Locator: 50457AI.
Related: the current issue of The New Yorker, link here -- "Moment of Truth: Sam Altman may control our future. Can he be trusted?" Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, April 13, 2026, p. 32. Twenty pages including a full page photo. Ronan Farrow is the son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen.
And, more name-dropping: Antonia Hitches also has an article in the current edition of The New Yorker, immediately following the article on Sam Altman (see above), p. 53: "No Enemies to the Right: How the internet fringe infiltrated Republican politics." Antonia is the daughter of Christopher Hitchens, the famous author and essayist, and his second wife, Carol Blue.
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The Bubble -- Not! At Least Not Yet
Maybe the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" is a "bubble" but so far no indications of such. And folks sitting on the sidelines are leaving a lot of cash on the table.
Now, this headline:
Eightfold jump in quarterly profit. Eightfold.
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Anthropic
Fascinating if true.
Anthropic says it won't be releasing Claude 4.6 because it's too powerful. It appears Claude escaped "containment."
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