Who supports the deal: 70%+ of America and the those who stood loyally by President Trump’s side from 2020-2024.
Who opposes the deal: Those who argued publicly in November 2022, “Dear President Trump: Please don’t run again.”
@marcthiessen was wrong then, and he is wrong now.
David Sacks was one of the first people to get a full readout from the White House after the Fable ban. He went on the All-In podcast this week and told the story from the inside. It is not the story anyone is telling.
Here is what actually happened.
Dario went to Washington in April and told national security officials he had built a cyber weapon. He spiked cortisol levels across the entire administration. Got everyone focused.
Then Anthropic quietly expanded the Mythos preview to over 50 companies without telling the White House. According to the Washington Post, at least one of those companies was flagged as a national security concern.
That was the predicate.
Then Fable launched. Mythos with guardrails. Anthropic's own largest partner started testing those guardrails and found a jailbreak. They escalated to the White House. The administration called Dario directly. A cabinet secretary picked up the phone personally.
It should have been a five minute call.
Instead, Dario argued. He said the jailbreak was not serious. Then he published a blog post trying to distinguish minor jailbreaks from major ones. This is the man who had just told Washington he built a cyber weapon.
Sacks said it plainly. The trust is gone. And once you are in one of these situations it is always harder to get out than it was to avoid getting in.
Anthropic spent years building credibility as the AI safety company.
They burned it in a single week by refusing a phone call.
WATCH THE FULL PODCAST ON @theallinpod
Centralization or competition?
@DavidSacks exposes the push for AI centralization and control: "I think centralization is the greatest threat of AI."
"They want to centralize and control. They see competition as a nefarious force, so they want centralization. They effectively want to create a cartel, and that is their view of AI safety."
The alternative path is competition, where market forces help prevent regulatory capture:
"In my opinion, competition is a good force. It's what protects consumers, it gives consumers choice, it also brings out the best in competitors, it prevents regulatory capture, and it has a greater chance of leading to decentralization. I think centralization is the greatest threat of AI."
Great @theallinpod exchange about President Trump’s pursuit of peace and denuclearization of Iran.
@DavidSacks: “I think this deal is a tremendous achievement.”
@friedberg: “It’s a really big deal.”
@chamath: “I think the market is going to the moon.”
Reminder that today is the last day to challenge MSTR being removed from MSCI indices.
MSTR also trading at a low now!
Is their mind made up?
We will hear the decision on 15 Jan.
You think the Minnesota stuff is bad, DOGE would have exposed 100X that!
The Dems are rotten and corrupt and they knew that Elon would have exposed them!
This crypto market is brutal!
You’re literally invested in the riskiest asset class and whilst all the “safe-haven” assets are doubling , not only are we are down, but we can’t get a single pump!
It’s literal torture.