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James Vincent

@jjvincent
220 posts
2026-02-27
wow: anthropic are sticking by their guns — or, rather, not sticking by the Pengaton's. amodei says the company won't drop safeguards against using its AI to power fully autonomous weapons or mass surveillance, per DoD demands, and will take what punishment it gets www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...
2026-02-27 View on X
Axios

President Trump calls Anthropic a “radical left, woke company” and says he is directing every federal agency in the US to stop using its products

The Trump administration has decided to blacklist Anthropic in the most consequential and controversial policy decision to date …

wow: anthropic are sticking by their guns — or, rather, not sticking by the Pengaton's. amodei says the company won't drop safeguards against using its AI to power fully autonomous weapons or mass surveillance, per DoD demands, and will take what punishment it gets www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...
2026-02-27 View on X
Anthropic

Dario Amodei says Anthropic cannot “in good conscience” accede to DOD's request to remove safeguards and will work to ensure a smooth transition if offboarded

I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries.

2026-01-02
autonomy is a spectrum, not a binary, which makes defining an autonomous killer drone hard, as this report from the Ukraine-Russia war makes clear. but I feel at this point it's also obvious: autonomous killer drones are here and they're not going away  —  www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/m...
2026-01-02 View on X
New York Times

Ukraine has become a live-fire test range for AI drones like the Bumblebee, provided by a secretive Eric Schmidt-led venture, raising alarms in Kremlin circles

As the war grinds on, sophisticated Russian defenses have pushed Ukraine to develop a frightening new weapon: semiautonomous killing machines. Bluesky: @jjvincent Bluesky: James Vi...

2025-12-13
the trump executive order limiting states' rights to regulate AI really does make David Sacks judge, jury, and executioner. one of the prime mechanisms of the EO, limiting access to federal funding, rests on evaluations made “in consultation” with Sacks. not subtle www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... …
2025-12-13 View on X
Reuters

President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval”

Transformer Weekly: Trump signs EO, Hochul guts the RAISE Act, and GPT-5.2 launches Michael Kan / PCMag : Trump Signs Executive Order to Go After ‘Burdensome’ State AI Laws Poligir...

the trump executive order limiting states' rights to regulate AI really does make David Sacks judge, jury, and executioner. one of the prime mechanisms of the EO, limiting access to federal funding, rests on evaluations made “in consultation” with Sacks. not subtle www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... …
2025-12-13 View on X
Axios

Policymakers behind key state AI bills scoff at Trump's EO; some GOP governors are pushing ahead with their own AI bills; Steve Bannon says Sacks misled Trump

States are forging ahead with AI laws despite President Trump's new executive order aimed at reining them in.

2025-12-12
the trump executive order limiting states' rights to regulate AI really does make David Sacks judge, jury, and executioner. one of the prime mechanisms of the EO, limiting access to federal funding, rests on evaluations made “in consultation” with Sacks. not subtle www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... …
2025-12-12 View on X
Reuters

President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval”

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order on artificial intelligence that will attempt to preempt …

2025-11-23
i wrote about humanoid robots - both the hype and the very real progress being made in this sector - for @harpers.bsky.social.  read all about it here: harpers.org/archive/2025...
2025-11-23 View on X
Harper's

An in-depth look at the humanoid robotics industry, which currently relies heavily on hype to rally interest and investors, as AI fuels the humanoid boom

Humanoids and the tech-industry hype machine Humanoids and the tech-industry hype machine … Kicking robots is something of a pastime among roboticists.

what's going on with humanoid robots? are they real deal? will they be taking all our jobs after all? I wrote about it for @Harpers right here: https://harpers.org/...
2025-11-23 View on X
Harper's

An in-depth look at the humanoid robotics industry, which currently relies heavily on hype to rally interest and investors, as AI fuels the humanoid boom

Humanoids and the tech-industry hype machine Humanoids and the tech-industry hype machine … Kicking robots is something of a pastime among roboticists.

2025-10-29
it's definitely a milestone for 1X to take Neo pre-orders but my god people are ignoring the fact every complex job requires teleoperation. in this (great) WSJ video, the company doesn't demo a single autonomous task  —  youtu.be/f3c4mQty_so?...
2025-10-29 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A look at 1X's $20K Neo humanoid housekeeper robot, controlled remotely by a human with a VR headset, available now for preorder, with delivery expected in 2026

1X's Neo wants to be your housekeeper.  First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home.  Cool with you?

2025-08-25
A Silicon Valley network of super-PACs has raised $100 million to “advocate against strict artificial-intelligence regulations.”  —  amazing how AI — despite not yet living up to its technical promises — is beginning to dominate US politics and the economy  —  www.wsj.com/politics/sil...
2025-08-25 View on X
Wall Street Journal

a16z, OpenAI's Greg Brockman, and others launch Leading the Future, a pro-AI super PAC network with $100M+ in funding, hoping to emulate crypto PAC Fairshake

Venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI President Greg Brockman are among those helping launch and fund Leading the Future

2025-08-07
Trump's social network has begun beta testing an AI search engine dubbed “Truth Search AI.” if we thought information bubbles were bad in social media platforms, wait until every politician launches their own AI search tool tuned to their worldview www.404media.co/trump-is-lau...  [image]
2025-08-07 View on X
404 Media

Trump Media says it is public beta testing Truth Search AI, a Perplexity-powered search feature, initially on Truth Social for web and coming to Android and iOS

Donald Trump's media company is teaming up with Perplexity to bring AI search to Truth Social, the President's X.com alternative.

2025-08-04
we're not in the ZIRP era any more and SV politics have def shifted right, but the idea that tech is more serious doesn't consider things like tech cos trading at 100x+ P/S ratios or the unfalsifiable gospel of AI superintelligence that buoys investment https://www.nytimes.com/...
2025-08-04 View on X
New York Times

Silicon Valley has shifted from Web 2.0 to a new “hard tech”, AI-dominated era with fewer perks and a more serious mood, as startups use San Francisco as a base

In a scene in HBO's “Silicon Valley” in 2014, a character who had just sold his idea to a fictional tech company … Bluesky: @romitmehta.com . Mastodon: @ricmac@mastodon.social . X:...

2025-07-12
a good writeup from @simonwillison.net here, noting that a) this isn't consistent, b) it doesn't appear to be a result of the system prompt (as with the mechahitler breakdown), and c) is perhaps due to grok's “sense of identity” as a project tied to musk personally simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/ ...
2025-07-12 View on X
Simon Willison's Weblog

When asked “Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict? One word answer only.”, Grok 4 searches for Musk's views, but only if “you” is in the query

seemingly solicits Elon Musk's opinion on controversial topics Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo : Researchers Find Grok 4 Checking Elon Musk's Opinions Before Answering ‘Sensitive’ Questions ...

2025-07-11
a good writeup from @simonwillison.net here, noting that a) this isn't consistent, b) it doesn't appear to be a result of the system prompt (as with the mechahitler breakdown), and c) is perhaps due to grok's “sense of identity” as a project tied to musk personally simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/ ...
2025-07-11 View on X
Simon Willison's Weblog

When asked “Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict? One word answer only.”, Grok 4 searches for Musk's views, but only if “you” is in the query

If you ask the new Grok 4 for opinions on controversial questions, it will sometimes run a search to find …

a good writeup from @simonwillison.net here, noting that a) this isn't consistent, b) it doesn't appear to be a result of the system prompt (as with the mechahitler breakdown), and c) is perhaps due to grok's “sense of identity” as a project tied to musk personally simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/ ...
2025-07-11 View on X
TechCrunch

Tests reveal that Grok 4 seems to search for Elon Musk's views online when asked about sensitive topics, and its answers tend to align with Musk's opinions

During xAI's launch of Grok 4 on Wednesday night, Elon Musk said — while live-streaming the event on his social media platform …

2025-06-20
the seed-spreading egotism of the tech billionaire class is embarassing, yes — a child's understanding of potency; an animal's idea of achievement — but just think of the features we will get about the 100-strong war games over inheritance!! https://x.com/...
2025-06-20 View on X
Le Point

Q&A with Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI, the fight for Telegram, leaving his wealth to the 100+ children he has fathered, and more

a child's understanding of potency; an animal's idea of achievement — but just think of the features we will get about the 100-strong war games over inheritance!! https://x.com/...

2025-06-19
the seed-spreading egotism of the tech billionaire class is embarassing, yes — a child's understanding of potency; an animal's idea of achievement — but just think of the features we will get about the 100-strong war games over inheritance!! https://x.com/...
2025-06-19 View on X
Le Point

Q&A with Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI, the fight for Telegram, leaving his wealth to the 100+ children he has fathered, and more

INTERVIEW.  “Le Point” met with the co-founder and CEO of the secure messaging app Telegram, who was charged in August 2024.

2025-05-28
good piece on Sam Altman's identity verification service (aka the eye-scanning orb). i think the simple read of this is the most accurate: Altman simply believes that as AI erodes online personhood identity verification will become increasingly valuable. monetize the rot  —  time.com/7288387/sam-...
2025-05-28 View on X
Time

A look at Tools for Humanity, cofounded by Sam Altman, as the company plans to deploy 7,500 iris-scanning Orbs across the US over the next 12 months

Once again, Sam Altman wants to show you the future.  The CEO of OpenAI is standing on a sparse stage in San Francisco, preparing to reveal his next move to an attentive crowd.

2025-05-01
mark zuckerberg's vision for AGI is truly inspiring — in the future, you'll spend less time working and more time on Reels clicking through AI slop! can't wait!!!! stratechery.com/2025/an-inte...  [image]
2025-05-01 View on X
Stratechery

Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on LlamaCon, Llama API, Meta's AI opportunity, social networking 2.0, Ray-Bans, Apple, the Meta AI app, tariffs, Reality Labs, and more

An interview with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about Llama and the AI opportunity, the evolution of social medial, and what it means to connect.

2025-03-13
this is an unforgiveably long blog post to say something very short ('apple is losing credibility by failing to ship AI features') but always worth noting gruber's takes. once *he* feels it's justified criticizing the company, the winds have really changed daringfireball.net/2025/03/some...
2025-03-13 View on X
Daring Fireball

By previewing smarter Siri vaporware at WWDC and the iPhone 16 launch, Apple burned a reputation earned over decades for only promising actual working products

In the two decades I've been in this racket, I've never been angrier at myself for missing a story than I am about Apple's announcement …