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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Substack comes up
Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 22:19 unnamed speaker Um, Substack, do you remember the days they were promising 10% conversion of all free subscribers to paid newsletters?
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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.
Revealed: OpenAI Tells Us ChatGPT's Major Use Cases
- ▶ 48:18 Ranjan Roy In fact, I mean, that playbook of they canceled me, subscribe to my sub stack is something that like so many people have perfected in terms of monetizing so well. 4 times in the scene
Do We Care About The iPhone Air?, Nepal's Discord Revolution, San Francisco’s 996 Culture
- ▶ 25:55 Alex Kantrowitz He writes this in his sub stack.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI's Potential, OpenAI Rivalry, GenAI Business, Doomerism
- ▶ 11:57 Alex Kantrowitz Here's how he put it, and he wrote about it in his substack.
The Web’s ‘Existential’ AI Threat, OpenAI’s Microsoft Office Competitor, Tesla Robotaxi Launch
- ▶ 27:26 Reed Albergotti But, you know, look at what happened with like, with Substack, right?
- ▶ 1:04:41 Alex Kantrowitz He is a sub stack, uh, economics writer.
Dwarkesh Patel: AI Continuous Improvement, Intelligence Explosion, Memory, Frontier Lab Competition
- ▶ 19:20 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, you have a post on your sub stack.
- ▶ 51:22 Alex Kantrowitz You can also follow him on Substack.
- ▶ 1:09:08 Alex Kantrowitz You could also find the sub stack at the same name and go check out Dwarkesh on YouTube.
Sam Altman’s Gentle Singularity, Zuck’s AI Power Play, Burning Of The Waymos
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 51:48 Alex Kantrowitz Well, Gary, can you shout out where to find your sub stack? 2 times in the scene
Is OpenAI's o3 Model AGI? Is AI The New Social Media? Zuck's Revealing Testimony
- ▶ 50:02 Ranjan Roy Email newsletters are their own email, I mean, they'll live on Substack in a lot of cases, or some other web presence, but it's their own, uh, information ecosystem.
Why China's AI Strategy Just Might Work — With Grace Shao
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 14:29 Grace Shao Essentially there's a built in sub stack on it.
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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?
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 7:20 Chris Hayes So, like, independent creators now who are on Substack, they know exactly 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:58 Alex Kantrowitz It's the same thing like Substack.