AI Doom Backlash Arrives, Anthropic & OpenAI IPO Outlook, Frontier Business Momentum Slows
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AI Doom Backlash Arrives, Anthropic & OpenAI IPO Outlook, Frontier Business Momentum Slows

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 19, 20261 hr 7 min

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) The WSJ says the Hugging Face might not be all that it was cracked up to be 2) The bots were told to hack? 3) Was this all a false flag for an effective altrust takeover? 4) Was this a smoke screen to conceal bad financial numbers from the AI labs? 5) Alex: Actually, maybe we should take these issues seriously? 6) Ranjan: They why aren't the labs being more transparent 7) Astra-6's crazy instructions to alter its personality in training 8) Anthropic hits $100 million in ARR 9) The...

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The AI Doom backlash is in full swing. Is it missing the point? OpenAI and Anthropic meanwhile, are soldiering on to massive IPOs.

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And is the AI frontier business slowing? That's coming up on a big technology podcast, Friday edition, right after this. What can a big technology podcast,

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Friday edition, where we break down the news in our traditional cool-headed and nuanced format, we have a great show for you today. The backlash to the AI Doom moment is forming.

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