What a morning at DevDay! ✨
So much fun sharing what we’ve been working on with the developer community. Amazing to have everyone together in San Francisco!
Unabomber manifesto had section on AI
Amusingly even Kaczynski couldn’t muster the intellectual arrogance to predict x-risk to all humankind - calling it unknowable
His concern was lack of meaningful work, centralization of power & a ‘soft-liberal’ elite
Watching Codex use my own computer better than I do will never get old. It just sorted my Slack messages by clicking through filters I didn’t even know existed!
Take an appshot of any app with ⌘⌘ and let Codex take it from there!
Both countries fear uncontrollable AI, but rivalry keeps driving them apart. Can shared risk force cooperation on guardrails before it's too late? Our latest from speaking to insiders on both sides:
Can the US and China work together on AI safety?
People don’t seem to realise: distillation can’t be banned. One can only make it harder while total prohibition is technically impossible, like chip smuggling. Grasp that, and you’ll understand the AI politics on both sides of the pond far better.
DeepSeek’s fundraise might be the most bizarre in tech history:
* No CFO, no roadshow, and 1 email to submit commitments
* No voting rights, no board seats, and 5Y lockup
* Cleaning up shady SPVs charging 15–40 fees ahead of IPO
Absolute founder mode.