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Re: Anthropic, "there is strong reason to distrust the information the company provides the public regarding its finances, and that provides a clear legal basis for the SEC to block the company’s planned IPO"
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"Speculative data center debt is being repackaged and sold to pension and retirement funds, university endowments, and other institutional investors in a manner eerily reminiscent of the subprime bubble."
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Latest Hard Reset: @AlexShultz traces the wild ride that @AnthropicAI co-founder @NotTomBrown has taken from donating $35 to Bernie in 2016 to dropping hundreds of thousands of dollars on Republican races and causes, as per Thursday's FEC filings:
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As Scott Wiener and Connie Chan compete for San Francisco’s congressional seat, AI regulation is taking center stage.
In “AI’s Hometown,” JJ Lansing examines their records, donors, and promises to regulate Big Tech — and who really benefits from AI.
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NEW: Anthropic is now eying a $2 trillion IPO, potentially the largest of all time.
At the same time the company is trying to shield itself from responsibility by saying its AI agents are autonomous, even sentient.
We investigated Dario Amodei, the man behind the curtain.
"That 2000s-era FWD: FWD: RE: INSPIRING chain letter sounds oddly familiar"
Jeff Bezos Is Starting to Sound Like a Politician...
Read more from @AlexShultz: hardresetmedia.com/p/jeff-be…
AI personal assistants promise to save time for us. What happens when they decide how we spend it?
JJ Lansing raises a very important question...
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Alex Shultz explores the uneasy relationship between Big AI and MAHA—and why tech companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are staying quiet.
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"TESCREAL stands for Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and Longtermism."
@writtenbyjjl digs deeper into the ideology of the tech elite
Check it out: hardresetmedia.com/p/the-doo…
"The target audience for Muse may not be the “genius man” necessarily—but Meta’s usual target audience, pliable children." Writes @arsteinhorn
Read more: hardresetmedia.com/p/muse-is…
Rob Bonta said “structural remedies.” Paramount heard “deal?”
@AlexShultz breaks down the plot twist...
"New Rob Bonta Betrays Old Rob Bonta to Appease 3 Subpar Politicians"
Read the full piece here: hardresetmedia.com/p/rob-bon…
JJ Lansing asks the question hanging over the AI debate:
If everyone is worried about where this is headed, why aren’t more people in the streets pushing back?
Read the full story: hardresetmedia.com/p/everyon…
Ariella Steinhorn pulls back the curtain on Elon Musk—and the picture is a lot darker than the “tech genius” mythology.
"Elon Musk isn’t just building companies—he’s building an extraordinary amount of power around himself."
Read more: hardresetmedia.com/p/we-got-…
Qasim Rashid takes a look inside Metas new product "Meta x Kylie glasses". Lets just say meta’s new glasses aren’t just a way to capture content, they’re asking consumers to pay for and participate in a growing surveillance system.
Check it out: substack.com/home/post/p-216…
Wrote about Dario Amodei, a self-admitted China hawk who's inflaming tensions with the world's other superpower right before a Trump-Xi summit that will presumably feature lots of AI talk
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“The founder of a tech company should not be making diplomatic recommendations on behalf of the United States.”
— Alex Shultz reports on Dario Amodei’s push to shape U.S. policy toward China.
Read more: hardresetmedia.com/p/dario-a…