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Plot twist: Your next flight might have better Wi-Fi than your home. @Starlink, Wi-Fi coming in 2027. 🛜✈️ news.flyfrontier.com/frontie…

When David Vélez was a full-time student at Stanford, he worked "part-time" at Sequoia. Here's what that meant.

Hey Ro. This is your custom built mansion in McLean, VA. Looks like something out of the Great Gatsby.

Imagine being B.F. Goodrich rep and getting a call from NASA or the Skunk Works: "Ever hear about the crazy aluminum-infused tires you guys built for us for the SR-71 Blackbird? No? Ok... Well, here's the wikpedia entry on the plane. Yeah... We need more of them."

Me: So you spent Trillions of taxpayer dollars on the F-35 program? Uncle Sam: Yes. Me: And what emerged was the most advanced stealth fighter any country has ever fielded? Uncle Sam: Yes (takes a bow). Me: But you’re now telling me UPS magically diverted highly sensitive F-35 parts to Hong Kong? Uncle Sam: Ummmm. Yes (beginning to sweat). Me: And the Pentagon didn’t know about this until after the fact? Uncle Sam: Correct. Me: So there was no real-time tracking and interdiction? Uncle Sam: It appears that way. Me: So you basically just lost highly classified, ITAR restricted parts? Uncle Sam: That’s correct. Me: No wonder you need $1.5T. Also, sue $UPS into oblivion.

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OpenAI and Anthropic oversold AI security breaches to pressure feds into protecting turf: insiders trib.al/Jo6xMk5

Big Short investor Steve Eisman says the AI labs know they have no moats and are manufacturing a crisis to get regulation that hands them a duopoly "I think this is all nonsense." [ You think it's all nonsense? ] "All nonsense. I think that there's something else completely going on here. ... What I think is happening is that token maxing is over. The open weight models are taking big market share. I think these companies are very nervous. They realize that there are no moats around their business whatsoever, and they're trying to manufacture a crisis that will create regulation, and that they think they can then manipulate to create the moats, to create the duopoly that they want." [ Wow. ] "That's what I think is going on." "Honestly, I think this whole Terminator thing is garbage. That's for sure."

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BREAKING: @Castelion has secured a deal worth up to $200 million with the U.S. Navy to produce its air-launched Blackbeard hypersonic weapons, with production centered in New Mexico.

Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead. You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement. I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible. But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier. Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want. Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well. So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it. If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.