Nilay Patel
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“Anthropic has a lot of wild risk factors in this S-1, including that Claude might be conscious and kill us all.”
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Inside Anthropic’s trillion-dollar AI gamble
In a 45-minute Decoder episode, Nilay Patel and SemiAnalysis analyst Joey Brookhart go through Anthropic's IPO filing: its margins, compute commitments, competition from OpenAI and open models, and the risk that revenue lags the spending on AGI.
Anthropic is asking Wall Street to believe in AGI
The Verge publishes the edited transcript of a Decoder interview in which SemiAnalysis analyst Joey Brookhart reads Anthropic's IPO filing (S-1) as showing strong margins, and argues that a $10 trillion valuation depends on automating white-collar work.
Bill Gates says to prepare for 20 years of ‘tumultuous’ AI disruption
In a 77-minute interview on The Verge's Decoder, Bill Gates tells Nilay Patel that AI needs government review and safeguards, that control is a lesser near-term worry than misuse and jobs, and that society should expect about two decades of disruption. Gates rejects the label doomer.
JB Pritzker thinks AI could help us live to 100 — or threaten us like nukes
In a 59-minute interview with The Verge's Nilay Patel, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker argues that AI companies cannot police themselves, that states alone cannot regulate AI, and that AI is potentially existential. Pritzker also warns of job losses and compares AI to nuclear weapons.
Benn Jordan thinks the surveillance problem is much bigger than Flock
According to the description, Nilay Patel interviews musician and investigator Benn Jordan, a critic of Flock Safety's automatic license plate readers who has testified to Congress. The conversation places the Flock debate within a wider fight over surveillance and privacy.
Adam Schiff on AI regulation, free speech, and impeaching Trump one more time
According to the episode description, host Nilay Patel asks California Sen. Adam Schiff, who sits on tech and AI oversight committees, how the industry might be regulated, against the backdrop of a White House gathering of AI CEOs.