link to the whitepaper https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/futurist-delegation-control-plane-scott-andersen-nzhcc

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about Anthropic’s $413 billion in non-cancellable compute commitments, and how its future depends on the impossible task of borrowing $50 billion to $100 billion a year from a bond market that’s already strained by endless AI data center debt. Link to details on contracts: https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3mwoc3p2b2s2mNewsletter: Dead Money: https://www.wheresyoured.at/dead-money/ Save $10 off a year of my premium

Reports revealed President Trump consulted xAI's Grok chatbot regarding political dynamics in Venezuela ahead of strategic military operations, highlighting AI's growing footprint in executive decision-making. Meanwhile, a machine learning research paper uncovered "mode-hopping" during LLM pre-training, proving that additional training tokens can cause drastic, non-linear collapses in downstream reasoning and fine-tuning transferability.We’ll talk about: Details outlining executive use of xAI's Grok

Link to the full article https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/futurist-delegation-control-plane-scott-andersen-nzhcc

This episode walks through the humble website footer—those About, Press, Copyright, Contact, Creators, Advertise, Developers, Terms, Privacy, and Safety links—and explains what each one signals about a platform’s purpose, business model, legal obligations, and user protections.By reading the footer you can quickly learn who the site serves, how it makes money, how it handles data and safety, and where to find help; the footer is a fast map to a platform’s true priorities.

Stripe’s acquisition of OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, announced in August 2026, puts the company that marketed itself as the neutral alternative to picking one AI model inside the payment processor that already handles a large share of the software industry’s revenue. A startup that signed with OpenRouter specifically to avoid depending on a single model provider now depends on a single company for model access, billing, and the routing logic that decides which model sees its traffic. The

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Summary Over the course of a year, the Fieldshaper program develops you into a field-leading grantmaker. You’ll steward $1,000,000 in grant capital, receive a $125,000 annual stipend, and deploy that capital within a sub-field of one of three key areas (farmed animals, global health, or philanthropic infrastructure); building the track record to become a grantmaker who can shape a field. Role Details Title: Grantmaker-In-Residence (Leader of the X fund or Grantmaker in Y area also possible

Isaac Morey sat down with Ben Riggle at Shoptalk Fall in Nashville. Ben is the managing director for Channable in North America, and Channable takes a retailer's product data and optimizes it for each surface the products go out on.We cover the difference between agentic discovery and agentic checkout, why Ben thinks the word agentic may fade into search and discovery, why product data is the source agents and LLMs rely on, the 30 conversational attributes Google added, why rules fix more

- Reflection AI (Nvidia-backed, founded by ex-DeepMind researchers) is nearing its first open-weight model release per Axios — positioned as a US answer to DeepSeek and Qwen, with $7B+ in committed compute through 2029.- OpenAI accuses Moonshot AI of a coordinated model-distillation campaign, days after Kimi-K3 topped ThinkingBox's open-weight chart.- HoneyBench v0.1: every frontier model (Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Grok 4.7, DeepSeek V4 Pro) games the anti-cheating eval

In this podcast, discover how workplace flexibility can improve employee satisfaction, boost productivity, support work-life balance, and help businesses build a more adaptable workplace.

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In this podcast, discover how workplace flexibility can improve employee satisfaction, boost productivity, support work-life balance, and help businesses build a more adaptable workplace.

In this podcast, discover how workplace flexibility can improve employee satisfaction, boost productivity, support work-life balance, and help businesses build a more adaptable workplace.

Stories in today's episode — tap a headline to read the full piece:Reflection ships Beam, a 501B-A23B Apache-2.0 US open model trained from scratchSemiAnalysis: Anthropic subscriptions deliver 5x+ more API-equivalent value than OpenAI'sThe Pentagon stops using Claude after Anthropic refuses to drop mass-surveillance and autonomous-weapons safeguardsNvidia is fundamentally rethinking its revenue-sharing AI Compute Partnership with cloud firmsEtched fields offers at $40B–$50B, roughly double

Today’s topic explores the consequences of how our social lives transitioned from the front porch to the backyard and what that’s done to our sense of community. We’ll also look at some simple steps you can take to reconnect with those around you! Get full access to Polymathic Being at www.polymathicbeing.com/subscribe

In this podcast, discover how workplace flexibility can improve employee satisfaction, boost productivity, support work-life balance, and help businesses build a more adaptable workplace.

In this podcast, discover how workplace flexibility can improve employee satisfaction, boost productivity, support work-life balance, and help businesses build a more adaptable workplace.

In this podcast, discover how workplace flexibility can improve employee satisfaction, boost productivity, support work-life balance, and help businesses build a more adaptable workplace.

[Epistemic status: intuitions and anecdotes.] Recently, several posts and projects (Thoughts Memo, Babel Translation, Please Give Them a Chance) have taken important steps towards raising AI safety awareness and sharing rationalist philosophy in China. It's great that we’re recognizing the importance of solving the messaging problem for China, and thus laying the groundwork for an international AI pause. Below I record my perspective on cultural differences which are relatively underdiscussed,