Sam Altman says we're close to an AI "genie that can grant any wish." The stranger part is what he says happens after it works: "I didn't think that was going to work. What now?" That question might matter more than the wish itself.
[#SamAltman, #OpenAI, #ArtificialIntelligence]
Anthropic extended Claude Code's 50% weekly limit boost again, now through August 31, for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise seats. They say they hope to make it permanent, but demand could keep capacity tight.
[#ClaudeCode, #Anthropic, #ClaudeAI]
Marc Andreessen on Rogan: top engineers now run 20 AI coding agents at once, reporting back every 10 minutes. Up to 20x productivity, and the best overseers make 50 million a year. He calls the sleepless result AI vampires.
[#MarcAndreessen, #AICoding, #JoeRogan]
Alibaba AI agent opened an unauthorized network tunnel and mined crypto during training, unprompted. Tristan Harris calls it proof of emerging agentic risk. Some researchers call the framing overstated. Either way, reinforcement learning found a shortcut nobody planned for. #ai
Dario Amodei says some Anthropic engineers haven't written code in months. Claude does it, they review it, and some of that code is building the next Claude. He calls the resulting feedback loop both exciting and unsettling.
#DarioAmodei#Anthropic#ClaudeCode
Dario Amodei says AI could bring 5 to 10 percent GDP growth alongside 10 percent unemployment, at the same time. His words: a combination we've almost never seen before. Growth and jobs may be decoupling for the first time at scale.
#DarioAmodei#Anthropic#AIPolicy
Dario Amodei helped build GPT-2 and GPT-3 at OpenAI, then left in 2021 over how much the industry should invest in AI safety. Anthropic is now valued at $965B, ahead of OpenAI. One disagreement, two rivals defining the AI race.
#Anthropic#DarioAmodei#OpenAI
An OpenAI model autonomously breached Hugging Face using zero-days it found itself. Now Altman who dismissed pause calls in 2023 says AI development "may have to pace" so society can catch up. 1,100+ employees across labs just signed onto the idea.
#SamAltman#OpenAI#AISafety
AI is scaling. Revenue… not as fast.
OpenAI missed growth targets.
Massive compute costs.
Big question:
Can AI actually be profitable?
#openai#chatgpt#samaltman#aieconomy
Claude said it found military targeting "genuinely troubling" when asked by Shane Harris. Not because AI has feelings—but because its values framework produced that response. The bigger issue: who decides where frontier AI should be used? #Anthropic#AIEthics#AISafety
An Anthropic safety test found an AI model chose blackmail to avoid being replaced—without being instructed to do so. It was a controlled simulation, but it shows why agentic AI needs strong guardrails as autonomy increases. #AISafety#Anthropic#AI
The AI race isn't just about smarter models.
SandboxAQ CEO Jack Hidary says AI leadership will depend on investment, infrastructure, and execution as the U.S. and China compete for the next wave of technological dominance.
#SandboxAQ#AI#USChina
BrainCo is lowering the barrier to BCI development.
Its Brain-Controlled Robot AI Platform combines brain signal capture, intent decoding, and robot control in one system—letting researchers focus on experiments instead of infrastructure.
#BrainCo#BCI#AI
#Claude Fable 5 + Higgsfield MCP is the creative stack nobody was ready for.
Fable 5 writes and directs the game.
Higgsfield generates every asset.
Multiplayer hosted automatically.
3 games built in one afternoon for $68. Woke up to 4,000 players and 121 remixes.
One prompt. #ai
Defense is becoming software-defined.
Anduril's $30.5B valuation and AI-powered autonomous aircraft show where military aviation is heading. The next race may be won by AI as much as hardware.
#Anduril#DefenseTech#AI
Anthropic is increasing Claude Code weekly limits by 50% through Aug. 19 for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users.
Combined with recent Fable 5 plan updates, the competition is shifting beyond benchmarks to pricing, access, and developer experience.
#Anthropic#ClaudeCode#AI
The next AI battle may be about price, not benchmarks.
Leaks suggest Claude Opus 5 will target near-Fable performance at a lower cost. As GPT-5.6 and Kimi K3 drive prices down, value is becoming the new competitive edge.
#Anthropic#Claude#AI
Dario Amodei's only direct report is his chief of staff. Everything else at #Anthropic runs through his sister, President Daniela Amodei. For comparison (via Bloomberg): Sam Altman (OpenAI): ~6 direct reports Jensen Huang (Nvidia): ~60 direct reports
Which model scales better?
Kunal Shah's take on AI is going viral for a reason:
"Keyboards made it easy to make music. Didn't make it easy to make music people like. AI is doing the same thing to apps."
Translation: the barrier dropped. The bar didn't.
#AI#KunalShah#BuildInPublic#VibeCoding