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  Sisters and brothers - Nearly every day there is a frightening new story about how Big Tech companies are losing control of the technology they are developing, with potentially cataclysmic results. As I’m sure you heard Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic employee, resigned last week and said that the very people building this technology admit that it could threaten the future of humanity. Nobel Prize winner and the Godfather of AI Dr. Geoffrey Hinton says it is not an unreasonable estimate to suggest there's a 10% chance that AI could kill all humans within a decade. What Mr. Coxon, Dr. Hinton and others sounding the alarm are talking about is that these major AI companies are building technologies that they do not fully understand, will likely become smarter than humans and could very well escape human control. No. This is not the script of a bad science fiction movie. It’s the reality facing us today. Meanwhile, we have a President of the United States who seems to know absolutely...

  —→End of Summer Sale:🔓 Unlock the full story. > For a limited time, you can tear down the paywall for just $1.05 per week . Get unfiltered, deep-dive political analysis from the sharpest strategists in the game when you upgrade now. Lock in 30% off forever The Men Who Will Destroy Humanity My conversation with an AI about the possibility that it will kill us all. Sam Osterhout Sep 15 ∙ Preview Last week was probably among the most significant weeks in the history of AI. It began with a tweet. Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below. 12:04 AM · Sep 9, 2026 · 169M Views 19.9K Replies · 164K Reposts · 791K Likes You should read the entire thread. The gist is that companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, and others are building int...

   This one’s open, so feel free to share it anywhere. Quick boost that really helps: ♥ + Restack + a short comment. Anthropic: The AI Company That Told Trump's War Machine to Go F**k Itself The complete story of Anthropic's Pentagon war, Sam Altman/OpenAI's opportunistic betrayal, and why 1.5 million people deleted ChatGPT in 48 hours. Dean Blundell March 4, 2026 In a week that felt like a Tom Clancy novel written by someone who actually understands ethics, Anthropic — the company that makes the AI you might be reading this on — went to war with the Pentagon, got blacklisted by Trump, watched its rival stab it in the back, and somehow ended up #1 in the App Store. This is the full story. Buckle up, fellow nerds. It’s a good one… This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The Setup: What Is Anthropic, and Why Should You Care? Most people know ChatGPT. Fewer know Claude. That’s about to change. An...