Firm Conviction
Checkmate, Not Korea
roon and Will Manidis spent yesterday arguing about whether the AI labs end up as chaebols, and Manidis won it in a way that should move where you keep your money.
The List
Anthropic got a letter Friday telling it to cut foreign nationals off from its two newest models. It couldn't — there's no way to KYC every user of a public API in real time, including its own foreign-born staff — so it shut Fable and Mythos off for everyone…
The House
EXT. A VALLEY VILLAGE — BLUE HOUR, WINTER
Nasone
EXT. ROME — A SMALL PIAZZA — PRE-DAWN, RAIN
Your Job Is Becoming the Music Business
I met a man at a conference in New York who builds AI agents that do the work music producers and managers used to do. They scout what's catching on, watch the competition, and run the promotion that turns a song into a hit. He is automating the gatekeepers…
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