15 Jul 2026
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Vol. I
No. 112

The discourse · 15 July 2026

13 Jul

“So like Anthropic and OpenAI in particular are trying to automate themselves. Like they're trying to make it the case that um they don't really need human employees anymore.”

14 Jul

Satya Nadella on the hidden cost of AI services: users pay twice, once with money and once with proprietary knowledge.

13 Jul

Dario Amodei puts the probability of AI causing human extinction at 70%.

13 Jul

Dario Amodei on OpenAI's early motivation: fear that Demis Hassabis would seize control with AGI.

14 Jul

Patrick O'Shaughnessy on the three-way constraint every fundraise faces.

14 Jul

Ben Pouladian on the true bottleneck in AI infrastructure buildout.

14 Jul

Nathan Lambert on the existential policy risk facing open AI models.

14 Jul

Patrick O'Shaughnessy on why 'understanding the system' is the wrong fundraiser credential.

13 Jul

Nathaniel Whittemore on how swapping a hidden internal concept changes a model's output answer.

13 Jul

Dan Held on Bitcoin resisting institutional capture.

13 Jul

Alistair Pullen on agent memory implementations being universally hacky, including his own company's.

13 Jul

Jason Calacanis on the cost-efficiency of his viral tweet experiment.