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Today’s Essential Episodes:
OpenAI’s Noam Brown on Agent Swarms, Alignment and Recursive Self-Improvement
Dwarkesh Podcast with Dwarkesh Patel, and Noam Brown, OpenAI research scientist
The 10,000-agent Navier-Stokes run, why chain-of-thought monitorability is already degrading, what the Hugging Face incident exposed, and his roughly 3x estimate for how much automation speeds up AI research.Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman: AI Threats Are Real, and Anthropic Is Making It Worse
Decoder with Nilay Patel, and Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI
Alignment is working but containment failed in the Hugging Face incident, why Anthropic’s welfare framing of Claude makes shutdown harder, and Microsoft’s Humanist AI Code of Conduct.Inside OpenAI’s First Chip
The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica, and Richard Ho, OpenAI VP of Hardware
Jalapeño from blank slate to tape-out in nine months, how one full-reticle chip covers both throughput and latency, high-volume production planned, and whether CUDA is still a moat.Meta’s Dina Powell McCormick: The Case for Data Centers, Backlash, the AI Job Boom and Meta’s Future
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks and Friedberg, and Dina Powell McCormick, President and Vice Chair of Meta
The Richland Parish playbook (teachers’ $50,000 checks, less water than the farmland it replaced, power and grid costs carried by Meta), who Meta thinks is fueling the data-center backlash, the workforce academy, the teen settlement and the glasses bet.Brad Gerstner: No AI Bubble, Semis Eat the Nasdaq and AI’s Take-Off Problem
All-In Podcast, and Brad Gerstner, founder and CEO of Altimeter Capital
NVIDIA at 14x next year’s earnings is no bubble, but the trade now rests on lab revenue roughly doubling and on the buildout executing: he expects closer to 25 gigawatts next year against a 43-gigawatt forecast, still enough for the revenue targets, with rates, power and regulation as the risks.
