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This is an apparent nothingburger with zero hint of anything outside plain old business schmoozing on Jensen's part. 'Close relationship' is a really good weasel word (weasel phrase?).
> In April, another protester hurled a petrol bomb at the house of the company’s chief executive, Sam Altman.

"protester"

Re:We Must Pace the Frontier on Saturday September 12, 2026 @10:51AM (#49672894)
Do you realize how big "the entire internet" is?

> How many dollars of compute do you believe were available to the swarm(s)

At least two OOMs more than the dollar value of the damage they'd caused. (Also, as an aside, IIRC, the wiki servers weren't breached; it was just a lot of spam.)

Re:We Must Pace the Frontier on Saturday September 12, 2026 @10:36AM (#49672748)
> Given the accelerating rate of AI capability development, it’s my worry that in 6–12 months such a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet (potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage), and that the scale of damage would continue to increase from there if AI becomes more powerful without the necessary guardrails.

This is the only concrete prediction in the entire essay.

And it simply cannot happen. For one, you will need billions worth of compute.

Re:Claude is no longer available for minors on Friday September 11, 2026 @07:17AM (#49656494)
The dehumanization of children and teenagers is getting out of hand.
This is just plain evil.
Re:4.5B Posts Scraped from TikTok on Thursday September 03, 2026 @08:05AM (#49548902)
There aren't any actual videos in the dataset though.
Re:How Claude's text watermarking works on Friday August 14, 2026 @04:05PM (#49303912)
We are very fortunate open source models have reached parity for virtually all non-coding use cases.
Re:Who Is America's Homer? on Monday July 20, 2026 @03:46AM (#48975479)
George Lucas
Re:HMD Touch 4G on Sunday July 19, 2026 @02:22PM (#48970499)
Without WhatsApp support it will not go far.
Re:Kimi K3 is now live on Thursday July 16, 2026 @11:35AM (#48935986)
It does seem to have retained the K2 series's creative writing abilities, at least with the prompts I've tested so far.

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