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I don't actually do anything resembling traditional engineering anymore
Andrej Karpathy describing how he now relies entirely on Claude Code and Opus 5.5 to build software rather than writing code himself.
Artificial intelligence must be disarmed
Pope Leo XIV, in an X post ahead of UN talks in Geneva on lethal autonomous weapons, called for AI to be disarmed and for human oversight of decisions over life and force.
NewsweekPope Leo Warns AI ‘Must Be Disarmed’ Ahead of Autonomous Weapons Talks
A request of capital from investors
Ehren Stanhope, co-head of investment management at Franklin Templeton, commented on Big Tech's shift from buybacks toward debt and equity issuance to fund AI spending, in a 2026 Reuters report.
TNW | FinanceBig Tech buybacks fall 83% as AI spending eats the cash, Reuters reports - The Next Web
We will work together to tackle head on the safety and security issues of runaway AI
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, speaking at the EU-Canada Summit in Montréal, October 2026, on AI safety cooperation.
EU PerspectivesVon der Leyen says Canada will train AI on EU supercomputers
A bit cheap for a vulnerability this serious
Simon Willison commented on OpenAI's $5,000 bug bounty payout for a serious ChatGPT account takeover exploit, published on his weblog in October 2026.
You're creating free content for an AI machine
Lu Campbell-Smith, an inner Sydney designer and artist, speaking in November 2026 about Australia's proposed opt-out copyright model for AI training.
It's the wild west and we really need to push back
Pete Strong, a screenprinter and Greens councillor based in Grayndler, Sydney, commenting in November 2026 on Australia's proposed AI copyright reforms.
We've studied all their deployments of our GPUs and counted every one
Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO, speaking to Bloomberg about earlier chip-smuggling allegations involving Megaspeed, October 2026.
Open MagazineEXPLAINED | Nvidia’s China Tightrope: Can Jensen Huang Keep Trump and Beijing on Side?
Saving money for the distant future is pointless with the advent of super intelligent abundance
Elon Musk posted on X, as reported by Futurism and The Economic Times in 2026, predicting AI-driven abundance will make retirement savings unnecessary.
Our communities deserve access to that energy before the data centers do
Washington State Senator Marko Liias speaking on a panel at Seattle AI Week, November 2026, about data center energy demands.
The Cool DownKayakers bring 'Power for People, Not for Tech' protest to Washington's AI Week kickoff
Power for People, Not for Tech
Banner displayed by kayakers from climate group Troublemakers during Seattle AI Week's opening panel, November 2026.
The Cool DownKayakers bring 'Power for People, Not for Tech' protest to Washington's AI Week kickoff
Give them a better quality of life before they fall off the cliff
Dr. Jai Parekh, a cardiologist at Methodist Physicians Clinic, described the goal of using an AI platform to flag severe aortic stenosis cases sooner.
wowt.comMethodist uses AI to flag severe heart valve cases sooner - WOWT
What we think Ukraine's worst day is
Brig. Gen. Steven Carpenter describing US Army estimates for the scale of missile and drone attacks forces in Europe must be ready to process.
Term used in an Exponential View newsletter discussing how AI agents sharing model weights and working state could let firms scale past traditional organizational boundaries.
Exponential View🔮 39 charts on Anthropic, one-person biotech firm & cheap solar #608
Grading for correctness just adds a huge incentive for them to use AI for homework
Richard Borcherds, a Fields Medal-winning mathematics professor at UC Berkeley, told The California Post why he stopped grading homework for accuracy as students increasingly use AI.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun denied a New York Times report alleging a Megaspeed executive acted as a Chinese spy with ties to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, October 2026. Translated from Spanish.
AI-driven search increasingly answers user queries directly
Info Edge, an Indian internet company, explained in October 2026 why billings from its education platform Shiksha fell 27%.
MediaNama (AI)Google to put more ads in AI Mode as AI search slows revenue growth
People are comfortable with ads on these surfaces
Philipp Schindler, Google's Chief Business Officer, on Alphabet's Q3 2026 earnings call, discussing user research on ads placed within AI Mode search results.
MediaNama (AI)Google to put more ads in AI Mode as AI search slows revenue growth
Using AI violates my deeply held Humanist beliefs
David Durman, a University of Kentucky research administrator, explained in an American Humanist Association press release why he sought a religious accommodation to avoid using AI at work.
Daily NousHumanist Gets Religious Exemption from Using AI at Work
Title of the 2025 ADS/Hibrid.info research report examining how AI chatbots answer politically sensitive questions in the Western Balkans.
Global VoicesWhen chatbots become ‘answer engines’: AI, geopolitics and truth
Quiet amplifiers of distorted realities
Hyrije Mehmeti, lead researcher of the 2025 ADS/Hibrid.info study on chatbot responses to political questions, writing in Global Voices in October 2026.
Global VoicesWhen chatbots become ‘answer engines’: AI, geopolitics and truth
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg commented on the cost of running Muse, the company's new free personal AI agent, amid reports of Meta's negative free cash flow in 2026.
It's time for a renaissance in energy and in supersonic flight
Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl, at the unveiling of a Colorado factory making gas turbines for AI data centers, 2026.
Ars TechnicaSupersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers
The copyright system is the least efficient property system known to man
Law professor Lawrence Lessig, quoted in an EFF blog post on AI copyright litigation, October 2026.
Electronic Frontier FoundationRewriting Copyright Law for Generative AI Would Hurt Everyone
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The builders 29Founders, CEOs, the people who run the labs
Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Meredith Whittaker, Mark Zuckerberg and 23 more
The researchers 49Scientists, professors, the people who publish
Gary Marcus, Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton, Jaron Lanier, Stuart Russell, Timnit Gebru and 43 more
The politicians 11Heads of state, ministers, lawmakers, regulators
Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Bernie Sanders, David Sacks, Jay Jones, JD Vance and 5 more
The writers 11Journalists, authors, critics, newsletter voices
Nathan Lambert, Zvi Mowshowitz, Fritz Espenlaub, Cory Doctorow, Kevin Roose, Ted Chiang and 5 more
The investors 7Venture capital, analysts, those who price it
Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Beth Ann Bovino, Dan Simkowitz, Francisco Jeronimo, Matt Murphy and 1 more
The thinkers 24Philosophers, theologians, ethicists, historians
Pope Leo XIV, Yuval Noah Harari, Nick Bostrom, Pope Francis, Shannon Vallor, Carissa Véliz and 18 more
The makers 5Artists, musicians, filmmakers, actors, designers
Giacomo Miceli, Michel Gondry, Natasha Lyonne, Sean Ono Lennon, Zelda Williams
Everyone Else 26Without a listed role
Al Tompkins, Burak Oktenli, Caleb Flynn, Chamath Palihapitiya, Dario Perkins, David Krueger and 20 more
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