 October 2025 13h25

Dear folks saying “why don’t you define AGI first before challenging Elon to bet on whether he is about to achieve it?” I already have, twice: – in my 2022 Substack essay Dear Elon Musk ““a shorthand for any intelligence … that is flexible and general, with resourcefulness