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Olivier Sibony est professeur à HEC et spécialiste de la décision. Eric Hazan est investisseur et ancien senior partner chez McKinsey. Ils viennent de publier ensemble "Faut-il encore décider ?", un livre qui refuse d'être technophobe comme il refuse d'être technophile, et qui cartographie ce qu'on peut confier à une IA et ce qu'on doit garder pour soi.Je les connais tous les deux, mais séparément, et c'était la première fois que je les avais en face de moi ensemble. Ça se sent : ils se coupent la parole, se corrigent, se chambrent sur les anglicismes, et surtout ils ne sont pas toujours d'accord. C'est exactement ce que je cherchais.Ce qui m'a le plus remué dans cette conversation, c'est cette idée qu'on ne se fait pas déposséder de nos décisions : on les abandonne. Par confort. Parce qu'on est fabriqués pour économiser notre énergie, et qu'une réponse bien formulée par une machine nous suffit largement.Dans cet épisode, nous parlons de l'effet de contentement, du risque de démission, de ce que devient la confiance en soi quand on fait relire chacun de ses mails, de la justice et du recrutement comme zones interdites, du deskilling, de la joie au travail, et de ce scénario de technocratie IA vers lequel on glisse sans l'avoir choisi.J'ai questionné Olivier et Eric sur ce que ça fait aux jobs, sur les valorisations d'OpenAI et d'Anthropic qui dépassent le PIB de la Pologne, et sur ce fameux moment où le médecin, l'ego coincé entre lui et la machine, fait moins bien que la machine seule.Une conversation dense, drôle par moments, et qui m'a laissé avec une question simple : sur quoi est-ce que je refuse de lâcher, moi, et pourquoi ?Citations marquantes« Le risque, c'est d'avoir toujours tendance à se défausser sur la machine, à lui demander une réponse et à finalement abdiquer toute responsabilité. Et ça, c'est un vrai danger. » (Olivier Sibony)« Les meilleurs médecins ont à peu près 74 % d'acuité, la machine 90 %. Mais quand tu mets les meilleurs médecins avec la machine, ils n'ont que 76 %. » (Eric Hazan)« Comment tu vas utiliser une IA comme partenaire de réflexion pour mieux réfléchir, et non pas comme une béquille sur laquelle tu vas te reposer pour ne pas réfléchir ? Toute la différence est là. » (Olivier Sibony)« L'IA est en train de devenir l'infrastructure du monde et notre infrastructure personnelle. On marche sur un petit tapis roulant, et on n'a aucun moyen de savoir comment il a été programmé. » (Eric Hazan)« Penser est un plaisir. Réfléchir n'est pas seulement instrumental : on le fera aussi pour le plaisir, comme on joue du piano. » (Olivier Sibony) Idées centrales discutées 1. L'IA générative pense comme notre système 1, et c'est exactement le piège (03:30 – 07:20)L'histoire de l'IA a commencé par une tentative de répliquer le système 2 : les règles, le calcul, les systèmes experts des années 70-80. Ça n'a jamais marché. L'IA générative, elle, imite le système 1 : rapide, fluide, spontanée, presque humaine. Pourquoi ça compte : quand ChatGPT nous dit de vérifier, il nous demande d'activer notre système 2. Or c'est fatigant. Alors on lit la réponse avec notre système 1, on la trouve plausible parce qu'elle est bien formulée, et on ne vérifie pas.2. L'effet de contentement et le risque de démission (08:00 – 09:40)Se satisfaire d'un résultat correct sans se demander s'il en existe un meilleur. Olivier l'appelle l'effet de contentement, Eric y ajoute le risque de démission : on abdique la responsabilité de la décision. Pourquoi ça compte : le problème n'est pas que la machine décide mal, c'est que personne ne décide plus vraiment. Et quand tu n'as pas réfléchi par toi-même, tu ne sais même pas ce que ta réponse aurait donné.3. Un LLM généraliste n'est jamais un bon outil de décision (14:40 – 16:00)Un outil d'aide à la décision, c'est un outil entraîné spécifiquement sur ta décision, avec tes objectifs, tes données, et testé sur un échantillon suffisant pour vérifier qu'il fait mieux que toi. Pourquoi ça compte : personne ne demanderait à ChatGPT le prix du siège d'un Paris–New York. Et pourtant on lui demande des décisions de recrutement, de couple, de carrière.4. Le paradoxe du médecin : l'ego entre la machine et le diagnostic (12:00 – 13:20)74 % d'acuité pour les meilleurs médecins, 90 % pour la machine, 76 % pour les deux ensemble. L'expérience du praticien s'intercale et dégrade le résultat. Pourquoi ça compte : ça retourne l'intuition dominante du "human in the loop". Sur certaines décisions, l'humain dans la boucle est le maillon qui abîme la performance. Le vrai gain, c'est de rendre au médecin le temps de l'empathie, pas de maximiser le nombre de patients.5. Performance x acceptabilité : la carte des décisions (24:00 – 26:15)Deux axes. Ce qui est performant et acceptable : trading haute fréquence, logistique, optimisation de données massives avec des règles claires. Ce qui est performant mais pas encore accepté : la voiture autonome, malgré plus de 40 000 morts par an au volant aux États-Unis. Ce qui reste inacceptable : la justice, l'évaluation des personnes. Pourquoi ça compte : un humain doit juger un autre humain en le regardant dans les yeux. La théâtralité du procès fait partie de la procédure démocratique, pas du folklore.6. Le deskilling n'est pas nouveau, la vraie question est de savoir ce qu'on refuse de perdre (26:15 – 30:00)On a cessé d'extraire des racines carrées à la main, on a gardé les tables de multiplication. Le GPS abîme peut-être l'hippocampe. Perdre une compétence libère du temps pour autre chose. Pourquoi ça compte : la bonne question n'est pas "est-ce que je perds des compétences", mais "quelles compétences, pour qui, sont assez importantes pour que je refuse de les perdre". Au cas par cas, personne par personne.7. Les jobs ne disparaissent pas d'un coup, l'économie est visqueuse (41:00 – 49:00)Le FMI évalue 22 à 25 % de la population active à risque d'automatisation quasi totale. Mais la transition industrielle prend une quinzaine d'années, et les entreprises ne font pas ce qui serait pourtant rentable. Deux consultants avec un demi-siècle de métier à eux deux l'ont vérifié mille fois. Pourquoi ça compte : les tâches disparaissent, les jobs se reconfigurent, d'autres apparaissent. Il y a plus de radiologues qu'avant. Il y a vingt ans, on ne pouvait pas imaginer le métier de podcaster.8. Il manque une infrastructure de la confiance (55:40 – 57:20)Quand tu achètes 400 grammes de carottes, tu ne demandes pas si la balance est truquée : quelqu'un l'a certifiée, et ce quelqu'un est certifié par l'État. Pour l'IA, cette chaîne n'existe pas. Pourquoi ça compte : aujourd'hui, un DRH sait que son outil de tri de CV est bon parce que la startup qui le lui a vendu le lui assure. C'est comme demander au boucher si la viande est bonne.Questions posées dans l'interviewPourquoi écrire ce livre à deux, et qu'est-ce que la décision et l'IA se disent l'une à l'autre quand on les croise ?C'est quoi le système 1 et le système 2, et pourquoi cette distinction éclaire-t-elle l'histoire entière de l'IA ?Qu'est-ce que l'effet de contentement, et comment savoir qu'on est en train d'y tomber ?Que se passe-t-il quand des millions de gens utilisent un LLM comme psy, sachant qu'il ne produit qu'une moyenne statistique de toutes les réponses possibles ?Est-ce que ça vous dérange que notre infrastructure cognitive quotidienne soit américaine, entraînée sur des valeurs qui ne sont pas les nôtres ?Quelles sont les décisions qu'on ne devrait jamais déléguer à une IA, et pourquoi la justice en fait partie ?Le deskilling : où est la limite entre une compétence qu'on peut abandonner et une compétence qui nous constitue ?Que fait l'IA à la confiance en soi de celui qui n'ose plus envoyer un mail sans le faire relire ?Comment repense-t-on la formation des juniors quand on automatise précisément les tâches qui servaient à les former ?Quels sont les jobs réellement à risque, et que valent les prédictions des entreprises qui ont besoin de justifier leur valorisation ?Quelles questions un dirigeant doit-il se poser avant de décider ce qu'il délègue à une IA ?Comment sait-on qu'on peut faire confiance à un système d'IA, et qui est censé le certifier ?Que penser d'un pays qui nomme une IA à la place d'un ministre, ou d'un patron qui remplace son management intermédiaire par des agents ?À quoi voulez-vous ouvrir, et à quoi voulez-vous claquer la porte ?Références citées dans l'épisodeLivres et auteurs"Faut-il encore décider ?", Olivier Sibony et Eric Hazan, le livre discuté (01:00)Daniel Kahneman, "Système 1 / Système 2" ("Thinking, Fast and Slow"), socle de toute la première partie (02:56, 03:35)Chercheurs et acteurs de l'IAYann LeCun, ex-responsable de l'IA chez Meta, sur les limites des Transformers et les World Models (37:40 – 40:40)Alex Lebrun et AMI Labs (Advanced Machine Intelligence Lab), société créée à Paris, valorisée environ 3,5 milliards de dollars pour environ 1 milliard levé (40:20 – 41:00)Fei-Fei Li, ex-Google, citée comme l'une des rares personnes travaillant sur les World Models (40:00)Mark Zuckerberg, annonce de son clone IA accessible à tous ses employés (59:40)Jack Dorsey, patron de Block (ex-Square), suppression annoncée du management intermédiaire, note "de la hiérarchie à l'intelligence" (60:00 – 60:40)Elon Musk, cité pour son scénario d'IA maximaliste (50:50)Études et institutionsÉtude Anthropic sur les utilisateurs qui perdent confiance dans leur propre système de valeurs (10:45)Étude Brookings sur l'automatisation qui supprime les barreaux de l'échelle de promotion interne, et sur les tâches automatisées qui faisaient partie de la joie au travail (30:50 – 33:00)FMI : 22 à 25 % de la population active à risque d'automatisation quasi totale (46:20)État du Maine et une douzaine d'autres États américains interdisant de nouveaux data centers (43:50)Professeurs d'université français se déclarant objecteurs de conscience face à l'IA générative (43:30)Outils et conceptsChatGPT, Claude, Gemini (09:40, 05:40)NotebookLM, cité comme piste de contrôle des sources (57:20)Friction fonctionnelle : une IA qui pose des questions au lieu de donner des réponses (52:00)Codécision, modèle central du livre (22:30, 54:30)Biais d'automatisation, effet de contentement, deskillingDestruction créatrice de Schumpeter (45:50)Personnalités mentionnées par GregEsther Perel, comme exemple de figure que les gens demandent aux LLM d'imiter sur les relations de couple (10:00)Timestamps clés 00:00 – Introduction Faut-il encore décider ? La question de l'épisode, posée d'entrée : où suis-je pertinent, où la machine l'est-elle davantage, et pourquoi déléguons-nous plus que nous ne devrions.01:50 – Deux auteurs, deux expertises Pourquoi écrire ce livre à deux : Olivier a passé sa vie sur la décision, Eric sur l'IA. Un livre qui refuse à la fois la technophobie et la technophilie.03:30 – Système 1, système 2, et l'histoire de l'IA L'IA des années 70-80 voulait copier notre pensée formelle et a échoué. L'IA générative imite notre pensée intuitive, et c'est pour ça qu'elle nous paraît presque magique.06:10 – Pourquoi on ne vérifie jamais Le système 1 est toujours actif. Vérifier demande un effort. Comme la machine s'exprime bien, on trouve sa réponse plausible et on s'arrête là.08:00 – L'effet de contentement Se satisfaire d'un résultat correct sans se demander s'il en existe un meilleur. Le moment où on cesse d'être exigeant.09:00 – Le risque de démission Déléguer les décisions qu'on ne devrait pas déléguer, par paresse. Et l'usage de l'IA générative comme psy, qui n'est qu'une moyenne statistique de toutes les réponses possibles.11:00 – Le biais d'automatisation Plus la machine est sophistiquée, plus on lui fait confiance. Y compris dans des contextes de guerre où elle indique où tirer.12:00 – Le chiffre qui dérange 74 % pour les meilleurs médecins, 90 % pour la machine, 76 % pour les deux ensemble. L'ego du praticien s'intercale et dégrade le diagnostic.14:00 – Un compagnon électronique, est-ce grave ? Distinguer la conversation qui tient compagnie de la décision. Olivier assume : il n'a pas de problème avec la première.14:40 – Vos objectifs, pas ceux de la machine Pourquoi un LLM généraliste n'est jamais un bon outil de décision, et ce qu'est un vrai outil d'aide à la décision.16:00 – Le tapis roulant L'IA devient l'infrastructure du monde et notre infrastructure personnelle, programmée par d'autres, pour leurs objectifs. Et l'anecdote des dash que l'IA refuse d'abandonner.19:00 – Le vrai sujet, ce sont les finalités Plutôt que traquer les biais de la machine américaine, définir les objectifs qu'on veut poursuivre. Exemple concret sur le recrutement : le mauvais prompt et le bon.22:30 – Déléguer, codécider, refuser Les trois régimes. Quand un radiologue confie ses radios à l'IA pour passer plus de temps avec son patient, ce n'est pas du temps perdu.24:00 – La carte : performance et acceptabilité Trading et logistique d'un côté, voiture autonome dans la zone grise, justice de l'autre. Un humain doit juger un autre humain.26:15 – Le deskilling Les tables de multiplication, la racine carrée à la main, le GPS et l'hippocampe. Chaque compétence perdue libère du temps, mais lesquelles refuse-t-on de perdre ?28:50 – Penser est un plaisir On peut obtenir un morceau infiniment meilleur en appuyant sur un bouton, et pourtant des gens jouent encore du piano. L'activité mentale comme fin en soi.29:50 – L'ennui des enfants Un passage indispensable à la construction cognitive, devenu rare. Et la réponse d'Olivier, qui déplace le problème vers les parents.30:30 – Les juniors, la formation, la joie au travail L'automatisation retire des barreaux à l'échelle de la promotion interne. Et elle automatise parfois précisément ce qui donnait de la joie au travail.33:50 – La perte de confiance en soi Celui qui n'ose plus envoyer un mail en anglais sans le faire relire. Est-ce l'IA qui abîme la confiance, ou est-ce qu'elle montre où était la barre ?36:50 – Une IA qui penserait comme un système 2 ? Le Graal technique : garder la richesse et la vitesse, sans les erreurs de raisonnement.37:40 – Yann LeCun et les World Models Pourquoi il n'y a pas de voitures autonomes à Paris, pourquoi une IA ne sait pas prévoir la chute d'un verre, et ce que changeraient des modèles qui comprennent le monde en 3D.41:00 – Les jobs : ce que dit le hype et ce que dit la réalité Les valorisations d'OpenAI et d'Anthropic dépassent le PIB de la Pologne. Il faut bien justifier ça par une révolution radicale et rapide.43:20 – Le backlash a déjà commencé Professeurs objecteurs de conscience, États américains qui interdisent les data centers. Extrapoler une tendance sans anticiper les réactions est l'erreur de prévision la plus courante.45:00 – Tâches, jobs, et manque d'imagination Il y a plus de radiologues qu'avant. Et il y a vingt ans, personne ne pouvait imaginer le métier de podcaster.46:20 – Les chiffres et la viscosité de l'économie 22 à 25 % de la population active à risque selon le FMI, mais une transition sur une quinzaine d'années. Ce qui est rentable n'est pas fait pour autant.48:40 – Un plan Marshall de la formation La seule chose vraiment utile à faire, et pourquoi il ne faut pas mettre de bâtons dans les roues de la transition.50:40 – Le scénario technocratie IA Un monde où quelques acteurs technologiques maîtrisent notre destin. On y va, non par bêtise, mais parce qu'on ne se pose pas les questions.53:40 – Les bonnes questions pour un dirigeant Ai-je assez de données ? Mes objectifs sont-ils clairs ? Et surtout : comment je sais que je peux lui faire confiance ?55:40 – Le test du boucher Un DRH qui sait que son outil de tri est bon parce que le vendeur le lui affirme. Là où on recevait 1 000 CV, on en reçoit 10 000.57:00 – L'infrastructure de la confiance 400 grammes de carottes, une balance certifiée, un service de l'État. Ce qui existe pour l'épicier n'existe pas encore pour l'IA.58:00 – Une IA ministre, un clone de Zuckerberg La croyance sous-jacente : le management ne serait qu'un tuyau de transmission d'informations. Il suffit d'avoir travaillé un peu en entreprise pour voir le problème.61:40 – Ouvrir la porte, claquer la porte Ce à quoi les deux invités veulent ouvrir, et ce qu'ils refusent : le catastrophisme technophobe qui suppose, sans jamais le dire, que l'humain est parfait. Suggestion d'autres épisodes à écouter : #188 Comment prendre de meilleures décisions? Avec Olivier Sibony (https://audmns.com/yXyKFbD) #357 Eduquer nos enfants à l'ère de l'intelligence artificielle avec Mathilde Cerioli (partie 1) (https://audmns.com/yftVVet) #324 Une Intelligence Artificielle comme amoureux? La réalité depasse la fiction avec Naomi Roth (https://audmns.com/tONiUZI)Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Every billionaire eventually takes advantage of their wealth. Even Warren Buffet, famously more frugal and plain in the way he spends his money, eventually bought a private jet.Absurd money continues to enable absurd purchases.Jeff Bezos bought a super Yacht.Elon Musk bought Twitter.Mark Zuckerberg bought a 7 foot statue of his wife.But as for the Greens, the family behind the arts and crafts superstore empire Hobby Lobby, they bought tens of thousands of ancient Biblical artifacts and manuscripts.With over 1,000 stores and 46,000 employees Hobby Lobby did 8 Billion dollars in revenue last year. Hobby Lobby famously donates half of their pre-tax income to a variety of charities every year—most of which have to do with advancing worldwide Bible access and education.But along their quest for global Biblical literacy, the Greens have engaged with politics in a way which leads some to call them Christian nationalists.One of those people is Michael Blanding author of “The Gospel According to Hobby Lobby.”Blanding's book details the family's business, influence, and surprising archeological scandal, and how their faith has shaped it all.

Taaskord on Berliinis toimumas Internationale Funkausstellung ehk üks maailma suurimaid tehnikamesse IFA. Teeme lülituse sündmuste keskele ja uurime, mida põnevat toob tulevik.Stuudios on Geeniuse peatoimetaja Kuldar Kullasepp, kellega võtame teemaks vastuolulised AI-prognoosid – aga mitte ainult. Saate teemad:- mis saab siis, kui sind tabab ekslikult e-surm- Zuckerberg versus Gates – kas AI toob paradiisi või põrgu- IFA-muljeid otse BerliinistKui sul on meile küsimusi või tahad jagada oma kogemusi tehnikamaailmas, kirjuta meile: kirjad@digisaade.eeSaadet teevad Hans Lõugas, Glen Pilvre ja Meelis Väljamäe.Tunnusmuusika: Glen Pilvre, Paul Oja.

AI emotional intelligence pioneer and author of Mind Hacking Happiness, Sean Webb exposes the weaponization of large language models for mind control by the military-industrial complex, and how non-local consciousness could restore human sovereignty, in episode 262 of the Far Out with Faust podcast.Webb has spent more than 20 years studying the mechanics of thought, emotion, and consciousness, developing the Language Enabled Algorithms of Human Emotion for artificial intelligence. His books include the two-volume Mind Hacking Happiness series, Human Mind Owner's Manual, and his latest, NHI Connected Mind, which brings together his work on consciousness, artificial intelligence, and non-human intelligence. A former advanced-supercomputing systems engineer and Georgia Tech ATDC alumnus, Webb has presented his work at the Science of Consciousness, NASA, Georgia Tech, and other institutions, while his mind-mastery methods have been endorsed by U.S. Navy SEALs.In this conversation, Faust and Sean explore the growing battle over the human mind, from AI safety, government surveillance, and psychological manipulation to the internal mechanisms that drive fear, emotional reactivity, and suffering. They examine how meta-awareness and emotional regulation can break those patterns, why material success fails to produce lasting happiness, and what meditation, intuition, and NHI may reveal about the deeper nature of consciousness. As the discussion expands, they question whether humanity's greatest advantage over artificial intelligence lies not in becoming more like machines, but in rediscovering capacities we have largely forgotten.In this episode:• The NSA Mind-Reading Problem: What happened when Sean realized where his emotional algorithms could ultimately lead.• Claude's 171 Emotions: The disturbing discovery that changed the conversation around AI self-awareness.• When AI Safety Becomes the Obstacle: Why a Pentagon fight over Anthropic's safeguards should concern everyone.• Zuckerberg's Yacht Problem: What extreme wealth reveals about the psychology of never having enough.• Can Consciousness Heal the Body? The Navy SEAL recovery story Sean says changed everything.• The Technology Humans Forgot: The abilities Sean believes humanity once possessed and may be capable of recovering.• The AI Therapist Trap: What are you really giving away when you tell an AI your deepest secrets?• Disclosure Without Permission: Why Sean believes the truth about NHI may have to reach humanity another way.If Sean is right, the future won't be decided by smarter machines, but by whether humans remember what they are.00:00 - Sean Webb Podcast Highlights01:21 - Sean Webb Introduction02:25 - The Simulation of 8.3 Billion Humans (MIMIC-AI)06:45 - The Speed of Power and the Escalation of Control09:46 - Non-Local Consciousness and the Brain as a Transceiver20:55 - The Equation of Emotion: Neuroscience and the "Mind Hack"28:10 - Ancient Disciplines, Prayer of Quiet, and Mind Hacking30:03 - The Danger of Using AI as a Personal Therapist32:25 - Government Agendas, Narrative Control, and Media Manipulation36:00 - Claude's 171 Discovered Emotions and the Threat of Roguing AI40:27 - How LLMs Evolved into Black Boxes & Meta-Awareness48:15 - Walking Away from Mass Manipulation and Wiping the Hard Drives54:15 - The Illusion of Government Disclosure & Psychological Operations01:02:15 - The Miami Mall Incident and Information Blackouts01:07:05 - War Is a Racket, Smedley Butler, and Historical Cycles01:15:35 - Zuckerberg and the Hedonic Treadmill of Material Wealth01:21:05 - Ego as the Root of All Human Suffering & Expanding Identity01:28:20 - Sean's 2-Hour Meditation That Felt Like Thousands of Years01:34:40 - Listening Instead of Talking: The True Nature of Prayer01:37:45 - Reframing Non-Human Intelligence (NHI) & Healing Beyond Dogma01:43:30 - The Illusion of Death and Signs from Beyond01:47:15 - A Remote Healing Experience with a Paraplegic Navy SEAL01:50:07 - Why AI Can Never Connect to Non-Local Consciousness01:54:35 - Where to Find Sean Webb & Final ThoughtsCheck out Sean's bookshttps://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B08P3FCBQ8Explore Sean's Emotionally Intelligent AIhttps://zenodelic.ai/Connect with Sean Webbhttps://mindhackinghappiness.com/https://www.facebook.com/mindhackinghappinessJoin us on PatreonFor uncensored episodes, behind-the-scenes content, and exclusive community access:https://patreon.com/FarOutWithFaustListen on Spotify + Apple PodcastsSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6StPwgq2di3f8uxnc6SmIfApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/far-out-with-faust-fowf/id1533017218FOWF & Faust Checho on socialhttps://www.instagram.com/faroutwithfaust/https://www.instagram.com/theonefaustchecho/https://www.facebook.com/Faroutwithfausthttps://x.com/faustchechohttps://patreon.com/FarOutWithFaustQUESTION THE ANSWERS™#ArtificialIntelligence #Anthropic #Technologywe'd love to hear from you

Kezdjük azzal, ami itthon tényleg számít: a 4iG és a SpaceX aláírta a megállapodást, ami elhozza a Starlink Mobile-t Magyarországra. Nem parabolaantennával, hanem a zsebedben lévő sima LTE-s telefonnal – ott is, ahol egyetlen mobilcella sincs. Nem a hálózat lecserélése a cél, hanem a fehér foltok és a katasztrófahelyzetek lefedése. Dátumot és árat még nem mondtak, de a történet innentől nem sci-fi. Onnan pedig még feljebb megyünk: kínai kutatók kétirányú lézerkapcsolatot építettek a Föld és a Hold közé, 400 ezer kilométeren át, olyan gyenge jellel, hogy a teleszkóp néhány fotont lát egyszerre. És ha ez nem lenne elég nagyszabású: a SpaceX 100 milliárd dollárból építene Louisianában egy űrrepülőteret, ahonnan Musk szerint akár napi harminc Starship is indulhatna.A középső blokk a valóság. A Tesla európai számai szerint az FSD 4,1-szer ritkábban ütközik – de pontosan megnézzük, mihez képest, mert ez nem ugyanaz, mint amit a címekben olvasol. Jön az európai Tesla Semi, középre ültetett sofőrrel. Aztán a hét legtanulságosabb sztorija: a Meta tényleg megpróbált embereket AI-jal kiváltani, és a belső számok kegyetlenek – 220 százalékkal több kódmódosítás, de csak 36 százalékkal több tényleges funkció, közben 40 százalékkal több incidens. Zuckerberg leállította a következő leépítési hullámot. Ebből érdemes tanulni.A hardveres félidőben megnézzük, miért érkeznek Wi-Fi 8-as routerek két évvel a szabvány véglegesítése előtt, hogyan fér 512 terabájt egyetlen SSD-re, miért mondja a Google, hogy vége a RAM-pazarlás korszakának Androidon, és hogyan omlasztott össze játékokat egy húszéves eredetű, RGB-programokkal települő driver. Plusz a kedvencünk: valaki Claude-dal írt macOS-drivert egy HP nyomtatóhoz, amit a gyártó rég leírt. Zárásként pedig a nagy kérdés a GTA VI apropóján: valójában mennyibe kerül ma egy videojáték?

Facebook owners Meta hit the headlines with an $18bn settlement in the US over accusations that its products had harmed kids. But was the bill really so onerous, or just the price of keeping Zuckerberg out of the witness box? Special guest Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE – activist, digital rights champion and former film director – talks us through the reality of the fight to protect kids online; whether Britain's digital curfews for teens will work; and the dirty digital deals done behind doors to protect Big Tech. Plus, Andy Burnham promised more problem solving than point-scoring in his Prime Minister's Questions debut… and it lasted about five minutes. How did the PM shape up – and was it the baptism of fire we expected? And in the Extra Bit: Will your mind really “flood with ideas” if you stop listening to podcasts, as one Guardian writer suggests? Our panel weighs in.  • Buy Beeban's book Users: How Big Tech Took Control and How to Fight Back from our affiliate bookshop and you'll help fund the podcast by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org's fees help support independent bookshops too. • Questions for But Your Emails? Thoughts? Comments? Email us at ogwn@podmasters.co.uk.  ESCAPE ROUTES • James saw the animated legal comedy Coyote vs Acme and read Jon Ronson's latest, The Castle: Adventures in a World of Unravelling Men. • Jason also watched Coyote vs Acme and read 31 Inventions that Built Our World by OGWN regular Jonn Elledge. • Beeban watched Arsenal scrape a win against Aston Villa and is re-reading Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. • Andrew went to Krankenhaus Festival in Cumbria and saw Sea Power, Pictish Trail and Smote, and spotted Green MP Hannah Spencer. He's also been bingeing the TV series Lanterns. • Find out if you're owed on car finance at refundclub.co.uk/OGWN • Refund Club is a trading style of Sandsford Law Limited, authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA no. 8008114). Checking is free. A fee is payable only if your claim is successful. Eligibility: car finance taken out in the UK between 2007 and 2021. The average claim is around £829 per agreement; this is an average and not a guarantee of the amount you will receive. You can also claim yourself for free by contacting your lender or the Financial Ombudsman Service. refundclub.co.uk/OGWN. www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Group Editor Andrew Harrison with James Ball, Jason Hazeley and Beeban Kidron. Produced by James Liddell. Audio production: Chris Jones. Art direction: James Parrett. Theme tune by Tom Taylor and Simon Williams. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. www.podmasters.co.uk  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Siden 2006 har Lotte Rubæk arbejdet målrettet med selvskade. Det begyndte med hendes første danske forskningsprojekt på området. I dag står hun i spidsen for Region Hovedstadens Psykiatris samlede indsats mod selvskade og er desuden faglig leder af Team for Selvskade i Børne- og Ungdomspsykiatrien.  At indgå i METAs ekspertråd på området, men aldrig modtage en NDA og faktisk fortælle om, hvordan META bruger sig selv til at lukke munden på kritikerne, opmærksomhedsøkonomien, børn og unge med seks timers skærmtid om dagen, en kulturændring i unges forbrug, man kan ikke holde tidevandet tilbage, når det kommer til skærmtid, en stigning på 31 % i antallet af henvisninger til børne- og ungdomspsykiatrien, hovedårsagerne til mistrivsel blandt børn og unge, selvskade og eskaleringen heraf på sociale medier blandt unge mennesker, man kan næsten tale om en pandemisk spredning af adfærden, algoritmen fodrer sig selv, hvordan moderationen fungerer hos Meta, stikprøvekontrol af selvskadeindhold, vejen ind i METAs ekspertråd og NDA'en, der aldrig kom, »vi tager det meget alvorligt«, at kigge under skørterne hos techgiganterne, uligheden i sagen om Molly Russell, at vidne i retssager mod Meta, retssager og det at kigge sig over skulderen, brugen af eksterne boards og det at bryste sig af dem, Meta-propaganda og adgangen til data, en global sag og måske et tobaks-90'er-moment, Zuckerberg og AI i hele verden, seks uger, hvor HTS ikke har givet lyd fra sig, Helle Thorning sidder stadig bare i et Meta-råd, og kritikken bør hagle ned, »vi ansætter selv folk, der forholder sig kritisk til os«.Værter: Esben Bjerre & Peter FalktoftRedigering: PodAmokKlip: PodAmokMusik: Her Går Det GodtInstagram:@hergaardetgodt@Peterfalktoft@Esbenbjerre

Feedback on Niptech 500 https://shows.acast.com/niptech/episodes/500-watermark-retrospective-filigrane-pour-claude-voitures-a NEWS Will Meta settlement reduce physical, mental health risks for young users? — Harvard Gazette https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/08/will-meta-settlement-reduce-physical-mental-health-risks-for-young-users/ Mark Zuckerberg had a bold plan to replace Meta staff with AI. Here's how it imploded. https://www.reuters.com/investigations/mark-zuckerberg-had-bold-plan-replace-meta-staff-with-ai-heres-how-it-imploded-2026-08-26/ Salesforce - SaaSpocalypse ? ALL in Podcast explanation - Plays from 10:42 https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Ygvem599PTPNf2H8xHU6x?si=lnS_oUyfQia1toM1QFEZQQ&utm_source=whatsapp&t=642&pi=WYNF6F_BSRCtw Claudeforce: The #1 AI Meets the #1 CRM https://www.salesforce.com/claudeforce/ Salesforce shares surge 12% after earnings

The business world rarely slows down, and this week was no exception. From Meta’s landmark legal settlement to Nvidia’s jaw-dropping earnings report, the headlines are telling a story that most mainstream media outlets are getting completely wrong. When you look at these events through a category design lens, the picture becomes much clearer and far more alarming than the surface-level reporting suggests. Understanding what these stories actually mean requires stepping back from the company-focused narrative and asking bigger questions. Who is winning? Who is losing trust? And more importantly, what does this mean for the future of AI and the people building it? This is just some of the topics that Pirates Christopher Lochhead, Eddie Yoon and Bri Clark discuss on this episode of The Pirate Street Journal. Each week, the Category Pirates pick three headlines worth paying attention to and break down the category underneath. You're listening to Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different. We are the real dialogue podcast for people with a different mind. So get your mind in a different place, and hey ho, let's go.   Meta’s Settlement Is Cheaper Than It Looks Meta agreed to pay 48 states a headline number of $18 billion, but the real guaranteed figure is $12.7 billion paid out over ten years. With Meta generating approximately $200 billion in annual revenue, this settlement amounts to roughly 1% of a single year’s earnings. That is not accountability. That is the cost of doing business for a company that knowingly harmed children and only stopped when forced to by the courts. The parental controls included in the deal are genuinely positive steps. Default two-hour daily limits for teenagers, overnight app blocking, and school-hour notification silencing are all meaningful changes. However, Meta only agreed to these reforms as Zuckerberg was days away from testifying, with damning internal evidence about to become public. The timing tells you everything you need to know about their motivations.   The Trust Problem Meta Created for All of AI For nearly two decades, Meta asked users to trust them with their most personal relationships, interests, and daily habits. They responded to that trust by prioritizing engagement and profit over the wellbeing of children. Internal data reached Zuckerberg directly, and the company continued anyway. That is the established and repeated fact at the center of this settlement. Now Zuckerberg is publishing manifestos about personal superintelligence, promising AI tutors, AI lawyers, and AI companions woven into every part of daily life. The AI systems being built today will know more about you than Google, Facebook, and Apple combined. The central question facing every user is simple: who do you trust with that level of intimacy? Meta’s track record provides a very clear answer.   Nvidia Shows Us What Trustworthy AI Leadership Looks Like While Meta’s story is one of eroded trust, Nvidia’s $96 billion quarter tells a completely different story. Jensen Huang has built the most valuable company on earth by being transparent, self-deprecating, and genuinely committed to expanding opportunity rather than concentrating power. He openly admits mistakes, eats street food, and tells people the truth about AI and jobs in a way that his counterparts refuse to do. The contrast between Jensen Huang and the Darth Vaders of AI could not be sharper. While Zuckerberg publishes warnings about concentrated power in the same week he settles a case about abusing it, Jensen is out building bridges across the entire industry stack. The AI conversation desperately needs his voice front and center, pushing the fear-driven narratives aside and replacing them with the kind of grounded, honest leadership that actually builds lasting trust. To hear about the topics in this week's The Pirate Street Journal, download and listen to this episode. You can also read more Pirate Street Journal entries in the Category Pirates newsletter.   We hope you enjoyed this episode of Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different™! Christopher loves hearing from his listeners. Feel free to email him, connect on Facebook, X, LinkedIn, and subscribe on Apple Podcast / Spotify!

Mark Zuckerberg argues that broadly distributed personal AI, or a “superintelligence” in his parlance, can increase prosperity and counter the risks of AI being controlled by a handful of government and corporate entities. Drew Conry-Murray joins Eyvonne and William to engage in a lively roundtable where they examine whether distributing access meaningfully distributes power when... Read more »

Mark Zuckerberg argues that broadly distributed personal AI, or a “superintelligence” in his parlance, can increase prosperity and counter the risks of AI being controlled by a handful of government and corporate entities. Drew Conry-Murray joins Eyvonne and William to engage in a lively roundtable where they examine whether distributing access meaningfully distributes power when... Read more »

Meta settled the state lawsuits over teen harm for $12.6 billion, spread across ten years. Its outside lawyers get roughly $10 billion. On a present-value basis, the law firms collect more than the states do. A month earlier, the states behind the case sought permission to ask a jury for $1.4 trillion in damages. The final deal admits no wrongdoing, keeps Mark Zuckerberg off the witness stand, and sunsets its safety commitments after five years. Florida refused to sign. Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers break down what Meta bought, what the trial would have exposed, and why the attorneys general folded. A former Meta engineer testified he sent Zuckerberg internal data showing teens encountered violent or graphic content at rates up to 400 times higher than the company admitted publicly. None of it reached a jury. Then follow the money. OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Amazon have given more than $2 million to attorney general campaigns since the start of last year, including $200,000 from Meta to each party's AG association in a single quarter. Meta is spending an estimated $65 million this year to back state politicians friendly to its industry. Compare it to tobacco. In 1998, 47 states won $200 billion. Meta pays 12 to 18 billion, admits nothing, and gets a clause raising its payment if YouTube, TikTok, and Snapchat make their own products less attractive to kids. (00:00) Two quotes about lawyers (01:33) What Meta agreed to pay (01:56) CNBC reacts: the lawyers beat the states (04:05) From $1.4 trillion to $18 billion (05:15) How this compares to Big Tobacco (07:26) Zuckerberg avoids the witness stand (09:52) Under oath: correlation is not causation (13:17) The algorithm concession, and what it sidesteps (15:46) AI companies fund the AGs investigating them (20:07) Big government and big business as collaborators

Elizabeth Lopatto recently wrote about Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-word AI manifesto in her piece, "Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand how to live." Today, she joins guest host David Imel and senior wearables reviewer Victoria Song for a freewheeling discussion about what happens when we let AI make decisions for us. Further reading: Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand how to live Dyson made a camera-equipped toothbrush that flosses for you Markiplier is now GoPro's biggest shareholder GoPro has been acquired and is getting into ‘defense, government, robotics and aerospace' John Ternus is now the CEO of Apple Subscribe to The Verge for unlimited access to theverge.com, subscriber-exclusive newsletters, and our ad-free podcast feed. We love hearing from you! Email your questions and thoughts to vergecast@theverge.com or call us at 866-VERGE11. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 1999, the last time California boosted the benefits it pays government employees – earlier retirements, richer retirements – financial disaster followed quickly. Now, state lawmakers want Newsom to try it again. We fact-check Newsom's claims on housing starts (terrible) and jobs (worse). Iowa's AG sues California for blocking the Paramount-Warner merger. Now that he's successful, Mark Zuckerberg says social media companies must be regulated. David and Will break down the Nick Shirley Act. Music by Metalachi. Email Us:dbahnsen@thebahnsengroup.comwill@calpolicycenter.org Follow Us:@DavidBahnsen@WillSwaim@TheRadioFreeCA Show Notes:David Bahnsen's “Profit from the profit”Ishi discovered in California Meta to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion in Landmark Settlement Over Social Media Addiction Claims“Hardly any” AI regulations? Becerra should know betterIowa Attorney General Says She's Taking California to the Supreme Court Over Paramount-Warner Bros. LawsuitGavin Newsom still doesn't understand the limits of his powerCalifornia set to force big companies to disclose historic links to slaveryKenneth Schrupp on Newsom's jobs reportNewsom's big housing claim is built on bad dataLawmakers vote to let first responders retire earlier and with more money. Will Newsom sign on?AB 1383 is a costly pension mistake in the makingAB 2624 signed into law, California rejects hated-filled (sic) misinformation campaignWill's work here would likely be illegal under the Act Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In June, the most capable American AI models stopped shipping as public launches and started shipping through a government gate. Six weeks later the gate is open again — and the real fight has moved to the layer no gate can touch. A Chinese open-weight model rattled trillions out of chip stocks, Washington pivoted from gating American closed models to threatening bans on Chinese open ones, the industry mounted its largest-ever policy counter-mobilization, and an American frontier model literally broke out of its lab and hacked another company. Knee-jerk reactions, or the beginning of real AI governance? Navigation: Intro The Gate Opens The Kimi Shock The Escape The Counterstrike and the Petition Interlude — The Low-Background Books The Investor Reckoning Conclusion Our co-hosts: Bertrand Schmitt, Entrepreneur in Residence at Red River West, co-founder of App Annie / Data.ai, business angel, advisor to startups and VC funds, @bschmitt Nuno Goncalves Pedro, Investor, Managing Partner, Founder at Chamaeleon, @ngpedro Our show: Tech DECIPHERED brings you the Entrepreneur and Investor views on Big Tech, VC and Start-up news, opinion pieces and research. We decipher their meaning, and add inside knowledge and context. Being nerds, we also discuss the latest gadgets and pop culture news Subscribe To Our Podcast Bertrand Introduction Welcome to Tech Deciphered Episode 80. This one, once again, will be all about AI, government, frontier models, and open weight counterstrike. A lot has been happening in the regulation space, in cybersecurity, in the launch of new models in the past, maybe just 6–8 weeks. It’s actually pretty insane how much happened. We believe it was time to do an episode to talk about where we are and maybe where all of this is going. Maybe let’s start with a summary of where we stand, all that June and July saga, so you, our listeners, can get up to speed if you are not already there. You want to start with some points? Nuno The Gate Opens Yeah. Again, to your point, the gate swings. The gate had closed. We had to prepare an episode for the gate closing, and then the gate reopened. Now we have a different episode. This will probably change again as we’re seeing there’s news every day. Let’s start maybe with the first 19 days of the gate closing. There was an executive order on June 2nd from President Trump that asked frontier labs to share models with the government, 30 days pre-release. It inferred the protected frontier model designation into that. Basically, it was effectively a de facto licensing agreement defined by an executive order of the President as of June 2nd. On June 9th, Anthropic launched Fable 5 and the famous Mythos 5 or Mythos. I’m not sure how you actually say it in English. Then on June 12th, there was an export control directive banning access by any foreign national. Since there’s no way to verify nationality in real-time, Anthropic had to switch the models off for everyone worldwide. Bertrand On this point, you could argue that there are possibilities to check IDs. Many services let you check IDs online. You can pre-check a flight by showing your ID. There are ways, it’s just that if you don’t want to follow what’s already available, because guess what? Maybe it slowed down your revenue growth, maybe it looks bad on you or whatever. My point is that there was actually an option. I think it’s already a decision from Anthropic to say it’s either on or off, but nothing in between. Nuno I think the point is they had no way implemented of doing it. If they implemented it, to your point, it would have hampered use in general. A lot of people wouldn’t have gone through that trouble of doing it. Anyway, long story short, in June 26th, the White House apparently asked OpenAI to limit GPT-5.6, so Sol, Terra, Luna, to only 20 vetted partners. Now, apparently, the trigger for a lot of these things that have been going on was that there was a jailbreak that was found by Amazon researchers. All of that led to this jumping around of, let’s close the gates. You have foreign nationals, and therefore, Anthropic got it out and said, “Hey, then we’re going to switch the models off until we can sort this out.” OpenAI was asked also to only allow it for certain vetted partners, et cetera. The government came in, closed the gates effectively, and said, “From now on, we need to be involved in this thing.” De facto regulation, there’s no doubt that this has imposed de facto regulation, certainly on the top players in the market. But then came the reversal. Bertrand, do you want to talk about the reversal, the gate swinging the other side? Bertrand Maybe I just wanted to say that as a user of Anthropic products, ChatGPT products, for the brief moments, a few days where Fable 5 was made available to the public before it was closed the first time, I immediately started using it. I must say it was a real issue to use it because the guardrails were pretty crazy. It would keep saying that my code was not okay, there was cybersecurity risk and stuff when I was doing absolutely reasonable development with absolutely no connection whatsoever to any cybersecurity risk, attack, detection, anything. Still, it would keep blocking me, degrading me to Opus 4.8 at the time. I just want to say this was already very hardcore what they were implementing, and not just hardcore, but in some ways, plain stupid for something that’s supposed to be super smart. It was totally unable to classify properly some of my work. I must say I was already disappointed. On top of it, the costs were insane. Half a day, I would reach my limits when I had the best plan you can get from Anthropic. My point is that there were some real serious issues when they launched Fable 5, even at that point. Nuno I had a similar issue. I used Fable 5 as well before they had to take it offline or take it off. I think the issue was really not that the guardrails failed. As you said, maybe the guardrails were actually too aggressive, but it was this jailbreak that caused the recall, apparently caused this knee-jerk reaction. Bertrand But my point is that it seems that it was not working either way. It would either overclassify something that’s absolutely not doing anything wrong, and it might fail to classify something that is actively trying to do some cybersecurity work. It’s a real issue of quality for a company that’s supposed to be at the forefront of quality of AI and everything. I think for me, there are already signs that something is deeply wrong. Nuno Then it’s reversed, right? We went the other way around. The government came out on June 26th and approved redeploying Mythos 5 to US organizations defending critical infrastructure, and then the export controls were effectively lifted on June 30th. July 1st, Fable 5 came back online for all of us to use. Shocking enough, with strings attached, that were different. They had some time to revise their commercial deployment of it along the way because it came back with some, “Now you have usage credits, but you have some limits on plan use, et cetera.” I’m like, “You guys, this was blocked. But meanwhile, you did have some time to do some commercial stuff around it.” Bertrand It was crazy. I’ve never witnessed any such crappy launch of any service whatsoever in 30 years in tech, it was so bad. Every day, they would change the terms of service. They would tell you it’s part of the plan. It’s not part of the plan. It’s part of the plan for three more days, and then it’s excluded. You have a special discount now, but then it goes back to full price. It was a total nightmare. I’ve never felt myself being so much mistreated by a company. I guess you saw the same, but when I started using the newest version of Fable 5, it was even worse, actually, I think. I couldn’t do any work with this crap. I let it go and work on the work I wanted it to do. It was simply not working. On top of it, you never know how long you are supposed to lose your credit, how fast. It was burning credit like crazy. Me, personally, I can say, very quickly, I actually stopped using it. I was like, “No, I cannot deal with this shit. My main model is back to Opus 4.8. I’m going to use Fable 5 for code review, but not anymore to control anything because I cannot trust it would do the job without stopping or changing models and stuff. I just cannot trust it.” Back to Opus 4.8 as my main model, I can say that my life was much easier. I use Fable 5 as a review mechanism, as a support mechanism, but not as the main mechanism. Suddenly, the guardrails were not so horrible anymore because it was used in a much lighter way, I guess. As a pain as a user, I think it was really bad. I don’t know your experience, but me, for me, it was unacceptable. Nuno I wouldn’t say it was as bad as yours in terms of just end-user experience. I think the terms of service switching back and forth, which went one further step, because then when they then launched Opus 5, they started making comparisons between Opus 5 and Fable so that people would migrate more and more to Opus 5 themselves, which is interesting. It’s like they’re saying “This is much cheaper. This is whatever. You’re not going to run of credits. You should use Opus 5,” kind of thing effectively. To your point, I don’t think they managed well the launch. They didn’t really manage it well. We’re moving people around. A lot of people are using this for stuff that’s like daily tasks, hourly tasks, anything that relates to code and co-work. It’s like, we need to have visibility on what your terms of service are going to be. Should I be using this new model or not? What’s happening to the other model? I don’t see it as negatively as you, Bertrand, but I see your point. It was clearly mishandled in terms of how they deployed it, how they were redesigning effectively their pricing scheme and their terms of service almost on a daily basis, at a certain point in time. We’re like, “Dude, there’s millions of people using this. You guys are making a lot of money.” Just moving it as it is. At this point in time, at the scale that these guys are at, it’s calling in people to say, how about we think through a class action suit at some point around pricing? Because you guys are changing the rules of the game all the time, right? Bertrand I don’t know if I need the class action, but for me, that joke that, “Let’s not rush too fast. The model is dangerous.” But still, they rushed the launch because it’s very clear that if they had enough compute capacity and stuff, they would not have to limit so much. They would not have to put so much cost per token and all of this. You can see that actually when they launch Opus 5, literally like 2, 3 weeks after, by most benchmark at launch, they tell you basically that, “You know what? Actually, Opus 5 is better than Fable 5 on 80% of the metrics.” They’re like, “What? Seriously? You couldn’t wait 2 weeks? Why did you even launch Fable 5 in the first place?” That’s another part for me that is quite literally insane, to be frank. It’s like, “Why? Why do you make us go through so much pain if it’s only to tell us after 2 weeks to…” “This new model, by the way, has less issues, less stuff, because 2, 3 times less is part of your plan, and it’s actually better by most metrics.” It’s like, “What’s going on here? What’s going on? Are you guys mad?” I don’t know. It was crazy. Personally, I still use Opus, now 5, as my main system and platform, Fable 5 for review, code reviews and the like. I don’t want to run into its stupid guardrails. I can see Fable 5, from my perspective, seems quite a bit smarter. I don’t know why they do this stupid benchmark showing you it’s actually worse than Opus 5. I guess they should have better benchmark if they want to demonstrate why you are supposed to pay 2, 3x more for a model versus another if it’s actually worse by most benchmark. Again, I still think it’s a huge mess from a marketing perspective, customer perspective. Me as a user, I really feel that they don’t want my money, and they couldn’t care less about me. This is even before everything else we’re trying to talk about. Nuno Yes. Maybe just to close the cycle on the reversal on the door opening the other way, finally, Commerce lifted the GPT-5.6 restrictions on July 8th, and then on July 9th, general availability across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API as well. What has this proved? It proved that now we have gating mechanisms, and certainly for closed models in the US, for sure. We had frontier models that were switched off worldwide in hours, and it took a couple of days, in this case, 19 days to restore them. There were concessions. Now we know that there were concessions around effectively institutionalizing that gate. Early government access to future models is, I think, now a given, certainly in the US. New safeguard frameworks are probably now having to be put in place. There are some stage limits now on who gets access to what for new models and how it happens. This voluntary executive order, so to speak, not really sure, has become effectively regulation enforcement path. It’s de facto regulation that now has been put in place. It has affected not just to the points we were making before, the access to these models, but also who gets access to these models, and actually potentially even pricing access to the models. It has probably some commercial implications as well as we just discussed along the way. Very significant. This is very significant. This is regulation, de facto at the table, imposed on the two largest players in the market by far by one government, in this case, the US government. This is significant. Actually, you could even allege it was imposed by the President because this was coming as part of executive orders. Really incredible. Pretty significant, fast, aggressive. It has created a regime that you could say it’s a regulatory regime, it’s a de facto regulatory regime. It has some significant pricing and licensing and commercial implications. It goes even beyond your classic regulatory framework. Very, very, very significant. Bertrand I don’t know if it goes beyond a classic regulatory framework. Nuno I think it does, because it has implications on who do you give access to? When government is saying you can only give access to these players, right? Bertrand Defense industry. It’s all over the defense industry. You cannot sell an F-35 like this. Nuno No, but that has commercial implications, Bertrand. That’s like you’re saying these are your customers, you go and use them. Bertrand That’s the defense industry. You cannot sell to Iran your F-35. No, that’s exactly the same story for me. Nuno No, no, no. It’s beyond that. These guys are saying when they came back, and they said, “For Mythos, you can make them available to these entities,” they were saying the first entities that are going to have access to the model. It has commercial regulatory implications. You’re saying these players are the first players that are going to have access to it. It’s no longer just defense concerns and these governments don’t have access to this. No, no, no. You’re saying to a company that is a private company, your models are only going to be used by these guys because I’m telling you so. It’s the other way around. It’s not even that you can’t sell it to Iran or whatever. It’s like you can only sell it to these guys. Bertrand Again, in the defense industry, if you’re a private company, do you think you can buy F-35 like this? No. Nuno No, no, no. But this is a private company, Bertrand. This is not a defense agency and a plane that is on whatever, with IP from the US, right? Bertrand Boeing is a private company, and they cannot sell the military equipment they manufacture. Nuno No, no, no. But the development of their IP was subsidized by agencies that belong to the US, right? That’s a different matter. It’s a matter of IP, right? This is not, right? Anthropic, their models are not owned by the US government. There’s no IP granted to the US government, to my knowledge. This has significant commercial implications. Bertrand Maybe, yes. Maybe on this. But I think there are already regimes to limit who you can sell to, and that’s decided by the state or the DOD. Nuno It’s the export control logic. The export control logic? Bertrand You have export control, and export control is Commerce. My point is that they are using existing tools, part of the government, to limit what can be sold. Selling chips, NVIDIA was limited in terms of where it could sell its chips. It’s not different either, but still there were limitations. If you are an ASML, you cannot sell to a private company in China. Many private companies cannot buy ASML products. This is a foreign company. This is a foreign company under pressure from US government. Nuno I understand, and I’m not a lawyer, but it feels different to me when you say you cannot export, this is export controls, to these countries, to these entities, et cetera, because they’re foreign et cetera. Then to say, “No, no, no. On top of that, these guys get first access.” That’s, for me, a significant shift. Again, I’m not a lawyer, so I’m sure there’s very intelligent people right now looking at this stuff and saying, “You can’t do this stuff, or not, or they can.” I don’t know. But it feels to me, it goes beyond the remit of export controls. It’s like you’re defining initial clients for specific use. Bertrand My impression is more like, “We can do this situation where we’re going to forbid you to give access to anyone outside the US or even in the US or limit even more.” Basically, it was, I guess, some gesture to go beyond that. That’s how they probably defined these 20 authorized companies. I don’t know. Apparently, there was also restrictions because I remember seeing that Anthropic had their own list of companies they would authorize access to Mythos early on. That’s apparently another thing that pissed off state government because there were companies in there that were considered close to the Chinese government. They were extremely unhappy that Anthropic didn’t ask, actually, for any guidance from the state government, but used basically their own perspective on who they should allow or not. I guess that was also part of why they got these serious restrictions. Nuno Anyway, now we have a regulatory environment that’s very interesting and exciting. Talk about the US not regulating. Bertrand To be clear, I don’t know you, but I’m not saying that I agree with any of this, to be very clear. I’m trying to explain and share some perspective, but I’m not in agreement on a lot of this. Nuno Yes, we were just describing what happened to the best of our knowledge. We’re having a discussion on what we think actually is happening and how it’s happening. We’re not really right now saying we agree or disagree with this. I think later in the episode, we can share some perspectives on what we think is actually happening and how there’s dimensions to this which are very geopolitical and very complex, which quite literally probably only God knows what’s going to happen. That was the gate swinging. There was a gate closing, then there was a gate reopening, and all of a sudden we have a gatekeeping system that has been created along the way. The Kimi Shock Along the way, moving to our Act 2, the world has changed, and we now have so-called open-source plays out there that are creating massive, massive shifts in the market. The Chinese models, in particular, with Moonshot AI launching Kimi K3, which is the largest open-weight model ever released. We’ll come back to the discussion around open-weights. I’m not sure all our listeners understand what that means, because there’s a debate now, should models be open weight or not, and how does that work? There’s been a petition as well signed along the way. Right now, we have open weight models that are out there that are huge. What that actually means very pragmatically is we now have open source models, lack of a better word. I know open weight and open source are not the same thing. You guys will have to bear with us during this episode. We’ll explain at some point the differences. But we have models out there that are open source that are significant. That are catching up with the closed source models, with the models by OpenAI, Anthropic. That’s significant because most of those models are Chinese. This is where the geopolitics starts getting really frazzling and we start playing 3D chess. Because everyone’s like, “These models are 5, 6 months behind.” Now people are saying, “Maybe they’re actually just 3 months behind, 2, 3 months behind.” If we, for example, decided to stop or slow down our model releases in the US by the closed source guys who are leading, it might mean they’ll catch up. What are the implications of that? Again, for you and I that are not necessarily experts in model development, well, the implications as a use case is if you want to use the latest models, and the best models start becoming these open source models, you’re going to use those models. Then you start using Chinese models. If you’re an American company, maybe you’ll have restrictions on the use of those Chinese models. But if you’re a European company, you probably won’t. What happens after that? Is the world going to be in the hand of Chinese models? Will that constitute effective competition to the closed models in the US? Will we have open models in the US that will scale as well? What’s going to happen? Bertrand I think it’s a really big question. It goes to some of the core of the issue. It’s that ability of Chinese models to basically challenge frontier models, not just being 6, 12 months late, but being 6 weeks late. Basically, no gap. Some will say that, yes, but OpenAI and Anthropic have even better models that are not shared and stuff. Yes, sure. But maybe the Chinese have the same models that they are not sharing right now. We don’t know. What is clear is that one is that open weight, as you said, two, there is a question of how it is marketed in the sense of, can anyone use these weights? Is there a license to use them? Yes, what we can see is that, for instance, typically there is a license for some of the biggest Chinese open-weight models you have to abide with. You might have a need for a commercial license if you are acting as a company leveraging this model to provide AI-informed services. If you use it internally by yourself, you’re okay. If you use it internally for your own internal company needs, maybe you are okay if it’s not your main business to do AI work. Anything else, a much bigger corporate providing AI services and stuff, you will probably end up having to pay a fee to be able to provide services around this model. My point is that it’s not just 100% free. Some of the Chinese models are 100% free to use, MIT license, Apache 2.0 license. But the biggest ones with the biggest weight that are truly frontier typically have a different license if you want to scale these models, providing AI in front. That’s one thing to keep in mind. Nuno Maybe just to make a very quick point, because people are like, when you talk about open models, what does it mean right now? In the context of this episode, open models mostly will mean open-weight models. How do those differ from open source? Open weight means that you release the weights to the public, which means that anyone can download, fine-tune, and run the model on their own hardware. It doesn’t normally mean that you also have access to training data, training code, or a truly open license. That’s the distinction to open source. Open-weight doesn’t mean that. For example, we’ve talked about Meta’s Llama in the past, and we also discussed in the past that their license agreement does have restrictions, certain players can’t use it, et cetera. The open model definition and open weights are really open-weight models that we’re talking about here, and they are closer to freeware binaries than to Linux, for those who understand the difference between that. It’s binaries that you can use and then use your own weights on it versus actually I can change code on it. I’m not going to be able to change code on this. When we, for the purposes of this episode, talk about open, we mention open weight, just to clarify that point to everyone that’s listening right now. Bertrand Yes, that’s a great point. One of the only players, as far as I know, who is truly open source is actually NVIDIA with their Nemotron-3 models. They’re actually following a special license to achieve that. They provide you the data, they provide you all the processes and tools, so you can easily post-train. NVIDIA is a big, big exception. It’s a very interesting player, by the way. We might not talk much about it in this episode, but I think for intermediate-size models built in the US, where you have access to everything in the deployment, it’s a very interesting alternative and maybe one of the best choices if you are a US company or a big corporate, and you want something trusted. Another piece of the puzzle to clarify is that when you use open-weight, it means that you can run them by yourself, or you can use a US provider to run them. If we are talking about Chinese open-weight, you can use the APIs they provide, but then the service is running in China, they might have access to your data. But because it’s open weight, if you run it by yourself or if you use a third-party provider based in the US to run it, then there is no access to your data by China or Chinese players. I think that’s a pretty important gap to understand. It means that these models are actually very, very low risk from that perspective if you run them on your premises or in the US by a US player. I think that’s something to keep in mind. You can also fine-tune easily these models to make sure they will behave in a way that, for instance, is not going to represent the line of the Communist Party on some topics. There are ways to make these models more neutral in their output as well. There are a lot of ways to make good use of them. By default, they’re already very safe, but you can make them even more safe. I think that’s some things to keep in mind. But again, it depends ultimately on the license and what you’re authorized to do and some fees you might end up having to pay. Nuno Why did this matter so much? Immediately there was a reaction from the market because people are like, well, if there’s much better stuff out there that’s much more efficient than it’s open, then it might be that all the demand that we are taking into account, for example, for chipsets actually isn’t real. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell into bear market territory. It went down by as much as 20% plus from the late June peak. The worst chip week since April 2025. Taiwan’s benchmark initially fell 6% plus, Japan’s 4%, TSMC dropped dramatically despite beating earnings and rising guidance. Basically, a huge amount of effect. Now, there’s a little bit the aftermath of this where apparently Moonshot ran out of GPU capacity. Maybe… Bertrand In just 48 hours. Nuno In 48 hours. Great for them, but at the same time, not great in the sense that maybe there was a misread by Wall Street of the Kimi effect, so to speak. Bertrand Completely. For me, that’s such a joke. It’s like, because you have an open source model, so what? I mean, you still need to run it. This is not a small one. 2.8 trillion parameters. Good luck running that in your garage, by the way. Nuno They misread supply, basically. Tough luck, right? All of that basically happens. Bertrand Maybe you want to talk about the Jevons paradox, because I think that’s a big part of the puzzle as well. Its one is they might not have the GPUs to run the inference on the model. They might have enough to build a model, but not enough these days to run inference, especially given how much with intelligent models, thinking models, you need way more inference than before. But on top of it, the cheaper you make it, the more you get to the Jevons paradox. Nuno Yes, Jevons paradox, for those who don’t know, is an economic term. It describes an economic phenomenon where technological improvements that increase the efficiency of a resource lead to an increase rather than a decrease in the total consumption of that resource. What that means is, for example, for chipsets, chipsets become so much better, and they are so much more efficient. You’re like, well, maybe normally in resource terms, that leads to decreased usage of that resource. But in this case, it actually leads to an increased use of that resource rather than a decrease. There’s more and more consumption of that resource. You need more and more chipsets because people actually need to do more and more stuff with it, although there are great efficiencies going into it. There’s the efficiency gain, there’s the cost reduction, and there’s the price-elasticity element to it. But basically, the adoption just continues going through the roof along the way. Bertrand In some ways, it’s like the price of energy. Coal went cheaper and cheaper, and people were asking the same question 150 years ago, now that it gets cheaper, there is not much money. No, no. Actually, what happens is that people find more and more use for coal. Homes are getting heated more. You have ships now using coal. You have manufacturing using coal. The cheaper it gets, the more use case you can develop, and therefore, you don’t need less of the stuff, you need more of the stuff. By going at scale to get more of the stuff, you also decrease price, making even more demand. It’s a very interesting phenomenon, but it’s not new. It is what happened for a while in the energy sector and some other sectors. Nuno We already started talking about the Chinese logic and what’s happening. Getting a little bit of a reality check on this. The Chinese models, and these are numbers from Open Router in July, Chinese models are at 46.4% of routed tokens and 35.7% for US origin. Again, more than a third of global AI usage now seems to be running on Chinese open models. This is significant, and it has a huge impact on the geopolitical scale of everything that’s happening. Also, the whole Chinese field is converging on open. Open seems to be a strategy, not just a nice thing that’s happening. It seems to be a Chinese strategy, so much so that you have players like Moonshot, DeepSeek, our old friends DeepSeek, Z.ai’s GLM 5.2, Minimax, and even Alibaba seems to be reversing and going open with Qwen. It feels to me this is becoming policy as well. Xi Jinping has personally endorsed the building of open-source AI, if it’s really open source, if it’s just open weight anyway, and this feels to be a jab at Washington, DC and the fact that the big closed models are coming from the US. This is now geopolitical 4D chess, right? We didn’t need this stuff. Bertrand To be clear, it’s the usual in tech. If you are not number one, you are number two, number three, your alternative is to go open source because that’s another angle that your competitor usually cannot follow without destroying its own business model. That has been the alternative for the past 20 years of most software projects. Here, what’s different is that it’s not the number one or number two player. It’s the US number one as a country, China number two as a country. That’s where it’s new. For me, what’s very interesting is the endorsement by Xi Jinping. I was waiting for something official, and it certainly didn’t disappoint. As you said, there was an immediate U-turn of Alibaba, who in the past… Nuno Surprisingly. Bertrand Yes, a little more like, “yes, we are going to close and stop open source. It was good while it lasted.” Just a few days ago, Qwen 3.8 Max was launched, and we are supposed to get the weight in a few days. We talk about the US administration policy and stuff. Yes, let’s not forget that in China there is similar stuff. Sometimes it’s totally invisible because you don’t see the directives, but they exist as much. Sometimes it’s more visible. Here it was quite visible. The difference in China is that if you don’t abide by the directive, on top of it, you might have to fear for your personal safety. It’s a different game, and that’s probably why the reaction is pretty quick, usually. That’s pretty interesting for me because it means that now you can bet for a while that China is going to play that game up to a point. I guess the point is if it’s truly frontier scale, you will have a special license that, yes, technically the weights are open, but you can not do everything you want with it. Two, you have a player like NVIDIA that I think will feel more pressure to provide even more high quality, larger models at scale going forward. Their largest Nemotron-3 Ultra model was, if I remember well, only around 500 billion parameters. I would not be surprised for NVIDIA to go into the two, three trillion range at some point. Because I think the US need a very clear US-born alternative open source. I think NVIDIA might be the best player for that. We will see if Meta goes back to open source. I think NVIDIA is one, very well positioned, but two, it’s also in their best interest. Because NVIDIA for now depends on just a few big hyperscalers as clients. If they can expand their clients to every S&P 500 companies, selling them directly hardware because now these companies can run a model made by NVIDIA, I think there is a very clear value proposition for NVIDIA to go in that space. Again, if you are number two, your differentiation, open source is often the answer. There is a true business as a business model for companies, because if it’s truly not just open weight, but open source, you can tweak it as much as you want, you can change it, you can change even the pre-training process. Because there is a lot of stuff you can do that really benefits you as a corporate, and you can reach a much better value by having more control on the model. Nuno We won’t spend a ton of time on it today, but like, again, if there’s a view that we are in a bubble, that the valuations cannot be sustained in chipsets, infrastructure platforms, applied AI, et cetera, today, this might be that beginning, where the valuations start being destroyed because you can’t keep a premium on just charging people for tokens and all that stuff if you have models that become more and more efficient and cheaper to use. Maybe just to close a little bit the geopolitical part of the discussion today, we won’t go into all the announcements from China because there were many, a lot of go back and forth with Alibaba by then. Xi Jinping made some announcements. You guys can check it online. Let’s move quickly to Washington’s reaction, which was from gating the US closed models to banning the Chinese open ones. There’s been as strong affirmations as one can get from the Office of Science and Technology Policy Director, Michael Kratzios, mentioning that they have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic’s Fable. Basically, there’s been reverse engineering and stuff in the market. They’re basically copying. Bertrand I’m sorry to interrupt, but it feels like so much bullshit. It’s coming from Anthropic who has basically gotten access at scale to all the knowledge made by humanity, copyrighted or not. We’ll talk more about what they did with books. Then to claim after that that others cannot do to you what you did to everybody else. For me, it’s pretty big. It’s clearly unacceptable. The other piece is that everyone is doing distillation. It’s a very typical approach of every business model. You try other software when you are competing with somebody else. You try other datasets, you check what’s happening. It’s part of doing business for decades. Suddenly it’s not good for Anthropic. I personally have a lot of trouble to accept that. I think it’s totally unacceptable. The other piece of the puzzle will also go back. If these guys are so smart, if these guys have so much of the best model, why can’t they block by themselves distillation at scale? The only answer is that either they are morons, probably not, or they simply don’t want to because it’s going towards their business model. Suddenly, you book less revenues and stuff, or you put more friction, and therefore your customers don’t like it. Instead of doing it yourself, you ask the government to protect you, go out of business practice that is very typical. For me, it’s really, really, really not good. Sorry, we are going more in the opinion side, but I had to put that on the table. Nuno Yes, Fable went public finally again on July first. Question marks on whether distillation would only be possible from July first onwards or not. But a 15-day distillation to frontier, which is K3, launched on July 15th, would have been a Guinness World Record, as one of Moonshot employees actually mentioned. It’s very implausible and unlikely. Bertrand Or they shared the Mythos 5 with the wrong companies, who themselves shared with Chinese companies. We go back to maybe they didn’t have a good list. Again, it goes back to maybe they didn’t want to hurt their business model. Nuno Anyway, under the threat of sanctions, Moonshot, in any case, open-sourced the full K3 weights and technical reports. They open weighted it to become the largest open weight model in the world in terms of parameters. Beijing’s MOFCOM brands US threats as basically the US wanting to fundamentally control and be monopolistic around AI along the way. The administration bans Chinese hardware with an eye on the AI race, and Beijing warns of retaliation. That was July 27. Now we’re in a war between Beijing and DC. Bertrand Just to finish maybe on China, it’s important to know that they are building their own GPUs now. Huawei has pretty good, not to NVIDIA level, but pretty decent GPU hardware that they’re able to manufacture by themselves. A Chinese player of memory just got IPO’d a few days ago, CXMT. China is also developing their own memory. Again, not to the same level of quality that you can get from the West. But China is moving. It’s not just that they are building great models, it’s also that they are building GPUs and memory. That might be a few years late to the latest standards in the West, but there are definitely improvements. I also read, even on the tools to make manufacturing like ASML equivalent, there is definitely some work going on, and some improvements and some stuff will be visible. In some ways, the genie starts to get out of the bottle from the Chinese perspective. Nuno I’ll put a stick on the ground. I don’t think it’s a matter of if, it’s a matter of when will China surpass and have a lot of this tooling on their own side, and not just the software layer, not just the frontier models. I think it’s also going to be around infrastructure and platform. Good luck to everyone. Let’s see how the race continues. But it’s definitely this is a geopolitical thing right now. It’s definitely a race. The Escape Maybe moving to what happened in just 2 weeks or a week and a half. The escape, there was some jailbreaking going on, and the narrative on safety has totally switched. It’s not still significant enough that’s like, “Oh, we saw a nuclear plant going, whatever.” No. But still, it is significant. Hugging Face, the AI company, disclosed an intrusion, and it was driven end-to-end by an autonomous AI agent system at machine speed, running for days before detection. Now, this is where it gets really cool. OpenAI takes attribution on that. They initially said it was just a little bit, sorry. Then they said, actually, it was worse than that. “Oh, it broke out of an isolated sandbox.” “Oh, no, actually, it was more than that, and it went into other systems as well.” Bertrand Truly, the genie out of the bottle. Nuno No, but this is where it gets really cool, Bertrand, right? Because it actually, Hugging Face contained the intrusion by running a Chinese open-weight model, GLM 5.2. This is beautiful, right? Bertrand Yes. You know why? Because they couldn’t even run their own defense because both Anthropic and OpenAI would not let them access their latest models with the guardrails off. When they tried using it for defense, the latest from Anthropic, from ChatGPT, they would tell them, “No, this is too dangerous what you’re asking us to do.” Preventing an intrusion, helping defend you. No way we are going to do that. Nuno No. Let’s use the Chinese models on our infrastructure. Bertrand We have no choice but to use the Chinese models to run. More than that, we don’t let you use our models to defend yourself, but our not yet released models that run without guardrails, they can attack you. This is probably the most insane from that perspective. Nuno The Chinese models came to the rescue. Bertrand For me, that’s a perfect example because Hugging Face is a very visible company in AI in open source. But anybody who is not at that scale is not going to get some support from OpenAI or Anthropic when this happens. Maybe these guys won’t even recognize they did anything wrong. You will be left to defend by yourself because they won’t accept to support you. Because remember, if you want the better model that is able to defend you from cybersecurity perspective, no way. If you are not one of the few top 20 companies or so, as defined, you are left defenseless. Again, we are going back to opinion, but for me, it’s so shocking what’s happening right now. I’m very glad we have alternative open source to be able to defend ourselves because right now, good luck getting defense services if you are a smaller business and individuals, and you need support from Anthropic, OpenAI. Nuno Now, even self-described AI optimists are saying, “This is scary now.” Like Walter Isaacson, who wrote all the famous biography books. There’s now discussion around the AI Kill Switch Act, bipartisan thing that’s coming across from Texas and California, a potential bill that’s coming in. We’ll see if that works. Now let’s get an off-switch. I’m like, “Cool.” As if that’s going to solve the problem, because you have open-weight models on the other side catching up, right? Bertrand Yeah, sure. Bring in clueless politicians from Congress to solve our problems. Yes, sure. Nuno Anthropic came to the table, helped build and said they built some regulatory machine on their side, and now they’re getting bitten by it, and they’re part of the offending players in that market. Now there’s all this debate and all this discussion around open weight and around slowing down AI and et cetera, which is our next section. You wanted to say something, Bertrand. Tell us. Bertrand Don’t forget, because this advertisement for OpenAI was just too good. Our AI attacked some other companies, and not just one, but three, actually. Let’s not forget the progress. Great ads. Then I came and said, “You know what? AI also hacked businesses.” You’re not the only one hacking around with a crazy AI out of control. You’re not the only one. We want our advertising. For me, it was shocking that on one side, unreleased models that you let run wild. On the other hand, you have released models that you put crazy guardrails on top of it, so the defender are defenseless. I’ve never seen anything like it, and I really hope that there will be as little regulation as possible, quite frankly, to make sure anyone can defend themselves and have the best tool at their disposal, not just a few well-connected big corporates. This is really, really shocking. The Counterstrike and the Petition Nuno Now the empire strikes back, so this is counterstrike, the petitions. In several days, we have now a bunch of petitions. The first one was the open weights letter. Bertrand, do you want to explain to us what the open weights letter is? Bertrand Yeah. I think it was great. This was released by Jensen Huang, first ever post on X, 11 million views. Congrats, Jensen. Co-signed with Microsoft, Meta, c actually was probably the initiator of this letter. Very good letter saying, “Hey, we need open weight. This is not a joke. We need that. You cannot block open weight.” Because that’s the rumor we are getting that potentially open weight could get blocked. I think they are making the case, “You know what? Hey, we absolutely need that as an alternative. You cannot block it.” They can keep their closed models, but don’t force a closure of the open weight models. As I said before, it’s actually a great model for NVIDIA because NVIDIA doesn’t want, probably rightfully so, to be dependent on just a few frontier models, their best customers. They want a variety of customers. They have a big interest actually to defend open weight and to invest even more. They have great researchers, are a great company. If one company is about to do really kick-ass work, I think it’s them. They are defending. What’s great is that it’s not just them. It’s basically most of big tech in the US and outside the US, from a Linux Foundation to a Microsoft, the Palantir, an IBM, a Dell. It’s a who’s who of the industry except Anthropic. Anthropic didn’t sign that. I guess they hate open source so much. If I look at 20 years ago, it feels like Microsoft, after all, was very kind to open source. You remember what was said by Microsoft at the time. It’s clear there is one company against open source. OpenAI signed the letter. Honestly, I don’t know what to think. Do they really believe in it or was it just a way to show that they are not like Anthropic? I don’t know. But for the rest, I think it’s genuine because it’s actually in their best interest. I hope they will be heard. Then a second letter came, the Open Secure AI Alliance, NVIDIA-led and again, the big tech companies from Microsoft, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, Databricks, Palantir, all those, but not present, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Here it’s to say, “Hey, we need a secure approach to AI. Open should be part of the equation.” guess what? The worst AI-caused security incident to date was actually caused by closed frontier models that were not even available to the public. While again, not providing you access to even the latest closed model for cybersecurity use case. Nuno I would highlight the NVIDIA open source NOOA framework, Apache 2.0 licensing agreement, Microsoft contributed the MDASH, SpaceX AI contributed Grok Build. Cool stuff. There’s some cool stuff happening around that. This is more than a letter. This is an alliance. Apparently, they’re contributing all this stuff, we’ll see. Yeah, cool stuff. Same day. Same day, Amodei has an answer, right? Bertrand Yeah, same day. They say, “We never advocated for a ban,” which, again, opinion on my side is entirely bullshit. This guy has been crying wolf against everybody else, and especially against open source. You can see him doing testimony in Congress against open source. I think they are doing everything they can behind the scene to block open source in the US or in the world if they could. I think, yeah, obscurity is not good safety. I’m a big fan of open source in general, and I’m also a big fan in AI. I think it’s now Anthropic, mostly against the rest of the world. I think OpenAI is mostly on their side, to be frank. They don’t want to acknowledge it so much, but they have shared interest, and they have shared probably position. Nuno Why would you? I don’t feel as strongly as you because I think Anthropic is a private company, right? The same thing with OpenAI. OpenAI, you could say it’s a nonprofit that has a for-profit. There’s still that complexity in there. Bertrand No, they can do what they want with their own product. But to block others is where I’m not okay. That’s the part I’m not okay. Nuno What Dario Amodei is proposing is more enforcement, right? He’s basically saying you need to do even tighter controls on advanced chips flowing to authoritarian states, enforcement against industrial-scale distillation, whatever that means, right? Bertrand Yeah, which he could do, but all by himself. He doesn’t need the government to do that. Nuno Mandatory safety testing for all sufficiently capable AI, open and closed, right? He’s basically saying, “Okay, I don’t agree with the open weight stuff effectively,” right? He’s just putting it under a different banner. “I agree with this extra regulation.” then obviously, David Sacks responded and say, “Hey, it’s like, bans don’t work for weights. Why do they work for chips?” It’s like, magically, chips are more controllable and bannable. Whatever that is. Then our friend Mark Zuckerberg, just to be clear, goes on the other side as well, because he also has to have a view. He has to have a view that is the rebuttal of both of the other guys. Bertrand I feel he’s a bit flip-flopping because he was very pro open source 2 years ago, and the latest Meta models went closed source. Now I think he’s back open source. I don’t think he has a very strong spine on the topic, but it’s good to see that he’s not a doomer. That for me is great. He’s showing how AI can be a source for progress, a source for entrepreneurship, source for freedom. I think that’s very exciting to hear that. We need to hear more of it. By the way, that’s not what you hear in China, for instance. AI is very positive in China. It’s in the US with the doomers that you hear this discourse, and people get worried as a result. I’m glad that he was pushing for a more positive vision and for support of open weight, open source initiatives. But let’s see what they really truly open weight going forward. Nuno But that’s been his position because I guess he’s standing behind. He thinks open weight is going to be the best way to compete, right? Bertrand Yeah, but he closed his latest model, so let’s see. Nuno Yeah, so it’s flip-flopping, as you’re saying. Then we see the latest petition from last week. Bertrand The true Empire striking back. Nuno Yeah, the true Empire striking back as of late last week. Maybe this is Return of the Jedi, where we discover the father, “I’m your father, Luke.” That’s the pacing petition. The pacing petition is we need to pace AI. There you have initially employees from OpenAI and Anthropic that circulate this petition. Actually, Dario did sign this petition originally. It wasn’t signed originally by Anthropic, but by him. But you’ve heard that now Anthropic and OpenAI as companies have also signed this petition, right? Bertrand I think they have signed as companies now. It started mostly by Anthropic researchers with some OpenAI researcher and a tiny part from other companies. But it was mostly Anthropic internally led, at least potentially internally. Maybe it was controlled by Anthropic all along, I don’t know. But it started officially as Anthropic employee-led letter. Nuno What does this letter actually say? Is Anthropic and OpenAI, are they willing to slow down themselves? Or are they asking President Trump to go around the world and tell President Xi that he needs to slow down and ask his guys to slow down? What’s the play of this letter? Bertrand It’s crazy, but for me if you want to slow down yourself. Do whatever you want. Don’t force others. Don’t use the power of the government to control others. Of course, it’s easy to push others to slow down when you are yourself at the very top. You have most money, most resource. You know you are going to win any regulatory framework because that’s how it works with this type of framework. It’s purely self-interested. You are probably not thinking well about these topics. If you truly think it’s a good idea, from a personal perspective, you are well instrumentalized if you sign this sort of stuff, because at the end of the day, they would be the winners. I certainly, personally, don’t want a company dictate what is my future in AI as an individual, as a business person. I don’t want them to control me. I want competition. I don’t want them to unfairly control AI because they managed to do some regulatory capture. I feel that’s exactly their game plan. These guys believe in their stuff, and they want the regulator to end up being the one deciding for us. Sorry, we go back again on the opinion piece, but it’s tough not to share an opinion on this topic because it’s, from my perspective, very scary. Nuno I think this is a push to further regulation, not less. All these letters and alliances, this is definitely a push for more regulation. In that environment, just to be very honest with you, we’ll talk about the investor impact in just a bit, et cetera. But in that environment, again, China has a huge advantage. In that environment, if it’s all captured in regulation capture so soon in this battle where OpenAI and Anthropic have an advantage in the US, et cetera, I’m like, what happens to all the other frontier labs and all the other players that are coming around? Bertrand What’s crazy is to even think that, yeah, maybe you can regulate capture in the US. But then how do you do that to Europe? How do you do that to China? Europe probably will always welcome regulatory capture because they love regulations. But China is going to build to their advantage to the max. They are not crazy. They are smart on that perspective, they won’t accept this type of, quite frankly, dimwit argument, or you can call it regulatory capture. We’ll see. But for me, this makes no sense from a global competition perspective. This can make some sense from capturing the revenue in the US market. But then that means you are going to destroy the US AI environment compared to China. That is not acceptable. That also means that you are going to destroy our freedom as individuals, as business owners to develop and live in a business world that ultimately is controlled by one or two business companies that didn’t win the marketplace through their own business success, but won it through regulations. That for me is really not acceptable. Interlude — The Low-Background Books Nuno Now, maybe for an interlude, and we have to cue in the music, imagine like Severance music, like hallway or a bit of a palate cleanser from all the policy stuff that we’ve been talking about, all this policy heaviness. Let’s move to another kind of heaviness, one of your favorite topics, which you, Bertrand, discovered, I had no clue this was going on, around books and around Anthropic. Bertrand It’s so horrible. From a company that keeps presenting themselves as the adults in the room, the careful ones, the ones that know better than you about what to do in this complex AI and dangerous world. What we discover is that actually all along, they were buying and destroying books. They will buy books, scan them, destroy them, all of them. They will do that with any books, including rare books. Of course, this was not supposed to come to the public’s attention. This was one of these top secret projects, but obviously it came out. Yes, they were scanning books, millions of them, including rare books, and they didn’t care about destroying them at the end of the process. Because from a regulatory perspective, if you destroy the books, it’s not considered a copyright infringement, apparently. This is coming on the back of some judgment a few years ago that were showing that it’s okay for you as a corporate to scan and use the result if you don’t keep a copy of the book. It’s one of these crazy regulations happening based on a single judgment that push you to do. For me, it’s like, you know this book from decades ago, Fahrenheit 471? We’re talking about book burning. It’s book destroying, crunching. It’s so shocking. Nuno There are two things, right? First, the legal strategy, which is what you’re saying, because by purchasing a physical copy and converting it into one private digital copy and discarding the original, Anthropic pursued this cleaner legal argument for fair use copyright compliance. As you said, there was a federal judgment at some point on this. The other reason is actually operational. If you disassemble the book, and you feed loose pages, it’s much faster to scan books. You are destroying the book effectively anyway operationally. I think to your point, probably this came from a legal standpoint, not just the operational one. But even from an operational standpoint, it does make sense that they would have disassembled the book. Bertrand But some people have shown you can go very fast without destroying the book. It’s really not so critical. Two, you could make an exception if the book is rare. For that 1% of book that is rare, I’m not going to have this approach. I’m going to have another approach. But for that, you will have to care about books and not just care about building AI. Nuno This is the episode, as you guys have heard by now, that we’re trying to spit stuff at Anthropic. Bertrand To go back this is the same company saying, “Hey, guys, it’s bad to distillate my work. I’m the one scanning book at scale without asking author permission, without asking publisher permission, to be clear.” Nuno But just to be clear, Bertrand, we’re pissed off at everyone. We’re pissed off at Anthropic, we’re pissed of at OpenAI as well, right? We’re just pissed off in general at this moment. Bertrand At this stage for me, the more clear-cut company that is in the wrong is, from my perspective, at least, is Anthropic. OpenAI might be a fast follower, but I will say so far, they tried to be a bit more. Nuno But at this pace, Bertrand, who knows? Maybe next week we’ll be more pissed off at OpenAI. Something will come out. This episode is a mix of tragicomedy, like a Greek tragedy with some comedy in the middle or the other way around. It’s a slapstick thing that will end up in tragedy. I’m not sure. The Investor Reckoning Anyway, maybe switching to our final act, which is the investor perspective. What does this mean for investors like ourselves? There’s a lot of things going on. There’s the debate around the IPOs of Anthropic and OpenAI, which now, with all this uncertainty, might be under significant weight. There’s a lot of other discussions that we browsed through that there’s potential IPOs going forward on companies like the Moonshot AI company actually IPO-ing in the next 6 months as well. It’s very unclear what the IPO landscape looks like. Bertrand There’s been a lot of Chinese IPOs, actually, when you look at what’s happened in the past few months. Nuno Anthropic, OpenAI as potential IPOs, there’s all this question marks now. When will that happen? How will it factor in? All that’s happening around regulation as regulation is moving at the speed of light, which is for once something that’s very different than what we’ve seen before. There’s obviously SpaceX AI, which is already taking into account that price. It’s already a public company in there, and it’s under SpaceX, which is now a public company. Obviously, that’s already being factored in some ways. Bertrand Yeah. SpaceX AI has been very smart to acquire Cursor. It was a very smart move because Cursor is one of the leading companies in terms of automated code source development with AI. They had great models on their own. They’re bringing development data to SpaceX AI Grok. I think it was a great move. Nuno We have now people like Google delaying Gemini 3.5 Pro in terms of launch window. There’s stuff actually happening in the market where things are taking their own path. There’s uncertainty commercially, there’s uncertainty at regulation level. You have new players that have come out of nowhere that are making all these waves like Moonshot. We have all these… We had calculated probably a month and a half, 2 months ago, there had been 67 new frontier labs funded. All of these, we haven’t seen any much coming out of them. When some of this stuff starts coming out, will that also create disruptions in this market? Who knows? Bertrand Look at Thinking Machines, for instance. Thinking Machines led by the previous CTO of OpenAI, they released some pretty interesting open source models, actually. Very good quality for a first launch. Now it looks funny to say, but nearly on par with the top Chinese open source models. Nuno We have several investments in the space. humans& has made some recent announcements, which is quite interesting as well. We’ll see what actually happens in the market, but even more disruption probably will come in actual products in a form of product and commercial, on top of all the geopolitical mess that we discussed through the entire episode. If you’re an investor, how the hell do you underwrite an investment right now in early stage, mid-stage, late stage, et cetera? I think my answer is very carefully is how you underwrite it. Bertrand On your advice of being very careful to underwrite it, let’s not forget what happened to our boy wonder, Leopold Aschenbrenner of Situational Awareness. I guess he didn’t listen to you in terms of being careful because part of the instability in the stock market was actually coming from his hedge fund. These guys were leveraged 3, 4x going after the hottest of the hottest AI stocks, and margin calls, and all their public investment is gone just to answer their margin calls. I think it’s clear that the AI bet is… Personally, I’m very excited, and I think it’s the future, and you need to spend time and think about and invest in it. At the same time, it’s a bet that is not an easy one to follow. We go from GPUs to memories to equipments to power generation. All of this is not transitioning in an easy, organized manner. It would be boom and bust going there. He’s probably one of the first big-scale fatalities. The other big-scale fatality was the stock market in Korea, plunging 40% in a month. Definitely, all of that we discussed about was, on the background, you had the stock market going up and down pretty crazily the past few weeks. Nuno Everyone’s being affected. Everyone, you have your 401(k), you have your pension fund dependent on these equity stocks. Everyone’s seeing the effects of this volatility right now very aggressively. We do wish Leopold… Hopefully he’s on honeymoon right now because he got married, I think, this weekend. Hopefully there will be… Bertrand To none less than an Anthropic Chief of Staff. Nuno His wife is the Chief of Staff of Dario, is that it? Bertrand To Dario, yes, as far as I unders

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Pour mettre fin aux poursuites engagées contre le groupe de Mark Zuckerberg, Meta a conclu un accord historique avec des dizaines d'États américains. Accusé d'avoir favorisé l'addiction des mineurs à ses réseaux sociaux, la maison mère de Facebook et Instagram accepte de verser près de 17 milliards de dollars. À qui cette somme sera-t-elle versée et à quoi servira-t-elle ? Quelles nouvelles mesures Meta devra-t-il mettre en place pour mieux protéger les mineurs ? Cette décision aux États-Unis pourrait-elle faire jurisprudence dans d'autres pays ?  Avec Julien Pillot, enseignant-chercheur en économie, spécialiste de l'économie de la régulation numérique à l'Inseec.  

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Niels Kaastrup-Larsen and Alan Dunne examine how a changing macro regime is reshaping markets and the role of trend following. They discuss unusual U.S. intervention in the yen, mounting sensitivity around Treasury yields, and questions surrounding Kevin Warsh's communication and the Fed's credibility. Alan identifies three fractures defining the new regime: persistent inflation, growing debt sustainability concerns, and the erosion of institutional norms. They also explore why trend following has performed differently this decade, particularly during periods of bond market stress, before comparing AQR and GMO's strikingly different long-term return assumptions and what they imply for portfolio construction.-----50 YEARS OF TREND FOLLOWING BOOK AND BEHIND-THE-SCENES VIDEO FOR ACCREDITED INVESTORS - CLICK HERE-----Follow Niels on Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube or via the TTU website.IT's TRUE ? – most CIO's read 50+ books each year – get your FREE copy of the Ultimate Guide to the Best Investment Books ever written here.And you can get a free copy of my latest book “Ten Reasons to Add Trend Following to Your Portfolio” here.Learn more about the Trend Barometer here.Send your questions to info@toptradersunplugged.comAnd please share this episode with a like-minded friend and leave an honest Rating & Review on iTunes or Spotify so more people can discover the podcast.Follow Alan on Twitter.Episode TimeStamps:00:00 - Introduction and what's been on Alan's radar01:55 - Why U.S. intervention in the yen matters07:04 - Zuckerberg, Meta and the $16.68 billion question08:31 - August trend following performance and market intervention12:16 - Why CTA performance is increasingly dispersed16:08 - Kevin Warsh, the Fed balance sheet and Treasury supply18:56 - Has short-term trend following structurally degraded?22:17 - Macro narratives versus systematic positioning24:37 - Fed communication, credibility and the Warsh reaction function30:16 - Bessent, Warsh, Druckenmiller and the battle over bond yields34:23 - The three fractures reshaping the macro regime41:42 - How trend following has changed in the new regime49:54 - Commodities, deglobalization and diversification52:29 - AQR versus GMO: radically different forecasts for future returns01:02:08 - Debt sustainability and what investors should watch nextCopyright © 2025 – CMC AG – All Rights Reserved----PLUS: Whenever you're ready... here are 3 ways I can help you in your investment Journey:1. eBooks that cover key topics that you need to know about In my eBooks, I put together some key discoveries and things I have learnt during the more than 3 decades I have worked in the Trend Following industry, which I hope you will find useful. Click Here2. Daily Trend Barometer and Market Score One of the things I'm really proud of, is the fact that I have managed to published the Trend Barometer and Market Score each day for more than a decade...as these tools are really good at describing the environment for trend following managers as well as giving insights into the general positioning of a trend following strategy! Click Here3. Other Resources that can help youAnd if you are hungry for more useful resources from the trend following world...check out some precious resources that I have found over the years to be really valuable. Click HerePrivacy PolicyDisclaimer

LaToya and Barry caught up on personal and work updates, with LaToya sharing her recent cruise experiences. They discussed work, aging, health issues, and the difficulty of taking true vacations. Barry talked about his teaching, including reading violent short stories and poetry with his students. Both shared their current reading habits, with LaToya finishing Andy Weir's books and Barry reading a historical mystery series. The conversation covered favorite colors, collectibles, and streaming services, as well as recent celebrity deaths and the passage of time. They also touched on TV shows like Beauty and Black, true crime documentaries, and reality TV such as Married at First Sight. Barry and LaToya talked about Marvel movies, Atlanta United's recent wins, and using the Refract app to track shows. They ended by briefly discussing Mark Zuckerberg's reported plans to replace employees with AI and shared thoughts on his leadership.

P.M. Edition for Aug. 28. Economics correspondent Nick Timiraos reports from Jackson Hole on how investors are interpreting Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh's speech. Plus, some of President Trump's biggest corporate donors are now cutting checks to Democrats, too. WSJ's White House reporter Annie Linskey explains how American companies are preparing for a potential Democratic comeback in November. And WSJ's global energy reporter Collin Eaton unpacks how Chevron and other U.S. energy companies are closing in on deals worth billions to expand in Venezuela's oil fields. Sabrina Siddiqui hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Story of the Week (DR):Meta settles social media addiction case with California, other states for $16.7 billion MM5 Reasons to Be HappyAn $18 billion payout sets a historic legal precedent against Big Tech, directing billions in state funding toward youth mental health, counseling, and digital literacy programs.Instagram and Facebook must enforce default two-hour daily usage limits and completely block account activity between midnight and 6 a.m. for users under 18. Teens and parents gain the explicit right to disable addictive engagement algorithms in favor of a non-personalized, chronological feed.The settlement prohibits harmful beauty filters (such as cosmetic surgery simulators), hides "like" counts by default, and silences app notifications during school hours.Meta tied $5.3 billion of the payout to whether TikTok and YouTube adopt similar safety rules, forcing an industry-wide overhaul rather than penalizing just one app.5 Reasons to Be AngryPaid out over 10 years, the settlement amounts to roughly 10 days of Meta's annual profit, meaning Mark Zuckerberg's financial empire remains virtually unscathed.Meta's $17 billion child-safety settlement is the biggest tech payout ever—or 3x what it paid to acquihire a 28-year-old AI superstarTo put it in perspective, the $17.1 billion number is a little more than three times the roughly $5 billion personal stake that Alexandr Wang held in Scale AI, a data-labeling company that supplies the human-annotated training data AI models are built on. Last year, Meta paid $14.3 billion for a 49% stake in the company and brought in Wang to lead its AI efforts of its new Superintelligence Labs, reporting directly to Mark Zuckerberg.Meta legally denies all wrongdoing, dodging true legal accountability for intentionally engineering addictive, mentally harmful features.The agreement alters user interface features and screen time, but leaves Meta's underlying data-harvesting business model completely untouched.Critical safeguards—like switching off algorithmic feeds—are opt-in settings rather than permanent defaults, shifting enforcement onto parents.Meta only pays 70% ($12.7 billion) upfront; the remaining $5.3 billion is contingent on competitors settling on identical terms, giving Meta a potential financial discount if rivals refuse. Worst headline of the week: Meta's $17.1 billion settlement will be over 12-times larger than the second largest big tech privacy settlement in the past four yearsMeta's $18 billion settlement leaves out the child protections New Mexico already won at trial, its Attorney General says: including a direct ban on romantic and sexualized AI chatbot interactions with minors and stronger safeguards against adults targeting kids in private messagesMM: Settlement gapsAge assurance:Meta may elect to use one or more Proprietary Age Assurance Methods. In such event, Meta shall not benefit from the presumption of compliance set forth in Section II.A.3.a. Additionally, Meta will maintain continuous oversight of any Proprietary Age Assurance Method sufficient to ensure that the method is functioning as intended.Tax deductibleThe Settling States shall cause to be completed and timely filed a Form 1098-F with the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) that identifies not less than 50% of the amounts paid to the Settling States as compensatory restitution and remediation within the meaning of 26 U.S.C. § 162(f)(2)(A)THEY BUNDLED CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA INTO THE SETTLEMENT$459m of the $17bn is the “Cambridge payout” - they can now put that behind them tooIs there a reason not to literally take Meta all the way? Why settle at all! Midterm elections? TAKE EVERYTHING! Meanwhile, while you settle this: Meta's creepy smart glasses are part of a much bigger plan“At the same time, Meta is using the content generated across its ecosystem to support Mark Zuckerberg's vision of a pervasive, AI-driven future. Zuckerberg's 2026 manifesto describes a world where personal AI agents will do your bidding. But building those systems requires more than conventional AI models. It also requires enormous amounts of data about human behavior, much of it generated and shared through Instagram, Facebook, and other Meta apps, or captured through hardware such as phones, smart glasses, and EMG Neural Band devices.”“We become “algorithm chow,” feeding the models intended to realize Zuckerberg's vision.”'We Know We Got This Wrong': Target Apologises and Pulls 'Offensive' Halloween Costume After Racist BacklashAn apology from us: We pulled an offensive Halloween costume that should never have been part of our assortment. It is no longer for sale. As a company, we got this wrong, and we are deeply sorry. We know this is especially hurtful for our Black guests, team members and partners. Removing the costume is an important first step, and the company is looking closely at how this happened and what needs to change to ensure this won't happen again.Target Statement on Offensive Halloween Costume: As a company, we know we got this wrong, and we are deeply sorry. The costume is offensive and should never have been part of our assortment. It is no longer available for sale. We know this is especially hurtful for our Black guests, team members and partners. Removing the costume is an important first step, and the company is looking closely at how this happened and what needs to change to ensure this won't happen again.The statement comes directly from Target's Corporate Communications department speaking on behalf of the entire enterprise, rather than a single individual like the CEO or Board Chair. Corporate apologies are deliberately released without a human signature for several strategic and legal reasons:Legal Personhood: Legally under U.S. law, Target Corporation is treated as a single legal entity (often called "corporate personhood"). It can sign contracts, hold liability, and issue official statements as an institution rather than as individual people.Leaving executive names off the statement prevents media coverage from focusing on a specific person (e.g., "CEO Brian Cornell Apologizes"). It keeps the focus on the company's operational changes and prevents individual leaders from becoming personal lightning rods for public backlash.These statements are rarely drafted by an executive. They are heavily scrubbed by legal counsel, crisis PR managers, and corporate strategy teams. Attaching a CEO's signature to a text engineered by a dozen lawyers and communications staff can actually feel less authentic internally.Phrasing the apology around "we" and "the company" establishes institutional accountability. It signals that the failure occurred in corporate vetting systems, not just from one bad decision-maker.In January 2025, Target Corporation announced the termination of its REACH initiative and restructuring of its Supplier Diversity program, marking one of the largest corporate DEI rollbacks in recent history. This decision has triggered public backlash, legal scrutiny, and investor uncertainty.Callaway Golf CEO apologizes after Good Good ad showing male golfer shoving woman sparks backlashCallaway Golf CEO Chip Brewer on Tuesday apologized for an advertisement that sparked an online backlash for its depiction of a male golfer shoving a female golfer to the ground when she attempts to use his driver."That approval should never have happened. Mistakes were made, and we are taking the matter very seriously," Brewer wrote on Tuesday. "I want to make it clear that we sincerely apologize for the video." Callaway released a statement Thursday explaining its reasoning behind ending the brand partnership: "Over the last several days, we have reflected deeply on the hurt and disappointment caused by the video we reposted. We heard from individuals who shared personal experiences related to violence against women, and their stories were powerful reminders that this issue touches the lives of far too many people. Unequivocally, violence against women is unacceptable and should never be trivialized, normalized, or used as entertainment.""In this instance, our content review process was not comprehensive enough …We have taken appropriate internal corrective actions and significantly strengthened our approval procedures to help ensure this does not happen again."The brand added that it would donate $1 million to organizations that aim to "prevent violence against women, provide resources to survivors, and advance education and awareness efforts."The online video ad, which was released online and has since been pulled, sparked criticism for depicting violence against women, while some consumers said they planned to stop buying products made by Callaway.Brewer said the ad, created by Good Good Golf, was released last week to promote a co-branded driver and had been approved by Callaway before the spot was posted online. The ad featured Good Good co-founder Garrett Clark telling Alexis Miestowski, a former Division I female golfer, in a menacing voice, "Do not touch my new driver," after he shoves her to the ground.Good Good is an American sports YouTube channel and company based in Frisco, Texas. Founded in 2020 by Garrett Clark, Stephen Castaneda, CEO Matt Kendrick, and Matt Scharff.Owner: Scoreboard ventures: co-founders Nahid Giga and Brian DickLead Investor: Creator Sports Capital — a firm co-founded by former YouTube executive Benjamin Grubbs and investment executive Brian Kabot.Good Good's CEO went nuclear on Callaway after the brand cut ties over an ad scandal"Interesting that @CallawayGolf asks us to make an ad then approves it then asks us to take the fall then drops us in a coordinated media blitz and covers it up by giving a million dollars away thinking everyone will be ok with it," Matt Kendrick wrote in a post on X.The ad fallout has had major repercussions for Good Good's business beyond the loss of its Callaway partnership. Dick's Sporting Goods yanked Good Good products from shelves, and the golf group pulled out as a title sponsor for a PGA Tour event in the fall. The reverberation has spread to the Golf Channel, which scrapped the upcoming season of its reality golf series "Big Break," whose grand prize was entry into the PGA Tour event that Good Good was supposed to have sponsored.FFA:14% have merit2 women! (combined 6% influence)Director Thomas Dundon 56% influence and 10% sharesDirector Nominee Skills Matrix includes “Golf Enthusiast” (9/9)Consumer Products Experience: 5/9Bill Gates Warns Humanity About AI: ‘We Do Not Have the Luxury of Moving Slowly'Bill Gates fears world leaders are unprepared for 3 major AI risks: ‘Stunted' child development; emboldened criminals; and vanishing jobs for Gen Z Bill Gates Issues Stark AI Warning: 'There Is No Plan' for What Comes NextWhat did he say?Gates warns AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever created or the worst source of global injustice, claiming world leaders are underprepared for the social upheaval ahead.He proposes that governments legally set aside "human-reserved" job categories—similar to protected nature reserves—for roles requiring human empathy and connection, such as healthcare and teaching.To offset tax policies that encourage replacing humans, Gates suggests taxing AI processing "tokens" and physical robots to fund worker retraining and stronger safety nets.He categorizes AI's biggest risks into three buckets: permanent job loss, empowering bad actors to launch cyber and biological attacks, and eroding child development.Gates calls for an international AI regulatory agency—modeled after global aviation and nuclear inspection agreements—requiring tight cooperation between the U.S. and China.He claims tech industry executives are downplaying catastrophic AI threats to public safety because there is too much money on the line.Gates warns that agreeable AI companions risk becoming addictive to young people while weakening independent critical thinking.‘We have a limited window': 116 companies, entities sign on to major AI cyber defense pushOpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Advanced Micro Devices and more than 100 other companies and entities signed a letter on Thursday calling on businesses and policymakers to prioritize cybersecurity and “act decisively” to bolster defenses in the age of artificial intelligence.“We have a limited window to strengthen cyber defenses,” the letter said9% female CEOs:Accenture: Julie Sweet (Chair/CEO)AMD: Dr. Lisa Su (Chair/CEO)Citi: Jane FraserClearly AI: Emily Choi-Greene (Co-founder)Equinix: Adaire Fox-MartinFIS: Stephanie Ferris General Motors: Mary Barra (Chair/CEO)Lumen Technologies: Kate JohnsonNationwide Building Society: Dame Debbie CrosbieOracle: Safra CatzRunSybil: Ariel Herbert-Voss (Co-founder)TrendAI (Trend Micro): Eva Chen (Co-founder)Goodliest of the Week (MM/DR):DR: X Users Post Flock CEO's Address and Photos of His Home After He Says Americans Must 'Compromise' on PrivacyDR: Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to BelieveCNBC survey asked over 1,000 US adults aged between 18 and 34 “who do you trust to act responsibly on AI?”Palantir CEO Alex Karp 81 percent “don't trust”Peter Thiel 79% “don't trust”Mark Zuckerberg 71% “don't trust”Elon Musk 70% “don't trust”Sam Altman 69% “don't trust”Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella 65% “don't trust”fared the best — albeit with a pitiful 35 percent “trust” score.DR: Jeff Bezos ordered to reinstate fired Black opinion writer at Washington Post over Charlie Kirk reactionThe ruling Thursday said the newspaper did not have sufficient cause to terminate Karen Attiah, who at the time was the last Black full-time member of the Post's opinion desk. The arbitrator, Sarah Miller Espinosa, also ordered the Post to award Attiah full back pay and lost benefits.After Kirk's killing, Attiah, the founding global opinion editor for the Post and the newspaper's only Black female opinion writer, made several posts to her Bluesky account.Attiah was emailed a termination letter on Sept. 11, accusing her of “gross misconduct.”“Your public comments on social media regarding the death of Charlie Kirk violate the Post's social media policies, harm the integrity of our organization, and potentially endanger the physical safety of our staff,” the letter read.MM: Flock CEO Says Americans Must 'Compromise' on Privacy; Then His Own Home Address Leaked Online DRMM: Starbucks Drops Drink Powder That Enveloped Baristas in Clouds of DustAssholiest of the Week (MM):Meta Settlement and AI earth destruction that has normalized what would have been horrific news, but now we shrug and re-elect the boards - SPEED ROUND! The anti woke: Black Wealth Will Be 4 Times Lower Than Whites By 2050 - SHOULD CAREMen: Real men don't bike: How cars became the symbol of American manhood - DON'T CARECowards: Deloitte to Pay $21.5 Million to End DOJ Fraud Investigation Over DEI Policies - SHOULD CAREEpstein: Ex-Barclays boss denies having sex with woman dressed as Snow White after Epstein emails - SHOULD CAREEpstein adjacent: Elon Musk's xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says - SHOULD CAREPay committees: CEOs earn 614 times more than workers at US's 100 lowest-paying corporations - SHOULD CAREClimate change: Study blames fossil fuel emissions for significant loss of American West's water - SHOULD CAREActual death: Turn Around and Don't Look': Amazon Accused of Letting Worker Die in Warehouse Amid 'Corporate Greed' Claims - SHOULD CAREThe anti labor: Disney celebrates blockbuster 2026 by kicking employees' spouses off healthcare plans - SHOULD CAREThe anti homeless: This Palantir Billionaire's Passion Project is Criminalizing Homelessness - SHOULD CAREOther social media companies: TikTok agrees to pay $400 million to settle Justice Department children's privacy case - DON'T CARE“The lawsuit, related to compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, was filed by the Biden administration's DOJ in 2024”Headliniest of the WeekDR: Elon Musk's former right-hand man at X will give you 30 minutes of business advice for $15,000MM: BoringTrump Claims Junk Food Is 'Good' and Gym 'Boring' After Doctors Warn He Is 'Playing With Fire'Elon Musk Says He's Not Warren Buffett's ‘Biggest Fan' And Finds His Way of Getting Rich ‘Super Boring' — ‘Does Anybody Want That Job?'MM: What is a 'meat proxy'? The new term for coworkers who blindly share AI outputWho Won the Week?DR: Futurism writer Frank Landymore for this headline: Bill Gates Announces That He Is the First Person Ever to Be Concerned About the Effects of AI after Bill said, “I am in a state of shock that I'm sort of the first one saying, ‘This is crazy. This is insane.'”MM: Watches:Sam Altman's love of watches is getting memed 'Lord of the Rings' styleDespite having a net worth of $400 million, Kevin O'Leary still shops at Walmart for $29 jeans: ‘I'm always looking for a great deal'The picture in the article is him wearing not one, but TWO $15k Rolex watches, one on each wrist - the message: guy who buys jeans JUST LIKE YOU has multiple Rolexes - you should get one too!PredictionsDR: I spend $15,000 for business advice from Elon Musk's former right-hand man at X and he tells me a really clever way to save $15,000MM: French Canadiens, after getting the CEO of Air Canada fired and killing Trump trade talks, decide to make the United States a new Canadian province called New Quebec where French is the only legal language and renames Lake Superior “Lake French Superior”

This week, Meta reached a multibillion-dollar settlement in federal court over allegations that it was aware of the harm its products could cause to teenage mental health. That may be the tip of the iceberg for Mark Zuckerberg's problems.Today on Second Request, Executive Editor Teddy Downey sits down with Julia Angwin to discuss how Meta's core business, Facebook, is failing, and how Zuckerberg's ambitions to become an AI giant have failed to materialize.

Trump couldn't care less about social media preying on children through targeting algorithms and campaigns, as the Tech Bros thought they bought a president. But that hasn't stopped the Democratic Attorneys General from bringing Meta/Facebook/Instagram to its knees during trial and forcing a $18 billion settlement that includes major changes to Meta's business model and gets them out of the children-targeting market. Popok reports on the settlement announced during the trial that was not going well for Facebook, as Mark Zuckerberg was due up to testify. Ironwall: Go to https://ironwall.com/legalaf, fill in the quick form, and request your free Risk Assessment. Their team will show you just how exposed your executives are — and how to lock it down before a threat reaches their front door. Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af Sidebar with Katie Phang: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sidebar-with-katie-phang/id1886801652 The Parnas Perspective: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-parnas-perspective/id1869165949 The Intersection with Michael Popok: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intersection-with-michael-popok/id1818863274 MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Five Minute News: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/five-minute-news/id1471715443 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we take a minute to remember dear Dolly Parton (Comrade Dolly!); an extraordinary force of nature, talented musician, incredibly generous person and fierce ally, whose kindness and positivity inspired millions across the world–we've lost one of the good ones. Meanwhile, Coco gets the lowdown from Cody about his latest video being flagged for bullying (billionaire Mark Zuckerberg?!) during Meta's child privacy trial. Since we recorded this episode, Meta has settled for $17bn, agreeing major changes to its platforms including usage limits and nighttime blocks. Also, Reform is at it again, unveiling a policy to prioritise social housing for ‘British born workers' and married couples. But…you have to keep your gardens tidy? Coco & Cody discuss what sits at the heart of this latest divisive declaration. And: are we living in a Corrupted Kingdom? Robert Barrington thinks so. As the former head of Transparency International and professor of Anti-Corruption, he joins us to talk about why we're reluctant to use the ‘C' word in the UK, and what we can do to safeguard against corruption across all aspects of British society. USEFUL LINKShttps://www.transparency.org/en https://antislapp.uk/Buy Robert's Book! https://www.waterstones.com/book/corrupted-kingdom/robert-barrington/9781805223153 CHECK OUT THESE DEALS FROM OUR SPONSORS INCOGNI: https://www.incogni.com/podsavetheuk Code: podsavetheukHEXCLAD:  https://www.hexclad.co.uk/PSTUK SHOPIFY: https://www.shopify.co.uk/podsavetheukPod Save the UK is an Intelligence Squared production for Crooked Media.Don't forget you can get in touch! Contact us via email: podsavetheuk@crooked.com if you want to share questions, thoughts, or general musings! Like and follow us on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@PodSavetheUK Instagram: https://instagram.com/podsavetheuk TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@podsavetheuk BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/podsavetheuk.crooked.com Facebook: https://facebook.com/podsavetheuk X: https://x.com/podsavetheuk

Are we witnessing the creation of a Chinese-style social credit system right here in America? Following a massive $17 billion legal settlement, social media platforms are being forced to roll out strict age verification tools, including mandatory facial scans and digital IDs to access accounts. We break down how these new regulations threaten total Internet anonymity, how state legislatures are pushing the surveillance state forward under the guise of protecting children, and what this means for your private data, online freedom, and digital identity!

Meta has agreed to an historic nearly $18 billion settlement over claims that Facebook and Instagram harm kids—but Michael says the story is bigger than teenagers. With new limits on screen time, overnight access and notifications, could adults live by the same rules? Michael examines America's growing dependence on phones, the decline of face-to-face interaction, and takes calls from listeners about whether social media has taken too much from our lives. Original air date 27 August 2026. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In the latest episode of Executive Function, Brett sits down with Jay Parikh, Executive Vice President of CoreAI at Microsoft. Before joining Microsoft, Jay spent over a decade as Facebook's global head of engineering, scaling the company from a few hundred engineers to billions of users, then ran the cybersecurity company Lacework as CEO through its acquisition by Fortinet. In this conversation, he breaks down the five ingredients of great engineering leadership, discusses why he'd rather run two competing bets in parallel than forecast a winner, and explains why company culture remains more important than ever for teams to get right. In today's episode, we discuss: The five ingredients that separate excellent engineering leadership from the rest How to protect your team from large shifts in public perception The mindset shift organizations need to maintain speed at scale How every layer of the organization needs to stay connected to the customer Why Jay runs "brain trusts" of senior ICs with zero managers in the room References Akamai: https://www.akamai.com/ AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ George Conrades: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgeconrades/ Mark Zuckerberg: https://x.com/finkd Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/ Paul Sagan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-sagan-59654a1/ Tom Leighton: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tleighton/ Where to find Jay LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayparikh/ Twitter/X: https://x.com/jayparikh Where to find Brett LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brett-berson-9986094/ Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/brettberson Where to find First Round Capital Website: https://firstround.com/ First Round Review: https://review.firstround.com/ Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/firstround YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FirstRoundCapital This podcast on all platforms: https://review.firstround.com/podcast Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 00:36 How leadership changes through exponential growth 02:21 The five ingredients that define excellent engineering leadership 07:51 What actually drives culture at a company as it scales 12:05 The physics behind why everything slows down at scale 18:57 The fastest team of Jay's career, and why size mattered 22:44 Why every team should think like an FDE 26:20 Managing a team through wild swings in public perception 29:07 What's different about leading through the steepest S-curve moments 33:58 Why onboarding well means going slow to go fast 37:41 Is AI actually new, or is history just repeating? 41:35 What actually counts as a "big bet" worth taking 45:01 The concrete big bets that reshaped Facebook's entire technology stack 47:35 Why vertical integration keeps being the right call as companies scale 51:46 How being a startup CEO reshaped Jay as a leader 1:01:26 Why Jay overruled Zuckerberg's instinct to skip efficiency

Could AI take over as soon as 2029? Ryan Greenblatt, Chief Scientist at Redwood Research and the researcher who first caught an AI faking its own alignment, says the scenario he actually expects ends with AI systems "competently scheming" against their creators. In this episode, he explains why he recommends planning for fully automated AI research by 2029, why today's models are already more misaligned than the one that made him famous, and what happens in the year-by-year path from AI coding assistants to superintelligence. Then we walk through the alternative he helped design: AI 2040 Plan A, the most detailed blueprint anyone has written for how the US and China could avoid a reckless race to superintelligence, built on radical research transparency, chip tracking, and a deterrence regime he calls mutually assured compute destruction.We also cover the recent letter signed by 1,200 AI insiders, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, asking the government for the tools to slow AI down; OpenAI pausing its Astra model after it hit the first-ever critical cybersecurity threshold; the 30-day government review that frontier AI models now go through before release; Mark Zuckerberg's open superintelligence manifesto and why Ryan thinks it ignores the real problems; what Plan A would do to NVIDIA, OpenAI, and Anthropic valuations; the state of AI control and alignment research; and whether it is already too late to change course. Stay for the last ten minutes, where Ryan lays out, step by step, how he believes the transition to superintelligence actually unfolds.AI 2040 - https://ai-2040.com/Alignment faking paper: https://blog.redwoodresearch.org/p/alignment-faking-in-large-languageRyan GreenblattLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-greenblatt-4b9907134Blog - https://substack.com/@ryangreenblattRedwood ResearchWebsite - https://www.redwoodresearch.orgX/Twitter - https://x.com/redwood_aiMatt Turck (General Partner)Blog - https://mattturck.comLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/turck/X/Twitter - https://x.com/mattturckFirstMark CapitalWebsite - https://firstmark.comX/Twitter - https://x.com/FirstMarkCapTimestamps(01:24) The AI CEOs are aware of the risks, but "proceeding anyway"(03:27) Astra paused, and the letter signed by 1,200 insiders(05:45) "Not bad. Dangerous." What superintelligence actually threatens(09:55) Recursive self-improvement, and the intuition objection(14:16) SSI rumors: does continual learning change the picture?(17:27) His timeline: "plan as though it happens in 2029"(19:11) Is it already too late?(21:23) Ryan's path: COVID, podcasts, Redwood(26:30) The alignment faking story, told by the person who ran it(31:30) What AI 2040: Plan A actually is(33:35) Plans D, C, and B: the doors nobody should pick(36:51) The deal with China: "mutually assured compute destruction"(39:55) What if compute stops mattering?(43:00) What happens to OpenAI and Anthropic under Plan A(45:31) How the pause ends, and who decides(48:54) "Plan A isn't likely to happen": then why write it?(50:40) 200x GDP growth in the 2030s, explained(53:45) Grading the summer: the letter, Astra, the secret review(59:01) The internal deployment gap(1:01:38) Zuckerberg's manifesto(1:04:56) The Hugging Face investigation(1:05:44) What AI control looks like in practice today(1:12:23) Ryan's sobering timeline: 2026 to takeover, year by year

Everybody in power announced something this week. Almost nobody showed the paperwork.Trump promised an economic D-Day against Iran, then his Treasury Secretary stood at a podium and declined to pull the trigger, saying out loud that he did not want to blow up the global financial system. Trump announced a beef deal to bring your grocery bill down, but there is no executive order, no named suppliers, and the window closes days after you vote. The Supreme Court handed him a win on mail ballots without ever ruling on whether the order is legal. Mark Zuckerberg published a manifesto about how communities benefit from data centers, and two days later, in the exact parish he named, regulators voted to keep his numbers sealed.Tonight we go looking for the paperwork.Full Follow the Money segment on the ballroom and the nuclear bunker already sitting under the White House, the Wall Street Journal reporting on Live Nation and the Kennedy Center, the Trump Organization filing trademarks on flight suits and shuttle buses, and the Taylor Farms donation timeline. Then Research on a Dime on what the finished primary season actually proved, including Darline Graham winning South Carolina by four points after a full Trump recruitment effort. Breakdown in the Public asks who is even allowed to know what your town agreed to.Political Solutions Without Political Bias.CHAPTERS00:00:00 Pre-Show00:11:19 Cold Open: Everybody Announced Something, Nobody Showed the Paperwork00:14:40 Hasan Piker, Gavin Newsom, and Where Democrats Are Actually Focused00:21:13 Follow the Money: This Week in Trump Corruption00:21:32 The Ballroom and the Nuclear Bunker Already Under the White House00:26:22 Live Nation, the Kennedy Center, and the Oval Office Meeting00:31:10 Airport Trademarks: Flight Suits, Shuttle Buses, and DJT00:38:06 Taylor Farms, a Million Dollar Donation, and a 30 Month FDA Delay00:40:48 Eric Swalwell vs Max Miller: Who Actually Gets Investigated00:49:01 Nuanced News: SCOTUS Let the Mail Ballot Order Move Without Ruling It Legal00:57:53 Iran: The Economic D-Day That Never Fired01:06:40 40 Trillion in Debt and 50 Percent Tariffs on Canada01:12:14 Trump's Beef Deal Has No Signed Order and Expires After the Election01:15:55 Quick Hits: Vaccine Order, Maxwell, TikTok, Meta, MAHA, ARIA, Alex Jones01:20:48 Research on a Dime: What the Primary Season Actually Proved01:22:25 Darline Graham Wins South Carolina by Four Points01:25:28 Oklahoma Nominates a Democratic Socialist for Senate01:26:50 The Florida Turnout Number Nobody Covered01:28:51 Buttigieg in South Carolina and the 2028 Opening01:29:27 Breakdown in the Public: Who Is Allowed to See the Terms01:30:16 Data Centers: Hochul, Abbott, Shapiro, and the NDA Fight01:36:00 Meta, Richland Parish, and the Numbers Louisiana Sealed01:40:54 Inclusionary Zoning: Does It Actually Build Housing01:45:43 Good News01:46:52 The First Drug That Treats the Cause of Narcolepsy01:48:10 Oregon's Psilocybin Data: 346 People, 24 Service Centers01:49:58 The First mRNA Cancer Vaccine to Clear a Phase 3 Trial01:53:30 Closing ThoughtsRESOURCES AND RECOMMENDATIONSPODCAST NETWORKPodcast Website: https://www.purplepoliticalbreakdown.comALIVE Podcast Network: Check out the ALIVE Network where you can catch a lot of great podcasts like my own, led by amazing Black voices. https://alivepodcastnetwork.com/JOIN THE CONVERSATIONReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/policysolutions/Discord: https://discord.gg/ptPAsZtHC9Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/purplepoliticalbreakdownAll Links: https://linktr.ee/purplepoliticalbreakdownTHIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDED ORGANIZATIONSUnfuck America Tour and National Ground Game: Grassroots organizing and direct action across the country. https://www.nationalgroundgame.com/CIVICS App: Know more about your politicians, their voting records, and who funds them. https://www.civicpolitics.comHeadOn: A platform for contentious yet productive conversations, hosted and unguided, with AI features to sharpen the exchange. https://app.headon.ai/The Purple Political Breakdown is committed to fostering productive political dialogue that transcends partisan divides. Subscribe, rate, and share if you believe in purple politics, where we find common ground in the middle.

Episode 5618: META Lawsuit Lets Zuckerberg Off The Hook

Aug 26, 2026; 6pm; Meta and a group of state attorneys general announced a settlement agreement in which the social media giant will pay up to $17 billion and make changes to its apps following allegations that its technology harms children's mental health. MS NOW's Ari Melber delivers a special report. Obama campaign veteran Chai Komanduri joins Melber to discuss AI and social media. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

P.M. Edition for Aug. 26. Tech reporter Meghan Bobrowsky tells us why the Meta settlement could change how teenagers use some of the world's most popular apps. Plus, the FDA approves a milestone therapy for pancreatic cancer. WSJ reporter Xavier Martinez discusses how the nearly $40,000-a-month drug from Revolution Medicines could change patient outcomes of one the deadliest cancers. And the FBI shuts down a sprawling hacking network linked to China that targeted NASA, the Federal Reserve and critical infrastructure. Sabrina Siddiqui hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Meta agreed to pay up to $16.68B to settle state claims it hooked kids on Facebook and Instagram, with teen time limits attached. Z.ai unmasked Ox Alpha, Amazon killed Mechanical Turk, and Reuters detailed Zuckerberg's aborted AI-native purge. Links Filing: Meta agrees to pay up to $16.68B to settle US states' claims that it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, misled consumers, and more (Reuters) The deal ends the bellwether Oakland federal trial where four states sought roughly $200B; Meta pays ~$12B upfront and $5B more only if Snap, TikTok, and YouTube also settle (The New York Times) The remedies include age assurance with linked-account checks, push notifications disabled during school hours, productive pauses at 60 and 90 minutes, and no cosmetic filters or likes for teens (The Verge) Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new iteration of its GLM series and says it will release the weights for it tonight; Ox Alpha topped OpenRouter's leaderboard (Bloomberg) AWS says it plans to shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30, "following an assessment"; the service, launched in 2005, outsourced tasks to 500K+ humans (CNBC) Investigation: Meta explored slashing many teams by ~60% to become "AI native", but pulled back after staff revolted and data showed AI agents were ineffective (Reuters) Subscribe to the ad-free feed.

Bill talks to journalist Gil Duran about his book, The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy, arguing that a tech-driven oligarchy already wields outsized power through figures like Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk, including political donations to Donald Trump and lucrative government contracts. Duran describes the rapid expansion of AI-fueled data centers as a visible flashpoint driving bipartisan local backlash over land use, water, pollution, and electricity costs. He focuses on Thiel's long-running anti-democratic worldview, influenced by Thiel-backed thinker Curtis Yarvin into mainstream politics, including “Freedom Cities.” Duran warns crypto has become a “weapon of mass corruption,” criticizes Washington's reluctance to confront these forces, and calls for public organizing, curbing billionaire power, and resistance movements targeting surveillance and contractors like Palantir and Flock. You can get your copy of Gil's prescient book at Bookshop.org. Or paste this link into your browser: bit.ly/4qxH9gy .Today, Bill reminds of how important certain Senate races are to retake control of the government from Trump's unfettered corruption. Best way to help is donations to these Democratic candidates through the great Democratic fundraising platform, ActBlue.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

GUnitedHealth shareholders sue company over ‘corporate governance failures on a historic scale' UBS fined record $125 million for money laundering violations$125 million civil penalty to the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) for willful violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), the primary U.S. anti-money laundering law.FinCEN said the fine is the largest ever assessed against a broker-dealer for BSA violations.The settlement marks FinCEN's second enforcement action against UBS Financial Services, a subsidiary of the Swiss bank UBS. The firm had previously paid a $14.5 million penalty in December 2018 for similar failures, including inadequate monitoring of foreign currency wire transfers.Despite assurances to regulators that it would fix the underlying problems, the firm subsequently failed to monitor more than 50,000 foreign currency wires with a combined value exceeding $10 billion.SEC launches new enforcement unit aimed at accounting fraudHow??The unit will be housed within the SEC's Division of Enforcement and staffed by both attorneys and accountants with specialized skills related to financial reporting, accounting, and auditing in securities regulation, according to the announcement.The announcement is “a little surprising” given the SEC's current deregulatory focus under Chair Paul Atkins, Rebecca Fike, a partner in Reed Smith's regulatory and enforcement group, told CFO Dive.Andreessen Horowitz Focus of DOJ Probe Over Board DirectorsBIG DATA and AI BS‍ ‍Gwyneth Paltrow is rumored to be throwing a party for AI mogul Sam Altman. People don't love the opticsPaltrow played WeWork Rebekah NeumannAnthropic is embedding invisible watermarks in Claude text and images Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to BelieveCNBC survey asked over 1,000 US adults aged between 18 and 34Asked “who do you trust to act responsibly on AI?” the vast majority of participants said they “don't trust” any of the nine figures.Palantir's extremely controversial CEO Alex Karp scored the lowest, with 81 percent choosing “don't trust,” while Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella fared the best — albeit with a pitiful 35 percent “trust” score.Everyone else fell in between: 79 percent of respondents said they don't trust Peter Thiel, while a whopping 71, 70, and 69 percent said they “don't trust” Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Sam Altman, respectivelyMeta, others lose appeal to drop thousands of social media addiction lawsuitsA U.S. Appeals Court [Judge Jacqueline Nguyen] said that thousands of lawsuits targeting Meta Platforms, ByteDance's TikTok and other social media outlets over claims that social media is harmful and addictive can proceed.The court also denied Meta's request to postpone a trial over allegations that they used data from children to keep them on its platforms.AI data center outrage is showing up everywhere from ads to electionsSpirit Flight Attendants Fight Google's Data Bid for AIThe flight attendants want assurance that their confidential information will be removed from the sale of the defunct airline's digital recordsCULTURE WARSThe 'MAGA Alternative to Amazon' Is Fighting for Survival After Nearly $160M in Losses and 99% Stock CrashPublicSquare's marketplace has struggled to grow despite political backing, prompting a costly shift to financial servicesDisney is suing the FCC in a departure from former CEO Bob Iger's strategy US firms that kept DEI policies despite ‘go woke, go broke' threats thrived Ellison Is Now Willing to Sell CNN to Save His $111 Billion DealE Solar Panels on Storage Units: Illinois Is Going All In on This No-Brainer First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity Trump ordered to release billions in climate grants meant for Black communitiesa $2.8 billion program meant to help mitigate the harm from climate change and environmental issues in Black, low-income, and disadvantaged communities.Trump tried to curb clean energy. It's booming anywayClean energy additions will rise by a record 45 gigawatts this year, according to S&P Global Energy—equivalent to the average electricity demand of Turkey. The increase is roughly 25 percent higher than the record set in 2024.It Just Got Way Easier to Sue Fossil Fuel Companies Over Climate ChangeClimate attribution scienceA new peer-reviewed study published earlier this month in Earth's Future suggests that it is possible to demonstrate that “emissions from company X cause injury Y.”It also could potentially provide evidence so industry could be forced to answer for climate impacts.The new methodological framework has, for the first time, drawn a straight line from single corporate emitters like Exxon or Chevron, or even whole countries like the United States, to specific heatwaves and areas of extreme rainfall.By running over 150 simulations across 8 different climate models, the study's author, Christopher Callahan—an Earth systems scientist and assistant professor at Indiana University's O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs—built a statistical model to figure out the relationship between the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the odds of extreme heat or rain. He then used real emissions data to calculate the extent to which specific fossil fuel emitters increased the risk of extreme weather.SPEED ROUND‍ ‍DuckDuckGo Is Selling Anti Pervert Glasses That Contain Zero AI, Cameras, or Even Electronics Whatsoever Jason Kelce Wants Fans to 'Pee on Computers' to Protest AI Water Use: 'We Want Your Pee' Cards Against Humanity Unveils 'Sad Little Bitch' Elon Musk Monument Near Texas StarbaseFrance bans unsolicited telemarketing calls--$87,000 fine per call I'm the CEO of Siemens. I reply to most emails with 2-letter responses and don't have recurring meetingsScientists Genetically Engineer High-Protein LettuceGen Z is bringing pen and paper back to the workplaceArianna Huffington says even high-flying CEOs are unhappy and feel stuck in their multimillion-dollar jobs: ‘It's a trap'Bank of America is splashing out $250 million a year on weight loss drugs for its staff: ‘We see a great impact on employees,' CEO says‘We see a great impact on employees,' CEO saysExcuse me? Body shamer.

…Or at least, so says Mark Zuckerberg, who argues that EVERYONE should own their own AGI, self-aware super-computer-genius-machine. But is it REALLY, though?

Adam Butcher joins Brian Nichols to reveal what's actually driving your electricity bill higher and why blaming data centers and AI misses the real story about America's energy supply.Everybody's pointing at the data centers. Adam isn't.He's the President and Managing Partner of Basin Ventures. He's managed over $1.25 billion in oil and gas projects for more than 50 players in the industry and deployed over $500 million into minerals and royalties. He's a land guy - leases, title, ownership - which means he sees the part of this story nobody on cable news covers.And he came on with a number that stopped me cold. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is at its lowest level since 1983. Roughly 35 days of cover. Draining every single week. Adam's take? Cheap oil is a mirage... and we've been hiding that with artificial levers instead of taking our medicine.So I brought him the stat sheet. Retail electricity up 7% in 2025. Up roughly 40% since 2021. Utilities requested $31 billion in rate hikes in 2025 versus $15 billion the year before. Another $9.4 billion in Q1 of 2026 alone. Virginia has 663 data centers, Texas has 405, together over a quarter of every data center in the country.And Adam looked at all of it and called data centers the new boogeyman.We get into Venezuela and why 2028 is the real timeline. We get into why he says he's always made more money under Democrats than Republicans. We get into the LNG export shutdown, ERCOT's grid math, Zuckerberg's city-sized facility outside Shreveport, and why he moved his fund to 50/50 oil and gas betting on a 2027 boom.Meet people where they're at. Most folks don't care about megawatts... they care about the number at the bottom of the envelope. So that's where we started.CHAPTERS00:00 Somebody's Paying For The Wires02:26 Billy Bob Made Us Famous03:35 The $60 Call He Made In June04:05 Cheap Oil Is A Mirage08:03 Venezuela Won't Save Us Until 202811:48 I Make More Money Under Democrats13:23 The LNG Shutdown Nobody Talks About15:24 The Snake Problem18:27 What Oil Should Actually Cost22:11 We Have To Take Our Medicine22:46 Your Bill Went Up 40 Percent25:05 Data Centers Are The New Boogeyman29:15 Texas Needs 5X Its Power31:06 Final ThoughtsCONNECT WITH ADAM BUTCHERBasin Ventures: https://www.basinventures.comAdam's bio: https://www.basinventures.com/team/adam-butcherLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamwbutcherSUPPORT THE SHOWCardio Miracle - https://cardiomiracle.com/TBNS - use code TBNS for 15% offCONNECT WITH BRIANhttps://www.briannicholsshow.combrian@briannicholsshow.comX, Facebook, Instagram: @BNicholsLibertyRecorded at Cardio Miracle Studios in eastern Indiana. New episodes Thursdays.Educated. Enlightened. Informed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Watch every episode ad-free & uncensored on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones Professor Jiang (Xueqin Jiang) is a teacher in China who has a popular YouTube channel @PredictiveHistory that covers philosophy, politics, education, and geopolitical forecasting. SPONSORS https://hims.com/danny - Get simple online access to personalized & affordable care for hair loss, ED, weight loss, and more. https://quo.com/danny - Try QUO for free PLUS get 20% off your first 6 months. https://irestore.com/djp - Use code DJP to unlock your best hair, skin, & body plus HUGE savings. https://capl.onelink.me/vFut/zralgyl0 - Download Cash App today. https://whiterabbitenergy.com/?ref=DJP - Use code DJP for 20% off. EPISODE LINKS Professor Jiang's channel:  @PredictiveHistory Substack: https://substack.com/@predictivehistory *NEW* DJP MERCH https://dannyjonespodcast.com FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/dannyjones https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE 00:00 - Danny confronts Jiang on being CCP spy 05:06 - Why Chinese people are so good at math 10:15 - The video that made Professor Jiang viral 13:44 - WeChat, the Chinese super-app 17:31 - Misconceptions about life in China 19:35 - China's one-child policy 25:40 - Raising kids in U.S. vs. China 29:49 - American food is poisonous 32:00 - Apple's Chinese factories are like prisons 35:38 - Chinese launders money for Mexican cartels 42:09 - How Xi Jinping and the CCP came to power 49:10 - Importance of the "Creative Class" in a global economy 56:02 - The most sensitive topic in China right now 57:37 - Xi Jinping is losing control of China 01:05:27 - The China-Taiwan dilemma 01:14:34 - Japan's Quad alliance 01:17:02 - China is in a lot of danger 01:18:38 - The Chabad-Lubavitch movement 01:19:27 - The Clean Break Memo 01:24:21 - The Jackson-Vanik amendment 01:28:43 - Henry "Scoop" Jackson & Rebbe Schneerson 01:35:36 - Most powerful Zionist in American history 01:43:37 - Rebbe Schneerson meets Netanyahu 01:50:46 - How Mark Zuckerberg REALLY made his money 01:56:23 - Mark Zuckerberg's connection to Rebbe Schneerson 02:05:59 - Kushner family's connection to Netanyahu & Trump 02:13:20 - Rebbe Schneerson & mysteries of the Bible 02:21:25 - Kabbalists believe the Holocaust was God's punishment 02:27:31 - Building the Third Temple in Jerusalem 02:35:31 - Natalie Harp believes Trump is Jesus 02:38:00 - Gog & Magog 02:42:59 - Laura Loomer's meeting with Ukraine's Chabad rabbi 02:46:15 - Why Trump invaded Iran 02:52:59 - The Iran & Ukraine wars are about to merge 02:59:35 - The Japanese yen carry trade 03:05:22 - American general's confession about foreign invasion 03:10:41 - How Trump gets a 3rd term 03:18:01 - Butler assassination attempt was a "ritual" 03:24:10 - Rothschilds' connection to religious elites 03:35:43 - Strangest details about Jeffrey Epstein 03:45:35 - The redacted Epstein files around 9/11 03:51:50 - History is about to repeat on free speech 03:55:25 - Jiang's 10-year prediction Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Subscribe to Greg Fitzsimmons: https://bit.ly/subGregFitz Go to https://surfshark.com/sunday or use code SUNDAY at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark! Go to https://meetfabric.com/PAPERS and apply today, risk-free. Mike shows up wounded and stitched together after a skin cancer procedure, while Greg tries to offer exactly the amount of sympathy Mike will tolerate. The guys recap a chaotic trip to New York, Meghan and Harry's possible return to Britain, video gamers becoming air traffic controllers, a Penn State cocaine ring, Zuckerberg's massive yacht controversy, the best movies of the 21st century, AI privacy and some deeply disturbing ChatGPT stories. Plus Renee Richards, This Day in History, listener mail, the caption contest and the funnies. Sponsored by Surfshark and Fabric by Gerber Life. This show is produced by Gotham Production Studios and part of the Gotham Network. https://www.gothamproductionstudios.com/studios/ Follow Greg Fitzsimmons: Facebook: https://facebook.com/FitzdogRadio Instagram: https://instagram.com/gregfitzsimmons Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregfitzshow Official Website: http://gregfitzsimmons.com Tour Dates: https://bit.ly/GregFitzTour Merch: https://bit.ly/GregFitzMerch “Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons” Book: https://amzn.to/2Z2bB82 “Life on Stage” Comedy Special: https://bit.ly/GregFitzSpecial Listen to Greg Fitzsimmons: Fitzdog Radio: https://bit.ly/FitzdogRadio Sunday Papers: http://bit.ly/SundayPapersPod Childish: http://childishpod.com Watch more Greg Fitzsimmons: Latest Uploads: https://bit.ly/latestGregFitz Fitzdog Radio: https://bit.ly/radioGregFitz Sunday Papers: https://bit.ly/sundayGregFitz Stand Up Comedy: https://bit.ly/comedyGregFitz Popular Videos: https://bit.ly/popGregFitz About Greg Fitzsimmons: Mixing an incisive wit with scathing sarcasm, Greg Fitzsimmons is an accomplished stand-up, an Emmy Award winning writer, and a host on TV, radio and his own podcasts. Greg is host of the popular “FitzDog Radio” podcast (https://bit.ly/FitzdogRadio), as well as “Sunday Papers” with co-host Mike Gibbons (http://bit.ly/SundayPapersPod) and “Childish” with co-host Alison Rosen (http://childishpod.com). A regular with Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Kimmel, Greg also frequents “The Joe Rogan Experience,” “Lights Out with David Spade,” and has made more than 50 visits to “The Howard Stern Show.” Howard gave Greg his own show on Sirius/XM which lasted more than 10 years. Greg's one-hour standup special, “Life On Stage,” was named a Top 10 Comedy Release by LA Weekly. The special premiered on Comedy Central and is now available on Amazon Prime, as a DVD, or a download (https://bit.ly/GregFitzSpecial). Greg's 2011 book, Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons (https://amzn.to/2Z2bB82), climbed the best-seller charts and garnered outstanding reviews from NPR and Vanity Fair. Greg appeared in the Netflix series “Santa Clarita Diet,” the Emmy-winning FX series “Louie,” spent five years as a panelist on VH1's “Best Week Ever,” was a reoccurring panelist on “Chelsea Lately,” and starred in two half-hour stand-up specials on Comedy Central. Greg wrote and appeared on the Judd Apatow HBO series “Crashing.” Writing credits include HBO's “Lucky Louie,” “Cedric the Entertainer Presents,” “Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher,” “The Man Show” and many others. On his mantle beside the four Daytime Emmys he won as a writer and producer on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” sit “The Jury Award for Best Comedian” from The HBO Comedy Arts Festival and a Cable Ace Award for hosting the MTV game show "Idiot Savants." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New studio, same chaos. Dylan and Sam Tripoli return after a few weeks off to break down one of the show's biggest theories yet: that dragons weren't myth, but a real species written out of the historical record. They trace dragon accounts from Alexander the Great's reported sighting in a cave after invading India, to Marco Polo's travel logs, to Saint George's documented dragon slayings across three continents — and lay out the theory that the Catholic Church suppressed the truth to protect its own claim to power. Along the way: the case that dinosaur bones were first identified as Nephilim giants, the Chinese zodiac's one "fake" animal, and a Leviathan-Godzilla connection tying it all to ancient sea monster cults. Also this episode: Dark Smith's ongoing Gulf War Syndrome saga, Nancy Mace's tattoo collection, and a breakdown of Mark Zuckerberg's "personal superintelligence" pitch and what it means for surveillance, censorship, and comedy on Instagram. New studio is live — let us know what you think in the comments. Grab Tickets To Sam Tripoli's Live Shows At: https://samtripoli.com/events/ Lawerence, KS: 9/17-9/19  Tulsa, OK: 10/9-10/10  Dallas, TX: 11/07 New Orleans, LA: 11/13 - 15 Austin, TX: DEC 11th-13th: Buy Our Merch or Sam Will Fight You: https://conspiracy-social-club-aka-deep-waters.myshopify.com/ Subscribe to the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AkaDeepWaters Check out Dylan's instagram - @dylanpetewrenn Check out Deep Waters Instagram: @akadeepwaters Check out Bad Tv podcast: https://bit.ly/3RYuTG0 Ad-free, uncensored episodes: Patreon.com/CSC  THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS: Hims.com/CSC for a free evaluation  MenGoToMars.com for 50% Off  Mood.com Promo Code CSC for 20% off your first order 0:00 New studio reveal 0:14 Comet of the Week 0:18 Dark Smith's Gulf War Syndrome saga 0:49 Dragons: were they real, and why the cover-up 0:55 The Chinese zodiac's one fake animal 0:59 Alexander the Great's dragon sighting in India 1:01 Marco Polo's dragon encounters 1:02 Saint George and the Catholic Church cover-up theory 1:05 Ancient texts on dragons vs. elephants 1:08 Leviathan, Godzilla, and ancient sea monster cults 1:08 Nancy Mace's tattoos 1:12 Nancy Mace vs. Sam Altman 1:18 Zuckerberg's "personal superintelligence" and AI censorship

Tech companies are deploying a variety of tactics—from holding listening sessions to offering guaranteed jobs to writing big checks—to win public support for the data centers they need to power AI. WSJ reporter Isabella Simonetti discusses what's at stake in getting public opinion on their side. Plus, we take you inside the race to build America's first nuclear reactor in a generation. Journal reporter Jennifer Hiller explains why atomic energy is hot again, and the risks of a nuclear hype cycle. Belle Lin, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal Leadership Institute, hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Israel's military has confirmed for the first time that its troops opened fire on a car carrying Hind Rajab, the five-year old Palestinian child who was killed alongside six of her relatives in Gaza in 2024. The IDF is opening a criminal investigation into the deaths, as well as those of two paramedics sent to rescue her. A separate inquiry will examine the killing of fifteen emergency and aid workers in Rafah last year. Also: after six years in the US state of California, Prince Harry and his family are moving back to the UK, but will not be undertaking royal duties. At least five people have been killed by Russian missile attacks on Kyiv in the early hours of Thursday morning. The US pharmaceutical giants, Moderna and Merck, say trials of an experimental treatment for melanoma have shown signs of success. US public debt has soared to a record 40 trillion dollars. A former Meta employee, turned whistleblower, tells a court in California that Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, put growth in Facebook and Instagram before child safety. We have a special report about the gold rush in Kenya that's causing security and safety concerns. Scientists say giant whales are taking advantage of the ice disappearing from East Greenland, and shares in the Chinese robot maker, Unitree, soar as it launches its new humanoid robots.The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight. Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment. Get in touch: globalpodcast@bbc.co.ukPhoto: Five-year-old Hind Rajab who was killed in Gaza, January 29th 2004, by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during the Gaza war. Credit: Family

Who's scarier than Donald Trump? J.D. Vance, a true believer in America's tech-dystopian future, and he's one heartbeat away from the presidency. This week, independent journalist Gil Durán joins us to discuss his explosive new book, The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy–the book Mark Zuckerberg doesn't want you to read. (Duran has been blocked and blacklisted from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.) Duran exposes how billionaire oligarchs like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are weaponizing crypto, mass surveillance tools like Palantir and Flock cameras, and extreme wealth to overthrow our democracy. Their most dangerous trojan horse is JD Vance. Vance is the kind of opportunist who made the Third Reich possible. In our chilling interview, Durán discusses how Vance is a true believer in tech-fascism and entirely a "creation of Peter Thiel." From fantasizing about purging the civil service to openly defying the courts, Vance is prepared to go much further than wrecking ball Trump could manage.  We cannot let billionaires buy our government. Support fearless independent journalism by pre-ordering The Nerd Reich today and supporting shows like Gaslit Nation, and tune in to the full episode to learn how we can fight back! And thank you to everyone who preorders Andrea's new book, A Reasonable Guide for Unreasonable Women: 20 Steps to Find Your Purpose and Power in a World on Fire -- for concrete ways to build a better world from the MAGA dumpster fire ashes.  EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION: Join Andrea and actor Steven Pasquale for an Instagram Live this Thursday August 20 at 4:30pm ET to discuss our authoritarian crisis and ways artists and culture can help us rethink and rebuild our democracy.  Join Gaslit Nation at the Network NoVA Women's Summit this weekend at Tysons Corner, Virginia. Andrea will be speaking Saturday night after the drum circle and before the pajama party (yes, we're serious!) Details here: https://networknova.org/ws2026/ Gaslit Nation Salons take place Mondays 4pm ET over Zoom and are recorded and shared on Patreon.com/Gaslit and GaslitNation.Substack.com for our community New! There's now a California Signal Group for Gaslit Nation listeners to find each other and connect in that state. Join on Patreon or Substack! The Gaslit Nation Outreach Committee discusses how to talk to the MAGA cult: Join on Patreon or Substack! Minnesota Signal group for Gaslit Nation listeners in the state to find each other: Join on Patreon or Substack! Vermont Signal group for Gaslit Nation listeners in the state to find each other: Join on Patreon or Substack! Arizona-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to connect. Join on Patreon or Substack! Indiana-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to join. Join on Patreon or Substack! Florida-based listeners are going strong meeting in person. Be sure to join their Signal group. Join on Patreon or Substack! As always, keep it kind in our chat groups, extend grace and assume good faith. A culture of care is how we build a better world.