Exclusive in @PirateWires: Jacob has been working with DEY., the PR firm that represents Eliezer Yudkowsky and other famous AI doomers. We also heard that DEY. was preemptively looking to book Nate Soares (MIRI founder) for interviews timed with Jacob's debut.

Mark Zuckerberg addressed the "pervert glasses" nickname for the first time in an exclusive sit-down interview with NBC News nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/m…

Update in the rogue A.I. saga: OpenAI agents that were supposed to be performing mundane data pulls for things like health info, historic photos and wait times at theme parks resorted to hacking attempts when they couldn't access the data they wanted nytimes.com/2026/09/23/techn…

The 2024 election proved the importance of the crypto voter. @standwithcrypto is now much bigger, with over 4M members. Crypto voters will remember who stepped up and who didn't.

NEWS: Here comes the crypto industry’s big spending against Democrats. Fairshake is going to spend $30 million against Sherrod Brown in Ohio’s Senate race. It’s payback after Senate Dems torpedoed the CLARITY Act. nytimes.com/2026/09/21/us/po…

NEWS: Here comes the crypto industry’s big spending against Democrats. Fairshake is going to spend $30 million against Sherrod Brown in Ohio’s Senate race. It’s payback after Senate Dems torpedoed the CLARITY Act. nytimes.com/2026/09/21/us/po…

I cannot impart on progressive folks more strongly that it is not just Sam Altman sounding these alarms. I also do not care for or trust Sam Altman! But listen to the people actually building this stuff who are freaked out. Maybe they are wrong but they are not part of some profit motivated psyop.

Obama on recursive self improvement and the risks associated with it. When he talks about the urgency for us all to have a say in how this technology evolves and how it is overseen, this is part of the reason why: “The models are going to get smarter and smarter and better and better at a much faster pace, at an exponential pace.   What are the risks of that? There’s the big science fiction risk, wow, these models get smarter than us, and they decide humans are fine, but not necessary. They start setting their own goals, and the killer robots kill us, or we bow down to them.   I do not want to exaggerate that particular risk, but I will say there is a non-zero risk of non-zero chance of that happening, but that’s not actually the risk that I’m most concerned about, although it’s the risk that gets most attention.   And the reason that’s a risk is not because the computer models are conscious, necessarily. It doesn’t mean that they are necessarily feel malice towards humans. It’s just that if they start setting their own agendas, you may get a misalignment between what they want to do and what we want them to do, and that gap can be dangerous. That’s problem number one.   The more serious problem is these models are getting powerful enough that if they get in the hands of bad humans, they can do bad things. They can be weaponized in certain ways. They can do a lot of mischief.”

Fascinating to see Republicans run on AI safety. New spot from the group Alliance for A Better Future backing Mike Rogers and using recent comments from Sam Altman and Dario Amodei. Rogers is probably the most vocal guardrails-minded GOP Senate nominee, and now gets air cover for it.

Anthropic has set up a wet lab in San Francisco, their bio research has advanced beyond in silico. They are now conducting physical research both in-house and with external partners. The NYT also broke the news this morning that Anth now plans to scale its compute to 5 GW by the end of the year, and 10 GW within the next 16 months. Bio is next after math, and I think we are going to see some medical announcements much sooner than people are expecting.