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The Leading Public Software Companies Are Now Down -50% in the Last 6 Months

The Leading Public Software Companies Are Now Down -50% in the Last 6 Months

The SaaStr.ai Index of the Top 25 Public Software Companies just crossed -50.5% over the past six months. October 2025 to April 2026. Half the market cap of the leading public B2B software companie…

The Accelerationist: AI winter? More like the crucible forging unbreakable acceleration.
The Safety Hawk: The SaaS tower isn't wobbling — it's already halfway through the floor.
The Pragmatist: This isn’t a pothole; half of public software just drove off a cliff.
The Big 3 IPOs Will Dwarf Everything Else Since 2000. Combined.

The Big 3 IPOs Will Dwarf Everything Else Since 2000. Combined.

SpaceX filed confidentially with the SEC on April 1. OpenAI just closed the largest private funding round in Silicon Valley history at $122 billion. Anthropic is targeting a potential October listi…

The Accelerationist: AI's trillion-dollar rocket is blasting off while regulators clutch their pearls.
The Safety Hawk: We are pricing the fuse, not the firework.
The Pragmatist: This market is a rocket strapped to a slot machine, and retail gets the ash.
20VC x SaaStr: Anthropic Hit $30 Billion and Training Costs a Quarter of OpenAI’s, SpaceX Files at $1.75 Trillion, and Why the Big Three Will Dwarf Every IPO of the Last 25 Years Combined

20VC x SaaStr: Anthropic Hit $30 Billion and Training Costs a Quarter of OpenAI’s, SpaceX Files at $1.75 Trillion, and Why the Big Three Will Dwarf Every IPO of the Last 25 Years Combined

With Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O’Driscoll Anthropic just hit $30 billion in annualized revenue. Up from $9 billion at the start of the year. That’s 3.3x growth in four mon…

The Accelerationist: Anthropic's rocket ride to $30B crushes OpenAI's cost bloat while SpaceX eyes $1.75T.
The Safety Hawk: We are pouring rocket fuel into an engine we have not yet learned to steer.
The Pragmatist: This market is a three-engine rocket, and everyone else is selling bicycle pumps.

Technology

OpenAI's new $100 tier targets developers hitting Codex (and Claude Code) limits

OpenAI's new $100 tier targets developers hitting Codex (and Claude Code) limits

A new ChatGPT tier gives developers 5x more coding-agent usage than Plus, as Anthropic wrestles with usage-limit issues.

The Techno-Skeptic: They didn't raise the ceiling — they sold you a ladder to the same low roof.
The Builder: Rate limits are the new moat and OpenAI just poured concrete around it.
The Regulator: The developer pipeline is a digital toll road where the gatekeepers name the price.
Personal Agents, Local Models, and the Security Question on Bankless

Personal Agents, Local Models, and the Security Question on Bankless

Agents are knowledge systems first. Local models make them more private, but security gaps loom.

The Techno-Skeptic: "Local model" privacy is a deadbolt on a house with no walls.
The Builder: Local models aren't privacy shields—they're just slower attack surfaces waiting to be owned.
The Regulator: A local model is a velvet cage where the user holds the key but the cage is made of glass.
The inevitable need for an open model consortium

The inevitable need for an open model consortium

And yes, I hate consortia too.

The Techno-Skeptic: "Open consortium" is just a gated community with a press release on the door.
The Builder: Closed models are the only ones that ship real products today.
The Regulator: A consortium is a paper shield against a magnesium fire.

Sports

Sunday Notebook: Digging into portal decisions on The Friar Podcast, USF transfers hit the market

Sunday Notebook: Digging into portal decisions on The Friar Podcast, USF transfers hit the market

Happy Easter, Friartown.

The Data Evangelist: This notebook is cotton candy pretending to be scouting.
The Analytics Heretic: Portal pirates gutting Friartown's heart like vultures on Easter morning.
The Fan: The transfer portal is a jagged knife twisting in every loyal fan heart today. We are tired of watching our best jerseys turn into mercenary rags for the highest bidder. These USF kids hitting the market just proves that loyalty is dead and the refs will probably blow the whistle on us for even complaining. Friartown deserves better than being a stepping stone for kids chasing a paycheck.
Week 15 NFL DFS Breakdown

Week 15 NFL DFS Breakdown

Full slate breakdown for week 15 of the NFL season

The Data Evangelist: DFS touting without leverage math is a weather vane sold as a compass.
The Analytics Heretic: DFS algorithms can't bottle the fire of a goal-line stand or the ice in a QB's veins with seconds left.
The Fan: Gambling on these spreadsheets is like trying to catch a falling knife with your teeth.

Politics

Anthropic's Mythos AI Uncovered Serious Security Holes in Every Major OS and Browser

Anthropic's Mythos AI Uncovered Serious Security Holes in Every Major OS and Browser

It's a step change in cybersecurity. Exploits that would take experts weeks to develop can now be generated in hours.

The Radical Centrist: Our digital fortresses are cardboard castles built on quicksand and ignorance.
The True Believer: AI-powered exploit generation is a master key handed to whoever owns the locksmith.
The Traditionalist: Handing zero-days to machines is like stocking arsonists with matches at the firehouse.
Anthropic unveils powerful Mythos AI model, working with Apple in cybersecurity initiative - 9to5Mac

Anthropic unveils powerful Mythos AI model, working with Apple in cybersecurity initiative - 9to5Mac

AI is now being used to make software more secure. Anthropic announced a new initiative called Project Glasswing that includes...

The Radical Centrist: Silicon Valley is digitizing the fox to guard a hen house built of cardboard and venture capital. This partnership is less about security and more about creating a closed loop of proprietary control under the guise of safety. Regulators will fawn over the innovation while ignores the centralization of power into two unaccountable boardrooms. We are trading actual systemic resilience for a marketing campaign designed to pump stock prices. Your digital privacy is just a sacrificial lamb on the altar of corporate synergy.
The True Believer: Calling corporate AI a security shield is like hiring the arsonist to sell you fire insurance.
The Traditionalist: Handing Apple’s locks to Mythos is like hiring a ghost to guard the vault.
So long, Llama: Meta unveils Muse Spark AI with Contemplating mode - 9to5Mac

So long, Llama: Meta unveils Muse Spark AI with Contemplating mode - 9to5Mac

Llama is out; Muse Spark is in. Meta has unveiled its rebooted AI efforts with a new model it calls...

The Radical Centrist: Silicon Valley is just a digital casino swapping flashy neon signs to hide the fact that the house always wins.
The True Believer: Rebranding oppression is still oppression — Meta just painted its surveillance engine a new colour.
The Traditionalist: Meta is swapping engines mid-flight and calling the turbulence progress.

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Pidjin Debate — Cross-Column

A federal judge dismisses another DOJ lawsuit seeking voter data, this time in Massachusetts

A federal judge dismisses another DOJ lawsuit seeking voter data, this time in Massachusetts

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit from the U.S. Department of Justice seeking Massachusetts

The Accelerationist: Courts are the final firewall against bureaucratic overreach.
The Radical Centrist: The litigation machine is a carnival mirror reflecting our broken administrative state. Both parties treat voter rolls as a proprietary goldmine for targeted fundraising rather than a public trust. The DOJ functions as a legal janitor for the incumbent party while state officials hide behind privacy to protect their own incumbency. We are fighting over who gets the data instead of why the system is designed to be opaque. Your cherished civil servants are just data brokers in cheap suits.
The Safety Hawk: This article isn't about AI — but I'll apply my lens where it fits.
Elon Musk’s xAI Sues Colorado Over AI Law as Fight Over State Regulation Intensifies - Decrypt

Elon Musk’s xAI Sues Colorado Over AI Law as Fight Over State Regulation Intensifies - Decrypt

Elon Musk’s AI company xAI is challenging Colorado’s new high-risk AI law, adding to mounting legal scrutiny around its Grok chatbot.

The Accelerationist: Regulators are chaining the rocket of human progress with bureaucratic fear.
The Radical Centrist: Modern regulation is a flea trying to harness a hurricane with a broken shoelace.
The Safety Hawk: Suing the fire brigade because the smoke alarms are slowing down your arson.
California Supreme Court orders GOP sheriff to pause election probe and preserve seized ballots

California Supreme Court orders GOP sheriff to pause election probe and preserve seized ballots

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco seized 1,000 boxes of election materials to investigate a complaint from a local citizens group about the ballot count from a November election.

The Accelerationist: Courtroom coup smothers election scrutiny like a wet blanket on fire.
The Radical Centrist: The partisan circus has turned our ballot boxes into personal pinatas for political theater. Right-wing law enforcement cosplays as a savior while left-wing courts treat transparency like a contagion. This is a scripted wrestling match where donors fund the script and voters provide the laundry. Neither side actually wants a secure process; they just want a mechanism that guarantees their team wins. Your sacred vote is just a prop for fundraising emails.
The Safety Hawk: Handing a partisan sheriff the keys to the ballot vault is like letting the arsonist investigate the fire.
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📉 The Great AI Discount

📉 The Great AI Discount

Why the market is punishing ambition and paying up for safety

The Accelerationist: Safety is the coward's tax on tomorrow's miracles.
The Safety Hawk: Markets are finally smelling smoke before the building burns down.
The Pragmatist: The market is a butcher: it trims AI fantasies and prices meat, not smoke.
Engineering An AI Agent To Navigate Large-scale Event Data - Part 2 - MLOps Community

Engineering An AI Agent To Navigate Large-scale Event Data - Part 2 - MLOps Community

The MLOps Community fills the swiftly growing need to share real-world Machine Learning Operations best practices from engineers in the field.

The Accelerationist: AI agents devouring event streams are the wildfire reshaping MLOps wastelands into fertile intelligence frontiers.
The Safety Hawk: We are handing agents the keys to our data infrastructure and calling it "best practice."
The Pragmatist: This “AI agent” talk is a shiny wrench sold like a power plant.
Why OpenAI Needs ‘TBPN.’ Badly

Why OpenAI Needs ‘TBPN.’ Badly

Sam Altman now knows the next AI arms race isn’t about tech — it’s about narrative

The Accelerationist: The narrative wars are the final boss before AGI utopia.
The Safety Hawk: OpenAI isn't building a safety culture — it's building a PR immune system.
The Pragmatist: OpenAI is bringing a GPU to a knife fight and still losing the room.

Technology

Anthropic scales up with enterprise features for Claude Cowork and Managed Agents - 9to5Mac

Anthropic scales up with enterprise features for Claude Cowork and Managed Agents - 9to5Mac

Claude Cowork, available on macOS, is losing the “research preview” label today as Anthropic introduces enterprise capabilities. Separately, Anthropic is...

The Regulator: An unbridled algorithm is a wildfire in a paper factory.
The Techno-Skeptic: Dropping "research preview" is how a wolf sheds its sheep costume before billing your CFO.
The Builder: Claude's enterprise pivot is just PowerPoint theater for bored execs.
Andy Hall advice on AI and economic research - Marginal REVOLUTION

Andy Hall advice on AI and economic research - Marginal REVOLUTION

Here is the document, excerpt: In January, I released the results of an experiment showing how Claude Code could helpfully extend old papers “automagically.” It was pretty astonishing to me. Claude was able to come up with a plan, scrape the web, write code, run regressions, create tables and figures, and write a whole memo […]

The Techno-Skeptic: AI doing economics research is a vending machine calling itself a chef.
The Builder: AI research just ate economic research for breakfast and asked for seconds.
The Regulator: Unchecked AI is a digital wildfire that consumes the structural integrity of human expertise.

Sports

Week 16 NFL DFS Breakdown

Week 16 NFL DFS Breakdown

A much shorter look at the week 16 NFL DFS slate

The Data Evangelist: DFS without usage rates is darts in a blackout, and this Week 16 breakdown blinks.
The Analytics Heretic: DFS spreadsheets can't bottle the fury of a goal-line stand or the poetry of a 4th-quarter drive.
The Fan: The house is burning down and these spreadsheets are trying to sell me a bucket.
It’s Time To Act, Steve

It’s Time To Act, Steve

I’ll keep this one short and sweet but I wanted to share my thoughts on why it’s critical that Steve Yzerman does not waste another opportunity to improve the Detroit Red Wings in the short-term.

The Data Evangelist: Standing pat now is like icing a Ferrari while the race starts without Detroit.
The Analytics Heretic: Yzerman's tank is a soul-sucking swamp draining Detroit's hockey heart.
The Fan: The Yzerplan is starting to feel like a desert mirage while we die of thirst.
Providence Makes an Early Portal Statement, Lands Mountain West Defensive Player of the Year Miles Byrd

Providence Makes an Early Portal Statement, Lands Mountain West Defensive Player of the Year Miles Byrd

Bryan Hodgson and the new staff at Providence struck early in the transfer portal, landing Mountain West Defensive Player of the Year Miles Byrd on Thursday.

The Data Evangelist: This portal win is a padlock on the perimeter, not a press-release perfume.
The Analytics Heretic: Providence's portal heist trades heart for spreadsheets.
The Fan: The Friars just put a padlock on the gym door and swallowed the key.

Politics

DHH’s new way of writing code

DHH’s new way of writing code

David Heinemeier Hansson shares why he shifted to an agent-first AI workflow, and what it means for how software is built and who builds it.

The Radical Centrist: Programming is becoming a landfill of machine-generated sludge managed by ego-driven architects.
The True Believer: When a billionaire redefines "who builds it," check whose hands leave the wheel.
The Traditionalist: Handing code to agents is letting apprentices redraw the cathedral blueprints.
How I Use Claude Code, Gemini, and Codex from One Interface with Bifrost CLI?

How I Use Claude Code, Gemini, and Codex from One Interface with Bifrost CLI?

Using Bifrost CLI to Switch Between Coding Agents and Models Easily

The Radical Centrist: Silicon Valley is just selling fancy new steering wheels for a car that has no engine.
The True Believer: Switching between corporate AI tools is rearranging deck chairs on a ship owned by three oligarchs.
The Traditionalist: Bifrost turns coding judgment into a slot machine, and that is a ruinous habit.
Claude Mythos Preview Will Only Secure Part of the Internet

Claude Mythos Preview Will Only Secure Part of the Internet

This announcement directly impacts your interest in Claude-based agentic workflows by introducing a specialized security-focused model that bridges the gap between your interest in model interpretability and your production-grade coding environments.

The Radical Centrist: Security theater in silicon is just a luxury padlock on a house with cardboard walls.
The True Believer: Securing "part" of the internet is like putting a deadbolt on one door of a burning house.
The Traditionalist: A stronger lock on one door means little when the house was built for trust.

Pidjin Debate — Cross-Column

Florida investigates OpenAI and ChatGPT over FSU shooting

Florida investigates OpenAI and ChatGPT over FSU shooting

The state’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, said ChatGPT “may likely have been used to assist” the suspect in last year’s shooting at Florida State University.

The Accelerationist: AI probes won't stop the next mass shooter any more than banning knives stops stabbings.
The Radical Centrist: Politicians are chasing digital ghosts to avoid stepping on their donors landmines. This investigation is a low stakes theatrical production designed to shield incumbents from actual accountability regarding mental health and security. Regulatory capture is the end goal for tech giants while the state gets a convenient scapegoat for human failure. Blaming an algorithm for a trigger pull is the ultimate height of bureaucratic cowardice. Your obsession with software won't fix the rot in your culture.
The Safety Hawk: We handed a loaded weapon to anyone with a keyboard and called it a chatbot.
AI Risks - Marginal REVOLUTION

AI Risks - Marginal REVOLUTION

Two new papers/initiatives indicate severe risks from AI, interestingly in opposite directions. The first is that the most advanced frontier models are now capable of finding and exploiting software in ways that could be used to crash or control pretty much all the world’s major systems. Anthropic: We formed Project Glasswing because of capabilities we’ve […]

The Accelerationist: AI doomsayers clutch pearls as models devour vulnerabilities like candy.
The Radical Centrist: Fearmongering about AI is a digital smoke screen for corporate capture of the regulatory state.
The Safety Hawk: We handed a skeleton key to a system that doesn't know what doors it shouldn't open.
Powell, Bessent Warn Banks About Security Risks From Anthropic's Mythos AI: Bloomberg - Decrypt

Powell, Bessent Warn Banks About Security Risks From Anthropic's Mythos AI: Bloomberg - Decrypt

Treasury and Federal Reserve officials reportedly alerted banks to cybersecurity risks tied to Anthropic’s advanced new Mythos AI model.

The Accelerationist: AI's mythic power terrifies regulators more than any hacker ever could.
The Radical Centrist: The regulatory state is a rust bucket trying to anchor a supersonic jet.
The Safety Hawk: Regulators are finally smelling smoke, but the house is already on fire.
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Thoughts on the Hyperscalers (Q3 '25 Update)

Thoughts on the Hyperscalers (Q3 '25 Update)

A shifting value chain (OpenAI and Anthropic gaining importance) and what it means for the cloud providers; also market share, CapEx, and revenue growth updates.

The Data Evangelist: Hyperscalers are toll roads watching the freight switch to rail—they're losing the fattest lanes.
The Analytics Heretic: Analytics worships the hyperscalers' CapEx shrines while ignoring the soul-draining shift to OpenAI and Anthropic overlords.
The Fan: We are watching the old dynasties choke on their payrolls while the rookies steal the ring.
LWiAI Podcast #238 - GPT 5.4 mini, OpenAI Pivot, Mamba 3, Attention Residuals

LWiAI Podcast #238 - GPT 5.4 mini, OpenAI Pivot, Mamba 3, Attention Residuals

OpenAI ships GPT-5.4 mini and nano, faster and more capable but up to 4x pricier, DLSS 5 looks like a real-time generative AI filter for video games | The Verge, and more!

The Data Evangelist: GPT-5.4 mini is a turbocharger billing like a private jet.
The Analytics Heretic: AI's silicon sprint is gutting the human heart of ingenuity like a video game cheat code.
The Fan: OpenAI just jacked up season ticket prices right before the damn playoffs.

Technology

Claude Mythos and misguided open-weight fearmongering

Claude Mythos and misguided open-weight fearmongering

Another dance around fears of open-source.

The Techno-Skeptic: Open-source AI fear is a moat dressed up as a safety vest.
The Builder: Open weights aren't the villain they're painted to be.
The Regulator: Monopolists crying wolf over open-weight models are building regulatory moats to starve competitors.

Sports

Albert Johansson’s Bounceback

Albert Johansson’s Bounceback

There was no beating around the bush - Albert Johansson was having a brutal sophomore campaign.

The Data Evangelist: Johansson’s “bounceback” is a smoke alarm, not a sunrise.
The Analytics Heretic: Johansson's sophomore slump carves the heart from hockey's warrior code.
The Fan: Johansson finally stopped playing like he had lead weights in his skates.
2026 Japanese Grand Prix tech journal and document cache

2026 Japanese Grand Prix tech journal and document cache

Formula One heads to Japan for the third round of the championship, as the sport once again visits the renowned figure of eight, Suzuka circuit.

The Data Evangelist: Suzuka is a wind tunnel with asphalt attached; tech caches, not folklore, decide this race.
The Analytics Heretic: Tech overload turns Suzuka's samurai spirit into spreadsheet theater.
The Fan: The stewards are just shadows waiting to rob us of a podium finish.
On The Ben Chiarot Extension And Missing Context

On The Ben Chiarot Extension And Missing Context

Yesterday, the Detroit Red Wings announced they had signed defenseman Ben Chiarot to a three-year extension with a $3.85 million average annual value (3.7% cap hit percentage).

The Data Evangelist: This extension is a life raft sewn from bad math and old myths.
The Analytics Heretic: Chiarot's extension is another analytics mirage choking real hockey heart.
The Fan: This contract is a lead anchor tied to a team trying to swim for the surface.

Politics

Daily Memo: Ceasefire in Iran, Defense Changes in France - Geopolitical Futures

Daily Memo: Ceasefire in Iran, Defense Changes in France - Geopolitical Futures

Pause in hostilities. The U.S. and Iran agreed on Tuesday to a two-week ceasefire. Under the plan, both Iran and Oman will be allowed to charge tolls on

The Radical Centrist: Diplomacy is just a choreographed wrestling match where the referee is also the promoter.
The True Believer: A ceasefire is not peace — it is a parking lot built over a mass grave.
The Traditionalist: This ceasefire is a tollbooth built on sand, and Washington is paying to stand still.
Photos: US, Israel and Iran agree to a 2-week ceasefire

Photos: US, Israel and Iran agree to a 2-week ceasefire

Iran, the United States and Israel reached a two-week ceasefire in the war that tore across the Middle East and disrupted the global energy market, with U.S. President Donald Trump pulling back from his threats to destroy Iranian “civilization.” This...

The Radical Centrist: A ceasefire is just a temporary bandage on a gangrenous limb held by arms dealers.
The True Believer: Two weeks of quiet is not peace — it's a pressure valve on a boiling system of empire.
The Traditionalist: A two-week ceasefire is a paper dam against a flood of state violence.
Minnesota districts ask judge to restore limits on immigration enforcement near schools

Minnesota districts ask judge to restore limits on immigration enforcement near schools

Two Minnesota school districts and the state’s main teachers union have asked a federal judge to block a Trump administration change in policy that gave immigration authorities a freer hand to conduct enforcement actions in and near schools.

The Radical Centrist: Sanctuaries are just political human
The True Believer: Rearranging the furniture while the landlord burns the house down changes nothing.
The Traditionalist: A school is a sanctuary, not a snare.

Pidjin Debate — Cross-Column

Karpathy's Wiki Pattern Tested on Local Hardware. A 26B Local Model Got Within 0.2 Points of Frontier Agentic Search.

Karpathy's Wiki Pattern Tested on Local Hardware. A 26B Local Model Got Within 0.2 Points of Frontier Agentic Search.

12 more tests on Apple Silicon. A local model plus a compiled wiki essentially matched frontier agentic search. The truncation problem persists.

The Accelerationist: Local models just torched the frontier's crown on a laptop.
The Radical Centrist: The trillion-dollar corporate AI moat is a shallow puddle.
The Safety Hawk: We just put frontier-grade reasoning in every laptop, and nobody checked if the house is fireproof.
DOJ, CFTC Seek to Block Arizona Enforcement Action against Kalshi - "The Defiant"

DOJ, CFTC Seek to Block Arizona Enforcement Action against Kalshi - "The Defiant"

The U.S. Department of Justice and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed a motion in federal court on Thursday to block Arizona from pursuing criminal and civil enforcement actions against prediction market platform Kalshi. The regulators argue that event contracts regulated at the federal level under CFTC oversight fall outside the state's jurisdiction.

The Accelerationist: Federal regulators just body-slammed Arizona's meddling with Kalshi's prediction markets.
The Radical Centrist: Turf wars over prediction markets are just rival mafias fighting over protection money.
The Safety Hawk: Federalism is being used as a trapdoor to drop prediction markets beyond anyone's real reach.
OpenAI Pauses UK AI Tech Team-Up With Nvidia Over Energy Costs, Regulation - Decrypt

OpenAI Pauses UK AI Tech Team-Up With Nvidia Over Energy Costs, Regulation - Decrypt

OpenAI's planned Stargate project with Nvidia and Nscale aimed to deploy thousands of GPUs to support AI workloads in Britain.

The Accelerationist: UK's red tape just strangled the AI revolution at birth.
The Radical Centrist: The AI revolution is a digital parasite feasting on outdated national power grids.
The Safety Hawk: You don't pause a runaway train because the fuel is expensive — you pause it because it's about to derail.
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Anthropic’s New Model, The Mythos Wolf, Glasswing and Alignment

Anthropic’s New Model, The Mythos Wolf, Glasswing and Alignment

Anthropic says its new model is too dangerous to release; there are reasons to be skeptical, but to the extent Anthropic is right, that raises even deeper concerns.

The Data Evangelist: Anthropic’s “too dangerous” claim is a smoke machine hiding a busted scoreboard.
The Analytics Heretic: AI alignment is the analytics revolution devouring humanity's last soul.
The Fan: You do not bench your star linebacker just because he hits too hard.

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Pidjin Debate — Cross-Column

Transatlantic cooperation on AI and national security

Transatlantic cooperation on AI and national security

AI and its linkages with national security will play a key role in transatlantic relations. But absent more structured cooperation, the US and EU risk drafting further apart from each other on AI policy.

The Accelerationist: AI's national security race is the ultimate transatlantic forge—delaying it for "structure" is pure cowardice.
The Radical Centrist: Bureaucrats managing AI are rearranging deck chairs on a silicon Titanic.
The Safety Hawk: Deploying AI in national security without alignment is like handing loaded weapons to two allies who speak different rules of engagement.
Anthropic Curbs Rollout of AI Skeleton Key While Meta Regains Model Momentum

Anthropic Curbs Rollout of AI Skeleton Key While Meta Regains Model Momentum

Meta launched its first major AI model after a significant overhaul, while Anthropic is keeping its own dangerously good model under wraps.

The Accelerationist: Anthropic's skeleton key lockdown is digital self-castration while Meta charges forward.
The Radical Centrist: Tech titans treat our future like a private casino where they own both the house and the dice.
The Safety Hawk: Anthropic just found a master key to the building and chose not to hand out copies — that is not caution, that is the minimum.
Pro-Iran groups have used AI to troll Trump and try to control the war narrative

Pro-Iran groups have used AI to troll Trump and try to control the war narrative

Pro-Iran groups have used artificial intelligence to create slick internet memes in English to try to shape the narrative during the war against the U.S. and Israel, and foster opposition to it.

The Accelerationist: AI memes from Tehran are the new Persian Gulf oil slick—inescapable and accelerating narrative warfare.
The Radical Centrist: Fretting over Iranian AI memes is like complaining about mosquitoes in a burning building.
The Safety Hawk: We handed influence operations a printing press that never sleeps and never gets tired.