The AI space is moving SO fast which is why it is challenging to keep up, just look at the news tonight with Anthropic and the US government about Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Which brings me to this clip from the @semafor Tech San Francisco event - a timely conversation @ReedAlbergotti had with @levie and @jpatel41 in which they discuss Fable and the importance of an open source strategy.
This was only one of the many topics covered - highly recommend watching the entire event. Link in comments.
Source: the White House imposed export controls on Mythos partly over suspicions a China-linked group had accessed it (@reedalbergotti / Semafor)
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📺@semaforCongressional bureau chief @burgessev joins @ahylton26 and @BasilSmiklePhD on @MSNOWNews to discuss his reporting on Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's plan to take back the Senate.
Why is President Trump hosting a UFC fight at the White House on his 80th birthday? "The president thinks this is cool. It's his birthday. He wants to have a big event," @ShelbyTalcott says her White House sources are telling her. "It's not that deep."
🟡To know what's really going on in the US Senate, read @semafor Congressional bureau chief and beat-defining reporter @burgessev.
Here he talks with @SenSchumer about the latest chapter in his years-long campaign to oust Susan Collins.
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“If you want to expand the map and want to build a majority and build a more permanent majority, you have to look at states that are not blue but are purple or even reddish,” @SenSchumer tells @Semafor. tinyurl.com/mv6nkzx2
"We've raised about $1B, and that's basically all on the balance sheet. Very rare for an AI company to have a business model," @AppliedInt's @qasar tells @ReedAlbergotti.
"Lots of other models, but the business model seems to be the most elusive type of model."
.@ReedAlbergotti: "Are you still thinking about something like AGI on the horizon, where we hit this point where it just completely blows away everything we're talking about today?"
@jpatel41: "Aren't we already there, to some degree? It's bonkers how quickly we get used to this stuff. Everyone now starts complaining about the seats not being comfortable in a Waymo. It's like, this freakin' thing is driving itself!"
However, as Semafor first reported, in the wake of the California primary election last Tuesday, Polymarket has sponsored posts from far-right influencers on X pushing election conspiracies and disinformation. Popular Information has uncovered a network of at least 16 influencers1, with a collective audience of 13 million, publishing election-related misinformation in posts sponsored by Polymarket.
"We have canceled interviews the day before they happen when we're told, 'You can't ask about X, Y, and Z.'"
NYT "Popcast" hosts @joecoscarelli and @joncaramanica explain why they won't let artists set the terms for interviews:
🟡 @joncaramanica and @joecoscarelli of The New York Times’ Popcast show join Mixed Signals to talk to @maxwelltani and @semaforben about how a two-decade-old music podcast became one of the most coveted interview slots in music — landing Taylor Swift, A$AP Rocky, Olivia Rodrigo, and Bad Bunny — by offering something most celebrity press won't: no question approval, no topic restrictions, and critics who've actually been covering these artists for years.
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