I don't think it's totally out of the question that a small bunch of power-hungry arseholes create a new feudalism though. The whole AI "safety" thing could help provide the means for that power concentration, through compute controls and surveillance. It would be hard to undo.
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Dario Amodei’s Growing Hand-Waving on AI Claims
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The amount of handwaving by Dario Amodei is growing exponentially. pic.twitter.com/Q0qYbj7IF2
— Pedro Domingos (@pmddomingos) 7 septembre 2025The amount of handwaving by Dario Amodei is growing exponentially.
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Greg Brockman’s New Role: GPT-5 Marketing at OpenAI
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Greg Brockman’s job at OpenAI is now to write puff posts for GPT-5.
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Anthropic’s Undisclosed Use of Brave Search Partnership
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Anthropic use Brave but they were very resistant to openly stating that, I had to dig though their sub-processors to confirm it
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OpenAI and Anthropic Secrecy About Search Index Sources
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It's wild to me how secretive OpenAI and Anthropic are about which search index they're using – it's such important information to help evaluate how trustworthy their results are
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Search Engine Shift: Microsoft’s AI Moving Away from Bing?
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I've been keeping an eye out for news that they've moved away from Bing and haven't seen any yet – but I'm not confident, especially since there was an experiment recently that hinted at some Google (not sure if it holds up tho)
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Microsoft Bing Copilot Head Shares Alternative Perspective on AI
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And an alternative view from the former head of Bing/Copilot at Microsoft (really appreciate the fact that insiders have been chiming in on this discussion)
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Chip Team Distribution: Bay Area and Austin Hub Strategy
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About half our chip team is in the Bay Area and half in Austin, plus many engineers scattered around the world
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Microsoft Azure submarine cables Red Sea infrastructure
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@grok tu penses quoi de cette hypothèse, as tu connaissance d'autres câbles sous-marins utilisés intensivement par Microsoft pour Azure en Mer Rouge?
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Azure Infrastructure Incident: Red Sea Submarine Cable Latency Issues
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#MICROSOFT #AZURE SITUATION BACK TO ACCEPTABLE/STABLE WITH IMPROVED LATENCY AFTER UNCLEAR EVENT RELATED TO RED SEA INTERNET SUB CABLES. MONITORING https://
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