dwarkesh.com

The mistake of conflating intelligence and power

Power is more the product of having the authority and trust to get lots of people to collaborate with you, rather than some galaxy brain scheming capability. Trump is not powerful because his brain, considered in isolation, is the most effective optimization engine on Earth. He is powerful because the government which hundreds of millions of people consider legitimate gives him a lot of power.

ai-supremacy.com

Summary of the AI Index Report 2026, Part II

The more exposed we are to an Internet of AI slop (AIS) and even the potential of career ladder disruption, the less happy young people are starting to be with regards to their trust and hope that AI will bring a better world.

upstartsmedia.com

Scoop: How A Board Departure And Product Launch Sparked An Anthropic And Figma Feud

For Anthropic itself, Field chose more loaded words: "They were not consistently candid in their communications," he said.

honest-broker.com

The 10 Most Popular Articles from The Honest Broker (2021-2026)

When you start writing directly for readers, without intermediaries, that begins to happen naturally. Above all, I decide to treat the reader as a trusted friend—with the hope that you might extend the same courtesy to me.

whyisthisinteresting

The One-Time Pad Edition

What makes the one-time pad interesting isn't the math. It's that the limiting factor was always trust, logistics, and human error under pressure — the same things that compromise nearly every security system.

ftav

Insider trading is still, in case anyone has forgotten, illegal

Because the US allowed sports bookmakers to gain entry by the back door, every market has been tainted by the same Wild West perception that's entirely of regulators' own creation. Insider trading is assumed to be rife. And, until or unless there are subpoenas dropping on doormats, any person who wants to believe the game isn't rigged against them is given no option but to believe in ghosts.

platformer.news

What is OpenAI going to do when the truth comes out?

It had taken Sutskever years to be able to put his finger on Altman's pattern of behavior — how OpenAI's CEO would tell him one thing, then say another and act as if the difference was an accident. "Oh, I must have misspoken," Altman would say.

platformer.news

What is OpenAI going to do when the truth comes out?

It had taken Sutskever years to be able to put his finger on Altman's pattern of behavior — how OpenAI's CEO would tell him one thing, then say another and act as if the difference was an accident.