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Furious MAGA caller abandons Trump over Iran war, inflation, and broken campaign promises. @emilyjashinsky @ryangrim
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Draftkings gave VIP status to a journalist working as an undercover gambling addict: "This is how they make their money. The vast majority of their profits come from real addicts like this." @esaagar @krystalball
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OpenAI pulls model, halts training as danger looms @GarrisonLovely says: "There are strong theoretical reasons to believe that recursive self-improvement would actually result in something pretty remarkable and quite dangerous."
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AI industry throws pro-data center cocktail party in DC @krystalball @esaagar
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Iran says they're ready for a "DOOMSDAY" war, rejecting Trump negotiation. @esaagar and @krystalball give their thoughts.
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Roman Yampolskiy says you can't just unplug rogue AI agents: "A problem with something smarter than you, it knows that you will try to do that, and it will take you out first" @griffinpdavis @romanyam
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The future of Hollywood is up in the air with the Paramount/Warner Bros merger. @nithyavraman speaks on how California leadership is handling the deal. @griffinpdavis @krystalball
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Professor Pape's DIRE WARNING about the upcoming election: "We're headed into a domestic escalation trap. The danger is not voter intimidation ahead of time...the problem is what happens to the losers"
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says “Now, if they say [that their models aren’t safe] then I think the answer is that we have to shut the labs down.” @krystalball and @ryangrim break it down.
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Gavin Newsom and AG Bonta sell out Hollywood for Ellison/Paramount merger: "this isn't just a deal between one streamer and another streamer" @ryangrim
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Republicans RAGE as Trump cozies up with Zohran: "I want Mamdani to be a great mayor and he certainly has potential." @emilyjashinsky @ryangrim
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Anthropic starts an AI "WET LAB" @kevinroose reacts: "They actually do sincerely want their AI to start curing diseases"
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Saagar BEGS young women to DITCH men addicted to sports gambling: "by definition, you're a literal loser" @esaagar @krystalball
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Ukraine launches a massive attack on Moscow targeting oil infrastructure as war escalates. Yanis Varoufakis reacts: "Almost four years since the beginning of this all out war, we ended up in an aerial stalemate in the same way that in WW1 there was a stalemate of trench warfare."
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Ed Sheeran addresses the Macklemore controversy after tour dropouts: "It's pathetic" @krystalball @esaagar
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63% of Americans think AI could destroy humanity. Donald Trump is not part of that group. @krystalball @esaagar
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A clearly confused Mitch McConnell votes "AYE" after staff intervenes: "He took ONE vote and could not remember which way to vote" @krystalball @esaagar
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Kash Patel has friends, you'd never understand. @emilyjashinsky @ryangrim
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Scott Bessent says economy polling can't be trusted. @ryangrim jokes "You can't trust these lying American people to be honest about how awesome things are."
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Trump calls NVIDIA CEO live on stage. @GarrisonLovely breaks it down: "He might come around if the pressure continues" @esaagar @krystalball
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