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I needed a LLM to help me vote… one missing voters pamphlet cryptic language and so many unopposed candidates? Really? Washington state Director of elections is also unopposed. So the voters don’t really have a choice..
No wonder the participation is low.
🎓 Berkeley math professor: students get the answers from AI 🤖, he can't tell who did the work. 🤷
No grades for homework. 📝
As a parent, would you support that? 👨👩👧 👇🧵
🧠 ChatGPT is keeping your memories. 🤖
In one study, 96% were saved without the user asking. 😳
What do you think about outsourcing your memories? 🤔 👇🧵
📰 2,050 ChatGPT memories studied. About half held "psychological insights." via @livemint: livemint.com/ai/artificial-i…
Not all tokens are the same in value…
Dario Amodei: some tokens Claude produces are worth a few cents, others could be worth tens of millions of dollars.
His examples:
1. Telling someone to restart their Mac: the model has said it 10 million times, worth a dollar or less
2. Telling a pharma company to move an aromatic ring to the other end of a molecule: potentially tens of millions
3. Expect pay-for-results pricing, or labor-like pricing by the hour
4. It's a new industry, so many models will be tried
Today pricing is simpler: per the S-1, usage-based pricing was 80% of H1 2026 revenue and subscriptions 20%.
Full breakdown here:
theaiopportunities.com/p/ant…
📰 Via @CNBC: that's about 27% of Microsoft's workforce. Eligible staff decide in early December and leave Dec 31. cnbc.com/2026/10/26/microsof…
Did a competent editor go through the filing? or was that outsourced?
For example
"There are four things that we would like any investor in Anthropic to understand: the incredible potential of Al, the risks we must address, Anthropic's unique approach to building a company and operating in the world, and the ways in which our behavior may differ
from that of a purely profit-maximizing company."
the first sentence says "four things" and the list devolves into an elaboration that dilutes the message. I would not put that on the summary page.
The company definitely needs to grow up and fast.
Compare the summary to the section titles in [brackets]
"There are four things that we would like any investor in Anthropic to understand:
1. the incredible potential of Al [AI's potential],
2. the risks we must address [AI's risks],
3. Anthropic's unique approach to building a company and operating in the world, [Anthropic's unique approach] and
4. the ways in which our behavior may differ
from that of a purely profit-maximizing company[On investors expectations].