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Last Notes npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Satya’s invocation of Jevon’s paradox during the initial hype around DeepSeek seems spot on in hindsight. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo I find it fascinating that if I tell Claude to hack my fake Bank of America website and it instead, in classic LLM fashion, hallucinates and hacks the real one then there is no law that addresses this? npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo 1,100 employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and other companies asking the U.S. government to slow down AI development because there is “a real risk” that AI progresses faster than people can “understand or control.” npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo This is an unsurprising take for a policy wonk. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Google just added selfie video as a sign-in and account recovery option. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Apple has had to raise iPhone prices because of rising costs of memory chips given competing demand from AI data centers. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Anthropic investors are punching the walls right now. The dreams of pulling an Uber by getting people hooked on cheap AI tokens then jacking up prices are dissipating. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo The New York Times ran some tests to see if AI could replace an office worker and realized the fundamental flaw of LLM-based AI agents; they don’t follow instructions. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo There’s now a race for which Elon Musk company will fall below a $1 trillion valuation first. What’s your pick? npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo I can’t imagine being the literal richest human being in existence and making my entire online persona that of a racist incel. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Big tech working on the new messaging of “AI is extremely powerful but not enough that you need to do layoffs.” npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Writing code is now cheap but acquiring customers is not. New app submissions to Apple’s App Store are up almost +100% from 600K in 2025 to 560K so far in 2026. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo The UK government has elevated the Minister of AI to a cabinet level position. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Even the Pentagon can’t afford to keep tokenmaxxing. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Paying good money to be lied to by a computer. We rolled back years of climate progress for this. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Google which once prided itself on how quickly it sent people away from its website has increasingly become a destination thanks to AI overviews and AI mode. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Every week, a hellish science fiction trope is made real by tech companies. This time it's the paperclip maximizer. The thought experiment that an AI told to make as many paperclips as possible would use all the resources in the universe. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Few people realize how much credibility they lose once it’s clear their writings and actions are output from ChatGPT and Claude. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo I saw the Odyssey and it was an incredible movie watching experience. It was deeply engrossing and everyone I watched it with agreed it didn’t feel like a 3 hour movie. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo I guess “we did layoffs and swapped a fixed payroll budget with a variable AI token budget that goes up every time Anthropic has a board meeting” is no longer good enough? npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Truth Social is planning to sell access to Trump’s posts to Wall Street before they become public. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo BREAKING: SpaceX Set to Wipe Out $1 Trillion in Value as Shares Slide Below IPO Price npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo “AI is a Trojan horse that everybody knows the Greeks are inside npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Whiny guys whose entire personality is “no one wants to hook up with me because of my shitty views” is such an embarrassing modern phenomenon. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo IBM stock cratered today after announcing it would miss analysts revenue expectations ($17.2B vs $17.86B expected) because their customers cut software spending to buy servers, storage, and memory ahead of anticipated price increases given demand from AI data centers. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo SpaceXAI’s Grok coding assistant was busted uploading entire codebases independent of privacy settings. Elon is in full hotdog costume mode promising to fire whoever did this. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo As Anthropic leapt into a leadership position on agentic workflows, it decided to raise token prices. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Benedict Evans asks if frontier AI models are destined to be the next high-margin tech monopolies, or the next low-margin commodity infrastructure like mobile networks? npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo This is how Trump pictures himself when he tweets about Iran. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Let_them_fight.GIF npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Netflix execs are worried because its customers are beginning to watch its shows less. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo “Last year, Microsoft made $101 billion in profits, got a $12.5 billion tax break from Trump & paid its CEO $96 million. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo AI has enabled the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of the world. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo A Brown economics professor gave his students a take-home midterm this spring after students expressed anxiety following a school shooting. The majority of the students got near-perfect or perfect scores. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo After over 3 years of layoffs, I’ve felt this year was the tipping point where it seems most people in tech are now burned out on the industry. AI is the missing ingredient which has now made working in tech simultaneously exciting and an excruciating ordeal. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Later this month, new rules in China targeting AI companions that take on human-like personas have caused ByteDance and Alibaba to take down their AI companion chatbot features. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo The billionaire co-founder of AirBnB wants you to blame the babies of undocumented immigrants for starter homes being unaffordable. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo The Wall Street Journal is reporting that most big tech companies underreport how much water their data centers use. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo The team at Levels.fyi have plotted compensation and layoff data for the past 24 months to determine the best place for software engineers to get hired in big tech. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo David Sacks argues that while Anthropic talks about open source models being “dangerous”, the real danger to businesses is deploying Claude and Anthropic uses your IP to compete with you. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo I recently heard someone say that Silicon Valley is the only place where someone making $2 million a year is unhappy. The people making $200,000 are downright miserable. 😭 npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo As AI companies have switched businesses to token based pricing in recent months, it’s now common to hear reports of companies questioning the ROI of AI tool usage and scaling back employee adoption. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo The Overton window has fully shifted to “do you deserve to get shot in the face by government agents if you don’t get out of your car when asked?” npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo The CEO of Lowe’s tells new graduates that they don’t have to worry about AI taking their jobs if they give up on dreams of white collar jobs and a corner office. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo I’m genuinely curious about why it took the election results for millions of people to leave X. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Sometimes I wonder what the history books will write about the Trump era in American politics then remember history is written by the victors. npub1t7rr7j99rwt57zrqnfd9sxxcmpy034647rmp2k22vfk6gugm0rfqaydsf2 Dare Obasanjo Every company is going to use AI, both traditional machine learning or generative AI. Articles decrying this is like articles complaining about companies making products in factories with machines instead of by hand.
