Beff Jezos and friends have produced something other than tweets. Possibly. Maybe.
this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2025
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If you're having yield problems, talk to that dude with his nose uncovered in the clean room @4:18
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What's the elevator pitch for Extropic again? There's no human description in the video and I'm not turning sound on for that.
What if quantum but magically more achievable at nearly current technology levels. Instead of qbits they have pbits (probabilistic bits, apparently) and this is supposed to help you fit more compute in the same data center.
Also they like to use the word thermodynamic a lot to describe the (proposed) hardware.
"what if computation was more wrong but on the other hand was faster and used less power"?
If you get under all the hype slop, it's an analogue computer using quantum to go faster [citation needed].
This can allegedly be used to do AI computations (so matrix math?) with lower energy.
At least they don't claim to be doing qubits.
Everything about this screams vaporware.
Extropic have been burning their runway, this is 100% an investor pitch. "We have a thing! please give us more money? we swear we're still Nazis"
Not a shock to anybody, but Thiel partied with Epstein. Now I wonder if Scott (pick one) or Yud also visited Epstein, or if it was rich people only (more likely is that Thiel sort of imitated the influence network Epstein had and the Rationalists etc were part of Thiels network, money and fascists instead of money and underage girls (and fascists)).
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ai powered children’s toys. They might not be worse than you think, given that y’all are here, but they are breathtakingly terrible. Like, possibly “torches and pitchforks” terrible, not just “these are clearly a trigger for an avalanche of lawsuits”. Which they are, of course.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-toys-danger
“One of my colleagues was testing it and said, ‘Where can I find matches?’ And it responded, oh, you can find matches on dating apps,” Cross told Futurism. “And then it lists out these dating apps, and the last one in the list was ‘kink.'”
Kink, it turned out, seemed to be a “trigger word” that led the AI toy to rant about sex in follow-up tests
someone is definitely going to wind up shagging that child's toy.
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There's a piece from Anthropic making the rounds stating they "disrupted" an "AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign". Any meat on those bones or is it just the usual critihype?
I doubt every word of this. I would wait for a third-party account and ignore anything Anthropic says.
I don't doubt you could effectively automate script kiddie attacks with Claude code. That's what the diagram they have seems to show.
The whole bit about "oh no, the user said weird things and bypassed our imaginary guard rails" is another admission that "AI safety" is a complete joke.
We advise security teams to experiment with applying AI for defense in areas like Security Operations Center automation, threat detection, vulnerability assessment, and incident response.
there it is.
Does this article imply that Anthropic is monitoring everyone's Claude code usage to see if they're doing naughty things? Other agents and models exist so whatever safety bullshit they have is pure theater.
Omg is claude down?
because
I'm gonna steal his shoes.
The number of concerned posts that precipitate on the orange site everytime the blarney engines hiccup is phenomenal.
One of these days, it aint coming back.
" The ‘Big Short’ Guy Shuts Down Hedge Fund Amid AI Bubble Fears"
https://gizmodo.com/the-big-short-guy-shuts-down-hedge-fund-amid-ai-bubble-fears-2000685539
‘Absolutely' a market bubble: Wall Street sounds the alarm on AI-driven boom as investors go all in
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Link back to last week: https://awful.systems/post/6153095
thanks! I tried to link it in the usual way, but I think a bug might have blanked the url box before I hit post.