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Demis Steps Down, Apple’s Memory Problem, Microsoft’s Clever Trick Aug 10, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:17 Alex Kantrowitz Yeah, there's a great piece in the algorithmic bridge, which is a sub stack that says, that talks about the actual reason Google fell out, quote unquote, of the AI race.

How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn Aug 5, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 24:45 Alex Kantrowitz You could rate his writing at dkahn, d-c-a-h-n.substack.com.
  • ▶ 1:07:33 Alex Kantrowitz Well, I hope you keep writing about this, and folks, I, I do urge you to go sign up for David's newsletter, dcon, d-c-a-h-n.substack.com.

How China Caught U.S. AI — With Grace Shao Jul 29, 2026 · 8 mentions

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth: Our Path To Frontier AI, Renting Models, Consumer AI's Struggles Jul 8, 2026 · 2 mentions

Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion Feb 16, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:14 Alex Kantrowitz He's the ex OpenAI safety researcher and author of the newsletter, Clear-Eyed AI on Substack.

The Moltbook Uprising, NVIDIA’s OpenAI Pullback, Apple’s Conundrum Feb 3, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:00 Alex Kantrowitz But before we get to the security side of things or go deeper on security, I want to read something to you that Jack Clark, one of the Anthropic co-founders wrote in his, in his newsletter on Substack, actually this morning.

Claude Code’s Shining Moment, ChatGPT for Healthcare, End Of Busywork? Jan 12, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:20 Alex Kantrowitz Memes where people have been talking about how cloud code could basically do anything, and it's got these, uh, superhuman capabilities, and I was waiting for a post to kind of illustrate what was going on with cloud code, uh, that had made…

Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026? Dec 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:17 Alex Kantrowitz But let me just read you one, uh, line that I heard, uh, you know, in terms of how this impacts jobs, uh, from Blood in the Machine on Substack.

Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine: Here's How Writing Evolves In The AI Era Oct 30, 2025 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 8:06 Alex Kantrowitz One thing, uh, that Medium, as, as someone who writes on Medium, I also write on Substack, we're gonna get into the difference between Medium and Substack in a bit, but as someone who writes on Medium, one thing I see is Medium ranks… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 40:56 Alex Kantrowitz And then of course, I want to talk to you a little bit about what Medium is and how it's different from Substack, which is something that I'm sure some of our listeners have questions about.
  • ▶ 41:13 Alex Kantrowitz Tony, uh, before the break I talked a little bit about how I am an independent publisher, I'm on Medium, I'm on Substack, and I kind of want these AI bots to crawl. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 48:37 Alex Kantrowitz And so, um, obviously, you know, I'd say looking from the outside, it seems like Substack has, you know, has emerged and picked up a lot of that energy. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:00:17 Alex Kantrowitz And also ran creator economy company that's just running after the sub stacks and who wants to do that?

Erotic ChatGPT, Zuck’s Apple Assault, AI’s Sameness Problem Oct 20, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 44:36 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, and I wrote this story in Big Technology Substack this week about AI's sameness problem.

Where Are The AI Startups? — With Rick Heitzmann Oct 17, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 38:13 Alex Kantrowitz There's a great, uh, a thought-provoking, um, substack post in this, uh, substack called Still Wandering, and it was called The Death of the Corporate Job, and the author was trying to track what the, what their friends, uh, and… 2 times in the scene

Will AI Kill Software? — With Salesforce Co-Founder Parker Harris Oct 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:51 Alex Kantrowitz We had, um, we had Thomas Kurian, he did an interview with me, the head of Google Cloud for my Substack recently, and talked also about using Gemini as a command line interface to, um, connect with a lot of your business software.

Do We Care About The iPhone Air?, Nepal's Discord Revolution, San Francisco’s 996 Culture Sep 16, 2025 · 1 mention

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI's Potential, OpenAI Rivalry, GenAI Business, Doomerism Jul 30, 2025 · 1 mention

The Web’s ‘Existential’ AI Threat, OpenAI’s Microsoft Office Competitor, Tesla Robotaxi Launch Jun 30, 2025 · 1 mention

Dwarkesh Patel: AI Continuous Improvement, Intelligence Explosion, Memory, Frontier Lab Competition Jun 18, 2025 · 3 mentions

Sam Altman’s Gentle Singularity, Zuck’s AI Power Play, Burning Of The Waymos Jun 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:36 Alex Kantrowitz It's going to be available to those initially to those paying 200 dollars a month to open AI, which unfortunately no longer includes me, but there's a sub stack called latent space that talks a little bit about why, uh, this model is an…

Are We at the End of Ai Progress? — With Gary Marcus May 7, 2025 · 2 mentions

Why China's AI Strategy Just Might Work — With Grace Shao Apr 16, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:40 Alex Kantrowitz She's the author of AI Pro-Am on Substack and is here to share with us everything that's going on in China and all the context that's been missing from the headlines.
  • ▶ 46:03 Alex Kantrowitz You can get her newsletter, AI Pro-M on Substack. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:01:54 Alex Kantrowitz The, uh, Substack, we'd be remiss if we didn't call it out one more time. 3 times in the scene

OpenAI Raises $40 billion, Is AI a Letdown?, Musk Sells X to xAI Apr 2, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:33 Alex Kantrowitz Ethan Mollick from One Useful Thing, the Wharton Professor, One Useful Thing on Substack, he had the new ChatGPT image generator create some pretty good infographics, and his point here was that basically the image is coming from the model…

OpenAI’s Ghibli Moment, CoreWeave's IPO Letdown, End of Silicon Valley’s Monopoly? Mar 29, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:20 Alex Kantrowitz The first is represented pretty well, uh, by, by Brian Merchant, whose blood in the machine substack, uh, says open AI Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itself.

AI's Rising Risks: Hacking, Virology, Loss of Control — With Dan Hendrycks Mar 28, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:28 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, we know that Substack links have been deprioritized because it was seen as a competitor with, with, um, with Twitter.

The Formula for Capturing Your Attention, Price of Fame, & Algorithms as Editors — With Chris Hayes Feb 26, 2025 · 1 mention

Neuralink's First Patient Controls Computers With His Mind — With Noland Arbaugh Dec 18, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:36 Alex Kantrowitz We do this once a week, a big interview like this, and then we break down the news on Fridays, uh, with analyst Ranjan Roy of, uh, he's, uh, Margins, which is a Substack newsletter.

Is Generative AI Plateauing?, Booming Bluesky, Apple’s Smart Glasses Play Nov 15, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:52 Alex Kantrowitz And I'm about to pour some cold water on this, uh, max read, uh, writes read max on sub stack.

Russia Funds Tenet Media YouTubers Sep 6, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:12 Alex Kantrowitz The story is going to be out today on my sub stack, and then later on LinkedIn, but it is a fascinating story about how Russia

AI Scaling, Alignment, and the Path to Superintelligence — With Dwarkesh Patel May 15, 2024 · 1 mention

Anthropic's Co-Founder on AI Agents, General Intelligence, and Sentience — With Jack Clark May 9, 2024 · 2 mentions

Silicon Valley's Effective Altruist vs. Accelerationist Religious War Dec 4, 2023 · 1 mention

AI Keynote: Six Bold Predictions About The Future Of Artificial Intelligence Nov 23, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 20:00 Alex Kantrowitz Like I said, I publish on Substack, I was going through my settings, I never knew this existed, and recently I came upon this toggle that was, that had opted me in to letting Google and OpenAI and other bots of a similar nature train on my… 2 times in the scene

Amazon Reveals Its AI Master Plan — With Matt Wood Aug 3, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 41:56 Alex Kantrowitz So can you say definitively that there's no chance that this model was trained on, like, for instance, Substack articles? 2 times in the scene

Blake Lemoine and Gary Marcus Debate AI Chatbots Feb 23, 2023 · 1 mention

Is AI Dangerously Overhyped? — With Gary Marcus Sep 13, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:28 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, and he wrote that Lemoyne's perspective was, uh, nonsense on stilts, to quote his post on Substack, um, word for word.
  • ▶ 32:21 Alex Kantrowitz But let's just close out this half with a question that I read on your sub stack from a commenter that I found interesting.
  • ▶ 34:48 Alex Kantrowitz You can find his writing on garymarcus.substack.com.
  • ▶ 1:01:43 Alex Kantrowitz So just to shout out, the book is called Rebooting AI, available everywhere, and people can go get your Substack at garymarcus.substack.com.
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