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Noah Smith

@noahpinion
293 posts
2026-06-07
Honest it's necessary
2026-06-07 View on X
Bloomberg

President Trump says he is weighing proposals for US government to hold equity stakes in leading AI labs, and will soon discuss the idea with their executives

2026-06-06
Honestly this is good
2026-06-06 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: US officials discussed the US taking stakes in major AI companies after Sam Altman pitched the idea in 2025; Altman met Bernie Sanders on Wednesday

just surprise).@jimstewartson:They're trying to guarantee their own survival by giving Trump motivation to bail them out when they need hundreds of billions of dollars. This is som...

Honestly this is good
2026-06-06 View on X
Bloomberg

President Trump says he is weighing proposals for US government to hold equity stakes in leading AI labs, and will soon discuss the idea with their executives

President Donald Trump expressed interest in the US government holding equity stakes in leading artificial intelligence developers …

Honest it's necessary
2026-06-06 View on X
Bloomberg

President Trump says he is weighing proposals for US government to hold equity stakes in leading AI labs, and will soon discuss the idea with their executives

President Donald Trump expressed interest in the US government holding equity stakes in leading artificial intelligence developers …

Honest it's necessary
2026-06-06 View on X
CNBC

Source: OpenAI and White House are discussing a government stake in the company, to seed something like the “Public Wealth Fund” that OpenAI outlined earlier

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the White House are in ongoing talks about a possible government stake in the artificial intelligence company, CNBC confirmed on Friday.

2026-06-05
Honest it's necessary
2026-06-05 View on X
Bloomberg

President Trump says he is weighing proposals for US government to hold equity stakes in leading AI labs, and will soon discuss the idea with their executives

and block oligarch decisions that harm the American people. [video]

Honestly this is good
2026-06-05 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: US officials discussed the US taking stakes in major AI companies after Sam Altman pitched the idea in 2025; Altman met Bernie Sanders on Wednesday

The talks have been with artificial-intelligence leaders such as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who pitched the idea

Honestly this is good
2026-06-05 View on X
Bloomberg

President Trump says he is weighing proposals for US government to hold equity stakes in leading AI labs, and will soon discuss the idea with their executives

and block oligarch decisions that harm the American people. [video]

2026-06-04
I believe Sora is conscious, which is why it kept merging me with Sam Altman in videos of either of us
2026-06-04 View on X
The Atlantic

A look at AI consciousness debates; LLM conversations are cleverly disguised examples of sentence continuation, but that doesn't deny how impressive LLMs can be

Anthropic is regarded as a giant among AI companies, but perhaps what it really excels in is anthropomorphism.

Uh...yes
2026-06-04 View on X
Wired

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are among the signatories on a public letter urging improved tracking of synthetic DNA that could be used in AI-developed bioweapons

2026-05-26
This fuels my belief that: A) We ARE living in the Chinese Century, but B) The Chinese Century is going to be a lot less Chinese than the American Century was American.
2026-05-26 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Chinese government agencies begin imposing overseas travel restrictions on individuals involved in advanced AI work, including at Alibaba and DeepSeek

China is restricting overseas travel for top AI professionals in private firms such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and DeepSeek …

2026-05-22
The slow nationalization of U.S. industry continues
2026-05-22 View on X
CNBC

Shares of quantum computing companies surged Thursday after the US government announced grants with equity stakes: D-Wave closed up 33%, Rigetti 30%, IBM 12%

Now Trump's $1 Billion Quantum Bet Is Proving Him RightAna Swanson /New York Times:U.S. Plans to Invest $2 Billion and Take Stake in Quantum FirmsKeshav Verma /Bitcoinist.com:Not B...

The slow nationalization of U.S. industry continues
2026-05-22 View on X
Wall Street Journal

The US Commerce Department plans to award $2B in grants to nine quantum computing companies and will take equity stakes; IBM is set to get $1B of the package

Trump administration hopes to spur ‘a new era of American innovation,’ Commerce's Lutnick says  —  WASHINGTON—The Trump administration …

2026-05-21
AI can solve difficult, important problems in mathematics that human beings haven't been able to solve.
2026-05-21 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI says an internal general-purpose reasoning model has disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a central problem in discrete geometry posed in 1946

For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have studied a deceptively simple question: if you place nnn points in the plane …

2026-05-15
Export controls work
2026-05-15 View on X
Anthropic

In a policy paper, Anthropic urges the US and allies to enforce export controls, curb distillation attacks, and export US AI to hold the lead over China by 2028

We're releasing a new paper that explains our views on the competition on AI between the US and China.

2026-05-13
It's because people think AI will take their jobs, dude
2026-05-13 View on X
Wired

Internal emails: xAI has added 19 gas turbines to Colossus 2 over the past two months; xAI is fighting a lawsuit alleging Clean Air Act violations at the site

Emails show that Elon Musk's company is expanding its use of portable gas-fired power at its Colossus 2 site as a fight over air quality continues.Forums:r/mississippiForums:r/miss...

2026-05-12
This is why I would be surprised if Trump sold Taiwan out to China on this trip, as some are predicting. TSMC falling into Chinese hands would totally shift the compute balance toward China, making Trump and his family personally vulnerable to Chinese AI cyberattack.
2026-05-12 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Jensen Huang was not invited to travel with President Trump on his China trip, a potential setback to Nvidia; Huang expressed his willingness to join

The roster of business leaders invited to join President Donald Trump on his trip to China this week left off one notable …

2026-05-08
Maybe powerful AI will favor the cyber defense. Vulnerabilities are finite in number, so if you can fix them all, maybe software just becomes much more secure.
2026-05-08 View on X
TechCrunch

Mozilla says Anthropic's Mythos Preview and other AI models helped it identify and ship 423 Firefox security bug fixes in April, compared to 31 a year earlier

When Anthropic unveiled its new Mythos model in April, it also delivered a stern warning to anyone developing software.

2026-05-01
It's a problem that most of the people in the AI industry believe that their goal is to make humanity useless, not to give humanity better tools.
2026-05-01 View on X
New York Times

The persistent idea that AI disruption could create a permanent underclass signals how much collateral damage AI companies will tolerate in their pursuit of AGI

Most people I know in the A.I. industry think the median person is screwed, and they have no idea what to do about it.

2026-04-28
The Slopocalypse
2026-04-28 View on X
404 Media

An analysis of Internet Archive data: by mid-2025, ~35% of newly published websites since ChatGPT's launch in November 2022 were AI-generated or AI-assisted

Researchers found the internet is becoming aggressively positive as AI-generated text floods the web.