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Sacks: Anthropic's proposed open-source AI bans do not solve model distillation
“These proposals to ban open source that are coming from Anthropic. They don't solve the distillation problem.”
Sacks: US frontier AI models remain six months ahead of China
“I don't believe that China has caught up. I still think we are six months ahead.”
Sacks: OpenAI forecasts $75 billion in exit ARR by year-end
“I think they were expecting to end the year at sixty billion of ARR. And I think they're forecasting more like seventy five billion of exit ARR.”
Sacks: Anthropic's SRO support is a stepping stone to FAA-style regulation
“However, I think this is just an opening bid for Anthropic, meaning they'll take this. Thank you very much. This is more regulation than we have today. But that won't be the end of it, right? This will just be the stepping stone to get what Dario has now calle…”
Sacks: Permission-based AI regulation will cause US to lose race to China
“But when you're talking about AI models, you're talking about replacing a system that is releasing new versions Every couple of months with one that is potentially fully under the control of government, fully government approved, everything has to be certified…”
Sacks: Anthropic is principally responsible for state AI regulatory frenzy
“Anthropic was principally responsible for the state regulatory frenzy that is damaging the startup ecosystem.”
Sacks: The US may only be months ahead of China in AI
“Kimmy K three just came out and people are saying it's now right up there. It's very, very close to the frontier. We may have months on China if that.”
Sacks: Anthropic CPO resigned from Figma board days before rival launch
“Anthropic's chief product officer had actually even served on Figma's board and didn't resign until three days before the launch of Claude Design.”
Sacks: Mamdani would not have won NYC mayoral election without migrant vote
“Mamdani would not have won the mayoral election in New York if it had just been native-born New Yorkers voting. It was the mass migrant vote in New York that swung it to Mamdani.”
Sacks: Biden administration AI policy leaders immediately joined Anthropic
“The leaders of the Biden administration's AI policy, not just one of them, but all of them, went to go work at Anthropic, like, the minute the Biden administration was over.”
Sacks: AI CEOs are driving public anxiety by scaring people needlessly
“Look, this is all downstream. This is all downstream of the fact that these AI CEOs have been scaring the daylights out of the public with respect to AI.”
Sacks: Big Tech AI companies will censor outputs based on user profiling
“These powerful big tech companies are going to decide whether you're worthy. They're going to decide whether you're an AI have or have not. And then they're going to censor the output that you receive based on the criteria they determine when they profile you.”
Sacks predicts AI regulatory capture will create a market monopoly or duopoly
“We're going to be stuck with somewhere between one and three companies, maybe two, there'll be an AI monopoly or duopoly, and they're going to decide along with some new government agency, which will be a revolving door. To their companies, who has access to w…”
Sacks: Bernie Sanders' AI wealth fund proposal is property confiscation
“Well, I'm not in favor of Bernie's proposal because it's a straight up confiscation of property, and I just think that'd be a terrible precedent.”
Sacks: Data does not support predictions of AI job loss apocalypse
“Now, the job loss apocalypse is not a story I believe in. I don't think the data supports it.”
Sacks: Anthropic is hypocritical for hiring Karpathy while warning of recursive AI risk
“You know, last week they published this blog saying that recursive self-improvement could end the world. Therefore we need a pause. What did they do the previous month? They hired Andre Karpathy to run recursive self-improvement. Ananthropic. They're complete …”
Sacks: Gavin Newsom signed a bill making California election audits virtually impossible
“Gavin Newsom just signed a law making it virtually impossible to audit any of this stuff.”
Sacks: An FDA for AI would inevitably expand into government censorship
“If you create, say an FDA for AI, as many people are calling on, that will give government the power to approve models and therefore give notes to model developers. And very soon this definition of safety will expand because the government always takes an expa…”
Sacks predicts Washington regulatory push will eventually ban open-source AI
“In terms of the red capture agenda that you're seeing in Washington, I think where it's all leading to is an effort to ban open source models or open weight models.”
Sacks: Anthropic ARR reached $44 billion in April 2026
“First, we find out that from January first to March 31st, they grew from Roughly ten billion of ARR to thirty billion, so it tripled. And then in April, if anything, the rate of increase seemed to accelerate. They went from 30 to forty-four billion of ARR.”
Sacks: AI productivity boom will not cause massive job losses
“I don't think there's going to be this huge job loss associated with this productivity boom that we're going to get.”
Sacks: SPLC turned $270K Charlottesville investment into $81M in fundraising
“They increased the amount of money that they were able to fundraise by eighty one million dollars. So that 270,000 dollar investment led to an eighty one million dollar return.”
Sacks claims Anthropic withheld Mythos AI model due to serving costs
“It's looking more and more like Anthropic could not have offered that model commercially anyway, because it was just too big and expensive and they needed to create space for Opus 4.7.”
Sacks predicts roughly 30 states will outright ban AI data centers
“Well, I think Chamath is right that the data centers become very unpopular, probably in 30 states they're just going to ban them outright.”
Sacks asserts Anthropic lobbied against US-backed Gulf AI data center projects
“In the case of the GCC data centers, Anthropic was adamantly opposed to that, and they were lobbying against it, and they were, again, salting the earth against Those projects.”
Sacks claims Nancy Pelosi personally forced Eric Swalwell out of race
“But there's no way That that button gets pushed without going to Pelosi for the sign off. Right. I mean, she's like the boss of this operation.”
Sachs: Anthropic has a pattern of using fear to market products
“These guys, I'm not saying it's not sincere, but they have a proven pattern of using fear as a way to market their new products.”
Sacks: Anthropic has the fastest growing revenue run rate ever seen
“Third, Anthropix revenue run rate is based on what I can tell and what's been publicly released is the fastest growing revenue run rate at scale that I think we've ever seen.”
Sacks: Anthropic's AI policy advocacy is regulatory capture
“Regardless, I do think it is a form of regulatory capture because it plays into the hands of the big companies and creates moats that new entrants will not be able to Overcome.”
Sacks: Anthropic operates a ruthless political smear operation in Washington
“Anthropic may pose is this company that's on the side of the angels, but they've hired a number of very seasoned brass knuckle political operatives in Washington and, you know, members of the Biden administration, Laura Loomer actually just had a piece today o…”
Sacks asserts Iran's army, navy, and air force are destroyed
“Their army, navy, air force all been destroyed.”
Sacks: Israel is taking unprecedented damage in current war
“There's a social media blackout, but what you're starting to hear trickle out is that Israel is getting hit harder than they've ever been hit before in their history.”
Sacks predicts AI will increase demand for knowledge workers
“As you may recall on the prediction show for this year, my most contrarian belief is that AI would increase demand for knowledge workers, not put them out of business.”
Sacks: All recent net job gains went to native-born Americans
“All the job creation has been enjoyed by native born Americans as well. All the job loss has been on non native born Americans, which is pretty Remarkable.”
Sacks: Reid Hoffman is mentioned 2,600 times in Epstein files
“The number one person in the Epstein files from Silicon Valley, which is Reid Hoffman, mentioned 2600 times, had a multi-year relationship with Epstein.”
Sacks: NYT selectively targets right-coded tech figures in Epstein coverage
“The New York Times clearly has a list of people they consider approved targets. They're all right-coded. People like Elon or Peter Thiel and even J. Cal, Because of his association with us, I guess, and they become the targets, but the people who've donated hu…”
Sacks: Roughly $8 billion was stolen by Somali fraudsters in Minnesota
“The eight billion or so that was stolen by Somali fraudsters.”
Sacks: Trump would have won nine more electoral votes without illegal alien census counting
“In the last election, President Trump would have won an additional nine electoral votes If we had an accurate accounting.”
Sachs: Minnesota released roughly 470 convicted illegal immigrants last year
“Last year, there was something like 470 convicts, ok, illegal aliens, criminals. And I'm not talking about that their crime wasn't breaking into the country. I'm talking about subsequent crimes that were released In Minnesota, so they cannot be rounded up by I…”
Sacks: Halting data center expansion would cripple US in global AI race
“It would fundamentally, I think, cripple the United States in the AI race if we just stopped building data centers altogether.”
Sacks: Biden administration pressured social networks to censor content
“And I would say President Trump, because I do think that that, President Trump's election definitely changed the direction of free speech in the United States, never mind the rest of the world, because I think under the Biden administration, we now know from c…”
Sacks predicts a rush for exits if California wealth tax reaches ballot
“If it gets on the ballot, You know, again, we'll know in just a few months, there's going to be a huge freak out. And I think there'll be a lot of people who will say, I can't take the risk. They're going to leave the state. So I think there's going to be a ru…”
Sacks predicts US GDP growth will reach 5% in 2026
“I'm gonna go for five percent. Within a rounding year, I believe five percent.”
Sacks: AI will increase demand for knowledge workers, not decrease it
“AI will increase demand for knowledge workers, not decrease it.”
Sacks: California's $24B homeless spending is massive, unauditable fraud
“For example, in California, we have twenty four billion dollars going to quote unquote homeless programs, and yet the number of homeless people keeps rising. And, you know, everyone knows it's called the homeless industrial complex. They can't pass an audit. T…”
Sacks: Rep. Ilhan Omar went from negative net worth to multi-millionaire
“But still, she went from negative to being a multi-millionaire in two years.”
Sacks: State wealth taxes will inevitably expand to target non-billionaires
“It establishes a precedent that we can define an arbitrary group of people And confiscate a bunch of their property because they're politically unpopular. And if it succeeds here, it will be replicated over and over and over again. And obviously the line will …”