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Gwyneth Paltrow just invited Anduril cofounder @traestephens onto the Goop podcast — and, in a wide-ranging conversation about love, war, God, and Gwyneth’s leftist husband who thinks she’s “becoming a Republican”… Trae explains Anduril’s core goal: to engineer lasting peace. America, Trae explains, needs AI-assisted weapons that can execute missions without endangering American lives. Sometimes conflict is necessary. Gwyneth gets it. Full breakdown from @harrissockel 👇

MAFIA EP 001

After turning BuzzFeed into a Pulitzer Prize-winning company in the 2010s, Ben Smith cofounded Semafor a few years ago. Amid media failures in every direction, Semafor recently hit profitability and raised $30m in new financing at a $300m valuation. We spoke with Smith about Semafor’s growing $40m events business (roughly half the company’s revenue), including a new project in SF. Plus: why the most successful media companies are “non-ideological” about how they make money (ads can be good, he says). Full interview with legendary founder @semaforben on the future of “new” “new media,” from @micsolana and @dodgeblake 👇

Talked to @micsolana & @dodgeblake about @semafor & my most optimistic take, the gravitational pull of good journalism

Bill Gurley: Anthropic Thinks It’s Building God @Jason: It is the ultimate level of narcissism and delusion of grandeur to think you can create God. @bgurley: “Anthropic is a mystery to me. I've never, ever seen a company that is both leading their field and the most negatively outspoken commenter on what they do. And my initial theory was the regulatory capture theory. Quite frankly, I think they're very close to achieving that. But then they just got so loud that I've literally, in the past 30 days, read everything I can about Anthropic, and I've come up with a new theory. I call it the Dr. Frankenstein theory. The more I dig, I've met people who, I dare say, think it's their responsibility, and they're excited about, building a species that's superior to humans. Dario wrote this blog post called ‘Machines of Loving Grace.’ It was based on a poem. The last stanza of the poem says, ‘I like to think of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors, and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace.’ Sounds like an overlord to me. And then in Dario's post, he says, ‘It could be a capitalist economy of AI systems which then give out resources to humans based on some secondary economy of what the AI systems think makes sense to reward in humans…’ So I don't think they think they're writing software. I think they're midwifing a deity here.” Jason: “These are delusions of grandeur. Let's call it what it is. They believe that they're so powerful, these individuals, that they can create God, and that by creating God, they are like this Prometheus kind of species. It literally is the ultimate level of narcissism and delusion of grandeur to think you can create God.”