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Amir Efrati

Journalist, The Information. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

Amir Efrati is a journalist at The Information. He covers the intersection of artificial intelligence, government policy, and national security.

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Everything Amir Efrati said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

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Anthropic has completely overtaken OpenAI in revenue
“So I'm just curious how you reconcile what you were saying about the costs and everything with just the unprecedented growth that Anthropic has seen and the like flippening with open AI where it has just completely overtaken open AI from a revenue perspective.”
Amir Efrati May 29, 2026 ▶ 20:02 Normal People Don't Want AI Agents (And Silicon Valley Can't Accept It) · More or Less Podcast
AI and data center investments are literally sustaining the US economy
“If Anthropic were to fail, that would have a massive cascading effect on the entire economy and AI and data centers in general are what is literally keeping this economy going.”
Amir Efrati May 29, 2026 ▶ 16:20 Normal People Don't Want AI Agents (And Silicon Valley Can't Accept It) · More or Less Podcast
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Anthropic possesses an unreleased frontier AI model called Mythos
“We have the whole scenario now where there is a model that exists called Mythos. Nobody really has it except for Anthropic, and who knows if the actual real model as opposed to distilled versions of it that they give access to will ever kind of come out, and m…”
Amir Efrati May 29, 2026 ▶ 16:47 Normal People Don't Want AI Agents (And Silicon Valley Can't Accept It) · More or Less Podcast
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US national security establishment relies heavily on Anthropic despite DoD tensions
“While you have the fight between Anthropic and DoD over these various guardrails that Anthropic was insisting on, it's still the case that much of the national security establishment relies on and loves Anthropic models, and they want to keep using them, and t…”
Amir Efrati May 29, 2026 ▶ 5:44 Normal People Don't Want AI Agents (And Silicon Valley Can't Accept It) · More or Less Podcast
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Uber COO sees little ROI after CTO exhausted annual AI budget
“So the CTO almost, almost bragged about blowing through the AI budget in the first few months of the year. Then the COO over the weekend in a podcast said that I think that this led to a bunch of internal meetings and that he, this is Andrew McDonald, did not …”
Amir Efrati May 29, 2026 ▶ 19:32 Normal People Don't Want AI Agents (And Silicon Valley Can't Accept It) · More or Less Podcast
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Trump administration is unlikely to enact economy-damaging AI regulations
“Well, the Trump administration is unlikely to do something so heavy handed that it takes the economy.”
Amir Efrati May 29, 2026 ▶ 16:14 Normal People Don't Want AI Agents (And Silicon Valley Can't Accept It) · More or Less Podcast
Current AI tool adoption is at roughly one percent of market potential
“We're like at one percent penetration of what is the market in terms of what you can currently do with these tools. Only one percent of the people are actually doing it.”
Amir Efrati May 29, 2026 ▶ 36:44 Normal People Don't Want AI Agents (And Silicon Valley Can't Accept It) · More or Less Podcast
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Startup developers are increasingly whispering to AI tools in the office
“She highlighted the trend of developers whispering to their AI. So if you go into an office of a startup, you shall see many a whispering.”
Amir Efrati May 29, 2026 ▶ 1:38 Normal People Don't Want AI Agents (And Silicon Valley Can't Accept It) · More or Less Podcast
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US government will inevitably secure early access to review frontier models
“Where we seem to be going is the government eventually, one way or the other, having much deeper participation in the, I don't want to call it vetting, but certainly getting an early Access early look into what is being developed.”
Amir Efrati May 29, 2026 ▶ 9:52 Normal People Don't Want AI Agents (And Silicon Valley Can't Accept It) · More or Less Podcast

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Jessica Lessin used Sun Valley tennis courts to bypass media pens
“Turned out, tennis courts, anyone could book. So Amir Afradi and I, of the information side, we were going to play as much tennis as we possibly could book. And we would run into all these interesting people and say hello and catch up.”
Jessica Lessin Jul 5, 2024 ▶ 7:58 #54: Sun Valley, Tennis and Robots: Summer Adventure Preview · More or Less Podcast

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