The intuition that AI is an ideal subject for the Trump administration's chokepoint-focused, regulation-by-Truth-Social strategy lines up with work by @abenewman.bsky.social and @himself.bsky.social, who wrote on the Anthropic situation earlier this week www.programmablemutter…
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In AI, Nothing Ever Happens. Wait, It’s Happening! nymag.com
The OpenAI Hack Scrambles the AI Race nymag.com
John Herrman: The declawing of OpenClaw aboard.com
Trump Is Trying to Show Anthropic Who’s in Charge nymag.com
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The AI industry is prone to massive, frequent, and intensifying narrative mood swings. Part of this is typical of a boom. But I think it's also intrinsic to the tech itself nymag.com/intelligence...
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- Late 2025 brought open talk of an AI financial bubble, with even implicated CEOs voicing skepticism about the research path ahead.
- Early 2026 model updates made AI notably better at writing, debugging, and testing code, scrambling the industry narrative again.
- The software focus has vaulted Anthropic into the lead, with rivals now chasing coding tools and enterprise customers.
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It's fascinating that the arrival of actual AI cyber risks is turning a lot of AI folks against some of the specific safety arguments the industry was founded on nymag.com/intelligence...
Chatted with @ftrain.bsky.social and Rich Ziade about my thwarted and slightly pathetic attempts to get something out of OpenClaw, the AI assistant that we are all definitely still talking about a few months later aboard.com/podcast/john...
As I wrote last week, the Trump administration's approach to AI regulation is almost uniquely undesirable. Now it's coming for superficial allies, too nymag.com/intelligence...
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