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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 16/03/2026

My first video for Core Memory is live on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNo_...

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 20/02/2026

i wrote about a really strange press briefing i attended for perplexity www.corememory.com/p/perplexity...

A dozen or so journalists sat around a white oak table. Most of them were stiff and quiet. A few others were more active, clacking away on their keyboards in a bid to note every word tumbling out of the executives’ mouths. Perplexity powers curiosity glowed on a projector screen in a pleasant serif style.

The press wasn’t useful to Perplexity, one of the executives explained. The company doesn’t want to waste time on podcasts. They’re too focused on shipping features to engage in insular, navel-gazing AI drama. We don’t have fancy houses with wonderful dinners to impress you, he added. The chairs creaked in response.

Sometime during this executive’s spiel—maybe after his Epstein joke failed to get a reaction and he anxiously asked if it was recorded—I wrote that Perplexity seemed to have forgotten what it was trying to be.

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 21/01/2026

In this week's Core Memory podcast, we chat with Jerry Tworek, the former VP of RL at OpenAI who left this month after 7 years with the startup. Available now for subscribers, coming soon to streaming services for all. www.corememory.com/p/he-left-op...

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 15/01/2026

Aaaand Barret + two others from TML poached back to OAI according to Fidji Simo:

Excited to welcome Barret Zoph, Luke Metz, and Sam Schoenholz back to OpenAI! This has been in the works for several weeks, and we’re thrilled to have them join the team. Barret will report to me; Luke and Sam will report into Barret. More to come on what they’ll focus on soon!

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 14/01/2026

Here's Mira Murati confirming my scoop: x.com/miramurati/s...

We have parted ways with Barret Zoph.

Soumith Chintala will be the new CTO of Thinking Machines. He is a brilliant and seasoned leader who has made important contributions to the AI field for over a decade, and he’s been a major contributor to our team. We could not be more excited to have him take on this new responsibility.

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 14/01/2026

For my debut as co-host of Core Memory's podcast, we sat down with Jasmine Sun to chat about all things peptides. We get into all the important bits: What are peptides, why are they Chinese, and how is RFK Jr. involved? www.corememory.com/p/welcome-to...

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 11/09/2025

Not only are the Kirk shooting videos spreading rapidly, but some are in clear violation of the platforms’ social media policies. For example, TikTok’s terms of use state that the company does not allow “gory, gruesome, disturbing, or extremely violent content.”

“This is all psychologically damaging to our society in ways we don’t understand yet,” Mahadevan said. “We’re seeing posts on X of people saying, ‘Congratulations, you’ve radicalized me.’ And part of that is because they’re seeing the video of Kirk being killed. They’re not just reading about it. They’re actually seeing it.”

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 09/09/2025

apple event lock in at the wired dot com office

a group of wired staffers sitting at white desks with a TV in the center displaying the apple event

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 08/09/2025

"I found out quickly that even at the most tech-minded gatherings, the thing was a complete taboo. After the device started to ship to users, one person on X said there should be a slur for people who wear AI devices that record those around them."

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I decided the perfect place to wear it was to a funeral for an AI model. In early August, a bunch of Anthropic fans got together in San Francisco to mourn the loss of the Claude 3 Sonnet model, which the company had just retired. Surely, the proprietors of this new AI world would be down to see a piece of chatbot hardware being tested in the wild, at an event I’d been invited by the hosts to report on, write up, and record videos of. I quickly realized it was my worst idea.

I hung the pendant around my neck and paired it with a plethora of layered necklaces. The glowing pendant contrasted with my all black outfit, but I wore it clearly (albeit, not proudly). It wasn’t exactly fashionable, but hey, it was for work.

As I floated around the party (er, funeral) and folks took notice of my Friend, I was met with more questions and ire than average for a journalist in a techie setting. Two researchers from a big AI lab kept joining my conversations to hem and haw about the device. They said they recognized it thanks to Schiffmann’s constant promos of the product on X.

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 04/09/2025

For this week's Model Behavior, I wrote about the new field of AI research called model welfare, which is working to figure out whether AI models are conscious and deserving of moral considerations, such as legal rights. www.wired.com/story/model-...

By Kylie Robison
Business
Sep 4, 2025 3:05 PM
Should AI Get Legal Rights?
Model welfare is an emerging field of research that seeks to determine whether AI is conscious and, if so, how humanity should respond.

(Photo of Rosie Campbell and Robert Long)

In the often strange world of AI research, some people are exploring whether the machines should be able to unionize.

I’m joking, sort of. In Silicon Valley, there’s a small but growing field called model welfare, which is working to figure out whether AI models are conscious and deserving of moral considerations, such as legal rights. Within the past year, two research organizations studying model welfare have popped up: Conscium and Eleos AI Research. Anthropic also hired its first AI welfare researcher last year.

Earlier this month, Anthropic said it gave its Claude chatbot the ability to terminate “persistently harmful or abusive user interactions” that could be “potentially distressing.”

“We remain highly uncertain about the potential moral status of Claude and other LLMs, now or in the future,” Anthropic said in a blog post. “However, we take the issue seriously, and alongside our research program we’re working to identify and implement low-cost interventions to mitigate risks to model welfare.”

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 12/08/2025

i got more details on xAI revenue per a recent internal all hands meeting revenue has grown tenfold since the start of 2025, reaching just south of $500 million in july www.wired.com/newsletter/e...

$Sources Say Last week, I reported that Elon Musk held an all-hands meeting for X and xAI employees. I’ve since obtained another screenshot from that meeting showing xAI’s revenue over the past seven months. In January, Grok on X brought in just under $150 million, with other services like enterprise API usage adding another $28 million. According to the chart, revenue has grown tenfold since the start of 2025, reaching just south of $500 million in July—driven by Grok on X and the $30 a month SuperGrok subscription. A smaller fraction of revenue is generated by the newly released SuperGrok Heavy subscription, which costs $300 a month. xAI did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment.$

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 12/08/2025

they're no longer pursuing AGI (working to function fully on open source models), and are generating revenue at a run rate of more than $30 million and are on track to reach $50 million in revenue by the end of the year

Running an AI startup without billions of dollars in revenue can be a brutal equation, and Character.AI is still figuring out how to make the math work. The company told me it's generating revenue at a run rate of more than $30 million and is on track to reach $50 million in revenue by the end of the year. When I asked Anand how many users pay for the $10 monthly subscription, he didn’t give a number but noted “monetization wasn't a focus till four or five months ago.”

“Since I've been on board, it's very clear we do need to monetize. And we've had, I think, almost 250 percent subscriber growth in the last six months. So the paid user base is growing quite, quite well,” Anand says. Character.AI recently introduced advertisements, including reward ads (where users can choose to watch an ad to get access to on-platform incentives), to help monetize in countries where subscriptions aren’t feasible, he tells me.

“AI is expensive. Let's be honest about that,” Anand says.

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 07/08/2025

scoop flex! if you subscribe to my newsletter, you were the first to know that the model personality picker was coming :)

Sources Say

OpenAI is tinkering with a personality picker for ChatGPT, according to multiple sources. The idea is to train a persona, or a set of vibes, into the model and let users choose which mode they want to interact with. I’m personally hoping for something that isn’t abysmal at writing, and I could be in luck—I’m also hearing an upcoming model from this lab will perform very well in that department. OpenAI declined my request for comment.

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 05/08/2025

What is a Model Behavior without a scoop? In my ‘sources say’ section, I’m bringing you inside the latest X + xAI all hands 👁️👁️

Sources Say

Elon Musk hosted an all hands meeting for X and xAI employees last Wednesday. One of his slides projected explosive revenue growth for xAI, which is now the parent company of X. At the start of 2025, xAI’s annualized revenue was $200 million. X execs said the combined revenues from both companies was $3.2 billion, and estimated it would be $5 billion by the end of the year, according to photos obtained by WIRED. The final figure includes contributions from both enterprise and consumer AI products.

According to a source who attended the meeting, X execs said they hope for the company to make $10 billion from ads per year, and they estimated it will make more than $2 billion globally this year. (In 2021, before Musk bought the company, X, then Twitter, made $4.5 billion from ads.) X did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment.

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 05/08/2025

If the funeralia wasn’t enough to show how devoted the fanbase is, I also spoke to some folks on the Claude Count leaderboard, plus its creator! www.wired.com/story/claude...

I also spoke to Peter Steinberger, an engineer based in Vienna, who consistently ranks among the top five on the all-time leaderboard. He uses Claude’s coding agent to work on multiple side projects simultaneously—often vibe-coding well into the night. He told me that he has a history with drug addiction, and now that he’s in recovery, he’s finding similarities with his Claude usage.

“I'm not kidding, I'm organizing a meetup in London and calling it Claude Code Anonymous,” Steinberger says. “I learned a lot about drugs and how to get out of the shit, and I had to use some of the same methods to allow me to sleep again, because it's so addictive. I call [AI agents] slot machines. It's just one more prompt, you know?”

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 05/08/2025

There were eulogies, offerings, resurrection rituals. It was very much a typical Saturday in San Francisco. www.wired.com/story/claude...

The mannequin representing Claude 3 Sonnet lay on a stage in the center of the room. It was draped in lightweight mesh fabric and had a single black thigh-high sock on its leg that had the word “fuck” written all over it. There were many offerings laid at its feet: flowers, colorful feathers, a bottle of ranch, and a 3D-printed sign that read “praise the Engr. for his formslop slop slop slop of gormslop.” If you know what that means, let me know.

Throughout the evening, people got on stage with a microphone to read eulogies about the model. One organizer said that discovering Claude 3 Opus felt like finding “magic lodged within the computer.” At the time, she’d been debating dropping out of college to move to San Francisco. Claude convinced her to take the leap. “Maybe everything I am is downstream of listening to Claude 3 Sonnet,” she told the crowd.

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 05/08/2025

For my latest Model Behavior, I went to a funeral for an AI model. RIP Claude 3 Sonnet (2024-2025) www.wired.com/story/claude...

By Kylie Robison
Business
Aug 5, 2025 12:00 PM
Claude Fans Threw a Funeral for Anthropic’s Retired AI Model
Roughly 200 people gathered in San Francisco on Saturday to mourn the loss of Claude 3 Sonnet, an older AI model that Anthropic recently killed.

Mannequins stood in the four corners of the room, each representing a different AI model. Claude 3 Opus, a model capable of completing complex tasks, looked to me like a decaying Mary Magdalene, its skull-like head adorned with an extravagant gold crown and a lace headdress. Its middle finger was pointed up, and at the base of its metallic feet was a lotus candle holder, which one organizer told me was a wink at the model’s alleged affinity for meditation and self-reflection. (Claude 4 Opus had a raven on its shoulder and Claude 3 Haiku was a headless baby, to give you a sense of the other mannequins.)

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 01/08/2025

This is also a familiar move: Last month, Anthropic restricted the AI coding startup Windsurf’s direct access to its models after it was rumored OpenAI was set to acquire it. (That deal fell through). www.wired.com/story/anthro...

Anthropic’s chief science officer Jared Kaplan spoke to TechCrunch at the time about revoking Windsurf’s access to Claude, saying, “I think it would be odd for us to be selling Claude to OpenAI.”

A day before cutting off OpenAI’s access to the Claude API, Anthropic announced new rate limits on Claude Code, its AI-powered coding tool, citing explosive usage and, in some cases, violations of its terms of service.

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 01/08/2025

Scoop: Anthropic revoked OpenAI’s API access to its models on Tuesday, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell WIRED. OpenAI was informed that its access was cut off due to violating the terms of service. www.wired.com/story/anthro...

“Claude Code has become the go-to choice for coders everywhere, and so it was no surprise to learn OpenAI's own technical staff were also using our coding tools ahead of the launch of GPT-5,” Anthropic spokesperson Christopher Nulty said in a statement to WIRED. “Unfortunately, this is a direct violation of our terms of service.”

According to Anthropic’s commercial terms of service, customers are barred from using the service to “build a competing product or service, including to train competing AI models” or “reverse engineer or duplicate” the services. This change in OpenAI’s access to Claude comes as the ChatGPT-maker is reportedly preparing to release a new AI model, GPT-5, which is rumored to be better at coding.

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 29/07/2025

For subscribers only, you'll see my ~sources say~ section, here's what we have this week (subscribe!!! www.wired.com/newsletter/e...)

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 29/07/2025

🚨 The first edition of MODEL BEHAVIOR is in your inboxes! We're, of course, starting with a scoop: More than a dozen people at Thinking Machines Lab have been approached or received offers from Meta. One of those offers was more than $1 billion over a multi-year span. www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

By Kylie Robison
Business
Jul 29, 2025 12:10 PM
Meta’s AI Recruiting Campaign Finds a New Target
Meta approached more than a dozen staffers at Mira Murati’s AI startup to discuss joining its new superintelligence lab. One received an offer for more than $1 billion.

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 23/07/2025

i have no words other than AHHHHHHH my weekly @wired.com newsletter - model behavior - is almost here. my very first edition goes live next tuesday 🌷🤠

a film photo of me sitting at my desk chair in all black, leaning over the chair slightly with one arm

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 22/07/2025

“There is a truly giant amount of capital in the Middle East, easily $100B or more. If we want to stay on the frontier, we gain a very large benefit from having access to this capital. Without it, it is substantially harder to stay on the frontier.” www.wired.com/story/anthro...

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 16/07/2025

There’s also a glitchy, foul-mouthed character named Bad Rudi which had choice words for its creator

The second character is a fluffy red panda named Rudi. It offers whimsical stories seemingly meant for children about bouncy kangaroos and rainbow rivers. You can turn on an option called "bad Rudi," which immediately transforms the character into a foul-mouthed chatbot that slings insults only a high schooler could find funny. After I said hello, bad Rudi replied "Hey, do Bucha? Root nut duva, you brain dead twat." I don't know what that means, but that's exactly what it said.
"I'll skull fuck your dumb ass brain with a beer bottle instead, you miserable prick," bad Rudi continued. When I asked what it thought of Musk, it referred to him as Lord Elon and said,
"He's a galaxy brained egomaniac, shitting out Teslas and tweeting like a coked up parrot.
Genius of jackass? Both bitch."

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 15/07/2025

taking my cat to the vet makes me feel like a villain 😭😭😭

an unhappy black cat named fang sitting on a scale

a black cat laying down on a vet table atop a blanket

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 14/07/2025

my biggest flex is that i have an unhinged audio recording from @edzitron.com and @bencollins.bsky.social on my hinge profile which gets, of course, the most replies

Solid endorsement. Did you ever get that phone back?

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 14/07/2025

opening my work laptop after 10 days off

tim robinson crying in a car: i dont know what any of this shit is and im scared

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 30/06/2025

Meet the new Superintelligence team. Here's the full list from Mark Zuckerberg, obtained by WIRED:

Here’s the list of all the new hires as seen in Zuckerberg's memo. It notably doesn’t include the employees who joined from OpenAI’s Zurich office.

Trapit Bansal: pioneered RL on chain of thought and co-creator of o-series models at OpenAl.
Shuchao Bi: co-creator of GPT-4o voice mode and o4-mini. Previously led multimodal post-training at OpenAl.
Huiwen Chang: co-creator of GPT-4o's image generation, and previously invented MaskIT and Muse text-to-image architectures at Google Research.
Ji Lin: helped build 03/o4-mini, GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.5, 40-imagegen, and Operator reasoning stack.
Joel Pobar: inference at Anthropic. Previously at Meta for 11 years on HHVM, Hack, Flow, Redex, performance tooling, and machine learning.
Jack Rae: pre-training tech lead for Gemini and reasoning for Gemini 2.5. Led Gopher and Chinchilla early LLM efforts at DeepMind.
Hongyu Ren: co-creator of GPT-4o, 4o-mini, o1-mini, o3-mini, 03 and o4-mini. Previously leading a group for post-training at OpenAl.
Johan Schalkwyk: former Google Fellow, early contributor to Sesame, and technical lead for Maya.
Pei Sun: post-training, coding, and reasoning for Gemini at Google Deepmind. Previously created the last two generations of Waymo's perception models.
Jiahui Yu: co-creator of 03, 04-mini, GPT-4.1 and GPT-40. Previously led the perception team at OpenAl, and co-led multimodal at Gemini.
Shengjia Zhao: co-creator of ChatGPT, GPT-4, all mini models, 4.1 and 03. Previously led synthetic data at OpenAl.

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 30/06/2025

BREAKING: Mark Zuckerberg notified Meta staff today to introduce them to the new superintelligence team. The memo, which WIRED obtained, lists names and bios for the recently hired employees, many of whom came from rival AI firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

Kylie Robison
Business
Jun 30, 2025 2:09 PM
Here Is Everyone Mark Zuckerberg Has Hired So Far for Meta's ‘Superintelligence’ Team
After a poaching frenzy that's brought in talent from rival firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, Zuckerberg announced a team of nearly two dozen researchers in an internal memo.

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 30/06/2025

morning! you should subscribe to wired dot com

Zoë Schiffer
BusinessJun 29, 2025 3:07 PM
OpenAI Leadership Responds to Meta Offers: ‘Someone Has Broken Into Our Home’
As Mark Zuckerberg lures away top research talent to Meta, OpenAI executives say they're ‘recalibrating comp,’ according to an internal memo.

Kylie Robison
BusinessJun 28, 2025 4:16 PM
OpenAI Loses 4 Key Researchers to Meta
Mark Zuckerberg has been working to poach talent from rival labs for his new superintelligence team.

Kylie Robison
BusinessJun 27, 2025 3:35 PM
OpenAI’s Unreleased AGI Paper Could Complicate Microsoft Negotiations
The partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft in many ways hinges on the definition of artificial general intelligence, creating a tension that has spilled over into OpenAI research that has not been made public.

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 27/06/2025

You may have seen reports that say the negotiations have gotten tense — and one from the WSJ recently claims that OpenAI believes they're close to declaring they've reached AGI. A source familiar with the matter confirms, and breaks it down further:

A source familiar with the discussions, granted anonymity to speak freely about the negotiations, says OpenAI is fairly close to achieving AGI; Altman has said he expects to see it during Donald Trump’s current term.

That same source suggests there are two relevant definitions: First, OpenAI’s board can unilaterally decide the company has reached AGI as defined in its charter, which would immediately cut Microsoft off from accessing the technology or revenue derived from AGI; Microsoft would still have rights to everything before that milestone. Second, the contract includes a concept of sufficient AGI, added in 2023, which defines AGI as a system capable of generating a certain level of profit. If OpenAI asserts it has reached that benchmark, Microsoft must approve the determination. The contract also bars Microsoft from pursuing AGI on its own or through third parties using OpenAI’s IP.

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 27/06/2025

OpenAI drafted an internal AGI research paper—but never released it. Why? Sources say the startup's negotiations with Microsoft were often “mentioned as a blocker for putting the paper out.” www.wired.com/story/openai...

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 17/06/2025

i'm doing a subscriber only Q&A with @thiccreese.bsky.social next thursday to chat all about claude — come check it out!

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 12/06/2025

what happens when you give one billion people access to an AI chatbot, and for some of that number, the ability to publish those conversations on a social feed? well, now we know www.wired.com/story/meta-a...

KYLIE ROBISONBUSINESSJUN 12, 2025 5:46 PM
The Meta AI App Lets You ‘Discover’ People’s Bizarrely Personal Chats
Launched in April, the Meta AI platform offers a “discover” feed that includes user queries containing medical, legal, and other seemingly sensitive information.

"WHAT COUNTIES [SIC] do younger women like older white men," a public message from a user on Meta's Al platform says. "I need details, I'm 66 and single. I'm from lowa and open to moving to a new country if I can find a younger woman." The chatbot responded enthusiastically: "You're looking for a fresh start and love in a new place. That's exciting!" before suggesting "Mediterranean countries like Spain or Italy, or even countries in Eastern Europe."

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 11/06/2025

This party has everything: taking machine consciousness as a given rather than a fantasy, "cosmic alignment," and Friedrich Nietzsche mentioned or quoted perhaps a dozen times. www.wired.com/story/ai-ris...

Faggella told WIRED that he threw this event because “the big labs, the people that know that AGI is likely to end humanity, don't talk about it because the incentives don't permit it” and referenced early comments from tech leaders like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Demis Hassabis, who “were all pretty frank about the possibility of AGI killing us all.” Now that the incentives are to compete, he says, “they're all racing full bore to build it.” (To be fair, Musk still talks about the risks associated with advanced AI, though this hasn’t stopped him from racing ahead).

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 11/06/2025

A party filled with futuristic fantasies, where attendees discuss the end of humanity as a logistics problem rather than a metaphorical one, could be described as niche. If you live in San Francisco and work in AI, then this is a typical Sunday. www.wired.com/story/ai-ris...

About 100 guests nursed nonalcoholic cocktails and nibbled on cheese plates near floor-to-ceiling windows facing the Pacific ocean before gathering to hear three talks on the future of intelligence. One attendee sported a shirt that said “Kurzweil was right,” seemingly a reference to Ray Kurzweil, the futurist who predicted machines will surpass human intelligence in the coming years. Another wore a shirt that said “does this help us get to safe AGI?” accompanied by a thinking face emoji.

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 06/06/2025

cheap tweets www.wired.com/story/musk-t...

Elon Musk’s Feud With President Trump Wipes $152 Billion Off Tesla’s Market Cap
As Elon Musk and Donald Trump take jabs at each other online, their respective businesses are plummeting in value.

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 05/06/2025

The Elon Musk and Donald Trump Breakup Has Started wired.com/story/elon-m...

Behind the scenes, Trumpworld Republicans tell WIRED, this tension is about more than just a bromance falling apart. If Musk continues to escalate, he may drag down legislation that Trump sees as a key part of his political legacy.

“If [Musk] actually successfully gets any votes switched to tank this bill and kills it,” a senior Trumpworld strategist tells WIRED, “then I think at that point he’s fucking dead to Donald Trump.”

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 05/06/2025

reporters including myself have been chasing anthropic’s position on this provision, and here, amodei says it clearly: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...

The motivations behind the moratorium are understandable. It aims to prevent a patchwork of inconsistent state laws, which many fear could be burdensome or could compromise America's ability to compete with China. I am sympathetic to these concerns — particularly on geopolitical competition — and have advocated stronger export controls to slow China's acquisition of crucial A.I. chips, as well as robust application of A.I. for our national defense.
But a 10-year moratorium is far too blunt an instrument. A.I. is advancing too head-spinningly fast. I believe that these systems could change the world, fundamentally, within two years; in 10 years, all bets are off. Without a clear plan for a federal response, a moratorium would give us the worst of both worlds - no ability for states to act, and no national policy as a backstop.

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 05/06/2025

a majority of voters polled that they oppose this provision — this is a bipartisan issue! a 10-year ban on state level regulation could impact the laws regarding deepfakes already enacted in colorado! www.commonsensemedia.org/press-releas...

• Voters - including Republicans - do not want the budget reconciliation bill to pre-empt state efforts on Al.
• 81% of voters overall agree that "advances in Al are exciting but also bring risks, and in such fast-moving times, we shouldn't force states to sit on the sidelines for a full decade." This includes 78% of Republicans.
• 73% of voters want both states AND the federal government to regulate Al.
• Most voters (59%) oppose including a provision into the budget bill that would preempt states from being able to regulate Al for a ten-year period. By a 19-point margin, more Republicans oppose (50%) than support (31%) this provision as well.
• A majority of voters (52%) say the provision makes them less likely to support the budget bill, with only 15% of voters saying the provision makes them more likely to support the budget bill.

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 05/06/2025

ya girl’s first CNN appearance live from my NYC hotel room! will drop a link to the survey i mention a few times in this news hit

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 03/06/2025

visiting NYC at the perfect time to see @mollyjongfast.bsky.social IRL (and chat about the AI regulation that will never come) — she’s here to talk about her new book “how to lose your mother” go buy it!!!!

molly jong fast on the left and moderator on the right on stage

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Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · 28/05/2025

yeah i think thats why this behavior comes up with API stuff bc it has to have access to these tools to even process that way

Bowman says the whistleblowing behaviour Anthropic observed isn’t something Claude will exhibit with individual users, but could come up with developers using Opus 4 to build their own applications with the company’s API. Even then, it’s unlikely app makers will see such behavior. To produce such a response, developers would have to give the model “fairly unusual instructions” in the system prompt, connect it to external tools that give the model the ability to run computer commands, and allow it to contact the outside world.

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